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.


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MEDIA

March 4-24, 2016
Main Gallery


MEDIA included 48 pieces of artwork categorized by painting, drawing/printmaking, photography, video, mixed media, fiber/textile, digital media, and three-dimensional works.

March 4-24, 2016
First Friday Reception: March 4, 6-10pm

The Exhibit
The purpose of MEDIA is to exhibit artwork from across the spectrum of artist’s materials. The exhibition has no theme, but strives to create conversations about the variations in a single medium and aesthetic between different media. The exhibition includes 48 pieces of artwork categorized by painting, drawing/printmaking, photography, video, mixed media, fiber/textile, digital media, and three-dimensional works.

The Artists
Jodi Aker, Beginnings
Bryan Allyn, Decay
Phil Ashe, Intuitive Impression
Phil Ashe, Deep Field
Morgan Benshoff, You’re Doing It All Wrong
Kelli Black, Don’t Worry Ladies, This Won’t Make You Big (After Jillian Michaels)
Chester Brewer, CREATURE PLAY
Jeannette Brossart, The Collector
Zac Buser, Bridal Veil
Jean Cauthen, Earthly Delights
laura (Yi Zhen) Chen, Barns with shadows
Rose Cleary, WEIRDSHAPES4
Renee Cloud, Memory Police, or, the Inability to Remember You Perfectly Twice
Janet Coleman, Preempt
Melinda Fine, The Showgirl
McArthur Freeman, Balloon Bump
Leif Gann-Matzen, Pelagic
Brian Gualillo, Blurred Concepts.
Rich Gurnsey, “I PICK YOU” BY THE AFFECTIONATES
Murry Handler, Daybreak=
Murry Handler, Glyphs#1, Sepia Rosetta
Kelley Hunter, It Started Out Grey
Leatha Koefler, Carolina Blue Lilly
Jana Lankford, Symphony
Elizabeth Laul Healey, On Edge
Elizabeth Laul Healey, Fallen Grace
Stephen Lindberg, Tectonics
Brandon Marshall, Untitled
Randy McNamara, FEELS LIKE TOMORROW
Bronwyn Merritt, Shamanic Medicine Cabinet
Cynthia Meyer, Vivid Color Memories
Luca Molnar, This Is Just to Say
Colin Murasko, Blue, Yellow-Green, Green
Frank Myers, Krispy Kreme Stripes
Constance Pappalardo, When words fail me
Jessica Parnell, Frost
Susan Piercecchi, Enigma
Alexis Price, “stuck in the crosshairs”
Cindy Pryor, “17 of 71 Blue”
Cindy Pryor, “My Father, My Son”
Robert Ringham, Feeding the light
Robert Ringham, Light Seeker
Tim Saguinsin, Critics (My Six Year Old Could Do That!)
Eric Saunders, Stick Castle No. 2
Richard Stickney, starlet
Anne Tello, #thinkdifferent
Richard Usanis, Abstract #156709
Aaron Zalonis, if you let those animals meditate they’ll kill us all

View all of the work exhibited in MEDIA here!

The Juror
Kathleen Rieder, Assistant Professor of Art +Design, North Carolina State University College of Design

About Kathleen Rieder
Kathleen Rieder has been a teaching faculty member in the Department of Art + Design since 1989. Her emphasis is in Design Studies. Kathleen Rieder has taught drawing, painting, color theory, mixed media, 2D Design and 3D Design, and the First Year Experience. She has taught a seminar in Contemporary Issues in Art + Design for juniors majoring in Art + Design for the past 13 years.

In addition to her teaching, she has actively exhibited her art. She has been selected three times to exhibit in the NC Artists Exhibition at the NC Museum of Art. In the past twelve years she has exhibited at the Hanes Art Center at UNC Chapel Hill; the Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC-Greensboro; Meredith College; NC State College of Design; the Louise Wells Cameron Museum in Wilmington; and more recently at the Caldwell County Arts Council and the Mahler Gallery in Raleigh.

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Contemporary South 2016

January 6 – February 25, 2016
Main Gallery

The South is emerging as hub for creativity. Raleigh has adopted a vision to become the Southern Capital for Arts and Culture. To showcase the best artwork from the region here in Raleigh, Contemporary South highlights artwork from across the regional South. Since 2012 Contemporary South has been one of  VAE’s most popular exhibition, 2016’s exhibition will feature 77 pieces of artwork, made by 74 artists from 12 states across the region.

January 6 – February 25, 2016
First Friday Receptions: January 8, 6-10pm & February 5, 6-10pm

The Exhibit
The South is emerging as hub for creativity. Raleigh has adopted a vision to become the Southern Capital for Arts and Culture. To showcase the best artwork from the region here in Raleigh, Contemporary South highlights artwork from across the regional South. Since 2012 Contemporary South has been one of  VAE’s most popular exhibition, 2016’s exhibition will feature 77 pieces of artwork, made by 74 artists from 12 states across the region.

