On my recent visit to DC, I made my way over to the Capital Hill Boys Club — the site of a mural festival that took place this past spring in Anacostia, a historic neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C. A model of community engagement, the 2025 festival features dozens of murals fashioned by artists who share a notable kinship to the neighborhood and its residents.
The arresting image featured above was painted by the self-taught artist and arts educator Rae Akino. Several more images of murals I captured in the blazing, blinding sun follow:
Designer and painter Cortney Mohring
Self-taught multidisciplinary artist Mahkai Dominique‘s first public mural with a message to its viewers that they are “watched over with love”
Multidisciplinary visual artist and educator Shani Shih, a portrait of Tia Bell, founder of the Trigger Project, a DC-based violence prevention project
Self-taught artist KyCo, an homage to Sierra Leonean–American ballet dancer and author Michaela DePrince, who died last year at the age of 29
The wildly creative multidiscinplnary artist Limetyme aka Rich
Painter and custom designer David Dez Zambrano
Dozens more murals can be viewed at 1603 Marion Barry Ave and its immediate environs in Anacostia, DC.
Photos by Lois Stavsky
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