Celebrating 35 Years ~ 1974 to
2009
*FREE TOUR*: Meet by the main
entrance every Wednesday and Friday at noon for a FREE artist led tour of the
Torpedo Factory!
Thursday, July 2
Live Music by Jim
Stephanson and John Previti
7-9pm, FREE performance
Guitarist Jim Stephanson and bassist John Previti will treat
visitors to an evening of blues, swing, and jazz inspired tunes. The popular DC
area musicians share a love of all styles of roots music but especially the
swing and country jazz styles of the 40s and 50s which they perform along with
their band, Hillbilly Jazz.
June 2 – July 5
Moons, Stars and Sky
Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery
Studio 18
A celebration of the summer
solstice. Jewelry, sculpture, clothing, and wall pieces are some of the items
that will be exhibited.
June 2 - August 2
Come Morning and Snow Days
Multiple Exposures Gallery
Studio 312
Fine art photography show
featuring work by Laurie Sand and Louise Noakes.
Reception: Sunday, June 28, 2-4pm
June 3 – July 5
Fifty years of
Enameling:
Averill Shepps’
Mini-show
Enamelists Gallery
Studio 28
Averill Shepps shows work that
celebrates her long career as a working enamelist during which time she
produced pieces for sale and for exhibition.
June 3 – July 6
All-Media Membership
Show
The Art League Gallery
Room 21
Works of all media and subject
matter by Art League members, with an emphasis on sculpture.
Reception: Second Thursday Art Night, June 11,
6:30-8pm
June 4 – July 6
Fabrications
Nancy Pane Fortwengler’s
Solo Show
The Art League Gallery
Room 21
Nancy Pane Fortwengler
explores the form and iconic symbols of femininity through her series of
figurative dress paintings in which the body exists without the figure. Working
backstage with a ballet company, Fortwengler was inspired to create the series
after seeing the movement of the dancer’s costumes under dramatic stage
lighting where the dresses themselves took on a life of their own.
Reception: Second Thursday Art Night, June 11,
6:30-8pm
June 10 – July 12
CMDupre: The
Mysterious Other
Friends of the Torpedo Factory Art Center’s Artist of the Year
Target Gallery
The Friends of the Torpedo Factory Art Center
are pleased to announce that artist CMDupre has been named Artist of the Year
for 2009. This year’s juror was Shauna Lee Lange from Shauna Lee Lange Arts
Advisory. Dupre, who has had a studio at the Torpedo Factory for over eight and
a half years, was praised by Lange for creating paintings that have “achieved
visual ecstasy and the work is far beyond the range of her counterparts.”
Click for more information about the show
and view the artwork online.
Reception: Second Thursday Art Night, June 11, 6-8pm
Gallery Talk: Shauna Lee Lange, 7pm,
during reception
Meet the Artist Reception: Second Thursday Art Night, July 9, 6-8pm
Awards Ceremony:
7pm,
during reception
June 29 – July 26
Fired Works and Other Hot Items
Scope Gallery
Studio 19
Works from the Kiln Club.
July 1 – August 31
One Good
Tern and other birds and fish of the sea
Printmakers Inc.
Studio 325
A whimsical show
of illustrated limericks in original woodcut and linocut prints. Phyllis Cohen
and Lauren Miko blend their styles to give lighthearted interpretation to
Cohen’s amusing literary works.
Reception: Sunday, July 19, 3-6pm
July 4
Independence Day
The Torpedo Factory is
closed.
July 6 – August 2
On Fire
Enamelists Gallery
Studio 28
Bring it on – the heat of the
Capital Area’s summer and the heat of the enameling process.
July 7 – August 9
Antiquities
Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery
Studio 18
Ancient motifs for modern
times. Jewelry, sculpture, clothing, and wall pieces are some of the items that
will be exhibited.
July 8 – August 3
Black & White
The Art League Gallery
Room 21
This show focuses on black and
white, both metaphorically and actually. In addition to work in shades of black
and white, artists are encouraged to create work focusing on issues about race,
polarization in our culture, and the push-pull of issues in politics.
Reception: Second Thursday Art Night, July 9,
6:30-8pm
July 9 – August 3
Greece Abstracted
Betsy Anderson’s Solo
Show
The Art League Gallery
Room 21
Betsy Anderson’s latest series
of landscape paintings were inspired by the color, light, and architecture
found in the Greek landscape. Struck by the stark contrast between the
crisp white buildings and deep blue sky and water on the island of Santorini, and colorful flowers in Mykonos, Anderson focused on creating a body of work that
would evoke the feeling of this bold, iconic landscape.
Reception: Second Thursday Art Night, July 9,
6:30-8pm
July 9
Second Thursday Art Night
Alive with History
Studios and Galleries Open
6 - 9pm
Browse open studios, interact
with the artists, and explore the unique history of the torpedo factory turned art
center with a historical self-guided tour.
Visit Target Gallery from 6-8pm to meet the Friends of the Torpedo
Factory Artist of the Year, CMDupre, and view her solo exhibition The
Mysterious Other. The awards ceremony will take place at 7pm during this
special reception.
From 6:30-8pm, The Art League Gallery hosts the reception for Black
& White and Greece Abstracted, Betsy Anderson’s solo show.
Enter a free prize drawing for a chance to win a collection of cards by Clay
Huffman, one of the original Torpedo Factory artists. Enjoy fun activities
throughout the night!
Click here for more information about Second
Thursday Art Night.
July 22 – August 30
In The Flesh Part II
Target Gallery
This exhibition focuses on
contemporary figurative art, and is juried by Andrea Pollan, founder and
curator of the Curator’s Office in Washington DC. Pollan has organized over 135
exhibitions of contemporary art both regionally and nationally and has written
numerous catalogs and exhibition brochures.
Reception: Second Thursday Art
Night, August 13, 6-8pm
Awards
Ceremony:
7pm, during reception
Sunday, July 26
Coffee, Critique, and Conversation
Multiple Exposures Gallery
Studio 312
10:30am - 1pm, Free
Bring a new set of
images, photos that you have questions about, the beginnings of a photo project
or a completed portfolio. Led by a Multiple Exposures Gallery member, each
participant will lay out his or her images and a dialogue will begin. No
reservation needed, just a sincere interest in discussing and sharing images.
July 27 – August 23
Flower Power
Scope Gallery
Studio 19
Vases, Flower Pots, and more
to set off the beauty of flower arrangements from the Ceramic Guild.
August 3 – September 7
Volunteer 301
Pat Peat O’Neil’s
Mini-show
Enamelists Gallery
Studio 28
A solo show of works by the
gallery’s oldest member, Pat Peat O’Neil. The show features a relatively new
enameling technique and is based on sketches the artist made during World War
II in England when she worked as a volunteer photographer for the British
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force.
August 4 – October 4
New Work by Susan
Meyers and Colleen Henderson
Multiple Exposures Gallery
Studio 312
Fine art photography show
featuring new work by Susan Meyers and Colleen Henderson.
August 5 – September 7
‘Scapes:
International Landscape Show
The Art League Gallery
Room 21
Works of all media by Art
League members depicting the theme of landscape. View a wide array of
environments in this show – urban and rural, industrialized and primitive,
coastal and arid, and the beauty and destruction created by Mother
Nature.
Reception: Second Thursday Art Night, August
13, 6:30-8pm
August 5 – September 7
Sculptors of The Art
League
The Art League Gallery
Room 21
Reception: Second Thursday Art Night, August
13, 6:30-8pm
August 11 – September 14
Books in all their
Glory
Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery
Studio 18
Member artists celebrate books
by making them, reading them, and creating original pieces that are influenced
by them. Jewelry, sculpture, clothing, and wall pieces are some of the
items that will be exhibited.
August 13
Second Thursday Art Night
Sultry Summer Nights
Studios and Galleries Open
6 - 9pm
Browse open studios, interact
with the artists, and enjoy refreshments. The event is free and open to the
public. Check back for more information about this month’s special activities.
Visit Target Gallery from 6-8pm for the reception for the show In The
Flesh Part II.
From 6:30-8pm, The Art League Gallery hosts the reception for ‘Scapes:
International Landscape Show.
Click here for more information about Second
Thursday Art Night.
August 24 – September 20
Education Show
Scope Gallery
Studio 19
The Ceramic Guild presents
Potters’ Vocabulary 101: Wedging, Pinching, Coiling, Distorting, Firing,
Throwing, Slab Work, etc.
Thursday, August 27
Live Music by The
Jefferson Street Strutters
7-9pm
Enjoy hand-clapping, toe-tapping music from the Jefferson
Street Strutters who will treat visitors to traditional jazz and American
popular songs from the 1900’s through the early 1940’s.
Sunday, August 30
Coffee, Critique, and Conversation
Multiple Exposures Gallery
Studio 312
10:30am - 1pm, Free
Bring a new set of images, photos that you have questions about, the
beginnings of a photo project or a completed portfolio. Led by a Multiple
Exposures Gallery member, each participant will lay out his or her images and a
dialogue will begin. No reservation needed, just a sincere interest in
discussing and sharing images.
