The ribbon has been cut! We celebrated this milestone for Sitar Next Door with special guest speakers and a festive celebration with the community.

Earlier this month, a group of Sitar's Emerging Arts Leaders (S.E.A.L.) Mural Arts Interns got a special tour of Sitar Next Door.

Sitar Next Door is starting to look and feel like an arts learning hub!

Construction is progressing at Sitar Next Door.

One of the cornerstone spaces at Sitar Next Door is coming to life! Storefront windows on Kalorama Rd NW will provide plenty of natural light into the Recording Studio.

The wiring and electrical box are going in for the light grid in Sitar Next Door’s soon-to-open Flex Theater and Community Space.

In 2025, Sitar Arts Center celebrates a quarter-century of opening doors to visual, performing, and digital arts learning for DC Youth. To mark the milestone, we are opening Sitar Next Door!

Sitar Next Door's infrastructure is very near completion!

It is so much fun to give hard hat tours of Sitar Next Door to our Sitar community!

An exciting day as the new windows are installed on Sitar Next Door at 1724 Kalorama Rd NW.

Take a look at these stunning, to-scale renderings of Sitar Next Door’s studios.

Follow Sitar Arts Center students Sergio, Manny, and Farah on a special tour of Sitar Next Door!

Sitar Next Door is rapidly approaching the final phase of construction and our dreams for the community are taking shape as each studio in the new space takes shape.

At 1724 Kalorama Road NW, the future home of Sitar Arts Center's expansion, every room is starting to come alive.

Progress continues on Sitar Next Door, in every studio and even behind the scenes.

Most of the base-build is complete on the first floor of 1724 Kalorama Rd NW, the future home of Sitar Arts Center’s expansion.

The interior framing is nearly complete in Sitar Next Door. We are starting to imagine the impactful arts learning and creations that will happen here!

The arts learning spaces in Sitar Next Door are taking shape!