The first annual Consortium show · September 25–27, 2026

Girlism

Over 150 works. Over 50 artists. One question: what does it look like to be a girl? For three days a private mansion in Upper Georgetown became a salon, and the answer went up on the walls all at once.

Walk the wall guide Read Girlism: The Issue

The pink sofa wall at Girlism, hung floor to ceiling

Paintings hung around a wooden cabinet at Girlism

The entry hall and staircase at Girlism with a dressed mannequin sculpture

The cabinet wall at Girlism beside the stair

Paintings hung around a tall clock and a floral armchair at Girlism

A salon-style wall hung floor to ceiling at Girlism

The show

The whole argument on the wall at once.

Girlism grew out of an open call that drew submissions from across the region. What came back was not a single voice. It was a room full of them, some tender, some funny, some furious, and the curatorial decision was to let that stay uncomfortable rather than smooth it into a theme.

The work was hung salon-style in the fullest sense: every wall alive, every mantel occupied, sculpture on the tables and the floor. Painting, photography, sculpture, textile, ceramics, printmaking and digital work. Artists with fifty-year careers beside artists in their first group show, and no one sorted by room or by rank.

The show opened with a black tie gala on Friday, September 25, with the artists standing beside their own work, which was most of the point. Saturday and Sunday the house opened as salon days, prosecco at the door and the run of the mansion at your own pace. Nearly every piece was for sale, with 80 percent of each sale going straight to the artist who made it.

150+

works

50+

artists

walls, hung floor to ceiling

80%

of every sale to the artist

Keep walking

The wall guide and the issue.

The digital wall guide is the program guests used on the night: every wall photographed, every piece numbered, with the artist, size and price. It stays online as the record of the hang.

Girlism: The Issue is the keepsake magazine, with the cover story, the house, the founders in conversation, and the artists who filled the rooms.

Wall guide The Issue

Sarah Jamison and Stephanie Ervin, co-founders, in the front parlor at Girlism

With thanks

Sponsors and friends

Girlism was made possible by District Champagne, Sarah Jamison Art, Wander Color Studio, Wheels Up Now Co. and Trader Joe's, and by the family who opened their home to us.

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