Upcoming Exhibitions
Check out our 2025-2026 exhibition lineup below to learn more about our upcoming gallery exhibitions 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 2027? Forms are will go live in January 2026, and due May 1, 2026. Email our Gallery Manager brian@carbondalearts.com with questions.
Interested in sponsoring one or more exhibitions? Email us at brian@carbondalearts.com or download this PDF with our sponsor info packet. Thank you!
October 3 - 30, 2025 (Generously sponsored by Basalt Printing & Art Supply)
LAURA DORTMANS “Intimate. Immensity.”
Laura Dortmans’ ceramic sculptures perform as a surrogate for the physicality of her body – not as direct representation, rather as a response to bodily sensations. The solidification of gestural movement translates a moment of intimate touch and gives form to the immensity of internal geography; desire, tender love, sensual connection, preserved in space and time.
Learn more about Laura at lauradortmansceramics.com.
COURTNEY KENNY “Recording Time (with Scraps and Words)”
Mixed media artist Courtney Kenny uses poetry as a form of sketching to record observations, emotions, frustrations, and revelations. Life is so finite and yet so mysterious; through Courtney’s art and poetry she attempts to document these visceral moments of awe, inviting viewers to explore the depths of the human psyche through the interplay of observation, metaphor, and artistic expression.
Learn more about Courtney at ckennyart.com.
MICHAEL KINSLEY “Fluid Landscapes”
Michael Kinsley’s newer landscape paintings are notable for their intriguing amplification of Nature’s sensual forms. These “fluid” landscapes in oil depict familiar scenes in SE Utah and Western Colorado, especially the Roaring Fork Valley. Though he often paints outside, his larger studio pieces are based on his outside sketches. Michael says, “In an increasingly troubling world, my paintings are solace to me and hopefully to the viewer.”
Learn more about Michael at kinsleypaintings.com.
November 20 - December 24, 2025 (Seeking Sponsor)
Deck the Walls featuring 60+ local creatives
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!
Applications are open now and due Monday, September 22, by 11:59pm. Click here to apply.
Email brian@carbondalearts.com with any questions.
January 23 - February 26, 2026 (Seeking Sponsor)
47th Annual Valley Visual Art Show featuring 60+ local creatives
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 open in early November, due early December, 2025. Email brian@carbondalearts.com with questions.
March 6 - April 9, 2026 (Seeking Sponsor)
WILLIAM LANZILLO “Sweet Excess”
A giant contraption extrudes an impossible cannoli, at once grotesque and delightful. Performance and sculpture converge in a communal, larger-than-life dessert experience. Rooted in family nostalgia and childhood trips to bakeries, the work transforms a cherished memory into a nostalgic, collective spectacle.
Learn more about William at williamlanzillo.com.
LUDIVINE GÉRARD “Structures Inachevées”
Structures Inachevées brings together the evolving threads of artist Ludivine’s work from the emotional layering of her series Recadrage to the fragmented presence of the human form in Silhouette. Each piece remains open, unfinished, inviting the viewer to complete the story or let it remain in motion. Across all series, the artist explores the tension between structure and absence, balance and disruption, visibility and silence.
Learn more about Ludivine on Instagram @ludivinegerardartist.
April 17 - May 21, 2026 (Seeking Sponsor)
GABY OSHIRO “Material Haiku MMXXVI”
What started as a figurative investigation while attending fine arts school has turned into a divergent exploration on the evocative power of materials (paper, pumice, wheat paste, fibers), techniques (décollage, shodō, burning, ripping, tearing, stabbing), and the balance between: subtraction-addition, destruction-creation, chaos-order. The intention to control the unpredictable nature of an element like fire. The alchemy of materials and their particular properties create a symbolical reference to scars and lacerations. The observer can experience their own emotional response through contemplation, capitalizing on stored memories and associations. A painting is an aesthetic object with its own expressive power that acquires ontological status.
Learn more about Gaby on Instagram @oshirogk.
CHRIS ANDERSON & BEN STRAWN “Show Title TBD”
Ben and Chris share a forty-plus year friendship centered on the exploration and interplay of artistic ideas. Their work embodies their shared creative vision, their love and care for each other, and their emotive depth. This 2-person exhibition will explode with expressive dynamic paintings and sculptures, embellished charcoal drawings, and whimsical amorphous ceramics explores rich possibilities in abstracted form, color, and line, informed by their long-lived conversation.
Learn more about Ben at walkerfineart.com/benstrawn.
May 29 - July 3, 2026 (Seeking Sponsor)
CURATORS: SARAH OVERBECK & MATT HAYS “Visceral Alchemy”
Visceral Alchemy refers to a profound, and intuitive transformation of self. What greater transformation than creating or receiving artwork that lasts a lifetime? Tattooers are incredible artists– they are constantly creating, often taking requests for someone else's dream or idea and turning it into an original piece of art. With roots as a misfit's subculture, tattoos are now mainstream. Many tattooers are formally educated and continue to create outside of their occupation. Does their profession inform their personal artwork, or vice versa? Could one exist without the other? This curated, invitational, group exhibition explores that relationship and looks at the fine art side of the tattooing industry. Full list of participating artists will be announced soon.
July 10 - August 13, 2026 (Seeking Sponsor)
CHLOE WILWERDING “The Way Is Not A Way But A Place”
Chloe Wilwerding’s mixed-media works challenge the fast-paced, achievement-oriented culture of outdoor recreation by celebrating observation of the landscape as an accomplishment in itself. Blending photography, painting, digital embroidery, and quilting, she reimagines traditional merit badges to frame them not as prizes for conquering nature, but as affirmations of quiet engagement and wonder.
Learn more about Chloe at chloewilwerding.com.
GEOART COLLECTIVE “Cracks, Layers, Water”
The GEOart Collective is an international consortium of artists who share a love and fascination of nature and the geosciences. Each calendar year the group selects three inspirational themes. Our current themes for exhibit are cracks, layers and water. Cracks take many forms and could be interpreted literally or figuratively, as a thing, action or description. Layers can be interpreted literally or figuratively, such as layered sedimentary deposits, layers of lava, soil profiles, or layers of history or emotion. Water covers 71% of the earth’s surface and exists as liquid, solid or gas. Water’s power erodes mountains, vital to life and constitutes our oceans, glaciers, clouds and groundwater.
Learn more about GEOart Collective at geoartcollective.com.
August 21 - September 24, 2026 (Seeking Sponsor)
JUROR: JOHN FELLOWS “Tiny Print Showcase”
Carbondale Arts will post a call for entries in early 2026! The Tiny Print Showcase celebrates the handmade, handpulled print with a focus (get it?) on a small, intimate scale of 4 square inches or less. Juried by Crested Butte printmaker John Fellows, we will announce a list of invited printmakers from around Colorado as well as prizes for accepted artists.
Printmakers of all ages living in Colorado are eligible to enter, stay tuned for more info.
TRACEY HARRIS “You Don't Have to Be Perfect, But You Could Try Harder”
Known for her razor-sharp wit and painterly precision, Tracey brings humor and critique together in her satirical book paintings - each one a playful jab at modern life, politics, and cultural absurdities. Her figurative work explores themes of identity, social norms, and resistance, all through a lens of vibrant realism and irreverent charm.
Learn more about Tracey on Instagram @traceyharrisartist.
October 2 - October 29, 2026 (Seeking Sponsor)
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.