Tephra ICA Festival

Tephra ICA Festival The Festival is comprised of one-on-one experiences, performances, and special events leaving an exciting, thoughtful mark in the region.

Tephra ICA Arts Festival (formerly Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival) highlights more than 200 artists who are creating unique, handmade works in the fields of fine art and craft. Now in its 31st year, the Tephra ICA Festival (formerly Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival) will take place on May 20–22, 2022 and will highlight more than 200 artists who are creating unique, handmade works in the

fields of fine art and craft. Drawing upon a robust exhibitor and collector base coupled with Tephra ICA’s contemporary art foundation, the Festival has become one of the region’s most anticipated events, attracting approximately 30,000 people to the unique, outdoor environment of Reston Town Center. Scroll down to learn more about this marquee event.

10/30/2024

Email from Art-Linx Show Date: May 17-18, 2025 34th Annual Tephra ICA Arts Festival (VA) May 17-18, 2025 Application Deadline 1/2/25 Late Application Deadline 1/5/25 Apply Here Call to Artists WHAT: 3

Join us at the Family Art Park! On May 18 and May 19 from 12pm–4pm in Reston Town Square Park, enjoy on-site art-making ...
05/08/2024

Join us at the Family Art Park! On May 18 and May 19 from 12pm–4pm in Reston Town Square Park, enjoy on-site art-making activities and a place to relax.

This year in the Family Art Park, construct your own “Festival Finders” to help you look closely at the featured artwork from the 200+ Festival artists! Visitors will use stamps, colored pencils, markers, crayons, and techniques inspired by the Pressing exhibition on view in the Tephra ICA gallery to decorate their Festival Finders, then head off into the Festival footprint to complete an Art Explorer Guide.

Also in the park, Festivalgoers can contribute to a community art project inspired by multidisciplinary artist Danielle Hatch’s installation, All Is In Motion, Is Growing, Is You, currently on view at Mercury Fountain Square in Reston Town Center.

Don’t miss other family-friendly Festival activities like jump roping workshops, face painting, balloon twisting, and more!

Now in its 33rd year, the Tephra ICA Arts Festival will take place on May 18–19, 2024 at Reston Town Center. Over 200 co...
04/26/2024

Now in its 33rd year, the Tephra ICA Arts Festival will take place on May 18–19, 2024 at Reston Town Center. Over 200 contemporary artists and artisans will travel from 32 states to present original handmade artwork to share with Festival audiences.

This year, the headlining performance at the Festival will be presented by Arkansas-based multidisciplinary artist Danielle Hatch!


All Is in Motion, Is Growing, Is You is a site-specific textile installation and accompanying performance taking inspiration from the founding of the community of Reston, in particular the negotiation between the roles of the individual and the collective in the process of community building. The Reston Town Center site and architecture is explored for possibility, transformation, and connection. With colors and shapes informed by native flowering plants of Northern Virginia, the installation and performances navigate and illustrate the tension between beauty and constraint within communal relationships.


Performance Schedule:

Saturday, May 18 | 1pm and 4pm

Sunday, May 19 | 1pm and 4pm

Mercury Fountain Plaza, 11900 Fountain Dr, Reston, VA

Free and open to the public.


All Is in Motion, Is Growing, Is You is presented by Reston Community Center, with support from Tephra ICA, Reston Town Center Association, and BXP.

Now in its 33rd year, the Tephra ICA Arts Festival will take place on May 18–19, 2024 at Reston Town Center. Over 200 co...
04/16/2024

Now in its 33rd year, the Tephra ICA Arts Festival will take place on May 18–19, 2024 at Reston Town Center. Over 200 contemporary artists and artisans will travel from 32 states to present original handmade artwork to share with Festival audiences. We are pleased to introduce the 2024 roster of Festival artists!

Tephra ICA is thrilled to introduce over 60 first-time participating artists such as Michigan-based printmaker Betsy Best. Image Credit: Betsy Best.

Explore all the 2024 artists at our website:
https://www.tephraica.org/festival-artists

Tephra ICA Arts Festival Gets Better Every Year!Now in its 33rd year, the Tephra ICA Arts Festival will take place on Ma...
04/09/2024

Tephra ICA Arts Festival Gets Better Every Year!

Now in its 33rd year, the Tephra ICA Arts Festival will take place on May 18–19, 2024 at Reston Town Center. Over 200 contemporary artists and artisans will travel from across the country to present original handmade artwork to share with Festival audiences. Every year, Tephra ICA works to expand the Festival experience and welcome new attendees.

