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DEADLINE: June 15, 2020 Exhibition: MPAartfest 2020 on Sunday, October 4, 2020 from 10:00am – 4:00pm. MPAartfest is a one-day juried fine art and craft show and sale featuring the work of [...]

Mark your calendar for this year’s MPA Spring Benefit on May 7th, co-chaired by Heidi Narang and Priscilla Stanzel. Our Spring Benefit raises critical funds supporting MPA’s [...]

DEADLINE: September 21, 2019 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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: June 30, 2017 (EXTENDED!) Exhibition: MPAartfest 2017, a one-day juried fine art and craft show and sale featuring the work of more than 50 local and regional visual artists. Location: [...]

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 [...]

The McLean Project for the Arts (MPA) recently received a Shining Star ArtStars Award of $10,000 from the Dominion Foundation. The award recognized MPA’s ArtReach program, which offers [...]

MPA’s special lecture about Kehinde Wiley’s exhibition “A New Republic” took place on Tuesday, July 19th, and featured guest speaker Karen Getty of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in [...]