Current Exhibition

Youth Arts Showcase
May 23 - June 26, 2025
Carbondale Arts presents “Youth Arts Showcase” at the Carbondale Arts Gallery on display May 23 - June 26, 2025. The public is invited to an opening reception taking place First Friday, June 6, from 5-7pm at The Launchpad.
Field\Work
As part of that Carbondale Arts Creative Apprentice Program seven teen artists having been working on projects along the Rio Grande ARTway.
Breaking Open, Together
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.
Special thanks to Basalt Printing and Art Supply for generously sponsoring this exhibition. Basalt Printing is a versatile office service, art supply resource and large format printer for the Roaring Fork Valley.
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Thank You, Exhibition Sponsor!
Upcoming Exhibitions
Carbondale Arts presents a dynamic range of exhibitions throughout the year.
Exhibition proposals for our 2026 calendar year are now CLOSED, details below. Email Gallery Manager brian@carbondalearts.com with questions.
SEE OUR 2025 LINEUP
Check out the Carbondale Arts exhibition schedule. Proposals for solo/group exhibitions are now closed for 2026 (they’ll open up again in January for 2027, due early May, 2026). Email brian@carbondalearts.com with questions.
Past Exhibitions
Carbondale Arts hosts over 10 art exhibitions every year. And while you may have missed them in the gallery, you can explore a plethora of local, regional and national artists right here.
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.
MARCH 3 - APRIL 7, 2023
Studio for Arts + Works: Join the 25+ artists of SAW (Studio for Arts + Works) based in Carbondale. This group exhibition will feature artists working in painting, printmaking, & letterpress to ceramics, jewelry, & textiles.
MARCH 3 - APRIL 6, 2023
Alma, Colorado-based mixed media artist Kia Neill works in photography, drawing & painting, collage and found materials. Her work is inspired by the push-pull relationship between human use of landscape and the land constantly reclaiming itself, as well as her own sense of spirituality in relation to nature.
JANUARY 20 - FEBRUARY 23, 2023
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 17 - DECEMBER 24, 2022
Every holiday season, Carbondale Arts transforms our gallery space into a shop filled with artisan goods which make up the annual Deck the Walls Holiday Market. We strive to help small businesses grow and to encourage the community to engage and connect with these creatives while supporting our local economy during the holidays.
OCTOBER 7 - NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Carbondale-based artist Elliot Norquist is known primarily for his metal sculptures but this solo exhibition, a retrospective titled “Simple Shapes”, also includes prints on paper from the 1990s, steel works from various periods, as well as his most recent metal-based sculptures.

About Our Gallery
MISSION STATEMENT:
The Carbondale Arts Gallery is an exhibition space dedicated to amplifying and nurturing diverse artistic voices that engage and stimulate our community.
VISION STATEMENTS:
• The Carbondale Arts gallery strives to provide a platform for creatives in order to serve and enrich the Roaring Fork Valley community. Though exhibiting local artists is a priority, we recognize the value in cultivating connections with regional and national-based artists as well.
• We appreciate the innate capacity and inherent ability of art to naturally elicit deeper conversations, something we value highly and encourage featured artists of the Carbondale Arts Gallery to consider.
The Carbondale Arts gallery is located inside The Launchpad at 76 S. 4th Street, in the heart of the Carbondale Creative District. The gallery is open to the public Monday through Fridays 10am-5pm.

Bauhaus Seen Group Exhibition, 2019
Exhibition Proposals
Do you have an idea for an art exhibition? Carbondale Arts is always looking for fresh inspiration and new artists! We host art exhibitions featuring local and regional artists at The Launchpad in our award-winning gallery. The majority of our shows run from 4-5 weeks at a time and are invitational, juried, or open call. Exhibitions in the Carbondale Arts Gallery are planned a year in advance.
Proposal applications for 2026 are now closed. Applications for the 2027 calendar year will become available in early 2026. Email questions to brian@carbondalearts.com.
Exhibitions by Justin Squier, Brian Chen, Gabby Gawreluk, 2023
• We acknowledge that an exhibition may be determined “successful” in a variety of ways (the sale-ability of artwork is only one), and Carbondale Arts prioritizes community engagement and creative risk taking.
• Because there are few spaces within the Roaring Fork Valley in which to showcase artwork, we consider the Carbondale Arts Gallery a unique opportunity for emerging and established creatives alike to express themselves through a variety of concepts and media.

Patterns of Consumption by Kalliopi Monoyios, 2024
Join our Gallery Committee
Do you heart art? Every year, Carbondale Arts adds 1-2 new members to its Gallery Committee. These members work with the Gallery Manager to choose exhibitions for the following year.
Terms are just over 3 years in duration; currently there are 6 non-staff members, 4 staff members, and an additional 2 Carbondale Arts Board members on the committee.
Get more information about the responsibilities of committee members by emailing brian@carbondalearts.com.