Gallery Exhibits

The Arts Council has two spacious art galleries that feature a rotating schedule of exhibitions that center around a specific theme or artistic medium. Our exhibition priorities are:

1. To display art of the highest artistic standards as determined by the professional principals of good design.
2. To offer a wide variety of mediums and styles, both within particular exhibition as well as over the course of the calendar year.
3. To feature work that is unique to the area and not regularly displayed at other local venues so that we provide a distinctive cultural experience that is not available elsewhere in the County.
4. We also proudly display works by local clubs, schools and art guilds in our Community Gallery.

Click here for information on how to have your work considered for exhibition at the Carroll Arts Center.

Scheduled Events

Six Pack Abs: Flexing Abstraction
	Opens Monday, January 9, 2012
	In the Community Gallery On view January 9 - February 17, 2012 Artists’ Reception: Friday, January 20, 5:30-7:30   Six Pack Abs, Flexing Abstraction features the work of six beautiful women who focus on abstract painting.  Visitors will be treated to works of art, powerful in the brush work and impact.  Bold and subdued palettes meet thick brush work to create a feast for the eyes for the cold winter months.   Artists Include: Donna Ferrandino Felisa Flecker Marion Griffin Michelle Loewer Shelley Steinle Donna Yarish
	Location:	The Carroll Arts Center, 91 West Main Street, Westminster, MD, 21157  View Google Map

Something from Here; Something from There
	Opens Thursday, January 19, 2012
	In the Tevis Gallery On View January 19 - March 10, 2012 Artists Reception: January 20, 5:30-7:30 pm   Artists possess a visual vocabulary of images that are familiar to them and appear in the majority of their work. It can be something as small as the brush stroke of paint, visual metaphors or iconography.  This visual vocabulary is enhanced by time, emotion and place.  Vincent Van Gogh’s famous brush work stayed the same but his imagery changed as he moved from the Netherlands to the South of France.  The influence of Japanese woodblock prints was instrumental in the way he designed his compositions.   The artists in this exhibit have been, either, living and creating here in the United States and have moved or travelled to another country, or, have been living in another country and have moved here.   Wayne McWilliams, from Westminster, spent time in Japan and is a retired professor of Japanese History.  Although he is self taught, Asian imagery infuses his work.  He has recently turned from painting to wood carving and is creating sculptures with the serene simplicity of a Buddhist monk.     Ceramic artist, Patrick Timothy Caughy, travelled to Asissi, Italy for a pilgrimage.  His already cerebral raku art is now infused with influences from the murals of St. Francis and monastic life in Italy.   Leticia Resendez Quintana and Francisco Loza, from Mexico, have been carrying on with traditional craft from their country.  Leticia creates work in metal tooling and Francisco uses the traditional yarn painting craft called estambre.  Both of these artists, influenced by their Mexican visual vocabulary, are adding hints of rural and urban life in the United States to their work.   Fernando Alvarez, from Colombia, paints still life and landscape. These images transcend time and place.  We are familiar with these two genres of painting, yet Fernando infuses them with an aura of his native country, giving the viewer a sense of at once being “here” and being “there.   To round out the exhibit, the photography of Mal Druskin will put the viewers close up and personal with the faces of the world.
	Location:	The Carroll Arts Center, 91 West Main Street, Westminster, MD, 21157  View Google Map