Arts Council Of The Valley

Gallery exhibitions & first fridays: first fridays is a monthly event which runs annually and is led by the arts council of the vally in partnership with more than 30 downtown businesses and countless regional creators in the visual, performing, and literary arts. Since 2009, the darrin-mchone art gallery, the arts council's visual arts space, has presented over 64 month-long art exhibitions by some of the area's leading artists. Our exhibition openings take place on the first friday of the month.

Advancing the arts grants: acv provides monetary awards and facility venue grants for artists, teachers, and students through our advancing the arts granting initiative. The arts council solicits proposals from local articst, area public schools, universities and colleges. This initiative affords us the opportunity to give back to the community so creative individuals can see their projects come to fruition. Acv organizes a panel of art professionals who review grant propsals and make selections. This opportunity is afforded to individuals of all age levels and demographics. Past recipients include, stone spring elementary school; wanchi huang, professor of violin at james madison university; south river elementary school; shenandoah writers association write-brained program; and the super g8 film festival.