CALL FOR ARTISTS

Harrisonburg Traffic Cabinet Art Wrap Project
Design Proposals Due April 12, 2024.
Learn more - and apply - here!

Smith House Galleries exhibits artVISION: Rockingham County Public Schools Youth Art Month Show March 1-29. Visit Monday-Friday, 11 am to 4 pm.

Check out the schedule of films and live events at Court Square Theater, open Wednesday-Sunday each week.

We also invite you to connect with the arts through our monthly e-newsletter, Art in Your Inbox; see the March issue here!

The Smith House, 311 South Main Street, Downtown Harrisonburg

The Smith House, 311 South Main Street, Downtown Harrisonburg

CREATING COMMUNITY THROUGH THE ARTS

Harrisonburg, Virginia is home to a thriving arts community that represents a variety of different backgrounds. This region of the Shenandoah Valley is a hub for individual artists' studios, galleries, theater events, museum exhibitions, quilting sessions, and cooperative arts spaces that encourage the creativity that is alive in all of us. 

We invite you to explore Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, Virginia—the heart of the arts—where the arts live in the heartbeat of our citizens. 

Arts Council of the Valley (ACV) cultivates the Arts, creates experiences, and connects communities
throughout the City of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County.

ACV was founded in 2000 by a group of local citizens who had a dream of bolstering the arts within the Harrisonburg and Rockingham County communities. This group conducted their initial meetings on the stage at Court Square Theater. Members managed the theater as its performing arts branch and created innovative partnerships among area businesses, civic organizations, schools, and certainly, artists.

Today the Arts Council has grown into a multi-faceted community resource that offers Advancing the Arts grants to artists and art educators; coordinates Harrisonburg’s First Fridays of the Valley events; houses monthly exhibitions in its Smith House Galleries; supports public art initiatives, and operates Court Square Theater. As a community resource, ACV’s staff and Board welcome your feedback and your ideas for partnership. Please contact us at firstfridaysdowntown@gmail.com to discuss ways we can better support you and the arts in our community.


The Arts Council of the Valley is a consistent voice of our arts community.
— Angela Carter, poet