Explore current, upcoming, and past exhibitions at Sawtooth School for Visual Art, where diverse shows celebrate the creativity of local, regional, and national artists across a wide range of mediums and perspectives.
Every picture book starts as something rougher than what lands on the shelf. Beyond the Page brings that early work into view, gathering original art, rough sketches, and prints from four North Carolina illustrators of children’s picture books: Cait Brennan, Ellen Heck, John Hutton, and regular Sawtooth instructor Jessica Robin Harkey. Their methods range from pen, ink,…
Sawtooth School for Visual Art and The Art SHAC have teamed up to exhibit original artworks by 50 regional creatives on the theme of creative reuse. The organizations launched an open call to artists, asking them to challenge the traditional notions of art-making and repurpose materials to craft a unique piece of art. And oh…
A Year in the Making Opening Reception: Thursday, September 3, 5–7 pm On View: September 4 – October 31, 2026 Sawtooth School for Visual Art, 251 N. Spruce St., Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC Join us for A Year in the Making, an exhibition celebrating the 2025–2026 Artists-in-Residence at Sawtooth School for…
The Artist In Residence program at Sawtooth presents its first gallery exhibition featuring pieces that were crafted during the resident artists’ year-long stay at Sawtooth. Participating artists include Rebecca Juliette–Duex,…
Sawtooth School presents Birds, Bats and Bones, a two-person exhibition by Bryant Holsenbeck and Nicole Uzzell, on view in the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts. Uzzell is the curator…
Artists – Ashley Johnson, Julia Gartrell, Lama Whidbee, Lauren Guilette and Jonathan Hoffman During times of distress bags of sand abound. Apt and able communities contribute to a collective cause…
This exhibition commemorates the life and work of prominent Southeastern artist Warren Dennis, who died April 13, 2021. Father, Grandfather, Artist: A Tribute to Warren Dennis comprises of painting from…
A series of large-scale portraits of strangers on a single street block in Harlem in New York City during the summer of 2020. Hurst’s exhibit documents the bold and rich…
Join us for this exhibit on display June 7 – July 23 with an Artist Reception on July 22 from 5:30 to 7 PM.
Leigh Ann Hallberg’s series of works Murray Bay: Standing Wave and Paul Bright’s aural collage Walden (II) will be on view in the Davis Gallery from January 15 – March 19, 2021. Though an…
“By Myself: An exploration of large format film photography and letterpress printmaking” Carter G. Woodson 7th grade boys worked with Sawtooth photography teacher Joseph Brunjes to create large format photography…
Carter G. Woodson 7th grade girls worked with visiting artist Diana Greene for four weeks. In that time, they learned about writing with light photography and words. Greene taught the…
Join us Friday, October 4th, 5 – 7 PM for “Buildings Inside” by Leslie Smith, Sawtooth Director of Graphics + Textiles. Exhibition: October 4 – November 8, 2019 Redding Corridor…
Built In: Studio Directors’ Exhibition, featuring recent work from each of our studio directors, will be displayed in our Davis Gallery from October 4 through November 1, 2019. See new…
Mariyah Sultan is a gestural abstractionist with figurative reference and is unabashedly connected and influenced by a range of art movements including cubism, lyrical abstractionism, the Cobra movement, and the…
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