I was fortunate to get an opportunity to curate a show at The Workhouse Arts Center for July and August.  I decided to feature our over 50 community who are in the Arts at Northern Virginia Community College.

We are lucky enough to have adult learners in nearly every class at NOVA.  Older students come with a tremendous amount of experience and where-with-all.   They are generally very creative and passionately jump into projects.   This mindset is shared to the younger students by their simply being in the room with them.   Their art is often at a high level of quality, craftsmanship and most importantly, concept.  For this reason, it was easy to pull out some examples of what this community has to offer.

The exhibit features the art of JoAnn Ackerman, Britt Conley, D’Arcy Dean, Ireen Cleaton-Jones, Stephen Kohashi, Miyuki Matsuoka, Elizabeth Noguchi, Amy Reed, Tuyen Stricker, Wesley Walker and Dick White.  This is a mix of students and varying art department assistants from Ceramics, Fine Art and Photography.

The show will be up for another second Saturday art walk night in August.  Please come down to see the show and all of the other artists at The Workhouse Arts Center.

To contact any of the artists email Britt Conley at bconley@nvcc.edu.