Past Exhibitions
Second Time Around
MARCH 22—JUNE 15
Opening Reception: Friday, March 22, 5:30—7:30 pm
Image: Yohanna M Roa, Curtain, 2018.
Deborah Baronas, Dropcloths: Tales of a Process
January 19—March 16, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, January 19, 5:30—7:30 pm
Centering: Clay and Community
January 19—March 16, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, January 19, 5:30—7:30 pm
Members’ Show
November 9 - December 16, 2023
With a solo-exhibition from 2022 Best-in-Show winner Eileen McCarney Muldoon
BEST-IN-SHOW
Josy Wright. Fog Lifting, 2023. Etching
SECOND PLACE
Victor Aguirre Williams, Prosperity, 2022. Oil on canvas
THIRD PLACE
Christopher Terry, Atemporal Objects, 2023. Oil on canvas
Memory or Imagination: The Work of Eileen McCarney Muldoon
Solo-exhibition during the Members’ Show
November 9 - December 16, 2023
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 9, 6—8 pm
Coming and Going: New work of Algernon Miller
September 8 - October 28, 2023
Curated by Bob Dilworth and Karen Conway
Book as Muse: Language & Image
June 30 - August 24, 2023
Curated by Jeff Foye & Danielle Ogden
Exhibition Opening the Summer Soirée
Featuring: Nick Benson, Lesley Dill, Karin Gielen, Joan Hall, Andy Li, Rupert Nesbitt, Toby Sisson, Buzz Spector, Coral Woodbury & Jo Yarrington
A Hard Rain's A - Gonna Fall
April 21 - June 15, 2023
Curated by Lara Pan
Openning: Friday, April 21, 5:30—7:30 pm
Image: Still from Watershed, © Anita Glesta 2017
Outsider Art: Harnessing Color
January 27 - April 1, 2023
This exhibition joins six art spaces from the East Coast who support artists with disabilities: Artists’ Exchange, Center for Creative Works, Downtown Designs Gallery, Spindleworks, Out of the Box Studio & Gallery, and Studio 57.
Image: Natasha Colón, Frida. Acrylic on canvas, 18”x 24”
Holiday Arts Market
Friday, December 9, 5:30 - 7:30 pm and Saturday, December 10, 10 am - 4 pm
Celebrate the holidays and support the work of participating artists and artisans during our annual Holiday Arts Market at the JAC.
Tracy Weisman: Sort It Out
Solo-exhibition during the Members’ Show
October 28 - December 3, 2022
Opening Reception: Friday, October 28, 6-8 pm
Annual Members’ Show
October 28 - December 3, 2022
Opening Reception: Friday, October 28, 6-8 pm
Judged by Eric Telfort
With a solo-exhibition in the small gallery of work by Tracy Weisman, the Best in Show winner of the 2021 Members’ Show.
Resurfacing: Kate Barber and Wendy Mueller
September 8 - October 15, 2022
Image: Kate Barber
Working Artists’ Residency
August 22 - August 26, 2022
with Kevin Gilmore
SAVE THE DATE: Opening one night only on August 26
Rising Tide: Reflections of Surf Art and Culture
July 2 - August 13
Curated by Jon Baylor
This group exhibition sheds the lifestyle component and digs into the mental spaces that both surfing and art inhabit.
Image: Thomas Campbell
2022 Biennial: Passages, an Outdoor Arts Experience
July 1 - October 31, 2022
Every two years the Jamestown Arts Center’s Biennial Outdoor Arts Experience brings to our community publicly accessible extraordinary arts through outdoor installations and related arts experiences.
From July through October, the Biennial showcases a diverse range of artwork while providing an incubator for artists’ ideas and processes.
Entang Wiharso: Meta Landscape
May 14 - June 18, 2022
Entang Wiharso is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow widely regarded for the unique depictions of contemporary life in his artwork that employ a dramatic visual language, and exist in relation to the mythologies of a centuries-old animist past and the high-speed, hyper-connected lifestyle of the 21st century.
RAW: Reassessment and Wonder
March 18 – May 7, 2022
An exhibition curated by Danielle Ogden from a national call to artists, RAW explores reassessments: the desire or need to authentically explore one's psychological, physical, and environmental state, see a new perspective or shift forward.
Image: ML Kirchner, White Flags, 2020. Archival Ink on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Paper.
Artistic Interpretations
January 15 - March 5, 2022
Perspectives from Our Young Artists
A community exhibition of student artwork created by artists in grades Pre-K through fourth grade at the Melrose School in Jamestown.