Exhibit Dates: March 7-29, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, March 7 from 7–9pm
Remember your favorite stories as a child? The faraway lands, perilous journeys with magical characters and fantastic creatures? The Fairy Tales Around the World art exhibit at Del Ray Artisans gallery celebrates the stories and fables that shaped us, from local legends to distant tales, from mythical beasts to heroes, villains and everyone in between.
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, March 7 between 7...
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“MeWOW: Fabulous Felines” Art Exhibit at Del Ray Artisans Gallery
Exhibit Dates: February 7 - March 1, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, February 7 from 7–9pm
“Lions and Tigers and Tabbies! Oh Meow!” Local artists let their creative cat “out of the bag” in a diverse array of mediums for the purr-fectly paw-some MeWOW: Fabulous Felines exhibit at Del Ray Artisans gallery. Come see the exhibit to marvel at the power and fascination of cat imagery in art. These furry, mysterious, independent, beautiful felines have inundated history, mythology, literature, ad...
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Fairy Tales Around the World (Entries due 2/10/2025)
Call for Entry ~ Open to area artists
Fairy Tales Around the World
Exhibit Dates: March 7–29, 2025
Digital entry deadline: Monday, February 10, 2025 by midnight
Seeking artwork that celebrates the stories and fables that shaped us, from local legends to distant tales, from mythical beasts to heroes, villains and everyone in between. The artwork may be in any medium, 2-D or 3-D, realistic or abstract or any style in between.
The exhibit is open to all area artists. Del Ray Artisans mem...
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“Visual Humor” Art Exhibit at Del Ray Artisans Gallery
Exhibit Dates: January 3 – February 1, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, January 3 from 7–9pm
Humor is aesthetic to the extent that it arouses the viewers’ imagination, provides them with insights about human existence, and provokes them to think more critically and creatively.
–M. Gordon 2012
The joy found in comedy delights all. Visual Humor, a lighthearted exhibit at Del Ray Artisans gallery, offered artists the opportunity to provoke their own creativity in search of a chuckle. Visual ...
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MeWOW: Fabulous Felines (Entries due 1/19/2025)
Call for Entry ~ Open to area artists
MeWOW: Fabulous Felines
Exhibit Dates: February 7 - March 1, 2025
Digital entry deadline extended to Sunday, January 19, 2025 by midnight
Let your creative cat “out of the bag” for this “paw-some” exhibit! Marvel at the power and fascination of cat imagery in art. These furry, mysterious, independent, beautiful felines have inundated history, mythology, literature, advertising, cinema, pop culture and pet owners for centuries. Artists are encouraged ...
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Visual Humor (Entries due 12/15/2024)
Call for Entry ~ Open to area artists
Visual Humor
Exhibit Dates: January 3 – February 1, 2025
Digital entry deadline: Sunday, December 15, 2024 by midnight
The joy found in comedy delights all. Provoke your creativity in search of a chuckle. Artists are invited to explore not only how ideas or objects are comical, but also what properties of a joke give it wings. Perhaps literally.
The exhibit is open to all area artists. Del Ray Artisans members pay a discounted entry fee.
Entry Deta...
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Alcove Gift Shop (Jan-Feb 2025, Application due 12/9)
Call for Artists ~ Open to Del Ray Artisans Members
Alcove Gift Shop
January 3 – March 1, 2025
Application deadline: Monday, December 9, 2024 by midnight
Del Ray Artisans’ Alcove is a gift shop within the gallery, where members (who apply and are accepted) display and sell their work. Unframed 2-D works are available in bins alongside jewelry, fiber art, wood craft, ceramics, and other smaller 3-D items.
The work will be displayed for two months, and as pieces are sold they can be rep...
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Del Ray Artisans 29th Annual Fine Art & Fine Craft Holiday Market
First three weekends in December 2024
Join us the first three weekends in December for Del Ray Artisans’ 29th Annual Holiday Market at Del Ray Artisans gallery in the Colasanto Center, 2704 Mount Vernon Avenue, Alexandria, Virginia 22301. Market hours are Fridays 6-9pm and Saturdays 9am-5pm & Sundays 11am-5pm. The market is free to browse, open to the public, and different artists featured each weekend!
The market offers unique handmade fine arts and fine crafts from local artists pr...
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Artists Favorites (Entries due 11/8/2024)
Del Ray Artisans Members Only
Gallery Without Walls Call for Entry
Artists Favorites at VCA Alexandria Animal Hospital
December 2, 2024–September 6, 2025
Entry deadline: Friday, November 8, 2024 by midnight
Seeking 2D artwork on any subject matter. The curators prefer art that helps soothe in a stressful environment. Also, due to new guidelines for a fear-free space, we cannot accept artwork that has realistic depictions (such as unaltered photographs or other life-like artwork) of dogs...
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“$100 and Under” Art Exhibit at Del Ray Artisans Gallery
Exhibit Dates: November 1 – December 1, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, November 1 from 7–9pm
This November Del Ray Artisans is bringing back our popular $100 and Under exhibit concept from 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2022 showcasing members’ original artwork, all priced at $100 and under. The art will be sold on an art-to-go basis, with buyers taking art home when purchased during the exhibit from November 1 – December 1, 2024.
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, November 1 between ...
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