Come to the Workhouse Arts Center on September 11 for the   two year anniversary celebration! Over the past two years, we have enjoyed serving the DC metro area as a vibrant arts community featuring more than 100 studio artists, art studios and galleries, arts education, live music and theatrical performances, film and wine festivals and numerous other fabulous events. Please join us as we escape to another exciting year of arts and entertainment!

This free, all-day open house will feature children's events in the Kid Zone, artist demos and much more!  Don't rush off, because the 2nd Saturday Art Walk allows you continue the fun as we stay open late until 9pm! 2nd Saturday festivities include opening receptions campus-wide, where guests will have the opportunity to meet more than 100 of our studio artists and featured artists of the month!

Date(s): 9/11/2010

Time: 11:00am to 7:00pm

For more information visit  http://workhousearts.org/events/309/2nd-anniversary-celebration-of-the-workhouse-arts-center-september-11!/

Workhouse Arts Center 

9601 Ox Road
Lorton, VA 22079 

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Come join more than 125 Workhouse artists as all of our studio buildings stay open late from 6-9pm on September 11 for the 2nd Saturday Art Walk! You will experience at first hand the vitality, creativity and diversity of the artists who make up this unique arts community.  Each 2nd Saturday Art Walk will feature receptions in all Workhouse buildings, where guests can meet each building's featured artist(s) of the month!

In conjunction with the Art Walk, a reception in W-16 from 6-7pm will bring together artists, the general public and members of the Association of Interior Design Professionals (AIDP) to talk about incorporating original art into interior designs.  The interior design professionals will visit the artist studios with their clients and other interested parties during Art Walk hours.

The partnership between the Workhouse Arts Center and the AIDP encourages a Merger of Art and Design...to create...MAD Artists! The AIDP reception is the perfect time view the MAD! Artist Vignette, a room setting displayed in W-16 and created through the partnership of an AIDP member and the Workhouse MAD! Artist of the Month. NEW! Visitors can also meet the Designer’s Choice Artist of the Month!

Also join us in Gallery W-16 during this 2nd Saturday Art Walk to celebrate the opening of the new Workhouse Artists Association and the Workhouse Art Guild exhibition. This exhibit will be on display July 7- August 1 in Gallery W-16, 1st Floor.

Don't forget to pick up your Workhouse Passport to chronicle your adventures! 

Date(s): 9/11/2010

Time: 6pm to 9pm

Venue: Campus-wide

Workhouse Arts Center 

9601 Ox Road
Lorton, VA 22079

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Since their beginning, more than two years ago, the inspiration of Avant-Folk has been exploring new ways to compose music with string instruments. Recently, the incorporation of acoustic percussion gave the group the rhythm support needed to liberate the strings to unlimited textures by adding strong groove sounds. The group found its roots in different contemporary styles and musical traditions that have been part of the musical background of each member, thus Avant-Folk propose a peculiar way to bring together electric and acoustic stringed instruments and percussion, with authentic experimentation and creativity with sound.

Avant-Folk includes:

Eblen Macari.- Acoustic guitar and Jarana jarocha:  Macari has a 30 year career that has developed a unique and personal style for creating music, mixing Middle East rhythms, ambient soundscapes and contemporary modal harmony with his 8 and 6 string guitars, mexican jarana and electronic devices. He has composed original music for documentaries, films, tv series, museums, archeological sites and planetariums.  He has traveled around the world playing with his group Eblen Macari Trio, He has produced 13 CDs.

Mauricio Sotelo.- Chapman Stick, and 12 string acoustic guitar: He is a member of the group Cabezas de Cera, a progressive rock band from Mexico, in which he plays several string instruments. He has developed a personal way to play and process the instruments created by his brother and drummer of CDC, Francisco Sotelo. With this band he has recorded 5 albums has performed in festivals around Europe, Asia, South and North America. Recently, the band released a DVD recorded live in 2009 at the prestigious North East Art Rock Festival. 

Kabalán Macari.- Cajón Peruano, Darbuka and Pandero Jarocho: This young percussionist has different projects in Mexico City and most of the time is part of the group of his father “Eblen Macari Trio”.

Chapman Stick artist Rob Martino (http://robmartino.com) will open for Avant-Folk.  He recently released his debut CD, “One Cloud”.  Heavily influenced by progressive and art rock artists such as Jethro Tull, Rush, Marillion, Genesis, Kate Bush and Gentle Giant, Rob has aspired to incorporate similar intricate harmonic and melodic aspects to his playing style.  Rob is based in the Fredericksburg, Virginia area.

Admission $15 at the door.  Attendees are encouraged to bring a small folding chair.

This all ages event will be held at 7:30 PM at:

The Soundry

316 Dominion Road
Vienna, VA 22180

The Society of Art Rock (SOAR), a 501(c)3 not-for-profit educational organization, was established in 2004 to advance the education of non-commercial music that mixes elements of classical, jazz, and contemporary rock styles into a musical form called Art Rock.  Further information on SOAR is available at:  www.dc-soar.org.

