MPAartfest!
Sunday, October 14
10 am - 5 pm

OCT 14
The 6th annual MPAartfest
On Sunday, October 14, 2012 MPAartfest will celebrate MPA@50 as art-lovers flock to McLean Central Park to see the work of 52 local and regional juried artists. With live music, a children's art walk, arts activities for all ages, local food and more, MPAartfest is a unique event that truly connects art and community.

MPA@50 Film
McLean Project for the Arts has been exhibiting fine contemporary art, offering art classes and bringing school children to the galleries for FIFTY YEARS! Watch this fascinating film about our history here.

MPAartfest!
On October 14, 2012 MPAartfest will transform McLean Central Park into a lively landscape of mini art galleries showcasing and offering for sale the work of a diverse group of 40 juried artists.

MPAartfest includes activities to captivate art-lovers of all ages. Stroll through the Children's ArtWalk, sponsored by McLean Community Foundation, and coordinated by New Dominion Women's Club. to experience the work of young artists from McLean area schools. Budding artists may create their own works of art at Innovation Station, the Children's ArtTent.

The Gazebo Stage will feature a variety of live performances throughout the day.

Our food vendors will offer a wonderful selection of food and beverages for your discerning palate

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Your participation will help MPA maintain its excellence in exhibitions, continue to provide MPA’s innovative education programs, make capital improvements to MPA’s galleries and studio, and keep MPA’s technology on the cutting edge.

We can’t do it without you. Less than 10% of our funding comes from

government grants, channeled through the Virginia Commision for the Arts and the Arts Council of Fairfax County. As a non-profit,MPA raises most of its operating funds from individuals, corporations, and foundations. More than 75% of every dollar raised by MPA supports our programs and exhibitions.

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Celebrate MPA@50 with these exciting events:

The 6th Annual MPAartfest Soiree!
Coming Friday, September 28th

The 6th annual MPAartfest
On Sunday, October 14, 2012 MPAartfest will celebrate MPA@50 as art-lovers flock to McLean Central Park to see the work of 52 local and regional juried artists. With live music, a children’s art walk, arts activities for all ages, local food and more, MPAartfest is a unique event that truly connects art and community.

MPA's successful ArtReach program has deep roots going back to the late 60's.

MPA ArtReach Director Sharon Fishel and students examine a sculpture in the Emerson Gallery at MPA.

ArtReach, MPA's phenomenally successful art education program got its start back in the 1960s when the Emerson Gallery (later known as McLeanProject for the Arts) brought school children into the gallery to learn about contemporary art, went into schools to hold workshops and created artist-in-residence programs for local schools.
Today, reaching more than 3000 elementary, middle and high school students each year, MPA ArtReach has become the Northern Virginia area's preeminate art program for school children.

CLICK HERE TO read more about ArtReach

CLICK HERE TO SEE
MPA ArtReach on WUSA-TV

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE MPA@50 FILM