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Factory Flow: Harmonizing Yoga and Sound

On the first Saturday of every month, find inner peace and creativity with this early-morning series. Start the day focused on art, health, and imagination. Sessions feature sound artists, yoga teachers, dance instructors, and more.

June’s workshop is co-curated by Jeneen Piccuirro and the Friends of the Torpedo Factory Art Center.

Come sweat with us in the Grand Hall of the Art Center before the building opens. Join our creative judgement-free community as we gather for an all-levels harmonizing and cooling yoga practice this summer with live sound healing.

 

Local sound artist, yogi and meditation guide Jeneen Piccuirro leads her signature one-hour class carefully guiding you through a gentle yoga series with an artfully crafted crystal bowl accompaniment and closing gong meditation. Jeneen’s authentic integrated offerings are designed with your comfort, health and ultimate rejuvenation in mind.  Surrender to the deep relaxation and healing benefits of this powerful combination and start your weekend off with this treat for your mind, body and soul while immersed in the inspiration, art and creativity of the Torpedo Factory Art Center.

 

All levels, all ages welcome.

Doors: 8am, Yoga Class: 8:30 – 9:30am 

 

$10 advance tickets online. $15 at the door.

 

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What to Bring:

  • Big towel
  • Your own mat
  • Water
  • Sense of humor
  • Appreciation for art, music, and fun

 

About Jeneen Piccuirro

Jeneen Piccuirro, MFA, has over 28 years of experience leading original Art, Meditation, Yoga, Dance, Sound Healing and Movement based offerings, and is a pioneer and visionary in integrating these modalities to bring the body, mind and soul into balance for long term well-being. Her loving and skillful approach gently shifts people into healthier patterns of acceptance and understanding, paving the way for a deeper residing peace, joy and creativity.

 

 

 

About The Friends of the Torpedo Factory Art Center

The Friends of the Torpedo Factory Art Center is a 501(c)(3) charitable corporation which promotes, enhances and preserves the unique assets of the Torpedo Factory Art Center and its value to the community by cooperating with the factory and artists to provide education and awareness of the arts through programs, exhibits and events.

The Friends present workshops for artists, art lectures and demonstrations for the established art lover and young audiences alike, as well as mentorship programs for students in the Alexandria area.

Veterans Comedy Night with ASAP

The Art Center welcomes back Armed Services Arts Partnership. Join Storytelling 101 and Comedy Bootcamp alumni as our veterans, service members, and military family members share stories and jokes about the military, veteran, and human experience. Come to experience the talent and artistry of our veteran artists, and enjoy a special evening of laughter and community.

Doors will open at 7 pm, show at 7:30 pm

Tickets: Tickets are $10 online and $15 at the door. A portion of proceeds will go to support ASAP’s programming.

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About Armed Services Arts Partnership

The Armed Services Arts Partnership (ASAP) empowers veterans, service members, and military family members to re-enter and thrive in their communities through classes, performances, and partnerships in the arts. ASAP focuses on promoting artistic expression and skill development in supportive, six- to twelve-week classes in stand-up comedy, improv, creative writing, and music. Thereafter, ASAP partners with local colleges and arts organizations to provide its graduates with continuous opportunities for artistic and personal growth. In the process, ASAP’s programs can improve well-being among participants, allow them to develop a renewed sense of identity and purpose, and bridge divides by connecting veterans and local communities through the arts. To learn more visit asapasap.org.

 

Feature Photo by Mahnaz Rezaie

The Late Shift: Alexandria Creates

7 – 10 pm, FREE

Enjoy gallery talks, artist receptions, music, live performances, hands-on artmaking, and three floors of open artists’ studios.

 

Alexandria is a vibrant and creative collection of neighborhoods and cultures. It’s one of the top 25 most diverse cities in the country and is located in the nation’s most vibrant arts region. Celebrate our home town and take part in its next renaissance.

We welcome Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the VMFA on the Road traveling artmobile. For one night only, the truck will be parked at Waterfront Park with a micro-exhibition from the VMFA’s collection. See How Far Can Creativity Take You: VMFA Fellowship Artists, which includes works by Sally Mann, Cy Twombly, and others. Torpedo Factory resident artist and 2019-2020 VMFA Fellow Soomin Ham will be present at the Artmobile from 7-9 pm to answer questions about their fellowship.

