06/06/2026
Join us dc print fair! Students are tabling and so@is prof buy some prints!
Visual and Performing Arts at Montgomery College Takoma Park/Silver Spring
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We offer classes in studio art, art history, graphic design, music, dance, film, and theater on the MC Takoma Park/Silver Spring campus!
Hours reflect King Street Gallery hours. Additional Links - https://linktr.ee/930kingstreet
06/06/2026
05/14/2026
We're excited to share it's time for our 2026 Annual Student Exhibition, featuring the work of Montgomery College students from the Department of the Visual and Performing Arts! The exhibition will be on display from May 20th through September 11th, 2026. Join us for the opening reception next Wednesday, May 20th, 5-7pm in the King Street Gallery on the first floor of the Cafritz Arts Center. This event is free and open to the public, with light refreshments and free parking. The exhibition features artworks made by Art & Design students over the past year and includes work from courses in 2D Design, 3D Design, Ceramics, Crafts, Weaving, Drawing, Graphic Design, Illustration, Painting, Photography, Film, Printmaking, and Sculpture. Please join us to celebrate our students' creativity!
05/08/2026
International Symposium for Visual Culture (ISVC) 2026
September 19–20, 2026
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center
Visual and Performing Arts Department
Montgomery College
Visual Culture 2026 Popup Show
September 19–20, 2026
Maze Gallery
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center
Visual and Performing Arts Department
Montgomery College
We invite artists, scholars, and researchers from around the world to participate in the International Symposium for Visual Culture & Exhibition 2026.
The symposium brings together a global community of artists, researchers, and academics in vibrant downtown Silver Spring, adjacent to Washington, DC, USA. The symposium and popup show will be hosted by Montgomery College, while the international exhibition will take place at the CICA Museum in Korea. These events are organized in collaboration with the CICA Museum and the Visual and Performing Arts Department of Montgomery College, Takoma Park/Silver Spring.
ISVC serves as an international platform for diverse and critical perspectives on visual culture. Through this program, we aim to build a global network of researchers, artists, and creators and audiences of visual culture, fostering critical discourse and a deeper understanding of visual culture worldwide.
Participating artists and researchers will be featured in the publication New Media Art 2027, to be released in full-color paperback in December 2026 by CICA Press. Contributions may include English texts (e.g., interviews, essays, poetry), drawings, and images introducing the artist’s work.
04/27/2026
Join us to celebrate the work of our art and design majors completing their ARTT263 Professjonal Practice course!
04/19/2026
Amy Reid is a sound, multimedia artist, DJ and musician based in Baltimore. As a solo performer and in her band Chiffon, she has toured nationally, and internationally since 2014, playing alongside acclaimed artists such as; SOPHIE, Suzanne Ciani, Future Islands, Dan Deacon, Boy Harsher, and Abdu Ali to name a few. Additionally, she has been the recipient of numerous artist residences including Ragdale, The Folger Shakespeare Fellowship, Merriweather District AIR, SPACE gallery, and the National Portrait Gallery. Her video, sound art, and performances have been taken place at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Walters Art Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, and at MEXE Festival in both Lisbon and Porto, Portugal. Additionally, I founded GRL PWR in 2014 whose mission is to cultivate q***r joy through community focused programming.
04/18/2026
Franxx is a pop diva extraordinaire, legendary DJ, visionary promoter, captivating diva, and true icon whose artistry and presence have always inspired and united us all. Her spirited and boundless inversion of pop mechanics across the wide genre-defiant architecture of experimental hard dance - Franxx’s signature “XuntCore” sound - is inspired, high energy, dynamic, passionate, vulnerable, and limitless.
Franxx was born and raised in a first-generation immigrant family whose Central American culture has directly influenced the artist’s POV. Although she was born and raised in Northern Virginia, her dedication to honor the values of her upbringing and culture infused with all the knowledge and experience she continues to seek out is what makes Franxx’s perspective completely one of a kind.
Central to her desire for freedom is the passion for creating spaces where all q***r people feel safe and inspired to be free. Franxx is the founder of XUNT, Washington DC’s trans-centric hardcore dance party, as well as an organizer and resident DJ of 140+/FWB - THE fixture of DC’s Hardcore and Club scene. This XUNT icon’s range in slayage is what continues to cement her as one of the most in-demand performers in Washington DC and beyond.
04/15/2026
is back for a third year with another exciting group of artists!
Join us on Saturday April 25th 4-10-ish at the Lounge, an intimate performance space housed in the Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center Montgomery College Takoma Park/Silver Spring campus right on the border with DC. The show is free, all ages, and free parking.
This year it is our great pleasure to welcome
Tariq al-Jabān
Amsies
Born I / Ofosu Jones-Quartey
franxx
Dan Ortiz Leizman
Alexander Briscoe Jr.
04/10/2026
DON’T EAT ON THE BUS! Join us to celebrate the bus drawings of MCPS student riders from the collection of bus operator Saeed Damadi, who over the years has asked students to draw the bus and the rules of the route.
Sixty+ select works—curated by department chair Norberto Gomez—are on view until April 21st. You are invited to attend a reception on April 15th from 2-4 pm in the 930 King Street lobby. Refreshments provided.
Montgomery College
department of Visual and Performing Arts - Takoma Park/Silver Spring campus.
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04/10/2026
Video walkthrough and performance from our 3rd Annual Rhizome Student Show- curated and installed by students of Montgomery College Visual & Performing Art Takoma Park/Silver Spring campus. Thank you Layne (rhizome dc) and volunteers for your support and to our faculty facilitators Dr. Cristin Cash, Prof. Miriam Ewers, and faculty member Shuyu Li (Lucia Shuyu Li)!
02/12/2026
Life Drawing sessions on Sundays from 1-3pm! Free to attend & open to the community- beginners welcome! N**e sessions, attendees must be 18+
@ Cafritz Arts Center (Room CF206, second floor)
930 King Street
Silver Spring, MD 20910
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| Thursday | 8am - 4pm |
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