"Under the Same Sun" Exhibition - Opening Reception
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Friday, May 29, 2026 6pm - 8pm
Location
Festival Center
1640 Columbia Rd NW
Details
Join us at The Festival Center on Thursday, May 29 at 6:00 PM for an evening of art, conversation, and community as artist AnaYelsi Velasco Sanchez launches a new curatorial program that will bring four rotating artists and exhibitions to the Festival Center throughout the year.
The inaugural exhibition, Under the Same Sun, features AnaYelsi’s own work — vibrant, deeply human paintings that explore culture, identity, liberation, mental health, and collective care. Through bold color, symbolic landscapes, and scenes of shared experience, the exhibition invites viewers to reflect on connection, responsibility, and the kind of world we are building together.
Born in Venezuela and now based in Washington, D.C., AnaYelsihas been painting professionally since 2012. Her work has been exhibited at venues including Orlando City Hall, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, the Venezuelan Embassy, Dupont Underground, and Orlando’s CityArts Factory. Her practice centers art as both resistance and healing, creating space for dialogue, transformation, and imagination.
Guests are invited to enjoy light refreshments, a guided tour of the exhibition, and an artist talk with AnaYelsi about the work, the vision behind the new curatorial program, and the role of art in community life.
We hope you’ll join us for this special opening celebration.
