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March150: 9th Annual Special Exhibition & Art Sale

Save The Date: March150 Art Party
Friday, March 29, 7 – 10 pm | Awards @ 9 pm

Target Gallery’s popular annual exhibition and art sale, March150, returns to the Torpedo Factory Art Center for the 9th year. Proceeds benefit future exhibitions and programs at Target Gallery and the Torpedo Factory.

Target Gallery, the contemporary exhibition space for the Torpedo Factory Art Center, collected more than $15,000 in 2018 through March150. This yearly all-media exhibition features over 200 works created and donated by artists local to Alexandria and the greater D.C. region. The only requirement to be on view in the exhibition is that artists use the gallery-supplied 10” x 10” panel. All work in the show is priced at $150, except for the night of the Art Party where all sales are discounted to $100.

Timeline for 2019: 

Guidelines

Tickets to the Art Party 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)

The Late Shift: Strength in Unity

Every Second Friday

7 – 10 pm, FREE

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

For Women’s History Month, hail the accomplishments of women in the arts and culture. Independent curator Amy Lokoff co-curates the evening. Also, sneak a peek and build your wish list for the 9th Annual March150 Special Exhibition and Art Sale.

FREE, ALL AGES

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EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

  • TARGET GALLERY (#2)

Sneak Peak of March150
Target Gallery’s popular annual exhibition and art sale, March150, returns for the 9th year. Proceeds benefit future exhibitions and programs. Stop by all night to get a sneak peak of the artworks before they go on sale the following morning, Saturday March 9.

Tickets are on sale for the March150 Art Party on Friday March 29.

  • POST GRAD STUDIO (#319)

Final Weeks: Winter 2019 Post Grad Resident Michael Japec
Michaela Japec recently graduated from George Mason University in 2018 with a Bachelor of Fine Art Degree. She is the first of 4 artists selected for this residency program. Stop by her studio from 7-10 pm to meet the artist and see her work in person.

  • SCOPE GALLERY (#19)

Throwing Demonstration with Thien Nguyen
Stop by the Scope Gallery for a live demonstration on the art of clay throwing. Thien Nguyen of Washington D.C. will perform the demo. He works out of the Lee Arts Center in Arlington, VA. He is a member of the Kiln Club, Montgomery Potters, and the Waverly St. Gallery. He specializes in raku vases and high-fire functional pottery.

“STRENGTH IN UNITY” HIGHLIGHTS

  • 8 – 8:45 PM • THE ALEXANDRIA LIBRARY’S TEEN WINTER ART EXHIBITION

Reception and Artist Talk
At 8 PM, join Isaiah West, Teen Services Coordinator, of the Alexandria Library and a dozen student artists and writers to celebrate the reception for the Alexandria Library’s Teen Winter Art Exhibition. Prizes will be announced for both the winning artworks and writings. Exhibition runs in the South Hall from Sunday March 3 – Sunday March 10.  

Strange Lens, The Zero
Exhibition opening & artist talk

About Strange Lens
Strange Lens is an experimental mixed media and video artist. She received her BFA in Photography from George Mason University in 2015 and is currently pursuing her Master’s in Painting at Mason. She uses a variety of styles and techniques to create works that are often inspired by dreams and memories.

  • 7 – 10 PM • ALEXANDRIA’S MOBILE ART LAB WITH VY VUVY VU: Hands-on Banner Making Art Project


    Vy Vu is a multidisciplinary visual artist and organizer based in the DMV area (residing in Alexandria, VA). She uses arts as a tool to raise awareness, start dialogues, and begin healing journeys. Some of her past projects included: creating mobilization arts for 2019 Women’s March (banner, sculptures, screen printed patches as commissioned), creating live arts and engaging global organizers in the art making process at 2018 Parliament of the World’s Religions, 2018 Reimagining Interfaith Conference and 2017 Prophetic Resistance Summit. Beside these international/national gigs, her work with the local communities included: printmaking workshop with queer women & femmes of color (Feb 2019 in Washington, D.C.), creating large scale worship banners with the community for Foundry United Methodist Church in DC (2018), bookmaking workshop with Asian American youth (in collaboration with Asian American LEAD, 2017), banner making workshop for environmental justice with Muslim youth (in collaboration with Green Muslim, 2017).

