Featured Finds
"Featured Finds" is a series run by the Vermilion staff that promotes galleries and bookstores in the D.C. area. As a staff we enjoy finding new and interesting places that cultivate beauty and we want to share some of our favorites with readers. We also hope that it encourages you to explore the area and appreciate the unique spaces that D.C. has to offer.
Out of this Word: Planet Word Museum
By Amanda Muscente
Words are the most fundamental part of human interaction. They allow us to speak, to write, to listen. But where do our words come from - not just in English but in all languages? That’s what the Planet Word Museum located on 13th Street Washington, D.C. aims to teach each of its visitors.
By Amanda Muscente
I first found what would become my favorite bookstore during my freshman year of college. New to D.C. and itching to explore the city, I searched “Bookstore Near Me” on Google Maps. Kramers was one of the first options that appeared on my search, and since it was conveniently located on the metro’s red line, I decided to give it a try.
By Mary Harding
I want to think that I can speak for most readers by saying that we all have wanted to live in a fictional world; not The Hunger Games (never The Hunger Games), but a world unlike our own. What if that world was our favorite painting? Drawing and painting, like any art form, are ways of expressing and escaping the confines of reality, and the Van Gogh Immersive Experience plays with this artistic definition in a dream-like sense.
Transient by ARTECHOUSE and the Rise of Immersive Art
By Angela Hickey
Art is supposed to make you feel something. Joy, pain, hope, loneliness; all of these words just scratch the surface of what art makes you feel. Since the beginning of time humanity has looked to artistic expression and depictions to reveal glimpses of a past we may never have seen otherwise.
By Amanda Muscente
Located just 10 minutes away from the NoMa-Galludet metro stop, Union Market’s bright white building shines like an oasis of millennial heaven. Opened in 2017, the Union Market building and surrounding area houses various businesses and small shops that have become quite popular with D.C. transplants and tourists alike.
By Mary Harding
Georgetown is a charming area of DC with great businesses with falafel, cupcakes, clothing, and high end shops. The corner of the city always reminds me how upscale and historic DC can be with the cobblestoned sidewalk and stores like Reformation in time worn townhouses. However, without a metro station, it is a hike. Personally, I can only make that trek from Foggy Bottom or Dupont Circle once every semester.