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The Art League Gallery opens a new juried group exhibit every month, and solo artist exhibits nine times a year. We post photos, videos, and behind-the-scenes news from our exhibits here.

For gallery hours and info on current exhibits, visit the Gallery home page.

Artful Weekend February 7-9

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our new weekly listing of area art happenings! Check it out every Friday for fun and interesting exhibits and events…
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Artful Weekend January 31-February 2

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our new weekly listing of area art happenings! Check it out every Friday for fun and interesting exhibits and events…
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Artful Weekend January 24-26

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our new weekly listing of area art happenings! Check it out every Friday for fun and interesting exhibits and events…
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Artful Weekend January 17-20

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our new weekly listing of area art happenings! Check it out every Friday for fun and interesting exhibits and events…
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March Flora/Fauna Exhibit

Check out this video walk through of the Flora/Fauna Exhibit Narrated by Carol Fabricatore! Juried by: Carol Fabricatore Exhibit dates: March 10-April 5, 2020…
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Fade to Black and White: A Conversation With Abol Bahadori, December 2019 Open Exhibit Best-In-Show Winner

“Pulling Perspective,” the painting awarded the December 2019 Open Exhibit Best-In-Show prize by juror Matthew McLaughlin, is a departure from what artist Abol Bahadori…
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Artful Weekend January 10-12

Welcome to Artful Weekend, our new weekly listing of area art happenings! Check it out every Friday for fun and interesting exhibits and events…
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Playful State of Mind: An interview with artist Cristy West

­ “Mark making is central to art; it reaches back into prehistory to the caves of Lascaux, yet at the same time, children do…
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Urban Legend by Will Varner

“Honesty without compassion is worth nothing”: an Interview with juror Will Varner

What is your definition of illustration? What does it encompass? For me, illustration should be in service of something—such as helping an article, a…
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I Made You a Mixtape: Interview with Best in Show Winner, Tara Barr

Artist Tara Barr makes people want to pick up a pencil and attack her art. Not really of course, but Tara Barr‘s Mixtape certainly…
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A Conversation with Shahnaz Nia: Best in Show for the August Open Exhibit 2019

The Best-in Show winning piece for this month’s exhibit was selected by juror, Julia Kwon. Julia is also a textile artist (see her work…
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Inna Skidan: Telling the Tale with Whimsy and Wit

Inna Skidan, brought up in Ukraine and now living in the U.S., draws on the richness of her heritage and the cyclical highs and…
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ART BITES: Interview with Hernán Murno

For this installment of “Art Bites,” we look into the diptych of America Remembers/The Lives by Hernán Murno in the July open exhibit. Murno’s…
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Interview with July Best in Show Winner Yasmin Bussiere

Rich, metallic textures are artist Yasmin Bussiere’s signature, and her work Illuminations is no exception. The eye-catching work of art that took home the Best In…
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Art Movie Night 2.0 features “VESSELS” animation by NYC-based Ignacio Serrano and Xiao Hua Yang

Join us Thursday July 18 at 7 pm, as the Gallery welcomes animators Ignacio Serrano and Xiao Hua Yang. Our second Art Movie Night…
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Don’t Table a Visit: Last Chance to See The Tabletop Exhibit

The League’s 2019 nationally juried Tabletop exhibit features a functional ceramic, metal, and functional wares – perfect for wedding gift or an update to your own…
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Artist Statement Workshop: Q&A with Julia Kwon and Fanna Gebreyesus

The League is pleased to welcome Julia Kwon, Artist in Residence at the NARS Foundation in Brooklyn, NY and Fanna Gebreyesus of the Glenstone Museum in…
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Take it to the street: Lee Hassig’s photographs capture Colonial Williamsburg’s Duke of Glocester Street

Lee Hassig enters this conversation by focusing on a pinpoint in our postmodern lives. Anonymously photographing inhabitants of Duke of Gloucester (“DoG”) Street in…
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Secret Sauce: Glaze, Practice, and Re-Thinking Clay with Ryan Rakhshan

What if pottery could float on glaze? What if glaze could be more than just function? Tomorrow we are hosting ceramics artist Ryan Rakhshan…
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Wild Clay: Q&A with Potters Hitomi & Takuro Shibata

Hitomi and Takuro Shibata learned pottery making as professional studio potters in Shigaraki, one of the oldest and largest pottery villages in Japan. Now…
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Eye Opening: Berit Jerama Estabrook’s “Eyes of the Wild”

Berit Estabrook’s peaceful woodland creatures, at first, seem saccharin and whimsical , but with a deeper look show the cracks in the relationship between…
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Bugs’ Life: Megan Partridge’s “Bugs. Or Kafka on Prozac.” Brings Humanity to the Insect World

Megan Partridge’s bugs not only bring their own life to the canvas…but also a similarity to our own every day lives. The very human…
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The Student, The Mage, and The Exhibitor: Q&A with Begoña Lathbury

The piece,  The Mage, is the first piece featured in The Art League Gallery by Bev Ryan student, Begoña Lathbury, who won an honorable mention in the…
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A Room of Her Own: Ann Pickett’s “The Exuberance of Life” intertwines figure and environment

With movement, mystery, and appetite for life, the work of painter Ann Pickett intertwines the figure with its environment in “The Exuberance of Life”…
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