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- EIN 75-3057770
- info@workhousearts.org
- (703) 584-2900
- 9518 Workhouse Rd Lorton VA 22079 USA
- http://www.workhousearts.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts Education, History Museums, Performing Arts Centers, Visual Arts
Mission: The mission of the workhouse arts foundation inc. Is to grow and support a vibrant arts center that offers engaging opportunities and enjoyable experiences in visual arts, performing arts, history and education.
Results: Now housing over 80 resident and associate artists, these buildings were once a federal prison for the first 100 years of its life. WAC is proud to provide history education related to our former identity as a prison which housed suffragists and civil rights protesters. Our newly state of the art opened Lucy Burns Museum tells these and many other stories born within prison walls. WAC has expanded its arts education curriculum and community events calendar dramatically, deepened its relationships with the Armed Services through military arts programming, and expanded its in-house performing arts activities with live concerts, musical theater, and dance.
Target demographics: The Workhouse Arts Center helps our community by growing and supporting a vibrant arts center that offers engaging opportunities and inspirational experiences in visual arts, performing arts, history, and education.
Direct beneficiaries per year: 100 annual art exhibitions and 300 annual performances, and dozens of classrooms for teaching 800 classes, engaging over 100,000 people annually through these and other annual events.
Geographic areas served: The Workhouse is based in Lorton VA but our community of Artists, Students, Participants and Staff come from all over Northern Virginia, DC, and Maryland.
Programs: WAC fosters innovative collaborations between the visual and performing arts, education, community engagement and personal enrichment for students of all ages and of all walks of life, with the goal of encouraging art making, providing therapeutic art experiences, supporting physical health through art of movement activities, and presenting opportunities for other forms of self-expression.