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Exhibitions

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.

  • Current Exhibition

    A Year in the Making

    Sawtooth’s 2025-2026 Artists-in-Residence

    Join us for A Year in the Making, an exhibition celebrating the 2025–2026 Artists-in-Residence at Sawtooth School for Visual Art and showcasing the work they completed during their time in our program. Sawtooth’s Ceramics Artists-in-Residence are Bo Gilbert and Steven Parker, our Gondring Resident in Woodworking is Molly Steadman, and our Schupbach-Gordon Resident in Printmaking…

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past exhibitions

  • Myself Seeing/Seeing Myself

    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…

  • BUILDINGS INSIDE

    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

    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…

  • New Artworks by the Men of The Fellowship Home

    Join us Friday, September 6 from 5 – 7 PM for the opening reception of “New Artworks by the Men of The Fellowship Home.” “In August of 2011, we started…

  • the scenic route: no return

    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…

  • This Here Now

    Join us August 2nd from 5 – 7 PM for the opening of Tim Bowman’s photography exhibit THIS HERE NOW. THIS HERE NOW consists of two bodies of work. In…

  • Common Ties That Bind

    “As a visual artist, I combine symbols, references and icons from history with those of the contemporary world to bridge a relationship between art and the human condition,” says Owens…

  • A Collectors Legacy: Artwork by JoAnne Vernon and Ken Otterbourg

    On May 18th, Sawtooth School of Visual Art & Piedmont Craftsmen will celebrate the legacy of late Sawtooth Executive Director JoAnne Vernon, through an auction of selected works from her…

  • Speedball – National Printmaking Showcase

    Sawtooth is proud to host the fourth annual award winning entries from Speedball’s New Impressions National Printmaking Competition. This year the new category – Graduate Level – was added to…

  • The Faces of Colombia

    Utilizing the medium of colored pencil, artist Donna Slade has created a series of realistic paintings depicting the struggles facing impoverished Colombians living in violent rural communities.

  • Unpacking Leo Morrissey

    Leo Morrissey’s daily projects from eight years living in Winston-Salem are the subject of the “Unpacking Leo Morrissey” Unfolding Exhibition. This exhibition, curated by Paul Bright, director of the Hanes…

  • TOM SUOMALAINEN & WESTON HAMMOND

    The Davis Gallery at Sawtooth will feature two exhibits running Sept. 7 to Oct. 30. “Landscape and Memory” will showcase art from Weston Hammond and “Strata: Life/Work” will feature art from…

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