LeDroit Park Plein Air Painting

I'm participating in the 202 Arts & Music Festival in DC this week, which will culminate in a day-long music and art fest down by the waterfront at 4th & M on Saturday, Sept 9.  During the week, plein air painters will be working around the city on art that will be displayed in a tent, for sale, at the festival.

Scouting painting locations led me to LeDroit Park, a historic DC neighborhood where beautiful row houses were built between Howard University, the MacMillan Reservoir, and the busy Florida/Rhode Island Avenue commercial area.   We set up at Anna J. Cooper Circle, a pretty tree-shaded space named to honor an African-American feminist who was born into slavery and graduated from Oberlin College.  Her story and that of others who lived in LeDroit Park are told on a heritage trail with signs thoughout the neighborhood.

I painted row houses this morning.