Curated by Michele Montalbano
at the Vulcan Gallery at Workhouse Arts Center, Building W-16
Opening reception on April 12, 2025, 6 - 8 PM
March 22 - May 4, 2025
9518 Workhouse Way, Lorton, VA  22079

Participating Artists: Anne Barnes, Julia Bloom, kate Fitzpatrick, Emily Fussner, Scott Hazard, Michele Montalbano, and Ying Zhu

Required Reading is an exhibition of text-based art that is focused on the visual possibilities of language. The exhibit brings together the work of eight artists who rearrange, revise, cover, obscure, and alter conventional communication structures. The works break the boundaries of our familiar writing system and invite the viewer to engage in the dialogue. Visual poetry with its various silences fills the room.