Artist Anne Smith co-curates art activities for the night, including interactive projects and art tables by Asma Chaudary, Clara Cornelius, and Athena Naylor. Meet artists from this summer’s DC Zinefest and learn more about local creative Alexandria organizations like UpCycle Creative Reuse Center and The Garden.

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FEATURED ARTISTS

Special Late Shift projects co-curated by Anne Smith

Clara Cornelius

Clara Cornelius Collaborative Collages
Co-curated by Anne Smith

Clara is a visual artist and graphic designer who creates surprise and delight by changing context and perspective. She explores the interplay between photography, typography, patterns, and symbols, creating works across a variety of mediums that express a desire to see the world differently and discover magic in the ordinary and fleeting. Visitors are invited to take part in a large collaborative collage using wheat-paste techniques or create a collage of their own.

 

Asma Chaudhary

Asma Chaudhary Collaborative Yarn Wrapping Project
Co-curated by Anne Smith

Asma is a Pakistani-American artist from Fairfax, Virginia. Her artworks explore the duality of a domesticated homemaker by physically recreating the home environment. Asma makes every effort to use discarded materials and repurpose them into basic necessities for survival such as shelter, warmth, luminance, sustenance, mobility, and intellectual growth. Some of her installations include breaking down grocery carts and welding them into chairs, sewing workman’s gloves together to create couture-like dresses and cushions, and reformatting sleeping bags to play on the idea of innocence and crisis. Join Asma as she collaborates with the Alexandria-based UpCycle Creative Reuse Center for a yarn wrapping project. Lend a hand and learn more about her process.

 

Athena Naylor

Athena Naylor Comics & Zines
Co-curated by Anne Smith

Athena grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and now lives and works in Washington, D.C. She self-publishes autobiographical comics along with art books that meditate on drawing, art history, and memory. Athena’s comics have appeared on The Lily, and her arts writing has been featured on the online newspaper The DC Line and the online magazine DIRT. To keep up to date on her current projects and events, check her out on Instagram @athena.naylor and at her website athenanaylor.com. Stop by her table to meet the artist and discover more about zines.

 

Anne Smith

ABOUT TONIGHT’S CO-CURATOR
ANNE SMITH

Anne Smith (b. 1985, Syracuse, NY) is a visual artist based in Washington, DC. Her art practice spans disciplines of drawing, sculpture and printmaking, often along themes of space and ideas of home. Featured in her work are places such as her childhood and ancestral homes, the Potomac River, the side of the road, and other spaces entirely imagined. Smith is a teaching artist at the National Gallery of Art and has served as a master printmaker on a large-scale silkscreen book project at George Mason University’s Navigation Press. She learned silkscreen printmaking from Master Printmaker Lou Stovall, for whom she was a studio assistant for several years. Smith is represented by Adah Rose Gallery.

EXHIBITIONS & ARTIST TALKS

Target Gallery: Emerging Artists

TARGET GALLERY
Emerging Artists

EXHIBITION: 7–10 pm
Target Gallery presents a new yearly exhibition featuring the work of 4 emerging artists to spotlight new talent and the up-and-coming artistic innovators of the D.C. metropolitan area. The selected artists this year include: Kate Gorman, Kim Sandara, Madeline A. Stratton, and Sean Sweeney.

The jury panel for this opportunity was: Adah Rose Bitterbaum, founder and director of Adah Rose Gallery; Philippa Hughes, founder of The Pinkline Project; and Dawne Langford, founder of Quota .

Mason Arts Project Studio: Kerry Hentges

MASON ARTS PROJECT STUDIO (STUDIO 8)
Kerry Hentges

RECEPTION: 7–9:30 pm  ARTIST TALK: 9 pm

Kerry Hentges is an installation artist with a background in cake art.  She graduated from Virginia Tech with a BFA in Fine Art and a BA in Spanish.  Kerry studied painting, sculpture, and animation while at Virginia Tech and discovered her passion for creating interactive installations.  After school, she worked in a bakery as a cake artist and honed her sculpture talents.  She is currently an MFA Sculpture Candidate at Mason’s School of Art.

SITE 3
What’s the Story?

RECEPTION: 7–9:30 pm  ARTIST TALK: 7:30 pm
Curated by Torpedo Factory Art Center artist, Bev Ryan (Studio 333), this exhibition features the work of her narrative painting class at the Art League.

