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Phillips after 5

Phillips after 5

In-Person

$20. Members are always admitted free to Phillips after 5—join today!

NEW FOR MEMBERS: To help ensure a comfortable experience for all at Philips after 5, members are encouraged to make a free reservation. Members are still welcome without reservation, but knowing you’re coming helps us plan the evening.

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Member guest passes are not valid for Phillips after 5 events. Food and drinks for sale. ID check for alcohol purchases.

Derek Fordjour, Airborne Double, 2022, Acrylic, charcoal, cardboard, oil pastel, and foil on newspaper mounted on canvas, 60 x 100 in., Frances Fine Art Collection, Courtesy of the artist, David Kordansky Gallery, and Petzel Gallery, New York, Photo: Daniel Greer, © Derek Fordjour

Show off your school spirit at Phillips after 5! 

  • Spend time with Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage and Where We Meet: Selections from the Howard University Gallery of Art and The Phillips Collection and enjoy Spotlight Talks. 
  • Make your own felt spirit pennants, decorate court royalty sashes
  • Drop by the crafting activity led by Merry Pin, a local craft store + cafe + community space, to make yarn boutonnieres
  • DC indie-rock band Home Remedies—formed while students at George Washington University—performs in the Music Room. 
  • Enjoy a special performance by Capital City Mass Marching Band’s Drumline: Ruff Ridaz Percussion Squad.
  • KERIMtheDJ of Eaton Radio Workshop spins in the courtyard. 
  • Bread Furst café will be serving pigs-in-a-blanket (locally-sourced beef and vegetarian frankfurters wrapped with puff pastry and served with a trio of dips), and featured cocktails Kir Royale and Sparkling Rum Punch.
  • Beer, wine, Rum Runner (cocktail), Guava Groove (mocktail), and Lost Boy Cider at the bars.
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IMAGE (on view in Multiplicity): Derek Fordjour, Airborne Double, 2022, Acrylic, charcoal, cardboard, oil pastel, and foil on newspaper mounted on canvas, 60 x 100 in., Frances Fine Art Collection, Courtesy of the artist, David Kordansky Gallery, and Petzel Gallery, New York, Photo: Daniel Greer, © Derek Fordjour