Upcoming Exhibitions
Check out our 2026-2027 exhibition lineup below to learn more about our upcoming gallery shows at Carbondale Arts.
Our Gallery’s Mission:The Carbondale Arts Gallery is an exhibition space dedicated to amplifying and nurturing diverse artistic voices that engage and stimulate our community.
Interested in proposing an exhibition in 2028? Forms will be open in January, due early May, 2027. Email our Gallery Manager brian@carbondalearts.com with questions.
Interested in sponsoring one or more exhibitions? Email us at brian@carbondalearts.com to see our sponsor info packet. Thank you!
October 2 - October 29, 2026 (Generously sponsored by Land+Shelter)
MEGAN GEORGE “The Beauty of Beasts”
Animals have always been a huge part of scratchboard artist, Megan George’s life. From her upbringing on a dairy farm to her career as a vet tech, animals have taught Megan the essence of what it means to be on this earth. Her goal with her art is to convey the emotions and lessons that animals can teach us, in all their life stages.
Learn more about Megan at megangeorgeart.com.
ABBY ZLOTNICK “Everlasting Floral Design”
This show celebrates the timeless beauty of locally-grown flowers in October through all-dried, everlasting arrangements and installations. Abby Zlotnick is the owner of Juniper Farm and has been consistently inspired by farming since her first farming experience in 2012. Since then, she has made it her mission to share a slice of the Earth’s greatest joys with her community.
Learn more about Abby at juniper-flower.com.
November 13 - December 24, 2026 (seeking sponsor)
DECK THE WALLS: Annual Holiday Market
Every holiday season, Carbondale Arts transforms its gallery space into a shop filled with artisan goods created by over 60 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!
Call for applications is open now through September 21. Learn more here or email brian@carbondalearts.com.
2027 Exhibitions
January 22 - February 25, 2027 (seeking sponsor)
48TH ANNUAL VALLEY VISUAL ART SHOW
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.
Entry forms will be made available in October, due early December, 2026.
Stay tuned here or email brian@carbondalearts.com with questions.
March 5 - April 8, 2027 (seeking sponsors)
ANDREW ROBERTS-GRAY “Self-Portrait Re-Imagined”
When the first women and men looked into the reflective surface of a lake thousands of years ago and recognized themselves, the motivation for the self-portrait was born. This solo exhibition by mixed media artist Andrew Roberts Gray explores the ancient practice of the artist self-portrait.
Learn more about Andrew at andrewroberts-gray.com.
GROUP SHOW CURATED BY TERESA BOOTH BROWN & MARILYN LOWEY “A Closer Look”
A CLOSER LOOK is a playful, provocative, and poetic show bringing together ten distinct artistic voices. Additional artists include Annie Bell, Curt Carpenter, Brian Colley, Kris Cox, Reina Katzenberger, William Lanzillo, JJ Peet, and Teal Robert Wilson. Artists were asked to create works designed to disrupt the habitual act of looking through unconventional mediums, abstract concepts, or startling juxtapositions. This group exhibition is designed to be similar to the Dimensionist Manifesto of Paris (1936) which called on artists to expand the dimensionality of their work.
April 16 - May 20, 2027 (seeking sponsors)
ANDREW GRAHAM “Relational Realism”
This exhibition presents a series of hyper-detailed graphite landscapes rooted in Relational Realism™, an approach that explores the emotional connection between people and place. Each piece is designed not just to depict a location, but to preserve memory, nostalgia, and personal history tied to it. The work invites viewers to reconnect with spaces that have shaped their lives, even if those places are no longer physically accessible.
Learn more about Andrew at schoolbwoyart.com.
PAUL KIMPLING & STUART KRAMER
Paul Kimpling and Stuart Kramer are partners in art and in life who often work in found material. Their work includes large scale community art, puppetry, and community theater, as well as fashion, dance, and painting. This collection uses the imagery of science and technology to explore the aesthetic shorthand of "science" used in films, fiction, and advertising for objectivity and futurism.
May 28 - July 2, 2027 (seeking sponsors)
AGNETA WETTERGREN
This exhibition is about the enjoyment of processing stone, clay, wire, wood, and fiber and their symbiotic, collaborative connection to each other as the artist sees it in her own translation. The experience of this exhibition is entering a space of fluidity, where these translations and transitions enrich the viewer’s appreciation of the work. What excites the artist is the process of how to connect, transfer and translate the unique properties of multi-media together into an object.
Learn more about Agneta on Instagram @agnetawettergren.
CRYSTAL CLEAR: the Crystal River Through Art, Sound, and Science
This group exhibition featuring Cassidy Willey, Anika Pyle, Matt Ross, and Eric Lamb is an imaginative, mixed-media exploration of our wild and scenic home watershed, the Crystal River – grounded in science, rooted in place. Integrating paintings, poetry, projections of scientific data visualizations, and original music inspired by the sounds, stories, and rhythms of the Crystal River itself, the exhibition invites the community to witness our beloved watershed in new and evocative ways.
July 9 - August 12, 2027 (seeking sponsors)
CASSANDRA CHALFANT “Rhyme”
RHYME explores memory, time, understanding, creation and destruction, and connection. In a time of hyper individualism, of neglecting community and shared experience, of overexposure to images with counterfeit meaning, I wish to ground us and draw us back together. Through painting photographs, cherished objects, memories, homes, and imagined futures, I create a space where the viewer must decide what is theirs, what is not, and what we all share.
Learn more about Cassandra at cassandrachalfant.com.
CARBONDALE CLAY CENTER: Clay National XX
Carbondale Clay National is an exhibition of ceramic art held annually. Each year, the Carbondale Clay Center's selected juror(s) develop a theme for the exhibition, invite a handful of contemporary ceramic artists who emulate the theme, and select works from the pool of national juried submission.
Learn more about the Carbondale Clay Center at carbondaleclay.org.
August 20 - September 23, 2027 (seeking sponsors)
AJAY GUSTAFSON “What We See”
With her family and home environment as her muse, artist Ajay Gustafson uses traditional oil painting on panel to consider the significance and value of a commonplace life. It is in the repetitions and rhythms of home that we can find refuge, comfort and a true sense of belonging. Gustafson’s work suggests that there is strength in simplicity and what is quiet can be more easily heard than shouting.
Learn more about the Ajay at ajaygustafson.com.
BETSY ALWIN
This solo exhibition by Betsy Alwin will showcase studio work that has developed during her three years in the Roaring Fork Valley. The works will be ceramic, mixed media, and two-dimensional works that express the tension between opposing themes such as beauty and strength, resilience and vulnerability, and nature and humanity. The forms and motifs encourage viewers to contemplate the affective relationship between seemingly contradictory ideas and how opposing forces can create new, fantastic realities.
Learn more about Betsy at betsyalwin.com.
October 1 - 28, 2027 (seeking sponsors)
DAVE DURRANCE
Painter Dave Durrance shows a new body of work creating a multi dimensional atmosphere in this solo exhibition. Dave's methodology layers oil paint over acrylic, organic compositional elements over geometric, and employs varying degrees of opacity in his paints.
ROARING FORK DRAWING CLUB: 10th Anniversary
The Roaring Fork Drawing Club will celebrate its 10th Anniversary at the end of 2027. Co-founders Lindsay Jones and Brian Colley look forward to showcasing the solo and collective drawings and sketchbooks from the past decade all in one exhibition. They have collected over 100 collaborative exquisite corpse drawings as well, and are planning several interactive drawing activities with gallery visitors.
Learn more about the Roaring Fork Drawing Club on Instagram @rfdrawingclub.