About | PhilippaHughes.com

Philippa created the Pink Line Project to inspire creative thinking in everyone, to build community and connectivity, and to open portals to art and culture for the culturally curious. Her vision for DC: to change the way people view DC, both residents and visitors. DC is more than just institutions and politics; it’s filled with amazing people doing amazingly creative things using art, technology, and good-old fashioned ingenuity.

She runs a consolidated and searchable calendar of all things cool and creative in DC and writes and maintains a widely read blog that highlights the best of DC’s creative scene. It’s about cool people doing cool things.

She has established a reputation for creating inventive and collaborative environments in which people who would not normally have the opportunity to interact with each other gather to experience art and culture in alternative and stimulating ways.

She has been a leader in the creative and temporary use of vacant, urban space throughout the city.

She left law practice to evangelize the power of art to transform lives.

Mission:

To catalyze the culturally curious to participate, innovate, engage, and conspire with passion, awesomeness, inspiration, generosity, and ingenuity.

Values:

Inspiration. We surround ourselves with extraordinary and creative people.

Passion. We suck the marrow out of life and wake up every morning screaming
at the top of our lungs.
Generosity. We give unconditionally and without any expectation of return.

Curiosity. We combat intellectual stagnation with curiosity about the people and
exploring world around us.
Courage. We act according to what is true and authentic for ourselves rather
than what anyone expects of us.

Press Highlights:

“Champion of under-the-radar artists.”
-Town & Country

“Lately, it seems impossible to have a conversation about the
DC’s art scene that doesn’t eventually lead to art collector and
culture promoter, Philippa Hughes, the founder of DC’s
cultural online hub, The Pink Line Project.”
-Apartment Therapy

“An arch-organizer of all things arty, providing an entry point for
novices eager to appreciate and collect art.
-Washington Post

“Art guru Philippa Hughes had the chance to be an arm’s-length philanthropist,
but chose to get down and dirty with the scene instead. Now, the patron saint
of local artists is hailed as DC’s go-to gal for making things happen and pulling
off the boldest expos in the city.”
-DC Magazine

Community Activity:

Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar (2012)
DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, Commissioner
DC Humanities Council, Distinguished Service to the Humanities Award, Recipient
Washington City Paper, Best of DC, Best Arts Blog (2013)
Washington Post D.C. Tweeps contest, Winner “Favorite Local Arts & Lifestyle Insider” Tweeter (2012)
Washington Post D.C. Tweeps contest, Winner “Favorite Arts Scenester” Tweeter (2011)
The Awesome Foundation, Trustee
TEDxWDC, Speaker
Huffington Post, Contributor
PostClassical Ensemble, Board Member
Arts Coalition for the Dupont Underground, Advisory Board Member
Flashpoint Gallery, Advisory Panel (2008-2011)
Cultural Development Corporation, Creative Communities Initiative Committee (2009)
Arlington Arts Center, Board and Catalyst Committee (2008-2011)
Taffety Punk, an alternative theater company dedicated to making theater smart and
affordable founded by DC actors, Board Member
Barrelhouse Magazine, an alternative literary magazine of pop flotsam and cultural
jetsam founded by DC writers, Board Member
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Annual Circle and Contemporary Acquisition Council, National Gallery of Art, Circle Member, Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Phillips Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Cultural Tourism DC, MOMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Art Table
Washington Film Institute, Board Member
Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Community Museum
The Studio Visit, a web journal dedicated to contemporary visual artists and their process, Board Member