Friendship Heights Alliance Presents TRACE Art Show & Planting Day This Saturday
WASHINGTON, DC, OCTOBER 1, 2025 ⸺ This Saturday, the Friendship Heights Alliance planting a new garden and opening its third gallery pop-up TRACE, a photography exhibit featuring four renowned DC artists. Running from Oct. 4 through January 10, TRACE features DC artists Lely Constantinople, Martina Fornace, Claire Packer, and Antonia Tricarico, and their exploration of human presence, memory, and the traces we leave behind through portraiture, landscapes, and mixed media. TRACE is an exhibition about fleeting moments. It explores human presence and our relationship to place—how we exist in spaces, how we leave remnants, and how our environments hold the imprint of our passage.
Date: October 4, 5-7 pm
Location: Pavilion Pop-Up, 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20015 (enter next to the Cheesecake Factory)
What: Light hors d’oeuvres will be served.
RSVP: RSVP required.
The Pavilion Pop-Up is a new community space managed by Friendship Heights Alliance in partnership with Chevy Chase Pavilion and Clarion Partners.
Planting Day
The Alliance is calling gardeners of all levels to help with our fall Planting Day to fill our gardens with new natives. The Alliance currently has three pollinator gardens of native plants, and we’re adding new natives for the fall season. Meet at Booeymonger’s at 10 am, then walk to our three gardens with neighbors and friends. Two gardens are on Wisconsin Avenue, and one is on Friendship Boulevard.
Date: October 4, 10 am to 12 pm
Location: Meet at Booeymonger’s, 5252 Wisconsin Avenue NW, DC, for light bites and coffee, then walk to the three gardens with the group
What to bring: Your favorite gardening gloves, or we’ll provide what you need
RSVP: Details and RSVP here.
About the Friendship Heights Alliance
The Friendship Heights Alliance envisions a more vibrant, dynamic, and inclusive future for Friendship Heights, with diversity in housing opportunities and retail experiences, and a people-friendly public realm. This place-focused nonprofit coordinates the community building needed to reinvigorate Friendship Heights, focusing on the commercial corridor along Wisconsin Avenue from Oliver Street in Montgomery County, Maryland, to Fessenden Street NW in Washington, DC. The Alliance is a 501(c)6 nonprofit created in 2021 to focus on public space management and coordination; increase collaboration amongst property owners in both Maryland and Washington, DC, as development continues; promote the neighborhood; and engage with residents and businesses. For more information or to get involved, contact hello@friendshipheights.com, visit friendshipheights.com, or follow the organization on Instagram @FriendshipHeightsAlliance.
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