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.
The Pivotal Fund Community Exhibition
funding artists at pivotal moments
The Pivotal Fund provided direct financial support to artists for their creative practice and funded their most ambitious ideas.
The Pivotal Fund provided annual grants to self-identifying visual artists in Alamance, Chatham, Davidson, Durham, Forsyth, Guilford, Orange, Randolph, and Wake counties of North Carolina. This region is well-primed for significant investment in the individual artists that make up our creative community. This fund was designed to support artists who also exist in the geographical and creative margins and whose contributions to our burgeoning creative culture have historically been overlooked and under-resourced.
The Pivotal Fund was made possible through the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Regional Re-Granting Program.
The Regional Re-granting Program was established in 2007 to recognize and support the movement of independently organized, public-facing, artist-centered activity that animates local and regional art scenes but that lie beyond the reach of traditional funding sources.
The program is administered by non-profit visual art centers across the United States that work in partnership with the Foundation to fund artists’ experimental projects and collaborative undertakings.
Skully Gustafson - Hillsborough
- Livvie at the Moth Barn ($2000)
- Strawberry Hanggliders ($2300)
- Pet Cemetery ($2500)
Wiley Johnson - Raleigh
- Say I ($1100)
- Inner Here Now ($600)
- The World Inside Me I ($800)
Matt Marble - Greensboro
- Zahar: Lupine Peace ($80)
- Zahar: Wheel of Nature ($80)
- Zahar: The Ascending Tear ($80)
Jordan Robinson - Durham
- Shrine of Adventure ($5000)
- Halos of Memoirs ($5000)
- Temple of Healing ($5000)
ARTISTS
jonh blanco - Durham
- meditation on a rainmaker ($900)
- California AB 1096 Seal with Ball on Nose Figurine (NFS)
- untitled, artist sketchbook (NFS)
Chloe Crawford - Durham
- Upright Nationalism (NFS)
Xavier Davis - Raleigh
- Commoditized Influence ($4900)
- Menagerie ($2300)
- Salutations ($1500)
Gemynii - Durham
- Angel of Water, Angel of Air ($888)
- Miss B Haven ($555)
- Mayowa ($888)
to inquire about purchasing a piece from the exhibition please email Ant (they/them)!