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.
Community Exhibition Program - Winter / Call for Art
CEP
Deadline for entry - 11:59 pm on February 15, 2018
ABOUT
VAE's Community Exhibition Program offers VAE members the chance to have solo or group exhibitions in alternative venues around Downtown Raleigh. These exhibits are seen by thousands of people each year! VAE works with five venues across Downtown Raleigh to give artists opportunities to show bodies of work and receive a stipend. Each venue is unique and has its' own exhibition schedule.
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.
DOUBLE DUTY
DOUBLE DUTY - a creative writing workshop
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June 3+4, 2016
The Ignite Creativity Summit inspires and excites creative people to think BIG.The 2016 summit theme is HOME: How can communities be improved by their artists, and how can artists be improved by their communities?
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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CREATING SPACE
CREATING SPACE: A workshop for creating multi-sensory and universally designed exhibitions.
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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.
PITCH, PLEASE!
This is an ongoing, open, call-for-art that acts as an avenue for artists to pitch their most creative ideas to VAE!
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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
Burton Tysinger's exhibition "Color Constructions" at Designbox
Community Exhibition Program
VAE's Community Exhibition Program offers VAE members the chance to have solo or group exhibitions in alternative venues around Downtown Raleigh.
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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