Visual Art League of Lewisville

Here is a step by step guide on how to get a new VAL password if you lost or forgot it. Printing this guide page now or saving a copy of it in your computer will be a good idea since you will not be able to see this post if you forgot or lost [...]

Art Talk: Colleen Drew will discuss about the process of migrating from film to digital photography.

Robert Moore, Installation, Paintings on Redwood and Performance Art with the VAL Member Exhibition “Bite Size” ( Small artworks up to 8″x8″ ) will be on display.

The “Wanda Grice” Exhibit and the VAL Member Show will be on exhibit.

First VAL Photography Exhibition (By Invitation) and VAL Member Exhibition will be on display.

Photo by prozac1

On September 11, 2010 there will be a benefit held for Katy Hayes, a mother from Kingwood, Texas who contracted Strep A after the birth of her child. This infection led to the amputation of her arms and legs above the middle joint. To ease the burden of her and her family a fund raiser is [...]

Juror’s Statement by Jim Wear “Every good painter paints what he is.” — Jackson Pollack That is one of my favorite write-in quotes suggested for the engravings which will decorate the lobby floors at the new Lewisville Center for the Creative Arts, under construction now in Old Town. Whether or not it makes the final list, Mr. Pollack’s [...]

Fresh Ideas 2010 Exhibit is ALL SET! Four days ago, June 27 Meg Smith announced that the Visual Art League of Lewisville received sixty-eight (68) artwork entries for the annual juried exhibit. This year’s juror accepted fourty-one (41) artworks for the show. Hanging of the artworks have already started and the reception is being set up. [...]

Fresh Ideas 2010 — The Visual Art of Lewisville, Texas announces the annual juried members art exhibit on July 10 through August 14. Cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 2 honorable mentions and 1 “People’s Choice Award”. The exhibit is open to all current Visual Art League members and to all signing-up for new membership. All [...]

On July 31, 2010 at 6pm, together with VAL, Acoustic Fridays presents their Acoustic Concert Series with Stephanie Jackson. Stephanie Jackson began playing the guitar at the age of 11 and studied Classical Guitar under Bunyon Webb. She participated in Master Classes with classical guitar greats Andres Segovia and Leo Bower. She has taught college [...]

In fourth grade, I had a wonderful art teacher. She taught inspiration can be found in the simplest of objects and demonstrated this by wadding up a plain sheet of paper, pressing it out flat again with her hands and then following the wrinkled lines with a crayon to reveal shapes which she filled in [...]

Message from Murthy: Greetings! It was great painting Plein Air on Saturday. We could not have asked for a better weather day and made some new friends. Hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did making watercolor studies, small oil paintings and pen sketches. As more details become available, I will share with you [...]

This month, VAL collaborated with The Lewisville Lake Symphony (LLS) to produce a logo for LLS’s “Love and Immortality Project”. LLS is partnering with the College of Music at the University of North Texas to produce commissioned compositions to immortalize loved ones. When commissioned, the compositions will be written by UNT graduate [...]

First VAL Photography Exhibition “Through the Viewfinder”

and the

VAL Member Exhibition “No Cameras Allowed”

Photo by prozac1

Sign up to gallery sit, clean the gallery or provide refreshments at monthly member meetings. Get in the rotation to paint canvasses for display in the windows at the Greater Lewisville Community Theatre, help take in art and hang shows, donate, etc. Look for ways you can give and if you see a need, fill it. [...]