Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts (FCCA)

06/12/2026

Take a closer look at Breakthrough by Susan Rivers, currently on view in the FCCA Members Gallery.

The longer you spend with this painting, the more you’re rewarded for looking. Delicate lines form shapes that seem to undulate, while gestural passages give way to unexpected textures and subtle shifts in color.

Every viewer finds something different.

What do you see? Come in and spend some time looking.

06/08/2026

Monet and Renoir are familiar names, but who were the American Impressionists?

Join Professor Allen Reamer for lectures exploring the artists who studied in France, embraced Impressionism, and returned home to create a distinctly American vision of modern painting.

📅 June 9 & 16 | 7–9 PM
📍 Lower Gallery
🎟️ Free and open to the public

Featured image: Childe Hassam, The Avenue in the Rain (1917)

06/05/2026

Call for Entries: Freedom & Color

Artists are invited to submit work for FCCA’s July 2026 exhibition, Freedom & Color.

📅 Entries due: Friday, June 5, 2026 by 4 PM

We welcome interpretations that explore color, expression, imagination, and the many meanings of freedom.

Visit the FCCA submissions page for details and entry guidelines.

06/04/2026

Experiencing Problems With FCCA’s Submission Site? Pay your fee If you are unable to submit your entries through our “Online Submission” site ( you may pay your entry free using t…

06/04/2026

"Freedom & Color" entries deadline is Fri. June 5, 4 pm. Submit online https://submissions.fccagallery.org/ or hand-deliver to FCCA, 813 Sophia Street or email [email protected] and pay entry fee online at https://fccagallery.org/payment-adjustment/
If questions: email [email protected]

Experiencing Problems With FCCA’s Submission Site? Pay your fee If you are unable to submit your entries through our “Online Submission” site ( you may pay your entry free using t…

06/03/2026

Artist Spotlight ✨

Light, shadow, and a sense of place.

On view now in FCCA’s Artist Choice Exhibition, Butler Rd. Terrace by Marcia Chaves captures the quiet beauty of an everyday landscape through luminous color and atmosphere.

06/02/2026

There’s something exciting about an Artist Choice exhibition: you never quite know what you’re going to find.

Juried by Gabriel Pons of PONSHOP Studio and Gallery, our June exhibition brings together a wide range of styles, subjects, and media, all selected from works artists felt most compelled to share.

Featured on this month’s poster are works by Caleb Mathews, Jill Chesnut, and Susan Rivers.

Join us for First Friday on June 5, or stop by throughout the month to experience the exhibition.

📍 FCCA Gallery, 813 Sophia Street, Fredericksburg, VA

06/01/2026

Don't miss this opportunity to attend another informative and entertaining art history illustrated lecture at the FCCA, 813 Sophia Street.

FCCA Art History illustrated summer lecture series:
"American Impressionism" Tuesday, June 2, 2026 7:00 – 9:00pm in Members' Gallery FREE - Professor Allen Reamer

The French Impressionistic painters Monet and Renoir are well known, but the American Impressionists? Who are they? What were they trying to do? How did this French movement affect their lives and their painting style? Where did they learn to produce this new style? What did they do when they returned from France? You will discover the answers to these questions and more as we discuss
the life and art of some of the American Impressionists.

06/01/2026

FCCA Art History illustrated summer lecture series:
"American Impressionism" Tuesday, June 2, 2026 7:00 – 9:00pm in Members' Gallery FREE - Professor Allen Reamer

The French Impressionistic painters Monet and Renoir are well known, but the American Impressionists? Who are they? What were they trying to do? How did this French movement affect their lives and their painting style? Where did they learn to produce this new style? What did they do when they returned from France? You will discover the answers to these questions and more as we discuss
the life and art of some of the American Impressionists.

05/19/2026

FCCA Art History illustrated summer lecture series:
Surrealism Tuesday, May 19, 2026 7:00 – 9:00pm in Members' Gallery FREE - Professor Allen Reamer

Surrealism is an art style in which fantastical visual imagery from the subconscious mind is used with no intention of making the work logically comprehensible. The Surrealists included Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico, Jean Arp, Man Ray, Joan Miro and Rene Magritte. We will begin by discussing the history of Surrealism and its roots. Next, we will discuss art and lives of as many Surrealists as time permits