 

The VMFA Artmobile

WATERFRONT PARK
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts presents VMFA on the Road

The Art Center welcomes the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to Alexandria for this special exhibition at the Late Shift. VMFA’s new state-of-the-art traveling museum and art studio launched in October 2018. The climate-controlled 53-foot Volvo trailer includes Wi-Fi to connect visitors with VMFA educators and interactive components to meet their 21st-century expectations. The main attraction of VMFA on the Road, however, is the opportunity for residents of the Commonwealth to see and experience works of art from the VMFA collection up close. For one night only, the VMFA’S Artmobile will be parked at Waterfront Park with a micro-exhibition from the VMFA’s collection. See How Far Can Creativity Take You: VMFA Fellowship Artists, which includes works by Sally Mann, Cy Twombly, and others.

Stop by from 7 – 9 pm to meet Torpedo Factory Art Center’s very own Soomin Ham, photographer and recipient of a 2019-2020 VMFA Visual Arts Fellowship.

 

ABOUT THE VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is a state-supported, privately endowed educational institution created for the benefit of the citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Its purpose is to collect, preserve, exhibit, and interpret art, to encourage the study of the arts, and thus to enrich the lives of all.

ABOUT SOOMIN HAM

Soomin Ham is a photographer and multimedia artist based in the Washington D.C. area. Ham received a Bachelor of Music in Orchestral Instruments from Ewha Women’s University in Seoul, Korea and her Master of Art in Photography and Multimedia from New York University/International Center of Photography in New York City. Her works includes photography, mixed media, and multimedia installations and have been exhibited widely throughout D.C., New York, and Seoul, Korea. Ham was selected for the Art and Community Visual Arts Residency at the DCCA in Wilmington, DE and a grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2002. She is the recipient of several D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities grants including an Individual Artists Fellowship Grant in 2003 and Small Projects Grant in 2001. Recently, she received the 2019-2010 Visual Arts Fellowship  from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

ALL EVENING

Post Grad Studio: Nava Levenson

STUDIO 319

OPEN STUDIO: Nava Levenson
Spring Post-Grad Resident

Nava Levenson in a multidisciplinary artist, instigator, and collaborator based in Richmond, Virginia. She completed her bachelor’s of fine arts in 2017 from James Madison University. Her work investigates anthropological concepts such as hospitality, labor, consumption, and space making. Nava incorporates repurposed materials in much of her art in an effort to chip away at the surplus of objects that crowd the planet. Stop by her studio from 7-10 pm to meet the artist and see her work in person.

 

SITE 3

2019 Friends of the Torpedo Factory Mentorship Program Exhibition

Every year, the Friends of Torpedo Factory mentorship program offers the opportunity to high school students from TC William High School and West Potomac High School to be paired with a studio artist as their mentor. During the course of the program, the artist mentors oversee and guide their mentees with their art projects, help develop new art skills, and provide artistic career advice. This program offers a way for young artists to learn about the art world in a professional setting.

 

DC Zine Fest Meet the Artists
Organized by Katana Lippart

The DC Zinefest is an independent event designed to provide a space for zine-makers, self-published artists, and writers to share their work with each other and the Washington, D.C., community. Artists from the upcoming DC Zine Fest in July will be on hand to show their works, talk about the Fest, and help new artists join this growing network.

 

The Garden Meet the Scientists (and Robots!)

 

The Garden is a brand new co-building and training facility in Alexandria run by Building Momentum, a veteran-owned small business that offers team buildings, prototyping, and leadership events. The Garden has a 3500 square foot event space and a 4,000 square foot workshop with the best tools in prototyping — including metal working, wood working, 3d printing, and laser cutting. Stop by their table to meet some of the Garden team members, play with their robots, try out a 3-d printer, and test-drive a drone. 

6th Annual Alexandria Jazz4Justice Benefit Concert

The Alexandria Bar Law Foundation, the NOVA Nighthawks and Torpedo Factory Art Center present the 6th annual Jazz4Justice Concert. 

The suggested tax-deductible donation is $15 for adults, $5 for children. Proceeds benefit Alexandria programs including those that help abused children and the elderly and provide legal aid to low income residents.

