Falls Church Arts

Save the Date ✨

Join us for the opening reception of our upcoming All Members exhibition (Last Names A-L). Enjoy an evening of art, conversation, and community. We’re excited to share this body of work with you and celebrate together.

📍 Falls Church Arts
🗓️ Saturday, June 6th
⏰ 7pm-9pm

We hope to see you there!

Artists Paint Outdoors in Falls Church City!
📅 August 29 – September 25, 2026

Join us for the Falls Church Plein Air Festival, featuring local and visiting artists creating artwork on location throughout the city.

Finale Saturday, September 26, 2026 (Rain Date: October 3)
🕘 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
📍 Falls Church City
🎟 Free + Open to the Public

Come watch artists paint live, explore the finished pieces, and vote for the People’s Choice Award!

🏅 Plein Air Festival Judging
Participating artists will check in and submit their competition works between 8:00–9:00 AM.

👩‍⚖️ Juror: TBA

Mark your calendar and come celebrate art in the open air! 🌿🖌️

What a Sunday afternoon of conversation and community at our 250 and Counting Artist Talk!

Thank you to our incredible panelists for sharing their work, process, and perspectives with such honesty and insight. We’re grateful to everyone who joined us and helped make the discussion so meaningful.

📸 Panel photo captured by our Juror’s Choice Award winner Brian Kent. Thank you for documenting the moment!

Panelists





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The Falls Church Arts Excellence in Art Scholarship is meant to recognize and encourage those who display an early dedication to making art. In 2026, we are offering $1,000 scholarships to a limited number of students.

The deadline for receipt of application and ALL related documents is Thursday, May 14, 2026.

Important Information:
* Complete and submit the online application form, including your artist’s statement and five images of your work.
* Ask one of your art teachers to write a recommendation based on your work or interest in advancing it.
* Ask another non-family adult to write a general recommendation, based on what they know about you, your work, your interest in art, or any efforts you have made to share your work or skills with others in your community.
* Ask your school counselor to mail an official copy of your transcript to Falls Church Arts – Attn: Scholarship Committee – PO Box 6912, Falls Church, VA 22040-6912. Your counselor may want to see the transcript request information document. 

More criteria and to apply: fallschurcharts.org

Member artists, submit your best work for the 2026 All Member Show (A-L) - entry deadline this Sunday. And we have a ton of new classes.- https://mailchi.mp/fallschurcharts.org/coming-up-at-falls-church-arts-13436203

Join us for an artist talk for the exhibition 250 and Counting. 🇺🇸

Hear directly from the artists as they share the stories, meaning, and inspiration behind their work and reflecting on America’s past, present, and future.

Artist Talk: 2:00-4:00 pm, Sunday, May 17, 2026
Location: Falls Church Arts Gallery
Admission: [Free / RSVP]
Light refreshments will be served

Come be part of the conversation and experience this powerful exhibition with the artists themselves.

Panelists:

lepo14

Falls Church Arts is inviting you to an artists’ garage sale. Falls Church Arts member artists will offer their useful but unneeded tools, paints, pencils, and other materials to fellow artists and members of the public who could use them. Artists who would like participate should register for the garage sale.

Open to the Public: 3:00-5:00 pm, Sunday, May 3, 2026
Location: Falls Church Community Center, Senior Room, 223 Little Falls Street
Admission: Free to the public

More information and to register can be found on fallschurcharts.org under the “Events” tab.

If you are a Falls Church Arts member and have useful but unneeded tools, paints, beads, materials, etc., you can offer them for sale to fellow artists and members of the public who could use them. To participate, artists must register for a table.

Open to the Public: 3:00-5:00 pm, Sunday, May 3, 2026
Location: Falls Church Community Center, Senior Room, 223 Little Falls Street
Admission: Free

More information and to register can be found under the “Events” tab on fallschurcharts.org.