The Eau Claire Regional Arts Center Gallery is located on the main floor of the State Theatre. The art exhibits feature pieces from the finest local and regional artists. Artwork ranges from oil to watercolor, pastel to pen and ink, fiber to glass, tapestry to sculpture, and photography to mixed-media. Artwork is available for sale in the Art Gallery, with 30-40% of the sales benefiting the Eau Claire Regional Arts Center.
The Art Gallery is open Tuesday through Friday
9 AM until 4:30 PM and during main stage performances (We will be closed Mondays through the summer). Admission is free.
CURRENT EXHIBIT
January 7 - February 19
HOLY MACKEREL: THE ARTWORK OF IVY, EMMA AND SANDRA KLINGBEIL
What happens when three very talented members of one family exhibit in the same space? Well, you get one interesting and highly creative show. To begin with, Ivy creates multi-layed, textural and surreal digital images that strive to synthesize the old with the new, without ever losing sight of appearing "hand-made". Emma's paintings reference "strange places in time - in childhood - where you know you've seen a monster behind the shower curtain, or your pet cat talked for a split second"... Sandra - a self-taught and award-winnging artist - paints contemporary devotional portraits. AN ARTISTS' RECEPTION WILL BE ON JANUARY 14TH FROM 6-7:30PM. It is in conjunction with Eric Lee's artist reception at the LE Phillips Memorial Public Library Gallery, which takes place between 7-8:30pm.
 
UPCOMING EXHIBITS
March 1 - 13
SORCERY AND ROMANCE
Chippewa Valley Symphony's Student Show
The Chippewa Valley Symphony brings back its remarkable, annual exhibit of area art students reworking classically great compositions to the Arts Center Gallery. This year, Eau Claire's elementary schools interpret Paul Dukas' "Sorcerer's Apprentice" into visual art. A MEET THE ARTISTS' RECEPTION WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY, MARCH 13 FROM 6-7pm.
March 18 - April 23
BLACK AND WHITE
This exhibition explores the connections and contrasts between opposites. The work investigates the visual and conceptual use of black, white, and grey through various materials. AN ARTISTS' RECEPTION WILL BE ON THURSDAY, MARCH 25, FROM 6-7:30PM.
May 14 - June 19
ANNE-BRIDGET GARY & MARILYN KLINKNER
Anne-Bridget Gary is a studio ceramicist and Professor of Art at UW-Stevens Point. Gary has traveled extensively in Japan, China and Korea working with fifth- and sixth-generation potters. She recently taught in Linz, Austria and Nagoya, Japan on a Fulbright Grant. Marilyn Klinkner works as a nationally exhibiting potter and textile artist and makes her howm in Galesville, WI. Klinkner's current body of work deals with the human desire to hoard which she realizes through fabric collage installations.
 
June 26 - July 31
HIGH SCHOOL ART SHOW
Artwork by the students of Altoona, Eau Claire Memorial, Eau Claire North and Regis high schools.
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