Opening Exhibitions

AUGUST 22 - SEPTEMBER 25, 2025

“That Which Remains” by Agustina Mistretta is a poetic interpretation of the language of the mountains, capturing the transitional periods and the apparent changes in the landscape from the perspective of combining personal history, family and found archival material, and a personal obsession with her surrounding topography. Mountains have been a steady guiding force in her life path.

AUGUST 22 - SEPTEMBER 25, 2025

“Empyreal Odyssey” by multimedia artist Benjamin Eric explores the intersection of mythology and cosmology, drawing inspiration from ancient cultural stories and symbols regarding celestial phenomena and the human desire to connect to the divine. Recognizable imagery created through a combination of recycled wood, artifacts and various mediums are meant to be a new narrative as imagined by the artist.

JULY 11 - AUGUST 14, 2025

This solo exhibition is by local artist Vallee Noone who says, “When I'm drawing, I feel as though I am watching the pieces form and have very little say in the vision. It feels like someone else is pushing my hand. In fact, if I try to pursue a particular vision, the drawing falls apart quickly. It's when I surrender that the most amazing details, threads and coincidences become apparent.”

JULY 11 - AUGUST 14, 2025

Witness artist Chad Knowles’ surrealistic and whimsical approach to natural and fantastic landscapes. He encourages you to “see life through a new lens, one that could be called psychedelic or transcendental; but, it’s always a light-hearted dream – one that brings a smile to your heart.”

MAY 23 - JUNE 26, 2025

“Youth Arts Showcase” is made up of 2 recent Carbondale Arts programs.
Field\Work: Creative Apprentice Project highlights the work of 7 teen artists having been working on projects along the Rio Grande ARTway.
Breaking Open, Together: Stepping Stones Resident Artists 
For the past year, Gabriela Mejia has been a resident artist at Stepping Stones, working with youth to explore new forms and means of art making.

APRIL 11 - MAY 15, 2025

“subject/matr/mother” was 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 created work that centered on the complexity of the maternal experience. The curation celebrated 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.

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.

AUGUST 18 - SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

“Tiny Shiny Guild” is an invitational show curated by Natasha Seedorf featuring the work of Colorado Mountain College jewelry and metalsmithing students and instructors, including Andréa Bersson, Jill Collins, Jennifer DiCuollo, Kira Diggins, Carol Gault, Liz Heller, RJ Jensen, Mary Lackner, Sue Leppla, Olivia Pevec, Marie Quinn, Stan Ruther, Drew Sorenson, Morgan Walsh, Julie Wille, Georgine Young, and Shauna Young.

AUGUST 18 - SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This group exhibition features artists Staci Dickerson and Brenda Peters alongside floral artist Shelly Franklin who join together to highlight the liberation that abstract work inspires & explore the beautiful differences 3 artists can display.

JULY 7 - AUGUST 10, 2023

“Use Is Beauty” celebrates time by recognizing beauty as an aftermath of use. Justin Squier transforms found objects into mixed media sculptures by embracing uncommon characteristics and the additive process through which he combines textures, colors, and materials. Squier’s work is a unique melding of contemporary art and antiques that engages audiences of all ages and types. 

JULY 7 - AUGUST 10, 2023

This 2-person exhibition features Brian Chen and Gabby Gawreluk who finish their 2-year residencies at the Carbondale Clay Center this fall. Brian uses the idea of form following function, in the context of biology, architecture, and design, as a guideline to create. Gabby constructs functional and sculptural ceramics that are constructed from wheel thrown parts and slabs of clay.

May 26 - June 27, 2023

“Stone Entropy” features three local marble sculptors all living and working within the Crystal River Valley: Chet Haring, Luke Leone, and Gregory Tonozzi, exhibit new works both inside the gallery space as well as outside in The Launchpad’s sculpture gardens.

APRIL 14 - MAY 18, 2023

“FROM THE CENTER: Maps, Wefts, Shifts, Hoops” is a group exhibition that binds together four women: all mid-career artists, all witnesses to the everyday: Elizabeth Newman, Emily Payne, Augusta Talbot, and Marcia Weese (curator). All have been wives, all are mothers, and all continue to weave life’s fabric in the studio.