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Upcoming Classes/Workshops/Demos

Our VAS members are keeping busy this summer – here is a list! I hope I haven’t left anyone out…

All July – Sabra Wilhelm – Art Camps for Kids
All July & August – Dary Dega at Degallery – Art Camps for Kids, Adult classes, Workshops
July 18 or 19 – Wendy Keeney-Kennicutt – Lazy Watercolor Afternoon
July 19 – Robyn Glass – The Art of Paper Cut
August 23 – Joel Kitchens – Photographing with Intent
August 23-24 – Jaimie Ladysh – Painting with Color and Fire (an encaustic workshop)
August 26 – Mark Sadoski – You Don’t Take a Photograph, You Make a Photograph

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DEGART VisiON – Digital/Photo/AI Art Event

Dary Dega, our show chair and owner of DEGALLERY, is having a FREE 9-day event for digital, photo, and AI artists and everyone else!

DEGART VisiON is an immersive art and photography experience bringing together visual storytellers from all backgrounds — from traditional film photographers to AI, AR, and digital artists. They will be sharing what they know with everyone for FREE. All presenters will showcase their work in the main gallery during the event.

Held in DEGALLERY  Bryan, Texas, from August 22–30, 2025 this unique event includes hands-on workshops, artist demos, a community photo walk, exhibitions, and visionary meetups designed to inspire and unite the visual arts community. All events are FREE to the public, except the 2-day encaustic workshop with Jaimie Ladysh. She is an outstanding teacher and all participants will finish with completed art.

Everyone is welcome — from seasoned professionals to curious beginners. Please click on the event you wish to attend and “buy” a FREE ticket. This will help Dary and the workshop presenter prepare for each event.

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June Pop-Up VAS Art Show

Several VAS artists are showing their art at the Parker-Astin gallery in historic downtown Bryan, TX. You can find photography by Joel Kitchens, and original art and prints by artists Stacey Mayer, Theodora Krc, Vicki Richardson-Halsell, and Wendy Keeney-Kennicutt. The gallery is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday through June. Check the hours on the poster. We would love to see you.

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Entry Deadline for Fall Member Show – August 25!

Entry Deadline for Fall Member Show – August 25

Put August 25 on your calendar – it is the deadline for entering our member show that will run from September 5-26 at Degallery! The theme is “Ciaroscuro: The Interplay of Light and Shadow.” The call for art can be found HERE.

Visual artists have been using the interplay of light and shadow for hundreds of years. One only needs to look at paintings by masters such as Vermeer, da Vinci, Goya, Caravaggio, Reubens, Rembrandt, or Raphael, to see the power of this style to produce 3 dimensional forms and enhance the illusion of depth . Although chiaroscuro is usually interpreted as having very strong contrasts between light and shadow, for this show, artists are challenged to highlight the interplay more generally; examples could be the emphasis of rough textures, using strongly contrasting colors, or dark subjects against a light background (the reverse is equally valid). Show us how you use light and shadow to tell your story, or direct the viewers’ attention.

A part of VAS’s mission, is to help our members grow as artists. If you are still uneasy about chiaroscuro, here are three Youtube videos to help explain. There are many more.

VAS May 2025 Newsletter and VAS Art Spotlights

Here is our May 2025 newsletter! Take a look HERE! If you missed a previous newsletter, you can find it in our Archive HERE. We are also introducing our ART SPOTLIGHT which will come out periodically. Here is the April 2025 Edition. You can alyas catch up in our Archive.

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FREE Community Paint Out – Sunday 4/27/25

The Community Paint Out and the the Downtown Bryan Street & Art Fair is Sunday 4/27/25. It will be so much fun!! Please register on the form below (volunteers and painters) so we know who is coming! We will have a drawing for a Masters Touch beechwood table easel with drawer (retails $74) for just the plein air artists who come and join us.

VAS/Degallery will have a tent, located at the corner of 26th St and Bryan Ave, so VAS members can sell their art, prints, etc. if they help at the tent for morning or afternoon shifts. Contact Wendy at president@visualartsociety.org to sign up for a time slot. Sales will be handled by VAS; artists get 80% and VAS retains 20%. If you are interested in becoming a member of the Visual Art Society of Bryan-College Station, we would love to have you. It is $45/yr for adults, $10 for students and $80 for families. Here is the LINK to sign up to be a member!

Here is info on parking and street closures: https://www.destinationbryan.com/art-fair/getting-here/  Here the original map before the event was postponed – some artists may be different, but our tent is C1 – a prime spot. The red lines are where you can drive and drop off stuff. All vehicles will need to be out of the street closure area no later than 9:30AM!

REGISTRATION FORM FOR COMMUNITY PAINT OUT DAY 4/27/25

VAS April 2025 Newsletter

Here is our April 2025 newsletter! Take a look HERE! If you missed a previous newsletter, you can find it in our Archive HERE. We are also introducing our ART SPOTLIGHT which will come out periodically. Here is the March 2025 Edition.

Framing Guidelines for Art Exhibitions

The owner of Degallery and our Shows Chair, Dr. Dary Dega, presented a Zoom call on how to professionally frame and wire art to hang in a gallery as well as other info on 3/27/25.  This is critical information for artists submitting their 2-d work for our upcoming shows. You can view the talk on ourYoutube channel: https://youtu.be/o5qKIvO6Ulk

VAS March 2025 Newsletter

Here is our March 2025 newsletter! Take a look HERE! If you missed a previous newsletter, you can find it in our Archive HERE.