Murals for 2025 will be started the week of May 12th and be finished up during the 2025 Virginia Street Arts Festival May 17-18 in downtown Waynesboro! There are lots of activities planned!
🎨 New Murals, New Energy
This year, three talented artists will transform blank walls into stunning murals, adding to Waynesboro’s growing collection of public art. Watch them bring their visions to life in real time! Read more about the artists and the murals here!
📍Blossoming Within | Muralist, Jesse Jentzen | 131 + 141 N Wayne Avenue
📍The Lure | Muralist, Humble | 180 Port Republic Road
📍Native Osprey Hunting | Muralist, Andrew Davis | 126 S Wayne Avenue
🏺Mobile Museum Exhibits in the Arch Avenue Parking Lot
📍The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is bringing their art mobile to Waynesboro! Enjoy the museum’s VMFA on the Road: An Artmobile for the 21st Century Saturday, May 17 from 10-6:00 pm and Sunday, May 18 12-4:00 pm.
📍LVA on the Go, the mobile Library of Virginia, will be set up on Saturday, May 17 from 10-6:00 pm. Their activities vary, but include genealogy help, reference tutorials, library account registration, oral history recordings, and children’s activities.
📍The Virginia Museum of Natural History has their Mobile Science Outreach Experience permanently located in Waynesboro! Their mobile museum contains exhibits and displays of a variety of specimens and materials from the museum’s scientific collections and is set at the future home of the Waynesboro campus of the Virginia Museum of Natural History.
📍Cousins Main Lobster Truck will be at the Arch Avenue Parking along with the the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Virginia Museum of Natural History on Sunday, May 18 from 11-6:00 pm.
🎨DIY Art Projects
📍Decorate Your Own VASAF t-shirt at the ‘Blossoming Within’ mural location! This pay-what-you-will activity is sponsored by Initial Inspiration and donations will go towards a local non-profit, TBD. We’ll have the t-shirts and all the supplies to do your own ‘Sharpie Tie-Dye’ design!
📍Fish Community Art Project at ‘The Lure’ mural location! This activity will be hosted by Waynesboro Parks and Rec and we are asking adult community members to decorate a fish to be part of a larger art installation. Don’t worry, we’ll have something for the kiddos to do too!
📍Art Carnival at the ‘Native Osprey Hunting’ mural location! This interactive art carnival is hosted by Shenandoah Valley Art Center and we’ll have more details coming soon!
🚶Street Art Tours
📍Take a free guided tour of Waynesboro’s downtown street art and get some Waynesboro swag! The Waynesboro Public Library is hosting a walks on May 17 at 10:00 am and 12:00 pm. Each walk takes about an hour and a half and is about a two-mile walk. You’ll learn about the art and the muralist. Start at the Library and end up downtown where all the action is! Register here.
📅 Save the Date!
Join us for a weekend of art, music, and community on Saturday, May 17 from 10:00 am – 6:00 pm and Sunday, May 18 from 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm in downtown Waynesboro!
**This is a DORA event! Grab an adult beverage from your favorite downtown restaurant and take it with you while you enjoy the festivities!
VSAF is all-volunteer with no paid staff, and in the non-profit world, “cash is capability.” Contributions help fund the paint and artist-travel. If you like what VSAF does, perhaps you, your organization, or your business could contribute. Here’s the GIVING info/form page.
Photos below, cleared for press use, are from 2021‘s VSAF.
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ARTISTs….WALL/SITE-OWNERs….SPONSORs,GIVERs….VOLUNTEERs….PERFORMERs….VENDORs.