Exhibitions

DEADLINE: June 8, 2018 Exhibition: MPAartfest 2018, a one-day juried fine art and craft show and sale featuring the work of more than 35 local and regional visual artists. Location: McLean [...]

MPA seeks works by artists who explore the idea of overstimulation, excessiveness and bombardment, be it through too much information, activity, expectation, or by any other means. DEADLINE: [...]

McLean Project for the Arts (MPA) will open Methods of Inquiry: Fields of Discovery on January 11, 2018 at MPA@ChainBridge. This curated exhibition features pieces by six artists whose work is [...]

Presented in complement to its current exhibition, Nature as Prototype, McLean Project for the Arts (MPA) will offer a one-time, site-specific dance performance and panel discussion on December [...]

McLean Project for the Arts (MPA) has been awarded a $10,000 Arts Engagement in American Communities grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support its upcoming exhibition, [...]

Call for Submissions for the MPA Classworks Exhibition: Art Produced by Participants in the MPA Studio Education Program. MPA’s Classworks Exhibition will be held August 10 through October [...]

McLean Project for the Arts will open its eleventh iteration of Strictly Painting on June 15, 2017 at its new location, MPA@ChainBridge (1446 Chain Bridge Road, McLean). A juried biennial [...]

DEADLINE: April 14, 2017 (midnight). Online submissions accepted via Submittable Exhibition: Strictly Painting 11, June 15 through August 12, 2017 at MPA@ChainBridge Presented by McLean Project [...]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for the MPA ClassWorks Exhibition: Art Produced by Participants in the MPA Studio Education Program Adult Classes To be held in the McLean Project for the Arts’ Ramp [...]

Click here to learn more about how you could be a featured artist at this year’s MPAartfest!   Submittable Link to apply: https://mpa.submittable.com/submit     

Art + Crafts:  Artist Talk & Craft Beer | May Papel Amate: Making Paper in Mexico | A Talk by Helen Frederick Friday, May 20, 6:30 PM FREE EVENT. Please RSVP here. Join us for a special [...]

These new exhibitions are on view at McLean Project for the Arts through March 5, 2016. Emerson Gallery: Absence and Presence: 
Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Artists worldwide have created work [...]

January 14 – March 5, 2016 Reception and Gallery Talk, 7 = 9 PM, Thursday, Janurary 14   Emerson Gallery: Absence and Presence: Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Artists worldwide have created work [...]

  Three new exhibitions are opening at McLean Project for the Arts on Saturday, November 21. Make plans to attend the exhibitions’ opening reception on Thursday, December 3 from 7 p.m. [...]

Gallery talk and reception is Thursday, April 16, 7 – 9 PM.  Free, and all are welcome!

MPA’s biannual exhibition of the best regional painting continues through August 1st, 2015 Strictly Painting is a juried exhibition of contemporary art by Mid-Atlantic regional artists. [...]