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 will 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.
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!