Alexandria, VA – Hardly anything rivals the floral palette of springtime in the DMV. Cherry blossom fever is contagious, upstaging the many enticing exhibits calling Alexandria art aficionados back indoors.
As a perfect prelude to the seventh annual Old Town Festival of Speed and Style on Sunday, May 17, 2026, Del Ray Artisans presents Fast and Fabulous. This car-centric exhibition with complementary multimodal transportation facets, curated by Zebra columnists/photographers and avid car enthusiasts Kelly and Scott MacConomy, is on view from April 3 to May 25, 2026.
The curators have donated one hundred percent of the sale of the exhibit banner and the postcard original artwork sales to DRA in memory of two beloved artist members who passed recently: mixed-media artists Donna Gallo and Rusty Lynn. The gallery will be open for a sneak preview and a scavenger hunt on Thursday, April 2, from 6 to 9 p.m. An opening reception from 7 to 9 p.m. follows on April 3. Admission is always free at DRA and all are welcome to attend the reception.
At the Torpedo Factory Art Center, you’ll find three floors of artful fabulousness. Perfect diversion options for those April-showers-bring-May-flowers rainy days. Be sure to visit the Printmakers Inc. Gallery in Studio 14.
Paint to Print is the new solo print show on exhibit through April 30, 2026. Marcus Beauregard is showing a selection of his paintings which he reimagined as prints. Marcus discovered that while his paintings explore compositions one stroke at a time, the printmaking process is a collective, pre-determined effort creating transportive etchings and mezzoprints with the eye of a canvas master. The result is elegant and absolutely exquisite.
Ever inspired and artfully fabulous, Nepenthe Gallery has plenty planned to entice even the most die-hard blossom peeper inside. Kicking off April is an homage to the fittingly Pink (full) Moon with a pop-up exhibit at the Wine Gallery 108 in Old Town, April 2-4, 2026. The weekly ART+WINE+CHEESE reception at 6pm will be held here at 108 N. St. Asaph Street. Meet exhibiting moonstruck artists Anne Meagher-Cook and Judith Judy.
Now in its tenth year, NOVA Plein Air Artists has evolved into a thriving network of working outdoors-dedicated DMV artists. Dozens of member artists’ work will be on exhibit at Nepenthe through May 6, 2026, with many of them in attendance at the AWC reception April 9 at 6 p.m.
Don’t miss the new collection by mixed-media abstract and semi-abstract artist Sweta Shah. Her compelling narrative compositions are reminiscent of the master collage artist Romare Bearden. Meet Sweta at the April 16 AWC 6 p.m. reception.
What better floral finales for the month of April than an AWC reception for the collaboration between arrangements made by the Waynewood Garden Club paired with painterly still lifes on exhibit April 23 at 6 p.m.
On April 30 at 6 p.m., Nepenthe hosts the Hollins Hills House + Garden Tour kickoff. In an homage to the historic neighborhood, the last April AWC reception will showcase mid-century modern art by giants such as Motherwell, Dali, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frankenthaler, Kharchenko, and many more inspired by and inspiring to the architectural and lifestyle movements of the 1940s–1960s.
As Nepenthe Gallery owner Carrie Garland exclaims, “Come raise a glass with us to toast decades of creative living here in Alexandria.” We couldn’t have written it better. Except to add… Welcome spring at last!
