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Road Closures for 14th Annual VisArts Arts Festival

April 29, 2026

The 14th Annual VisArts’ Rockville Arts Festival — a fine arts festival with 130 artists, a community art experience and art demonstrations — will be held 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, May 2 and Sunday, May 3 at Rockville Town Square, rain or shine.

Streets will close at 6 a.m. Friday, May 1 and reopen 9 p.m. Sunday, May 3. East Middle Lane will be closed from the Citizens Bank and Helen Heneghan Way to Gibbs Street. Maryland Avenue will be closed from the Garage A entrance to East Montgomery Avenue.

Merchants are encouraged to have all deliveries for the weekend made Thursday, April 30. Contact festival director Robin Markowitz as soon as possible at rmarkowitz@visartscenter.org to arrange a special weekend delivery time. Festival staff will make every effort to assist in the event of an unexpected delivery.

Parking can be accessed:

  • Through the Citizens Bank parking lot to Garage B.
  • At Helen Heneghan Way, for the Cambria Hotel and BLVD Forty Four residents.
  • For Fenestra residents, Office Building 20 and the 37 Maryland Ave. garage at East Middle Lane and Gibbs Street: Residents will enter/exit at Gibbs Street, starting 6 a.m. Friday. Rockville police will monitor the intersection.

There will be no metered street parking where a road is closed. All garages are available for parking.