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UPDATED CLOSING INFO: Friday, February 5 and Saturday, February 6...

Due to the major snowstorm this weekend, the AAC will be CLOSED TODAY--Friday, February 5--as well as on Saturday, February 6, and Saturday classes are rescheduled for the end of the semester. It is a bummer we'll be closed for the second weekend in a row, because our current exhibitions are outstanding! Please come back when the weather is clear. Stay safe!

Snow Policies: Classes and Galleries

AAC follows Arlington County Public Schools' procedures. If school is cancelled, daytime classes are cancelled. If evening events are cancelled or County facilities are closed, AAC evening classes are cancelled. Make-up sessions are scheduled for the end of the semester.

Our offices and galleries remain open Tuesday- Saturday, 11-5, unless the Federal government is closed, in which case, our offices and galleries are also closed.

Transhuman Conditions opens Friday, January 29, 6-9 PM

Show Dates: January 29 – April 3, 2010

Opening Reception: Friday, January 29, 6 – 9 pm

Transhuman Conditions features ten artists thinking about the future of the human body. Their work reveals both fantasies and nightmares of radical changes on the horizon for all of us—from the promise of immortality; to the ability to augment or redesign one’s own brain, limbs, or skin; to the promise of escaping one’s body altogether, becoming pure intelligence floating free in a virtual world.

Though these changes may sound like pure science fiction, to a certain extent, they’ve already happened, and are now part of our banal day to day existence. Today, amputee runners are barred from athletic competition because their prosthetic legs are declared unfair advantages, not hindrances. Websites exist that continue a person's e-mail correspondence and internet activity after death. People meet, befriend one another, and date over long distances via social networking platforms. What at one point might have seemed like fantasy is now just the business of contemporary living. The ten artists in this show take this fact as their starting point.

The show is accompanied by a catalogue, featuring essays by Joel Garreau, senior writer for the Washington Post and author of the book Radical Evolution, and the show's curator, AAC Director of Exhibitions Jeffry Cudlin.

The roster for the show is: Arakawa and Gins, CarianaCarianne, Laure Drogoul, Shane Hope, Jason Horowitz, Ivan Lozano, Shana Moulton, Geoffrey Alan Rhodes, Philip Warnell, and Saya Woolfalk.

Show Catalog can be downloaded here.

This is my City/Esta es mi cuidad: A Photography Exchange with Suchitoto, El Salvador

Show Dates: November 20, 2009 – Febuary 27, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, November 20, 6 – 9 pm

In summer 2009, the AAC formed a partnership with the Centro Arte para la Paz in Suchitoto, El Salvador; CVS/Caremark; and VSA arts, a non-profit based in Washington DC, to present an international exchange project for teenagers. This is my City gave Arlington and Suchitoto students the opportunity to observe their own neighborhoods and--using simple cameras--to record these observations and express points of view. Led by teachers Steven L. Miller (Arlington) and Amber and John Lucero-Criswell (Suchitoto), students explored urban landscapes, studied photography fundamentals, and learned how to capture the sights and faces in their own backyards. The resulting collection of photographs will be on view in the Jenkins Gallery through January 16, 2010. The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color, bilingual catalogue. This is my City/Esta es mi Cuidad is generously supported through a grant from VSA arts and "All Kids Can", a program of CVS/Caremark.

A national show of contemporary photography and video juried by acclaimed photographer  Taryn Simon

The roster for the AAC’s national juried show of photo and video work, IMAGE/PROJECT, was chosen by Taryn Simon, a Guggenheim fellow represented by Gagosian gallery in New York. From our pool of entries, Simon selected 17 different projects by 19 artists hailing from New York, LA, Chicago, and all points inbetween. The exhibition itself features three black box spaces for video projections and four galleries of photographs.

The show reflects the ways in which contemporary artists tend to approach photography and video. Many of the artists presented here use photography as either a means for documenting or presenting cross-disciplinary projects, or as a tool for inquiry into the way we perceive and live in the world.

Below is a list of the finalists: Morgan Ashcom (Free Union, VA) Leslie Awender (Topanga, CA) Jason Burch (Jersey City, NJ) Judith Connell (Falls Church, VA) Elizabeth Crisman (Baltimore, MD) David Hartwell and Josef Jacques (San Francisco, CA) Jason Havneraas (Brooklyn, NY) Linda Hesh (Alexandria, VA) Jaime Kennedy and Kelly Urquhart (Kent, OH) Alma Leiva (Miami, FL) Karen Ludlam (Brooklyn, NY) Jeroen Nelemans (Chicago, IL) Minou Norouzi (Los Angeles, CA) Nicholas O’Brien (Chicago, IL) Adam Pape (Chicago, IL) Laurie Rubin (Chicago, IL) Michael Wallace (Cleveland, OH)

Download Show Postcard here