from the always spectacular District of Columbia!
I’m a freelance graphic designer & production artist. At least I WAS one...
I created a collection of fun & functional “art-objects,’’ foremost for myself, but also because I hope other people will buy them.
I love my longtime U Street neighborhood. Northwest Northwest! Ward 1 y’all!
...for over three decades! But the busy-ness of my business took a downturn in recent years, due to many factors. These days, I'm focusing more on my own art — or my own design as art and life as art (pretentious as that may sound) — as explained in the rest of this website.
My “old” professional graphic design portfolio is located on Adobe’s Bēhance platform.
I love my longtime U Street neighborhood. Northwest Northwest! Ward 1 y’all!
I created a collection of fun & functional “art-objects,’’ foremost for myself, but also because I hope other people will buy them.
I love my longtime U Street neighborhood. Northwest Northwest! Ward 1 y’all!
Since 1989, my home-studio-apartment has been located near 16th & U Street, NW — just one block south of Meridian Hill / Malcolm X Park and 12 blocks north of The White House.
E-mail me at kathleencole@me.com
For over 10 years, I’ve maintained a Tumblr blog called “It’s art if I say so,” a quote from my favorite conceptual artist, Marcel Duchamp, as well as my answer to the eternal question “what is art?”
My art is available through the Art-o-mat® machine in the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) Luce Center!
I created a collection of fun & functional “art-objects,’’ foremost for myself, but also because I hope other people will buy them.
I created a collection of fun & functional “art-objects,’’ foremost for myself, but also because I hope other people will buy them.
That's right... it's not a lie to say my art is in the Smithsonian! Or, at least, that it's available to buy, exclusively through the experience of using an Art-o-mat® machine! Go find it, on the 3rd floor of the SAAM Luce Center in the Gallery Place / Chinatown neighborhood of DC! Only $5 per piece! Most pieces are part of a limited edition series.
Visit artomat.org for a complete description of artist Clark Whittington’s amazing longterm project.
I created a collection of fun & functional “art-objects,’’ foremost for myself, but also because I hope other people will buy them.
I created a collection of fun & functional “art-objects,’’ foremost for myself, but also because I hope other people will buy them.
I created a collection of fun & functional “art-objects,’’ foremost for myself, but also because I hope other people will buy them.
The collection was conceived during the Covid-19 pandemic and realized thanks to my DIY-punk ideology and print-on-demand technology. It continually grows as new, customizable products are introduce to consumers for the first time in history.
Some of my art-objects were recently on display as part of the Hill Center Galleries 2024 Regional Juried Exhibition. Appropriately, they were hung just outside the Annie Etheridge Hooks Demonstration Kitchen on the first floor of the historical Civil War era building on Pennsylvania Avenue SE.
I’m a big fan of Go-Go: both the official music of DC, AND the G-League basketball team.
I need to earn money by selling my personal art collection. Also, as a longtime DC-punk “I am not what I own.”
I’m a big fan of Go-Go: both the official music of DC, AND the G-League basketball team.
How many sports teams routinely include a band (Go-Go or otherwise) in their games? Seriously, how many?
I first went to a Cap City Go-Go game in 2022. The new Entertainment & Sports Arena is located on the renovated campus of St. Elizabeths East, a 5-minute walk from the Congress Heights Station.
The season opener in November includes FREE Globe-style posters made by the students at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, which holds the archives of the Globe Poster company.
I’m a huge fan of the DC Public Library system.
I need to earn money by selling my personal art collection. Also, as a longtime DC-punk “I am not what I own.”
I’m a big fan of Go-Go: both the official music of DC, AND the G-League basketball team.
My favorite branch is the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, the Central Library, in the Gallery Place/Chinatown neighborhood of Northwest. It’s in a four story, black steel building, originally designed by legendary German-American architect, Mies van der Rohe.
Diagonally across the street from the MLK Library is the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), where my art is now available exclusively through the experience of using an Art-o-mat® machine! Go find it on the 3rd floor!
I need to earn money by selling my personal art collection. Also, as a longtime DC-punk “I am not what I own.”
I need to earn money by selling my personal art collection. Also, as a longtime DC-punk “I am not what I own.”
I need to earn money by selling my personal art collection. Also, as a longtime DC-punk “I am not what I own.”
I’m planning a one time only, silent art auction of the combined collections of two dedicated DC-music fans and casual art collectors: my late husband, Dave Berman (1961–2018), and me.
Artists & musician-artists include:
Alex Schelldorf • Ben Azzara • Brian Williamson • Cool “Disco” Dan • Cynthia Connolly • Dan Tague (gorilla sculpture shown above) • Ed Trask • Killian Barnes • Matt Sesow • Megan Mueller • Raymond Pettibon • Ron Haywood Jones • Ryan Carroll Nelson • Shepard Fairey • Steve Keene • Trevor Young | Other artworks from: AFI Silver Theater • Globe Poster of Baltimore • Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
Kathleen Cole... from the ALWAYS SPECTACULAR District of Columbia. Got it?
I need to earn money by selling my personal art collection. Also, as a longtime DC-punk “I am not what I own.”
I need to earn money by selling my personal art collection. Also, as a longtime DC-punk “I am not what I own.”
I love Washington, DC! I also love public transportation and making small talk with strangers. I have social skills, despite constantly feeling strange and outsider-ish in the modern world.
Available exclusively through the experience of using an Art-o-mat machine! Like the one in the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) Luce Center!
My art-products collection is constantly being improved and updated. Make sure to scroll left to see all of it...
Scroll to see all 26 artworks available, plus a set of Raymond Pettibon SST Publications booklets.
