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Art in Public Spaces Program
The Art in Public Spaces (APS) program serves as the community outreach arm for the Torpedo Factory Art Center (TFAC) by providing rotating exhibition and educational program opportunities. APS does this by utilizing the public space on all three floors of the art center. This program works with DC-metro area organizations in an effort to reach out to new and neglected groups, expanding the diversity of the audience to the TFAC. This program is managed by the Target Gallery, the national exhibition space of the Torpedo Factory Art Center.. |
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Exhibition: August 11th – 28th, 2011 • Site 2 & 3 Galleries
Reception: August 11th, 6-9pm
Synergy features the 2011 TFAA Visiting Artists. View the artists’ artworks created during their residency and read artists’ interviews.
Find out more about the Visiting Artist Program:
www.torpedofactory.org/VAP
Featured Artists:
Mark Thomas Anderson (Arlington, VA)
M. Chava Evans (Baltimore, MD)
Allison Long Hardy (Woodbridge, VA)
Katie Latona (Champaign, IL)
Heather McCaw (Washington, DC)
Emily Moorhead (Cincinnati, OH)
Linda Morrell (Castleton, NY)
Liza Myers (Brandon, VT)
Drew Parris (Stevensville, MD)
Fierce Sonia (Alexandria, VA)
Kazaan Viveiros (Alexandria, VA). |
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Exhibition: September 1st -25th, 2011 • Site 2 & 3 Galleries
Reception: September 8th, 6-9pm
Three of The Art League School’s summer classes have come together to exhibit their work at the Site 2 and Site 3 Galleries. This exhibition features work from Lisa Schumaier’s life-size papier mâché class, Jimmy Powers’ stained glass class, and a childrens’ activity led by Steve Prince and Mayor Bill Euille.
The Art League, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) charitable and educational nonprofit organization. The Art League develops artists through education, exhibition, and a stimulating, supportive environment, while sharing the experience of the visual arts with the community. |
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Exhibition: October 6th – 30th, 2011 • Site 2 & 3 Galleries
Reception: October 13th, 6-9pm
In connection with the Target Gallery’s exhibition, Masks, the gallery and the Friends of the Torpedo Factory Art Center are working with the organization Partnership for a Healthier Alexandria (PHA) to help raise awareness about the importance of art as therapy for mental illness. Highlighting National Mental Health Awareness Week, October 2-8, 2011, the Torpedo Factory Art Center will have on exhibit in Site 2 and 3 Galleries a selection of photographs from the PHA exhibition “Art Uniting People – a celebration of creativity and mental health” and a series of masks made during a mask-making workshop, which was led by a team of art therapists from Creative Wellbeing Workshops. |
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Exhibition: November 5th -27th, 2011 • Site 2 & 3 Galleries
Reception: November 10th, 6-8pm, during 2nd Thursday Art Night
This exhibition will showcase the work of DC youth that are part of Critical Exposure, an organization that teaches youth how to use the power of photography and their own voices to become effective advocates for school reform and social change. The students and their images have helped partnering organizations and campaigns secure more than $400 million in new funding for underfunded schools and facilities in DC, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. They have also worked to address other issues impacting youth, including job training opportunities, teen pregnancy, and DC’s dropout crisis.
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Exhibition: December 1st – 31st. 2011 • Studio 9, First Floor
Reception: December 8th, 6-9pm, during 2nd Thursday Art Night
The Torpedo Factory Art Center presents HearSee, a collection of small works by the Torpedo Factory Artist Association’s (TFAA) non-resident artists. HearSee features work about our five senses by exploring how we interpret and understand the world around us. This exhibition challenges artists and visitors to think about their senses in a new way. |
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Exhibition: January 12 - February 5, 2012 • Located throughout all 3 floors
Reception: January 12, 6-8pm, during 2nd Thursday Art NIght
Connectivity: Threads of Community explores the relationships artists create over a lifetime and how these relationships influence their art. The selected works represent the three aspects of human relationships – the self, the small group, and the larger community 'Tying' it all together, Ishknits will yarn bomb one of the Torpedo Factory Art Center’s original torpedoes.
Selected Artists include: Anne Biss (UK), Valerie Goodwin (FL), Ann Harwell (NC), Jesse Hemmons for Ishknits (PA), Sandra Lauterbach (CA), Gwen Mayer (CA), Dindga McCannon (NY), Teresa Paschke (IA), Yumiko Reynolds (UK), Kevan Rupp Lunney (NJ), Judy Tadman (UK), Eileen Williams (MD), and New Image Artists - B.J. Adams, Mary Beth Bellah, Jeanne Benson, Sara Brown, Candace Edgerley, Lesley-Claire Greenberg, Catherine Kleeman, Verena Levine, Dominie Nash, Sue Pierce, Ginny Smith, Sandra Woock (DC).
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Exhibition: February 9 - 26, 2012 • Studio 9, First Floor
Reception: Februaray 9th, 6-8pm, during 2nd Thursday Art NIght
This exhibition featured handmade valentines by Torpedo Factory artists.
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Exhibition: May 10 - 31, 2012 • Studio 9, First Floor
Reception: May 10th, 6-8pm, during 2nd Thursday Art NIght
Click here to see the artwork
This exhibition aims to raise discussion on iPhoneography, a movement that is transitioning from solely a social media into a fine-art form of its own right. The exhibition will be in the main hall of the Torpedo Factory Art Center, on the first floor.
The show juxtaposes fifteen digital or film photographs of established fine-art photograhpers from the Torpedo Factory with fifteen iPhoneographs, the majority of which comes from P1xels, a photo group based in California that is using the iPhone as their chosen vehicle of self-expression and creation.
Selected Artists: Jim Steele, Maureen Minehan, Min Enghauser, Craig Sterling, Michael Borek, Pete McCutchen, Karen Keating, Fran Livaditis, Elodie Hunting, Hans Borghorst, Paul Moore, Maia Panos, Therese Brown, Butow Maler, Jose Chavarry, Glenn Homann, Ramona Gillentine, James Clarke and Knox Bronson. |
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