Guided Tours and Artist Demos:

Join us for artist demo hours, where select artists will reveal their making processes, or take a guided tour through the Festival, curated by regional arts professionals.

Food and Beverage and Sip & Stroll:

Enjoy a beverage from a Reston Town Center restaurant as you peruse artist booths and grab a snack from food vendors throughout the Festival. Sip & Stroll is presented by Reston Town Center Association.


Come for the Festival, Stay for the Concert:

On Saturday, May 18, artists booths will be open until 7pm, followed by a free public concert at the Reston Town Center Pavilion featuring the band Old Skool and an extended Sip & Stroll. The concert is part of Reston Concerts on the Town organized by Reston Town Center Association.

Family Activities:

Stop by the Family Art Park in Reston Town Square Park to enjoy free arts making activities for art enthusiasts of all ages. Throughout the Festival you will find free fun for the whole family including face painting, balloon twisting, make-and-take floral arrangements, jump roping performances, games, and more.

The Festival is produced by Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, and serves as the organization’s largest annual fundraiser, allowing year-round exhibitions and programs to be free and open to the public. The word “tephra” – matter from geothermal eruptions that lands upon, nourishes, and changes the surrounding environment - emphasizes the institution’s belief in the combustibility of creativity and the generation of ideas and growth that the arts can provide.

Mark your calendars for this vibrant community celebration of the arts!

Volunteer at the Tephra ICA Arts Festival!Now in its 33rd year, the Tephra ICA Arts Festival will take place on May 18–1...
04/01/2024

Volunteer at the Tephra ICA Arts Festival!

Now in its 33rd year, the Tephra ICA Arts Festival will take place on May 18–19, 2024 at Reston Town Center. Over 200 contemporary artists and artisans will travel from across the country to present original handmade artwork to share with Festival audiences.

Volunteers, like you, make this event possible each year by filling a variety of important roles and each task is critical to the Festival’s success! Individuals, corporate teams, community groups, scout troops, and students are all encouraged to get involved!

Explore the volunteer opportunities here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050E49A4AF28A75-48349927-prefestival #/

Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art (Tephra ICA) is pleased to announce that the Tephra ICA Arts Festival, formerly tit...
04/01/2024

Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art (Tephra ICA) is pleased to announce that the Tephra ICA Arts Festival, formerly titled the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival, will take place on May 18–19, 2024.

This special weekend brings 200 artists from over 25 states across the country, producing high quality, hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind artwork to the dynamic outdoor setting of Reston Town Center. The Festival provides the opportunity to make new friends and purchase art from exceptional contemporary artists. Visitors to the Festival will also enjoy a Sip & Stroll event throughout the Festival footprint, innovative performances presented by Reston Community Center, guided tours, a free public concert presented by Reston Town Center Association, and art-making activities for art enthusiasts of all ages.

Mark your calendars for this vibrant community celebration of the arts!

📷: Karina Llergo, Ride Your Way, 2023

Now in its 31st year, the Tephra ICA Festival highlights more than 200 artists who are creating unique, handmade works i...
04/27/2022

Now in its 31st year, the Tephra ICA Festival highlights more than 200 artists who are creating unique, handmade works in the fields of fine art and fine craft. In the competitive artist application process, each submission is reviewed by a juror panel, made up of visual arts leaders, artists, and practitioners, who select top ranked artists across ten categories to present their work at the Festival.

Preview the 2022 artists at tephraica.org/festival.

Each year, one artwork is selected from a participating Festival artist to use for promotion of the Festival. This year Fly Me To The Moon (featured above) has been selected by returning artist, and prior award winner in the category of painting, Cassie Taggart ().

Cassie Taggart is a painter, sculptor, and mixed media artist based in Silver Springs, MD. Taggart’s work straddles the line between dream and reality—creating scenes that hold multiple truths by layering scale, time, and place. The painting Fly Me to the Moon examines the continuity of matter as it moves through the circle of life, and how death and decay are essential elements of a thriving and interconnected existence. As the COVID-19 pandemic transformed the world in less than a month’s time, Taggart developed this image with a begrudging sense of respect for the ingenuity and power of the microscopic world within us. The person lying in the bed presents the creativity of the pathogens blooming within their body. Lush greens and sprawling plant growth celebrate the flourishing of these powerful forces of nature, even as humanity serves as their petri dish.

When asked about the symbolism within her painting, Taggart emphasized the importance of the rabbits who bear witness to this scene—demonstrating the empathic capacity of animals which is often overlooked. Regarding the violin case and music stand, the artist speaks of the healing power of music, and how in caring for her elderly father she has experienced how music “brings him back to himself, and to joy.”

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