JANUARY 17 - FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Call for Entries open November 1 - December 2, 2024.
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.

NOVEMBER 14 - DECEMBER 24, 2024

Every holiday season, Carbondale Arts transforms its gallery space into a shop filled with artisan goods created by local and regional artists from all over the Roaring Fork Valley and the state of Colorado. Goods typically include handmade candles and cards, jewelry and chocolates, ceramics and soaps and more!

AUGUST 16 - SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

“Patterns of Consumption” is a solo exhibition by Denver-based artist Kalliopi Monoyios who works to mature the conversation around plastic and American consumerism. Though much of the environmentally themed work about plastic leads with guilt and shame, her work seeks to balance that with awe and beauty in an effort to embrace the complexity of our relationship with the material.

AUGUST 16 - SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

“A Love Letter to Indian Creek” is a solo exhibition by local painter Clarissa Fortier. Located just south of Moab, Utah, Indian Creek has been cherished by Native peoples for thousands of years and is a part of Bears Ears National Monument where Clarissa loves to rock climb and paint. This show is an ode to the place that has held Clarissa through so much change over many years.

JULY 5 - AUGUST 8, 2024

“(Re)Location: Perspectives of Two” features artists Louise Deroualle and Molly Frantz. Both artists are addressing themes around upheaval and settling, expressing the emotions associated with rearranging the landscape of one’s inner world. It comes from the shared process of finding new forms against the backdrop of old memories and thought patterns.

JULY 5 - AUGUST 8, 2024

“Porcelain Memories” is a solo exhibition by Dara Hartman whose ceramic sculptures and pottery reference the handmade quilts, toys, and clothes that she grew up with that were made by her grandmothers, serving as inspiration to her latest body of work.

MAY 24 - JUNE 26, 2024

"Xerocks & Potholes" is a solo exhibition by Lindsay Jones that focuses on themes of nature, and its cycles of change. The title is a playful allusion to the subject matter in her work, and the processes she uses to create her mixed media drawings, paintings and animations.

MAY 24 - JUNE 26, 2024

“Analog Nature” features artists Rob Borchardt and Robert G. Burch. Borchardt is a highly-tuned professional with metal and fabrication. Burch has been working with glass for 16 years and had his start in a shop here in Carbondale, often blowing glass into metal forms. Their collaborative exhibition will showcase 30 years of craftsmanship largely fostered in the Roaring Fork Valley.

APRIL 12 - MAY 16, 2024

Ashley Mosher (Ash/er) is an artist & storyteller working with mediums of photography, encaustic, resin, 3D art, video projection & storytelling. Her art practice is an organic evolution of her work as a photojournalist, fine art photographer, and filmmaker over the last decade. 

APRIL 12 - MAY 16, 2024

5Point Film is kicking off its 17th Flagship Festival with an art exhibition featuring special guests, Tre’lan Michael and Renan Öztürk. Both artists are featured in film premieres at this year's festival and also push the envelope of creativity through their art. 

MARCH 1 - APRIL 5, 2024

Artists Chris Erickson and Claire Wright, with a shared passion for sustainability and color, weave together a vibrant, multi-dimensional, and multi-functional community space where stories are told about the past, one can sit and be present in the moment, and the work itself provides new life to otherwise potentially discarded materials for a whole new future.

JANUARY 19 - FEBRUARY 22, 2024

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.

NOVEMBER 16 - DECEMBER 24, 2023

Every holiday season, Carbondale Arts transforms its gallery space into a shop filled with artisan goods created by local and regional artists from all over the Roaring Fork Valley and the state of Colorado. Goods typically include handmade candles and cards, jewelry and chocolates, ceramics and soaps and more!

SEPTEMBER 29 - NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Para Mi Madre es una exposición con jurado que se inaugura este otoño en Carbondale Arts y que invita a artistas latinos a crear una representación visual de una carta de amor o una oda al concepto de la madre. // Para Mi Madre is a juried exhibition opening this fall at Carbondale Arts inviting Latino artists to create a visual representation of a love letter or an ode to the concept of la madre, the mother.

AUGUST 18 - SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

“Tiny Shiny Guild” is an invitational show curated by Natasha Seedorf featuring the work of Colorado Mountain College jewelry and metalsmithing students and instructors, including Andréa Bersson, Jill Collins, Jennifer DiCuollo, Kira Diggins, Carol Gault, Liz Heller, RJ Jensen, Mary Lackner, Sue Leppla, Olivia Pevec, Marie Quinn, Stan Ruther, Drew Sorenson, Morgan Walsh, Julie Wille, Georgine Young, and Shauna Young.

