#anacostia

[humanoidhistory]

Halloween party at Frederick Douglass Community Center in Washington, D.C., 1944. Photo by Frank R. Jackson.

(Smithsonian)

#halloween #anacostia #washington d.c. #history #black history #party #1940s #world war ii #second world war #1944 #costume #halloween costume

[istandonsnowpiles]

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#nightography #night #parking garage #metro #dc #anacostia #anacostia metro station #washington #may #around dc #my work #photography

[federer7]

Anacostia, D.C. Frederick Douglass housing project. A dance group, 1942

Photo: Gordon Parks

#Gordon Parks #Anacostia #frederick douglass #dance #group #1942

[anacostiadigest]

Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum

Located far away from the Smithsonian buildings on the National Mall in downtown Washington DC, the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum was founded in the 1960’s Civil Rights era of great social changes and upheavals. Its founding year was 1967 as the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum with the mission to produce neighborhood based museum's exhibits and programs that  sought to preserve and share the rich history and culture, vibrancy, and contributions of Anacostia’s African American community. 

John Kinard served as the first director leading the museum blaze the way to establish the pioneering concept of “community based museums” showcasing local stories and achievements of the residents of Anacostia and that of the Greater Washington DC area. 

Over the years, its holdings have grown, and it ranges from folk art and hand-sewn quilts to political banners, personal papers, and historic archives. And it has an expansive collection of documentary photography collected over several decades that illustrates local people, places, and events in and around Anacostia and the District. 

Now, more than 50 years later, the museum actively breathes life with interactive exhibitions and tells the stories of unsung stories of the Greater Washington DC communities as it intertwines through time. The Anacostia Community Museum highlights the importance of local, family, and community history, and the value of both ordinary and extraordinary things in shaping our society. 

On exhibit now, which started in March 23, 2024 – March 2, 2025 “Bold and Beautiful Vision: A Century of Black Arts Education in Washington, DC, 1900–2000” 

This exhibition traces the story of the African American art educator teachers and students who made Washington, D.C. a “mecca” for Black arts education in segregation public schools and universities. It captures the work of the legacy and artwork of the African American artist-educators that enriched the lives of many generations of Washington’s young people and adults from 1900-2000. 

Along the way, African American art educators and their students have produced amazing artwork that is much admired by audiences all around the world.

#anacostia #anacostia art center #anacostia quartermaine #south east washington dc #anacosstiadigest #anacostia park #anacostia high school #Anacostia park

[vico-stardust]

But Anacostia was gone so quickly 😭 I really thought Izadora was gone, but apparently not. But they took one of the best and bravest. I thought Nicte would go, but in some beautiful martyr like way, that would give us closure and be like "yeah, you go Batan, you took your work back" but no...and like I think we all would have accepted that. But not Anacostia. Gone so quickly I was honestly very surprised, I don't think I've properly processed it.

On a happier note. Raella referring to each other as wives, and being wives!! 🥰🥺 and even Abigail calling Adil husband. So forking cute.

#motherland fs #motherland fort salem #motherland fort salem s3 #raella #raelle x scylla #anacostia quartermaine #anacostia #motherland fort salem spoilers #love wins #ska #gay #lgbt

[reppyy]

#Motherland Fort Salem #s03e04 #REACTION #Happy Yule! #Taylor Hickson #Raelle Collar #Amalia Holm #Scylla Ramshorn #Demetria McKinney #Anacostia #Jessica Sutton #Tally Craven #Ashley Nicole Williams #Abigail Bellweather #Lyne Renée #Sarah Alder #Catherine Lough Haggquist #Petra Bellweather #Victor Webster #Blanton Silver #Tony Giroux #Adil #Michael Horse #The Marshal #Kandyse McClure #Nicte Batan #Sheryl Lee Ralph #President Kelly Wade #Kylee Brown #Khalida

[asadultrawalker]

