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Fall Art Tour Blog

The Fall Art Tour might be once a year (the first full weekend of November), but there’s lots to enjoy all year round! Click the links below to find out more, and subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date!

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2025 Tour Weekend!

2025 Tour Weekend!

New Artists on the 2025 Tour!

New Artists on the 2025 Tour!

Celebrating 20 years!

Celebrating 20 years!

October, 2025

October, 2025

September, 2025 – Tour Updates!

September, 2025 – Tour Updates!

September, 2025

September, 2025

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A very special pop-up show at Gay Street Gallery o A very special pop-up show at Gay Street Gallery on May 30-31, 2026! Jeff Turner and Helen I’anson! As friends of Kevin Adams and devoted fans of his artwork, the artists are donating their net proceeds from a special pop-up exhibition to the Kevin H. Adams Memorial Endowment for Art in the Park at the Shenandoah National Trust so that more artists will have the opportunity to produce works of art in such magnificent surroundings. Gay Street Gallery owner and Kevin’s husband Jay Ward Brown will be personally matching their contribution to double the donation to this worthwhile endowment. More details on our May blog post at https://fallarttour.org/project/may-2026/ (blog link in profile!)
Cheryl Reisler returns to the Fall Art Tour this y Cheryl Reisler returns to the Fall Art Tour this year! Cheryl is a sculptural artist, who says of her work, "My sculptures reflect my personal journey. In practice, I often step back and reflect on its shape, color, and texture connecting me with a thought, emotion, a place or person. I use both traditional and found materials that enhance the visual effect of the work. Many of the found objects are from jewelry boxes, junk drawers, and forgotten bobbles that I have rediscovered with a childlike enthusiasm. My figurative work is three dimensional, tactile and meant to be viewed and touched from different angles and perspectives. The composition of color, shape and texture excites and inspires me." We're thrilled to welcome Cheryl and her gorgeous work back to the Tour. Stay tuned for updates to our website, where you'll get a sneak peak of the new work our artists and galleries will be featuring this year! The 21st annual Fall Art Tour is November 7-8, 2026! Mark your calendars, and sign up for our newsletter at www.fallarttour.org (under the Get the News tab) to get all Tour updates and information sent directly to your inbox!
Elena Rousseau is a multi-dimensional sculptural a Elena Rousseau is a multi-dimensional sculptural artist in Rappahannock County, VA. She works out of her beautiful studio in an historic building in Flint Hill, VA. Elena says, "The Florence Room, my studio, is a room dedicated to bringing spirit and matter together through the discipline of artistic endeavor and for the sake of pursuing an emergence of beauty that is as diverse and marvelous as each of us. My studio is a chapel of the arts, a space set apart for the creative process which often feels to me like the mixing of worlds. The Florence Room is where I live in that overlap of heaven and earth, where I write poetry, grind mineral pigments into pastes, mix marble plaster for use in fresco paintings, sculpt canvas with gesso, and embellish Italian giltwood artifacts with gold leaf, gems, and minerals. "My artistic practice is a constant exercise in freedom, in which tight precision and unapologetic spontaneity bow to one another in turn. It is not uncommon for me to unmake things as often as I make them. This ritual of adding/removing, making/breaking, building/deconstructing is a reenactment of the passage of time and of what it means to be human, I think— excavating life for our truest selves, learning the art of transfiguration as we go, and bringing the world with us toward a unity that grows vast instead of diminishing." See more of her work on our website at www.fallarttour.org, and on this year's Tour - our 21st! November 7-8, 2026!
Stepping into an artist’s studio during the Fall Stepping into an artist’s studio during the Fall Art Tour feels like getting a backstage pass to the creative process. Visiting Margaret Rogers’s printing and painting studio is one of those moments that sticks with you. You are surrounded by works in progress, finished pieces, tools, textures, color experiments, and all the little clues that show how ideas actually become art. Added to that, her family's coffee roasters, Central Coffee Roasters, is in the same building, for a double treat! This is what makes the Tour so special. You are not just looking at beautiful pieces. You are meeting the people behind them, standing in the spaces where the work is made, and getting a glimpse into the daily rhythm of an artist’s life. It turns art into a shared experience instead of something you only observe from a distance. We hope you'll join us this year for the 21st annual Fall Art Tour of the Artists of Rappahannock! November 7 - 8, 2026 - subscribe to our newsletter at www.fallarttour.org (link in profile!) to stay up to date on the Tour and all our artists and galleries!
Phylls Northup's new show opens tomorrow, May 22, Phylls Northup's new show opens tomorrow, May 22, at Middle Street Gallery, and the opening reception is May 30, 2026, 4:00 – 6:00 pm. Come out to Middle Street to meet the artist and hear more about her beautiful work and inspiration! Phyllis says, "Recognizing the creative spirit in my young soul, my grandmother gave me a beginner set of oils when I was nine years old. Thus began my love affair with all things art and the beginning of a lifetime of learning and growing as an artist and art teacher.�" See more on this month's blog post and read more about Phyllis' journey at https://fallarttour.org/project/may-2026/ (link in profile!)
New show now open at Gay Street Gallery in Washing New show now open at Gay Street Gallery in Washington, VA! This exhibit features the works of Martin Woodard, Aster da Fonseca, and Maureen Storey. The gallery also features work from other local and national artists, works from the archives of Kevin H. Adams, and selected works from the Gallery Owner’s Collection. See it now through August 2, 2026! For more information, check out our May blog post at https://fallarttour.org/project/may-2026/ (link in profile). Want to get our blog and other updates about the Tour directly to your inbox? Subscribe to our newsletter at www.fallarttour.org, under the Get the News tab!
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