Mary Cook, Neighbor

Mary Cook is the Director of the Target Gallery, the national exhibition space of the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA. She has been with the gallery since 2006. Cook has been working for over 10 years in the arts field as a curator, artist, and teacher.  Currently, she has been appointed by the Alexandria Arts Commission to serve on the City’s Public Arts Committee as well as serve as a member of the City’s Charles Houston Memorial Selection Committee.  She has served on the grant review panel for the Arts Council of Fairfax County for three years reviewing arts grant proposals.  She is an affiliate member of Artspace, in Raleigh, NC, an arts organization modeled after the Torpedo Factory, where she had a studio and also served on several committees from 2001-2006. She studied art at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia where she received her BFA in Printmaking, and MA in Painting.  Mary currently resides in Alexandria, VA where she lives with her husband, Eric and two dogs, Ralphy and Shiloh.