If interested, contact Susan Reichbart at ssreichbart@verizon.net. A few slots remain for a field trip to Glenstone in Potomac, Maryland, a contemporary in- and outdoor museum with two large exhibit buildings, and a 230-acre campus containing over 1,300 works of art. Admission is free. A restaurant and snack bar are available. Visit https://www.glenstone.org. Carpool transportation will be arranged.

Kathleen Stark will introduce the children to Lee Krasner, wife of Jackson Pollack and an artist in her own right. Weather permitting the children will paint outside. If you are interested in teaching elementary school children to appreciate art or would like to attend a class, contact Kathleen Stark at knstark72@gmail.com.

Jeffrey Bell has been working for the federal government, for over thirty years, as a scientific and technical photographer. His interests in photography began when his older brother gifted him a Polaroid camera at age eight. Jeffrey believes in giving back; he has been associated with the

Shooting Back for the Artsprogram, where he volunteers his time teaching photography and serving as a big brother to Washington, D.C. area young adults. He has provided assistance and photographic work to local businesses, theater companies and other photography studios.

Jeffrey has solid photographic training from several institutions here in the United States and Europe. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology and studied photography at the prestigious, Salzburg College in Salzburg, Austria.

He has been able to maintain his skills by attending seminars and workshops across the country including Santa Fe Photographic Workshops and Maine Media Workshops. Called on to provide instruction on different photographic techniques over the years, he believes once you stop learning you should get out of the business. He continues to challenge his ability, and learn from fellow photographers.

FAL offers an excellent opportunity to paint a live model. FAL member Marlene Farmer will pose from 11 to 12:30 p.m. Bring your sketching and painting supplies and try your hand. You may also work on new or started works at this informal art session. You are welcome to bring or buy your lunch at nearby restaurants.

Location: at Green Acres Center, Room 112. This is the first in the series of the classes in June.

Complete a contemporary oil painting with Padma in these hands-on sessions and learn and understand oil painting basics as you paint on canvas. All levels from beginning students to advanced trained artists are welcome. Come and discover your "Grandma Moses" within.

After Padma Prasad relocated to the U.S. from India in 1997, she began expressing herself in art. Guided by the training and advice passed on to her by her accomplished artist father, Padma began painting seriously with a desire to recreate Indian home life where she rediscovered the joy in recreating lines, colors and spaces left behind. While her original work was mostly figurative, she is currently exploring abstraction and conceptualism.

Old Town Hall, 2nd floor

Bring your artwork to display in this one-month show.

Be sure to sign up to gallery sit. Find the sitting schedule here.

Gallery training is available most every Tuesday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Art Preparation: Members please be sure to prepare your piece correctly with a wire for hanging, with hooks positioned toward the top so the artwork lies close to the wall and with room for a hand to hang it on the flat. Canvass corners should be neat, sides (no staples) should be painted and your name, title of the artwork and phone number should be affixed to the back to identify it.

Lcation: at Green Acres Center, Room 112. This is the first in the series of the classes in June.

Complete a contemporary oil painting with Padma in these hands-on sessions and learn and understand oil painting basics as you paint on canvas. All levels from beginning students to advanced trained artists are welcome. Come and discover your "Grandma Moses" within.

After Padma Prasad relocated to the U.S. from India in 1997, she began expressing herself in art. Guided by the training and advice passed on to her by her accomplished artist father, Padma began painting seriously with a desire to recreate Indian home life where she rediscovered the joy in recreating lines, colors and spaces left behind. While her original work was mostly figurative, she is currently exploring abstraction and conceptualism.

Green Acres Center, Rm. 116

Enjoy Melanie's horse painting demonstration as she shares fun ways to create a collage with mixed media.

Melanie's art reflects personal experiences, natural environs, and the emotional impact of change that she observes and explores in everyday life. She finds inspiration when riding her horse through fields of wildflowers, hiking scenic trails, and walking along oceans noting colors, shapes, movement and forms. Their transitions and interactions compel her to interpret the composition of canvass and paper through color, texture, and light.

Location: Green Acres Center, Room 116
This is the last meeting for this year. Plan to catch up on league activities and provide your input and ideas for the future.

Old Town Hall, 2nd floor, 3950 University Dr, Fairfax

FAL offers an excellent opportunity to paint a live model! Vincent DeSapio will pose from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Bring your sketching and painting supplies and try your hand. You may also work on new or started works, at this informal art session. Bring or buy your lunch at nearby restaurants.

The City of Fairfax Regional Library invites Fairfax Art League members to display artwork for four months beginning May 8. Space is limited to 20 pieces of art and is accepted on a first come-first-served basis. This popular public exhibit offers artists excellent exposure to the public
To preregister by May 6, please contact Susan Reichbart at ssreichbart@verizon.net 

Come see some of the best art your fellow artist members are exhibiting and celebrate with the winners in the only judged FAL exhibit. Enjoy a lovely reception and live entertainment from Lalo and his group. Special Opportunity: Win a basket of goodies donated by Trader Joe's. Tickets are just $1 each (buy more than one!) and support the children's art classes at the Main Street Child Development Center.

This reception is free and open to the public. Please come and bring a friend!

Bring your artwork to this informal art session and gain perspective on your work. Bring or buy your lunch and join other artists for a fun session.

Old Town Hall, 2nd Floor
3999 University Dr., Fairfax

League member artists in good standing may display work for this two-month exhibit at Old Town Hall in Fairfax, Virginia.  There is no hanging limit and there are no fees.  If you had work on display in the last show, please pick it up during this show change during the specified times.  

Reminders: Please note all artwork needs to meet FAL hanging standards. To access Rules & Procedures and for more information regarding hanging requirements, click here

Green Acres Center
4401 Sideburn Rd., Room 110, Fairfax

Mark Geiger will work with participants on techniques in watercolor painting. Beginner or expert: all are welcome. The aim is to learn by doing.

Course objectives for this three-series class are to review artistic background and techniques of watercolor to achieve basic comfort and competence in composing and executing work in this media. Beginners will learn basic concepts and techniques for a range of compositions. More experienced artists will have the opportunity to practice a range of alternative techniques and integrate theoretical material and applied methods into enhanced practice sessions.

The fee per class is $15 for members and $30 for non-members.

To register and receive a list of materials or to ask a question, please send a message to 1fairfaxartleague@gmail.com.

About the Artist

Mark Geiger is an artist specializing in local scenery, particularly using the medium of watercolor, as well as drawings, pastel and oils. His style is impressionistic, and he is drawn to the theory behind light and color. Drawing and painting have been avocations since early childhood. His work has been exhibited in the Fairfax county area, including the Fairfax Art League. Other pursuits include full time work in the fields of occupational health, safety and environmental management, reading and outdoor activities. Additional pictures and information can be found at www.MarksDClandscapes.com.

Green Acres Center
4401 Sideburn Rd., Room 110, Fairfax

Mark Geiger will work with participants on techniques in watercolor painting. Beginner or expert: all are welcome. The aim is to learn by doing.

Course objectives for this three-series class are to review artistic background and techniques of watercolor to achieve basic comfort and competence in composing and executing work in this media. Beginners will learn basic concepts and techniques for a range of compositions. More experienced artists will have the opportunity to practice a range of alternative techniques and integrate theoretical material and applied methods into enhanced practice sessions.

The fee per class is $15 for members and $30 for non-members.

To register and receive a list of materials or to ask a question, please send a message to 1fairfaxartleague@gmail.com.

About the Artist

Mark Geiger is an artist specializing in local scenery, particularly using the medium of watercolor, as well as drawings, pastel and oils. His style is impressionistic, and he is drawn to the theory behind light and color. Drawing and painting have been avocations since early childhood. His work has been exhibited in the Fairfax county area, including the Fairfax Art League. Other pursuits include full time work in the fields of occupational health, safety and environmental management, reading and outdoor activities. Additional pictures and information can be found at www.MarksDClandscapes.com.

Green Acres Center
4401 Sideburn Rd., Room 110, Fairfax

Mark Geiger will work with participants on techniques in watercolor painting. Beginner or expert: all are welcome. The aim is to learn by doing.

Course objectives for this three-series class are to review artistic background and techniques of watercolor to achieve basic comfort and competence in composing and executing work in this media. Beginners will learn basic concepts and techniques for a range of compositions. More experienced artists will have the opportunity to practice a range of alternative techniques and integrate theoretical material and applied methods into enhanced practice sessions.

The fee per class is $15 for members and $30 for non-members.

To register and receive a list of materials or to ask a question, please send a message to 1fairfaxartleague@gmail.com.

About the Artist

Mark Geiger is an artist specializing in local scenery, particularly using the medium of watercolor, as well as drawings, pastel and oils. His style is impressionistic, and he is drawn to the theory behind light and color. Drawing and painting have been avocations since early childhood. His work has been exhibited in the Fairfax county area, including the Fairfax Art League. Other pursuits include full time work in the fields of occupational health, safety and environmental management, reading and outdoor activities. Additional pictures and information can be found at www.MarksDClandscapes.com.

Members of the the FAL Children's Education Committee provide classes for the children of the Main Street Child Development Center. This class will be held at Green Acres Center.

In this class, FAL member Ramona Weaver will help the children explore color mixing by tie-dyeing white table napkins, folding them in different ways and dipping parts of them into red, yellow and blue food coloring. 

If you are interested in teaching elementary school children to appreciate art or would like to attend a class, contact Kathleen Stark at knstark72@gmail.com.

Grab your lunch, your art, and your creativity!  The Fairfax Art League will be hosting an Art & Lunch at Old Town Hall from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.  Bring a lunch and enjoy the company of other artists while creating.  There are plenty of restaurants within walking distance of the Village Gallery should you choose to pick up a bite in the area.  For more information contact  Maria Jordan at mariaTjordan10@gmail.com.

Please join us for our membership meeting at the Green Acres Center, 4401 Sideburn Road, Room 116, Fairfax, Virginia.  The meeting will begin at 10:00 a.m. and a demonstration, Watercolor Batik Painting, by artist Jack Harding, will commence at 11:30 a.m.

Learn watercolor batik techniques from artist Jack Harding. See how to create intricate backgrounds and images using Ginwashi paper, paraffin resists and various colored washes.
After he learned watercolor techniques on standard paper (Arches), Jack has concentrated on using innovative rice paper-based techniques to easily add complex coloristic and textural effects to his watercolors.  He concentrates on natural subjects such as birds and flowers, as well as landscapes, including many themes from the US Southwest and California.  

Jack lives in Potomac, Maryland, and is a signature artist of the Potomac Valley Watercolorists, Baltimore Watercolor Society and Gallery 75 at the ArtLeague in Alexandria. Find examples of Jack's work at https://www.flickr.com/photos/theartleague/albums/72157627370021733/

Old Town Hall, 2nd Floor
3999 University Dr., Fairfax

AN EVENT NOT TO BE MISSED! Because we love our members, we have planned a special party to honor you.

Enjoy a Valentine's party with special decor and refreshments plus music from guitarist Stan Hamrick. Bring your friends and family to enjoy the festivities. 

For more fun, and totally optional, you can dress in tribute to an artist you admire. For example, Frida Kahlo's unibrow, van Gogh's bandaged ear, Dali's mustache or Pollack's spatter painted clothes. The choices are unlimited. 

Old Town Hall, 2nd Floor
3999 University Dr., Fairfax

Donna Finnegan will suggest and demonstrate different ways to begin a new watercolor portrait. Come to watch, ask questions or bring your own watercolor portrait to paint. Donna will be on hand to help with all aspects of portraiture. Or, you may bring other artwork you are interested in developing and gain perspective on your work. Bring or buy your lunch and join other artists at work. 

Donna has been painting with watercolors for over 40 years and is now concentrating on portrait painting, doing commissioned works and exhibiting. She is a member of the FAL and the Potomac Valley Watercolorists.

New Fairfax Regional Library Show - For Fairfax Art League Members

Show your art at the Fairfax Regional Library, 10360 North Street, Fairfax, for the new four month show.  Advanced registration is required. Information has been sent recently to all members. No fee. Contact Susan Reichbart at ssreichbart@verizon.net for questions.

Old Town Hall, 2nd Floor
3999 University Dr., Fairfax

The Fairfax Art League invites you to a fascinating look backward into art history. Enjoy an evening of Art and Poetry. 

A century ago, Russian poetess Anna Akhmatova, an icon of the St. Petersburg poetry tradition for half a century, visited Paris and bewitched its intellectuals, Amedeo Modigliani in particular. Their affair had a profound effect on the artists' art. 

While there, enjoy featured artist Yelena Svecharnik's "My Journey - A Retrospective."

Meeting time: 10:30 a.m. 

Estimated return: 5:00 p.m.

FAL members and the public are invited to visit the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, the historic DC Department of Corrections Workhouse and Reformatory, that currently provides studio and exhibition space to over 80 artists.

The outing will begin with a stop in Occoquan to visit a few of the art gallery and craft shops then lunch at the Secret Garden restaurant followed by the Workhouse visit.

Meet at 10:30 at the home of Susan Reichbart to carpool. Please contact her for the address at ssreichbart@verizon.net if interested in attending.

Meeting time: 9:45 a.m. 

Estimated return: 4:30 p.m.

Each year in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, a city of 70,000 people erect enormous experimental art installations that rise out of the dust for a single week. Then, at its conclusion, many are burned to the ground. This thriving temporary metropolis known as the Art of Burning Man is a hotbed of artistic ingenuity and one of the most influential phenomenons in contemporary American art and culture. 

For the first time, the Art of Burning Man exhibit brings the large-scale participatory work from the desert to the national's capital. The exhibit takes over the entire Renwick Gallery building at 1661 Pennsylvania Ave, NW and brings the Burning Man culture to life through artworks, room-size installations plus jewelry, and costumes that transport visitors to the famed desert location, the "playa." The exhibit also includes six outdoor installations throughout the Golden Triangle neighborhood. Come see it for yourself with the FAL.

Carpool and Metro Transportation: Park in the garage near the old Village Gallery location at 3950 University Drive (or elsewhere) and gather by 9:45 a.m. in the air conditioned lobby by the yoga studio. At 10 a.m. designated drivers will depart for the Vienna Metro Station (Orange Line). A Metro fare card is needed to ride to the Faragut West Metro stop. Members interested in joining the group should contact Susan Reichbart at ssreichbart@verizon.net. 

Following the exhibit, the group will walk to a local restaurant and then return by Metro to the Vienna Metro Station.