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Welcome
to Hope Gallery of Washington, DC
Ana
Maria Lopez, Owner
228 McNair Road, Building 405 (Community Center)
Fort Myer, Virginia 22211
(703) 696-3385
Hours:
Tuesday — Saturday 11 AM — 7 PM
Closed Sundays, Mondays, and Federal Holidays
Custom
Framing Services
Custom framing involves art, design, and construction
of the protective and often times decorative container for
your artwork. Our goal as custom framers is the preservation
of your art using acid-free materials to make it last through
the next generation!
We
frame:
- oil
paintings
- fabrics
- acrylics
- needlework
- watercolors
- artifacts
- pastels
- diplomas
- pen
& ink
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- coins,
medals
- prints
- memorabilia
- posters
- t-shirts
- photographs
- papyrus
- objects
- jewelry
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We
charge for materials and labor according to the total square
footage of the piece to be framed. Our normal turnaround
time is two weeks
Custom
Framing Classes
The
principle that "knowledge is power" applies to custom
framing! We offer a five hour Custom Framing 101 Crash Course
designed to equip you with information, skill, and confidence
to enable you to use the shop’s Do-It-Yourself Framing
facilities to frame you own works of art. Class participants
are required to bring a 5"x7" picture to use for
the practicum. The cost of $65 includes materials, lectures
and hands on framing experience. Pre-registration is required.
You may stop by, call or register on line for these classes
held the last Saturday of the month from 11 AM until 4 PM.
Do-It-Yourself
Framing
Anyone who has taken our Custom Framing Class 101
at Fort Myer or any other military facility is welcome to
use the shop. The cost is $3 per hour. In stock materials
are available for purchase and materials can also be ordered
upon request.
Your
Framer
Ana Maria
Lopez, owner of Hope Gallery, received her Bachelor of
Science in Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas (UST)
Manila, Philippines as well at a BFA in Commercial Arts at
La Consolacion College (LCC) in Bacolad City, Philippines.
She taught art to grades 3-6 in the Philippines prior to coming
to the United States in 1986 during the People’s Power
Revolution. In the last seven years she has worked on art
preservation and custom framing at Broadway Galleries in Alexandria,
Virginia and the Snow Goose Museum Gallery in Columbia, Maryland.
Ana
studied decorative matting under Brian Wolf, CPF and framing
fabrics with Vivian Kistler, CPF in 1998 at the Professional
Picture Framer’s Association (PPFA). She has been a custom
framer at Fort Myer since 2001, and in 2002 she became the
principle owner and renamed the frame shop Hope Gallery. Ana
is also a landscape artist who uses organic material as her
medium.
She
has been published in the Fort Myer Military Community’s
Pentagram newspaper (July 2002), Asian Fortune magazine (Sept.
2002), and in the Philippine Inquirer (Sept. 2002) for her
work on military memorabilia restoration and custom framing
restoration of military prints and documents damaged in the
attack on the Pentagon, September 11, 2001. Ana’s mission
statement is: To lift up the human spirit through art.
For
more information about Ana and her Hope Gallery, visit her
website at www.hopegallerywashdc.com
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