Arts News

The Workhouse Arts Center announces their "Featured Artists and Studio Exhibitions" for the month of June. 

The opening reception for all studio shows and featured artists will be held campus-wide in conjunction with the 2nd Saturday Art Walk, June 8, from 6-9 pm.

Join BalletNova Center for Dance for a day of free mini-classes for kids and adults, facility tours, crafts for kids, refreshments and much more!

Classes in: Ballet, Jazz, Dance Cardio, Tap, Contemporary, Hip Hop, and MiKiDo Mixed Martial Arts.

The Arts Council has selected three Fairfax county artists to receive the 2013 Strauss Fellowship grant.   Diane Coburn Bruning, the team of Susan Eder and Craig Dennis, and Rebecca Kamen will each receive $5,000.

Diane Coburn Bruning is an award winning choreographer who has worked with dance, theatre, and opera companies throughout the US and abroad.  She recently moved to Fairfax from New York, and has been collaborating with local  groups including the GMU School of Arts and Washington Operaas well as setting the framework to relocate her company, Chamber Dance Project, to the area.

ArtsSpace Herndon announces two exhibition openings in April.

The juried exhibiton “Mind, Heart, Vision" features paintings, photos, drawings, sculpture, animation and digital art of the class of 2013 at Herndon High School. It is on display at the Post Gallery, from Tuesday, April 9, 2013– Sunday, April 21, 2013.

Morgan Craig will give an artist talk on Thursday, April 18 at 6.30pm for his new exhibition at GRACE. The reception is from 6-8pm. This exhibition is open April 11-May 19.

Philadelphia-based artist Morgan Craig creates large-scale paintings of dilapidated and abandoned interior spaces, often portraying the ruins of urban dwellings, factories, asylums, and penitentiaries. Craig has found inspiration for his work in locations ranging from defunct factories in Detroit, to forbidden nuclear zones in Russia, to restricted industrial islands in Australia. The artist describes these structures as "both repositories and vehicles for memory that profoundly influence culture and identity." Craig's paintings address the demise of the American Dream, as well as the poignant human component of these vacant spaces-the imprint of the men and women who spent the vast majority of their lives working within these now-spent buildings.

Join the artists for the reception and juror’s talk on April 18, 2013; 7 – 9 pm at McLean Project for the Arts (MPA), located on1234 Ingleside Avenue in McLean, VA 22101. The exhibitions are open to the public from April 18 – June 1, 2103.

Sprays, Dust and Aerosols, A Chemical Revolution:
Henrik Sundqvist and David D’Orio
Emerson Gallery

Experience the enchantment of Cinderella!  This fairy tale classic highlights some of the best pre-professional, classical ballet talent in our area, and it includes stunning costumes, beautiful choreography, and good-natured humor.  Don't miss Cinderella and her fairy godmother teach stepsisters, “Haughty” and “Spiteful,” that nice girls finish first!

Classical Ballet Theatre invites you to make a difference as well.  Bring a non-perishable food donation for LINK or expose a younger child to the classical arts at one of our shorter, Children's Series performances.    

The Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival (NVJFF) will celebrate its 13th year of Culture, Community and Chutzpah as it screens 13 films from April 18-28. Presented by the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia and Angelika Film Center & Café at Mosaic, the festival committee previewed more than 70 Jewish-themed or Israeli-made films to comprise this year’s selections. Opening night of the NVJFF is the film Hava Nagila: The Movie, a documentary romp through the history, mystery and meaning of the great Jewish standard that is a musical shorthand for anything Jewish! The opening night dinner-and-film event is Thursday, April 18 at the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia in Fairfax. 

Twelve additional films will screen through Sunday, April 28 at new state-of-the-art boutique cinema, Angelika Film Center & Café at Mosaic in Fairfax. Opening weekend will include the documentary Life in Stills, the romantic comedy Dorfman in Love and the regional premiere of the drama The World is Funny (the film received an unprecedented 15 Ophir nominations, the Israeli Academy Awards®). “In celebration of our 13th (Bar Mitzvah) year, we’ve selected films that demonstrate, illuminate and celebrate the breadth and depth of Judaism’s culture, identity, creativity, diversity and resiliency,” said Dan Kirsch, JCCNV Cultural Arts Director and Film Festival Director. NVJFF is partnering with Angelika Film Center & Café at Mosaic to present this year’s Festival.

Dear Friends of the Arts, Artists, and Arts Administrators,

The Arts Council of Fairfax County invites you to join us on April 11, 2013 between 5:00PM – 6:30PM to support our speakers as they thank our Board of Supervisors for their continued investment in the arts.  

Due to the winter weather storm warning, aka Snowquester, our offices will be closed today on Mar 6, 2013. Please check back tomorrow morning again as we will update our blog. Most importantly, stay stafe and keep off the roads.