September 8 – October 4
September Song
Enamelists Gallery
Studio 28
Nostalgia and music inspire
the work for this show.
September 10 – October 5
All-Media Membership
Show
The Art League Gallery
Room 21
Works of all media and subject
matter by Art League members.
Reception: Second Thursday Art Night, September
10, 6:30-8pm
September 10 – October 5
Solo Artist Show
Brenda Barthell’s Solo
Show
The Art League Gallery
Room 21
Reception: Second Thursday Art Night, September
10, 6:30-8pm
September 10 – October 18
From There 2 Here
Target Gallery
Part of the Torpedo Factory’s
35th anniversary celebration, this exhibition invites the
participating art centers’ artists from the year long traveling exhibition From Here 2 There to exhibit a selection of
their artists’ work in Target Gallery. The participating centers are similar in
design to the Torpedo Factory in that they have open studios and galleries
inside of reused architectural spaces.
Reception: Second Thursday Art
Night, September 10, 6-8pm
Awards
Ceremony:
7pm, during reception
September 10
Second Thursday Art Night
Art is Everywhere
Studios and Galleries Open
6 - 9pm
Browse open studios, interact
with the artists, and enjoy refreshments. The event is free and open to the
public. Check back for information about this month’s special activities.
Visit Target Gallery from 6-8pm for the reception for the show From
There 2 Here.
From 6:30-8pm, The Art League Gallery hosts the reception for the All-Media
Membership Show and Brenda Barthell’s solo show.
Click
here for more information about Second Thursday Art Night.
Saturday, September
12
Art Activated
Free Event
12-4pm
Visual art comes
alive with artist demonstrations and interactivity! Enjoy special programming
as you become part of the artistic process during the Alexandria Festival of
the Arts.
September 15 –
October 11
Joy of Movement
Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery
Studio 18
Kinetic and representational
interpretations in fiber.
Thursday, September 17
Live Music by The
Jefferson Street Strutters
7-9pm
Enjoy hand-clapping, toe-tapping music from the Jefferson
Street Strutters who will treat visitors to traditional jazz and American
popular songs from the 1900’s through the early 1940’s.
September 21 –
October 25
Repetition in Clay
Scope Gallery
Studio 19
Two or more pieces that
coordinate to complete the whole presented by the Kiln Club.
Sunday, September 27
Coffee, Critique, and
Conversation
Multiple Exposures Gallery
Studio 312
10:30am - 1pm, Free
Bring a new set of images,
photos that you have questions about, the beginnings of a photo project or a
completed portfolio. Led by a Multiple Exposures Gallery member, each
participant will lay out his or her images and a dialogue will begin. No
reservation needed, just a sincere interest in discussing and sharing images.
October 5 – November 1
October Surprise
Ann Citron’s Mini-Show
Enamelists Gallery
Studio 28
Ann Citron’s whimsy and
playfulness will delight all. Come and be surprised.
October 7 – November 2
Interaction of Color
The Art League Gallery
Room 21
From Fauvism to Color-field
Painting, artists have used color to express emotion and emphasize shape and
form. This exhibit seeks to explore the concept of color.
Reception: Second Thursday Art Night, October
8, 6:30-8pm
October 7 – November 2
Solo Artist Show
Merri Nelson’s Solo Show
The Art League Gallery
Room 21
Reception: Second Thursday Art Night, October
8, 6:30-8pm
October 8
Second Thursday Art Night
Dig It!
Studios and Galleries Open
6 - 9pm
Browse open studios, interact
with the artists, and enjoy refreshments. The event is free and open to the
public. Check back for more information about this month’s special activities.
From 6:30-8pm, The Art League Gallery hosts the reception for the show Interaction
of Color and Merri Nelson’s solo show.
Click here for more information about Second
Thursday Art Night.
Saturday, October 10
Alexandria Arts Safari
Free Event
12-4pm
A festival of
hands-on arts and crafts activities for children and their families, plus
archeological fun!
October 13 –
November 15
Food for Thought
Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery
Studio 18
An exhibition focusing on mind
and subsistence.
Sunday, October 25
Coffee, Critique, and Conversation
Multiple Exposures Gallery
Studio 312
10:30am - 1pm, Free
Bring a new set of images, photos that you have questions about, the
beginnings of a photo project or a completed portfolio. Led by a Multiple
Exposures Gallery member, each participant will lay out his or her images and a
dialogue will begin. No reservation needed, just a sincere interest in
discussing and sharing images.
October 26 – November 29
Table Talk
Scope Gallery
Studio 19
The Ceramic Guild presents
serving pieces for holiday use.