  • The special guest is Warren Wolf, a vibraphonist who has played with some of the biggest names in jazz.
  • The NOVA Nighthawks Jazz ensemble is directed by John “The Smoker” Kocur, a saxophonist and composer who has been a fixture in the DC Jazz scene for several years.
  • The T.C. Williams High School Jazz Band directed by Doug Rogers will also perform.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m with a jam session in the South Hall before the main event.  A cash bar will be available, as well as a raffle for prizes submitted by local merchants.

Buy tickets (or make a donation if you can’t come) through the website jazz4justicealexandria.org.

Contact the Alexandria Bar Association at 703-548-1106 or [email protected].

About Jazz4Justice

In 2001, Fairfax attorney Ed Weiner attended a student recital at George Mason University. He was impressed by the music, but distressed by the small audience. As the President of the Fairfax Law Foundation (FLF), he saw an opportunity for a new partnership — the GMU School of Music would provide the musical talent and the local Bar Association would provide the audience and sponsors. The goal would be to raise funds to support local Legal Aid, as well as the university’s jazz program. With the support of George Mason and FLF leadership, Jazz 4Justice™ was born.

Today, through partnerships with 7 universities and numerous local Bar Associations, 47 Jazz4Justice concerts have been held across the Commonwealth: George Mason University, James Madison University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Christopher Newport University, Northern Virginia Community College, the University of Virginia, and the University of Mary Washington. These concerts have raised over $400,000 for jazz programs and an array of educational and charitable legal services benefiting Virginia’s local communities.

Jazz4Justice has received awards from the American Bar Association and the Virginia State Bar. J4J is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Visit us at www.jazz4justice.com.

Professional Practices for the Visual Artist

Back by popular demand, this workshop, presented by Jeffery Allison, Paul Mellon Collection Educator and Statewide Manager at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), is devoted to the needs of the individual artist. Topics include photographing artwork, funding opportunities, developing professional relationships with galleries and publications, copyright issues, and marketing on the web. This program has been organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and is supported, in part, by the Paul Mellon Endowment and the Jean Stafford Camp Memorial Fund. This exhibition is done in partnership with Target Gallery’s 2019 Emerging Artists exhibition, to support more opportunities for artists in the DMV area. Artists of all skill-levels and stages are welcome.

Workshop Location:
Riverview Room
105 North Union Street
Studio 207
Alexandria, VA 22314

Please bring a laptop and/or a notebook along with writing utensils to take notes during this workshop.

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About Jeffery Allison
Jeffrey Allison is the Paul Mellon Collection educator at VMFA and a professional photographer. He holds a BA in photography and film from Virginia Intermont College and an MFA in photography from VCU.

Creative Writing Workshop with April Harris and Community Building Art Works

As featured in the 2018 HBO Documentary We Are Not Done Yet, Community Building Art Works serves veterans, military personnel, and members of the community through generative creative-writing workshops. Led by accomplished authors, they are focused on using the written word as a tool for introspection, communication, and connection. Bring a pen, a notebook, and an open mind.

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April’s workshop will be led by author April Harris in the Riverview Room on the second floor of the Torpedo Factory Art Center. Doors at 6:30, workshop begins promptly at 7 pm.

About the Workshop:

In Life in Victory (LIV) Workshops, participants explore the powerful role story plays in personal, organizational and/or community life. We will weave together the technical, creative, and social strands of storytelling practices from story circles to story interviewing to digital storytelling to listening and sculpting. Participants experiment with innovative narrative approaches, work closely with one another in a supportive, collaborative environment.

 

About the series:

Led by accomplished authors, these generative workshops focus on the craft of writing as a tool for introspection, communication, and connection. Bring a pen, a notebook, and an open mind! Tickets are free, but we appreciate a donation of $10-$30 to support our programs. Your donation will fund similar workshops at military hospitals.

 

About the facilitator:

A performer, multimedia artist, and writer, April Harris recently performed as part of an eight woman ensemble performing Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues at the African American Civil War Museum. In 2013, she performed “Hear My Sister’s Story,” in the National Veteran’s Administration Creative Arts Competition and won first place at the Chery Point, Maryland VA; she went on to compete in the national competition where she won second place. April Harris’ performance of “Hear My Sister’s Story,” can be seen in the HBO documentary, We Are Not Done Yet.

