Welcome to the Gilbert Visual Art League
The Gilbert Visual Art League strives to increase artistic awareness and appreciation in the East Valley community. We offer artists fellowship and support through monthly meetings, which include professional artist demonstrations. Throughout the year a variety of sales venues are available exclusively to our GVAL Membership. Our members also have the opportunity to participate with volunteering in community events.
Monthly Membership Meetings
Join us! We meet the first Thursday from September through June.
GVAL hosts monthly membership meetings September through June on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm in the Neely room at HD South, Home of the Gilbert Historical Museum. Our meetings generally include a critique of members works in progress, GVAL announcements, a guest presenter, and voting for Artist of the Month. See the upcoming dates for meetings.
Meeting Location: 10 S. Gilbert Road, 85296 (located just south of downtown Gilbert). We meet in the Neely Room. Please use the parking lot off W. Elliot and enter through the open gate as shown on the map. Click here to see a map.
GVAL June Meeting & Potluck
Thursday, June 5th at 6pm
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Artist of the Month
Each month members select their favorite art piece via a secret ballot.
At each regular monthly meeting, members are invited to bring in a recently completed, ready-to-hang artwork. You can find the rules HERE. Those present at the meeting are asked to vote for their favorite by way of secret ballot.
Congratulations to our May Artist of the Month, Carol Wheale. Her majestic lion was the favorite of fellow GVAL members. Carol captures nature’s story in her art and promotes conservation of wildlife.
May Presentation – Jerry Salinas
GVAL Members enjoyed seeing the work and learning from guest presenter, Jerry Salinas, as he demonstrated his technique for portrait painting.
Jerry Salinas graduated from the American Academy of Art in Chicago with a degree in Illustration and Fine Arts where he studied with Bill Parks. He has been working as an illustrator since the mid-1990’s for many ad agencies.
He is now a full time artist working in the studio with a big smile on his face. Jerry Lives in Phoenix, Arizona pursuing his passion for oil paintings. Going from painting a few hours a week to several hours everyday is pushing his work to a new level.
Get to know our GVAL Members! Many of our members are professional artists. Original artwork makes a wonderful gift which will be treasured for years to come!
Click HERE for the Member Directory
Members, let’s get to know each other and share your art with the world! Just upload a photo of yourself and a photo of your art. You can share your contact information if you wish (optional).
Use the easy to fill out form HERE
Reach over 500 Area Artists!
Advertise in the Art Vine, the GVAL Monthly Newsletter.
Are you teaching a class or selling art related items? You may advertise on the Art Vine newsletter and it will also be promoted through the GVAL social media sites. Instructors will be responsible for finding a venue and collecting payment from the students. Charges for advertisement in the Art Vine are $20 for GVAL members and $30 for non-members for each month that an advertisement runs. If there are multiple interested parties in the same month, the first two entries will be published. The party submitting the advertisement will be responsible for crafting the ad. Just click the button below for the form and payment options.
GVAL Newsletter
GVAL Members, do you have an art related news item you’d like to share? Contact Linda Taylor, GVAL Newsletter Coordinator at jelltay@sbcglobal.net.
Browse earlier copies of our Newsletter by clicking here.
Community Outreach
Gilbert Visual Art League strives to provide education at our monthly meetings through professional artist presentations and by supporting various outreach programs in our community.
GVAL is involved in several outreach programs. Volunteer members teach children at House of Refuge in Mesa, and also provide art instruction to children and adults through art workshops at HD South in Gilbert. In addition you will find GVAL volunteers at Cooley Middle School teaching students art. This art program is a collaboration between the art class’s teacher Allison Baumann of Higley School District, Maria Davis, and GVAL’s Community Outreach Coordinator Donna Finter. Read more about this program in the Gilbert Sun News.
To find details and who you can contact to be a part of our Community Outreach efforts, click HERE.