  • 7 – 10 PM • STRENGTH IN UNITY ARTIST PROJECTS WITH CO-CURATOR AMY LOKOFF

AMY LOKOFF 
Amy Lokoff is a creative economy catalyst based in Washington, DC. She uses her work to explore inclusive community building, the power of the arts as a tool for social engagement, the value of resource sharing, and financial sustainability for creatives. Over the past 10 years, she has worked with over 250 visual and performing artists and coordinated exhibitions and arts programming in a variety of venues across the DC metropolitan area including Anacostia Arts Center, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Otis Street Arts Project, and Torpedo Factory Art Center. Her exhibitions have been covered in The Washington Post, DCist, 730DC, and East City Art. Amy currently works as the project manager for WRAPture, temporary public art piece addressing climate change by artist and activist Monica Jahan Bose created in collaboration with DC residents and organizations. She also serves as the Visual Arts Curator for Little Salon, a monthly arts event that takes place in intimate spaces around DC.

MONICA JAHAN BOSE: Interactive Sari Decorating and Pledge Workshop

Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist, and activist whose work spans performance, painting, film, photography, printmaking, and interdisciplinary projects.  She often works in collaboration with rural and urban communities to address issues around gender and climate change.  Her solo performance/installations and exhibitions have been presented at Art Asia Miami, Twelve Gates Gallery, the Bangladesh National Museum,  the Brooklyn Museum, the DUMBO Arts Festival, (e)merge art fair, SELECT Art Fair (during Miami Basel), UNESCO, Galerie Deborah Zafman, and many other venues.  She studied art at Wesleyan University (USA) and Santiniketan (India) and has a law degree from Columbia University (USA).   Monica has received numerous commissions and awards, including an Art Lives Here grant in 2013 and six  grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (through the National Endowment for the Arts). She is the creator of “Storytelling with Saris,” a longterm collaborative art and advocacy project with 12 women from her ancestral island village, which is adversely impacted by climate change.  Monica lives and works in Washington, D.C. and Bangladesh.

LINDSAY “QUEENLIN” HOWARD: Women’s Healing Workshop

Lindsay “Queenlin” Howard is a Board Certified Dance Movement Therapist (BC DMT), Certified Kemetic Yoga Teacher (CKYT), Registered with Yoga Alliance RYT200 and a Holistic Health Consultant.

She is currently working in the Department of Behavioral Health and contracted with non profits working with youth in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. She is a community Organizer leading work around around healing justice and holding leadership in The Healers For Liberation Network and Healers group in the Movement For Black Lives DC.  In 2018, she was awarded “The Leader of Tomorrow Award” by the American Dance Therapy Association Inc.

The name “Queenlin” developed from her socially conscious work in arts activism and advocacy for the healing arts particularly focused on dismantling the stigma of mental health in black and brown communities.

SIMONA WRIGHT-JAMES: Performance 

Simona Wright-James is the founder and producer of Vagina Monologues East River which debuts its 5th year production on Feb 18. She has organized numerous events in connection with VDAYEOTR and has expanded the show to include talk backs, vendors, and fundraisers.

DJ KRYPTK

DJ Kryptk is a sonic visionary based in Washington, D.C. Since 2013, she has performed at approximately two hundred venues and cultural gatherings throughout D.C., Baltimore and Philadelphia and merges recognizable tunes with obscure and cutting edge soundscapes. An avid lover of Black diasporic music, she has gathered an eclectic following of supporters with her alluring knowledge of contemporary, futuristic and the nostalgia inducing intergalactic vibrations. Past performance venues include the Atlas Performing Arts Center, Hyphen Art Gallery, Black Cat, Howard Theatre, Rock and Roll Hotel and many more.

 

Factory Flow: Sonic Alchemy

Find inner peace and creativity with this early-morning series focused on art, health, and imagination. Sessions feature sound artists, yoga teachers, dance instructors, and more.

 

Factory Flow: Sound Alchemy
Co-curated by the Omi Collective
Saturday, March 2
8 am – 9:30 am

$20

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For our March Factory Flow event, we welcome the creative arts group the Omi Collective. This class will feature yoga, breath work, and sound meditation practices.

Heather Honstein, a yoga teacher and sound healer from The Omi Collective will facilitate a restorative meditative experience.