The SOAR Concert Program is funded in part by the Arts Council of Fairfax County, supported by Fairfax County. Further information on the Arts Council of Fairfax County is available at http://www.artsfairfax.org

For the second year in a row, the Workhouse will feature the exhibition, Poetic Art from September 15 - October 10. It will feature both professional and amateur poets and artists working in collaboration to produce Poetic Art. The work of art will inspire the poet's words, or the poem will inspire the artist's creation.  The public is invited to attend the opening reception on Sunday, September 19 from 2-4pm, where there will be a reading of some of the submitted poems. 

Sgt. Scott Lange Kirkpatrick $1,000 Scholarship 

As part of the Poetic Art exhibition, all Fairfax and Prince William County High School 2009-2010 Juniors are invited to submit up to 3 original poems written in the last year.  All submitted poems will be eligible for consideration for the Sgt. Scott Lange Kirkpatrick $1,000 Scholarship, sponsored by EnviroSolutions, Inc.  All submitted poems will be displayed at the Workhouse during the Poetic Art exhibition from September 15 - October 10.  Please contact Marti Kirkpatrick This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for further information. 

Date(s): 9/15/2010 to 10/10/2010

Venue: Gallery Building 2nd Floor

For more information visit http://workhousearts.org/events/328/poetic-art-exhibition,-september-15--october-10/

Workhouse Arts Center 

9601 Ox Road
Lorton, VA 22079

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The International Children’s Festival is the Premier International Arts Education Experience in the United States. Since 1971, the Festival has brought hundreds of thousands of area children and their families to Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts to experience new cultures and learn about the significance of the arts in our lives, our community, and throughout the world.

The International Children’s Festival is the Premier International Arts Education Experience in the United States. Since 1971, the Festival has brought hundreds of thousands of area children and their families to Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts to experience new cultures and learn about the significance of the arts in our lives, our community, and throughout the world.

Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine is a cinematic journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. As a screen presence, Louise Bourgeois is magnetic, mercurial and emotionally raw. There is no separation between her life as an artist and the memories and emotions that affect her every day. Her process is on full display in this extraordinary documentary. As an artist, Louise Bourgeois has for six decades been at the forefront of successive new developments, but always on her own powerfully inventive and disquieting terms. In 1982, at the age of 71, she became the first woman to be honored with a major retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. In the decades since, she has created her most powerful and persuasive work that has been exhibited, studied and lectured on worldwide. Filmed with unparalleled access between 1993 and 2007, Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine, is a comprehensive and dramatic documentary of creativity and revelation. It is an intimate, human and educational engagement with an artist’s world.

www.zeitgeistfilms.com

Date(s): 9/25/2010

Time: 7:30pm to 9:30pm

Venue: Gallery Building 2nd Floor

For more information visit http://workhousearts.org/events/322/workhouse-film-institute-louise-bourgeois-the-spider,-the-mistress-and-the-tangerine/

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Workhouse Arts Center 

9601 Ox Road
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WHAT:                 Emil de Cou, Virginia Chamber Orchestra Open 40^th Anniversary Season

WHEN:                 Sunday, September 26, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.

WHERE:               Ernst Community Cultural Center

Northern Virginia Community College - Annandale Campus

8333 Little River Turnpike

Annandale, VA  22003

FEATURE:            Themes from the British Isles, including “Enoch Arden” by Richard Strauss, narrated by Gary Sloan, in the premiere of an arrangement for chamber orchestra by Emil de Cou

TICKETS:               Available at door:  seniors and groups, $12; adults, $18

Advance purchase:  seniors and groups, $10; adults, $15

Students admitted free. 

Telephone 703-758-0179

Parking is free.  Complimentary reception will follow.  Additional information is available at www.virginiachamberorchestra.org

The Workhouse Arts Center Ceramics Program is very pleased to present an exhibit from September 29-October 24 of recent work by visiting internationally renowned master potter, Val Cushing. A free closing reception, open to the public, will be held Friday, October 22 from 7-9pm. Mr. Cushing will host a talk and slide show presentation that evening.

Workshops with Val Cushing 

In conjunction with the exhibition, the Workhouse will offer workshops for all skill levels led by Mr. Cushing entitled, Finding One's Path in Clay.  The workshops will be held in Gallery Building W-8 on Saturday, October 23 and Sunday, October 24 from 10am-4pm. During the weekend, he will demonstrate and discuss the process of working with clay, and learning to develop a methodology about how to ideate and find self direction with your own work. Focus will be on using the potter's wheel as a tool and vehicle for expression and incorporating one's own ideas and interpretation of the world around us into the work. Workshop participants should plan to participate in group discussions, bring a sketch book and a couple examples of work (optional). Participants can register online. Space is limited, early registration is encouraged.

Date(s): 9/29/2010 to 10/24/2010

Venue: Gallery Building 2nd Floor

Workhouse Arts Center 

9601 Ox Road
Lorton, VA 22079

703-584-2900

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