Join us May 28, at 10:30 for a comedic handing-building ceramics workshop creating a home for your computer mouse or other small household item at Torpedo Factory Art Center.
Artist, Clare Suess will then lead participants in learning hand-building ceramic techniques to construct a lidded vessel out of clay, perfectly fitting your object. The workshop will end with painting and decorating your new vessel.
This workshop is free but space is limited please rsvp with the link below to reserve your spot!
eventbrite.com/e/making-a-mouse-trap-with-artist-clare-suess-tickets-1988122453778
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This seminar is designed through creativity between the Institute for Creative, Arts, and Technology at Virginia Tech, Expressions at Amazon Arlington, and the City of Alexandria’s Office of the Arts.
The Torpedo Factory Art Center is open late this Friday, offering free activities, live music, art workshops, and open artist studios. This month, we’re celebrating Handwork2026, and featuring the diversity of the crafts that define America, bringing compelling stories and underrepresented art and artists into the spotlight.
Thanks to everyone who joined our opening celebration of Alexandria's latest piece of public art. "00:10:00 (The Declaration of Independence)" by Richmond-based artist @sandywilliams_iv is on view outside the Alexandria Circuit Court.
This new temporary artwork asks viewers to contemplate that time and, with it, the meaning of the document to our lives today. The installation represents the 600 seconds that it takes to read the Declaration of Independence as 600 of the artist’s “Time Rulers” cut in stone.
We’re excited to welcome Tara Youngborg as the newest Post Grad Resident to the Torpedo Factory Art Center!
Tara Youngborg is a Maryland-based artist, educator, curator, and arts administrator. She has a BA in Art and Art History from St Mary’s College of Maryland and an MFA in Studio Art from Towson University.
Their installations, video, and interactive electronic artworks are rooted in questions of how our technological processes reflect human experience. They conduct research and collect archival or scientific records, take video and auditory field recordings, and then use technological processes— handwritten computer programs, machine learning, datamoshing, and video or audio editing software—to translate and interpret the site and the technology they are using
🌐 tarayoungborg.com
@tara.youngborg
We were so happy to have Avery Schoenberger in Studio 314 for the past couple of months, as part of our post-grad residency.
Avery uses their art to bring to life the humanity of the queer experience throughout history, giving queer experiences form and face, and enabling their subjects to tell their own stories. Their Residency ends April 30th, so be sure to stop by and chat with them about their work and the history behind it before they leave!
Follow them @schoenbergerart to keep up with their art and find out where they will be next.
Join us tonight for the opening reception of "Sensing Place" 7-10 p.m. on the third Floor, Site 3 of Torpedo Factory Art Center. There will be light refreshments and chances to talk to the artists!
Sensing Place brings together our 2025-26 cohort of Post-Graduate Artists-in-Residence. Together their practices consider place not as a fixed location, but as something remembered, recorded, felt, and activated. These artists all push for a noticing of our surroundings, as they respond to places of personal importance – sometimes even responding to Torpedo Factory Art Center itself. Join the artists for a reception of their work with light snacks and refreshments.
The opening Exhibition will be happening during the Torpedo Factory's 2nd Friday event, so don't forget to check out the other activities happening around the building at the same time!
@sookkyung_arts@jillstauffer.art@micahmeyers_art@themeowingbird
🌸 The Torpedo Factory Art Center is open late, celebrating the cherry blossom season, tomorrow, April 10 🌸
Stop by and pose for a 5-minute portrait by @dinas_doodles
Other activities include:
🏠 Exhibition Opening for Sensing Place
🧑🎨 Open Artist studios
🎵 Koto Musical Performance by Yuriko Gandolfo of the Washington Toho Koto Society.
🏮 Origami Paper Folding with artist Michiko Okuma
🖨️ Printmaking Demo with TFAC artist Samantha Shelton
🎨 USA 250 Poster competition with the Mobile Art Lab
At Torpedo Factory Art Center 7-10 p.m.
🌸 Join us next Friday to celebrate the DMV’s Cherry Blossom season with an evening of art, music, and creative energy. Enjoy origami crafting, a Japanese Koto performance, and the opening of our new exhibition on the 3rd floor.
✨ Something exciting is getting set up ✨
Check out Sensing Place our 2025 Post-Graduate Artists-in-Residence Exhibition on the 3rd Floor (Site 3 ) of the Torpedo Factory Art Center. The Opening Reception is April 10 @ 7-10 p.m.
Sensing Place brings together four former Torpedo Factory Art Center artists-in-residence whose practices consider place not as a fixed location, but as something remembered, recorded, felt, and activated.
@sookkyung_arts@jillstauffer.art@micahmeyers_art@themeowingbird
Thank you to Braden Perryman for a fantastic workshop where we learned about how to make lamps inspired by nature and organic shapes.
Keep an eye out for this months workshop where we learn about Dungeons & Dragons with @openthegatesgaming .
This seminar was designed through creativity between the Institute for Creative, Arts, and Technology at Virginia Tech, Expressions at Amazon Arlington, and the City of Alexandria’s Office of the Arts.
Join @abolart for his Artist Talk at Hillyer Gallery (@iaahillyer ), Saturday, 21, 1 p.m.
While you're there, check out his solo exhibition, which will be open until March 29. This exhibition features works from his Baroque series, inspired by the dynamism and grandeur of Western Baroque and the rich traditions of Eastern miniatures that I have studied since childhood.
Don't forget to stop by his studio (#5) at the Torpedo Factory Art Center to see him at work!
Learn how to pair principles of geometry and logic with visual programming language Rhino+Grasshopper to design unique, organic lamps that draw inspiration from nature with artist and designer Braden Perryman. Participants can customize their assembled lamps by adding color, pattern, and texture to the surface of their lamp.
This seminar is designed through creativity between the Institute for Creative, Arts, and Technology at Virginia Tech, Expressions at Amazon Arlington, and the City of Alexandria’s Office of the Arts.
RSVP at torpedofactory.org/event/marchworkshop26
