The Visual Art League of Lewisville (VAL) is an all-volunteer organization with members who share an interest in the visual arts and fine crafts. We organize multiple member shows each year, provide local artists the opportunity to showcase their work, produce visiting artist lectures, networking with other organizations, educational art activities such as demonstrations and hands-on projects, and participate in various community events. VAL is very involved in serving and enriching our community through art-viewing experiences in a local setting, supporting the schools in their visual arts programs, and collaborating with other non-profit groups to serve our community. The Visual Art League welcomes membership into our group and is excited to have you participate in our activities and visit our exhibits. Membership includes artists, students, educators, and art patrons wanting to support the local arts community. Members provide docents to Lewisville’s Grand Theater Gallery and volunteer for other events there. The Visual Art League is proud to be sponsored in part by the City of Lewisville.
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VAL the arts organization promoting and celebrating the creative experience
Find Us
The Visual Art League meets and exhibits at the Lewisville Grand Theatre & Center for the Creative Arts (The Lewisville Grand Theater) located at 100 North Charles St., Lewisville, Texas 75057
Help Our Cause
Your support and contributions will enable us to meet our goals making the Lewisville community and North Texas a beacon of art. Your generous donation will fund our mission.
VAL's Fresh Ideas 2023
attendance at the opening reception in the Lewisville Grand's main Art Gallery
VAL CURRENT exhibits
Chaos and Order
Lewisville Grand Theater North Corridor
September 23 - October 21, 2023
The Collaboration Project
We have found a way to combine the best of both worlds to make art: We worked together AND independently on this project!
North Display Case
Lewisville Grand Theater
August 29 - October 28
VAL upcoming exhibits
Off the Wall
Strange, wacky, or unusual.
Art Gallery
Lewisville Grand Theater
Oct. 7 - Nov. 4, 2023,
Create your OWN whimsical town
We are looking for 15 artists to create a magic town of their own.
Brainstorm Session and Town Planning Meeting
OCT 7 from 1 to 2 p.m. at The Lewisville Grand Theater
VAL ART TALKS
caleb jacks on murals and illustration
Tuesday, October 10 at 7 p.m. Meeting at the Lewisville Grand
Caleb Jacks is a working artist and high school art teacher. He has been teaching for 15 years and working as an artist for about the same amount of time.
He often works with murals, but his passion and love is illustration. He likes to work in traditional mediums and digitally using Procreate.
Recently, he has started getting into "world-building" with dioramas. Caleb created the current murals over the north and south entrances at the Grand Theater.
Caleb will be talking about his journey as an artist and how he started working with murals, and lastly artists that have inspired him. He will demonstrate how to draw and paint using Procreate, which can be purchased for the iPad or iPhone. Procreate it's one of his main tools for planning and creating.
https://www.instagram.com/calebjjacks/
VAL's FREE workshops
Urban Sketching Free Workshop
Saturday, October 14 10am - 12:30pm
Lewisville Grand Theater Classroom 2
100 N. Charles St., Lewisville
The Visual Art League of Lewisville is pleased to offer a free art workshop lead by VAL member Murthy Mantha. This workshop is aimed at introducing a general approach, materials, tips and techniques for creating representational sketches of urban scenes using pens and watercolors with lots of demos and hands on exercises. No prior drawing/painting experience is required. Just come with your enthusiasm!
Focus will be on capturing the general feel of the subject in front of us.
Weather permitting, we will practice sketching outdoors at a nearby local scene.
Additional parking is available at City Hall diagonally across Church St. from the Grand.
Topics covered:
-Materials
-Simplified perspective that is more contextual
-Placement of subject on the page
-Object outline drawing - buildings, trees
-Sketching from photographs
-In-studio preparation
-On the location tips
Materials Provided by the Instructor:
- Pencils and drawing paper
- Some handouts
- Sharpie pens
You Will Need to Bring:
- Reference photographs
- Sketch books - 5 x 7, 8 x 10
- Watercolor paints and brushes (your choice) and cup for water.
- recommended colors: lemon yellow, crimson red, ultramarine blue, viridian green and burnt umber. Watercolor paint can be an inexpensive tray such as a Crayola kids' set.
VAL's VISITing ARTISTS workshops
Gelli Print Workshop: Gelli Print-palooza!
Gelli Print Workshop: Gelli Print-palooza!
Gelli Print Workshop: Gelli Print-palooza!
Crystal Nelson is a local mixed media artist working, teaching, and living in Denton, Tx. She recently retired from teaching art at Lewisville ISD, where she still mentors and coaches new art teachers. She has a BFA in printmaking and painting from the University of Texas at El Paso, along with a degree in commercial art. She is very involved in her community arts programs and is inspired by her love of travel and nature. Her artwork involves collage, painting, and printmaking and reflects her love of pattern, color and texture. She enjoys sharing her love of art through art talks and workshops and believes art is for everyone, and it's never too late to start.
November 18, 2023
The Grand Theater
100 Charles Street
Lewisville, Texas
10:00 am to 4 PM
Gelli Print Workshop: Gelli Print-palooza!
Gelli Print Workshop: Gelli Print-palooza!
VAL's HAPPENINGS
Chaos and Order exhibit ready to go
Thanks to all volunteers: Tina Alvarez, David Mask, Crystal Nelson, R'lene Winters, Dulce Ruqué and
Denise Holguin (photographer in command)
free Frida Kahlo Workshop participants
VAL at the Theater
GLCT exhibit from “Moon Over Buffalo” show
Semi-Abstract Workshop
VAL EXHIBIT AT LEWISVILLE THRIVE
Acoustic Friday Nights
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