VisArts

07/27/2026

🎨 We're hiring!

VisArts seeks a team of enthusiastic Part-Time VisAbility Art Lab Managers to support our inclusive studio program for artists with autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities. This hands-on role provides direct support to artists during studio sessions, creating a welcoming environment where artists explore creativity across multiple media, develop skills, and prepare work for professional exhibition and sale.

Learn more and apply today: https://www.visartscenter.org/join-our-team/galleries/.

Our Current Job, Internship, and Volunteer Opportunities Located in the heart of Rockville, Maryland, VisArts is a hub for the visual arts that engages nearly 30,000 visitors annually through contemporary art exhibitions, exhibition programs and events, a Studio Artist Program, art classes and camps...

07/11/2026

Last weekend! Don't miss your chance to experience two thought-provoking exhibitions in our galleries before they close on Sunday, July 12.

✨ "Born Fee" celebrates 2025 Gibbs Street Resident LaChaun Moore, whose immersive installation transforms cotton, gourds, found and familial textiles, and sound into a powerful exploration of memory, identity, and the body.

✨ In the Common Ground Gallery, "Sensing Ground" by Chau Nguyen brings together installation, conceptual, and video art to explore diasporic belonging, cultural ownership, and the role of technology in preserving memory.

Visit us this weekend and experience both exhibitions before they close!

06/29/2026

This past year, our community came together when VisArts needed it most. Watch a special message from our CEO, Lisa Marie Ryder, as we celebrate what we've accomplished together and look ahead with renewed optimism.

☀️ We are VisArts. We are Shining Brighter Together.

06/17/2026

🚨 Our award-winning summer camps and intensives begin Monday, June 22!

From ceramics and painting to comics, illustration, digital arts, fiber arts, and more, our hands-on camps give kids and teens the opportunity to create, explore, and build new skills in a fun, supportive environment.

⏳ Only a few spots remain in select camps! Don't miss the chance to give your young artist a summer filled with creativity, confidence, and discovery.

Learn more and register today at https://ow.ly/H3gU50ZcZE8!

06/11/2026

The countdown is on! ⏰ VisArts' award-winning summer camps and intensives start in less than two weeks and many programs are nearing capacity.

From ceramics and painting to comics, illustration, digital arts, fiber arts, and more, our hands-on camps give kids and teens the opportunity to create, explore, and build new skills all summer long.

Learn more and register today to secure your spot before camps begin on June 22: https://ow.ly/HEBb50ZaJKX.

05/27/2026

Join us for an opening celebration of our new exhibitions on May 29 from 7-9 PM!

Celebrate 2025 Gibbs Street Resident, LaChaun Moore showcasing new work in "Born Fee." Working with cotton, gourds, found and familial textiles, and sonic composition; Moore
transforms familiar cultural forms into environments of reflection and an encounter shaped
through the body, sound, and spatial positioning, informed by garment construction and forms that hold and contour the body.

Solo artist, Chau Nguyen, presents "Sensing Ground" in Common Ground Gallery. Through installation, conceptual, and video art, Nguyen invite viewers to engage with the complexities of diasporic belonging, the ethics of cultural ownership, and the shifting role of technology in the preservation of memory.

View "Frame & Frequency X" in Kaplan Gallery. Featuring work by Dawn Whitmore, Sara Koppel, Jessye McDowell, Liz Trosper, and João Krefer, the exhibition brings together artists working across immersive installation, animation, digital painting, and video.

Another iteration of Frame & Frequency in Concourse Gallery, Liquid Territories, features work by Mark McLeod, Jonathan Monaghan, Felipe Castelblanco, Leigh Davis, Dwayne LeBlanc, and Kissel Hiram Bravo Hernández. Working across sound, video, sculpture, and installation, the exhibition explores the unstable terrains that shape contemporary life: extractive economies, mythic histories, technological power, migration, grief, and the porous boundaries between memory and imagination.

Learn more and RSVP at https://ow.ly/QJSp50Z4xi3!

05/22/2026

A summer full of creativity starts at VisArts! ☀️

From hands-on summer camps for kids and teens to creative classes and workshops, spend your summer exploring new mediums, building skills, and making something meaningful in our studios.

Learn more and sign up today - select sessions are already filling up!

Camps: https://ow.ly/8Cvz50Z2J9M
Adult Classes: https://ow.ly/cFzi50Z2J9O
Children's Classes: https://ow.ly/1vlO50Z2J9N

05/21/2026

🎥 Huge thanks to for stopping by VisArts earlier this week to spotlight the creativity, community, and inspiration happening here every day!

From hands-on classes and workshops to contemporary exhibitions and programs for all ages, VisArts is proud to be a local arts hub where creativity thrives and connections are made through the arts. 🎨✨

Thank you for helping share our mission and the incredible artists, students, instructors, and supporters who make this community so special.

05/20/2026

🚨 Open call for the 2026–2027 Gibbs Street Artist Residency at VisArts!

VisArts invites local, national, and international artists to apply for one of two highly selective six-month residencies in Rockville, MD. Selected artists receive:

✨ Free studio space
✨ $3,000 stipend
✨ 24/7 studio access
✨ A culminating solo exhibition at VisArts

Open to professional artists and collaborative teams working across a wide range of media, the Gibbs Street Artist Residency offers dedicated time and space to create new work, expand existing projects, and engage with the greater VisArts and Rockville communities in a supportive, creative environment.

Learn more + apply by May 31 at https://ow.ly/crmy50Z2afK.