Founder's Day - April 4
Lily Teresa Touma Pilgrim (1928-2017), born on April 4, 1928, established The Lily and Earle M. Pilgrim Art Foundation in January, 2016. The Foundation celebrates Founder's Day, April 4, each year and this year the public is invited to Mrs. Pilgrim's apartment, 712, our Office, at 1420 N. Street, NW, Washington, DC. For more information, please call Peter Stebbins, Director at 802-528-9185 or find our contact form on this website.
Image: Vibrant public art wraps of Earle Pilgrim, Untitled, 1959, oil on luon, reproduced as traffic signal boxes, 2019, AROW Arts in the Right of Way, Traffic Control Box Beautification, Art Wraps for Historic Georgia Avenue, Washington, DC, with Georgia Avenue Thrive and District Bridges for It's a Small World After All, a series of public programs at Petworth Library exploring public records and community; traffic signal boxes, surrounding winterscape yielding to spring with sprouting daffodil bulbs and new grass, a white "ghost" bike, typically placed at the site of a fatal bicycle accident to honor the deceased cyclist; political posters. Petworth location, commemorating the Aswad Touma presence as MENA American homeowners and shopkeepers on Georgia Avenue; and, through Barbadian American artist Earle Pilgrim's artwork, Georgia Avenue's historic ties to the Caribbean American community. It's a small world, after all. Sankofa!
Image: Vibrant public art wraps of Earle Pilgrim, Untitled, 1959, oil on luon, reproduced as traffic signal boxes, 2019, AROW Arts in the Right of Way, Traffic Control Box Beautification, Art Wraps for Historic Georgia Avenue, Washington, DC, with Georgia Avenue Thrive and District Bridges for It's a Small World After All, a series of public programs at Petworth Library exploring public records and community; traffic signal boxes, surrounding winterscape yielding to spring with sprouting daffodil bulbs and new grass, a white "ghost" bike, typically placed at the site of a fatal bicycle accident to honor the deceased cyclist; political posters. Petworth location, commemorating the Aswad Touma presence as MENA American homeowners and shopkeepers on Georgia Avenue; and, through Barbadian American artist Earle Pilgrim's artwork, Georgia Avenue's historic ties to the Caribbean American community. It's a small world, after all. Sankofa!