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02/20/2025

✨ March150 Panel Sales have been extended till Tuesday, February 25 ✨

Panels are on short supply so get them Quickly! March150, Torpedo Factory Art Center's annual special exhibition and art sale, returns with all proceeds going to support events and programming. This year, we are celebrating March150 at Canal Center's premiere gallery (11 Canal Center Plaza) located on the river, north of the Art Center.

Visit our link in bio to learn more and join us in making this year's March150 exhibition the best one yet!

02/19/2025

LESS THAN 40 BLANK PANELS LEFT!

March150, Torpedo Factory Art Center's annual special exhibition and art sale, returns with all proceeds going to support events and programming. This year, we are celebrating March150 at Canal Center's premiere gallery (11 Canal Center Plaza) located on the river, north of the Art Center.

Visit our link in bio to learn more and join us in making this year's March150 exhibition the best one yet!

02/10/2025

Panels for our Annual March150 Exhibition are now available for purchase!

We will be selling panels in person at the Torpedo Factory Art Center until February 18, or when supplies run out (Purchase with card only)

Purchasing a panel will ensure you will be part of the exhibition when you submit your finished artwork to the Art Center between March 13 – March 17, 2025. To celebrate the 15th Anniversary, Panels are $10 for everyone! All artists are encouraged to participate. New this year, the traditional 10”x10” panels will be unprimed so you can choose to prime them or keep the natural wood surface.

For more information about March150, check out our website (link in our bio)

12/13/2024

Carving out Creativity is an experimental series of multimedia immersive exhibitions based on brain activity during the artistic process. The exhibit will occur simultaneously at the 4 locations listed above. Patrons will connect (digitally) to each other by touching stone-carved sculptures both within the location they are in and in the galleries where other artists’ sculptures are exhibited. This connection will happen using experimental haptic and holographic technologies. Our goal is to create new ways for people to envision connections through art across the Commonwealth.
This exhibit is organized by the City of Alexandria’s Office of the Arts and Virginia Tech, including a team of engineers, neuroscientists, and artists from the university’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT).
MORE AT: https://torpedofactory.org/call

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11/23/2024

Carving out Creativity is an experimental series of multimedia immersive exhibitions based on brain activity during the artistic process. The exhibit will occur simultaneously at the 4 locations listed above. Patrons will connect (digitally) to each other by touching stone-carved sculptures both within the location they are in and in the galleries where other artists’ sculptures are exhibited. This connection will happen using experimental haptic and holographic technologies. Our goal is to create new ways for people to envision connections through art across the Commonwealth.
This exhibit is organized by the City of Alexandria’s Office of the Arts and Virginia Tech, including a team of engineers, neuroscientists, and artists from the university’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT).
MORE AT: https://torpedofactory.org/call

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11/11/2024

Carving out Creativity is an experimental series of multimedia immersive exhibitions based on brain activity during the artistic process. The exhibit will occur simultaneously at the 4 locations listed above. Patrons will connect (digitally) to each other by touching stone-carved sculptures both within the location they are in and in the galleries where other artists’ sculptures are exhibited. This connection will happen using experimental haptic and holographic technologies. Our goal is to create new ways for people to envision connections through art across the Commonwealth.

This exhibit is organized by the City of Alexandria’s Office of the Arts and Virginia Tech, including a team of engineers, neuroscientists, and artists from the university’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT).

MORE AT: https://torpedofactory.org/call

10/16/2024

Free, Three-Month Residencies with Stipend
The Torpedo Factory Art Center Post-Graduation Residency is a competitive juried program that provides meaningful support and a three-month term studio space in the nation’s longest continually operated community of publicly accessible artists’ studios in a converted industrial space.

The 2025 Post-Graduation Residency offers four term opportunities:

February – April 2025
May – July 2025
August – October 2025
November 2025 – January 2026

(Image: detail from Naomi Lee performance)

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10/16/2024

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is changing the landscape of all industry, including the arts. Should artists embrace, feel comfortable with, or reject AI? Is AI a tool for good, or a threat to creative ownership? Hear from three leading experts in the field of arts and technology, patents, and copyright, moderated by Phyllis Serbes of Pantheon AI, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting human creativity and foster relationships with generative AI. Discussion begins at 6:30pm. This discussion is Free with no RSVP required.

Presenters include:

Ben Knapp, PhD, Executive Director, The Virginia Tech Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT)

Christian Hannon, Senior Patent Attorney at the Office of Policy and International affairs office in the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Karl W. Means, Esq., Counsel in the Intellectual Property Practice at Miles & Stockbridge, P.C. and presenter from the Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts


There will be time for a Q&A from the audience. This discussion shall be immediately followed by a performance by Laptop Orchestra in Waterfront Park as part of the City’s Site See public art program.


This program is presented in partnership with the City of Alexandria’s Office of the Arts and Del Ray Artisans, with collaborative support from the Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology at Virginia Tech (ICAT), the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Pantheon AI, and the Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts (WALA).

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is changing the landscape of all industry, including the arts. Should artists embrace, feel comfortable with, or reject AI? Is AI a tool for good, or a threat to creative ownership? Hear from three leading experts in the field of arts and technology, patents, and copyrig...

07/06/2024

Tomorrow is the last day to see Shakespeare's Garden in the Target Gallery!

Meander through Shakespeare’s Garden to experience his works through immersive imagery and soundscapes. Explore the garden’s multiple layers of rich sound through ambient Garden soundscapes, and step into the texts of Shakespeare to hear recordings of his sonnets, soliloquies, and scenes reimagined and performed by Virginia Tech students.

For more information, visit https://www.alexandriava.gov/arts/innovation-creativity.

02/02/2024

LESS THAN 100 BLANK PANELS LEFT!

March150, Torpedo Factory Art Center's annual special exhibition and art sale, returns with all proceeds going to support events and programming. This year, we are celebrating March150 in a new location: Canal Center's premiere gallery (11 Canal Center Plaza) located on the river, north of the Art Center. This location is a new hub for cultural and artistic events in Alexandria and will provide visitors with a larger space to view works made by March150 artists!

Visit our link in bio to learn more and join us in making this year's March150 exhibition the best one yet!

01/15/2024

Blank panels for our 14th annual March150 exhibition are now available for purchase! All blank panels are $15 each. To purchase a panel, stop by Torpedo Factory Art Center. For more information about March150, check out our website (link in our bio)

March150, Torpedo Factory Art Center's annual special exhibition and art sale, returns with all proceeds going to support Torpedo Factory Art Center. This year, celebrate the 14th Annual March150 at a new location: Canal Center premiere Gallery (44 Canal Center Plaza) located on the river, north of the Art Center. This location is a new hub for cultural and artistic events in Alexandria and will provide March150 artists and visitors with a larger space to display and view the art. Join us in making this year the biggest March150 exhibition yet!