Now nesting east of the river!
Oh hello. It appears you’ve found my little place on the internet.
I’m Kathleen, a longtime DC resident who recently turned 62, the age the city officially recognizes you as “elderly,” making you eligible for a host of senior discounts. Woo hoo!
Life in DC in 2026 is not easy. However... I love art, music, history, and all things urban — especially urban people — and I count on those things to help get me through this historically bad time in our beloved city. Also, I love lager beer. Lager beer helps a lot.
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 Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) at 8th and G Street, NW.
All of my artworks are constructed with shrink film, the most appropriate material for small scale art!
Visit artomat.org for a full description of artist Clark Whittington’s “right smart” longterm conceptual art project.
Hello neighbor! is my first public artwork — a utility box art wrap at 12th & C Street, SW
Installed in April 2025, it sits across from the Dept. of Agriculture and close to the Potomac & Anacostia Rivers. The box was designed for SWBID, and features illustrations of four of SW’s “neighbors” living in and around the nearby rivers — crabs, herons, ducks, and striped bass (Rockfish).
The Traffic Control Box Beautification project is part of DDOT’s Arts in the Right-of-Way (AROW) program.
I have a non-monetized YouTube channel.
Because it’s not always about money, see? The channel is made up of short clips from various concerts I’ve attended over the past few years, and is meant to demonstrate that Washington, DC is a very cool music city. Every clip is under a minute because otherwise I'm living in the moment.
The above photo is from the UK’s Lambrini Girls at the Howard Theater on 5/4/25.
Where ya’ll from?
For over 38 years, my rent-stabilized apartment was located two blocks south of Meridian Hill / Malcolm X Park in the U Street Neighborhood of Northwest.
Then, in April 2026, I moved “East of the River,” to a smaller rent-stabilized apartment, three blocks north of Oxon Run Park in the Congress Heights Neighborhood of Southeast.
For over 12 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?”
Okay-kay-kay! The 2026-27 Go-Go basketball season is right around the corner, literally
I’ve been going to Capital City Go-Go games since before the Entertainment & Sports Arena was renamed Carefirst Arena. This season will be the first that I’ll be able to walk to the games, just three blocks away!
I taught my first arts workshop in The Labs at the MLK Library
It happened on July 8, 2026, and thankfully, went really well. The participants all made two different kinds of life-size flowers, plus a butterfly, out of red, yellow and white shrink film. Like everything in the DC public library system, the workshop was free.
Shrink film is the connection between my Art-o-mat art and the MLK Library.
I created a collection of “Fun & Functional Art-Products”
Each art-product was created for my own personal use, but also because I hope other people will appreciate them and want to buy them.
The collection was conceived during the Covid-19 pandemic and realized thanks to my DIY-punk ideology and ever improving Print on Demand (POD) technology.
Many of the art-products are made of durable plastic — not unlike the plastic used in my Art-o-mat art and in my MLK Library arts workshop.
Available exclusively through the experience of using an Art-o-mat machine! Like the one in SAAM!
I created a collection of FUN & FUNCTIONAL ART-PRODUCTS. It’s continually being updated and improved.
