ART EXHIBITIONS

COMING FALL 2022

2022 – 2023 TBA "Ashes to Ashes" Presented as a Veteran Art Spaces, curated by Ryan Hinely, hosted by DC Vet Center, Washington, DC

28 – 30 JUN 2022 inside the Jefferson Building, Room LJ-119, of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC

* 17 – 19 JUN 2022 at AiRArts at Atelier 11 of Historic Cité Falguière in Paris, FR

11 NOV 2021 – 1 JAN 2022 Honfleur Gallery Presents: From Conflict to Creativity: Transitions in Historic Anacostia, DC

2021 NOV – MAR 2022 3D Art Exhibition with Warrior Writers online

2021 – 2022 Dulles International Airport Vernacular Exhibitions in Dulles, VA

2021 – 2022 VetArt Rehab Exhibitions at The Hill Center of the Old Naval Hospital in Washington, DC

11 SEP 2021 – 11 SEP 2022 National 9/11 Poetry Finalist Exhibition at the NVAM in Chicago, IL

2021 Summer with the Arts & Centennial for Tomb of Unknown Soldier Exhibitions at Women's Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, VA

OCT 2021 – APR 2022 Uniting US Veteran Artist Exhibition at Takoma Park Community Center in Takoma, MD

OCT – DEC 2021 The 18th Annual Healing Arts Exhibit at WRNMMC in Bethesda, MD

11 SEP 2021 CavArts and Challenge America present National 9/11 Poetry Contest, supported by Operation Gratitude and the National Veterans Art Museum in Chicago, IL

21 MAY – 11 JUN 2021 AWW-STRUCK Online Exhibition with Poem Atlas from London, UK

18 JUN – 28 AUG 2021 Quarantine Creations Exhibition at the Perkinson Center for Arts and Education in Chester, VA

15 MAY – 5 JUN 2020 Escapisms Online Exhibition with Poem Atlas from London, UK

1 DEC – 31 DEC 2015 Merry Momi: City Wreath Display at Honolulu Hale’s Lane Gallery in Honolulu, HI

SPECIAL EVENTS

28 – 30 JUN 2022

AUG 28, 2021 – 1 JAN 2022 at the Women's Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, VA

11 SEP 2021 – 11 SEP 2022

11 NOV 2021 Anacostia Arts Center Presents: From Conflict to Creativity: Transitions an event for veterans, their families, and the community in Historic Anacostia, DC

11 NOV 2021 Honfleur Gallery Opening Reception: From Conflict to Creativity: Transitions an event for veterans, their families, and the community in Historic Anacostia, DC

11 SEP 2022 the Twenty Year Commemorative event hosted by Challenge America, organized by CavArts, sponsored by Operation Gratitude

24 AUG 2020 AATVF Poetry and Spoken Word Night Online as Festival Limited in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

2017 – 2018 NPS Sponsored Events with Petersburg National Battlefield in Tri-Cities, VA

2021 Steel Incisors Launch hosted by EIC James Knight

2 NOV 2018 Museum Dedication and Expansion at Fort Lee, VA

25 MAR 2018 Women Warriors Throughout the Ages at the Prince George Regional Heritage Center in Prince George, VA

11 NOV 2018 at the Writer's Center in Washington, DC

15 FEB – 20 APR 2014 Meet Doraemon at Bishop Museum

CONVENTIONS AND SEMINARS

21 – 22 NOV 2020 Maggs Vibo Educational Program: Wives, Witches, and Warriors of Virginia, Hosted by Room 207, Produced by Mark Norman, Archived by The Folklore Podcast.

8 – 11 JUN 2021 Convention focus on: Centering Equity in Creative Recovery, Putting Creative Workers and Cultural Organizations to Work, Improving Policies and Practices for the Creative Economy, and Envisioning Tomorrow’s Creative Engines

17 MAR 2021 Virtual Panel Discussion: A Conversation with Women Veteran Authors, Moderated by Jeanette Gaudry Haynie, Hosted by Nathalie Grogan, with Pamela Brodman, Diane Carlson Evans, Kelly Kennedy, and Maggs Vibo speak about artistic inspiration from challenges of military service.

WORKSHOPS

Summer 2020 10 Week Writing Workshop (participant), facilitated by David Surface of The Veterans Writing Workshop and initiative of Fordham-Westchester University, NY

17 March 2021 Warrior Writers present Veterans Sound Off, in honor of Women's History Month, hosted by Sanford Vet Center

25 AUG 2020 Virtual Workshop, Facilitated by Tim Marriott, Hosted by Army@theArts

2020 Veterans' Poetry Workshop, hosted by Oxford Brookes Poetry Center, Oxford Brookes University in Oxfordshire, UK

CEREMONIES

QUILTS OF HONOR

YELLOW RIBBON

SHINNYO EN

01 AUG 2008 KHUAN BAN MAI blessing celebrated by monks from Wat Thai Carrollton, VA

11 SEP 2015 Hero Run Walk or Roll with Fisher House at Joint Base Pearl Harbor, HI

2022 Song Kran Ceremony at Wat Thai in Los Angeles, CA

25 MAY 2004 Arlington West Memorial in Santa Monica, CA

2003 – PRESENT IN MEMORIAM

11 SEP 2021 to commemorate the 20 Years of War, organized by Army Community Service, Hosted at Fort Lee, VA

16 – 17 AUG 2013 Obon Dancing Festival, hosted by Hongwanji in Mililani, Oahu, HI

MA YAI'S 100TH