44th Annual Valley Visual Art Show
Congratulations to artist Megan George for winning first place in this year’s People’s Choice Awards with her scratchboard artwork “Cookies and Cream”.
Also unique to the VVAS are the coveted People’s Choice Awards. Visitors to the gallery were invited to vote (only once!) for their favorite artwork. We received 336 ballots between Jan 20 and Feb 17!
Here are this year’s winners (2023):
1st Place: Megan George “Cookies and Cream” (scratchboard)
2nd Place: Chad Knowles “On the Edge” (oil)
3rd Place: Jim Mason “Iris” (forged steel)
Questions have been asked and the artists have answered! Read through some of the responses in this Facebook album as part of an ongoing campaign we’re calling “Know Your Artist, Know Your Art”:
Image by Lucas Leone “Pattern no. 1” (acrylic)
Carbondale Arts presented the 44th Annual Valley Visual Art Show, which opened on Friday, January 20 and was on exhibition afterwards each weekday (10am-5pm) at our gallery space located inside The Launchpad (76 S 4th Street) through February 23, 2023.
The Valley Visual Art Show is one of the longest-standing community art shows committed to showing the work of local artists. VVAS began in 1980 as a venue for local artists to share their artwork with the public. VVAS still provides this opportunity, especially for artists new to the area and budding artists, but the show has also become both a salute to the wide variety of artistic talents in our area and a time to bring the artist community together. Last year’s 43rd annual show featured over 60 Roaring Fork Valley artists and included two and three dimensional work created in with wide variety of media. We received work from many new artists as well as many long-time local artists from the Roaring Fork Valley.
Our 2023 participating artist list included 60 local creatives:
Charles Andrade, Jessica Armstrong, Hannah Beal, Debi Bender, Katie Browne, Raleigh Burleigh, Evelyn Cabrera, Liz Caris, Andrew Chandler, Kay Clarke, Suzanne Clarke, Brian Colley, Russ Criswell, Larry Day, Lisa DeLosso, Staci Dickerson, Dave Durrance, Marylou Felton, Kelly Field, Clarissa Fortier, Marcia Fusaro, Megan George, Doug Graybeal, Bailey Haines, Chet Haring, Christie Helm, Linda Helmich, Hunter Hogan, Kathy Honea, Suzanne Jackson, Courtney Kenny, Wewer Keohane, Michael Kinsley, Chad Knowles, Savanna LaBauve, Lucas Leone, George Lilly, James Mason, Stephanie McConaughy, Gabriela Mejia, Shawna Miller, Adelaide Moore, Bobbie Moross, Annette Murphy, Kazumichi Nakahara, Sally Nicholson, Judith Nordhagen, David Notor, Ali O'Neal, Brenda Peters, Ann Ramsey, Katherine Rich, Erin Rigney, Xavier Roeser, Mila Rossi, Richard Sundeen, Ishara Sweeney, Mellie Test, Felicia Trevor Gallo, and Jenn Weede.