 Free Workshops for Artists and Arts Organizations
The alliance known as the Northern Virginia Local Arts Agencies (NVLAA) announces seven free workshops for artists and arts organizations throughout the region. The 2024 professional development offerings will cover topics such as gallery and agent representation, cultural intelligence, arts marketing insights, creating content in a digital world, and more.
Join for the first workshop on January 18 from 12 to 1:30pm: "Inside Representation: Paths to Working with Dealers and Agents". All workshops are available for free and require advance registration. More
Lillian Bayley Hoover, we possess only this moment, 2022
Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington Exhibitions
Jan 20-Mar 17 | MoCA Arlington | Virginia Square
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Lillian Bayley Hoover: Hitched to Everything Else: In Hitched to Everything Else, Lillian Bayley Hoover depicts spaces where human infrastructure interrupts or collides with the natural environment.
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PLACE: Calling Home: This exhibition features work created by young people from the Columbia Hills and Columbia Grove communities during a series of workshops organized through a partnership between Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington and Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing.
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Ghost of a Dream: I know a place where they perform miracles: This exhibition by the collaborative duo Ghost of a Dream highlights a new seven-channel rotating video installation created as part of their ongoing project Aligned by the Sun and showcases all new composite photographs from their series Is this Paradise…
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Bahar Yürükoğlu: Brains in a Golden Gratin: Titled after a dish from the 1982 cookbook Hors d’Oeuvre, Yürükoğlu’s exhibition takes the messy, often revolting stuff of our mortal bodies and transient lives, and searches for connections between them and ideals of beauty, motherhood, and civilization—all somehow (and indeed intimately) related to food—with gusto.
Celebrate the opening of the new exhibitions at MoCA Arlington with Art After Hours on Sat, Jan 20 from 5 to 8pm. Exhibiting artists will be in attendance and MoCA Arlington Resident Artists will also open their studios to the public. More
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Avant Bard 2024 Scripts in Play Festival
Walter Mercado presents: a queer Puerto Rican (not just) Christmas Carol
Jan 19 & 21 | Mason Exhibitions Arlington | Virginia Square
We all need a little help sometimes. Identity is confusing. Dating is HARD. Some of us go to therapy. And some of us – wait until it gets bad enough that our dead abuela (who’s lookin HOT, btw) sends three Puerto Rican ancestors/icons our way on Christmas Eve to get us back on track by taking us on a tour of our past, present, and future. Walter Mercado presents: a queer Puerto Rican (not just) Christmas Carol is a queer subversion of the classic ‘Christmas Carol’ narrative, a refreshing holiday story about Puerto Rico, progress, gender, and accepting a helping hand from some unexpected ancestors. More
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Encore Stage & Studio: Under the Sea Ball
Sat, Jan 20 | 11a | TJ Community Theatre | Arlington Heights
Join for an anemone party to remember with the Under the Sea Ball on following the 11am performance of Finding Nemo Jr. The Musical! Dress up in your finest fins and make your theatre experience a lasting family memory! Join for delicious foods, fun arts and craft activities, and a chance to interact with the cast. Finding Nemo Jr. The Musical runs Jan 12-21. More
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Arlington’s 2024 MLK Tribute: Stones of Hope
Sun, Jan 14 | 5-6:30p | Wakefield High School | Claremont
Don’t miss Arlington's annual tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Join in honoring the life and legacy of MLK through the fourteen quotes inscribed at the Stones of Hope memorial in Washington D.C. More
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2024 DC Poet Project Reading Series:
My Body, My Choice
Fri, Jan 19 | 7p | online
Attend an online poetry reading celebrating a woman's right to choose with featured poets Teri Cross Davis, Kim B Miller, and Arlington Poet Laureate Courtney LeBlanc. This is the first event in Day Eight’s annual DC Poet Project series. Each DC Poet Project event includes 25 to 30 minutes of poetry by the featured poets, and equal time for reading by open mic participants. More
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Mason Exhibitions Arlington: Faces of Resilience
thru Mar 30 | Mason Exhibitions Arlington | Virginia Square
Faces of Resilience features works by 14 previously or currently incarcerated artists who participate in year-round art workshops at the maximum-security prison SCI Phoenix. In addition to the 14 artists, the exhibit is supplemented by the works of three professional artists: Maria Gaspar, Sara Bennett, and the late Winfred Rembert (1945–2021). More
Join for a Virtual Artist Talk on Wednesday, January 17 with some of the many artists in the Faces of Resilience exhibition, including Sara Bennett, Ronald Connelly, and Luis 'Suave' Gonzalez. More
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Make an Artist Book with Book Artist Sushmita Mazumdar
Sat, Jan 20 | 10:30a-12p | Shirlington Library | Shirlington
Join the Arlington Public Library for a workshop where you will make your own matchbox book with book artist, Sushmita Mazumdar. Get a chance to see her fantastic handmade books and hear about how she makes books... by hand! For families with kids. More
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