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 Goldberg, 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

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.

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, I Will Pass Even to Acheron.

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.

I Will Pass Even to Acheron

Amanda Newell’s collection was inspired by her former student, a Marine who nearly died in Afghanistan after the M-ATV he was driving was struck by a command-controlled improvised explosive device. She began writing these poems while he was hospitalized at Walter Reed recovering from a partial leg amputation, “not even the worst,” Newell writes, “of what he refuses to call/his combat injuries.” Her poems witness survival in the aftermath of trauma, but they also contemplate the speaker’s own complicity in the broader cultural narrative that perpetuates war and war-making.