Start the weekend by listening deeply and hold space for personal understanding, reflection, distillation, rejuvenation, and transformation. Using practices like yoga, meditation, and breath work, she guides the group in movement, sound, and intention to alchemize the inner and outer spaces we inhabit, nourishing the true artist and the silent listener within.

What to Bring:

  • Big towel
  • Your own yoga mat
  • Water
  • Sense of humor
  • Pillow
  • Extra layer or clothing or blanket to be comfortable
  • Appreciation for art, music, and fun

About the Omi Collective

An artist collective that co-creates art, events, and gatherings that activate the healing frequencies of color, sound, and light.  The Omi Collective encourages ALL art lovers and artists from as far as the mind’s eye can reach, aspiring to strengthen the bond between all by communing artfully and welcoming as much cray cray an artist can bring.

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. All proceeds will go directly to support ASAP’s programming.

Save $5 and Buy Tickets Now

2019 Show Dates:

  • February 22
  • May 17

Check back for tickets to the May show.

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

Art Trivia Night at Port City

Take a road trip to the tasting room at Alexandria’s award-winning brewery, Port City, and match wits with friends to gain the coveted title of Port City Trivia Champion. Enjoy craft beers, meet artists from the Art Center sharing their work, and play to win!

LOCATION:
Tasting Room at Port City Brewing Company
3950 Wheeler Avenue, Alexandria

Guarantee Your Seats

Creative Writing Workshop with 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.

The program is free, but a donation of $10-$30 would to support CBAW’s to hold similar workshops at military hospitals.

 

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February’s workshop will be led by Alexandria-based author Leslie Pietrzyk. Doors at 6:30, workshop begins promptly at 7 pm.

Scene-Building: Making Your World Real

Learn some tricks and tips about how to create lively, interesting scenes that will make your readers feel right there with you. Appropriate for prose writers at all levels of experience.

About the facilitator

Alexandria author Leslie Pietrzyk, author of Silver Girl, released in February 2018 by Unnamed Press, and called “profound, mesmerizing, and disturbing” in a Publishers Weekly starred review. Her collection of unconventionally linked short stories, This Angel on My Chest, won the 2015 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her previous novels are Pears on a Willow Tree and A Year and a Day. Short fiction and essays have appeared/are forthcoming in Washington Post Magazine, Salon, Southern Review, Ploughshares, Gettysburg Review, Hudson Review, The Sun, Shenandoah, Arts & Letters, River Styx, Iowa Review, Washingtonian, The Collagist, and Cincinnati Review. Pietrzyk is a member of the core fiction faculty at the Converse low-residency MFA program and teaches often in the Johns Hopkins MA in Writing program. For more information: www.lesliepietrzyk.com.

Torpedo Talk: Black Women Artists Matter

Artist Jamilla Okubo co-organizes a panel discussion about black women artists and the role these narratives play in the community, particularly in the greater metropolitan area. Stay after for networking. Space is limited, REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.

Moderator and Panelist: Asha Elana Casey (IG: ashacaseystudio)

Panelists: Tyra Mitchell (IG: tyrathezombie), Mahari Chabwera (IG: mahathra), and Dani Smith (IG: dani__danee)

Due to popular demand for this program, we will be hosting this off-site at ALX Community, located one block away at 106 N Lee St; Alexandria, VA 22314. 

 

Registration has closed for this event.

 

About the Panelists

Asha Elana Casey

Asha Elana Casey is a contemporary painter, mixed media artist, and arts  educator. She began her artistic training at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington. Casey is a graduate of the Corcoran School of Art and Design at George Washington University and an Anderson’s Ranch residency recipient. She currently lives and works in D.C.

 

Tyra Mitchell

Tyra Mitchell is a visual artist born and raised in Washington. She has spent the previous 5 years living and working in New York City. She gained her start by interning and freelancing enough to eventually make a name for herself in the creative community in New York. Her photography work has been featured in various places, most notably Opening Ceremony, Refinery29, and W magazine. Tyra relocated back to her hometown to raise her family and create work that explores her upbringing in D.C. and the distinct culture that hails from it. Tyra is a strong believer in creating spaces for marginalized communities. Her latest venture, Art Mom Project, is an online platform that serves as a safe space for creative mothers to share their artwork and stories.

