ArtSpace Is Open!

By Gina Caceci . . .

Located at 410 South Maple Avenue, ArtSpace Falls Church is a flexible art space that features a permanent gallery and a 95-seat performance space and provides an artistic home for two non-profit organizations, Creative Cauldron and Falls Church Arts.

To celebrate the opening of ArtSpace Falls Church, Falls Church Arts has mounted ArtSlam, an all media exhibit that opened July 11.  The exhibit represents the work of 35 local artists and includes more than 80 paintings, sculptures and photographs.  The artist reception that was held Saturday evening attracted over 200 people and helped draw attention to this brand new, barebones space.

Marty Meserve, President of Creative Cauldron, and Jim Lynch, Falls Church Arts President, remarked that the opening of ArtSpace Falls Church is a major achievement that is the result of the vision and years of hard work and dedication by many people, notably Tom Gittins, a founder of Falls Church Arts and Laura Hull, founder and producing director of Creative Cauldron.

With major funding provided by the City of Falls Church, Dominion Virginia Power and TransWestern, the owner of the Pearson Square building where ArtSpace is located, the space has been built and equipped to a basic operational level.  Lynch noted that an additional $150,000 is needed to fully outfit and equip ArtSpace for the planned theatrical and musical performances, workshops, art classes, lectures and art exhibits.

True to the goal of flexibility, ArtSpace Falls Church is the site of Creative Cauldron’s Arts Adventure Camp weekdays this summer.  And the gallery hours for the ArtSlam exhibit are Monday–Friday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturday–Sunday, noon to 4:00 pm through Sunday, August 30.  For more information, log on to www.CreativeCauldron.org or www.FallsChurchArts.org