 

The Late Shift: Art on the Horizon

Every Second Friday, 7 – 10 pm

Enjoy gallery talks, artist receptions, music, live performances, hands-on artmaking, and three floors of open artists’ studios.

Look towards the future with a night of new and innovative art and ideas. Meet up-and-coming talent during Target Gallery’s opening for the 2019 Emerging Artists exhibition. Explore Mirror Mirror, a new temporary public art installation at King Street Park at the Waterfront by New York based design studio SOFTlab.

FREE, ALL AGES

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RECEPTIONS & ARTIST TALKS

TARGET GALLERY
Emerging Artists

Reception: 7–10 pm with Artist Talk @ 8 pm
Target Gallery presents a new yearly exhibition featuring the work of 4 emerging artists to spotlight new talent and the up-and-coming artistic innovators of the D.C. metropolitan area. The selected artists this year include: Kate Gorman, Kim Sandara, Madeline A. Stratton, and Sean Sweeney.

The jury panel for this opportunity was: Adah Rose Bitterbaum, founder and director of Adah Rose Gallery; Philippa Hughes, founder of The Pinkline Project; and Dawne Langford, founder of Quota .

SITE 2
Women Who Run with Wolves

Reception, artist talk, storytelling: 7–8 pm and 9–10 pm
The Omi Collective in collaboration with the Torpedo Factory Art Center presents a group exhibition that features art by local female-identifying artists based on the theme, Women Who Run with the Wolves. Visit the exhibition in Site 2 and stop by the Riverview Room (208) next to the gallery for artist talks and storytelling developed by women participating in the group show.

ALL EVENING

STUDIO 319

Opening Reception: Nava Levenson
Spring Post-Grad Resident

Nava Levenson in a multidisciplinary artist, instigator, and collaborator based in Richmond, Virginia. She completed her bachelor’s of fine arts in 2017 from James Madison University. Her work investigates anthropological concepts such as hospitality, labor, consumption, and space making. Nava incorporates repurposed materials in much of her art in an effort to chip away at the surplus of objects that crowd the planet. Stop by her studio from 7-10 pm to meet the artist and see her work in person.

Discover Graphics Atelier (Studio 202)

Meet-and-Greet Italian printmaker Caterina Tedeschini

As part of the Sister Cities Grant from DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, Discover Graphics Atelier welcomes Tedeschini to the Art Center for a meet-and-greet during April’s Late Shift.

Tedeschini’s approach to printmaking resembles that of a scientific researcher, someone who seeks knowledge and truth for their own sake. Throughout her corpus of engravings, natural forms are a recurrent object of study and observation. She  re-discovers and preserves one of the most revolutionary craftsmanships in history. For her, art is a way to re-establish an authentic dialogue, with no mediations, where the world is mirrored back. It is almost a primitive act of looking, without judgement. Then she adds in memories, history, as well as imagination. She uses etching is a way to gain time, to take advantage of life.

GRAND HALL

Leah Sims Video Installation
Leah Sims is a D.C.-based motion designer/animator. View her latest creation in the Grand Hall all night.

 

3D Designs and Sculpture Kombat with George Mason University’s Sculpture Studio

Students from George Mason’s School of Art constructed sculptural inflatables that visitors can enter and experience. Move around the Grand Hall and by the Waterfront to find additional sculptural inflatables.

In the North Hall, play a fun and chaotic game of Sculpture Kombat. Using student-made sculptures connected to a computer, play a collaborative game of Mortal Kombat on the big screen.

 

Mobile Art Lab
Alexandria’s Mobile Art Lab joins to lead a hands-on activity in the Grand Hall.

 

Smithsonian Craft Show Booth & Raffle
The Smithsonian Craft Show is produced by the Smithsonian Women’s Committee to support education, outreach and research at the Smithsonian. Stop by the booth in the Grand Hall for information about the upcoming Smithsonian Craft Show April 24-28. Enter your name in for a raffle for two free tickets to the exhibition.

Zbu Hoopism Hula Hoop Workshop
Zbu is a Hula Hoop performing artist & instructor in the DMV area. Learn more about this growing art form, or join in and learn a move or two. Happening outdoors on the Waterfront side of the Art Center.

