2017 Gallery Exhibits

Picturing America
with the Sherwood Historical Society

December 15 - March 30

Great art speaks powerfully, inspires fresh thinking, and connects us to our past. Picturing America, a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, tells America’s story through its art in large, high-quality reproductions of selected masterworks of American art from 1100 to 1996. The selection of paintings, sculptures, architecture, and decorative arts represents a broad range of American art.

Gallery Reception: January 6 | 6:30 - 8:30 pm

ART 2017 Student Show
curated by Makers5

April 6 - May 5

This month-long exhibit features the talents of Sherwood’s many youth art students. Students of art in Sherwood’s public schools, private studios and homeschools will have their artwork on the walls of the Center for the Arts for their friends and neighbors to view and appreciate.

Gallery Reception: April 13 | 5:00 - 8:00 pm 

Memories in the Making
with the Springs at Sherwood

May 11 - July 6

Memory care... these words go together magically when it comes to art. Whether a former artist re-igniting a lost passion, or someone who has never before picked up a brush, Art finds its way to the residents of Footsteps. Much of the original art comes from Memories in the Making, a program taught by the Alzheimer’s association, providing high quality art supplies to honor the work of folks living with various forms of dementia. Each painting is described in the artists own words, bringing an additional layer of meaning to each piece. 

Gallery Opening Reception: May 11 | 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Connected Threads 2017: Celebrating the Fiber Arts
curated by Makers5

July 13-September 29

In our second year of presenting a Fibers Arts Exhibition, we wish to celebrate the uniqueness of using fibers to create art.  The connection of threads together is a long-lived art form.  In the modern day, we have the materials to create unique, one of a kind fiber artworks that, can take on many different forms.   We have challenged artists  to create a unique artwork using fibers such as cloth, wool and threads that can be hung on the wall.

Gallery Opening Reception: July 13 | 6:30-8:30 pm

Four Eights an Artists Challenge II
Curated by Makers5

October 12 - December 8

This exhibit will showcase pieces created during the Four Eights an Artists Challenge II, which tasked participating artists with creating original artwork around a singular theme, on four, eight inch square canvases. Artists will be using a wide variety of media. The show will feature some returning artists that participated in the challenge last year, and some new artists.

Gallery Opening Reception: October 12 | 6:30-8:30 pm

Colorful Expressions

December 14 - March 1

Celebrating the distinctive world of color, this exhibit showcases local female artists. Although varied in style and subject, their work is connected through their dramatic use of color. Come and see the walls of the Sherwood Center for the Arts with a wild variety of hues!

Gallery Opening Reception: December 14 | 5:00 - 8:00 pm

*This gallery opening is in conjunction with the Winter Art Walk