October 28 – November 29
2009 Open Exhibition
Target Gallery
This is an annual exhibition
opportunity for an artist to have a solo exhibition in the gallery. This highly
competitive opportunity attracts diverse entries from around the country. This
year’s juror panel includes Paul So, Founder of the Hamiltonian Artists and
gallery in Washington DC, Phillipa Hughes, founder of the Pink Line Project and
avid art collector in Washington DC, and Lia Newman, Director of Exhibitions
and Programs with Artspace in Raleigh, NC.
Reception: Second Thursday Art
Night, November 12, 6-8pm
Awards
Ceremony:
7pm, during reception
November 2 –
December 6
Identities
Enamelists Gallery
Studio 28
Each member explores the
depths of those intangibles that identify her (or his) work.
November 4 – December 7
Small Works
The Art League Gallery
Room 21
Reception: Second Thursday Art Night, November
12, 6:30-8pm
November 4 – December 7
Becoming Animal: Art
of the Animal Kingdom
The Art League Gallery
Room 21
In an age when scientists say
they can no longer specify the exact genetic difference between human and
animals, many contemporary artists have chosen to use animals in their work -
as the ultimate “other,” as a metaphor, and as reflection. This exhibit will
explore all aspects of animals: wild, domesticated, endangered, and imaginary.
Reception: Second Thursday Art Night, November
12, 6:30-8pm
November 12
Second Thursday Art Night
Naked November Nights
Studios and Galleries Open
6 - 9pm
Browse open studios, interact
with the artists, and enjoy refreshments. The event is free and open to the
public. Check back for more information about this month’s special activities.
Visit Target Gallery from 6-8pm for the reception for the 2009 Open
Exhibition.
From 6:30-8pm, The Art League Gallery hosts the reception for the Small
Works show and Becoming Animal: Art of the Animal Kingdom.
Click here for more information about Second
Thursday Art Night.
November 17 –
January 4, 2010
Holiday Brightness in
the Dark of Winter
Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery
Studio 18
Gifts for everyone.
Sunday, November 29
Coffee, Critique,
and Conversation
Multiple
Exposures Gallery
Studio 312
10:30am - 1pm, Free
Bring a new set of images, photos that you have questions about, the
beginnings of a photo project or a completed portfolio. Led by a Multiple
Exposures Gallery member, each participant will lay out his or her images and a
dialogue will begin. No reservation needed, just a sincere interest in discussing
and sharing images.
November 30 – January 3, 2010
Gifts from the Earth
Scope Gallery
Studio 19
Clay creations for Holiday gift giving presented by the Kiln Club.
Thursday, December 3
Holiday Open House
Free Event
6-9pm
Studios and
galleries are open for holiday shopping! Enjoy music, refreshments, and
drawings for prizes at this annual party.
December 7 – January
3, 2010
Silver and Gold
Enamelists Gallery
Studio 28
Enameling is unusually suited
show off sparkle and flash. Celebrate the holiday season with sparkly silver
and gold foils.
December 9 – January 4
All-Media Membership
Show
The Art League Gallery
Room 21
Works of all media and subject
matter by Art League members.
Reception: Second Thursday Art Night, December
10, 6:30-8pm
December 9 – January 4
The Children’s Hour
The Art League Gallery
Room 21
A special wall in the Bin
Gallery will be dedicated to works that relate to childhood and would be
appropriate for a child’s room. Subjects might include fairy tales, toys, and whimsical
images.
December 9 – January 4
Solo Artist Show
Pamela Viola’s Solo Show
The Art League Gallery
Room 21
Reception: Second Thursday Art Night, December
10, 6:30-8pm
December 10
Second Thursday Art Night
Decadent December
Studios and Galleries Open
6 - 9pm
Browse open studios, interact
with the artists, and enjoy refreshments. The event is free and open to the
public. Check back for more information about this month’s special activities.
Visit Target Gallery from 6-8pm for the reception for the show Pandora’s
Box.
From 6:30-8pm, The Art League Gallery hosts the reception for the All-Media
Membership Show and Pamela Viola’s solo show.
Click here for more information about Second
Thursday Art Night.
December 10 –
January 10, 2010
Pandora’s Box
Target Gallery
This exhibition examines the
theme of the title Pandora’s Box. Artists must create work based on this
theme within a 12 inch square box. The work can be contained within the box or
it can explode from the box. The juror for this exhibition is Pyramid Atlantic Art Center’s Curator and Director of Programs, Landria Shack.
Reception: December 10, 6-8pm
Awards
Ceremony:
7pm, during reception
