Saturday, August 30-Monday, September 1, 2025
Historic Armory (Kensington Town Hall)
3710 Mitchell St.
Kensington, MD

Join us for MAA's Paint the Town: one of the DC region’s largest and longest-running art shows. The Town of Kensington and MAA present the Paint the Town Labor Day Show August 30-September 1, 2025, at the Historic Armory in Kensington, Maryland. The exhibition and sale is free and open to the public all weekend.

When you stroll through Kensington on Friday night and Saturday, you'll see dozens of adult and youth artists painting and drawing. They are participants in our annual Plein Air Competition, which is open to the whole community. New this year: artists may begin as early as Friday at 4 pm--in the past, the competition started on Saturday morning.

In addition to making art of any view within the town of Kensington, artists will also have the opportunity to paint or draw costumed models stationed at Flynn Park on Saturday morning.

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Gallerist Christopher Addison to serve as this year's judge 

We are excited to announce that Christopher Addison, partner of the Addison/Ripley Gallery since 1982, will be the judge for the 2025 Paint the Town show.

Mr. Addison brings gallery and museum curation perspective which will broaden the experience of our participating members. He has served in multiple executive positions with public and private galleries and museums in the Washington DC area and is a respected leader in this field. We are honored that Mr. Addison will be our judge.

Thank you to the 32 donors who gave cash and prizes to serve as awards at this last year's show: