Happy Holidays!

December 2021

Astoria Visual Arts is hosting our first holiday bazaar and we hope you can stop by!!

Each Friday and Saturday before Christmas from 11 am - 4 pm you can find awesome, handcrafted items made by local artists at AVA! This event is a great way to shop local, support artists, and find the perfect gift for everyone on your list. Who knows? Maybe you'll find something for yourself! Each weekend new artists join the fun, so visit each week to see what's new!

** LOVE HOLIDAY POPUPS AS MUCH AS WE DO? **
Visit these locations around town for more great gifts!!
Gathered / Cambium Gallery / Shift+Wheeler / Foragers / Pier 39

Gallery Hours : December

Fridays 11-4

Saturdays 11 - 4

1000 Duane Street | Astoria, Oregon

Please enjoy the exhibitions while wearing a mask if required and maintaining physical distance from other viewers.


 

Previously in the AVA Gallery

 

2021

 

November: Simone Fischer: Offal

October: Members Create: Annual Exhibition by AVA Members

September: John Mueller: Manifest Origins

August: Factor and Molnar present the shimmer

July: Astoria Artists - works by artists participating in the 2021 AOST

June: “Staunchie Nubs” - Deanna Antony

May : Epoch Epiphany: AVA’s 7th Annual Clatsop County High Schools Art Show, part of the AVA Miss Bea Program

April: “Vast Connections: Earth and Art” - Juried Show in honor of Earth Day

March: “Apokalypsis: An Uncovering” - Toddd Molinari & Francis Dot 

February: “When Crab was King” - in partnership with the Kodiak Maritime Museum with Photography by Ralph Pryor

January: “Willamette Line” - Stephen Slappe

 

2020

 

December: "Outside In” - Work by Unhoused Residents of Clatsop County

November: "Preserved: Healing Stories of Plants & Ancestors" - Iris Sullivan Daire

October: "October Surprise" - Morrison Pierce

September: "Ad Nauseum" - Garland Kirkpatrick

August: "Goddesses and Assemblages" - Jill Mulholland 

July: "Artists of Astoria" - Astoria Open Studios Virtual Tour

June: "Clatsop County High School Art Students" juried exhibit 

April & May: "Ground Level" AVA Gallery Docent Artists

February: "Creatures of the Deep: Gyotaku” - Duncan Berry; "Ecological Rehabilitation Through Art" - Shelby Silver

January: "Northwestern Songs of the Americas" - Tim Janchar

 

2019

 

December: "Two Point Perspective” - Denise Monaghan and John Willis

November: "The Edge” - Marie Powell, Betsy Nelson, Kirsten Horning, Kristin Shauck, Penny Treat, Anna Lee Larimore

October: "Emerging" - Current and former AVA resident artists

September: "Fugitive" - Jesse Jones, Jessica Schleif, Dawn Stetzel

August: Ruth Lantz, Jill Mulholland, Shelby Silver

July: Astoria Open Studios Tour artists

June: “Degrees of Abstraction” - Renee Rowe and Audrey Long

​​May: The Print Portfolio Project Show

April: “For Love of Illusion” - Clatsop County High School Art Show

​March: “Icelandic Threads” - Anne Greenwood Rioseco

February: “Find Happiness in a Warm Tea Bowl: Ceramics Invitational

January: Teresa Robinett