WASHINGTON, DC.- Hamiltonian Artists and The Nicholson Project, two arts organizations dedicated to fostering emerging and mid-career artists, announce a sweeping six-month city-wide exhibition, I’ll meet you there. Showcasing the work of artists from the D.C. region, Stephanie J. Williams, Jermaine “jET” Carter, Edgar Reyes, and A.J. McClenon, I’ll meet you there will present video works that consider what it means to inhabit a space of uneasy familiarity — recognizable, yet quietly destabilizing. On view March 16 - August 15, 2026, the exhibition unfolds across Washington, D.C. through a combination of storefront video screenings, outdoor mural installations, and a traveling 20-foot video billboard truck that transforms the city itself into a moving gallery.

The exhibition title is drawn from a line in “A Great Wagon” by the 13th-century poet Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks: “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”

The verse gestures toward a space of encounter — one that exists beyond binaries and certainty, rooted instead in openness and shared humanity. That spirit animates this project.



“We are thrilled that our two arts organizations, located on opposite sides of DC, have come together to present I’ll meet you there. This project reclaims advertising infrastructure — so often used for political messaging in a city widely perceived by outsiders as a “political town”— and uses it instead as a platform for contemporary art for and by DC natives. Through this roving exhibition, we are bringing contemporary art, typically experienced inside galleries and museums, into the everyday landscape of the city itself.” - Allison Nance, Executive Director of The Nicholson Project, and Lily Siegel, Executive Director of Hamiltonian Artists

Across themes of embodiment, identity, migration, memory, and collective care, I’ll meet you there explores how bodies move through public and private landscapes, how histories linger in neighborhoods, and how personal narratives shape collective space. I’ll meet you there bridges diverse neighborhoods of the capital, connecting Hamiltonian Artists’ U Street NW gallery with The Nicholson Project’s campus in Southeast DC. The exhibition extends beyond these two locations by activating the city’s roadways, nearly 20% of Washington’s land, reimagining public infrastructure as cultural space. A custom LED billboard media truck will traverse all four quadrants of the city on select Saturdays and Wednesdays throughout the exhibition. At artist-selected locations and in partnership with DC Public Libraries and neighborhood organizations, the truck will pause for screenings and public conversations, bringing contemporary video art directly into communities rather than asking communities to come to it.

Simultaneously, each artist’s work will be anchored at both partner sites. At Hamiltonian Artists, videos will be visible from the street through the gallery’s front window, accessible to passersby at any hour, with audio available via a smartphone QR code and synced via advanced technology from Nubart. At The Nicholson Project, large-scale outdoor vinyl installations, derived from imagery in the videos, will transform the rear exterior wall of the Garden Studios into a monumental, open-air exhibition space.



Together, these fixed and mobile presentations create a layered viewing experience: intimate and public, grounded while in motion.

A digital companion experience on the Bloomberg Connects app will further expand access, offering behind-the-scenes materials, artist interviews, and interpretive content available both on-site and remotely. In this way, the project merges physical, mobile, and digital platforms to broaden engagement and extend the life of the work.

Each artist brings a practice deeply rooted in place and lived experience. Carter’s Man of the Sky unfolds in Southeast DC, tracing questions of responsibility and inheritance. McClenon’s work imagines ancestral recovery as an act of resistance to erasure. Williams examines the hypervisibility of marginalized bodies and the tension between presence and surveillance. Reyes reflects on migration, cultural memory, and resilience, illuminating how movement shapes identity across generations.

In a city where many major cultural institutions are concentrated in more affluent neighborhoods, I’ll meet you there positions public art as a vehicle for equity, visibility, and cultural preservation. By bringing contemporary art into everyday spaces, onto sidewalks, into neighborhoods, and along shared roadways, the project reduces barriers to access and amplifies voices that have too often been underrepresented in the public realm.

The exhibition will unfold in four cycles:
Stephanie J. Williams (March 16 – April 11, 2026)
Jermaine “jET” Carter (May 4 – May 30, 2026)
Edgar Reyes (June 22 – July 18, 2026)
A.J. McClenon (July 20 – August 8, 2026)

Each will be celebrated with opening events at partner locations. Detailed schedules and truck routes will be available at meetyoutheredc.org. More information will also be available via Bloomberg Connects.

Supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, I’ll meet you there invites Washingtonians across all eight Wards to encounter art where they live, work, and gather — and to meet one another in that open field of possibility.

For more information, visit meetyoutheredc.org.