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Second Thursday Art Night: Sharpen your pencils

Enjoy an special after-hours event at the Torpedo Factory Art Center every month. Browse open studios and galleries, interact with artists, and enjoy special programming. Stop by on your way to dinner and make an evening of it!

A blank notebook is full of creative potential waiting to be explored. Whether you’re in school or just love all of the back-to-school stationary, the September Second Thursday Art Night is for you. Decorate an art journal of your own and leave a sketch in the six notebooks scattered around the building for a community sketching project.

Target Gallery celebrates the opening for Angel Soldier Dance Sublime, which features the work of four women artists exploring the sublime dance of archetypal masculinity and femininity. The curator talk begins at 7 pm. Down the hall, The Art League celebrates openings for The Ring of Fire, which features Wijati Soemantoro’s abstract lithographs that respond to the energy, emotions, and aftermath of natural disasters. Also, the September all-media exhibition features juried work by The Art League members. Comments begin at 7:30 pm.

Come early and stay late to enjoy the warm acoustic guitar and foot-stomping rhythm of Casey Clark. His storytelling and alternative country sound will pull you right in.

Second Thursday Art Night: Dogs Days of Summer

Enjoy an special after-hours event at the Torpedo Factory Art Center every month. August’s event puts the dog in Dog Days of Summer.

  • 6 – 8 pm:
    • The Animal Welfare League of Alexandria will be on hand with some adoptable pets who are looking for forever homes. Your Dog’s Best Friends will share information about its daycare, boarding, grooming, walking, training, and socialization services.
    • With a special map in hand, visitors can find artwork throughout the building featuring dogs (and cats). They may even encounter a few of the artists’ own dogs keeping cool in studios along the way.
      • Participating artists will be contributing a percentage of their proceeds from art sales to AWLA.
    • Alexandria Archaeology Museum: Excavated bones of a dog tell the story of a pet’s life in Alexandria about a hundred years ago.
  • 6 – 7 pm; 8 – 9 pm:Annandale-based Alex W. Young brings his powerful vocals and poetic lyrics to the Torpedo Factory. Playing foot tambourine, harmonica, acoustic electric guitar, and singing, Alex is truly a one-man band. His set list mixes favorites in country, pop, classic rock, and oldies with Young’s own original compositions.
  • 7 pm:
    • Target Gallery: In Cloud Seeding, Texas-based Leigh Merrill takesthousands of photographs, videos, and audio recordings while exploring a city or neighborhood, then digitally assembles them to create her imaginary composite spaces. The result is a beautiful lie—reality that is slightly askew, familiar but emotionally detached. Meet the artist and jurors at 7 pm during the public reception. Leigh Merrill: Cloud Seeding is on view through Sunday, August 30.
  • 7:30 pm:
    • The Art League Gallery: Opening reception for two exhibitions in The Art League Gallery. Taking Shape, features juried 3D work by Art League artists. Visitor favorite ‘Scapes returns with landscapes, cityscapes, skyscapes, and more. Both are on view until Monday, September 7. More information is available via theartleague.org.

The August Second Thursday Art Night is generously supported by Your Dog’s Best Friends.Your Dog's Best FriendAnimal Welfare League of Alexandria

 

Second Thursday Art Night

Enjoy an special after-hours event at the Torpedo Factory Art Center every month. Browse open studios and galleries, interact with artists, and enjoy special programming. Stop by on your way to dinner and make an evening of it!

As part of Alexandria Live Music Week, hear honky tonk band Crooks and Crows starting at 8 pm. Grab a passport and get stamps at the 10 stops in the building for a chance to win a prize pack at the end of the night. Be sure to stop by The Art League Gallery and Alexandria Archaeology Museum for even more to see.

Second Thursday Art Night

Enjoy a special after-hours event at the Torpedo Factory Art Center every month. Browse open studios and galleries, interact with artists, and enjoy special programming. Stop by on your way to dinner and make an evening of it!

This month, enjoy live music with The Jazz Workshop while visiting the studios.

Meet some of the artists whose work is on view in Target Gallery during the reception for Borders and Boundaries. Juror Clint Mansell, director of Principle Gallery, will speak about his selection at 7 pm.

Second Thursday Art Night

Enjoy an special after-hours event at the Torpedo Factory Art Center every month. Browse open studios and galleries, interact with artists, and enjoy special programming. Stop by on your way to dinner and make an evening of it!

