Gallery Exhibitions
Sitar Arts Center’s Cafritz Gallery
Sitar Arts Center’s Cafritz Gallery celebrates not only the artwork of our students, faculty, and staff, but our community as well. The Gallery Series aims to educate the Sitar Arts Center community about the visual arts from both the artist and viewer’s perspective, while giving young emerging artists the opportunity to exhibit professionally.
Operating for more than 15 years, the Cafritz Gallery is an intimate space that exhibits a variety of mediums and styles of 2D and 3D work. With five showcases a year, we offer young artists opportunities to feature and sell their work through solo and group exhibitions. Additionally, young artists can learn from more seasoned artists through juried exhibitions, faculty showcases, and artists talks.
Each year the Cafritz Gallery hosts a juried exhibition that is open to the public. This juried exhibition presents artists with a new theme and a new group of jurors to review the work. Jurors are practicing visual artists and arts professionals working in various organizations and positions within the DC community.
Gallery Hours:
Monday – Friday: 1:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Saturday: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Additional hours available by appointment.
For questions about current or upcoming exhibitions, how to exhibit, or to express interest in being a juror, please contact us at gallery@sitarartscenter.org or by phone at (202) 797-2145.
2025-2026 Cafritz Gallery Calendar
October 30 – December 3, 2025:
Solo Exhibition – Jennifer Wessmiller
December 8 – December 11, 2025:
Fall Semester Student Showcase
February 9 – March 14, 2026:
16th Annual Patricia Sitar Juried Exhibition
March 26 – April 25, 2026:
Faculty and Staff Showcase
May 4 – May 7, 2026:
Spring Semester Student Showcase
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Upcoming Exhibition
Belonging – 16th Annual Patricia Sitar Juried Exhibition
On View: February 9 – March 14, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 7:00 p.m.
At our core, we all long to belong—to feel connected, understood, and accepted. “Belonging” explores the places, people, and moments that make us feel rooted, and the journeys we take to find them. It invites reflection on identity, home, community, and the bold (or quiet) ways we seek to be part of something greater than ourselves.
This theme holds space for stories of inclusion and exclusion, of searching and finding, of creating a sense of belonging where it didn’t exist before. Whether fleeting or lifelong, shared or solitary, belonging shapes who we are and how we move through the world.