Monday Morning Magic from Inkandescent® PR + Publishing Co. — Artist and Art Curator Alla Rogers founded the Alla Rogers Gallery in Georgetown in 1990 as a showcase for contemporary European and American Art. For decades, she focused on the newly accessible art from Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union. Her gallery was in the vanguard of this focus. After 32 years, following the pandemic, she closed the Georgetown gallery in 2022 — and is now working her magic online around the world to continue her legacy: AllaRogersGallery.art.

An award-winning, highly celebrated international artist herself, Alla has exhibited her own paintings in Kyiv at The National Fine Art Museum of Ukraine, Ukraine’s national collection of art treasures. Two of her works were selected for the US Embassy’s permanent collection in Kyiv through the Art in the Embassies program.

Coming this week, one of her beautiful pieces, “Emerging,” has been chosen to be part of the American University Museum at the Katzen Center survey exhibition, Women Artists of the DMV. “This is the largest curated survey of contemporary living women artists in the nation and the first survey of female visual artists working across the DMV,” according to curator Lenny Campello, who says the art event uncovers the breadth, diversity, and creative “superpowers” of female artists working today in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.

About “Emerging:” Alla says, “This is perhaps the most abstract of my paintings. It is simply meant to suggest what it says: Emerging, the birthing of something. It is earthy and brooding and struggling at times, as is life. It is constantly emerging, uninhibited, a flow to be accepted. Acrylic and textural media on canvas.”

Click here to find a list of all the women artists, including Alla.

Scroll down for her Artist Statement. And check in regularly to learn about upcoming art shows, salons, artist talks, and more at AllaRogersGallery.art.

Until next Monday: May art soothe your soul, fill your heart, and bring us all together in peace. We’ll see you at Alla’s opening on Saturday, Sept. 6! — Hope Katz Gibbs, founder and president, Inkandescent® Inc. Inkandescent.us

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Artist Statement: Alla Rogers, “Women Artists of the DMV”

Mine is a very personal journey into abstraction. It is a pathway to find expression for the transcendent, sacred, and eternal.

Using symbols, color,  textural media and silver and gold leaf while guided by my intuition, I attempt to express an insight, a mood, a reflection about my own awareness of existence in an eternal landscape.

With color, archetypal symbols, and personal references to my own internal practice of focusing within, a conclusion or feeling concerning the sacred and eternal is explored. You might call some of my painting abstract icons. In my work,  the circle often symbolizes a fixed reference point in the eternal landscape; unity, the world, oneness, centrality and it is a female symbol. Other strong symbols are triangles and various geometric forms in timeless relationship to one another as if in a cosmic minuet.

The symbolism of color is very important to my work as it is the means of conveying mood, atmospherics and energy. It is an energy that brings us all into being. I give myself permission to see up close from a jewelers perspective or telescopically at the cosmos as we know it.

As a visual communication I seek balance, harmony and an aspiration towards beauty for myself and the viewer who may not be aware of the underpinnings of my work.

Learn more about the artist: AllaRogers.com.

Click here to learn more about the exhibition at the Katzen Center, Sept. 6-Dec. 7, 2025.

About Alla: In 2020 Alla Rogers, along with a small group of peace advocates, helped found Global Peace Education Network, www.globalpeaceeducation.com. She serves as its Director for Art and Cultural Impact Programs and liaison for global partnerships. GPEN has organized annual digital global conferences and digital forums while partnering with prominent global peacebuilders and educators such as UNESCO, the UN, and many others. It is an information-sharing, connecting, and advocacy platform for peace education worldwide and is a registered US 501C3 non-profit.

In that capacity, the native of Ansbach, Germany — who was raised in Sydney, Australia, and  Philadelphia, PA — curated an exhibition of African art from the member nations of The African Union under the patronage of the permanent Ambassador of the African Union to the United States, Ambassador Mafudze. The exhibition was attended by many of the African ambassadors and dignitaries at the White House Africa Summit. The exhibition was recognized for its contribution to greater friendship and understanding between the US and nations of the African continent and its diverse indigenous cultures. The exhibition lasted two months in the dedicated gallery space of The Ven Embassy Row Hotel and was open to the general public.

She helped create the “Ukraine: A Celebration of Beauty and Resilience” event: Ukrainian Art and Culture in support of its defense of Democracy and its own freedom was a philanthropic initiative to benefit the Kyiv Central Children’s Hospital (Och-Mat-Dyt). Held at the Ven Embassy Row Hotel from April to June 2023, it consisted of an exhibition of high-status artists from Ukraine, an ethnic food table at the opening, followed by two separate music events in which the ancient instruments of Ukraine were featured as well as an evening of Ukrainian fusion world music. Throughout the event there were focused art lectures and meetings with collectors, Ukraine experts, diplomats, museum directors and the public. The exhibition received a warm salutary review in The Washington Post. A print and digital catalog were created in support of the event.

In 2023, Alla was invited to be a reader at the State Department at an event honoring and celebrating Martin Luther King’s life as a global peace educator. Among the readers were leaders in the Civil Rights movement and March on Washington as well as peace activists, educators and diplomats. It recognized the global influence of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr as a peace educator and human rights advocate.

Also that year, Alla was inducted into the Ukrainian Digital Museum of the Diaspora based in Kyiv and online. She was honored to be included in an all-encompassing record of individuals from all areas of achievement and human endeavor in the diaspora, as was her late father, a former Poet Laureate, Kyiv -Mohyla University Laureate, political and social activist, and former Chief of the Voice of America, Ukrainian Service.

Previously:

• With a BA in English and Russian from the University of Pittsburgh, Alla got a Master of Arts and Humanities in Russian Language and Literature (teaching fellowship, full scholarship) from George Washington University.
• From 1974 to 1990, she ran Rogers & Associates, a Consulting and PR with her late husband Warren Rogers, past President of the National Press Club, Hearst, Look Magazine, and NY Herald Tribune Bureau Chief.
• She launched Alla Rogers Art Services in April 1990, which continues to be a vibrant community today. She opened Alla Rogers Gallery that year, which closed its doors in August 2022. Alla is a specialist in Washington and Eastern European Art and the past president of the Art Dealers Association of Greater Washington.

Click here to read more about her journey in The Georgetowner.

And find information about her new organization here: globalpeaceeducation.com