July 2016
The Lab
This interactive space allowed the public to tell a good joke and have a good laugh!
> Past Exhibits
Nora Hartlaub: Hush
June 22 - August 5, 2016
The Cube
Nora Hartlaub's sculptural and mixed media works filled The Cube and commented on North Carolina's current political landscape.
525,600 MINS
May 28 - September 3, 2016
Waterworks Visual Art Center
525,600 MINS was a colloboration with Waterworks Visual Art Center, an accredited museum. The exhibition featured VAE members' work depicting their relationship with time and place.
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Mary Ann Anderson / AJ Fletcher Foundation
July - September 2016
Community Exhibits
Mary Ann Anderson's mix of two-dimensional, mixed media, and installation works are on view at AJ Fletcher Foundation through October 2016.
Randy McNamara / Aloft Raleigh
June - August 2016
Community Exhibits
Randy McNamara's exhibition SWARM was VAE's inaugural exhibition in the Aloft Raleigh space, directly across from NC State University's bell tower.
Vicki Rees / AJ Fletcher Foundation
March - May 2016
Community Exhibits
Vicki Rees transformed AJ Fletcher Foundation into a natural sciences museum with her high-realism paintings of natural scenes.
SCOPE 2016: the southern landscape
June 3-24, 2016
Main Gallery
VAE's annual SCOPE exhibition showcases the widest range of “landscape” works possible.
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Exchange Gallery: June Featured Artists
June 3 - 24, 2016
Exchange Gallery
Featured Artists: Sarah Blackmon Lips // Diala Estela // John Orrand // Lakeshia Reid // Tim Saguinsin
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TACTILE
May 6 - 26, 2016
MAIN GALLERY
TACTILE was a multisensory and universally designed exhibition that helped to expand VAE's audience to include more people with disabilities.
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PROJECT POSTCARD
May 6-7, 2016
Storefront Windows
PROJECT POSTCARD is part of VAE's annual young artist programming, exhibiting creative work by Wake County Students in the storefront windows of Downtown Raleigh cultural venues.
Eunjung Park: Prism of Choice
April 20 - June 4, 2016
THE CUBE
Eunjung Park used The Cube gallery to explore the relationship between supportive structures—like shelves and tables, but also clothing racks and the rhyme schemes of poems—and the items they display.
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Photography Group / United Arts
June 2016
Community Exhibits
VAE's Photography Artist Group meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 7pm at VAE and exhibit together throughout the year.
Marcia Streithorst & Lauri Arntsen / HagerSmith PA
June - July 2016
Community Exhibits
Marica Streithorst and Lauri Arntsen both use a wide range of media, including encaustic, to add layers to their work.
Linda Kimball / United Arts Council
May 6 - 26, 2016
Community Exhibits
"My mother was present physically but mentally absent. The lack of a mother in my childhood has had an enormous influence on my life. I use painting as the most sincere form of self-expression." - Linda Kimball
Sara Trepanier / Duke Health Raleigh Hospital
April - June 2016
Community Exhibits
A surgeon at Duke Health Raleigh Hospital, Sarah Trepanier's colorful works fill the halls of her own work space for the second quarter of 2016!
Exchange Gallery: May Featured Artists
May 6 - 26, 2016
Exchange Gallery
Featured artists: William Breazeale // James Hallenbeck // Ann Howe // Mary Storms
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Helen Seebold / United Arts Council
March - April 2016
Community Exhibits
Helen Seebold's skillfully made ceramics filled United Arts Council for the months of March and April 2016!
Anthony Garcia-Copian / United Arts Council
April 1-28, 2016
Community Exhibits
"When I paint, I paint abstract memories. Sometimes the memory is foggy and has been replaced by an imaginary sediment, a residue that has made one memory solid and the other fluid." - Anthony Garcia-Copian
Lisa Bartell / HagerSmith PA
April - May 2016
Community Exhibits
In Finding Faces, Lisa Bartell uses oil paint to play with the human figure and create whimsical works that are all part of a healing process for her.
The Other Toy Story
April 1 - 28, 2016
Exchange Gallery
The Other Toy Story is an ongoing project by artist Joyce Dallal that grew out of her personal experience as a parent. The exhibition is interactive and challenges participants to consider their level of consumption and helps them to expand their knowledge about what they can recycle.