“The mission of The Jackson Art Center is to maintain the historic Jackson School building as affordable studio space for local artists, and to share our talents with DC students, seniors, families, and others for whom art can elevate and empower.”
Meet the Jackson Art Center Artists
The Jackson Art Center is studio space for more than 40 local artists. We work in the former classrooms of the historic Jackson School in Northwest, Washington, DC that were converted to art space in the 1980s.
Jackson artists work in oil, watercolor, acrylic, pencil, pastel, photography, sculpture, ceramics, textiles and more. Jackson welcomes the community to our free Spring and Fall Open Studios and reaches out through art workshops and events at Jackson and throughout the city.
Friends of Jackson
Through its Friends of Jackson initiative, the Jackson Art Center offers back to the community in the form of events that appeal to the creative in all of us. Planned events include artist lectures, live model drawing sessions, children days, film screenings, painting to music, creative making, and others. A membership program is in the works which will provide free access to all events, among many other benefits.
Next Open Studios
Fall 2025, Sunday, December 7th, 12-4 PM
Open Studios are held twice a year in Spring and Fall. Explore, meet and greet the artists, and take home some fabulous original art. The historic Jackson School is located at 3050 R St, NW Washington, DC.
NOTE; this is a tentative date, please check back in a few weeks to confirm.
Note: The Spring and Fall Open Studios will usually take place approximately on the first Sunday in May and the first Sunday in December. But stay tuned, to confirm this.