Visual and Performing Arts at Montgomery College Takoma Park/Silver Spring

Spring events recap: In April, was back for its third year- this time with 7 artists from across the DMV performing in the LOUNGE at the Cultural Arts Center on the TP/SS Campus at Montgomery College.
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Dan Ortiz-Leizman ()
Amy Reid ()
Born I ()
Franxx ()
Sickle Cell ()
Infinity Knives () x Brian Ennals ()
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Montgomery College

Continuing our spring events recap week! In June, we welcomed the DC Q***r Tango Collective to host the DC Q***r Tango Weekend & Pride Celebration Milonga. Thank you to everyone who joined us in learning, sharing, and dancing! 🌈
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Kicking off a recap week from our Spring department events! Today, we're highlighting our 3rd Annual Rhizome Student Show from this spring- curated & installed by students of Visual & Performing Arts at TPSS Montgomery College. Thank you to Rhizome DC, volunteers, students, and faculty facilitators for making this possible!
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June 12th & 13th, 2026

@ Montgomery College

Silver Spring, Maryland

You are cordially invited to join the DC Q***r Tango Collective for two, fun-filled days of q***r tango learning, sharing, and dancing, culminating in our annual:

Pride Celebration Milonga on Saturday evening, June 13th, 2026.

The DC Q***r Tango Weekend is sponsored by Montgomery College (MC)’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts and the Cultural Arts Center, with funding provided by the MC Arts Institute.
Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center Montgomery College

Join us dc print fair! Students are tabling and so@is prof buy some prints!

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!

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.

Join us to celebrate the work of our art and design majors completing their ARTT263 Professjonal Practice course!