Exhibit Dates: June 7–30, 2024 Opening Reception: Friday, June 7 from 7–9pm Starting on Friday, June 7th, come celebrate visual depictions of love at the All About Love exhibit at Del Ray Artisans gallery. In this exhibit, local artists explore the concept of love in all of its forms: romantic love, love for one’s parents and siblings, love of pets, young love, enduring couples, strong friendships, soulmates, and more. While the ancient Greeks identified eight major types of love (eroti...

Exhibit Dates: May 3 – June 2, 2024 Opening Reception: Friday, May 3 from 7–9pm Step into a world where art intersects with tea. Through The Art of Tea exhibit at Del Ray Artisans gallery, artists explore the culture of tea, a drink that dates back thousands of years to China's Shang Dynasty. Channeling their inner Zhou Fang, Matisse, Cassatt, and van Rijsselberghe, artists depict themes and stories surrounding this aromatic beverage. From tea cups and tea pots to the Mad Hatter or Boston ...

Exhibit Dates: April 5–27, 2024 Opening Reception: Friday, April 5 from 7-9pm To celebrate International Diversity Month, this art exhibit highlights the beauty and richness of diversity through artists’ interpretations of the concept Same But Different. This Del Ray Artisans members showcase explores notions of identity, distinctions and similarities in our natural and manmade world. Through a variety of mediums, styles, and perspectives, the Same But Different exhibit invites the viewers...

Exhibit Dates: March 1–30, 2024 Opening Reception: Friday, March 1 from 7-9pm Come see The Power of Two art exhibit at Del Ray Artisans gallery opening on March 1, 2024. This exhibit features any two related items in one piece of art, such as two of a kind, two complementary items, duos, twins, parents and children, and lovers. Through the exhibit you'll recall some famous twos: "Double your pleasure, double your fun” (Wrigley’s Doublemint Gum); “Two great tastes that taste great together”...

Exhibit Dates: February 2–24, 2024 Opening Reception: Friday, February 2 from 7-9pm Come see the Visible Touch: A Look at Texture exhibit featuring works by local artists that explore texture through physical form or visual illusion. Join us for the opening reception on Friday, February 2 between 7-9pm at Del Ray Artisans gallery to meet curators Dawn Wyse Hurto and Lesley Hall and the artists. Mark your calendar or set a reminder: visible-touch.eventbrite.com. Texture is one of the fun...

Exhibit Dates: January 5–27, 2024 Opening Reception: Friday, January 5 from 7-9pm Visit Del Ray Artisans gallery’s Visions of Resilience: Art for Climate Justice exhibit from January 5–27, 2024 to explore the emotionally resonant power of art to inspire and raise awareness about climate change and its impact on marginalized communities. Art holds the power to portray what words so often miss. This exhibit conveys environmental issues through the universal languages of image and feeling wit...

Exhibit Dates: November 3–26, 2023 Opening Reception: Friday, November 3, 7-9pm Have you ever had a housemate who made you laugh, drove you crazy, made you shake your head in wonder or filled your heart with love? Do your housemates have fur, feathers, scales, fins or are they actually people? In the Housemates art exhibit, the members of Del Ray Artisans share their housemates through many creative forms: painting, photography, digital art, sculpture, ceramics, or whatever medium brings t...

Exhibit Dates: October 6–28, 2023 Opening Reception: Friday, October 6, 7-9pm Come see daring swordswomen, haggard bog witches, bevies of mythical beasts, and many more artist interpretations of the fantastic! Taking inspiration from the texture of a dragon’s skin, the swirling cloak of a sorceress, the shriek of a hydra, and a technical manual of swordplay, curator Dr. Erica Hughes presents an otherworldly collection of local art in the Curses! Foiled Again! The Art of Swords and Sorcery ...

Exhibit Dates: September 1–30, 2023 Opening Reception: Friday, September 1, 7-9pm Art allows the viewer to travel and experience new sights without leaving their home. The Farther Afield art exhibit takes this more literally by celebrating artwork that takes us outside of our day-to-day life to locations far and wide. Whether depicting a scene from a day trip or from halfway across the world, these artworks transport the viewer away from Alexandria to new cities, states, countries, and con...

Exhibit Dates: August 4–26, 2023 Opening Reception: Friday, August 4, 7-9pm Celebrate the wonders of DC, Maryland, and Virginia by visiting the Treasures of the DMV art exhibit at Del Ray Artisans gallery. In this exhibit, local artists highlight both famous and overlooked regional gems and reveal a sense of place and time in our modern world of shifting meanings through paintings, fiber art, sculptures, mixed media works, photography, and more. Join us for the opening reception on Frid...