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Art on the Avenue

Alexandria, VA · Arts & Culture

When

October 3, 2026

Where

Mount Vernon Avenue, Del Ray · Alexandria · VA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

Started in 1996 as a small block party with about 50 artists, now features over 300 juried artists and vendors plus four music stages along Mount Vernon Avenue in the Del Ray neighborhood.

The history within reach

• Art on the Avenuesame spot

  Started in 1996 as a small block party with about 50 artists, now features over 300 juried artists and vendors plus four music stages along Mount Vernon Avenue in the Del Ray neighborhood..

• Potomac, the town Alexandria swallowed in 19300.1 mi

  Del Ray, St Elmo, Mount Ida and Hume were laid out from 1894 on their own street grid, tilted away from Old Town's, and incorporated themselves as the town of Potomac in 1908.

• Potomac Yard, one of the busiest rail yards on the East Coast0.5 mi

  Opened in 1906 as the interchange point where northern and southern railroads swapped freight, the yard sorted thousands of cars a day and drew thousands of workers who settled in Del Ray and St Elmo next door.

• The Birchmere opens as a restaurant and turns into a music hall1.0 mi

  Gary Oelze opened the place in 1966 to serve food and it became one of the country's serious rooms for bluegrass, folk, country, blues and jazz.

• Ivy Hill Cemetery and the plants that got it listed1.0 mi

  Burials started here in 1837 when this was one family's private ground, and it was chartered as a community cemetery in 1856.