In Conversation: Sandy Williams IV & Jamelle Bouie

Friday, January 13, 6:00pm

Join artist Sandy Williams IV and Jamelle Bouie, writer and New York Times opinion columnist, for a conversation centered on Williams’ ongoing project the 40 ACRES Archive. Through work that includes archival research, text, video, performance, photographs, permanent historical markers, and the staging of events, the 40 ACRES Archive grapples with the failures of Reconstruction and the way those failures shape contemporary American life and politics, especially through persistent racial inequality. Work from the 40 ACRES Archive is currently on view at the Museum as part of Assembly 2022: Time & Attention.

This event is free and takes place at the Museum. Registration is not required.

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ArtTable at Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington

Exhibition Tours & Networking

Tuesday, January 10, 6pm

ArtTable Members: $10

Guests/ Public: $20

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Join ArtTable at MoCA Arlington for an exclusive tour of Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, to hear more about their mission as a non-collecting museum and what that means for the surrounding art scene. We will hear from Executive Director Catherine Anchin, Curator & Resident Artist/Collector Liaison Amanda Jirón-Murphy, and Curator of Exhibitions Blair Murphy, on what is on the horizon for them, as well as enjoy a private tour of their inaugural biennial exhibition. ArtTable members will be invited to stick around for a networking mingle after the tour is finished as a way to start off the new year meeting new members and reconnecting!

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UPCOMING PROGRAMS

Roundtable: Erika Lynne Hanson, Vincent Miranda, and Kelly Taylor Mitchell

Friday, January 20, 12pm

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Artists Erika Lynne Hanson, Vincent Miranda, and Kelly Taylor Mitchell discuss the role of place in their work, in a virtual conversation moderated by Blair Murphy, Curator of Exhibitions, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington. The artists will discuss how their interest in place intersects with questions of history, family, identity, and capitalism.

Roundtable: MyLoan Dinh, Priya Suresh Kambli, and Trina Michelle Robinson

Tuesday, January 24, 7pm | 4pm PT

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Artists MyLoan Dinh, Priya Suresh Kambli, and Trina Michelle Robinson discuss their work, including their shared interest in familial and cultural history and how it influences their artistic practices in a conversation moderated by Elena Gross, co-director of Berkeley Arts Center.

Do you have a resolution to get creative this year? MoCA Arlington has a wide variety of amazing classes and workshops coming up that are sure to inspire! We have classes for toddlers, children, teens, and adults. Take a look below at just a small selection of courses offered this season and sign up today!

Art Journal Joy (Ages 18+)

Fridays, 10:00-12:00 am, January 13 - February 3

4 sessions | Instructor: Jennifer Wilkin Penick

A Fresh Page: Make your Own Paperback Notebook Workshop (Ages 18+)

Saturday, 12:00-2:00 pm, January 14 

1 session | Instructor: Eliza Clifford

My 1st Portfolio (Ages 2-4 & a caregiver)

Thursdays, 10:00-11:00 am, January 26 - March 23

8 sessions | Instructor: Sarah Loden

Comics & Storytelling (Ages 5-7)

Tuesdays, 4:30-6:00 pm, January 24 - March 14 

8 sessions | Instructor: Eliza Clifford

Fundamentals of Painting (Ages 11-14)

Tuesdays, 4:30-6:00 pm, January 24 - March 21 

8 sessions | Instructor: Cecilia Kim

Drawing: Capturing The Figure (Ages 18+)

Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 pm, January 26 - March 23 

8 sessions | Instructor: Cecilia Kim

Drawing: Focus on Nature (Ages 18+)

Fridays, 10:00-12:00 am, February 10 - March 17

6 sessions | Instructor: Marisa Stratton

Playful Mixed Media Making (Ages 18+ ONLINE COURSE)

Fridays, 11:00-12:30 pm, February 10 - March 10

5 sessions | Instructor: Jennifer Wilkin Penick

Assembly 2022: Time & Attention

October 1 - January 29 (extended)

Participating Artists: Merryn Omotayo Alaka & Sam Fresquez (AZ), MyLoan Dinh (NC), Erika Lynne Hanson (AZ), Priya Suresh Kambli (MO), Cecilia Kim (VA), Vincent Miranda (FL), Kelly Taylor Mitchell (GA), Courtney Puckett (NY), Trina Michelle Robinson (CA), Mandy Cano Villalobos (MI), and Sandy Williams IV (VA)

Assembly, the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington’s biennial exhibition program, highlights the material and conceptual trends being explored by contemporary artists in the present moment. The artists in Assembly 2022: Time and Attention demonstrate a deep commitment to process and craft, which is channeled through materials and into research. Through these carefully considered approaches, they are creating work that speaks to the present moment in ways that feel both urgent and timeless. In what feels like a moment of ongoing, even perpetual, crisis they bring this focused approach to issues that are fundamental to contemporary American life, including questions of identity, history, immigration, place, and belonging

Lex Marie: Let Them Kids Be Kids 

October 1 - January 22 (extended)

Let Them Kids Be Kids uses the playground as a framework with which to examine the joys of Black childhood and the ways in which issues of race and equity are inscribed on the site. Employing images from her personal life to examine these ideas, Lex Marie’s newest paintings and installations address the issue of adultification bias as she makes the case that all children have a right to innocence.

For years, artist Lex Marie has used personal objects and photographs to inspire her compositions. In her newest works, Marie allows viewers to witness scenes of her son Aiden playing from infancy to the present day, in some moments beaming giddily, in other gazing pensively while on a tricycle or a swing set. The paintings incorporate objects salvaged from her son’s early childhood, including socks, superhero costumes and pajamas that serve as compositional elements, or, in the case of her newest installations, as stand-ins for unknown individuals.

In Lex Marie’s work, the personal is political. Although Marie’s perspective is specific to her, it has a universality that resonates well beyond her own experience. Marie’s depictions of her son’s childhood are a visual exploration of the joys and fears understood by anyone raising a Black male child in America.