SEE OUR 2024 LINEUP

Check out the Carbondale Arts exhibition schedule at our gallery in the coming year. Seeking sponsorships.

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.

AUGUST 19 - SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Carbondale Clay National is a national exhibition of ceramic art held annually at the Carbondale Clay Center Gallery in Carbondale, CO. Each year CCC’s selected juror(s) develop a theme for the exhibition, invite a handful of contemporary ceramic artists who emulate the theme, and choose about 25-30 works (scale dependent) from the jury pool.

JULY 8 - AUGUST 11, 2022

Tania Dibbs is an internationally collected artist who explores the jagged intersection between the natural world, humanity and culture through painting and sculpture.

MAY 27 - JULY 1, 2022

Historically the romantic ideologies of the sublime have followed the beauty of Landscape in paintings and photography through the centuries. In “The Nature of Representation: Evidence and Metaphor”, Esther Macy Nooner’s body of work continues the thread of challenging the expectation of what a photograph of Nature “should” be.

MAY 27 - JULY 1, 2022

Hannah Stoll’s solo painting exhibition “Prospects” invites viewers to look hard at ordinary moments, offering a window into the psyche of strangers and themselves.

APRIL 15 - MAY 20, 2022

Long-time Roaring Fork Valley resident and accomplished artist John Toly exhibits his watercolor paintings of the local landscape through the seasons. John is a local favorite!

MARCH 4 - APRIL 8, 2022

Marilyn Lowey makes assemblage sculptures with found objects which she chooses for their ability to interact with the protean properties of light. She invites the viewer to experience the play of illusion, abstraction, and the instability of meaning as the works ’appearance shifts from moment to moment.

MARCH 4 - APRIL 8, 2022

Simon Klein’s solo exhibition “I except it : I accept it” is a show in time. Everything here is a web of relationships between the work, the artist, and you, finding meaning through these interactions together and standing in the face of an unyielding clock.

JANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 25, 2022

This year’s show features 60 Roaring Fork Valley artists and included two and three dimensional work created in with wide variety of media. An Artist Reception (open to the public) will be held on First Friday, February 4, from 5-7pm.

NOVEMBER 18 - DECEMBER 24, 2021

Every holiday season, Carbondale Arts transforms the R2 Gallery into a shop filled with artisanal 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 artisans while supporting our local economy during the holidays.

SEPTEMBER 17 - OCTOBER 29, 2021

Named for the essay that inspired this collaboration, this exhibition featured work by Roaring Fork Valley artists who engage with material as a way to contribute to the cannon of women in contemporary abstract sculpture. Participating artists: Leah Aegerter, Nori Pao, Louise Deroualle

AUGUST 6 - SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The Photogram is one of the most basic photographic methods, made by placing everyday items onto a substrate that has been made to be photosensitive. The substrate is exposed to light and developed leaving an impression of the item that had been used. This photographic process pre-dates cameras.

Traditional photographer Forrest Zerbe used plants he finds outside his darkroom as so-called characters in an attempt to construct a narrative landscape which often reads as ominous, possibly due to the state of the subjects’ environment.

AUGUST 6 - SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Over the three years that she’s been preparing this body of work, artist Nancy Lovendahl’s questions evolved to ask: What if there was only one way to depict a mountain due to social convention? How would this affect our creativity and sense of reality? What we see with our eyes is only transformed and understood as truth by our minds.

JULY 9-29, 2021

Travel through time in this first-ever gallery exhibition about the history of Mountain Fair, which began here in Carbondale in the summer of 1972.

JUNE 4 - 24, 2021

Identidad y Libertad explored the issues around identity and freedom for those who are Spanish-speaking immigrants as well as those who are born in the United States yet are presumed, because of their heritage, to be undocumented immigrants. The artists in the exhibition (Tony Ortega and Claudia Bernardi, along with youth immigrant detainees in Virginia) examined the questions that arise around identity and what it means to be free. Their works tell the stories of the varied experiences of Latinx people in this country and of those south of the border.

MAY 7 - 28, 2021

“Transformation” was a solo exhibition with Carbondale-based painter and mixed media artist Hunter Hogan.