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Fairfax Art Walk | Fairfax Recreation Community Services, Arts and Culture

This program was developed by Fairfax Parks and Recreation under the leadership of Anne Mannes as part of the initiative to develop and highlight the role of the arts in Fairfax. Our featured artists come from all disciplines including painting and visual arts, maker arts, music, dance, and the written word. Artists partner with and show their work at area businesses and merchants central to downtown for this annual event. Family-friendly, we also feature a scavenger hunt. Participants can enter to win prizes provided by our area businesses and merchants.

The Fairfax ArtWalk was originally conceived of by Stephanie Mohan and Georgia Gibbs, the 2017 Fairfax Artists in Residence, as a way to highlight the arts in our community and the versatility of our local businesses. The Fairfax Art Walk continues to develop and grow and is still one of the key ‘gifts’ by the Artist in Residence to the community of Fairfax and beyond. We are building some exciting partnerships with Fairfax Volunteers and the Chamber of Commerce, among others, to bring the community art programs and events. Learn more about the role of the arts in Fairfax ➜

The 2023 Fairfax Art Walk Team

The 2023 Art Walk is co-produced by Fairfax AIR recipients Stephanie Mohan, and Susan Pascal-Beran, and Sharon Virtue under the direction of Anne Mannes.

Georgia Gibbs: web development

Fairfax Artist in Residence 2023

Stephanie Mohan is a portrait photographer, with a studio downtown Fairfax. She loves working both in and out of the studio, specializing in headshots, families and pets. With a degree in photojournalism, it is her passion to cover social justice protests and marches for organization probonophoto.org. Learn more ➜

Susan Pascal-Beran has been creating sculptures for over 30 years. She specialized in large scale kinetic art that is created to celebrate the environments in which they are situated. By using weather-resistant and highest-quality materials, she creates art that endures and designs motion not only to survive the elements and specific challenges of each site, but to benefit from them, play with them, and story-tell about them. Learn more ➜

Sharon Virtue is a British artist of Jamaican and Irish heritage, living in Fairfax. She is a multi-media artist, with a BA in Fine art and a Masters in Community arts from Goldsmiths University in London, U.K. She has a strong social practice and believes artists are agents of transformation. Her mission on earth is to provide access to the greater community in the creation of art. Find her on the web and follow on Instagram ➜.