Coming in 2025!

Fall Exhibition: Women Artists of the DMV

September 11 – November 1, 2025
Opening Exhibition Reception: Thursday, September 18, 7-9pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, October 25, 11am

This exhibition will be the first ever survey of the many talented female visual artists from the DMV (District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, Washington D.C. area), curated by Lenny Campello.

Artists whose work will be on display at MPA include:

In addition to McLean Project for the Arts, additional art spaces staging the event include:

American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington, DC

Adah Rose Gallery in Rockville, MD

The Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA

McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA

Artists & Makers Galleries, Rockville, MD

Galleries at Strathmore Mansion, Rockville, MD

Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD

The Writer’s Center, Bethesda, MD

Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel, MD

Maryland Hall, Annapolis, MD

Led by the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in DC, and as part of the generous Alper Initiative, these art venues agreed to co-stage the show, which will run in the nine separate art spaces starting in September 2025 for 6-12 weeks.

Please see mpaart.org for more details as they’re confirmed.

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 Photography by Bernie Boston

November 20, 2025 – February 24, 2026
PhotoGenesis 2 Opening Exhibition Reception: November 20, 2025 from 7-9pm

PhotoGenesis 2 (Emerson Gallery)
This open call show, curated by MPA’s Artistic Director and Curator, Nancy Sausser, will include work that springs from photographic images, ideas or techniques.

Photography by Bernie Boston (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, serving every president from Truman through Clinton. The Atrium Gallery exhibit will feature framed photographs from his fascinating career.

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. For more info on Bernie Boston, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Boston

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