PWAS Online Art Gallery Store
The Prince William Art Society is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization made up of local artists living in and around Prince William County, Virginia. PWAS is the oldest art group in PWC with currently over 70+ members. Our website features an online Art Store with art showing from some of our members.
PWAS History
The art group began in 1971, beginning as the Woodbridge Art Guild (WAG) and later changing their name to the Prince William Art Society, and called PWAS for short.
A brief history is found here:
https://www.princewilliamartsociety.com/aboutus
And for a more in depth, full history on PWAS is found on this blog, here:
https://artistryspin.blogspot.com/2021/08/post-1-about-pwas-history-of-prince.html
The PWAS website is a great place to find out much more about our art group, news and events, art classes and registration, our scholarship program and much more at https://www.princewilliamartsociety.com/
The Prince William Art Society has had a busy year thus far. Here is a list of some of the art events and shows we've been a part of so far in 2024:
- PW Native Plant Symposium in Feb
- Manassas Bee Festival in June
- The Winery at Sunshine Ridge Farm Art Show in Gainsville in March-May
- Bluebell Festival at Merrimac Farm in Nokesville in April
- Artist Inventory Sale in Manassas in April
- Spring Tall Oaks Art Show in May in Lakeridge
- Started offering free and various art classes
- Started the PWAS Plein Air Posse Group who were recently in Occoquan and Nokesville
- Awarded 2 Scholarships to high school students going to pursue art studies in May
- Offered PWAS members the use of our online Art Store found here https://www.princewilliamartsociety.com/category/all-products
- And that's only the first half of the year!
Support Your Local Artists
The artist members of the Prince William Art Society are all local and talented artists that are very diverse in mediums used as well as areas of interest and art subjects. If you've been to any of the art shows listed above in Lakeridge, Manassas, Nokesville, Gainsville, and Occoquan, you may very well have seen some artwork created by some of the PWAS artists. The PWAS Art Store is ever growing, so check out the art found there as the store grows.
Prince William Art Society's Online Art Gallery Store
All
of the PWAS artists are asked to send one art piece with all the
pertinent info to Store@PrinceWilliamArtSociety.com to be included in
the store. It's easy to help promote and to purchase the art pieces
there, click on the image and notice the WhatsApp, Facebook, X/Twitter
and Pinterest are clickable to create posts to those social sites. Be
logged in to your account to make it even easier.
Check out the PWAS website to learn more about the art group and to shop local - supporting the artists in Prince William County.
Artistry Spin Blogmaster and an artist member of PWAS in Woodbridge, VA, specializing in acrylic painting. She paints landscapes, seascapes, animals and many subjects. Visit her Website at DonnaLiguriaArt.com, her Donna's Esty site and her Blog at Donna’s Cave Paintings.
Local Art: The Prince William Art Society is a 50+-year-old non-profit art group in PWC for the appreciation of fine art throughout the county and Northern Virginia. Visit us at any of our local art shows or join us for our monthly meetings - held on the 4th Monday of the month at the Tall Oaks Community Center at 12298 Cotton Mill Dr, Woodbridge, VA at 7:30pm
Want to join PWAS? Go to https://www.princewilliamartsociety.com/membership
