Venues for Artists in the Local Area
Connecting artists to artists, artists to the community, and the community to art.
CURRENT & UPCOMING:
EVENTS • EXHIBITIONS • CALLS FOR ART
Watercolor Hearts:
Color & Emotion, a drop-in workshop.
11 am – 2 pm | Saturday, February 14, 2026
Using watercolor paper and simple materials, visitors are invited to paint heart forms while exploring how color can express emotion.
Art from the Founder's Collection: Celebrating 16 Years of VALA Eastside
WORKSHOP: SOMATIC EKPHRASIS
A QUIET WAY OF LISTENING:
MOVEMENT AND POETRY IN RESPONSE TO ART
2:00-3:00pm | Saturday February 21st, 2026
RASP board member Kari Tai will guide VALA visitors through creating a similar-style verbal response to one of the exhibit’s works by focusing on the bodily, visceral, or physical experience of engaging with the art. We will play with translating visual, tactile, or emotional sensations from art into language. Then the participants who feel “moved” to do so will create simple gestures that represent some of the key words from their writing. No previous writing or movement experience required.
From now through February 22, we’re sharing an exhibition of artworks from the private collection of our founder, Jessica Frances Kravitz Lambert! From abstract to figurative, still life to landscape, you’ll find a menagerie of unique pieces on view in our arts space today.VALA was founded in 2010 with the mission of “connecting artists to artists, artists to community, and community to art” – and we’ve done just that for the past 16 years! Come celebrate this milestone with us, contribute your memories to our timeline, and get excited for the many years of art, connection, and community still to come!
FEATURED ARTISTS
Quinin Birkel
Ellen Borison
Jacqueline K Calladine
Rebecca DeVere
Gianna DiBartolomeo
Milan Heger
Barbara Hennig
Phil Jensen
Jessica Frances Kravitz Lambert
Anna Macrae
Charles Smith
Nino Yuniardi
CALL FOR ART 'Recycled Dreams'
Apply by Jan. 30th, 2026
Exhibition Dates: March 5 – May 30, 2026
Together Center and VALA Eastside in Redmond are excited to announce a collaborative exhibition, "Recycled Dreams," featuring artwork created with recycled and reused materials. This exhibition explores environmental sustainability through creative practice, celebrating the reimagining, reuse, and upcycling of materials. We’re seeking artwork that incorporates the found, neglected, discarded, and abandoned, and transforms it into something new.
Important Dates:
Application Deadline: January 30, 2026
Finished Art Deadline: February 20–22, 2026
Exhibition Dates: March 5 – May 30, 2026
*Artists may submit up to 5 pieces.
Event: Exhibition Details
Submission form: Click to apply
More info: info@valaeastside.org