Crit Club - August 2026
Crit Club hosts free monthly meet-ups for DMV visual artists and creatives looking to expand their practice and receive thoughtful feedback.
Coordinated by Addie Moore @addiethenomad and Beth Ferraro @the.art.island. Sponsored by DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and Gallery Y.
Crit, short for critique, is a form of feedback standard in art school but is rarely practiced outside the classroom walls or beyond paywalls. We offer a safe, free space for creatives to talk about their work in a low-stakes, constructive environment. This gathering is intended for visual artists, but any creative is more than welcome to come and share. I (Addie) will have my iPad if you want to email me (addiethenomad@gmail.com) beforehand some images to share, or bring work in person (but this is so not required). This is mostly a practice of sharing and discussing our work in a constructive, supportive community. Here's a video on how to critique! We always use positive, specific, and productive language when speaking to others about their work! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZJDdfJHKxM
Guest artist: Jared Soares
Jared Soares photographs community and identity. Through portraiture and longform essays he examines how sets of people relate to each other often through the lens of sports and contemporary culture.
His fine art prints and books are held in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Sloane Art Library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
Jared’s images intimately connect readers with subjects for clients such as adidas Originals, Adobe, Airbnb, The Atlantic, ELLE, The Fader, GQ, National Geographic, Nike, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Square, TIME and WIRED among others. His work has been recognized by the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize and he contributed to The Marshall Project’s 2020 investigation of K-9 units and the damage that police dogs inflict on Americans, the report earned the 2021 Pulitzer Prize, staff recognition for National Reporting and he was named a prizewinner of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's triennial 2025 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.
When he is not making photographs, he can be found kicking a soccer ball or walking his pet terrier, Holly.
Limited capacity, please RSVP