Opening tonight! Come see the group show with me, Aniekan, Imani and many others… “kool herc” “drunken master” “bloodsport” limited edition archival prints, 11x17” Asad ULTRA Walker SOUND PATTERNS Art Exhibition No. 8: Exploring martial arts within the Black aesthetic @HonfleurGallery @shaolinjazz Opening reception: 3.4.23 / 7pm - 10pm Honfleur Gallery, Anacostia, SE DC On view: 3.4.23 - 4.8.23 For info visit: www.shaolinjazz.com #shaolinjazz #soundpatterns #blackartist #blkcreative #digitalart #multimedia #artshow #artgallery #artexhibition #honfleur #honfleurgallery #dcartist #anacostia #galleryart #martialarts #martialartsinspired #graphicdesign #popart #washingtondc #BIG #biggie #biggiesmalls #wutang #olddirtybastard #odb #koolherc #djkoolherc #hiphopculture (at Anacostia Arts Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpYPNyOvwQq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#shaolinjazz #soundpatterns #blackartist #blkcreative #digitalart #multimedia #artshow #artgallery #artexhibition #honfleur #honfleurgallery #dcartist #anacostia #galleryart #martialarts #martialartsinspired #graphicdesign #popart #washingtondc #big #biggie #biggiesmalls #wutang #olddirtybastard #odb #koolherc #djkoolherc #hiphopculture

[watermelonglobalist]

Valley Green public housing in Anacostia, Washington DC, demolished 1995

#anacostia #public housing #dc

[effervescent-tributary]

bianca comparato . cis woman . she/her ➶ DID YOU SEE THEM ?! they’re finally back as a MENTOR , and you know they’re one of my favourites ! it’s ANACOSTIA THAMES , the TWENTY-FIVE year old WINNER of the EIGHTY-SEVENTH hunger games! i’m just so excited to see them returning to the capitol all the way from DISTRICT FOUR! they won their games using A SPEAR / PLAYING NAIVE so their tributes will no doubt be desperate for their wisdom. the capitol just loved them for being so OPTIMISTIC , even if they have been known to be CHILDISH at times. they DO have a tribute in this years games (sister). ( character ISN’T part of the uprising )

Quick Facts

Full name : Anacostia Thames

Nickname(s) : Ana, Costia, Cos

Gender : Cis woman

Pronouns : She/Her

Birthday : August 23, sixty-eight

Relationship Status : Single

Sexuality : Pansexual

Family : Adriano Thames (brother, 10 months younger), Paraná Thames (sister, 7 years younger), Ria (daughter, born in spring 92)

Pets : Cachorro (small white dog), Cadela (black dog)

Likes : Surfing, pearls, building sandcastles with her daughter

Dislikes : Thunder storms, pessimism

District : Four

Background 

Toes in the sand and sun kissed skin defined the childhood of anacostia Thames. Her days were spent on the beach, watching mother and father go out to sea to fish. Two siblings would join in the fun. Fairy tales would be spun under the star light, games created and childhood spent.

The Thames family was far from wealthy, but for the children they never knew the difference. That was until childish fancies gave way to longing to attend the academy. Unfortunately that was just another thing the Thames family could not afford. So, days would be spent by a young Ana standing in front of the academy and longing for the day she might be able to attend before having to go help her parents with their work.

That day would come, when Ana's father would come home with the good news and had begged and pleaded for for months and years. At thirteen, she would be be able to attend the academy thanks to an anonymous benefactor who provided a select number of scholarships to the academy.

But at thirteen, not only was she small, but she was well behind her peers at the academy. But while she did not catch up in size, she was able to catch up and even surpass several of the other kids at the academy. Maybe part of that had to do, also, with the fact she'd wrapped one of the best boys at the academy around her little finger. They began dating and they'd train together outside of the academy. Long nights were spent in his back yard, sparring and playing strategies out, sometimes until the sun began to peak over the horizon.

Finally at the age of eighteen, she made the decision to volunteer. She let everyone in the Capital underestimate her. She was small and sweet. No one expected her to win. But she did, killing the boyfriend she had lured along for years, and then picking the others who remained one by one.

Winning was just what she’d imagined it would be. She was catapulted into fame in the Capitol. The Capitol nightlife became her scene, spending more time in the Capitol than in Four. She made friends with sponsors and other victors alike while she spent her nights in the bars or at one party or another. One of those friends who she just so happened to become close to, ended in her becoming pregnant and in the spring of ninety-two, Anacostia welcomed daughter Ria into her little family with Walker Holstein though Walker would decide to keep his part in their daughter’s life a secret, not ready to be a father though he does help with her quite often.

Personality

Ana is overly optimistic and tries to keep things as simple as possible. If you believe something will happen, then according to her it will, so just believe in whatever outcome out want. She can be irresponsible, often flaking out on responsibilities, especially when it comes to mentoring, often in favor of some sponsor-hosted party or another. She's flighty and often moves from one thing to another without cohesion. She can often be described as childish.

