ABOUT
ART ON THE AVENUE
A regional multicultural arts and music festival
IN THE HEART OF ALEXANDRIA’S DEL RAY NEIGHBORHOOD.
GETTING HERE:
Art on the Avenue takes place on Mount Vernon Avenue, between Hume and Bellefonte Avenues.
Parking is extremely limited.
Free trolley transportation is available from the Braddock Road Metro!
Art on the Avenue is a multicultural arts festival held in the Del Ray neighborhood of Alexandria, Virginia, celebrating our community’s diversity through the arts.
2023 is our 28th annual event!
This festival is held on the first Saturday in October.
Every year, thousands of visitors stroll down Mt. Vernon Avenue in Del Ray, Alexandria, between Bellefonte and Hume Avenues — people are greeted by more than 300 artists (jewelers, silversmiths & beaders, woodworkers, pottery makers, soap crafters, glass makers, unique painters, sculptors, fabric artists & more), musicians (Irish, folk, rock-n-roll, country & more), and food vendors (hot dogs, BBQ, Indian, Mexican, pizza, crab cakes, chocolate bananas dipped on sticks, homemade cider donuts & more). Kids activities have always been a vital part of the festival — stuff your own scarecrow, paint a pumpkin, lotus flower design, weave screen art, to name a few.
WETA Neighborhoods
View a brief video from our 2005 festival.
We’ve grown so much since then!
Art on the avenue has been voted Best of Virginia for 2022 by Virginia Living Magazine… yet again!
