Julia C. Butridge Gallery

The Julia C. Butridge Gallery is located in the heart of the arts district adjacent to the Long Center and Butler Park at the Dougherty Arts Center, a multi-cultural community arts center providing opportunities for creative expression to citizens for over 30 years. Visitors enjoy an exceptional 2,000 square feet of exhibit space in the main gallery, and an additional 480 square feet in newly renovated gallery space. The natural collision of creative activity at the arts center contributes to the gallery’s longstanding reputation among the arts community as an accessible and nurturing venue and incubator, ideal for emerging and established artists. The gallery is free and open to the public.

Julia C Butridge Gallery Call for Artists

The Julia C. Butridge Gallery is now accepting Exhibit Proposals for 2020. Located at the Dougherty Arts Center in the heart of the arts district, the JCB Gallery is well known for its diverse exhibitions of artists and their work. Audiences and participants of the Dougherty cross disciplines, backgrounds and levels of exposure to various arts experiences creating a lively environment in a thriving downtown atmosphere.

Deadline: December 31, 2018 • Submit online at: doughertyartscenter.submittable.com/submit

Current Exhibits

Blair Gallacher
Sound & Vision
Reception: Saturday, September 1, 2018, 1pm – 3pm
Exhibit Dates: Saturday, September 1 to Saturday, November 10, 2018

Inspired by synesthesia, Blair Gallachar’s work examines the crossover between senses and the ways in which we interpret, understand, and feel consciousness.

Blair Gallachar - Sound and Vision Exhibit

Thomas Cook
Nocturne
Reception: Saturday, September 1, 2018, 1pm – 3pm
Exhibit Dates: Saturday, September 1 to Saturday, November 10, 2018

Through the lens of night, the artist reflects on our relationship with nature and the world we have built around us. Drawing on landscapes and images of the city, Cook’s surreal compositions look for moments of clarity as we wait for sunrise.”

Thomas Cook - Nocturne Exhibit

John Lockhart
Handmade
Reception: Wednesday, October 3, 2018, 7pm – 9pm
Artist Demo: Wednesday, October 24, 7pm
Exhibit Dates: Friday, September 28 to Saturday, October 27, 2018

Lockhart is drawn to the immediacy and spontaneity of street and documentary photography. His approach to printing images uses labor intensive, handmade methods from the 19^th century. The result is a body of work which is focused on underlying style, process and the syntax of print, rather than thematic or conceptual priorities.

Summer Under Lamar - John Lockhart

Upcoming Exhibits

The Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists
Infinite Worlds: The Art of the Fantastic
Reception: Saturday, November 10, 2018, 1pm-3pm
Artist Talk at 2pm
Exhibit Dates: Saturday, November 3 to Saturday, December 1, 2018

ASFA, has put together a show of contemporary science fiction and fantasy artists. The exhibit highlights artists working on a variety of projects from sculpture to book covers to creator owned projects.

Lavaliete Picacio