VAE Raleigh

If you are looking for events this weekend, we have got some for you. Stop by Birdland Saturday + Sunday 1-4pm to catch "Flight" exhibition in it's final weeks. 

Come see the artists and their works:

Matthew Wilson Matt wilson
Mirror archival large format print, Digital media 

Trish Klenow Trish Klenow
Winter Bite
Oils on Linen

Myles Brown Myles Brown
BLACK PHOENIX YATAGARASU
Acrylic Paint On Canvas

Also this weekend:

Sign-up for the Dance workshop "Embodied Ekphrasis" Saturday 11-1 Birdland Gallery and if you are a member swing by Jobe House 1-2:30 pm for the Member Social.

Discourse and Dialogue is an informal gathering for artists to come together to engage in thoughtful conversation about their work, philosophies, and the broader art world.

Each month’s topic evolves in response to the current moment, creating space for meaningful exchange, community building, and connection where it’s most needed.

Wednesday June 17th
7:00 - 8:30
Hub,
The Jobe House,
909 W. Morgan St.
Raleigh NC

Topic: Failure as a tool
Helping to lead discussion this month:

This weekend we have some amazing artists in the gallery meeting people who stop by the Flight Exhibition. We hope you can come out and meet them: 

Saturday 1-4pm: CJ (
Sunday 1-4pm: Dain (), Janet (),  & Kelly ()

Birdland Raleigh ()
706 Mountford Ave, Raleigh 27607

The Artists have the following art works in the show and would love to talk to you about them and share their process: 

CJ Martin
The Sky Will Last Longer Than I #18
Metal Leaf, Graphite and Pigment on Panel

Dain Kim
Durumi II
Acrylic on canvas

Janet Danforth
Phoenix
Encaustic collage

Kelly Hutzel
Formation
Watercolorr

My Cousin’s House opens June 3 at the Jobe House at VAE Raleigh.

Curated by Whitney Stanley, the exhibition brings together works by William Paul Thomas, Nori McDuffie, Alyssa Cuffie, Phillip Loken, huiyin zhou 徽音, and Whitney Stanley.

An exhibition exploring intimacy, relationships, memory, and the spaces that hold us, My Cousin’s House considers the emotional weight of familiarity, connection, vulnerability, nostalgia, and personal history through photography, mixed media, and interdisciplinary works.

Opening Reception: June 6, 2026 | 2–5 PM

On view June 3 – July 26, 2026
Jobe House at VAE Raleigh
909 W Morgan St, Raleigh, NC

💥Join us this Sunday from 1-4pm at Birdland for our Flight group show!

We are excited to showcase the varied creative talent and interpretations of the Flight theme

See you Sunday!

Birdland Gallery
706 Mountford Ave
Raleigh NC 27607

IG limits the number of artists we can tag, so the following artists are also participating:

Come join us on Tuesday for our monthly Crit Crew from 6:00 - 7:30! Free to members, sign up in the link

Professional Artist Roundtable

April 8 | 4:30–6:00 PM
Birdland | 706 Mountford Ave. Raleigh, NC

College-aged artists, this is for you. Join us for an open, honest conversation with working artists about what it really takes to build a sustainable creative career.

Featuring:
Peter Marin, Allison Coleman, Patrizia Ferreira, Jean Gray Mohs, and Pete Sack
Moderated by
Kelly Sheppard Murray

We’ll dig into:
• Building collaborations + meaningful networks
• Creating your own opportunities
• Balancing income streams for a sustainable practice

This event is free. Come listen, ask questions, and stay for a casual connection session with your peers at the end.

VAE at Birdland Open Call: Flight Flight is many things. It is the mechanical wonder of wings cutting through air, the quiet migration of birds across a pale sky, the terrifying freedom of leaving the ground behind. It is escape and arrival. It is the way light lifts off water at dusk, or the feeling of a thought becoming something larger than itself.

We are not looking for a single interpretation. We welcome the literal and the abstract, the grounded and the untethered. Whether your work depicts a sparrow mid-arc, an aerial landscape seen from above, or a purely formal exploration of weightlessness and momentum — if flight lives somewhere in it, we want to see it.

This exhibition is open to artists working in painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, textile and mixed media. We encourage submissions that challenge, expand, or quietly reimagine what it means to fly.

IMPORTANT DATES
● Submission Deadline: 05/06/2026
● Notification of Acceptance: 05/08/26
● Artwork Drop-Off: 05/09/2026 - 05/12/2026
● Exhibition Dates: 05/17/26 - 06/30/26


ENTRY FEE
● Up to two entries per applicant
● VAE members apply for free
● $15 for non VAE members

BIRDLAND GALLERY is located on 706 Mountford Ave, Raleigh NC