Hughes is founder of the Pink Line Project, an online initiative to connect D.C.’s culturally curious with its largely untapped and vibrant art scene. What inspired you to start this project?

I was working at a law firm and I was super-bored, so I started looking around for accessible art gatherings and new and emerging forms of art. I also wanted to be around creative people, so I started inviting artists over and having discussions. Then I started seeking out things to do that were off the beaten path. I started blogging them and it just got bigger and that was sort of the basis for everything, the idea of giving people art.