Artwork & Artists
at Smith House Galleries

2025

January 2025
Pure Imagination
Chito Padilla

Barely Contained Chaos
Karla Britfeld

February 2025
Trees and Other Friends
Billie Rosenberger

When I Was Little: A Retrospective of Collegiate Artists and Their Growth
JMU Kappa Pi International
Honorary Art Fraternity

March 2025
9th Annual artVISION: Rockingham County
Public Schools Youth Art Month Show

Rockingham County Public School Students, K-12

April 2025
Beyond the Classroom:
Educator’s Artistic Voice

Blue Ridge Virginia Art Education Association

May 2025
5x5x25
25 Artists

June 2025
Seconds Between Time
Peter Schnibbe

Liminal
Keith G. Mills

July 2025
The Souls of the Valley and Zambia/Africa
Mwizenge S. Tembo

The Elephant in the Room
Charlotte Shristi

August 2025
Take a Walk on the Wild Side
Agnieszka Elliott

Ouroboros
E. Leary

September 2025
Print Stories
Katelyn Wood

An Edom Hills Almanac:
A Year of Painting Outside

Rebecca Gish

October 2025
Distorted Family
Ver Ikeseh

Modern Times
Quillon Hall

November-December 2025
10th Annual ACV Artist Member Exhibition
ACV Artist Members

2024

January 2024
FOOD MOMENTS: Musings from the Shenandoah Valley
Pat Augsburger & Phyllis Ressler

AMP’d: Friendly City Photo Corps Top Shots
Friendly City Photo Corps

February 2024
Barbie and Beyond
Gene Provenzo

Conociendo the Unknown
CJ Romano

March 2024
artVISION: Rockingham County Public Schools Youth Art Month Show
Rockingham County Public School Students, K-12

April 2024
Grown, Built, Seen
Trotter Hardy

The World of Black and White
Saul Harris

Featuring poetry by the First Monday Poets.

May 2024
Journey Towards the Unknown
Mahnaz Weldy, Maryam Rassapour, and James Albright

June 2024
Juxtaposed
Brenda Hounshell

July 2024
Experiences Big and Small
Debra Keirce

Art for the Artist’s Sake
Trudy L. Cole

August 2024
Vycinanka. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Volha Palunisa

Whimseys
Judith Anderson

September 2024
Multiverse of Media
Blue Ridge Community College Art Faculty Members

October 2024
Artistry & Eclecticism
Mae Stoll

Floral Worlds
Laura Thompson

November-December 2024
9th Annual ACV Artist Member Exhibition
ACV Artist Members

2023

January 2023
Deliverance and Beauty
Deborah Coffey

Forest Feast: A Walk in the Woods
Deborah Coffey & Doris Martin

February 2023
Mind, Heart, Soul
Mauricio Esperon

Unity
Arnita Taliaferro

March 2023
artVISION: Rockingham County Public Schools Youth Art Month Show
Rockingham County Public School Students, K-12

April 2023
Her Wounded Soul: A Visual Story of Ukrainian and Immigrant Culture, and Her Devastating Tragedy
Viktoriya Samoylov & Natalia Verko

May 2023
Multiple Perspectives
Kathleen Mitchell Johnston

Hyperrealistic Drawings
Kazin Khaleel

June 2023
Never Stop Creating!
Sunnyside Artists

July 2023
Evocative Etching
Anna Marie Pavlik

August 2023
Horizons & Silhouettes
Bobbie Greer & Benjamin Somberg

September 2023
Figure & Abstract Paintings
 Jerry Coulter

October 2023
In Conversation: The MFA Graduate Faculty at JMU
James Madison University Graduate Art Faculty Members

November-December 2023
ACV’s 8th Annual Artist Member Exhibition
ACV Artist Members

2022

January 2022
Art is Relative: A Marshman Family Exhibition
Frank and Janet Marshman

February 2022
Travels: A Visual Diary
Justin Poole

March 2022
artVISION: Rockingham County Youth Art Month Show
Rockingham County Public School Students, K-12

April 2022
Wildlife: An Intimate Portrait
Bob Adamek

Water: Its Iterations and Locations
Greg Versen

The Danse Macabre
Cara Walton

May 2022
Rivers & Streams of Western Virginia
Julie Farrell, Debra Sheffer, Peg Sheridan and Nan Mahone Wellborn

Spray Paintings of Tools:
Paintbrushes to Pliers

Robert Bersson

June 2022
Quarantime
Colleen Pendry

July 2022
Painted Daydreams
Chito Padilla

August 2022
Still Pondering
Herb Weaver

September 2022
Time Out of Mind
 Quillon Hall

The Animal Kingdom
Juliette Swenson

October 2022
Lands and Lives Not My Own
Caroline Garrett Hardy

November-December 2022
ACV’s 7th Annual Artist Member Exhibition
ACV Artist Members

2021

January 2021
To Walk Softly
Works by Poets and Artists of Valley Friends Meeting, Dayton, VA

February 2021
e = empathy
JMU architectural design students

A View Beyond the Window; New works from the Shaped Landscape series
John Hancock

March 2021
artVISION: Rockingham County Youth Art Month Show
Rockingham County Public School Students, K-12

April 2021
Lingering: Photography by Pato Hebert

May 2021
Rocktown Camera Club

June 2021
The Spirit of Things
Keith Mills

July 2021
Hilos en Común (Common Threads) – A Collection of Quilts & Stories

The Keepers of Secret Selves: Photography as a Counter-Narrative to Ageism
Deborah Pugh

