Torpedo Factory Art Center - Friends of the Torpedo Factory : News and Events

The Friends of the Torpedo Factory Art Center (Friends) is a nonprofit membership organization presenting a variety of arts-related programs and events in collaboration with the Torpedo Factory Art Center, one of Alexandria’s best resources for the arts.

Through your support, the Friends help make art an integral part of the community. We do this by sponsoring programs and events that both bring art to the community and connect the community to art.

UPCOMING EVENT: Thursday, May 29, 7pm
Tatyana Schremko: Ice and Snow Sculpture Presentation
Performance Art and Lecture Series
FREE and Open to the Public

Tatyana Schremko, Torpedo Factory Art Center sculptor, will present images from her experiences in China at the 2008 Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival where she participated in both the Ice and Snow Sculpture Competitions.

The Harbin festival is one of the most famous winter festivals, and attracts tourists as well as competitors from all over the world. Images will be shown not only of the entries in both the ice and snow events, but also of the magnificent ice architecture which the city does every year for this event.

Harbin, near the Siberian border, is the capital of Heilongjang province and is the most northeastern major city in China. Since 1898, when the Chinese Eastern Line of the Trans-Siberian Railway reached Harbin, the city has been an international center, showing strong Russian and European influences. The beautiful Songhua river flows through the center of the city, and this frozen waterway plays a central part in the festival.

Performance Art and Lecture Series with Jane Franklin Dance
The Friends presented a free performance on April 16th from the noted Northern Virginia dance company Jane Franklin Dance. The dance group incorporated excerpts from recent collaborations "Sound Walk," "Hand Hold," and "Branch" and included a preview of upcoming premier work. Jane Franklin Dance celebrates movement and makes dance accessible to a wide range of audiences through public performances, community engagement, dance education, and collaborations with artists from other disciplines. The company has been presented at numerous state and regional venues including the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Booth Playhouse in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the International Dance Festival in New York City.

Friends of the Torpedo Factory Art Center Artist of the Year
Joyce McCarten was selected as the Friends of the Torpedo Factory Art Center Artist of the Year for 2008. Her painting career began in 1971 when she took classes with Evelyn Turner (an early Torpedo Factory artist). Joyce's greatest influences have come from land forms. When traveling she produces plein air paintings, which are the root of all her abstract work. Lately she has been making mixed media paintings with pieces of metal found in her late husband's garage. Click here to view her works.

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The Torpedo Factory Art Center is operated by the Torpedo Factory Artists' Association. This organization should not be confused with the Friends of the Torpedo Factory Art Center. These two organizations are separate and distinct. They are controlled by two totally independent boards of directors with different policies, procedures and goals.

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