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Second Thursday Art Night: Honoring Our Veterans

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!

Join us in November as we honor America’s veterans and those who have supported them over the generations.

Afterward, stop by the Potomac Riverfront to see El Galéon Andalucia, a replica of a 16th century Spanish Galleon that will be docked behind the Torpedo Factory for the weekend.

Honor Our Veterans

  • Drinks in the Main Hall are provided by Vermilion Restaurant & Bar and Neighborhood Restaurant Group, in support of Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food & Agriculture’s Veteran Farmer Program. All proceeds and donations at the bar will go to benefit the program’s mission of training and equipping military veterans to meet the growing needs of our nation’s agriculture field.
  • Main Hall: USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore partners with the Torpedo Factory Art Center to feature a series of works in the main hall by USO’s vibrant community of veterans.
  • Studio 8: In the New Project Studio, see ceramic and bladesmithing work created by injured military personnel as part of The Art League’s IMPart Program.
  • Studio 12: Post-Graduate Resident Jihee Kang guides visitors to cut and color miniature fold-up Army hats.
  • Studio 327: The Alexandria Archaeology Museum will have on view the list of men and women from Alexandria who served or supported the military during The Great War. Then, visitors can create WWI-style dog tags or a red poppy.
  • 3rd Floor Landing: Create Navy-themed stitchings on recycled fabric with members of the Torpedo Factory Artists’ Association.
  • Preview Andy Yoder’s Highest Honor project. Read about how he converted military hospital gowns into paper for this three-story banner, which celebrates the Torpedo Factory’s wartime legacy.

Gallery Receptions

  • Studio 2: Target Gallery hosts the exhibition for the 2016 Post-Graduate Residents and formally announces the names of the 2017 artists.
    • 7 pm: Artist talk and presentation
  • Studio 21: The Art League hosts openings for MiniMax,  The Artistic Frame, and Soomin Ham: Sound of Butterfly.
    • 7:30 pm: Gallery talk and awards
  • Studio 325: Printmakers Inc. hosts an opening for MerCreatures and Fairy Tales.
  • Sites 2 & 3: Students from Marsha Staiger’s abstract painting class are on view in Emerge.
    • 6:30 pm: Artist talk and presentation

Live Music

  • 6 pm; 8:15 pm: The Improbables perform an eclectic selection of original songs and covers including folk, country, bluegrass, and pop.

Second Thursday Art Night: Day of the Dead

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!

Join us in October for a special night celebrating Día de los Muertos, Day of the Dead.

Also: Don’t miss these ongoing exhibitions!

The Art of the Book: Second Thursday Art Night at the Torpedo Factory Art Center

Second Thursday Art Night: The Art of the Book

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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!

September: The Art of the Book

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!

Before the season wraps up, enjoy an Endless Summer evening during the August Second Thursday Art Night. With five exhibition openings, live music and outdoor painting, it will be quite a diverting evening.

  • 6:30, 7:30 pm: Learn about Alexandria’s Civil War hospitals, including the real Mansion House Hospital, made famous by  the PBS series Mercy Street,  in the Alexandria Archaeology Museum (Studio 327).
  • 6:30 pm: Public reception for Magic and Color in Sites 2 & 3 (located on the 2nd and 3rd floor hallway by the elevator) with treats provided by Tango Pastry.
  • 7 pm: Wade Kramm talks about his minimalist installations in Dotted Space in Target Gallery (Studio 2).
  • 7:30 pm: Opening reception for Landschap and Taking Shape in The Art League Gallery (Studio 21).

Attend receptions and meet the artists in Decathect: a verb in The Associates Gallery (Studio 311) and Materialized Magic: Mythical Creatures in a Yarn Artistry Habitat in the New Project Studio (Studio 8).

The Glimpses, an Alexandria folk rock/Americana duo, performs all evening in the main hall. The 8 pm set features video projections of visiting artist Monica Stroik‘s work.

At 7 pm, Hector Munoz play harp at Site 3 and Rowan Clarke plays covers and originals on her ukulele in Studio 7.

Outside, sit side-by-side with some of the Torpedo Factory’s artists to paint plein air by the waterfront.

Second Thursday Art Night: Red, White, and Blue

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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!

In July, we partner with the Office of Historic Alexandria to celebrate “Red, White, and Blue.”

