Winter Fine Arts Festival
The poster for the 2025 Winter Fine Arts Festival
The Winter Fine Arts Festival is the largest annual showcase of Ashland area grades 6-12 fine & visual arts, and the primary public fundraiser for AHAA. The event features art exhibits, live music and theater performances, as well as a catered dinner created by AHS Culinary Arts. Exhibits showcase student programs in woodworking, textiles, culinary arts, fine art, photography, digital design, band, orchestra, choir, dance, and theater.
The 2025 Winter Fine Arts Festival will take place Friday, Dec. 12, 2025, in the Mountain Avenue Theater on the Ashland High School campus. The exhibits and dinner open at 5:30PM, and the live performance begins at 7PM. Tickets are $15 for adults 18 and over, and tickets for children and students are just $5. This includes the light dinner. Tickets for the event, which is open to the public, are available by clicking the "Buy WFAF Tickets" button above. Advanced tickets are strongly encouraged, although tickets are usually available at the door as well.
Normally an in-person event, the 29th and 30th annual Winter Fine Arts Festival (WFAF) were presented virtually due to the pandemic, as a live-streaming event. The virtual events were a big success, but everyone enjoyed returning to a live, in-person event in the Mountain Avenue Theatre in Ashland in 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic created huge technical challenges for ensemble directors, but it pushed everyone to explore creative ways to use technology to keep social distancing while still producing quality material. If you would like access to recordings of our 29th or 30th annual events, please contact us.
The in-person event is typically the 2nd Friday in December and features student fine arts and performances from from Ashland High School (AHS), and Ashland Middle School (AMS) when available. This may include fiber arts, illustrations, woodworking, video production, photography, musical ensemble performances, theater skits and monologues, dance numbers, and solo musical performances.
Below is a sample program from the 2019 Winter Fine Arts Festival, to give an idea of the variety of live performances this event features.