Art on the Horizon Mural
Make your mark and contribute to our 30’ mural. The finished work will be on display in next month’s Late Shift: Alexandria Creates on Friday, May 10. When you finish, celebrate your future status as a world-famous artist by posing on our Red Carpet selfie station.

2019 Emerging Artists

Opening Reception:  Friday April 12, 7 – 10pm, during the Late Shift: Art on the Horizon

Panel Discussion: Thursday, May 2, 6:30 – 9:00pm (see event details here)

Target Gallery presents a new group exhibition spotlighting the work of 4 emerging artists to highlight new talent and the up-and-coming artistic innovators of the D.C. metropolitan area. The selected artists this year include: Kate Gorman, Kim Sandara, Madeline A. Stratton, and Sean Sweeney.

The jury panel for this opportunity was: Adah Rose Bitterbaum, founder and director of Adah Rose Gallery; Philippa Hughes, founder of The Pinkline Project; and Dawne Langford, founder of Quota 

Image Credit: Kim Sandara, 1, 2017. Acrylic on canvas.

Cherry Blossom Celebration

Tracie Griffith Tso –  Studio 22

Enjoy an indoor hanami in the Art Center and revel in all things cherry blossom. Artists show and make work inspired by the popular pink and white blooms. Find a bevy of activities and performances to enjoy this regional celebration in Alexandria.

FREE, ALL AGES

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Taiko Drums – Opening Celebration

12 pm – 12:30 pm

Nen Daiko

Kick off the Cherry Blossom festivities with an opening performance by members of Nen Daiko, the taiko ensemble of Ekoji Buddhist Temple in Fairfax, VA. This dynamic group performs at events around the Washington DC area year-round, and have been thrilling audiences since 1994.

 

 

 

Artist Demonstrations

 

Stop by the following studios at the listed times for a Cherry Blossom-related artist demonstration:

 

Candace Edgerley – Studio 14

Marcia Jestaedt               Demonstration

Studio 13                           12:00 pm

 

Sermin Ciddi                   Hands-on activity

Studio 328                        12:30 pm

 

 

 

 

Jamaliah Morais – Studio 25

Jamaliah Morais            Demonstration

Studio 25                          1:00 pm

 

Anna Yakubovskaya       Demonstration

Studio 302                        1:30 pm

 

Lisa Schumaier               Hands-on activity

Studio 16                           3:00 pm

 

 

 

Tracie Griffith Tso – Studio 22

Tracie Griffith Tso          Hands-on activity

1st Floor Foyer                 3:00 pm

 

Wei Liang                        Demonstration

Studio 324                       3:30 pm

 

Jolande Goldberg           Hands-on activity

Studio 326                       4:00 pm

 

Ann Barbieri                    Demonstration
Studio 322                        4:30 pm

 

 

Cherry Blossom Hands-on Projects

Cherry Blossom Wishing Wall
April 1 – April 6

Annemarie Feld – Cherry Blossom Wishing Wall

Studio 14 artist and Fiberworks member Annemarie Feld has designed a weeklong interactive art piece for visitors to the Art Center. Visitors are encouraged to stop by anytime between Monday April 1 and Saturday April 6 and add their cherry blossom wishes to the communal art wall in the North Hall by the spiral staircase. Write your wish, dreams, or inspirational message on the tag of an individual cherry blossom, and pin it to the wall. Come back for Saturday’s Cherry Blossom Celebration to see the art tree in full bloom!

Annemarie Feld grew up in Switzerland and was always interested in design. When she moved to the United States, her interest in three dimensional design soon evolved and expanded to wearable art.The start and inspiration of all her designs are the materials, textures and colors. She describes her works as “wearable paintings,” often experimenting with new and unexpected combinations. Her designs create tension by counterbalancing the soft, irregular shapes of natural leather or fabrics with hard-edged metal handles and clasps ordinarily used in farm equipment.

 

 

 

 

 

Cherry Blossom Tree Art
April 6 only (12 pm – 4pm) 

Spring 2019 Art in Common Spaces artist Liliane Blom provides a hands-on art-making project all afternoon for kids and parents. Make your very own cherry blossom tree using paper, glue, and your imagination.

Liliane Blom – Cherry Blossom Tree Art

Liliane Blom is an award-winning photographer, classically trained painter and innovative installation artist. She describes her fusion of photography and painting as digital painting. In the last decade she has been transforming her photographic images into installations that have reached and touched a large and varied audience. Based in Rockville Maryland of French/Norwegian extraction she is a frequent exhibitor in the Washington region.