  • Take part in our DIY activity with artist Andy Yoder as he constructs Highest Honora site-specific, suspended, 25-ft triangular banner for the Torpedo Factory Art Center, created from sheets of handmade paper and made in collaboration with military veterans, the Art League, and Torpedo Factory artists.
  • Check out the Please Touch exhibit in Target Gallery before it closes, as well as opening receptions for Not a Box and Kathleen Best Gillmann: Vision at Water’s Edge in The Art League Gallery.
  • Meet the new Post-Graduate resident Danielle Smith as she begins her three-month residency at the Torpedo Factory in the Post-Graduate Residency Studio (Studio 12).
  • Hear about CRAVE, a community micro-granting initiative developed by the Torpedo Factory Art Center and the Convergence Arts Initiative, and experience The Silent World, a CRAVE-funded proposal and month-long interactive project in the New Projects Studio (Studio 8).
  • Visit the Alexandria Archaeology Museum to enjoy a hands-on activity and hear updates on Alexandria’s recent discovery of a 300-year-old ship on the waterfront.
  • Stop by Studio 306 for an open house celebrating James Dean and Kara Hammond’s Generations: Space History in Art. A special space-themed cocktail hour will be hosted in Alison Sigethy’s studio (Studio 307).
  • Live music with jazz duo Entre Nous.
  • Enjoy three floors of activities, open studios, refreshments, and more.

Generations: Space History in Art

It will soon be 47 years since humans first set foot on the moon. To commemorate, realist artists James Dean and Kara Hammond bring together their space related works to celebrate the early days of space travel and exploration, in a small, targeted retrospective.

As NASA art director, James Dean escorted the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Jamie Wyeth, Norman Rockwell, and Paul Calle to witness history in the making as they created original works for the NASA Art collection. As the former Curator of Art at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, Dean shows his own considerable prowess at capturing the early heady times of space exploration through original on-site sketches and photographs of Cape Canaveral in the early 1970’s.

Established artist Kara Hammond will show several paintings and drawings of early space technology from the 1990’s, including many Soviet era craft that were virtually unknown to the American public until decades later.

Show Opens July 1 and runs through July 31, 2016
Studio 306, third floor
Torpedo Factory Art Center
105 N. Union St.
Alexandria, VA, 22314

Special Open House during the July 14 Second Thursday from 6 to 8pm, in Studios 306 and 307.

The Splashdown Reception will be Sun. July 24 from 1pm to 4pm, to celebrate the 47th anniversary of the return of the Apollo 11 astronauts.

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Capital Area Photographers presents Copyright, Contracts and Consent with Aaron Arce Stark

Arce Stark Law logoCapital Area Photographers welcomes Aaron Arce Stark to explain how to best handle copyright, contracts and consent as a professional photographer.

Aaron M. Arce Stark is an attorney based in Washington, D.C. His law firm, Arce Stark Law LLC, focuses on meeting the legal needs of creators. The law firm represents clients in intellectual property litigation, registration, licensing, and enforcement, both in the United States and abroad.

Learn more about Aaron and his firm at arcestarklaw.com.

Second Thursday Art Night: Art Pride

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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!

In June, we partner with AGLA and Go Gay DC to celebrate Art Pride.

  • Bring your own shirt or tote bag and embellish it with a rainbow silkscreen design with the help of Anne Smith, current post-graduate resident in studio 12, and Veronica Barker-Barzel of Printmakers, Inc. in studio 325.
  • Live music with 2nd Independence.
  • Attend receptions for Please Touch in Target Gallery as well as TabletopAlex Tolstoy: Watermarks, and June’s Open Exhibit in The Art League Gallery.
  • Meet Ethiopian artist Daniel Taye and talk to him about his month-long residency in the New Project Studio (studio 8) through St. George Gallery.
  • Stop by Sites 2 and 3 for Caribbean Jubilee to see a showcase of work by 20 Caribbean artists for National Caribbean-American Heritage Month.
  • Visit the Alexandria Archaeology Museum to enjoy a hands-on activity about Alexandria’s 19th-century salt-glazed stoneware pottery, with docent-in-charge Joanna Gohmann.
  • Enjoy three floors of activities, live music, refreshments, and more.

ASO Sympatico

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The Torpedo Factory Art Center welcomes back 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 provide high-quality music education for local elementary students who are underrepresented minorities or at-risk youth. This performance will feature three of their music ensembles: Singing Eagles, Strings at Sunrise, and JABBA.

ASO Sympatico seeks to create safe spaces where students can take risks and make strong choices, while promoting student ownership of their role in an interdependent ensemble. Ensembles are hosted at John Adams Elementary School, a Title I and minority-majority school that benefits from a longstanding dual-language program and a Kennedy Center arts-integration partnership (Changing Education through the Arts).

This event is co-sponsored by the Torpedo Factory Art Center as part of the Community Partnership Program.

Please RSVP here or via [email protected]

Second Thursday Art Night – Pets!

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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!

  • 6 – 9 pm
    • We welcome Animal Welfare League of Alexandria all evening. Stop by the table for information about pet adoptions and on how to care for cherished pets.
    • By the riverfront entrance, four-legged visitors help us create a paw-print mural using pup-friendly paint for the “Dog-I-Y” activity.
  • 6 – 7; 8 – 8:45 pm
  • 6:30 – 8:30 pm
  • 7 pm
    • See the new public mural near the corner of Union and Cameron Streets. Get to know artist Erin Curtis during a community meet & greet. When posting photos and selfies, please use hashtag #beadedcurtain.
  • 7:30 pm

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