EVENTS CALENDAR


MARCH 2025

Join us in March of 2025 for COMMON THREAD, a show of tiny fiber paintings by Britta Cruz

FIRST FRIDAY & NEW SHOW: Join us on Friday, March 7th, 2025 from 6 to 8pm for the opening of "COMMON THREAD", a show featuring the tiny fiber paintings of BRITTA CRUZ an Virginia-based artist accomplished in multiple media. Come enjoy great art, good food & bad wine on Friday, March 7th from 6 to 8pm.
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“As I continue to search for creative outlets that allow me to explore my need to “make” within my confined time and space availability I discovered I could join my love of fiber with my desire to tell stories.  The stitching of my small fiber paintings is very therapeutic.  I seek to convey a sense of Peace and calm to the viewer.  The same peace and calm I gain from creating.” – Britta Cruz

(Show Runs March 7 - 29, 2025)

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LUXE: A Solo Show featuring the fanciful imaginings of Sara BarrettAPRIL / MAY 2025

FIRST FRIDAY & NEW SHOW: Join us on Friday, April 4th, 2025 from 6 to 8pm for the opening of "LUXE", a show featuring the lush colors, clever combinations and fanciful imaginings of SARA BARRETT, a mixed-media artist best known for her stunning collages, both digital & physical.
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LUXE [ looks, luhks; French lyks ]

luxury; elegance; sumptuousness

1550–60; < French < Latin luxus excess

(Show Runs April 4 - May 31)


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JUNE / JULY 2025

Artists for this show will be chosen from attendees of the 2025 SWVA Artisan Conference in Abingdon, VA where gallery director, Rachel Gibson, will attend as an artist, panel member (Friday April 4th: Maximizing Festival Sales: Strategies for a Standout Vendor Booth) & workshop speaker (Saturday, April 5th: Getting a Show).  If you would like to attend the 2025 SWVA Artisan Conference, you can find additional information here: https://swvaarts.com/information/.

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"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." — Sun Tzu


(Show Runs June 6 - July 26)
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AUGUST 2025

FIRST FRIDAY & NEW SHOW: Join us on Friday, August 1st, 2025 from 6 to 8pm for the opening of "SOFT RESTRAINT", a show featuring work by Jon Ives & Rachel Gibson. 
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It has been said that cages are not made of steel, but of ideas and thoughts.  Are you in a self-imposed cage made of guilt, peer pressure, passive aggression or familial expectation?  Are your soft restraints saving you from yourself or holding you prisoner?   Come explore with us.
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“I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.” ― May West

(Show Runs August 1 - 30)

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SEPT / OCT 2025

 

FIRST FRIDAY & NEW SHOW: Join us on Friday, September 5th, 2025 from 6 to 8pm for the opening of "THE BODY POLITIC", a show featuring work regarding the policing of our bodies from fat shaming to reproductive legislation.  We have asked artists to show us how they feel about the messaging, politics and expectation around our physical selves -- good, bad or indifferent.

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“Body politics refers to the operations of power in topics ranging from issues about abortion, anatomy, anorexia, and opinions on tattoos, toxicology, and transsexuals, to facts about diseases, death, disciplines, and convictions about race, rationality and research. The history of the human body is political: it has been conceptualized, illustrated, re-presented, explained and interpreted differently at various times. It has been lived differently, brought into being within widely dissimilar material cultures, subjected to various technologies, medical interventions, scientific expectations and cultural controls, and incorporated into diverse cadences of production and consumption, pleasure and pain. ” ― from the abstract "Body Politics: Webs of Embodiment, Medicine, Science, Technology, Nature and Culture" by Carolyn DiPalma

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"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." --Khalil Gibran

(Show Runs Sept 5 - Nov 1)

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NOV / DEC 2025

A MAGICAL MEDIEVAL CHRISTMAS  

Join us on Friday, November 14th, 2025 from 6 to 8pm for the opening of "A MAGICAL MEDIEVAL CHRISTMAS", a show of treasures and treats featuring the fun and fantasy of castles & dragons..

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"As the winter solstice dances with the starlight, the magic of the season weaves through the realms, bringing a glimmer of wonder to every heart, even in the most hidden corners of the fantastical world."

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(Show Runs Nov 11 - Dec 23)