Mahari Chabwera

Born in D.C. in 1995, Mahari is an artist currently living and working in Richmond, Virginia. She received her bachelor’s of fine arts from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2017, and recently finished a residency at Vermont Studio Center and a Summer Space Grant at The Anderson Gallery. She’s currently making artwork about transcending the limitations of the body through the body. Her paintings and performances explore the balance of opposites like, spirit and body, history and myth, shadow and light, and power and femininity. The purpose of her work is to replace embedded traumas in our collective unconscious. She wants autonomy through self identifying what it means to be.

Dani Smith

Dani Smith is a painter, installation artist, and writer. She received a BFA at the California College of Arts in San Francisco and an MFA at George Washington University. In 2016, she was selected as a Post Grad Resident at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, where she continued her practice and conducted workshops focused on empowering young women. Her studio process examines select facets of blackness as she discovers new boundaries of her identity and the social arenas it occupies. She investigates the feeling of being neither here nor there, belonging but displaced, being black, being white, French Creole, female, a fetish, a threat, a dream, a reality, an ideal, a hybrid, a sellout, suburban, the little yellow girl, high yellow, whitewashed, minority, mixed, a mimic. She works through these categories to discover how they are embraced or rejected as well as reveal an overlap between medium and social politics.

About Jamilla Okubo

Jamilla Okubo is a mixed-media artist. Washington, D.C. raised, Okubo earned her BFA in Integrated Design at Parsons School of Design. Her work has a consistent theme of exploring the intricacy of belonging to an American, Kenyan, and Trinidadian identity and aims to use her interdisciplinary concentration as a medium to address topics within her culture. Rotating between collage, painting, fashion design, and printmaking her work is heavily inspired by the art of storytelling through textiles and fashion.

Her work has been exhibited at Milk Gallery, Calabar Gallery,  Weeksville Heritage Center, and the Dray Walk Gallery.

About ALX Community

Alexandria’s premier co-working community with a modern yet comfortable workspace, great amenities, and engaging programming. Every facet of ALX Community is designed to help you meet others and achieve your best!

The Late Shift: Love & Ritual

Every Second Friday

7 – 10 pm, FREE

Enjoy gallery talks, artist receptions, music, live performances, hands-on artmaking, and three floors of open artists’ studios. In February, spread love through art, music, and healing arts. We are joined by The Omi Collective. Target Gallery also hosts the reception for Ritualisms.

FREE, ALL AGES

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EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

8 pm • Gallery Talk for Ritualisms

Target Gallery’s newest exhibition RITUALISMS is a group exhibition that explores how rituals are an intrinsic part of the human experience. Whether it be through personal rituals, such as daily habits or quirks, or through a larger cultural context, such as religious or cultural ceremonies, the work in this exhibition will address the universality of rituals and how they foster connection or isolation.

Participating Artists

Gail Borowski, Shelby Township, MI
Paula Brett, Roswell, GA
Elizabeth M. Claffey, Bloomington, IN
Mark Harrington, Brooklyn, NY
Megan Hildebrandt, Interlochen, MI
Sarah Hull, Washington, D.C.
Ali Hval, Iowa City, IA
Tunni Kraus, Melbourne, Australia
Savannah Loebig, Silver Spring, MD
Clare Nicholls, Baltimore, MD
re:mark, Philadelphia, PA
Kate Testa, Philadelphia, PA

 


About the Juror

Katy Scarlett is an Adjunct Professor of Art History and an independent curator based in Philadelphia, PA. She is interested in how contemporary artists dissect the construction of history and create awareness around historical omission. Katy has worked in accessibility, education, and public programming at several non-profit institutions including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Delaware Contemporary. She earned her MA in Art History from Hunter College, City University of New York.

PERFORMANCE: MASON ART PROJECT SPACE


The Torpedo Factory Art Center welcomes George Mason University’s School of Art MFA Program as they embark on a 6-month project space at the Art Center. Through faculty led discussions and assignments, the program will encourage students to explore and experiment with topics that emphasize new technologies, increased sustainability efforts, improved accessibility to marginalized members of societies, and other socially relevant topics. In doing so, faculty and students will experiment with ideas and potential solutions that invite cross collaboration amongst disciplines as a means of creating art and design that addresses and promotes awareness of such topics. The studio will serve as the exhibition space for these finalized works.