This month, browse the studios and galleries while enjoying live jazz music with 2nd Independence. Kathy Bransford, of Enamelists Gallery, will demonstrate her raku technique in the loading dock. See her work in Ken You Raku Too? through May 31 at Enamelists.

Wine and Chocolate tastings for Second Thursday Art Night

For April’s Second Thursday Art Night, visit studios on the 3rd floor for wine and chocolate tastings, courtesy of Artfully Chocolate. Tommy & Shai will perform acoustic covers of your favorite 1970s hits. In the Target Gallery, see the work of the 11 artists who have just been juried into the Torpedo Factory Artists’ Association.

Second Thursday is a special after-hours event at the Torpedo Factory Art Center every month. Browse open studios and galleries, interact with artists, and enjoy special programming. Stop by on your way to dinner and make an evening of it!

Salon: An Artful Conversation

Judith HeartSong’s Salon: An Artful Conversation is a monthly meeting of artists, writers, and arts professionals who come together to bond, network, and get out of their heads for a little while. It is a conversation, a support group, sometimes a counseling session, always a networking extravaganza, an experimental lab for new ideas, and a place to learn and grow by leaps and bounds as an artist and professional.

We feature amazing speakers from the metro area and beyond who come to share their wisdom and expertise. In April, artist and web designer Todd Baxter Dawson  joins us to discuss the importance of your online presence and why it’s an essential element of your art business.

Salon has been running successfully in Maryland for more than three years and is now a monthly First Thursday event at the Torpedo Factory Art Center. Bring a store-bought dish to pass or beverage to share, and come be a part of the conversation!

For more information about this month’s and future speakers, visit salonartfulconversation.com

Second Thursday Art Night

Special guest: Alexandria Symphony Orchestra’s youth ensemble

ASO Sympatico, the music education arm of the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, is delighted to present it’s Creative Connections concert at the Torpedo Factory Art Center. The performance will feature standard repertoire from all of Sympatico’s orchestral, choral, and percussion ensembles, as well as original compositions created just for this concert. Sympatico students are in kindergarten through sixth grade and benefit from daily before and after-school music education. For more information about the program, please visit their website.

Salon: An Artful Conversation (MARCH 5 CANCELED)

CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER – SPEAKERS TO BE RE-SCHEDULED

Judith HeartSong’s Salon: An Artful Conversation is a monthly meeting of artists, writers, and arts professionals who come together to bond, network, and get out of their heads for a little while. It is a conversation, a support group, sometimes a counseling session, always a networking extravaganza, an experimental lab for new ideas, and a place to learn and grow by leaps and bounds as an artist and professional.

Salon has been running successfully in Maryland for more than three years and is now a monthly First Thursday event at the Torpedo Factory Art Center. Bring a store-bought dish to pass or beverage to share, and come be a part of the conversation!

We feature amazing speakers from the metro area and beyond who come to share their wisdom and expertise. Speakers have included:

  • Lisa Gold, Washington Project for the Arts
  • Isabel Manalo, The Studio Visit
  • Carolyn Edlund, Artsy Shark blog and Arts Business Institute
  • Seth Apter, The Pulse of Mixed Media
  • Jodi Walsh, the 12 Step Program for Artists
  • Maire McArdle, Bethesda and Arlington Magazine

For more information about this month’s and future speakers, visit salonartfulconversation.com

Salon: An Artful Conversation

Judith HeartSong’s Salon: An Artful Conversation is a monthly meeting of artists, writers, and arts professionals who come together to bond, network, and get out of their heads for a little while. It is a conversation, a support group, sometimes a counseling session, always a networking extravaganza, an experimental lab for new ideas, and a place to learn and grow by leaps and bounds as an artist and professional.

Salon has been running successfully in Maryland for more than three years and is now a monthly Third Thursday event at the Torpedo Factory Art Center. Bring a store-bought dish to pass or beverage to share, and come be a part of the conversation!

We feature amazing speakers from the metro area and beyond who come to share their wisdom and expertise. Speakers have included:

  • Lisa Gold, Washington Project for the Arts
  • Isabel Manalo, The Studio Visit
  • Carolyn Edlund, Artsy Shark blog and Arts Business Institute
  • Seth Apter, The Pulse of Mixed Media
  • Jodi Walsh, the 12 Step Program for Artists
  • Maire McArdle, Bethesda and Arlington Magazine

For more information about this month’s and future speakers, visit salonartfulconversation.com