Free Admission to DC Residents

All DC Residents with proof of residency (ID, mail with name and address, or copy of lease on your phone work fine!) receive free individual admission.

Material Witness presents 30 of today’s most compelling and innovative artists employing non-traditional materials and processes. Squid ink, Coca-Cola, ostrich eggs, anointing oil, lipstick, discarded metal, and animal hides are several of the preformed, natural, and unnatural mediums incorporated into three-dimensional works that expand upon the storied legacy of assemblage—a critical approach to artmaking that was first formalized in the 1961 exhibition "The Art of Assemblage" at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.