 

The MFA Candidates:

Andi Benge, Jorge Banales, Jayne Matricardi Burke, Brigitte Caramanna, Sam Fedorova, Kate Fitzpatrick, Emily Fussner, Erica Hopkins, Jennifer Lillis, Matt Nolan, Kevin Wallace, Michael Walton

 

Currently On View:

  

“Welcome to Andiland”

Installation & Performance Piece by Andi Benge

@andilandart

 

Performance: Friday February 8 (Late Shift: Love and Ritual)
On view through February 2019

Artist’s Project Statement

 

“Working in several media, I use a variety of campy materials to create a whimsical plastic wonderland of immersive installations. Through performance I embody my alter ego Bunni who invites viewers into a dreamworld otherwise known as Andiland. Here, vulnerable female nudes are surrounded by playful objects and bright colors drawn from a tumultuous adolescence. Beyond the sweet surface lies a critical attempt to confront the taboos surrounding female sexuality and celebrate it’s dangerous archetypal allure.”

 

About Andi Benge

Andi Benge is a first year Graduate student at George Mason University. She received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from Kansas State University, where she was awarded several grants and scholarships, including the Dale Weary Clore Scholarship. Her work has been featured in many national exhibitions including THE LITTLE BIG ART SHOW at La Bodega Gallery in San Diego, CA, INK ’n’ IRON KULTURE KLASH ART SHOW on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA, a FIRST FRIDAY solo show at Bailiwick in Anchorage, AK, and has work in many international private collections.

 

About George Mason University’s School of Art MFA Program

George Mason University’s School of Art MFA Program seeks to develop in students a self-directed studio practice, derived simultaneously from an earnest personal search and an engagement with contemporary discourses and practices. Housed in a small community of studios, the MFA program offers an environment that fosters the deepening of a student’s individual practice in the context of shared experience and dialogue with peers. Daily studio practice is supplemented by courses in research, writing, and contemporary critical theory. Regular formal critiques with peers and faculty track student progress, while training them to articulate ideas relevant to the production of their work. Visiting artists, monthly trips to galleries, and suggested supplementary lectures at local venues contribute to the student’s ability to contextualize his or her own work and process within the larger conversation of contemporary studio practices.

STUDIO VISIT: POST GRAD STUDIO (319): WINTER 2019 POST GRAD STUDIO RESIDENT – MICHAELA JAPEC

 

Michaela Japec recently graduated from George Mason University in 2018 with a Bachelor of Fine Art Degree. She is the first of 4 artists selected for this residency program. Stop by her studio from 7-10 pm to meet the artist and see her work in person.

Artist’s Statement

Michaela Japec struggles, as many other people do, with body image. In recent years, Michaela has begun to use her insecurities as fuel for her artistic work. She now explores her own perceived physical flaws in her creative process, revealing and highlighting these “flaws” in her work. Michaela finds that exposing her anxieties, which have haunted her since a young age, is healing for both herself and the viewer.  Creating art featuring her physical imperfections allows others to see their own flaws in a more accepting, tangible, and beautiful way.

About Michaela Japec

Michaela Japec was born in Alexandria VA.  Although being born in the States, she grew up in a small village in Sweden, named Forssjö and didn’t move back to VA until 2008.  Michaela graduated from George Mason University in 2018 with a Bachelor of Fine Art Degree.  She has exhibited in Virginia with Art League Gallery in 2013, Delray Artisan Gallery in Spring of 2013 and 2014, Richard J. Ernst Community Cultural Center in Spring of 2016, and she participated in the all female Inner Demons exhibition at Epicure Cafe gallery in Summer 2018. Outside of school Michaela teaches an Art’s Foundation course to to kids through George Mason Arts Academy on Saturdays, she also takes portrait commissions to help finance her schooling.

Studio 24: Farewell Reception for Susan Greenleaf

Join the Art Center in bidding farewell to Studio Artist Susan Greenleaf with this closing reception in Studio 24. See new and classic works from her time at the Art Center and meet the artist. 7-10pm

 

 

Art League Gallery: Art Demo and Patrons Show Preview

Stop by the Art League Gallery to get a preview of their Patrons Show Exhibition before the big event. Take part in a hands-on activity with artist Julie Flanagan.

7 – 9pm

“LOVE AND RITUAL” HIGHLIGHTS

7 – 7:30 pm • Opening Ceremony by The Omi Collective

 :: beaming from the wake of the aquarian new moon and the half way between solstice and equinox, we enter into an alternate dimension, a space that functions as an energetic field –deeply activated by universal love and ritualized by the dance between worlds ::

  • An authentic immersion into celestial knowledge through sound and a ritual performance journey.
    • Heart-opening ceremony
    • A ritual performance journey
    • Sonic alchemy

7:30 – 10 pm •  A Mystic’s Playground & Healing Bazaar 

☽ live 2D and wearable art in studio 5 and unicorn rainbow gallery @omiexperience
☽collaborative moon goddess art by @nicole_the_african & @lisaschumaier
☽ alchemical potions (tonics, tinctures, and beyond) and tarrot @brownsugarvoodoo
☽ collaborative mandala activation by @monica.vercillo
☽ self-love fragrance parlor with aromatherapist @essentialbotany
☽ crystal healing pod @crystal_illuminations
☽ sound baths by @heatherluna__
☽ dream interpretation & spoken word @codename.zodiac
☽ self-love poetry pod by @moonlit_dc
☽ art displays @mel.bikowski @chronicallycosmic @broad_ross @belinda.cathy @byunnaturalcauses @arsfauna


HANDS-ON WORKSHOP WITH THE MOBILE ART LAB

Join Alexandria’s very own Mobile Art Lab for Reiki Healing with Cierra Ross

 

 

WINTER SEASONAL ART INSTALLATIONS

The Torpedo Factory Art Center presents the work of artists Edgar Endress and Marly McFly for our Winter Seasonal Art Installations on view throughout the Art Center from December 9, 2018 – February 25, 2019. The Winter Seasonal Art Installations exhibition was curated by Jaynelle C. Hazard, who is the Director of Exhibitions at the Workhouse Art Center. Check them out in the Grand Hall and on the smokestack on the 3rdfloor.

Factory Flow Saturday Morning Yoga

On the first Saturday of every month, find inner peace and creativity with this early-morning series. It’s a lovely way to start the day, focused on art, health, and imagination. Sessions feature sound artists, yoga teachers, dance instructors, and more.

February’s workshop is co-curated by Mind the Mat.

Come sweat with us in the Grand Hall of the Art Center before the building opens. This Intro to Yoga class will get your morning started in a judgement-free, friendly atmosphere surrounded by beautiful art and music. Bring a friend and join in!

What to Bring:

  • Big towel
  • Your own mat
  • Water
  • Sense of humor
  • Appreciation for art, music, and fun
$15 / Mind the Mat members receive 15% off 
*This is a workshop, no refunds. If canceled 24 hours before the start time, studio credit may be available.*

About Mind the Mat

Mind the Mat Pilates & Yoga was founded in 2008 by Megan Brown and Sara VanderGoot.

Mind the Mat is committed to hiring instructors with excellent teaching skills and credentials. All of our instructors hold certifications in Pilates and/or yoga and many of them have additional training in physical therapy, nutrition, nursing, massage therapy, prenatal and/or postpartum fitness, therapeutics (yoga/Pilates for rehabilitation), and more!

Mind the Mat was created to spotlight individual teaching styles and to celebrate unique backgrounds and expertise. Our instructors and clients make Mind the Mat feel like home. Every teaching style is unique.

About Mallory Thornton

Mallory Thornton, RYT-200, began practicing yoga in 2006. Amid multiple moves, a career change, and illness; yoga has brought balance and strength to her life. Mallory is committed to creating a space for her students to experience their own mental, physical and emotional journeys. Mallory hopes her students take their experiences off the mat and into their daily lives. While emphasizing that each day/practice is unique, her classes maintain an underlying theme of lightheartedness and self-compassion. She believes yoga is for everyone; flexibility and touching your toes is not required! As an Air Force veteran and military spouse, she loves sharing yoga with military members, veterans and their families.

 

Torpedo Talk: Caring for Art

Now that I’ve bought it, how do I care for it?

From prints to sculpture, books to scarfs, all works of art need to be properly maintained to prolong their life and beauty. Jeanne Drewes, chief of Binding & Collections Care Division and Mass Deacidification for the Library of Congress, shares how artists and their patrons can care or art. Presented in collaboratin with the Friends of the Torpedo Factory.

 

 

Photo by Jonny Caspari on Unsplash