The National Civic Art Society invites you to take part in our 2021 outdoor walking tour series “The Classive Tradition: The Beauty, Goodness, and Truth of Washington, D.C.” led by NCAS Research Fellow Michael Curtis. You can register for them HERE.
About the tour guide: Michael Curtis is a sculptor, painter, historian, architectural designer, and poet who has taught and lectured at widely, including at The Institute of Classical Architecture, The Center for Creative Studies, and The National Gallery of Art. His pictures and statues are housed in over 400 private and public collections, including the Library of Congress, National Portrait Gallery, and U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Curtis has made statues and medals of presidents, generals, Supreme Court justices, captains of industry, and national heroes, including Davey Crockett, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Justice Thurgood Marshall. Curtis' History of Texas, located at the Texas Rangers ballpark in Arlington, Texas, is the largest American frieze of the 20th century. Mr. Curtis' plays, essays, verse, and translations have been published in over 30 journals. His most recent nonfiction books include The Classical Architecture and Monuments of Washington, D.C. Curtis studied classical architecture at the University of Michigan, and painting, sculpture, and engraving at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, Italy.
Tours, which are outdoors, are limited to two hours in length and begin at 10:00 AM at the location indicated. The cost per tour is $10. NCAS members, students, interns, and Hill staffers may obtain free tickets by e-mailing info@civicart.org. If you have any questions, please e-mail info@civicart.org or call (202) 670-1776.
Tour I: Capitol Hill - Saturday May 15, 10:00 AM - noon
Classive Order: The challenge of Knowledge, Justice, Governance embodied in American Classive temples.
U.S. Capitol
U.S. Supreme Court
Library of Congress, Jefferson Building
Meet at Le Bon Café, 210 2nd St SE.
Tour II: The Grand Avenue - Saturday May 22, 10:00 AM - noon
Classical America: The Muse, the Father, the People symbolized.
National Mall
Washington Monument
Jefferson Memorial
Meet outside the Washington Monument Bookstore, 15th St., National Mall.
Tour III: President’s Park - Saturday June 5, 10:00 AM - noon
A Republic of Virtue: Virtues necessary to a republic, Authority, Community, Commerce.
White House
Lafayette Square
U.S. Treasury Department
Meet at the entrance of Teaism at 800 Connecticut Ave NW.
Tour IV: Liberty Stroll - Saturday June 12, 10:00 AM - noon
National, Political, and Personal Liberty: The Statue: not free, at Liberty to approach Divinity.
Lafayette Park; Lafayette, Rochambeau, Kosciusko, Von Steuben
Treasury; Hamilton & Gallatin
Decatur House
Meet at the entrance of Teaism at 800 Connecticut Ave NW.
Tour V: Honoring Heroes - Saturday June 19, 10:00 AM - noon
Sacrifice and Remembrance: Memory, Honor, Forgetfulness.
Lincoln Memorial
National World War II Memorial
Vietnam Veterans Memorial (and other memorials as time permits)
Meet outside the Lincoln Memorial Bookstore.