 Southern Avenue, photo by Keith Griner
Rosslyn Jazz Fest
Sat, Sept 6 | 1-7p | Gateway Park | Rosslyn
Experience Arlington, Virginia’s most popular free outdoor music festival! Join the Rosslyn Business Improvement District and Arlington Arts at the 33rd Rosslyn Jazz Fest for an afternoon of music, community, food trucks, yard games, and more. Headlining this year’s festival is Grammy-nominated Southern Avenue, the high-voltage, Memphis-based group known for their electrifying blend of blues, soul, and gospel. The band brings its powerhouse vocals and genre-defying energy to the stage following its latest album, Family, on Alligator Records. Joining Southern Avenue is a standout slate of performers, including New Breed Brass Band, The Sensational Barnes Brothers, and Son Cubano Subterraneo.
Learn more about the festival and the artists, and check out the official Spotify playlist. Register now!
 Arlington Art Truck
Patch or Swap: A Textile Rescue Lab By Roxana Alger Geffen
Sept 6-27 | multiple locations
We have all had clothes that we loved and lost—to coffee stains, rips or years of wear. This project is about rescuing those well-loved things and making them wearable again. Sculpture and collage artist Roxana Geffen, will show you simple ways to mend your clothes in a visible but cool way and give you some supplies to get started, either at the Arlington Art Truck or at home. If you decide that you don’t need another project, you can also swap a tired garment for something on our Swap Rack, leaving a short description and story about the piece or simply take a garment and leave us a story about a favorite outfit from your past. More
- Sat, Sept 6, 1-7p: Rosslyn Jazz Fest, Gateway Park
- Sat, Sept 13, 8a-1p: Rock 'n' Recycle, Trades Center
Artist Opportunity Highlight
Look: An Unexpected Arts Experience
Submissions accepted through Sept 22
Art builds community . . . help us transform a vacant commercial building into a fun, inventive, and interactive POP-UP art space. Over three weekends (Feb 20-Mar 8), the reinvented space will host art exhibits, performances, and hands-on workshops and classes. This call is open to all forms of artwork including installation art, photography, painting, sculpture, 2D digital art, video art, printmaking, and interactive art. A separate call for performing arts will be coming soon. Call for Artists
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Check out more artist calls and employment opportunities in the D.C. area and sometimes beyond in our Artist Opportunities newsletter.
 Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington
Passages: A Night of Encountered Performance
Fri, Aug 29 | 6-9p | MoCA Arlington | Virginia Square
Step into Passages—a one-night takeover where art, sound, and performance collide. Wander the galleries as poets, dancers, and musicians perform intimate, site-specific performances. No stage. No seating chart. Each piece is repeated periodically throughout the evening, allowing you to wander, return, and experience the works from different perspectives and moments in time. More
Arlington Artists Alliance:
Maximalism! Regional Juried Show
Sept 4-Oct 12 | Alliance Gallery | Clarendon
This group exhibition is a celebration of excess, abundance, bold visual expression, and sensory richness. Artists from the DC Metro Area explore ornamentation, texture, color, complexity, and emotional intensity in contrast to minimalism's restraint. juried by Touchstone Gallery Executive Director Abbey Alison McClain. Join on Thurs, Sept 4 from 5 to 7pm for an opening reception. More
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Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington
In Conversation: Christina Lorena Weisner + Chris Combs
Sun, Sept 7 | 2p | MoCA Arlington | Virginia Square
Join SOLOS 2025 artist Christina Lorena Weisner and DC-area artist Chris Combs (2023 Arlington Art Truck Artist in Residence) for a conversation about Weisner’s solo exhibition Sea Marks: From the High Arctic to the Atlantic. In addition to Weisner’s practice, the two artists will discuss their shared interest in art, technology, and scientific exploration and their experiences as contemporary artists working in proximity to scientific research. More
Photo: Christina Lorena Weisner: Sea Marks: From the High Arctic to the Atlantic. Installation view. Photo by Vivian Marie Doering.
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The Full Monty
Sept 6-21 | Thomas Jefferson Community Theatre | Arlington Heights
In a town where jobs have dried up and egos have taken a hit, a group of steelworkers hatch a wild plan to earn some quick cash: they’re going to put on a strip show – and go the FULL MONTY! As the men battle insecurities, societal expectations, family pressures, and their fear of letting it all hang out (literally), they discover the real exposure isn’t in taking off their clothes... More
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Foon Sham: Tunnel Vision
Sept 2-Oct 25 | Cody Gallery at Marymount University | Ballston
Cody Gallery is pleased to present the work of internationally acclaimed sculptor Foon Sham in Tunnel Vision, courtesy of Gallery Neptune and Brown. Sham integrates natural forms with architectural precision through large-scale sculptures, site-responsive work, mixed-media drawings, and a process rooted deeply in materials, craftsmanship, and environmental consciousness. This exhibition curated by Sarah Hardesty features sculptures, drawings, video, and photographs along with a scaled model of a recent site-specific sculpture, Vision on the Pond, created during his residency at I-Park in Connecticut. Additionally, his large-scale interactive sculpture, Shield, is on view at the corner of N. Glebe Road and Fairfax Drive. Sham's work Ridge, installed in Oakland Park, is a part of the Arlington County Public Art Permanent Collection. More
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Kî me Ez? - Who Am I? Contemporary Kurdish Art in Diaspora
Sept 5 - Oct 25 | Mason Exhibitions Arlington | Virginia Square
The Kurdish experience is often marked by oppressive measures like militarized displacement, linguicide, genocide, gender-based violence, imprisonment by the state for cultural and artistic expression, and exiled artists, writers, and activists. Kurdish identity is built upon the rubble, yes, but also within abundance, too. Within this kaleidoscopic reality, Kî me Ez asks our Kurdish artists to take on this existential question: Who Am I? Join on Thursday, September 11 from 5-8pm for a Virtual Artist Talk with the exhibition's artists. More
Image: The Teacher, Nuveen Barwari
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Chris Gregson: Expedition
Sept 6-Oct 27 | Fred Schnider Gallery of Art | Virginia Square
Chris Gregson studied at the New York Studio and Forum of Stage Design under Lester Polakov. He worked as an assistant to Peter Wexler at the Metropolitan Opera and as stage artist at theaters throughout New York City. In 1995, Gregson began using his talents to create abstract paintings and exhibiting them throughout the United States and internationally in Italy and France. Gregson's central painting issues are the expressiveness of shape, the exploration of pictorial and sculptural abstraction, and the relationship between his work and viewer. Join for an opening reception on Saturday, September 13, 5-7pm. More
Image: Kent Avenue Sketchbook # 16, Chris Gregson
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