Gallery History
In 2020, we held 7 exhibits featuring 8 artists and 7 local food venues. Exhibits were virtual-only and artist talks were streamed live.
In 2021, we held 8 exhibits featuring 8 artists and local food venues. Exhibits were virtual and artist talks were streamed live. Our first in-person reception was held in July of that year, and we continued to hold virtual artist talks. The gallery was also open by appointment.
In 2022, we held 4 dual-artist exhibits, featuring 8 artists and local food venues. We streamed our in-person receptions, and held virtual artist talks. The gallery was also open by appointment.
In 2023, we held 2 unique community-engagement exhibits. First, Within Normal Limits, for the Tennessee Triennial, which included a special community panel discussion on health and healing. Second, Yard pARTy, where 13 regional artists were invited to display or perform a never before seen or fresh body of work to the audience in the format of a community potluck.
In 2024, we held another 2 community-engagement exhibits. Our second annual Yard pARTy featured 15 artists and included an album release, interactive installation, shadow puppet performance, live painting from Eric Drummond Smith, a gallery exhibit, and more. Later that year, Written in Real Time brought the reverse-storytelling experience Campfireball and 5 regional visual artists to focus on work that involves narrative—personal and mythical.
In 2025, we held the third and final Yard pARTy, featuring 24 artists and included a video installation and musical performance, dance, ceramics, painting, watercolor, zine-making, a Whimsey Machine, magic, life drawing, broom-making and printmaking demonstrations, interactive textile art, and a closing campfire story. Later that summer, GENERATE moved us downtown for the first time — a 10-artist group show co-presented with 123 West Main Gallery, with more than 30 works in painting, printmaking, ceramics, photography, tapestry. It opened with an ambient musical performance and animation collaboration between Jason Flack and Lyberarchelulo.
In 2026, EAT/ART @ Tipton-Ashe brought together 15 artists form six years of gallery alumni for a two-month show at the beautiful downtown Tipton-Ashe gallery in partnership with ETSU’s Slocumb Galleries, The Philosopher’s House, and Johnson City Poets Collective. The June 5th opening featured refreshments and artist talks, while the July 31st closing event had a live poetry presentation — all created in response to the artworks on display.
All featured artists work and live within a 250 mile radius of Johnson City, Tennessee, in South Central Appalachia. Artwork featured is not required to be for sale, and each artist prices their own work. The gallery takes a commission to cover the website overhead and payment processing fees for any online sales, and no commission on direct sales between artists and collectors.