Former DC church is transformed into art space

 

A former church that has been sitting empty in SW D.C. for two decades is now drenched in color & will reopen as an art club.

 

The project started last fall when two guys with a passion for art began restoring a 138-year-old building into a community center. They began by draping the outside with a mural, and now the inside is getting the same creative love.

 

Every inch of this former church at the corner of Delaware Avenue and H Street SW is coated in color, and it can be seen from 395 and I Street – according to one individual who describes the building as looking “like Starburst.”

 

Middle school students are in awe of the building’s transformation, and now they along with adults can soon enjoy it primarily as an art club – no membership required.

 

“We'll be doing art classes, we'll do be yoga classes, we'll be doing all types of community programming because you don't have that type of accessibility in this particular quadrant of D.C.,” says Ian Callender, the club’s co-founder. Last fall, he and his business partner brought over a contemporary artist from Atlanta who is now making history here – the building has the only full mural wrap in the D.C. region.

 

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