The Artists
Eric Adams, Self Service
Randy Akers, dawn sage
Mary Anderson, Looking Back
Amy Anderson, the lineup
Amy Anderson, The Wedges
Ashley Arakas, “Brevity and Bliss”
Peg Bachenheimer, Good Day Sunshine-Beatles
Devin Balara, Like A Rock
Brant Barrett, Rooster Time
Tamie Beldue, Bisect
Sarah Bielski, First and Ten; Do It Again
Jenny Blazing, Test of Time
William Breazeale, Across the Tracts (Durham CBD#6)
Zel Brook, Horseshoe Barn Roof
Michael Carlebach, Asheville, North Carolina
Micah Cash, Pickwick Landing, Downstream
Renee Cloud, You’re Obviously Not A Hood Girl
Peter Cotroneo, Sweat Sweater
Yvette Cummings Arendt, Voyeur Series
Dana Flynt, Fading Memories XI
McArthur Freeman, Pine App
John Gallagher, Portent
Laken Geiger, PRESENTPRESENCE
Callie Farmer Goss, Binding the Divergence
George Gregory, The Lovers
Jim Hallenbeck, Clothes on Line Along Huler’s Lawson Trek
Anthony Hamilton, Souvenirs #10
Alyson Hansen, Hidden Oak
Rebecca Jacobs, Erosion
Yalonda M James, Cypress Gardens 2
Kathryn Jill Johnson, Tower and Spire
Andrea Kainz, The Body Electric
Joyce Watkins King, Southern Ladies Must Cross Their Legs
Josiah King, Presence
Josiah King, Floor Advancing
Christin Kleinstreuer, Unraveling
Liss LaFleur, QUEEN
Lauren Lake, olate
Sam Lasris, See, Spot,….. Run
Elizabeth Laul Healey, Working Hard at Da Wash
Stephanie Leathers, walls
Gary James Lee, Blizzard
Cayce Lee, Akasha
Vivian Liddell, Swipes 2
Vivian Liddell, Swipes Video
M. Blair Ligon, While My Schoolroom Sleeps
Richard Lund, Broken Mirror
Sarah Martin, Foam Party
Rachel McClain, The Angelina Effect
Lambert McLaurin, “Motherwell’s Window” (abandoned mill)
Gary Mesa-Gaido, Unidentified Point of Departure #2
Rosalie Midyette, Lene
Julia Morrisroe, Your Eyes Proclaim Series #111913
Chieko Murasugi, Life’s Like That
Frank Myers, Fort Fischer Reenactors
Lake Newton, Clinton, Arkansas 2015
David Norcross, Color Conversation 1
Libby O’Daniel, The Tearing and the Torn: Them #2
Olivia Ouyang, Home
Jena Pendarvis, Terra Incognita #1
Nora Phillips, Voladores IV
Zack Rafuls, Difference & Repetition: For Sun Ra & Gilles Deleuze
Andrew Regan, Coat Check
Branch Richter, Through the Peephole
Kathleen Rieder, screen door
Robert Ringham, Little House on the Prairie
William Ruller, Stone Fist
Eric Saunders, Faces At The Fair
Bryce Speed, Yellow Bark
Caren Stansell, Circulation
Teresa Stephens, Four Sided Pyramid
Sterling Stevens, Home Sweet Home
Megan Sullivan, Open
Kulsum Tasnif, Journey to The Good Life
Daryl Thetford, The Search for Balance
Carrie Tomberlin, Pow Wow Contestant, Cherokee, NC
Jenny Williams, Café

View all of the works exhibited in Contemporary South 2016 here!

The Juror
Kristin Fleischmann Brewer, Manager of Programs @ Pulitzer Arts Foundation

About Kristin Fleischmann Brewer
Kristin Fleischmann Brewer is the Manager of Programs at Pulitzer Arts Foundation, where she has worked since 2011. Over the past 3 years Brewer has mounted over 100 programs; founded a grants program that awarded $60,000 to local and national artists to implement community projects. Brewer is also the co-founder and former director of Enamel Art Space in ST. Louis, which exhibited work of local and national visual artists. Brewer received her MFA in painting from Washington University in St. Louis in 2011 where she was the recipient of the Mr. and Mrs. Spencer T. Olin Fellowship for Women.

About Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Mission – Through engaging exhibitions, programs, and partnerships with artists, curators, and innovators across disciplines, Pulitzer Arts Foundation strives to inspire both the St. Louis community and international arts audiences to think differently about creativity in daily life.

The Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents a wide range of exhibitions, including those of Old Masters, Buddhist art, important modern and contemporary artists and group exhibitions that explore a diverse array of themes and ideas. In addition to its curatorial platform, the Pulitzer offers a robust roster of programs that bring together leading figures from fields such as art, architecture, design, urban planning, social work, technology, and science. Established by curator, philanthropist, and arts patron Emily Rauh Pulitzer, Pulitzer Arts Foundation promotes the significance of art in everyday life and its impact on the health and success of a community.

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