Skipping Sundays
In "Skipping Sundays," Evans Smith reflects on her Methodist upbringing in a rural North Carolina town, revealing how a steadfast belief has always remained just out of reach. Through imagery, she explores the complicated dynamics of religion and faith, as well as the feelings of isolation that can occur when one's beliefs differ with those of those around them. How is it that some can wholeheartedly embrace traditional faith while the rest of us are left questioning?
EXHIBITION EVENTS:
10/2 | First Friday Opening Reception and Book Signing | 6:30 - 8:30pm
10/31 | 4:00-7:00, Closing Reception
*In addition to VAE's open house Monday & Wednesday 9-12, the exhibition can also be by appt.
The show runs from October 2nd - October 31st
FEATURED ARTIST:
Heather Evans Smith
This show is currently on exhibit at The Jobe House.
Shadows
Every culture, every person, every landscape knows shadow. September is its natural season, when the light grows long and golden, the world tilts toward darkness, and something in us turns reflective.
For one artist that might mean the literal shadows of a landscape at dusk; for another, the mythological underworld, the hidden self, or the silence between things.
Shadows is an open call for all media and all interpretations, from the observed world to the deeply personal.
EXHIBITION OPENING: 9/12/2026, 2:00 - 5:00PM
The show runs from September 12th - October 31st
ARTISTS ON EXHIBITION:
Patrizia Ferreira | Lucy Malmin | Leatha Koefler | Jessica Tracey | Kat Wilson | Leslie Pruneau | Cindy McMorris | Olivia Squires | Sterling Bowen | Kelly Hutzel | Anastasia Beane | Mary Louise Kasper | Marcelle Kick | Brett Morris | Allison Tierney | Matt Tracey | Tiffany Minton | Christopher Resh | Elle Joseph | Zachery Thomas | Lisa Marie Kwesell | Tricia Sauls | Karen Rose | Dain Kim | Nicholas Portanova | Jacqueline Maloney | Sarah Weir | Nick Dahlstrom | Vincent Whitehurst | Korrin Cheatwood | Emily Eve Weinstein | Kristen Solecki | Janet Danforth | Stephanie Witchger | Karin Schneider | Kat Harrison | Hiba Chohan | Faten Aloui | Claudia Cole | Mynor Escobar | Colleen Regan
This show is divided between Rebus Works and Birdland.
National Fly Killin' Week by Chance Murray
National Fly Killin' Week
June 21 - August 4
First Friday Receptions: July 7 & August 4
Artist Talk: TBD
One day I walked into my house and it was full of flies. “ have mercy, I am going to need a whole lotta fly swatters” so I made some, 100 to be exact. Later that same day, the interior of my house looked like World War two for flies. The next thought was, there ought to be a national damn holiday for this. So I now present you with how opening day for National Fly Killing Week would look, kinda like Disney world if it was opened by your Uncle Bubba. complete with parade, a celebratory hornworm drop at midnight, souvenir fly swatters and pointers on how you may wish to decorate your own home for National Fly Killin week.
National Fly Killin’ Week is real. Believe it. If you still don’t believe it, come see for yourself. After all, there’s a week for everything else…
ARTIST BIO
Chance Murray is a Southerner first, and an artist second. Using skills grafted from farming his large-scale mixed media works cobble together traditional painting, woodworking, and pure redneck engineering, producing vivid and slightly skewed scenes of rural life. these conjured images often come from a place both hard to describe yet somehow familiar, casting the viewer into a crudely altered world. Roughly scribbled text, often severing as comic relief, sprawl across the surface enhancing these scenes, sometimes providing description while sometimes, or simultaneously, flipping the image on its head, changing and confounding any sense of meaning. Chance is the recipient of the 2011-2012 Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artist award, He lives and works in Cedar Grove, N.C.