Tag: the art league

Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts for the whole family to enjoy

By Caitlyn Meisner | [email protected] Getting multiple gifts for each person in your family can be exhausting and time-consuming, not to mention very expensive. Why...

Summer camp goes virtual

By Margo Wagner | [email protected]  For many families, instead of lathering up with sunscreen and packing a lunch, getting ready for summer camp is as...

City creatives: Donna Lee Gallo

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] The saying, “One person’s trash is another person’s treasure,” is abundantly clear in local artist Donna Lee Gallo’s work. Her “found...

City creatives: Patrick Kirwin

By Luke Anderson | [email protected] It takes a skilled artist to create art that tricks the eye. It takes an especially skilled artist to do...

ALX Community expands to the waterfront

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] Shared office space and coworking brand ALX Community opened a second location on the city’s waterfront on Tuesday, according to...

Holiday Gift Guide 2019: Experience Alexandria

By Missy Schrott | [email protected] Maybe you’re the person running down the stairs Christmas morning hoping that the biggest present under the tree has your...

Torpedo Factory celebrates 100 years as building, 45 years as art...

By Hannah Himes | [email protected] The Torpedo Factory has housed everything from torpedoes and dinosaur bones to World War II files and, now, the works...

Patrons’ Show scales back to meet building code

By Missy Schrott | [email protected] After celebrating its landmark 50th anniversary last year with its most successful show yet, the Art League’s Patrons’ Show returned...

Council approves Old Town North arts anchor

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] During the new city council’s abbreviated first public hearing on Jan. 12, council unanimously approved a development special use permit...

Government shutdown hits Alexandria

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] Carolyn Bednarek sits at a table, her hands making small, sometimes stumbling movements with a ball of yarn and knitting...