Artist Barbara Osborne-Harris creates appliqued images of women with improvisational manipulation and placement of cloths, fibers, paper, wood, sands, shells and other collected materials.

Local artist Amelia Clark brings the National Gallery of Art to the library as one of the few painters who has been granted the unique permission to paint at the museum and copy their original master paintings.

Local artist Lizzy Javier exhibits her fine art paintings on the gallery wall: "Color is Important" - Lizzy Javier

Best of Ashburn Artist '23 Abinaya Ayyamperumal of Art Beyond Impressions exhibits emotive finger impressions on canvas. Her art was selected for one of the banners in the Shenandoah Arts Council's ArtScape last summer. She is the winner of the People's Choice Award at Falls Church Arts Gallery and an Indian Postal Stamp Contest.

A quilter for over 40 years, Priscilla Godfrey exhibits Landscapes of Travels Near and Far. A member and past president of the Waterford Quilters Guild, she specializes in appliquéd and hand-quilted wall hangings depicting the rural countryside of western Loudoun County. 

ArtBlitz Studios, comprised of the artistic talents of Mark Scott, Kay Walsh, Monica Savasta and Octavia Frazier, present an enchanting blend of figurative and abstract art.

Local Loudoun artists share their photographs of nature and wildlife taken in parks and spaces around the county.

ABSTRACT NARRATIVES by local artist Diane Dennis is a collection of works depicting a story from literature, history, myth, religion or legend and created as an abstraction. The viewer is invited to enter and walk through the painting to become a part of the story and experience a mix of the familiar and the unknown.

Local abstract artist Mark Drefs exhibits his latest paintings inspired by the NY school of action painters and by graffiti artists and visionaries.

Find all 10 items hidden around the library and receive a small prize.

It’s time for the 6th annual Great Ashburn Gingerbread Competition. Create and vote for your favorite gingerbread dwellings. Winners will be announced Dec. 18 and chosen from four categories: kids (ages 7 and younger), youth (ages 8-12), teens (ages 13-17) and adult (ages 18+). Gingerbread submissions will be accepted Dec. 5-11, voting begins Dec. 10. For guidelines, please see Ashburn Library staff.

Help us turn the children's department into a winter wonderland. Pick up a paper snowflake to decorate at home and then bring it back for us to display. 

Grab a themed bag filled with books and activities to complete throughout the week. One bag per child please. For Preschool-Grade 3. Please visit and subscribe to our YouTube Channel – Loudoun County Public Library Online Programs – for more programs.

Our Winter Reading Challenge is back! Pick up your reading challenge card at the Ashburn Library. Read each week and get your card stamped to enter the weekly prize raffle drawing. Program runs Dec. 16 - Jan. 20. See Ashburn Library staff for more details. For birth-Grade 5. 

Look for holiday items hidden around the library. Complete the hunt and receive a small prize.

Artist Mari Wittmer-Etchison exhibits four watercolors and their value studies in the downstairs exhibit space. Upstairs, 20 illuminated initials based on European historic models illustrate the diversity of these decorative letterforms.

Local artist David Thor exhibits his paintings inspired by his Hmong heritage and his love of street, comic and modern art. This collection pays homage to the strong inspirational women that left an indelible mark on his life.

Local Loudoun artists share their photographs of nature and wildlife taken in parks and spaces around the county.

Local artist Susanne Kamalieh exhibits her abstract works with line and color visualization of the atmospheric space.

Artist Barbara Osborne-Harris creates appliqued images of women with improvisational manipulation and placement of cloths, fibers, paper, wood, sands, shells and other collected materials.

Find the hidden snowmen in the children's department and then come to the desk for a wintry sticker.

Find the pictures of 12 Chinese Zodiac animals hidden around the library to win a small prize. Stop by the children's desk to pick it up.

Drop in to create a Christmas design on an ornament using sublimation markers and a heat press. While supplies last.

For ages birth-18 months with a caregiver.

Learn to move, breathe and stretch your body and imagination. Please wear movement friendly clothing. Yoga mat not required. For ages 2-5.