“Umbrella Art Fair, the massive free event where Washington, DC’s arts scene converges with creative entrepreneurs, global artists and makers in a declaration of artistic independence, returns for its fourth edition Nov. 15-17 in the Union Market District.
The Umbrella Art Fair’s key curatorial partner for 2024 will be CulturalDC’s Torrents: New Links to Black Futures, an artist-led program exploring new territories in Black future-building through visual arts, technology, music, film, and performance. Through bringing together the leading arts organizations of Washington, DC and beyond, Umbrella is the premier coalition-led destination art event in the Mid-Atlantic.
The Umbrella Art Fair has set itself apart within the art world through a groundbreaking coalition model that re-envisions vacant commercial space as the new nerve centers for creative community and artistic independence. That model allows Umbrella Art Fair to remain commission-free, and to direct 100 percent of all sales to exhibiting artists and curators, most of them women and artists of color. In just three years , the fair has generated an estimated $2.