Opening Reception: The Ninth Annual 'Everyday DC' Photography Exhibition

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Please join the Pulitzer Center and D.C. Public Schools for an opening reception of the ninth annual "Everyday DC" exhibition at the Charles Sumner School Museum & Archives in Washington, D.C., on the evening of Thursday, April 10, 2024, from 5:30pm-7:30pm EST. Remarks will begin at 6:30pm, and will be followed by music, snacks, and a performance by the MacFarland Middle School drumline.

“Everyday DC,” a photography exhibition on view at the Charles Sumner School Museum & Archives from April 10, 2025, through June 6, 2025, presents a visual narrative of everyday life in Washington, D.C., through the eyes of more than 200 D.C. public middle school students from all four quadrants of the city. The exhibition is the culmination of a unit designed by the Pulitzer Center in collaboration with DC Public Schools (DCPS) and facilitated by nearly a dozen DCPS visual arts teachers. Images from ten middle schools are represented in the exhibition.

“Everyday DC” was inspired by the Everyday Africa project, founded by Pulitzer Center grantees Peter DiCampo and Austin Merrill, to redirect focus toward a more accurate understanding of what the majority of Africans experience on a day-to-day basis: normal life. Like Everyday Africa, Everyday DC challenges students to consider how Washington, D.C., is portrayed in the media, and how they can compose images that more accurately visualize their everyday experiences.

The “Everyday DC” project is funded in part by the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. The project is also supported by the Charles Sumner School Museum & Archives, which generously donated the space for the exhibition.

The gallery opens to the public every Monday to Friday, April 10 through June 6, from 10:00am to 5:00pm. Admission is free. For more information about the Everyday DC unit plan and exhibition, contact [email protected]. The image above was take by MacFarland Middle School student Estella in winter 2025.