Visual Arts Exhibit
The Visual Arts Exhibit in the Clark Center Lobby offers patrons the opportunity to experience the work of regional artists in rotating exhibits throughout the year.
The exhibit is available for viewing at scheduled performances and during regular Box Office hours Tue-Fri 1-6 and Sat 10-4.
Calling All Artists: Showcase your work in the Clark Center Visual Arts Exhibit
We are now accepting applications from fine artists who are interested in displaying their work!
Our lobby is filled with art from local artists year round! Mixed media such as oil, watercolor, pastels, pen and ink, sketching, etc. are encouraged, as well as sculptures and photography.
Artists are not charged any fee to exhibit. Artists may choose to offer artwork for sale and may also choose to contribute 20% of sales to support the Clark Center Arts Education and Scholarship programs.
Art pieces are juried for content acceptability and 10 artists will be selected to display their work for two consecutive months.
Applications for exhibition during 2026 are now open. Application deadline is November 1, 2025 to be reviewed in December 2025.
Current Artists
Keoni Montes & Cheryl Strahl
3/1/2026 - 4/30/2026
Artists' Reception
Saturday, March 21 @ 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Clark Center Lobby
Free Event - No Ticket Required
The artistry of Keoni Montes restates the legendary link that many believe binds the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Oceania. As a Mexican, his paintings reveal an Aztecan affinity for Polynesia. With a Mystical Mayan Memory, Montes unfolds poetic images of the South Pacific "before the fall" of an Edenic El Dorado, untouched by European White Shadows. A mythical world inhabited by the children of nature. Montes' unerring gaze was inspired and trained by his artist parents in Guadalajara at an early age. Both his parents were ceramicists. Montes confides, "My mother used to paint the poetry that my father made." Thus, one finds Montes' naturalist visualizations of pre-contact Polynesia are at the same time expressions of the Mexican collective conscious.
Cheryl Strahl, a world traveler, has participated in numerous photography exhibitions. Her photos have gained both local and national recognition and won several awards and acceptance into juried fine art shows in San Luis Obispo County as well as Oakland, San Francisco, San Diego and Solvang.
Capturing the Magic of Cowboy Country Exhibit: In winter 2024, shades of ranch, horse and cowboy country came to life in the foothills of the majestic Bighorn Mountains with canyons and sweeping high desert vistas. Working local cowboys and cowgirls - riding their own horses - came together with our small group of enraptured photographers for a unique photo opportunity based around a horse ranch in wild, northern Wyoming. Riders wrangled horses, galloped in the snow of the red rocks, traversed the vast Bighorn basin and posed at outbuildings on the ranch. It is hoped that this exhibit will give viewers a taste of living in the Wild West!
