47th Annual Valley Visual Art Show
Congratulations to Claire Brock who won the 2025 People’s Choice Award with her colored pencil & gold leaf artwork “Raven”.
2025 Valley Visual Art Show Winners:
1st Place (26 votes): Claire Brock "Raven" (colored pencil & gold leaf)
2nd Place (21 votes): Jessica Armstrong "Opening" (oil on panel with 16 karat gold frame)
3rd Place (17 votes): Matt Hays "Rising with Mother Sopris" (watercolor on layered laser cut birch)
Carbondale Arts is excited to present the 47th Annual Valley Visual Art Show opening Friday, January 23, 2026 at our gallery space located inside The Launchpad (76 S 4th Street). This juried, group exhibition will be up through February 26, 2026.
Don’t forget to vote for the People’s Choice Awards starting opening night. Winners will be announced mid-February and will receive $250 (first place), $125 (second place), and $50 (third place). Reminder: only one vote per person total through the 5 week 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.
Last year’s annual show featured about 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.
Thank you, 2026 Sponsor!
Special thanks to Robert Schultz Consulting LLC for generously sponsoring our 47th Annual Valley Visual Art Show!
This year’s artists include…
Jessica Armstrong, Deborah Bender, Sandy Boyd, Robert Burch, Nathaly Camacho, Liz Caris, Rebecca Chase, Kay Clarke, Brian Colley, CNG, Alissa Davies, Larry Day, Staci Dickerson, Dave Durrance, Jan Eagers, Benjamin Eric, Marylou Felton, Kelly Grace Field, Wendy Flottmeyer, Debby Flug, Clarissa Fortier, Judy Fox-Perry, Shelly Franklin, Raymond Gabriel, Andrea Garr, Megan George, Susan Graves, Doug Graybeal, Julie Grimm, Trina Haines, Linda Halloran, Chris Hassig, Matt Hays, Shaila Hein, Elise Hillbrand, Dione Holt, Kathy Honea, Stuart Huck, Christie Interlante, William N Kelly, Wewer Keohane, Michael Kinsley, Marilyn Lowey, Stephanie McConaughy, Tish McFee, Ashley Mosher, Sally Nicholson, David Notor, Brenda Peters, Nicole Popp, Fran Reither, Annette Roberts Gray, Mila Rossi, Maureen Rothman, Jill Scher, Jan Schubert, Brady Selvage, Lisa Speaker, Michael Stout, Hollis Sutherland, Rebecca Swain Grant, Mellie Test, Natalie Travers, Katy VanNostrand, Ashlie Villarreal, Kristopher Walters, Michael Watts, Pam Weber, Chrissy White, Cassidy Willey, Carolyn Williams, Ellen Woods, Hope Wynn, Dennise York, and Shelby Zasacky