#bio #anacostia

[svnsetromance]

Wipe out one. Wipe out one hundred. You can't stop an idea. @lgbtqcreators — creator bingo / color

#mfsedit #witchesnet #lgbtqcreators #pscentral #usergif #motherland fort salem #nicte batan #sarah alder #scylla ramshorn #tally craven #willa collar #anacostia quartermaine #*edits #m:fs #usercats #usergay #singinprincess #usersunflower #userchibi #cw flashing #tw flashing

[humanoidhistory]

Bobbing for apples during a Halloween party at Frederick Douglass Community Center in Washington, D.C., 1944. Photo by Frank R. Jackson.

(Smithsonian)

#halloween #bobbing for apples #history #washington d.c. #anacostia #black history #party

[istandonsnowpiles]

Rainy Anacostia Park

#urban landscape #anacostia park #rain #dc #anacostia #washington #september #around dc #my work #photography

[federer7]

June 1942. "Anacostia D.C. - Frederick Douglass housing project. Boy at the playground."

Photo by Gordon Parks for the Farm Security Administration.

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#gordon parks #1942 #june #Anacostia #fsa

[anacostiadigest]

Project Create - Anacostia, South East, Washington DC

As Historic Anacostia downtown main street business community, and the surrounding residential neighborhood experience growth and changes, the lives of young children and youth are impacted by the work of the Project Create, which has its roots in the early 1990s to provide a safe haven and after school creative art programs for children in the community.

Project Create, now in 2024, has its permanent place to call home in downtown Anacostia, where it provides free art and digital media classes to at-risk children and youth living in the Anacostia neighborhood and beyond. Project Create studio classes offers children and youth a gateway to engage in studio classes in learning to experiment in art expression of mixed-media collage, jewelry making, graphic design, dance, theater improv, and drawing & painting year round.

Back in the 1990’s, living in Anacostia was an extremely challenging time. Neighborhood children and youth needing a safe haven and after school programs to go to, but had no where to go. Filling that void of no place to go, is where Rev. John W. Wimberly, active in the community, and pastoring the Western Presbyterian Church in Washington DC, stepped in. Rev. Wimberly launched his after school program, which evolved into Project Create decade later.

Gaging the creative needs of Anacostia at risk children and youth, many with no outlet for after school programming, he started an after school program to meet the community needs. With a small beginning, that planted the seed of the creation of Project Create as a neighborhood after school program with a focus on the arts and culture in Anacostia, and connecting it to the museum resources in the city. That includes the Smithsonian, plus more.

In 2002, Project Create expanded to serve more children and youth in their after school program with collaborative efforts with So Others Might Eat (SOME), which is a non-profit focused on touching and transforming the lives of children and families who are underserved or homeless. With time, Project Create expanded collaborative efforts with Community of Hope, connecting children, youth, and their families to the city health care services.

By 2003, Project Create officially became a non-profit, and achieved a milestone to buy a building on the main street business corridor 208 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE. That is a monumental achievement given its humble beginnings back in the 1990s.

Today, Project Create is a art and cultural pillar in Anacostia downtown main street revitalization, with a focus on engaging children, youth, and their families to participate in the arts and emerging cultural community in Anacostia, and the opportunities within the city and beyond as participants of the program head for colleges and universities throughout the country. All classes are free, and it is open to children and youth of all ages.

Project Create has also expanded its program to offer digital media classes. It has a studio that is fully equipped with sound and recording equipment, DJ and podcast equipment, video and photo technology, new computers with graphic design capabilities, and 3-D printers. That gives way to so much creative space for underserved and homeless children, youth and their families to find creative spaces to thrive in the Washington DC area.

#anacostia #anacostia art center #anacostia quartermaine #south east washington dc

[bodiesonbodies]

MOTHERLAND: FORT SALEM (2020-2022) The Mains 1.01 | 3.10

#motherland fort salem #raelle collar #abigail bellweather #tally craven #sarah alder #anacostia quartermaine #scylla ramshorn #motherland: fort salem #mfsedit #tvedit #*mygifs #wow thats really it huh #idk how to feel #but thank you for 2yrs

[reppyy]

#Motherland Fort Salem #s03e03 #REACTION #Oh Elayne... #raylla #Taylor Hickson #Raelle Collar #Amalia Holm #Scylla Ramshorn #Demetria McKinney #Anacostia #Jessica Sutton #Ashley Nicole Williams #Abigail Bellweather #Lyne Renée #Sarah Alder #Tony Giroux #Adil #Michael Horse #The Marshal #Kandyse McClure #Nicte Batan #Sheryl Lee Ralph #President Kelly Wade #Kylee Brown #Khalida #Emilie Leclerc #Izadora #Ess Hödlmoser #M