Media Advisory: The Phillips Collection Presents the 2023 James McLaughlin Staff Show
WASHINGTON, DC—The Phillips Collection presents the 2023 James McLaughlin Staff Show: This Is My Day Job, Too!, celebrating the work of over 40 Phillips staffers who are active artists, giving voice to their artistic expression and perspectives. Located in Lower Level 2 Galleries of The Phillips Collection, This Is My Day Job, Too! opens December 16, 2023, and runs until February 16, 2024.
For more than 30 years, The Phillips Collection has held an annual staff show exhibiting art by museum staff members within the same space as the art they care for. The interdepartmental and intergenerational show covers a breadth of styles and mediums, including painting, photography, interactive installations, collage, drawing, and embroidery. Participants may sell their work with proceeds going directly back to the artists.
The James McLaughlin Memorial Staff Show honors James McLaughlin (1909–82), an accomplished still-life painter who began his association with founder Duncan Phillips as a painting student at the Phillips Gallery Art School. Until his death in 1982, McLaughlin played an active role in the museum.
The 2023 James McLaughlin Staff Show: This Is Our Day Job, Too!
The Phillips Collection, Sant Building, Lower Level 2 Galleries
On view December 16, 2023, through February 16, 2024
Included in general admission
For tickets, visit www.phillipscollection.org/visit
Click here for a full list of artists
IMAGE: Graphic courtesy of The Phillips Collection
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ABOUT THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION
The Phillips Collection, America’s first museum of modern art, was founded in 1921. The museum houses one of the world’s most celebrated Impressionist and American modern art collections and continues to grow its collection with important contemporary voices. Its distinctive building combines extensive new galleries with the former home of its founder, Duncan Phillips. The Phillips’s impact spreads nationally and internationally through its diverse and experimental special exhibitions and events, including its award-winning education programs for educators, students, and adults; renowned Phillips Music series; and dynamic art and wellness and Phillips after 5 events. The museum contributes to global dialogues with events like Conversations with Artists and Artists of Conscience. The Phillips Collection values its community partnership with THEARC—the museum’s satellite campus in Southeast DC. The Phillips Collection is a private, non-governmental museum, supported primarily by donations.