Last Call!

Cyanotype & Solar Printing Workshop

Sunday, October 30, 12:00 - 3:00pm

OR

Sunday, November 6, 12:00 - 3:00pm 

Sign up today for the Cyanotype & Solar Printing Workshop with Eliza Clifford this Sunday! 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.  

What is Cyanotype? This printing method is a photographic process that creates cyan-blue prints by mixing two chemicals to create a light-sensitive solution that is coated onto paper and expose in natural light which creates beautiful silhouetted images in blue and white.

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This Friday

Curator-Led Tours

Every Friday at 12pm 

Curious to know more about our museum and exhibitions? Join MoCA Arlington curators Blair Murphy and Amanda Jirón-Murphy on Fridays at 12pm for free guided tours of our fall exhibitions Assembly 2022: Time and Attention and Lex Marie: Let Them Kids Be Kids.  

This program is free. Registration is not required. 

The Practice: Yoga for Creative Minds  

Fridays at 9am 

The Practice: Yoga for Creative Minds is a 60-minute yoga session on Friday mornings in the Tiffany Gallery where you will move your body towards a presence with your inner creative and open yourself to what inspires. After a 50-minute flowing session, you will be guided to doodle, draw, and write — enabling your creative mind to guide your hand in self-expression! 

Participants should bring their own mat, water bottle, and notebook with writing utensil. This program is $20 per participant, per session. Registration via EventBrite at the link below.

Yoga Registration

In the Galleries

Assembly 2022: Time & Attention

a national biennial

October 1 - December 18

Featured artists: Merryn Omotayo Alaka & Sam Fresquez (AZ), MyLoan Dinh (NC), Erika Lynne Hanson (AZ), Priya Suresh Kambli (MO), Cecilia Kim (VA), Vincent Miranda (FL), Kelly Taylor Mitchell (GA), Courtney Puckett (NY), Trina Michelle Robinson (CA), Mandy Cano Villalobos (MI), and Sandy Williams IV (VA)

Assembly, the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington’s biennial exhibition program, highlights the material and conceptual trends being explored by contemporary artists in the present moment.The artists in Assembly 2022: Time and Attention demonstrate a deep commitment to process and craft, which is channeled through materials and into research. Through these carefully considered approaches, they are creating work that speaks to the present moment in ways that feel both urgent and timeless. In what feels like a moment of ongoing, even perpetual, crisis they bring this focused approach to issues that are fundamental to contemporary American life, including questions of identity, history, immigration, place, and belonging.

The artists included in Assembly 2022: Time & Attention were selected through a multi-step process. Curators from peer organizations across the country were invited to nominate two artists to be considered and, from the group of nominated artists, twelve were invited to participate in the exhibition by Blair Murphy, the Museum’s Curator of Exhibitions.

Lex Marie: Let Them Kids Be Kids 

October 1 - December 18

Let Them Kids Be Kids uses the playground as a framework with which to examine the joys of Black childhood and the ways in which issues of race and equity are inscribed on the site. Employing images from her personal life to examine these ideas, Lex Marie’s newest paintings and installations address the issue of adultification bias as she makes the case that all children have a right to innocence.

For years, artist Lex Marie has used personal objects and photographs to inspire her compositions. In her newest works, Marie allows viewers to witness scenes of her son Aiden playing from infancy to the present day, in some moments beaming giddily, in other gazing pensively while on a tricycle or a swing set. The paintings incorporate objects salvaged from her son’s early childhood, including socks, superhero costumes and pajamas that serve as compositional elements, or, in the case of her newest installations, as stand-ins for unknown individuals.

In Lex Marie’s work, the personal is political. Although Marie’s perspective is specific to her, it has a universality that resonates well beyond her own experience. Marie’s depictions of her son’s childhood are a visual exploration of the joys and fears understood by anyone raising a Black male child in America.

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