District of Columbia Art Association, Harlequin Ball poster

Promotional poster for the D.C. Art Association 1975 Harlequin Ball, benefiting the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, and the D.C. Art Association's Scholarship Awards, Educational, and Community Visual Arts Program. The event was held in the Rotunda of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. A schedule of events is included, as well as a brief history of the D.C. Art Association, and lists of Harlequin Ball Committee members, and D.C. Art Association membership. Harlequin Ball Committee members are listed as: Conrad W. Thompson, Bertie Wiggs, and Dutchess Margerum (Co-Chairpersons); Annabelle Bacot; Joseph D. Clipper; Cheryl Foster; Gloria T. Freeman; Margaret Hicks; Sylvia Jackson; Enid Johnson; Betty Lawton; Charles Mickens; Peter L. Robinson, Jr.; and Lois Vann. D.C. Art Association officers include: Conrad W. Thompson, President; Gloria T. Freeman, Vice President; Edith G. Strange, Treasurer; Rushie Croxton, Recording Secretary; Georgette S. Powell, Correspondence Secretary; and Sylvia M. Jackson, Financial Secretary. Committess and Chairpersons include: Joanna Lee and Katherine Stewart - Scholarships and Awards; Edith I. Martin and Delilah Pierce - Exhibits; E. Loretta Ballard - Membership; Kenn Simpson - Program; Dutchess Margerum - Hospitality; Dr. Leroy Gaskin - Constitution and By-Laws; Georgette Powell - Community Relations; Edith Martin and Georgetta [sic] Powell - Publicity and Media. Members include: Annabelle Bacot; E. Loretta Ballard; William Banks; Harrison E. Benton, Jr.; Bernard Brooks; Albert J. Carter; Ivy Carter; Joseph Daniel Clipper; Wallace X. Conway; Juanita Cribb; Rushie Croxton; James Dabney; Juette J. Day; Rachel E. Davis; Jeff Donaldson; John Elder; Cheryl Foster; Benjamin Franklin; Gloria T. Freeman; Leroy Gaskin; Pat Giles; Annabelle Green; Margaret T. Hicks; Josephine Hill; Timothy Hinton; Joseph Holstan, Jr.; Helena C. Howard; Audrey Humphries; Sylvia M. Jackson; Jeanne Jarvis; Chester Jennings; Frances Lewis Jennings; Venda Jennings; Georgia M. Jessup; Enid Johnson; Dorcas Jones; James W. Jones; Robert B. Jones; Patricia Landry; Betty Lawton; Joanna Lee; Nanno G. Lee; William C. Lewis; Helen S. Mason; Dutchess D. Margerum; Henry Marshall; Percy Martin; Edith I. Martin; Edward R. McKay; Charles Mickens; Corinne Mitchell; Doris Montgomery; Grace Northington; Joy B. Peters; Delilah Pierce; Lois Pierre-Noel; Georgetta Powell; Lucille Roberts (Malkia); Peter L. Robinson, Jr.; Cynthia Mosely Sands; Kenn Simpson; Maxine W. Snowden; Katherine Stewart; Patricia Stocks; Edith G. Strange; Carolyn Tate; Alma Thomas; Larry E. Thomas; Conrad W. Thompson; Dorothy J. Tucker; Lois Vann; Evelyn Ware; James L. Wells; Joseph Whittington; Bertie Wiggs; Marie Williams