The Workhouse Arts Center, a program of the Lorton Arts Foundation, provides visual and performing arts studio and exhibition space as well as arts education programs. The Workhouse is located in Lorton, Virginia, situated on 55 acres (220,000 m2) of land in the Occoquan Workhouse portion of the historic D.C. Department of Corrections Lorton Reformatory.
The Workhouse houses over 100 professional and emerging artists as well as cooperative studios, performance and theatre venues,a main gallery building, as well as gallery space in each studio and event facilities.[1]