Highest Honor returns to Torpedo Factory Art Center's atrium this season. Inspired by the building's industrial founding, artist Andy Yoder designed the 25-foot triangular banner as an oversized version of the Army-Navy "E Award," which was presented to workers during WWII for excellence in production of war equipment.
The New Project Studio will host an exhibition of the 2021 AIA Virginia Prize competition. The competition — which took place over the weekend of Jan. 22–25, 2021 — was inspired by the Equal Justice Initiative’s Community Remembrance Project and challenged students to design a pillar installation for the City of Alexandria’s Market Square.
Printmakers Inc is proud to present Samantha Lee Shelton’s solo exhibition titled "Multi-Spectral". The exhibit features several new aquatint etchings, monotypes, and linocuts from 2019 to 2021. Shelton showcases both multi-colored hand pulled prints and also three mini-series of body of works including 1) Crazy about Cats, which highlights several linocut portraits and block printed merch, 2) Implements of Oppression, which etchings subjects include objects used by societies and Governments to suppress various peoples over time and which was inspired by the Black Lives Matters movement, and 3) Pandemic Portraits, a 4 set series of hand colored aquatint etchings inspired by the Pandemic and the isolation experienced during the health crisis here in the US.
End the summer with a time to reset and recharge. Enjoy conversation, music, and art activities at the Late Shift's REFRESH.
In celebration of the 12th Annual Alexandria Sidewalk Sale, Torpedo Factory Art Center is offering select artworks from our resident artists up to 20% off. Explore both our Union Street and Waterfront boardwalk entrances. Additional artworks will be available to browse inside.
Printmakers Inc, studio 325, is hosting an artist talk with our current solo show artist Samantha Lee Shelton. Sam will discuss her recent body of work. You are invited to learn more about the etching process, invented in the middle ages, and how Sam uses acid to bite into the metal plates, which are then used to make beautiful tonal and textural prints. Refreshments will be served.
Join us at the Waterfront entrance with artist Joey Wade (Studio 307) as he talks about patterns and nature in design and how he uses theses inspirations in wood carvings. Joey will provide demos of pattern designs with crayons, using a wax resist technique with watercolors and water-soluble markers. Take part in creating watercolor paper postcards to send to friends.
