 Earth Day Every Fay Festival on Langston Boulevard
Sun, Apr 24 | 12-5pm | Lee Heights Shops
The festival is a family-friendly event featuring live music, a sustainable art market, a native plant sale, environmental education exhibits, hands-on children's activities, great food, and more! More
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Music
Check out local performers on stage all afternoon! The line-up includes Jasmine Gillison, Calista Garcia, Justin Trawick and Bobby Thompson. Arlington County Poet Laureate Holly Karapetkova will also join.
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Art Market
Don’t miss the sustainable art market where you can shop from local art vendors all day. Check out the event website to learn more about the vendors.
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Family Activities
Arlington Public Library Truck
Visit the Library Truck for a variety of Earth Day themed activities: write a postcard imagining the future of Langston Boulevard, pick up some Earth Day coloring sheet, and attend a storytime by one of our children's librarians!
Hands on Climate Mural Project
Join Arlington Artists Alliance for an afternoon of mural painting. Artist and teacher, Barry Keith, has designed a hands-on climate change mural project for the whole family. Stop by and paint for a few minutes or an hour!
Arlington Parks + Rec
Join member of the Arlington County Parks and Recreation Community Arts team to create beautiful miniature cherry blossom trees! The easy 3D paper sculpture can be made and enjoyed by all ages.
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Arlington Art Truck
Learn about the history of American clothing as it relates to fashion, costume, cultural identity, garment construction, and textile waste. Browse the Artist’s sculptural tent, made of deconstructed garments that range in time period, style, and material. Each garment has a label with information about its historical context. Arlington Art Truck staff members will model garments and answer questions about sustainability and fashion. Check out the AAT at the Earth Day Every Day Festival and other activations through May 11. More
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 Arlington Arts Center Spring Exhibitions
Apr 15-June 18 | Arlington Arts Center | Virginia Square
SOLOS 2022
SOLOS 2022 includes solo exhibitions by six artists featuring new work in painting, sculpture, mixed media, installation, and performance. One of Arlington Arts Center’s longest running programs, SOLOS invites artists working in the Mid-Atlantic to submit proposals for solo exhibitions or projects to take place in one of AAC’s gallery spaces. More
Stephanie Lane: Thresholds
Arlington Arts Center is pleased to present Thresholds, a solo exhibition of abstract mixed media works on panel and paper by resident artist Stephanie Lane. Lane’s gestural abstract compositions feature line drawings that become subsumed into tangled masses of expressive paint. Working spontaneously using the wet-on-wet technique, Lane’s rapturous creative energy is communicated in lyrical lines and vivid swaths of color, capturing the intensity of a fleeting emotional state. More
Spring Exhibition Opening Reception
Sat, Apr 23 | 7-9pm
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Encore: Commedia Cinderella
Apr 22-24 | Gunston Theatre | Long Branch Creek
The Italian tradition of commedia dell’arte may be centuries old, but it’s alive and well in this rollicking play-within-a-play! The lively commedia troupe spices up the classic Cinderella story with sharp wit, slapstick shenanigans, and endless silly squabbles. More
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Jane Franklin Dance:
Forty+ Project with choreographer Emily Crews
Tuesdays | Apr 19-May 31 | 3700 S Four Mile Run Dr | Green Valley
Forty+ Projects explore movement and performance technique within a creative premise. Get invaluable health benefits from exercise, including improved strength, physical function. The project is open to people of all physical facilities. No previous performance experience is necessary. More
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GMU Center for the Arts:
Beyond the Notes with Maria Schneider
Thurs, Apr 14 | 4pm | Van Metre Hall, GMU Arlington Campus | Virginia Square
Join GRAMMY Award-winning composer Maria Schneider for an intriguing conversation about her boundary-pushing musical career and arts activism. Part of Schneider’s engagement as a Mason Artist-in-Residence with the Center for the Arts, the event is co-hosted by Mason’s Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy (C-IP²) and Arts Management Program. The conversation provides a unique opportunity to hear from Schneider on topics including the complexity of her composition process, the blending of her art and activism, and insights for both musicians and music lovers to understand the significance of copyright protection to an artist’s work. More
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Ursula Xanthe Young Solo Show: Dreaming in Color
opens Apr 21 | WHINO | Ballston
Dreaming in Color is an exploration of color & our senses. The artist wanted to examine how color makes us feel on a multi-sensory and subconscious level; not only how different colors affect mood, memory or instinct, but also how a color might taste, feel or sound. As in many of her works this series also focuses on femininity, with women at the center of each piece, often surrounded by microcosms filled with natural elements that help define those senses - tiny worlds: dreams within dreams. Join the opening reception and meet the artist on Thurs, Apr 21 at 7pm. More
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Arlington Public Library
Earth Day Pop Art Workshops!
Thurs, Apr 21 | multiple locations
Create an Earth Day Pop Art masterpiece of your own from recycled materials with Artist Michael Albert!
Mr. Albert is a nationally known artist with 25 years of experience. His work has focused on making collage artworks from cereal boxes and other printed cardboard consumer brand packages. His work has been described as a cross between Pop Art, Cubism, and recycling. In this 2-hour workshop, Mr. Albert will share examples of his artwork and instruct the group on making a collage of their own. No experience is necessary.
Aurora Hills Branch Library, 12-2pm More
Shirlington Branch Library, 4-6pm More
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Alma Katsu Book Launch for The Fervor
Tues, Apr 26 | 7pm | 2200 N Westmoreland St | East Falls Church
One More Page Books welcomes back Alma Katsu to celebrate the the release of her new novel, The Fervor. While talking about the book, she'll also discuss the history of the period and explain fire balloons and the incident that opens the book. She'll talk about the WWII internment camps, and the political aspects that made the internment possible. More
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