EVENTS CALENDAR
NOV / DEC 2024
NOV 6 & 7 (open by appt) MISTLETOE MARKET - We will be elbow deep at load in & setup, so call (276) 781-3406 if you need to schedule an appointment.
NOV 8 - 10 (open by appt) The gallery will be empty, but we are open by appointment for pickups. But, please come See us at MISTLETOE MARKET at the Higher Education Center in Abingdon, VA. (exit 14 on I-81)
NOV 19 VILLAGE de NOËL opening day, a dreamlike reproduction of a European outdoor Christmas market with themed market stalls, dozens of snow-flecked trees, overhead string lights and more.
NOV 22 It is PINK FRIDAY, your opportunity to buy from small businesses BEFORE Thanksgiving - Grand Opening of VILLAGE de NOËL, complete with holiday music, lights & food (beginning at 6pm)
(Market Runs November 19 – December 21, 2024)
NOV 28 - 30 Closed for THANKSGIVING
DEC 7 (open regular hours) In addition to having the gallery open, we will be at the MARION FARMER'S MARKET from 10am - 4pm with a limited selection & a holiday special or two.
DEC 10-12 (open regular hours) In addition to having the gallery open, we will also have an exhibit at the STRETCHING YOUR HOLIDAY DOLLARS at the Marion Public Library, Tues - Thurs, 10am -12pm & 4pm - 6pm daily.
DEC 14 (open regular hours) In addition to having the gallery open, we will be at the MARION FARMER'S MARKET from 10am - 4pm with a limited selection & a holiday special or two.
DEC 24 - 26 Closed for CHRISTMAS
“I'm so excited. I just bought a new file cabinet, some manila folders, some sticky note pads, and a few highlighters, and I think I'm finally ready to enter into organized crime.” ― Jarod Kintz
APRIL / 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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JUNE / JULY 2025
While our shows are transitioning to the invitational format, we still have to figure out who to invite as featured artists. If you are ready for a solo or duo show, be sure to send us some of your work. We don't know what we don't know. Head on over to our Call for Entries page for more information.
AUGUST 2025
“I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.” ― May West
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.
“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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