Where: Fort C.F. Smith Park

2411 24th St N, Arlington, VA 22207

Show Hours: Friday, April 14, 2023, 4pm-8pm, Opening Reception 6pm-8pm

Show hours: Saturday, April 15, 2023, 10am-6pm

Show hours: Sunday, April 16, 2023, 10am-4pm

Arlington, VA – The Arlington Artists Alliance is thrilled to return to the lovely historic Hendry House at Fort C.F. Smith Park for “Spring Artful Weekend.” This show is a perennial favorite in the Arlington community, drawing hundreds of visitors annually. Spring Artful Weekend features artwork by 30+ talented Arlington Artists Alliance members and has been an annual show for the Arlington-based arts collective for over 20 years! With a large variety of art genres to choose from—paintings, ceramics, jewelry, sculpture, glasswork, artist’s cards, and more—this show is perfect to kick-off Spring! This event is free and open to the public.

Arlington Artists Alliance is a 200+ member nonprofit organization that creates and promotes local art to enrich the Arlington community. Our artists exhibit year-round at a variety of Arlington community venues, including local government offices, community organizations, local businesses, restaurants and cafes. The Alliance hosts several community-wide annual exhibits, including spring and winter festivals at Fort C.F. Smith, and manages Gallery Underground (voted “Best Art Gallery” in Northern Virginia Magazine’s 2019 & 2021 readers surveys) in the Crystal City Shops at 2100 Crystal Drive, showcasing the work of established and emerging regional artists.

The Arlington Artists Alliance and Gallery Underground are supported in part by Arlington County through Arlington Cultural Affairs, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Amazon, the National Landing BID, JBG Smith, and Sotheby’s.

For more information about this event and other Arlington Artists Alliance programs, members or exhibits, visit http://www.arlingtonartistsalliance.org

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Steena Fullmer and Anna Nazaretz Radjou 

Gallery Underground November 2022

2100 Crystal Drive, Crystal City Shops, Arlington, Virginia 22202

Dates: October 31 – November 25, 2022, Monday–Friday 10am-6pm 

First Friday Opening Reception: Friday, November 4, 2022, 5-8pm

Arlington, Virginia – Gallery Underground

The Focus Gallery presents Offbeat: Mixed Media Art from artists Steena Fullmer and Anna Nazaretz Radjou during the month of November. The works from Ms Fullmer and Ms Radjou deploy glass, found objects, stenciling, fabric, embroidery, acrylic, and printmaking in creating patterns, symbols, and unleashed statements.

From fantastical and fun to weird and wild, the unexpected is showcased in every moment. Ms Fullmer and Ms Radjou came together to share the show after discovering their mutual passion for mixing mediums in unconventional ways. Their synergy extends to style, backgrounds, color, and even their taste for the alternative in music.

Additionally, our Main Gallery features new works by our gallery members, in media including oil, acrylic, pastel, watermedia, sculpture, glass, and ceramics.

Gallery Underground, the juried gallery of the Arlington Artists Alliance, has been named our region’s “Best Art Gallery” in Northern Virginia Magazine’s 2021 reader survey and has received a 2021 “Arlie” as one of Arlington’s “Best Shops” from the readers of ARLNow. Located in the Crystal City Shops at 2100 Crystal Drive, Arlington, Virginia, this visual arts venue showcases the work of established and emerging regional artists.

Each month the gallery changes its entire exhibit and presents a special solo, group or juried show in the Focus gallery and a new show from its talented members in the Main gallery, in many forms: mixed media, paintings, sculpture, glass, and ceramic art. Gallery Underground anchors the visual arts component of Crystal City’s Art Underground and on First Fridays (first Friday of every month) it hosts an opening reception free and open to all.

Gallery Underground is sponsored by the Arlington Artists Alliance, in partnership with the National Landing Business Improvement District, Amazon, and JBG Smith. For more information about the gallery: https://www.arlingtonartistsalliance.org/gallery-underground

Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday, 10am-6pm or by appointment.

Metro accessible, Blue Line, Crystal City stop. Public garages in the Crystal City shops offer unlimited free parking after 4pm and both gallery and garages are fully handicapped accessible.

More Information about Arlington Artists Alliance:

The Arlington Artists Alliance is a vital, energetic, creative force for visual art in Arlington County. The organization encourages and supports both established and emerging artists who work in all forms of visual art, without partiality toward style or trend. Its 150 members also exhibit year-round at a variety of Arlington community local government offices, businesses, restaurants, and cafes. The Arlington Artists Alliance is supported in part by Arlington County through Arlington Cultural Affairs and by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, JBG Smith, and Amazon. For more information about Arlington Artists Alliance members, exhibits, and programs, visit the Alliance website at https://arlingtonartistsalliance.org/.

