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Chamber Music with the Beau Soir Ensemble

The Friends of the Torpedo Factory Art Center hosts an intimate after-hours performance with the Beau Soir Ensemble for a concert of classical and Irish music.

Works by Telemann, Respighi, Ian Krouse and others will be featured at this special concert.  Joining harpist Michelle Myers Lundy and violist Jennifer Ries at this concert will be guest flautist David Lonkavich.

Formed in 2007, Beau Soir Ensemble performs live chamber music concerts throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, offering both new and standard repertoire spanning all eras of classical music.  Their goal is to make classical music accessible and enjoyable, inspiring a new generation of music lovers.  The trio regularly performs at venues and acclaimed concert series in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore areas, including the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, Sundays at Three in Columbia, Harman Center for the Arts, Arts Club of Washington, The Lyceum, Church of the Epiphany, Dumbarton House, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Old Town Hall (Fairfax), and The Anderson House.  The trio also won the 2014 Montpelier Arts Recital Competition.

This concert is free and open to the public.

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

 

Capital Area Photographers presents Off-Camera Lighting with Procopio Photography

Capital Area Photographers welcome husband and wife guest speakers Cicely Procopio and Jason Miller of Procopio Photography to talk about using off-camera flash for lighting portraits and reception venues during weddings. They will also touch on off-camera lighting techniques they use for engagement and boudoir portraits. After their presentation, Cicely and Jason will perform a live lighting demo, so please bring your cameras.

Procopio Photography has been photographing innovative and edgy weddings and portraits for eight years. Their unique lighting and editorial approach has won them several Junebug Awards and WedAwards. They have been published in numerous magazines and are ranked as one of Washingtonian Bride and Groom’s top photographers in the DC area.

Capital Area Photographers is an online community of more than 1,100 members, most of which are wedding and portrait photographers in the greater Washington, DC, area. CAP meets once a month for a lecture-style format to provide continuing education for photographers in the area.

Second Thursday Art Night

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!

The Torpedo Factory Art Center celebrates the legacy of women in the arts during Women’s History Month. Of the 132 resident artists in the Torpedo Factory, more than 100 of them are women. Throughout the night, visitors are encourage to participate in the broader national conversation on this subject by posting on social media with the hashtag #5womenartists, created by the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

The night also features a host of new exhibitions, live music, button making, and a peek into the life of an Alexandria socialite who became a Confederate spy.

Target Gallery (Studio 2)

  • The 6th Annual March150 exhibition fundraiser will be taking place in Target Gallery. Find works by local artists on sale for $150 each, with proceeds benefiting future programs and special exhibitions.
  • Members of the Factory Society, the Torpedo Factory’s young-professionals network, will sell special discounted tickets for the March150 Art Party on Friday, March 18.
  • Visitors are also encouraged to cast votes for the People’s Choice Award, to be announced during the Art Party on March 18.

 The Alexandria Archaeology Museum (Studio 327)

  • 7 and 8 pm: In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Alexandria Archaeology Museum will highlight Rose O’Neal Greenhow, Alexandria socialite and Confederate spy. Her coded messages and hand-drawn maps of Northern Virginia will be on view and city archaeologist Benjamin Skolnik shares further insight into her life and mission during the Civil War.

The Art League (Studio 21)

  • Two new exhibitions will be on view in The Art League Gallery. Fritz DesRoches: The Caribbean—How Beautiful features DeRoches’ airbrushed work that highlights Caribbean culture, particularly of Haiti. Zoma Wallace juried March’s Open Exhibit, which features work by Art League artists in all media.

Torpedo Factory Artists

  • The Associates Gallery (Studio 311): Reception for Julia Dzikiewicz: Contradictions.
  • Multiple Exposures Gallery (Studio 312): Photographer Timothy Hyde’s exhibition Washington Daybreak explores early morning in the District.
  • Site 2 and 3 (Hallways near the elevator on 2nd and 3rd floors): Reception for Exploring Abstraction, featuring student work as part of Beverly Ryan’s (Studio 333) painting class with The Art League.
  • Potomac Fiber Arts (Studio 29): Salute to Primary Colors: Red, Yellow and Blue, the gallery’s first show in its new location.
  • Scope Gallery (Studio 19): Global ceramics in Cultural Connectivity includes a collection of American Indian, Asian, African, Latin, and European styles of clay art.

 Special After-Hours Programming

    • 6:15 – 7:15 pm; 7:30 – 8:30 pm: Live jazz music with 2nd Independence.
    • All evening, design, create, and wear a custom button at the DIY station on the 3rd floor landing.
    • Celebrate the contribution of women in the arts by adding names, comments, thoughts, and drawings to the lobby magnet wall.

Second Thursday Art Night

#2ndThurs

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!

This month during Second Thursday, we celebrate the past and present of Alexandria.

 The Alexandria Archaeology Museum

The new PBS series Mercy Street is centered in Alexandria during the Civil War. One of the main characters is based on the real Emma Green. See her photo and learn about her relationship with Frank Stringfellow in The Real Emma & Frank: Alexandria’s Civil War Sweethearts.

