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An innovative collaboration of visual and performing arts and education in the unique historic setting of the former DC prison.

Support the Workhouse Arts Center

Support the Workhouse

Our Mission 

  • Renovate, adaptively reuse and preserve the historic structures of the former Workhouse correctional facility.
     
  • Create and grow an arts center and community that fosters a diverse offering of arts, arts education, entertainment and social experiences for people of all ages.

As a nonprofit organization the Workhouse Arts Center relies on community support to sustain and enhance the programs available at the Workhouse. Your contribution to support the Workhouse directly impacts the programs available. Please consider making a gift, today.

How You Can Support the Workhouse

  • Become a Friend of the Workhouse.
    Friends of the Workhouse are those who choose to share the good news of the Workhouse Arts Center with their family, friends and colleagues. The Friends of the Workhouse also choose to make a charitable contribution to support the Workhouse. For more information on the Friends of the Workhouse, click here.

The Workhouse accepts all forms of gifts (cash, check, credit card, stock, etc.)

  • To make a gift of cash or check, please mail your gift to:
    Workhouse Arts Center
    Attn: Development
    9601 Ox Rd Lorton, VA 22079-3413
  • To make a gift of stock or other real property, please contact the Development Office at the Workhouse at 703-584-2908 for instructions and to arrange for the gift.

The Workhouse Arts Center is the principal program of the Lorton Arts Foundation, Inc, a nonprofit organization established in the Commonwealth of Virginia and certified as a Sec. 501(c)(3) nonprofit by the US Internal Revenue Service.