Join Mason Exhibitions and the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center on November 15, 6-8pm at Mason Exhibitions Arlington for a book launch of two authors, Megan Doney's Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir  and Amanda Newell, Postmortem Say.

This event is in collaboration with Faces and Figures: Identity Through Printmaking Between South Africa and DC. Themes of the exhibition respond to violence, reconciliation, and the spirit of Ubuntu (I am because we are).

Mason Exhibitions Arlington is located at 3601 Fairfax Drive, Arlington VA, across the street from the Virginia Square Metro station, and paid street parking is available.

Please email Alissa Maru with questions/concerns (mailto: amaru@gmu.edu)
Free and Open to the Public

About the Books

Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir

After surviving a school shooting, English professor Megan Doney was traumatized and adrift. Rather than hardening her heart and life, she wrote Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir. An insightful response to American gun violence and illusions of public and private safety, this memoir is about how to live with an open heart, alive to luck, learning, and love.

Postmortem Say

Love and death, poetry's immortal themes, are interwoven throughout Amanda Newell's Postmortem Say. Death is everywhere-in the fields and forests, on darkened roads, in the delivery room-but there is also love, the kind that defies convention and outlasts death itself. These poems confront, without flinching, hard truths about what it means to be a woman, a mother, a wife, and a lover.

-Sue Ellen Thompson, author of Sea Nettles: New & Selected Poems

The third annual Arlington Art Walk is a self-guided tour connecting local galleries, artist studios and cultural events. 

At Mason Exhibitions Arlington, printmaker Fleming Jeffries will lead a ‘Kitchen Lithograph’ make and take-home craft activity, and a live DJ will be onsite. All materials will be provided

Mason Exhibitions Arlington is located at 3601 Fairfax Drive, Arlington VA, across the street from the Virginia Square Metro station, and paid street parking is available.

Please email Alissa Maru with questions/concerns (mailto: amaru@gmu.edu)

This year’s Art Walk coincides with the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington’s (MoCA) daylong celebration of the National Biennial Exhibition, fall shows and Art After Hours. Enjoy a variety of activities, including Fred Schnider Gallery, Made in Arlington Market at MoCA, Mason Plaza activities and entertainment at Northside Social Arlington. Don't miss the courtyard video screens at Mason Exhibitions showcasing the 40th anniversary of Arlington Public Art installations.

For more information and a downloadable map, visit the Arlington Art Walk webpage.

Check out the Innovation Economy Podcast featuring Alissa Maru, Associate Curator at Mason Exhibitions Arlington and Susan Soroko, Director, Creative Economy  //  Strategic Partnerships at Arlington Economic Development

Join us on Saturday, September 21, 2-5pm at Mason Exhibitions Arlington for the opening reception of Faces and Figures: Identity Through Printmaking Between South Africa and DC with a documentary celebrating the Black printmakers of DC.

Featured Documentary:

BLACK PRINTMAKERS OF WASHINGTON DC
PERCY B. MARTIN & MICHAEL B. PLATT

We'll be joined with filmmaker Susan Goldman, artists Percy Martin, Carole Beane- wife of Michael Platt, and Artist Proof Studios.

Mason Exhibitions Arlington is located at 3601 Fairfax Drive, Arlington VA, across the street from the Virginia Square Metro station, and paid street parking is available.

Please email Alissa Maru with questions/concerns (mailto: amaru@gmu.edu)
Free and Open to the Public

Run of Show:

2-2:30- See exhibition, enjoy food, mingle.

2:30-3pm- Introduction from Susan Goldman and screening of film

3-3:30- moderated discussion, Percy Martin, Carol Beane, Susan Goldman and (hopefully) artists from Artist Proof Studio (zoom), and 5 artists in Black DC exhibition

3:30-4pm- Q/A and final thoughts, promotion of programs and other printmaking activities

Join us on Monday, March 18, 5-7pm for an Artist Reception in Buchanan Hall Atrium Gallery of Mason's Fairfax Campus. Paid visitor parking is available in Mason Pond Parking Deck. Campus Map here.

Artists Dongpei He and Kit-Keung Kan will offer Chinese Brush Painting and Calligraphy Demonstrations during the reception, and light food/beverages will be served.

Roots and Reflections: Contemporary Chinese Artists in DC is a group exhibition of Chinese American artists who have been selected from members of The Chinese Culture and Art League of Washington DC. The artists were originally from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong and now live and work in the Greater Washington Area.