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.

In the years since, Alla has curated hundreds of exhibitions and led artist exchanges between American and Eastern European artists. An award-winning 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.

After 32 years, she closed the Georgetown gallery in 2022 — and is now working online around the world to continue her legacy. Learn more at AllaRogers.com.

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About Alla: Born in Ansbach, Germany, and raised in Sydney, Australia, and Philadelphia, PA, Alla has lived in Washington, DC, since 1968. She got her BA at the University of Pittsburgh, where she was an English major and Russian minor. She earned her MA in Russian Language and Literature at the George Washington University. In 1974, she founded Rogers & Associates with her late husband, award-winning journalist Warren Rogers, a National Press Club president who worked for the Associated Press, Hearst Newspapers, Look magazine, and was the NY Herald Tribune Bureau Chief. Alla is also a published writer whose articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Washington Times, Architectural Digest, Home and Design, The World and I, Ukrainian Times, and The Georgetowner.

Global Peace Education Network: Along with a group of peace advocates, Alla helped found Global Peace Education Network, globalpeaceeducation.com. She serves as its Director for Art and Cultural Impact Programs, as well as liaison for global partnerships. GPEN has organized annual digital global conferences and forums, partnering with prominent global peacebuilders and educators, including UNESCO, the UN, and many others.

• African Art Exhibition: In 2022, Alla 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 African ambassadors and dignitaries who were also in attendance at the White House Africa Summit. Recognized for its contributions to greater friendship and understanding between the US and nations on the African continent and their diverse indigenous cultures, it was featured in the dedicated gallery space of The Ven Embassy Row Hotel in Washington, DC’s Dupont Circle.
• “Ukraine: A Celebration of Beauty and Resilience.” In 2023, in defense of Democracy and its own freedom, a philanthropic initiative to benefit the Kyiv Central Children’s Hospital (Och-Mat-Dyt) was also hosted at the Ven Hotel. Featured was the work of prominent Ukrainian artists, ethnic food, and two music events showcasing the ancient instruments of Ukraine and Ukrainian fusion world music. The event also included 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 was created in support of the event.

In September 2025, one of Alla’s beautiful pieces, “Emerging,” was selected 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.”

Honors and Awards:

• 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 in 2023, Alla was inducted into The Ukrainian Digital Museum of the Diaspora, based in Kyiv. This all-encompassing record includes achievements by individuals from all areas of the human endeavor in the diaspora, as was her late father, Volodymyr Bilyaiv, a former Poet Laureate, Kyiv-Mohyla University Laureate, political and social activist, and former Chief of the Voice of America, Ukrainian Service.

Click here to read more about Alla’s life and journey in The Georgetowner.

Stay tuned for more about Alla, her Art Salon and online gallery: AllaRogersGallery.art.