The Mansion House Hospital was one of many military hospitals in town. In Old Town Alexandria’s Civil War Hospitals, learn about buildings you walk by every day and probably had no idea of their importance during the Civil War.

Target Gallery

Trending: Contemporary Art Now is new this month. Target Gallery partnered with the Women’s Caucus for Art to present the exhibition as part of WCA’s 2016 national conference in Washington, D.C. It features work by 12 self-identified women who are driving the direction of contemporary art and offers a cross-section of media to reflect the leading edge of contemporary art, including video, collage, 3D photography, found objects, installation, and more. The exhibition also includes an online gallery and catalog featuring additional works.

The Art League

In advance of The Art League’s upcoming Patron’s Show fundraiser on Sunday, February 14, The Art League Gallery features a preview exhibition with the work that will be available. It’s a great opportunity for attendees to build a wishlist.

The Associates Gallery (TAG)

Color and Shape opens in The Associates Gallery (studio 311) and features work by painters Jill Finsen and Barbara Muth.

Special After-Hours Programming

  • The artists of the Torpedo Factory Art Center are inviting the community to share their love for art with a community collage on the magnet wall by the Union Street entrance. Create a mini collage on the 3rd floor, then take a portrait of your work before adding it to the wall. At the end of the evening, see the collage grow and review the online photo album to see everyone’s individual contributions.
  • Classical guitarist David Toves provides the soundtrack for the evening with sets at 6:15 – 7:15 pm and 7:30 – 8:30 pm.

 

Second Thursday Art Night

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!

  • 6 – 9 pm: 
    • Four hands-on silkscreen stations will be located throughout the building to allow visitors to create a one-of-a-kind four-color print. Find the final station in the Alexandria Archaeology Museum (studio 327).
  • 6 – 7 pm; 8 – 8:45 pm:
    • Cat Janice performs her original jazzy/alternative rock songs throughout the evening.
  • 7 pm:
    • Visitors are encouraged to bring in items to photocopy and experiment with Xerography in Target Gallery’s (studio 2) current exhibition, Printed Matter.
  • 7:30 pm:
    • The Art League Gallery (studio 21) hosts openings for Muted, featuring works subtle works that softly represent their subjects, and the Solo Preview 2016, which offers a glimpse of the nine artists who will have solo shows this year.

Second Thursday Art Night: Chocolate, Art & Dance

December’s Art Night will be full of art, chocolate, and dance. Snack on chocolate treats in the studios while you shop for handmade gifts of art.

  • 6 – 9 pm: 
    • More than 100 artists in nearly 80 studios will have sweet chocolaty treats for visitors to enjoy as they shop for gifts of art throughout the building.
    • Visit the 3rd floor landing for a hands-on snowflake-making activity.
    • The “taking of chocolate” was a patriotic beverage alternative for colonists who refused to pay the high tax on tea. The Alexandria Archaeology Museum (studio 327) will have samples of American Heritage Chocolate mixed with a traditional spice blend to enjoy. See examples of 18th-century of chocolate pots and cups from the museum’s collection.
  • 6 – 7 pm; 8 – 8:45 pm:
    • Jane Franklin Dance performs Incidence on the first floor lobby. Dancers manipulate and incorporate kinetic sculptures in their performance as an exploration of the nature of chance on the progression of the piece. The company will also have a gift-wrap challenge, a raffle, and sweet treats for visitors.
  • 7 pm:
    • During the reception for Target Gallery’s (studio 2) new exhibition, Printed Matter, juror Gretchen Schermerhorn, artistic director of Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, shares her thought about the prints, illustrations, zines, and other works on view.
  • 7:45 pm:
    • Chocolate wouldn’t be sweet without sugar. Alexandria Archaeology Museum (studio 327) presents on Alexandria’s role in 19th century sugar production at the Moore-Mclean Sugar House Site at North Alfred and Cameron Streets.

Second Thursday Art Night

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!

  • 6 – 9 pm: 
    • Share what you’re thankful for this year by adding a leaf to our Thankful Tree on the First Floor. The tree will be available throughout November to add new leaves. Come watch it fill with visitor leaves.
    • Alexandria Archaeology Museum offers an exclusive first look at artifacts that were recently unearthed during the Waterfront excavation on the eve of the city’s historic development plan.
  • 6 – 7 pm; 8 – 8:45 pm:
    • Guitarist/vocalist Stan Hamrick brings his talents, performing favorites from Sinatra, Elvis, The Beatles, Eagles, The Drifters, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and Tom Petty and others.
  • 7 pm:
  • 7:30 pm:
  • 7:45 pm:
    • Lisa Schumaier (studio 16) welcomes poet Sass Brown to for a reading and signing of her new book, USA-1000. Schumaier’s work is featured as the cover art.

Second Thursday Art Night

Second Thursday Art Night at the Torpedo Factory Art Center will feature the fantastic and the macabre.