Attached image: Anna Radjou Zarapoosh and Steena Fullmer Queen of My Heart

Gallery Underground

Headquarters of the Arlington Artists Alliance

Voted “Best Art Gallery” by Arlington Magazine, Northern Virginia Magazine and ARLNow readers

https://www.arlingtonartistsalliance.org/

571-483-0652 

HOURS: Mon-Fri 10AM-6PM or by appointment

GPS Address: 2100 Crystal Drive, Arlington VA

(in the Crystal City Shops)

Mailing Address: 2120-A Crystal Plaza Arcade, Arlington, VA 22202

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Jessica Mickey 

Gallery Underground September 2022

2100 Crystal Drive, Crystal City Shops, Arlington, Virginia 22202

Dates: August 29 – September 30, 2022, Monday–Friday 10am-6pm 

First Friday Opening Reception: Friday, September 2, 2022, 5-7pm

Arlington, Virginia – Gallery Underground’s Focus Gallery in September presents Enjoy the View, a solo show of oil paintings by local artist Jessica Mickey. Sunsets, clouds, water, and traveling are at the top of Jessica’s list of favorite things. And over the past dozen plus years, she has skillfully combined those loves with photorealistic oil painting. Jessica has a knack for capturing moments in time and amazing scenes, sometimes even beyond what a camera could do. In fact, most of her paintings start out as photographs that she then transforms into moody artworks that make you feel as if you could step right into them. While the pandemic halted her travels, it did not stop her from painting and this first ever solo show of hers invites us all on a visual journey of places she’s been, wishes to go, or merely finds beautiful. Jessica Mickey’s solo show encompasses 40 of her landscape paintings and offers us all a brief moment in time to stop and ‘enjoy the view.’

Additionally, our Main Gallery features new works by our gallery members, in media including oil, acrylic, pastel, watermedia, sculpture, glass, and ceramics.

Gallery Underground, the juried gallery of the Arlington Artists Alliance, has been named our region’s “Best Art Gallery” in Northern Virginia Magazine’s 2021 reader survey and has received a 2021 “Arlie” as one of Arlington’s “Best Shops” from the readers of ARLNow. Located in the Crystal City Shops at 2100 Crystal Drive, Arlington, Virginia, this visual arts venue showcases the work of established and emerging regional artists.

Each month the gallery changes its entire exhibit and presents a special solo, group or juried show in the Focus gallery and a new show from its talented members in the Main gallery, in many forms: mixed media, paintings, sculpture, glass, and ceramic art. Gallery Underground anchors the visual arts component of Crystal City’s Art Underground and on First Fridays (first Friday of every month) it hosts an opening reception free and open to all from 5-7pm.

Gallery Underground is sponsored by the Arlington Artists Alliance, in partnership with the National Landing Business Improvement District, Amazon, and JBG Smith. For more information about the gallery: https://www.arlingtonartistsalliance.org/gallery-underground

Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday, 10am-6pm or by appointment.

Metro accessible, Blue Line, Crystal City stop. Public garages in the Crystal City shops offer unlimited free parking after 4pm and both gallery and garages are fully handicapped accessible.

More Information about Arlington Artists Alliance:

The Arlington Artists Alliance is a vital, energetic, creative force for visual art in Arlington County. The organization encourages and supports both established and emerging artists who work in all forms of visual art, without partiality toward style or trend. Its 150 members also exhibit year-round at a variety of Arlington community local government offices, businesses, restaurants, and cafes. The Arlington Artists Alliance is supported in part by Arlington County through Arlington Cultural Affairs and by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, JBG Smith, and Amazon. For more information about Arlington Artists Alliance members, exhibits, and programs, visit the Alliance website at https://arlingtonartistsalliance.org/.

Attached image Jessica Mickey Maldives oil painting

Gallery Underground

Headquarters of the Arlington Artists Alliance

Voted “Best Art Gallery” by Arlington Magazine, Northern Virginia Magazine and ARLNow readers

https://www.arlingtonartistsalliance.org/

571-483-0652 

HOURS: Mon-Fri 10AM-6PM or by appointment

GPS Address: 2100 Crystal Drive, Arlington VA

(in the Crystal City Shops)

Mailing Address: 2120-A Crystal Plaza Arcade, Arlington, VA 22202

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