APRIL 11 - MAY 15, 2025

“subject/matr/mother” is a group exhibition curated by Shawna Miller with featured artists Mya Cluff, Courtney Dudley, Darla Jackson, LUCIA, Erin Morrison, and Maria Teicher. Matr is the Latin root for material, matter, and maternal. The seven female artists in this show create work that centers the complexity of the maternal experience. The curation aims to celebrate the link between “woman” and “mother,” while interrogating the way we associate them as one-and-the-same, or a preordained linear destiny.

FEBRUARY 28 - APRIL 4, 2025

“Cosmic Compost” is an experiment in honoring and acknowledging decomposition as an essential process in the continuation of life. Using both organic and manufactured materials that have been gathered, scavenged, and arranged in new contexts, the artworks explore the ephemerality of the material world and the fabric into which it is woven — built to change, and embedded with potential.

FEBRUARY 28 - APRIL 4, 2025

The environment is a product of us: man made commodities intertwined with nature creating change on earth, but not a healthier one. Animals make their homes in shoes, displaced boxes, tires in the ocean, even their beds are made out of plastic threads, old clothes, and wire. How much longer can wildlife sustain this?

JANUARY 17 - FEBRUARY 20, 2025

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.

SEE OUR 2025 LINEUP

Check out the Carbondale Arts exhibition schedule. Proposals for solo/group exhibitions are now open and due May 1, 2025, for the following calendar year (2026). Email brian@carbondalearts.com with questions.

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!

SEPTEMBER 27 - NOVEMBER 1, 2024

“Community Service Print Projects” is a group exhibition of work by student-artists at The Project Shop, a local non-profit arts organization. This program engages student-artists to express their voices on critical issues by learning design development, printmaking, and production skills with access to equipment and instruction in a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment. These projects demonstrate how art can encourage conversation and connection within our communities.

SEPTEMBER 27 - NOVEMBER 1, 2024

“Women (Im)Print” showcases hand-printed works by two women who are friends and collaborators: Katie Browne (curator) and Bailey Haines. The title is a play on words: printmaking is the mode in which we creatively express ourselves, while the imprints that the people and places in our lives leave on us and that we leave on them provide the basis of our inspiration.

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.