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The 37th Art by the Falls
Valley Art Center is finding new ways to bring art to the region despite the challenges the pandemic has brought us. In light of necessary COVID-19 precautions, Valley Art Center is staging Art by the Falls in a Gallery Exhibition at 155 Bell St. in Chagrin Falls for the summer of 2021 and through artist pop-ups during the South Russell and Chagrin Falls Farmer’s Markets and at the Valley Art Center. Every artist accepted to the festival for June of 2020 was invited to participate in the gallery exhibitions and artist pop-ups.
"Art by the Falls is a wonderful event that brings juried artists’ masterful artwork to our community and highlights the work of the Valley Art Center’s year-round programs. I am very excited to work with the Valley Art Center to continue to bring this 37-year-old event to the valley in a unique way throughout the summer of 2021," Says Ally Dean, Art by the Falls Coordinator.
Valley Art Center will host 2 separate 5-week exhibits, June 4-July 7 and July 23- September 1, to highlight the 2020 Art by the Falls artists. All artwork will be for sale onsite as well as in the Valley Art Center online gallery store. In addition, VAC will offer virtual gallery walk throughs of both shows. Cash awards will include the Jurors Choice and the People’s Choice. Votes for the People’s Choice can be submitted online and onsite.
The gallery is also available to reserve for small group (10 persons) experiences, for more information contact our office.
This exhibit will be open for public viewing during our normal business hours, or view a virtual walkthrough and shop the exhibit below.
"Art by the Falls is a wonderful event that brings juried artists’ masterful artwork to our community and highlights the work of the Valley Art Center’s year-round programs. I am very excited to work with the Valley Art Center to continue to bring this 37-year-old event to the valley in a unique way throughout the summer of 2021," Says Ally Dean, Art by the Falls Coordinator.
Valley Art Center will host 2 separate 5-week exhibits, June 4-July 7 and July 23- September 1, to highlight the 2020 Art by the Falls artists. All artwork will be for sale onsite as well as in the Valley Art Center online gallery store. In addition, VAC will offer virtual gallery walk throughs of both shows. Cash awards will include the Jurors Choice and the People’s Choice. Votes for the People’s Choice can be submitted online and onsite.
The gallery is also available to reserve for small group (10 persons) experiences, for more information contact our office.
This exhibit will be open for public viewing during our normal business hours, or view a virtual walkthrough and shop the exhibit below.
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ABF 1 June 4-July 7
Ceramics Stephanie Miller-Davis Jewelry Lisa Cutler Kim Mettee Jane Wiemer Other/Mixed Media Jeanne Fashempour Painting/Drawing Laurie Anderson Rob Crombie Pam Spremulli Chuck Wimmer Photography/Prints Zachary Hoon Ron Mellott Wood/Metal/Sculpture Greg Bruck Benjamin Yano |
ABF 2 July 23- September 1
Ceramics Elaine Lamb Jewelry Pat Bolgar Janice Mariano Mary Ann Posch/John Gulyas Other/Mixed Media Kendra Wood Painting/Drawing Nancy Gregg Kat LoGrande Nancy Minter Mary Ann Sedivy Leesah Tarr Photography/Prints Wayne Heim Textiles Julie Friedman Wood/Metal/Sculpture Tim Niewiadomski Marcus Schafer |
This exhibit is open to the public during our normal business hours, 10 - 4 Monday-Friday and 10 - 2 Saturday.
The gallery is also available to reserve for small group (10 persons) experiences, for more information contact our office.
Virtual Walkthrough Coming Soon
Gallery Shop - coming soon
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Hallway Gallery
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Chagrin Valley Nature: A Tale of Two Views
Andrea Dawson and Kate Oulton
on display starting June 4
Andrea Dawson and Kate Oulton
on display starting June 4
The idea for this collaboration began, during a drawing class at the Valley Art Center, when Kate and Andrea realized that they shared a common focus in the subject matter of their art. Both artists explore the natural world of Northeast Ohio to find their inspiration but have divergent approaches to representing the world they see. Kate deconstructs and reconstructs the natural world to create multilayer complex patterns of color, light and shadow. Andrea uses her camera to capture similar complex patterns in which the layers of color, light and shadow often create nature’s abstracts. Both artists draw attention to the detail in the most mundane aspects of nature that are often overlooked. In this exhibition, both artists created work from select locations in CVNP, South Chagrin Reservation, and Chagrin Falls where they, like so many, have found solace, renewal, and inspiration.
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Andrea Dawson is a fine art photographer who is is drawn to the patterns created by colors, lines and light in nature, in Northeast Ohio. In her day job as a pathologist she uses the same attention to visual details of the microscopic world to make patient diagnoses. With her camera, she is drawn to trees with their interconnected branches which reach out to create unlimited designs against the sky. Using shallow depth of field, she emphasizes the multidimensional aspects of a field of grass or a stand of trees that often create nature’s own abstracts. When she is exploring the parks in our area she thinks often of the words of Mary Oliver: “To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work”.
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Kate Oulton is a Northeast Ohio artist working primarily in paper and mixed media. Her work documents and explores the fleeting, transient qualities of specific times and places as they contribute to our experiences. A graduate of Kent State University, Kate’s pieces are sculptural drawings and paintings, exploring paper simultaneously as a medium and a substrate. By cutting and manipulating the material by hand, she creates objects that are as much a part of their environment as the patterns that inspired them. Her process is meditative and rhythmic, capturing, tracing, manipulating, and cutting found patterns, each one evidence of the complex and interdependent systems that underlie our environment. These elements surround us in our daily lives. They are in our memories, but only subconsciously as components that contribute to the feel of a place. By building her works around these patterns, Kate seeks to honor how the places we’ve been make us who we are.
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