The Grid Project is VAE’s pop-up initiative for artist-driven exhibitions across Raleigh. It connects creatives with spaces, provides support when possible, and sparks visibility and engagement through art in unexpected places.
Current Exhibition Spaces in Raleigh:
Birdland, 706 Mountford Ave. | The Jobe House, 909 W. Morgan St.
Streetframe, Corner of Hargett and Fayetteville (Downtown)
My Cousin’s House
Opens June 3 at the Jobe House at VAE Raleigh.
Curated by Whitney Stanley, the exhibition brings together works by William Paul Thomas, Nori McDuffie, Alyssa Cuffie, Phillip Loken, huiyin zhou 徽音, and Whitney Stanley.
An exhibition exploring intimacy, relationships, memory, and the spaces that hold us, My Cousin’s House considers the emotional weight of familiarity, connection, vulnerability, nostalgia, and personal history through photography, mixed media, and interdisciplinary works.
Opening Reception:
June 6, 2026 | 2–5 PM
On view June 3 – July 26, 2026
Jobe House at VAE Raleigh
909 W Morgan St, Raleigh, NC
Flight
Flight is many things. It is the mechanical wonder of wings cutting through air, the quiet migration of birds across a pale sky, the terrifying freedom of leaving the ground behind. It is escape and arrival. It is the way light lifts off water at dusk, or the feeling of a thought becoming something larger than itself.
We are not looking for a single interpretation. We welcome the literal and the abstract, the grounded and the untethered. Whether your work depicts a sparrow mid-arc, an aerial landscape seen from above, or a purely formal exploration of weightlessness and momentum, if flight lives somewhere in it, we want to see it.
This exhibition is open to artists working in painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, textile, mixed media, and beyond. We encourage submissions that challenge, expand, or quietly reimagine what it means to fly.
Important Dates
Exhibition Dates: 05/17/26 - 06/30/26
Opening Reception 05/17/26 1:00 - 4:00pm