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I’ve been asked a few times recently “Why did you quit makeup?”

I don’t think I quit. Quitting suggests that I made a choice. I believe I just continued to grow and this is where I am now. You wouldn’t ask a butterfly why it quit being a caterpillar. In fact we often wait in anticipation for it. It’s written in my DNA to do the thing, to become. That’s life’s process.

We are pleased to announce our
February 2026 Artist in Residence.

@_leonwillis
@_leonwillis

Now on display through February, as we celebrate Black History month, dynamic Black artist and Black Creatives.

On Display
RON DAVID STUDIO + CAFE
1270 5th St NE DC
@unionmarketdc

Now Taking preorders

Limited Run of prints

Protect Your Power And Don’t Hide Your Power (Yinny)
- hand painted over
16 x 20 inch
$150

Email: leonwillisart@gmail.com to order

🖼️Collect With Me🖼️

This is the latest addition to my collection. It is a piece created by @_leonwillis When I saw him working on this piece I knew I had to have it.

#art #artistsofinstagram #artcollection #blackartist #painting

Our lives hold and transmit forms of knowledge that exceed official records or institutional recognition.

Memory is embodied, improvised and communal

We are rooted in things beyond our individual selves that ask us to do our part in carrying them forward in order to know where we are headed.

“Mirrors to one another, a place where memories gather, a place to find your collective self.

Learning as active retrieval, memory as shared practice.

Another year, an opportunity to find more answers, help more, grow more, be more curious. Make and experience amazing things and times… I’m truly grateful to see another birthday and fill another chapter. 39

“I’m learning to fly, to levitate myself. No one is teaching me. I’m just learning on my own, little by little, dream lesson by dream lesson. Not a very subtle image, but a persistent one.

- Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler

Grateful and overwhelmed by all the love and support!

Thank you @ashlib1 @aeva_unfiltered @patricebravestrong for being such incredible host

Thank you @thedcpopup for allowing me to utilize your great space

And thank you to everyone who stopped by to help make an amazing night.

The work is doing what it’s supposed to do when it’s bringing great people together.

Grateful and overwhelmed by all the love and support!

Thank you @ashlib1 @aeva_unfiltered @patricebravestrong for being such incredible host

Thank you @thedcpopup for allowing me to utilize your great space

And thank you to everyone who stopped by to help make an amazing night.

The work is doing what it’s supposed to do when it’s bringing great people together.

Grateful and overwhelmed by all the love and support!

Thank you @ashlib1 @aeva_unfiltered @patricebravestrong for being such incredible host

Thank you @thedcpopup for allowing me to utilize your great space

And thank you to everyone who stopped by to help make an amazing night.

The work is doing what it’s supposed to do when it’s bringing great people together.

Grateful and overwhelmed by all the love and support!

Thank you @ashlib1 @aeva_unfiltered @patricebravestrong for being such incredible host

Thank you @thedcpopup for allowing me to utilize your great space

And thank you to everyone who stopped by to help make an amazing night.

The work is doing what it’s supposed to do when it’s bringing great people together.

Grateful and overwhelmed by all the love and support!

Thank you @ashlib1 @aeva_unfiltered @patricebravestrong for being such incredible host

Thank you @thedcpopup for allowing me to utilize your great space

And thank you to everyone who stopped by to help make an amazing night.

The work is doing what it’s supposed to do when it’s bringing great people together.

Grateful and overwhelmed by all the love and support!

Thank you @ashlib1 @aeva_unfiltered @patricebravestrong for being such incredible host

Thank you @thedcpopup for allowing me to utilize your great space

And thank you to everyone who stopped by to help make an amazing night.

The work is doing what it’s supposed to do when it’s bringing great people together.

Grateful and overwhelmed by all the love and support!

Thank you @ashlib1 @aeva_unfiltered @patricebravestrong for being such incredible host

Thank you @thedcpopup for allowing me to utilize your great space

And thank you to everyone who stopped by to help make an amazing night.

The work is doing what it’s supposed to do when it’s bringing great people together.

Grateful and overwhelmed by all the love and support!

Thank you @ashlib1 @aeva_unfiltered @patricebravestrong for being such incredible host

Thank you @thedcpopup for allowing me to utilize your great space

And thank you to everyone who stopped by to help make an amazing night.

The work is doing what it’s supposed to do when it’s bringing great people together.

Just to help with directions to the entrance of the exhibition. (For reference I’m standing on the Georgia Ave side)

See you all tonight!
6:30pm - 8:30pm

1155 Dahlia St NW
Washington DC 20012

See you all tomorrow!

Series In Color
4/29 from 6:30 - 8:30

1155 Dahlia Street NW
Washington, D.C.