Art Exhibition at City Hall

Welcome to Your Local Fairfax Art League in Old Town

We bring art to Old Town and throughout Fairfax County, VA - to students at the Child Development Center on Main Street, to the public at Green Acres Community Center on Sideburn Road, regional festivals, and more. Our exhibits display regularly at the Fairfax City Hall, The Virginian, and possibly at your local parish, too. FAL Paint Nights and Art Workshops are local favorites. Discover what Fairfax Art League does- and can do- for your home, office, and community. Support local artists at the online art shop. Join us!

About

The Fairfax Art League traces its roots to an informal art show featuring six local artists, organized by neighborhood friends in 1986 at the former John C. Wood Elementary School. A year later, these six artists—Donya Bauer, Jackie Cawley, Art Cole, Deron Decesare, Kathryn Higgins, and Deb Smith—founded “The Fairfax Art League.”  In 1989, the League became a non-profit corporation. Since 1991, the growing Art League has hosted rotating shows and sales at Old Town Hall, the 1900 neo-classical building at the corner of Main Street and University Drive.  The gallery’s motto: “Original Art at Affordable Prices.”

From six members, Fairfax Art League has grown to 100 members, who run the gamut of artistic media and backgrounds.  The Art League hosts monthly non-juried shows featuring an artist of the month, sponsors workshops, participates in the City’s Spotlight on the Arts Festival and other special events, and partners with George Mason University for its Festival of Arts.  A longstanding Art League program is its support for student artists at Fairfax High School and other Fairfax County elementary schools.

Today, the Fairfax Art League continues producing “original art at affordable prices” and promoting community arts education for its member artists, the general public, and Fairfax County schoolchildren. The League is sustained through the tax-deductible contributions of its generous donors and sponsors, including the City of Fairfax, Clarion, and the Kathryn and Wilbert Higgins Endowment Fund.