AUGUST 18 - SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This group exhibition features artists Staci Dickerson and Brenda Peters alongside floral artist Shelly Franklin who join together to highlight the liberation that abstract work inspires & explore the beautiful differences 3 artists can display.

JULY 7 - AUGUST 10, 2023

“Use Is Beauty” celebrates time by recognizing beauty as an aftermath of use. Justin Squier transforms found objects into mixed media sculptures by embracing uncommon characteristics and the additive process through which he combines textures, colors, and materials. Squier’s work is a unique melding of contemporary art and antiques that engages audiences of all ages and types. 

JULY 7 - AUGUST 10, 2023

This 2-person exhibition features Brian Chen and Gabby Gawreluk who finish their 2-year residencies at the Carbondale Clay Center this fall. Brian uses the idea of form following function, in the context of biology, architecture, and design, as a guideline to create. Gabby constructs functional and sculptural ceramics that are constructed from wheel thrown parts and slabs of clay.

May 26 - June 27, 2023

“Stone Entropy” features three local marble sculptors all living and working within the Crystal River Valley: Chet Haring, Luke Leone, and Gregory Tonozzi, exhibit new works both inside the gallery space as well as outside in The Launchpad’s sculpture gardens.

APRIL 14 - MAY 18, 2023

“FROM THE CENTER: Maps, Wefts, Shifts, Hoops” is a group exhibition that binds together four women: all mid-career artists, all witnesses to the everyday: Elizabeth Newman, Emily Payne, Augusta Talbot, and Marcia Weese (curator). All have been wives, all are mothers, and all continue to weave life’s fabric in the studio.

MARCH 3 - APRIL 7, 2023

Studio for Arts + Works: Join the 25+ artists of SAW (Studio for Arts + Works) based in Carbondale. This group exhibition will feature artists working in painting, printmaking, & letterpress to ceramics, jewelry, & textiles.

MARCH 3 - APRIL 6, 2023

Alma, Colorado-based mixed media artist Kia Neill works in photography, drawing & painting, collage and found materials. Her work is inspired by the push-pull relationship between human use of landscape and the land constantly reclaiming itself, as well as her own sense of spirituality in relation to nature.

JANUARY 20 - 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.

NOVEMBER 17 - DECEMBER 24, 2022

Every holiday season, Carbondale Arts transforms our gallery space into a shop filled with artisan goods which make up the annual Deck the Walls Holiday Market. We strive to help small businesses grow and to encourage the community to engage and connect with these creatives while supporting our local economy during the holidays.

OCTOBER 7 - NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Carbondale-based artist Elliot Norquist is known primarily for his metal sculptures but this solo exhibition, a retrospective titled “Simple Shapes”, also includes prints on paper from the 1990s, steel works from various periods, as well as his most recent metal-based sculptures.

AUGUST 19 - SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Carbondale Clay National is a national exhibition of ceramic art held annually at the Carbondale Clay Center Gallery in Carbondale, CO. Each year CCC’s selected juror(s) develop a theme for the exhibition, invite a handful of contemporary ceramic artists who emulate the theme, and choose about 25-30 works (scale dependent) from the jury pool.

JULY 8 - AUGUST 11, 2022

Tania Dibbs is an internationally collected artist who explores the jagged intersection between the natural world, humanity and culture through painting and sculpture.

MAY 27 - JULY 1, 2022

Historically the romantic ideologies of the sublime have followed the beauty of Landscape in paintings and photography through the centuries. In “The Nature of Representation: Evidence and Metaphor”, Esther Macy Nooner’s body of work continues the thread of challenging the expectation of what a photograph of Nature “should” be.

MAY 27 - JULY 1, 2022

Hannah Stoll’s solo painting exhibition “Prospects” invites viewers to look hard at ordinary moments, offering a window into the psyche of strangers and themselves.

APRIL 15 - MAY 20, 2022

Long-time Roaring Fork Valley resident and accomplished artist John Toly exhibits his watercolor paintings of the local landscape through the seasons. John is a local favorite!

MARCH 4 - APRIL 8, 2022

Marilyn Lowey makes assemblage sculptures with found objects which she chooses for their ability to interact with the protean properties of light. She invites the viewer to experience the play of illusion, abstraction, and the instability of meaning as the works ’appearance shifts from moment to moment.

MARCH 4 - APRIL 8, 2022

Simon Klein’s solo exhibition “I except it : I accept it” is a show in time. Everything here is a web of relationships between the work, the artist, and you, finding meaning through these interactions together and standing in the face of an unyielding clock.