Greater Reston Arts Center, 12001 Market St., Suite 103, Reston, 703-471-9242. Open Tues-Sat 11-5pm: Beautiful Virginia Women Artists and the Body, thruJune 11. We are pleased to be part of the statewide celebration of Minds Wide Open: Celebration of Women in the Arts. The exhibition features four Virginia Women Artists, sculptor Elissa Farrow Savos, painter Elizabeth Menges, photographer Victoria F. Gaitán, and photographer Bernis von zur Muehlen. June 24 – August 14: gaps, Juried Sculpture & New Media Exhibition. Cosponsored by GRACE Initiative for Public Art Reston & Washington Sculptors Group. Juror: Vesela Sretenovic, Curator for Contemporary and Modern Art, The Phillips Collection. Wednesday, July 7, 6-7:30pm. Free. Evening Salon with Vesela Sretenovic. Hyatt Regency Reston’s Market Street Bar & Grill, 1800 Presidents Street, Reston Town Center: The Good Earth, Michele Norris, oil on canvas landscape paintings, thru July 26. EXPLORE MORE! Interactive Learning Center; Summer Art Camp — For School Aged Children; Creation Station Summer Camp 2010 — For Preschool Audiences, please call 703.471.9242 for program info, or visit us on the web: www.restonarts.org.
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LibertyTown Arts Workshop, 916 Liberty St., Fredericksburg, VA (540) 371-7255. Open Mon-Thurs 10am-6pm, Fri & Sat 10am-5pm & Sun 12-4pm. Featuring more than 25 unique artist studios with more than 50 working artists. The Main Gallery features new art exhibits every month as well as an Emporium of arts and crafts. In addition to a pottery school, there are adult and children’s classes offered in a wide variety of arts and crafts at LibertyTown. June 4-June 27: A Flash of Inspiration: Photographs by John Earl, Oil Paintings by Elizabeth Butler and Watercolors by Paula Raudenbush. July 2-Aug 29: Bird in Word and Image, Summer Juried Exhibition. Prospectus for this and other shows, directions, class information on the web: www.libertytownarts.com. Email: libertytownarts@verizon.net.
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Loft Gallery, 313 (Upstairs) Mill St., Occoquan, (703) 490-1117. Visit our new website: www.loftgallery.org. Open Tues-Fri 11-4, Sat 11-5, Sun 12-5: Established in 1986. Original fine artwork by local professionals. Wide variety of imagery, media, styles, and genre to include portraiture, landscape, still life, photography, oils, acrylics, colored pencil, graphite, and sculpture. Commissions welcome. Current artists: Thomas Billone, Jewell Pratt Burns, Tony DiFrancesco, Jane Gillette, Lydia Jechorek, Suzanne Jepson, Jan E. Moffatt, Lisa Neher, Susan Lawrence, Gwen Harrison Lockhart, Denise Phalan, Linda Larochelle, Karin Sebolka, Sherry Smith, Patty Ukele, Marcia Weidler, Deena Hunkler-Sanks, Jackie Perry and Deborah Conn. A New Day, June 8- July 4, original paintings by Jan E. Moffatt. July 6 - August 1: original watercolors by Debbie Conn. August 3-September 5: original paintings by Lisa Neher.
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McLean Project for the Arts, 1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean, 703-790-1953. Tues-Fri 10-4, Sat 1-5: Thru June 5: Emerson Gallery, Everybody Knows this is Nowhere: A Photographic and Video Installation by Jeremy Drummond, Atrium and Ramp Galleries, Works by Michael Mansfield. June 17 – July 31: Emerson and Atrium Galleries: Fantastic Journeys, Ramp Gallery, MPA/Corcoran Student Exhibition.
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Workhouse Arts Center, 9517 Workhouse Way, Lorton, 703-584-2900, Visit working artist’s studios Wednesday-Saturday 11 am – 7 pm; Sunday 12-5 pm: Greenspiration and the 2009 MAD Artist! of the Year Exhibition close June 13. Don’t miss the Fiber Arts Invitational: Yard Art – Art at the Yard Exhibition June 16 – July 18! The Workhouse Artists Association/Workhouse Art Guild Exhibitions run monthly throughout the summer from May 5 – June 6, July 7 – August 1, and August 4 – September 5. The Workhouse welcomes the 2009 Collector’s Showcase Best in Show Exhibition: Richard Allnutt and 2nd Annual Juried Photographic Competition, July 21- August 15. Come to Art Under the Arches, August 8 from 12-5pm. Don’t miss the exhibition, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: 100 Years at the Workhouse from August 18 – September 12. Campus-wide opening receptions will be held in conjunction with 2nd Saturday Art Walks, June 12, July 10 and August 14. The Workhouse Film Institute Cinematic Tourist Series: Destination Hawaii! - June 11-13. Join us July 3 for a free and fun Patriotic Picnic! The 2nd Annual Ice Cream Social will be held July 10, benefiting the Workhouse Ceramics Program. More than 130 Workhouse artists exhibit all media in Gallery W-16 and Studio Galleries. Web: www.WorkhouseArts.org.
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Live An Artful Life®, 6474 Main Street, The Plains, 540-253-9797, email: LiveAnArtfulLife@verizon.net. Wednesday – Friday 11 am – 6 pm, Saturday 10 am – 6 pm, Sunday 11 am – 4 pm, often later on Friday and Saturday evenings (call ahead for evening hours if you are coming to one of our 3 fine restaurants). An artful lifestyle gallery gift shop specializing in unique, hand made, artful gifts including jewelry, pottery, glass, handbags, women’s accessories in silk and wool and the fine art paintings of Thomas Neel, Piedmont’s Premier landscape artist. Saturday, June 12, 4 – 7PM Join us for a special showing of Beaded Amulet Purses by the late Lorraine Grant Morton. Lorraine founded the Northern Virginia Bead Society in 1992. She also taught seed beading techniques and created her own patterns for amulet purses. Amulet purses have been used for centuries by people of all cultures to carry herbs, charms, scriptures or something dear to protect them or to aid them in attracting good. Saturday, August 14, Noon – 7 PM: Opening reception for New Work by Jewelry Artist Sarah Rivera. Sarah has added the Keumboo technique to her line of hand made jewelry. Keumboo is an ancient Korean gilding technique used to apply thin sheets of gold to silver. Along with this new technique, Sarah has created some wonderful new designs. Meet the artist and have fun trying on this new line. www.LiveAnArtfulLife.com.
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Zigzag Gallery, 6477 Main Street The Plains, VA (540)253-5364, Wed-Sun 11-5pm & by appt: Zigzag presents group and solo exhibitions of local, regional, and international contemporary artists. A wide variety of media is featured, with special emphasis on Works on Paper. June 10-July 4: Painted Scenes & Boxed Dreams: Recent Work by Teresa Duke and Tia Maggio. A wide array of Paintings by Teresa Duke, which are a nod to the fleeting and transient aspects of life, and to those conditions which are timeless and enduring. Combining color and texture, Tia Maggio’s work reveals the authority of nature’s turbulence or its hushed serenity. ArtistTalk Sat. 19 June 2pm. For July and August Zigzag Gallery will feature a variety of works by well known local artists and craftsmen. Online at: www.zigzagtheplains.com.
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