Her installations are interactive and immersive and often environmental in scope.  They are multi-sensory experiences, that engage the viewer with sound/touch and light.  The videos central to her installations are mostly animations created from her photographic artwork, which she rearranges to highlight a feeling – be it joy, grief or longing. Playful, they unapologetically appeal to our sense of wonder, and invite the viewer into a contemplative space.

 

 

 

 

 

Hand-Printed Lantern Demo and hands-on activity
April 6 only (3 pm – 5 pm )

Tracie Griffith Tso – Hand-Printed Lantern Activity

Studio 22 resident artist and Scope Gallery member (Studio 19) Tracie Griffith offers a hands-on activity and artist demonstration for visitors to the Cherry Blossom Celebration. Chinese paper lamps are traditionally associated with Buddhism and were adapted in Japan to promote businesses and festivals. The Japanese termed it Chouchin (Chou means hang, Chin means light). Sculptor Isamu Noguchi re-introduced the traditional 300-year-old utilitarian fixture into “light sculptures” in the 1950s. Visitors can take part in painting the lantern with the artist, while learning about the rich history of this art form.

Tracie Griffith Tso painted her first bamboo brushstrokes on rice paper at age 12 in a brushpainter’s studio in California. She specializes in spontaneous Chinese flower-bird painting, with her growing repertoire focused on traditional subjects including red-capped cranes, pandas, golden carp, horses, bamboo, rabbits and flowers of all types. Each piece is an original composition on handmade high-fire stoneware.

A native Californian, Griffith Tso has taught and lectured about Chinese brushpainting nationwide. The artist and her husband reside in Reston, Va. along with her workshop rabbit, Cleo.

 

 

Cherry Blossom Art Displays in Studios and Galleries

Ann Barbieri – Studio 322

For the entire month of April, visit Cherry Blossom Art Displays in these participating studios and galleries:

 

1st Floor

 

  • Mina Hanig – Studio 7
  • Fiberworks – Studio 14
  • Lisa Schumaier – Studio 16
  • Scope Gallery – Studio 19
  • Jamaliah Morais – Studio 25
  • Tracie Griffith Tso – Studio 22
  • Val Proudki – Studio 30

 

2nd Floor

  • Marietje Chamberlain – Studio 225

 

3rd Floor

 

  • Anna Yakubovskaya – Studio 302
  • Chris Cardellino – Studio 313
  • Ann Barbieri – Studio 322
  • Guy Jones – Studio 337
  • Bev Andrews – Studio 342
  • Site 3 Project Gallery
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2019 March150 Art Party

#March150

Target Gallery’s popular annual exhibition and art sale, March150, returns! The March150 Art Party, presented by the Factory Society, is the closing reception for Target Gallery’s March150 Special Exhibition and Art Sale. All remaining artwork is priced at $100. Proceeds from artwork and event sales support future exhibitions and programs at the Target Gallery and the Torpedo Factory Art Center.

Join us for a lively evening featuring a special menu of appetizers provided by our friends at Chadwicks, a wine bar provided by Sonoma Cellar, beer by Port City Brewing,  a photo booth by Mr. Shuttersworth, fun hands-on art activities with the Mobile Art Lab, printmaking by Patrick Sargent of Printmakers Inc., live painting demos by post-grad resident Michaela Japec, an interactive performance by George Mason University MFA candidate Andi Benge, and more!

We will also be presenting special artists awards of Best in Show, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, and Honorable Mention at 9pm as well as the special voted on by the public, People’s Choice Award. Awards vary from a $400 cash prize (Best in Show)  as well as other prizes donated by fellow Alexandria arts supporters at The Art League, Friends of the Torpedo Factory, Factory Society, Port City Brewing, AR Workshop, and more!

Tickets are $25 in advance/$30 at the door. Ticket’s will go on sale now! You may purchase tickets online or at the door. (pre-sale tickets end on Thursday, March 28th at 11:59pm)

Note: Tickets are transferable, but not refundable. 

A special thanks to:

 

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Torpedo Factory Art Center
105 N. Union St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
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Artists maintain their own studio hours. It's best to confirm availability before your visit.

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