Nova Labs is bringing makers to the Fairfax Funky Flea! Visit our shared booth on the last Saturday of each month to shop handmade goods from local makers, meet members of the Nova Labs community, and learn more about our makerspace.

Nova Labs Kinetic Sculpture Team (NLKST) captured the highest honor at the Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race, earning the title of Grand East Coast National Mediocre Champion for its outstanding performance aboard Meep Meep and Meyond, a human-powered amphibious vehicle that impressed judges and charmed spectators during the day-long event.

We are opening our doors to the public with our 2025 Open House! This is a great opportunity for us to show the community how we've transformed our makerspace since we moved to Fairfax City in 2022.

If you don’t have plans for July 4th, you do now! Come see Nova Labs in the Independence Day Parade in downtown Fairfax! We’re bringing the award-winning Kinetic Sculpture with fresh decorations, just for the fourth, and we’ve made another round of awesome cupcakes… but not the kind you eat. Nova Labs has been perfecting its cupcake game since 2017, when the Go-Cart Cupcakes first appeared in a holiday parade. Before that, they were designed around little red tricycles. Ever

Juneteenth is a time for family, friends, and community to celebrate freedom. Here at Nova Labs, we bring people together to celebrate over a community cookout with fun activities and great food. It has become one of our biggest events of the year. This was the fourth annual Juneteenth celebration Nova Labs has hosted, and every year we’ve needed to add longer tables and more chairs than the year before to accommodate increasing awareness and interest in the holiday. Over 80

“Like Punching a Mountain in the Face” By Crystal Thurber “Does everyone on the sculpture have a life jacket?” the Dockmaster bellowed....

Come to the second Nova Labs Juneteenth Barbeque and bring your friends and family for a fun-filled community day. Share reds foods, dress snappy, and learn about African American traditions, inventors, and makers. (We'll have tents for shade, but this is outdoors in the fresh air with lots of room.) Activities for the whole family: Water play activities for the kids Bring your maker stuff and enjoy after-dinner making/crafting Movies or sports on the big screen indoors There

An annual tradition in Baltimore since 1999, the Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race is produced by the American Visionary Art Museum. Like...

By Dr. Lawrence Nightingale - Director, Nova Labs June 19th is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in...