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The Birds and the Bees are Back
The enamelists get into the spring spirit with bright colors and a few birds and bees and other signs of spring.
Orbit
Artworks exhibited in “Orbit” will focus on the cycles we each endure because of the different pulls in our lives.
Teresa Oaxaca: “Misfits”
Teresa Oaxaca’s recent paintings explore themes of clowns, dolls, human effigies, and painted faces. She explains that the work for this exhibit “integrates the human passions and emotions with allegorical storytelling.”
Lisa Kellner: Always into Now
Main-based Lisa Kellner’s work is intended to be immersive, Using silk organza in a painterly process, she sews thousands of bulbous shapes and creates structures that seem to grow from the walls and ceiling. The work will envelop the entire gallery in a room-sized singular form.
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Focus on Texture
The Gallery artists will show works that use various techniques to gain texture in enamel.
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Nancy McIntyre: “Rhythms of Time”
Silkscreens and paintings that “treasure the local, the small-scale, the eccentric, the ordinary.”
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Materialized Magic: Fiber Art Workshop
Materialized Magic: Fiber Art Workshop
"Materialized Magic" is a community art project that provides free lessons, for people of all levels of experience, in crocheting, knitting, and felting. The workshop is lead by our 3rd annual CRAVE grant recipients, Erika Cleveland and Stacy Cantrell.
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Second Thursday Art Night – Pets!
Second Thursday Art Night – Pets!
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. In May, join us to celebrate Pets!
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Eames Armstrong: SPELL
Eames Armstrong: SPELL
Stay a spell, spell a word, cast a spell. A new performance by Eames Armstrong.
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ASO Sympatico
ASO Sympatico
The Torpedo Factory Art Center welcomes ASO Sympatico for a special night of music. This performance group was developed as a partnership between the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra and the Alexandria City Public Schools to provides high-quality music education for local elementary students who are underrepresented minorities or at-risk youth.
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St. George Art Gallery: Daniel Taye
The Torpedo Factory Art Center partners with St. George Art Gallery to host "Van Gogh of Africa," Ethiopian artist Daniel Taye for a month-long residency in the New Project Studio.
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Please Touch
Visitors are encouraged to touch, feel, dine upon, and even lick the artwork in this all-media exhibition.
Artist Demonstrations
Artist Demonstrations
Throughout the summer, see artist demonstrations every Saturday at 11 am, 1 pm, and 3 pm.