On View Now @ the Museum

Assembly 2024: Horizon Scanning

September 28, 2024 - January 26, 2025

Main Level and Lower Level Galleries

Featured artists: Nyame O. Brown, Everything is Collective, Allegra Hangen, Elisa Harkins, Marnie Ellen Hertzler, Jesús Hilario-Reyes, Cesar Lopez, Jovencio de la Paz, Kenya (Robinson), Benjy Russell, Shelby Shadwell, Keith Tolch, Lily Xie, and X

Curated by Blair Murphy and Jared Packard

In a time of multiple, overlapping, and seemingly perpetual crises, the 2024 iteration of MoCA Arlington’s national biennial brings together artists whose work can help us grapple with our tumultuous present by offering strategies to navigate and reimagine the future.

Marisa Stratton: You Will Never Be Forgotten

September 28, 2024 - January 26, 2025

Wyatt Resident Artist Gallery

Marisa Stratton is a painter whose work explores contemporary portraiture in the context of screens. Marisa holds a BFA in Communication Arts with a minor in Painting + Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has shown in multiple group exhibitions including Virginia MoCA, (Virginia Beach, VA), Hamiltonian Artists (Washington, DC) and the Delaware Contemporary (Wilmington, DE). Stratton has been featured in New American Paintings and currently teaches painting at Georgetown University.

Best in Class: MoCA Arlington Artist Instructors

October 5, 2024 - January 26, 2025

Jenkins Community Gallery

Featured Artists: arah Emily Balough, Joey Enríquez, Jade Fiedtkou-Leonard, Jason Horowitz, Melanie Kehoss, Stephanie Lane, Molly McCracken, and Lindsay Mueller

Since its founding in 1974, MoCA Arlington has been committed to connecting the community to contemporary art and artists. The museum’s extensive education program, which includes programs for children and adults, is core to this mission. Classes and workshops take place at the museum and, since January of 2024, at MoCA Arlington’s new Innovation Studio + Store in National Landing. Through partnerships with community organizations, schools, and universities, MoCA Arlington also hosts classes, workshops, and enrichment programs across northern Virginia.

All of MoCA Arlington’s educational programs are led by experienced artist instructors. Through their talent and dedication, MoCA Arlington is able to offer instruction in a wide range of media, from drawing and painting to photography and ceramics. In Best of Class, MoCA Arlington is proud to highlight a selection of work created by some of these artist instructors as part of their own artistic practices.

Class Registration closes on Sunday!

We have spaces left in these two classes, so sign up today before registration closes on Sunday!

Intro to Oils: Landscapes & Botanicals

@ MoCA Arlington in Virginia Square

Fridays

Artist Instructor: Lindsay Mueller

10/11/24 - 12/6/24 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

8 Sessions

Smartphone Photography

@ Innovation Studio at National Landing Thursdays

Artist Instructor: Jason Horowitz

10/10/24 - 10/24/24 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM

3 Sessions

More about the artist instructors:

Lindsay Mueller is an artist and arts educator based in Arlington, VA. Mueller received a BFA in Painting and a BA in Psychology from Boston University, and she is currently working towards an MFA in Visual Arts at American University. Mueller’s paintings and drawings consider human relationships to local landscape, often emphasizing chromatic inventiveness, ambiguous spaces, and moments of connection through mark making. Since moving to Virginia in 2019, she has exhibited her work at galleries including Gallery B in Bethesda, Brentwood Arts Exchange, and the Katzen Rotunda at American University. In 2023 she received the Bethesda Painting Young Artist award, and she is a recipient of the Carol Bird Ravenal Art Award for artistic research.

Jason Horowitz is an artist who lives and works in Arlington, VA. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the US and abroad, including the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center. He has also received several grants including an Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer's Fellowship, a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Individual Fellowship, and a Franz and Virginia Bader Fund Grant. His practice explores ways to engage with and interpret the world through photography from medium format black and white to abstracted still-life images of food to close-ups of people in the studio.

All Kids + Teen Classes

All Adult Classes + Workshops

Next Week! MoCA on the Move @ Met Park

MoCA on the Move @ Met Park: Fall Fun Family Series

Sundays / 10am-1pm

Met Park (1331 S Elm St.)

Free. No Registration Required.

Join us Sundays for live music, hands-on art making, bubbles, chalk and art fun in the park for the whole family and for all levels of experience. 

More info!

MoCA on the Move @ Met Park: Fall Art Series

Thursdays / 4:30pm-6:30pm

Met Park (1331 S Elm St.)

Free. No Registration Required.

MoCA on the Move is back at Met Park for fall-themed art making. Join us for a variety of activities guided by artists. Jazz @ Met Park will be playing alongside us!

More info!

Mondays + Saturdays | Yoga @ the Museum

Gentle Yoga in the Galleries

Mondays / 6:30pm-7:30pm

$10-$20. Registration required.

Unwind and invite balance in this flowing, gentle yoga class. Our experienced instructors will guide you through a gentle practice suitable for all levels on Monday nights in the beautiful Tiffany Gallery. Start your week on a positive note.

Bring your own mat, a journal, and wear comfortable clothing. No late entry.

Gentle Yoga Registration

Morning Yoga in the Galleries

Saturdays / 11am-12pm*

$10-$20. Registration required.

Yoga in the Galleries is a 60-minute yoga session designed to inspire and uplift. Hosted in the beautiful Tiffany Gallery every Saturday morning, you will be invited to move your body towards a presence with your inner creative. At the end of each flowing session, you will be invited to journal, doodle, draw or meditate.

Participants should bring their own mat, water bottle, and notebook with writing utensil. No late entry.

Saturday Yoga Registration

Rossana Coffee Truck @ the Museum

Wednesdays / 7am - 12pm

3550 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA 22201

Need a coffee? Visit the museum on Wednesday mornings to treat yourself to Rossana's delicious coffee, beverages, and snacks!

Do you like what we do? We could use your help!

In order for us to keep doing what we do, we need support from individuals like you who understand the value of art and artists in our community.

Donate today to help us continue our work in our 50th anniversary year.

Donate!

Did you know that MoCA Arlington has two locations?

The Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington (MoCA Arlington)

3550 Wilson Blvd.

Arlington, VA 22201

OPEN:

Wednesday through Sunday from 12-5pm.

Admission is free.

MoCA Arlington's Innovation Studio + Store

525 14th Street S

Arlington, VA 22202

OPEN:

Tuesday through Saturday from 10am-6pm.

Admission + Art-making is free.

Host your private or corporate event at MoCA Arlington!

The Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington makes a unique backdrop for a variety of events, including corporate meetings, client events, cocktail receptions, private dinners, small weddings, retirement celebrations, memorial services, and birthday parties. We welcome events for groups of 10 to 200 guests.

For more information, email [email protected].

Celebrate birthdays with an artist workshop at MoCA Arlington!

Hey kids! Do you have a birthday coming up on your calendar? Have your birthday party at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington! Select a fun art project from our special birthday menu, and after an hour-long private art-making workshop, you and the party guests will have time to enjoy cake and refreshments.

For more information, email [email protected].