Coming in 2025!

Spring Solos
Featuring work by Jackie Hoysted, Emon Surakitkoson and Heidi Fowler
April 10 – June 14, 2025
Opening Exhibition Reception: Thursday, April 17, 7-9pm
Opening Exhibition presented by The Mather
Artist Talk: Saturday, May 10, 11am
Tea & Talk: Wednesday, June 4, 11am 
Detrimorphose, by Heidi Fowler (Atrium Gallery)
In the exhibition “Detrimorphose,” Heidi Fowler depicts the power of brokenness and redemption through mixed media paintings. The artists bring together discarded materials (junk mail, plastic, rustic pieces, and old computer parts) in assemblages to inspire a greater consciousness and creativity towards the paraphernalia we would otherwise discard; exploring the tension between the beauty of creation and the priorities of man.
Rudimental, by Jackie Hoysted (Emerson Gallery)
Jackie Hoysted’s Rudimental is an interactive immersive installation that evokes ideas of nature in interconnectedness. Using simple geometrical elements to generate imagery, and meditative sounds the installation harks back to undervalued ancestral connections with the land, the planet, the universe. It is a call for mutual respect, reciprocity and recognition of our minuteness in the universe.
Crossing Culture, by Emon Surakitkoson (Emerson Gallery)
Crossing Culture features two recent bodies of work by Thai-American artist Emon Surakitkoson, a culmination of her professional journey over the past five years. Using multiple conjoined canvases and wood panel, Emon created works that use shape and composition to convey unity among their unique contributing parts. The individual pieces take on new meaning and value when seen as part of a collective. With her sculptural work Emon translates her voice into a new visual language. This collection as a whole is born from Emon’s personal and artistic growth, as she embraces the complexities of her cultural identity as an immigrant from Thailand in the United States.

MPA’s 2025 Spring Solo Exhibitions are funded in part by an ArtsFairfax Project Grant.

Heidi Fowler
Jackie Hoysted
Emon Surakitkoson

PhotoGenesis 2 and Bernard/Bernie Boston Retrospective: A Photojournalist, Social Justice Advocate, and Family Man 

November 20, 2025 – February 24, 2026 — PhotoGenesis 2 (Emerson Gallery)
PhotoGenesis 2 Opening Exhibition Reception: November 20, 2025 from 7-9pm

November 6, 2025 – February 24, 2026: Photography by Bernie Boston (Atrium Gallery)
Bernie Boston Retrospective Opening Exhibition Reception: November 6, 2025 from 4-6pm

Bernard (Bernie) Boston Retrospective: A Photojournalist, Social Justice Advocate, and Family Man (Atrium Gallery)
Bernie Boston was a long time McLean resident and award-winning photo journalist who was the first African American member of the White House press corps, covering every president from Truman through Clinton. Boston was a long-time McLean resident, and former Chairman of the McLean Community Center Governing Board (1977-1979). The Atrium Gallery exhibit will feature framed photographs from his fascinating career.

Phoebe Mills Farris, Ph.D. (Powhatan-Pamunkey)—a retired Purdue University professor emerita, photographer, and freelance art critic—curated the exhibition.

The exhibit is a collaboration between MPA and the Friends of Historic Pleasant Grove Church in McLean and will be held concurrently in the Atrium Gallery and at Pleasant Grove Church.

Viewing the Bernie Boston Restrospective
The MPA Atrium Gallery is available for viewing during McLean Community Center operating hours. The Historic Pleasant Grove exhibition is available for viewing November 8 from 1-5pm, November 9 and 23 from 2-4pm; December 7 and 21 from 2-4pm; January 11 and 25 from 2-4pm; and February 8 and 22 from 2-4pm.

Watch the ABC7 News Good Morning Washington Segment “Iconic Images, Local Roots”
Interview with Rose Powhatan (Tauxenent-Pamunkey descent)
Curator’s Statement: Bernard/Bernie Boston Retrospective: A Photojournalist, Social Justice Advocate, and Family Man

PhotoGenesis 2 — Opens November 20, 2025

November 20, 2025 – February 24, 2026 — PhotoGenesis 2 (Emerson Gallery)
PhotoGenesis 2 Opening Exhibition Reception: November 20, 2025 from 7-9pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, February 7, 2026, 11am-1pm
Tea and Talk: Wednesday, February 18, 2026 11am
Closing Reception: Thursday, February 19, 2026, 7-9pm

Pulled together by MPA Artistic Director and Curator Nancy Sausser and MPA Assistant Curator Jen Lillis, the works featured in PhotoGenesis 2 were selected from 150 entries gathered through an open call. The exhibit–which features pieces by 20 artists–aims to highlight artists using photography as inspiration, concept or process and in inventive, unexpected and often unconventional ways. The end result is a fascinating mix of works that is not to be missed.

Featured artists include:

  • David Carlson
  • Bonnie Collier
  • Chris Combs
  • Joseph Cortina
  • Catherine Day
  • David Douglas
  • Pat Doyen
  • Marie B Gauthiez
  • Beatrice Hamblett
  • Don Kimes
  • Zofie King
  • Timothy Makepeace
  • Sam Miller
  • Terence Nicholson
  • Linda Plaisted
  • Judith Pratt
  • Maryam Rassapour
  • Sarah Salomon
  • Alexandra Silverthorne
  • Dawn Whitmore

Visiting Our Galleries

The MPA Emerson Gallery will be open for viewing Mondays through Saturdays from 10am–4pm. The Atrium Gallery is available to visitors during MCC hours of operation.

MPA follows all Federal holidays as well as closing if the McLean Community Center is closed.

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