Call for Proposals: SOLOS 2023

Application Deadline: January 6, 2023

Notification Date: February 2023

Exhibition Dates: Between April and December 2023

Application Fee: None

Guest Jurors

Nekisha Durrett, artist, Washington, DC

Betsy Johnson, assistant curator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC

Jova Lynne, director, Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington is currently accepting proposals for SOLOS 2023, a series of solo exhibitions by Mid-Atlantic artists. Contemporary artists living or working in the Mid-Atlantic region are invited to propose solo exhibitions to take place in one of the Museum’s gallery spaces. Proposals are accepted through an open call and selected by guest jurors, in consultation with Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington staff. The exhibitions selected for SOLOS 2023 will take place across multiple exhibition seasons, rather than happening simultaneously. They will last 6-8 weeks and take place between April and December of 2023. Click the link below for more information and to apply.

Call for Proposals

Baltimore Studio Visit Day

Saturday, November 19 from 10am to 5pm

MoCA Arlington’s Collectors Group is inviting you to visit the studios of four of Baltimore's most exciting contemporary artists on Saturday, November 19! Program participants will get a rare opportunity to talk with artists Amy Boone-McCreesh, Alex Ebstein, Jerrell Gibbs and Jackie Milad and view works in progress before they are debuted at international galleries and museums. A chartered mini bus will drive participants from MoCA Arlington to Baltimore, MD with a self directed lunch at Whitehall Mill in between studio visits. Registration required.

Baltimore Studio Visit Day Registration

Cyanotype and Solar Printing Workshop

Sunday November 20 from 2pm to 5pm

Join Eliza Clifford this Sunday for Cyanotype & Solar Printing! In this workshop, participants will learn the process of cyanotype printing, experiment with printing on alternative substrates, and learn how to create layers using variation of contact printing and the wet cyanotype technique. Just a few spots are left!

Workshop Registration

ARLINGTON COLLABORATION: Avant Bard's Scripts in Play Festival

The Figs by Doug Robinson

Friday, November 18, at 7:30pm // Saturday, November 20, at 2pm

MoCA Arlington is pleased to host Arlington’s Avant Bard Theatre company for its Scripts in Play Festival! Join Avant Bard and Randy Baker for staged readings of The Figs by Doug Robinson in the Tiffany Gallery. Audience members are invited to provide feedback and perspectives to the playwright after the initial reading on Friday. Come back for Sunday’s reading to see if the playwright made your suggested changes. This program is free. Registration is encouraged.

About The Figs

The Figs is a very loose adaptation of a 19th century Bavarian folk tale of the same name. The Figs is a play about the nature of storytelling and the tellers of stories. With a Mad King obsessed with figs, a headstrong Princess in love with an innkeeper, a boy whose only friend is a swan, and a storyteller with many tricks up their sleeve, The Figs is a call for audiences to remember the wonder held inside a good story.

Avant Bard Registration

Virtual conversation with Mohini Malhotra

Tuesday, November 29, 12 pm

Join MoCA Executive Director Catherine Anchin for a virtual conversation with Mohini Malhotra, art collector and Executive Director of the Shakti arts foundation. Malhotra will share the vision behind Shakti, an 501c3 that supports women-identifying artists from emerging markets. This program is free. Registration required.

Talk Registration