  • 6 – 9 pm:
    • Visitors are encourage to bring a few friends along to play Exquisite Corpse, a surrealist party game that was popular with artists like André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Salvador Dali. In this group drawing activity, each participant draws a section of the picture, while only seeing the end of what the previous person contributed. The resulting image is as quirky and bizarre as the participants can imagine.
    • ZarkOctober is Virginia Archaeology Month. To celebrate, the Alexandria Archaeology Museum will have its own exquisite skeleton, Zark the dog, on display. Visitors are encourage to share their love for him with hashtag #zarkbark.
    • After two months of collecting doodles and illustrations from visitors, the four community sketchbooks will be on display in the Site 2 hallway, located by the elevator on the second floor. Visitors have left drawings, scribbles, cartoons, poems, and notes. Leaf through the books and even leave your own sketches behind for others.
    • With an eye toward contemporary conversations surrounding gender identity, equality, and feminism, Target Gallery’s exhibition, Angel Soldier Dance Sublime features the work of four artists as they explore themes of femininity and power and the intertwining relationship of gendered archetypes.
  • 6 – 7 pm; 8 – 9 pm: Singer/songwriter Janna Audey performs throughout the evening with her husband, guitarist Rob Santos. Hear a mix of original songs along with a romantic collection of songs made famous by the Rat Pack, the Bee Gees, the Carpenters, and others. Santos’ edgy guitar complements the soulful timbre of Audey’s voice.
  • 7 pm:
    • Alexandria Archaeology Museum: Zark the dog wasn’t always part of a museum display. Learn how archaeologist found him under a pile of stones on Royal Street, how they figured out his name, and what his burial in the early 1900s reveals about Alexandria’s past.
  • 7:30 pm:
    • The Art League Gallery: Opening reception for two new exhibitions in The Art League Gallery. Superstition & Belief is an all-media exhibition with work referencing myths, religion, fantasy, and dreams. Each Day is a Celebration features Sheila Harrington’s still-life oil paintings that illustrate the passage of time through food and drink.

Earlier in the day, Carlyle House will be offering complementary programming. They will display an 18th-century mummified cat that was found in the wall of the house and will also offer an Exquisite Corpse drawing activity for visitors. Carlyle House is located at 121 North Fairfax Street in Alexandria. The hours are 10 am – 4 pm.

Second Thursday Art Night: Sharpen your pencils

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!

A blank notebook is full of creative potential waiting to be explored. Whether you’re in school or just love all of the back-to-school stationary, the September Second Thursday Art Night is for you. Decorate an art journal of your own and leave a sketch in the six notebooks scattered around the building for a community sketching project.

Target Gallery celebrates the opening for Angel Soldier Dance Sublime, which features the work of four women artists exploring the sublime dance of archetypal masculinity and femininity. The curator talk begins at 7 pm. Down the hall, The Art League celebrates openings for The Ring of Fire, which features Wijati Soemantoro’s abstract lithographs that respond to the energy, emotions, and aftermath of natural disasters. Also, the September all-media exhibition features juried work by The Art League members. Comments begin at 7:30 pm.

Come early and stay late to enjoy the warm acoustic guitar and foot-stomping rhythm of Casey Clark. His storytelling and alternative country sound will pull you right in.

Second Thursday Art Night: Dogs Days of Summer

Enjoy an special after-hours event at the Torpedo Factory Art Center every month. August’s event puts the dog in Dog Days of Summer.

  • 6 – 8 pm:
    • The Animal Welfare League of Alexandria will be on hand with some adoptable pets who are looking for forever homes. Your Dog’s Best Friends will share information about its daycare, boarding, grooming, walking, training, and socialization services.
    • With a special map in hand, visitors can find artwork throughout the building featuring dogs (and cats). They may even encounter a few of the artists’ own dogs keeping cool in studios along the way.
      • Participating artists will be contributing a percentage of their proceeds from art sales to AWLA.
    • Alexandria Archaeology Museum: Excavated bones of a dog tell the story of a pet’s life in Alexandria about a hundred years ago.
  • 6 – 7 pm; 8 – 9 pm:Annandale-based Alex W. Young brings his powerful vocals and poetic lyrics to the Torpedo Factory. Playing foot tambourine, harmonica, acoustic electric guitar, and singing, Alex is truly a one-man band. His set list mixes favorites in country, pop, classic rock, and oldies with Young’s own original compositions.
  • 7 pm:
    • Target Gallery: In Cloud Seeding, Texas-based Leigh Merrill takesthousands of photographs, videos, and audio recordings while exploring a city or neighborhood, then digitally assembles them to create her imaginary composite spaces. The result is a beautiful lie—reality that is slightly askew, familiar but emotionally detached. Meet the artist and jurors at 7 pm during the public reception. Leigh Merrill: Cloud Seeding is on view through Sunday, August 30.
  • 7:30 pm:
    • The Art League Gallery: Opening reception for two exhibitions in The Art League Gallery. Taking Shape, features juried 3D work by Art League artists. Visitor favorite ‘Scapes returns with landscapes, cityscapes, skyscapes, and more. Both are on view until Monday, September 7. More information is available via theartleague.org.

The August Second Thursday Art Night is generously supported by Your Dog’s Best Friends.Your Dog's Best FriendAnimal Welfare League of Alexandria