DUE TO HAZARDOUS TEMPERATURES, LILLSTREET ART CENTER WILL BE CLOSED ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 23.
Violet
February 01 - February 28 2026
Drawing and Painting Artist-in-Residence Lydia Cash presents Violet. Her work bridges the gap between her visual art and music through her most recent collection of paintings, named after her upcoming album, “Violet”.
At its core, “Violet” is about healing one’s inner child. Vulnerable, honest, and defiant, it is a glittering ode to radical self-love and female empowerment. Each of the ten paintings are inspired the ten songs on the album. Cash views the act of painting itself as a healing practice, through risk-taking, play, and intuitive mark making.
Artist talk : Feb 27, 2026 5 PM
Shaping Vision
work by the Lillstreet Painting and Drawing Faculty
Shaping Vision
An exhibition of work by the Drawing and Painting Faculty at Lillstreet
March 1-31, 2026
Opening reception, Thursday, March 5, 5-8pm
Sarah Bastress, Erik Brown, Melanie Brown, Lydia Cash, Heather Charley, Karen Dana, Caitlyn Doran, John Fleck, Shanti Grandhi, True Markham, Susan Marx, Patrick Miceli, Ken Minami, Amanda Mulcahy, Blue Brooks O’Leary, Tara Sabini, Julie Sulzen, Elizabeth Wilson
This exhibition explores the ways in which teaching artists develop their own work, while also cultivating the education of less experienced painters. The work featured is in a wide variety of techniques taught at Lillstreet such as oil, acrylic, watercolor, collage, gouache, ink, mixed media pencil and charcoal, both realistic and abstract. It is a dizzying array of work by the accomplished teaching artists at Lillstreet.
For a Darkened Room
Hidden Gallery
For a Darkened Room
installation by Dutes Miller
March 1 – May 31, 2026
Opening reception: Thursday, March 5, 5-8pm
For a darkened room is a small immersive installation exploiting the particular architecture of the gallery. The space is part cave, part temple, and part bathroom stall, all of which can be small spaces of an intimate but public nature. Elements of the installation include a cast ceramic sculpture, painted spray foam objects, a tinted plaster room divider, dark mylar curtains, small lighting elements, a small corner seat, and a soundscape.
Topics of investigation:
How do forms relieve themselves in low-light situations?
How does light work on reflective surfaces in the dark?
How do the ideas of intimacy and voyeurism relate to each other?
