The center’s more than 160 artists are eager for answers that could come out of a City Council meeting in December.
The arts offices in Fairfax County, Arlington County, and the city of Alexandria are offering free professional development workshops to support artists and arts organizations.
As more than a dozen artists are scheduled to pack up their studios at Alexandria’s Torpedo Factory, some artists say the new application process for leasing studios is “grossly unfair.”
Lori Katz, who’s based in Northern Virginia, has also seen her work on office walls in ‘Succession.’
The future of the Alexandria arts center is a point of contention among artists, community members, and city leaders.
This powerful work is worth the trip to Alexandria.
Faith Ringgold’s Who’s Bad? , courtesy the Arlington Arts Center This week, some of the D.C. area’s best nonprofit and alternative art spaces push their boundaries in ways that commercial spaces often don’t. Get out your thinking caps and your love for interesting discussion, and mark these dates, times and locations in that day planner of yours. >> Friday from 7 to 9 p.m., the DC Arts Center holds a reception for its newest…
Yup. A bunch of sinks. And yet, there’s something about the perspective and the hollow atmosphere that brings something a little clever to these ordinary objects. Flickr user LaTur went hunting around the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria for this shot. EXIF….
Today’s photo was taken at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria over the weekend by Flickr user andertho. The photo was taken on a Nikon D50, and you can see the EXIF data here….
Written by DCist Contributor Alexa Steinberg. Past the girls with their Longchamp bags and sunglasses in January, down the entire traverse of King Street in Old Town Alexandria, is the Torpedo Factory, where the Multiple Exposures Gallery, on the third floor, is showcasing their 20th anniversary photography exhibition. While having 83 gallery spaces in one building, as the Torpedo Factory does, is incredible, one cannot help but wish there was more space to showcase good…
