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We would like to recognize Janet Sommovigo for her many contributions to MPA. Janet comes from a long line of Sommovigo family volunteers and supporters. She serves as an office assistant and in this role, her responsibilities have included direct mailings, document shredding and assisting at the Youth Art Show Openings and MPAartfest. We thank Janet for more than three years of service to MPA and look forward to her continued volunteering.

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MPA is a non-profit visual arts center founded in 1962 to exhibit the work of emerging and established regional artists. The mission of McLean Project for the Arts is to exhibit the work of emerging and established artists from the mid-Atlantic region; to promote public awareness and understanding of the concepts of contemporary art; and to offer instruction and education in the visual arts. In addition to its program of high quality, professionally-curated art exhibitions, MPA presents special traveling exhibitions from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. MPA/Corcoran, an educational partnership, offers art classes for children and adults taught by instructors from the Corcoran College of Art + Design. MPA also presents the Art Reach program for area schools, gallery talks, and day trips to area museums and galleries. All works of art exhibited at MPA are for sale unless otherwise noted.
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Multi-Media Exhibition Fantastic Journeys Runs Through July 31

by McLean Project for the Arts

This summer's juried exhibition is Fantastic Journeys featuring works inspired by the spirit of adventure, exploration or utopian visions.  This multi-media exhibition is juried by Beatrice Gralton, the Evelyn S. Nef Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.  Out of 80 applicants, the selected artists are Sabine Carlson, Joel D'Orazio, Josephine Haden, Jeff Huntington, Rebecca Katz, Isabel Manalo, Lindsey McCulloch, Marise Riddell, Lina Vargas de la Hoz, and Amy Glengary Yang.

In the Ramp Gallery is the MPA/Corcoran Student Art Exhibition featuring the works of adult students of MPA classes taught by instructors from the Corcoran College of Art + Design.

The opening reception for both exhibitions was Thursday,  June17.  See all the photos at http://mpa.smugmug.com/


























Fantastic Journeys juror Beatrice Gralton, the Evelyn S. Nef Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, discusses the work of Sabine Carlson
 



























Artist Joel D'Orazio





















Lindsay McCulloch, Pilgrimage, 25 x 55, two color screenprints on panels

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