Alexandria Art Festival

Name: Alexandria Art Festival
Start: 2026-09-26
End: 2026-09-27
Location: John Carlyle Square

Alexandria, VA · Arts & Culture

When: September 26–27, 2026
Where: John Carlyle Square · Alexandria · VA
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

A juried art festival transforms John Carlyle Square in Alexandria into an outdoor gallery of painting, sculpture and mixed media from regional and national artists, with live music and hands-on workshops over two days each September.

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A juried art festival transforms John Carlyle Square in Alexandria into an outdoor gallery of painting, sculpture and mixed media from regional and national artists, with live music and hands-on workshops over two days each September..
Christ Church, designed by a descendant of Christopher Wren0.2 mi
Colonel James Wren, a descendant of the architect of St Paul's in London, drew the plans for the main church of the Church of England's Fairfax Parish here.
The Alexandria library sit-in, twenty years before the lunch counters0.2 mi
On 21 August 1939 five Black men walked into the whites-only Alexandria Public Library, took books off the shelves and sat down to read.
Alexandria Scottish Christmas Walk Parade0.2 mi
More than 100 Scottish clan societies, pipe and drum bands and highland dancers march down King Street in Old Town Alexandria to open the city's holiday season.
The Odd Fellows Hall that George Seaton built0.3 mi
The Black Odd Fellows were one of the few organisations where Alexandria's African American residents could meet, run their own affairs and pool money.