NARROWSBURG, NY — On Saturday, February 8th,  DVAA will welcome the community to the start of a packed and exciting schedule of exhibitions for 2025. Featuring the talents of local and regional artists, DVAA’s 2025 roster of exhibitions run the gamut from painting to printmaking, sculpture to performance art, and everything in-between.

First up in the Alliance Gallery, Torey Akers’ exhibition, Baubo, explores the human form in intricate and intimate oil paintings and ink drawings, exploring depth and form with sculptural, collaged elements made from dressmakers’ pins. DVAA will be hosting a Coffee and Conversation event where Akers will discuss work and process at 3pm on February 8th.

On view in the Loft Gallery will be DVAA’s member show, Assembly Required. Curated by DVAA Gallery & Grants Manager Tanner Simon, the exhibition features collaborations between local artists – many of whom specifically responded to the exhibitions call for submissions. Including visual artists, writers, musicians, performers, and others Assembly Required offers a glimpse of what is possible when we embrace dialogue and exchange and break out of our silos and blur our boundaries in the spirit of collaboration, understanding, and a greater whole.

Opening Receptions for both exhibitions will take place on Saturday, February 8th from 4-6pm.

DVAA is located at 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg, NY. Walk-ins are welcome, and our galleries are ADA-accessible. Gallery & Shop hours are Thursdays – Sundays, 11 am – 4 pm, and by appointment.

For more information, visit DelawareValleyArtsAlliance.org

2025 EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Opening Receptions take place from 4-6pm on the first day of each exhibition.

Saturday, February 8 – Sunday, March 30, 2025

• Torey Akers (Brooklyn, NY) - Baubo

Akers’ work takes on the mantle of the Renaissance-era erotic nude - simultaneously coy and brazen, exploited and self-referential.

*A Coffee & Conversation event with the artist will take place at DVAA on Saturday, February 8th, 3pm

• Group Show - Assembly Required

DVAA members’ show, curated by Tanner Simon, features artistic collaborations across a dizzying array of mediums.

*A series of collaborative live performances will take place during the opening reception and on March 29. For details visit delawarevalleyartsalliance.org

Saturday, April 5 – Sunday, May 11, 2025

• Jenny Carpenter (Cold Spring, NY) – Open Spaces

Carpenter’s paintings on birch panel capture a sense of place, a moment. They offer viewers a pause to gather a thought or ruminate on a feeling, to create space before life interrupts.

*A Coffee & Conversation event with the artist will take place on Saturday, April 26th, 1pm

• Kelly O’Brien (Wurtsboro, NY) – When We Are Among The Trees

Spanning sculpture, wall-based art, and installation, O’Brien’s work explores ecological uncertainty and relational entanglement, navigating and holding complex ideas lightly and nimbly.

*A Nature Reading Circle with the artist will take place on Saturday, May 3rd, 1pm

Saturday, May 17 – Sunday, June 22, 2025

• Bobby Abate (Callicoon, NY)

Abate’s work spotlights the Queer underground, drag culture and evolving forms of gender.

• Sherry Rossini (Holland, PA) – Transpose Matter

Rossini works in natural materials, including marble and unprocessed wood, to explore themes of meditation and reflection.

Saturday, June 28 – Sunday, August 3, 2025

• Jami Taback (Hawley, PA) + Jane Ingram Allen (Santa Rosa, CA) – In Deep Water

Taback, a printmaker, and Allen, a papermaker, collaborate on a large scale mixed-media installation about our current climate change crisis with a focus on water, the most essential requirement for life.

• Douglas Schindler (Swan Lake, NY)

Schlindler’s impasto oil paintings conjure an intimate reflection of the direct and indirect experiences of living in low income, violence-prone areas. While these works heavily display violent story-scapes, they also exhibit the spaces in between the violence - spaces of love, peace, and freedom.

Saturday, August 9 – Sunday, September 14, 2025

• Mellissa Wilkinson (Warwick, NY)

Wilkinson’s meticulous watercolor and ink wash paintings draw from images sourced from the Hollywood golden era, late 70’s/early 80’s tomboys and heartthrobs, disco and Tumblr to explore her own queer identity.

• Nancy Wells (Damascus, PA)

A print-making retrospective from this ground-breaking local artist.

Saturday, September 20 – Sunday, October 26, 2025

• Avani Patel (Brooklyn, NY) – Rhythmic Allure

Influenced by her childhood in Mumbai, India, Patel’s work uses vivid colors, mark-making and repetition as tools to signify change in nature, the passage of time, and retention and rejection of memory.

• Candy Spilner (Cochecton, NY)

Influenced by her rural surroundings and filtered through art history, Spilner investigates visual perception and the complexity of pictorial space using color and layers and texture to create illusion and even confusion.

Saturday, November 15 – Sunday, December 21, 2025

• Art in Sixes, 21st Annual Small Works Exhibition

Every November for 21 years, DVAA has mounted “Art in Sixes,” an exhibition that celebrates and grows the region’s artistic community. Each year, artworks by hundreds of artists fill the galleries of DVAA. Ascribing to the rule that no artwork be larger than 6” x 6”, the beloved annual show is a must-see for artists and audiences alike.

LOOKING AHEAD TO 2026

Interested in exhibiting at DVAA? Artists and curators are invited to submit an application for the 2026 exhibition season— now through January 31st, 2025. Emphasizing artists from the Mid-Hudson, Catskill, or Upper Delaware River Regions, the program welcomes diverse media, styles, installations, and curator proposals, showcasing high-quality work by both emerging and established artists. More information: https://delawarevalleyartsalliance.org/exhibition-call-for-entries/

DVAA serves as a home in the Upper Delaware Valley and Sullivan Catskills Region, giving artists platforms to share their voices in our galleries, on our stages, and at our festivals, including Riverfest in July and the Big Eddy Film Festival held every September. DVAA funds Sullivan County creatives and cultural organizations through our role as the county’s Arts Council.

DVAA’s programs are made possible thanks in part to the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency with support from the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; the Nancy Stevenson Memorial Fund; the Heartland Embers Fund, our Business Sponsors; DVAA members; and individuals like you.