August 2021
Wendy Lam: A Retrospective

September 2021
Here + There:: Exploring Multi-layered Identity through Photography
Harrisonburg High School Students

October 2021
New Works in Metal
Michael Hough

Headbones
Paintings by Lydia Hough

November-December 2021
ACV’s 6th Annual Artist Member Exhibition
ACV Artist Members

2020

January 2020
Wanton Biophilia
Jennifer Cox

February 2020
VISIONARIES: A Changing the Narrative Art Project

March-April 2020
artVISION: Rockingham County Youth Art Month Show
Rockingham County Public School Students, K-12

May 2020
Here’s Looking At You
Wendy Lam

June 2020
Sheltering in (a Great) Place
Trudy L. Cole

July 2020
Mapping the West
Vince Lupo

August 2020
Primordial Energy
Karla Britfeld

September 2020
REFLECTIONS
Brenda Hounshell and Kristen Colebank

October 2020
Animal Instincts
Dietrich Maune, Julia Merkel, and AJ Morey

November-December 2020
ACV’s 5th Annual Artist Member Exhibition
ACV Artist Members

2019

January 2019
Virginia Artists in the Marketplace

February 2019
Impressions: Monotypes
Patricia Hobbs

March 2019
artVISION: Rockingham County Youth Art Month Show
Rockingham County Public School Students, K-12

April 2019
Painting and Oil Pastel Drawings
Kim Juda Souder & Bob Bersson

May 2019
REFLEX
Christopher G. Michael

June 2019
A Bodacious Barney Google and Snuffy Smith Retrospective
John Rose

July 2019
Impressionist Paintings
Deliece Blanchard

Palladium Photographs
Ellen Martin

August 2019
Art Lotto
Various Artists

September 2019
Not By Accident
Alden Hough

October 2019
Ceramic Professors’ Exhibition
Various Artists

November-December 2019
ACV’s 4th Annual Artist Member Exhibition
ACV Artist Members

2018

January 2018
Small Works Invitational
Various Artists

February 2018
Photography from the Collection of Janet and Frank Marshman
Various Artists

March 2018
artVISION: Rockingham County Youth Art Month Show
Rockingham County Public School Students, K-12

April 2018
Rising: A Kappa Pi Juried Show
JMU’s Kappa Pi Art & Art History Fraternity

May 2018
Wonderkitten
Various Artists

June 2018
Watercolors by Jude Dayton and Peg Sheridan

July 2018
Suspending the Ink and Stars & Poetic Vision
Elise Trissel & the First Monday Poets

August 2018
Rocktown Camera Club

September 2018
Companion Planting: Eight JMU Fine Arts Graduates
Various Artists

October 2018
Mealymouth Dexterity:
R. Mertens and John Ros

November 2018-December 2018
3rd Annual ACV Artist Member Exhibition
ACV Artist Members

2017

January 2017
Small Works Invitational
Various Artists

February 2017
Ashley Sauder Miller

March 2017
artVISION: Rockingham County Youth Art Month Show
Rockingham County Public School Students, K-12

April 2017
There Need Not Be Relic: New Work Inspired by the Book Housekeeping from the Metal Shed CoLab
Various Artists

May 2017
Flowers & Swans
Nadia Louderback

June 2017
Implement Series
Joshua Miller

July 2017
Works on Paper
Mauricio Esperon

August 2017
Art Lotto #5
Various Artists

September 2017
Looking for Rocktown: Contemporary Depictions of Harrisonburg
Various Artists

October 2017
An Turas: Scotland Journey
John M. Bell

November 2017
2nd Annual ACV Artist Member Exhibition
ACV Artist Members

December 2017
Small Works Invitational
Various Artists

2016

January 2016
artVISION: K-12 Student Show
Various K-12 Students

February 2016
Mardi Gras: Day & Night
Bob Adamek and Marcello Amari

March 2016
In the Round II
Various JMU Faculty

April 2016
Carrying On
Jessica Caldas

May 2016
ToWards Different Visions
Mia LaBerge and Terry Ward

June 2016
Indonesian Works on Glass

July 2016
Stroke Show

August 2016
Jo Ansah and Mary Rouse

September 2016
Wood-fired ceramic show

October 2016
The Word Show
Angela Carter

November 2016
1st Annual ACV Artist Member Exhibition
ACV Artist Members

December 2016
Small Works Invitational
Various Artists

2015

January 2015
artVISION: Rockingham County Youth Art Month Show
Rockingham County Public School Students, K-12

February 2015
The Captured Re-Imagined
Katherine Burling

March 2015
unJURIED
Jon Henry

April 2015
JMU 3D Faculty Exhibition
Various JMU Faculty Artists

May 2015
Community Supported Arts (CSArts)

June 2015
Photography
Sherrie Good and Rian Chandler-Dovis

July 2015
In the Making
Ashley Sauder Miller

August 2015
Augusta
Cara Walton

September 2015
The Tomato Project
Jon Henry

October 2015
Dog and Bird
Dietrich Maune

November 2015
Landscapes of the Shenandoah Valley
Debra Shaffer

December 2015
artVISION: Rockingham County Youth Art Month Show
Rockingham County Public School Students, K-12

2014

January 2014
artVISION: K-12 Student Show
Various K-12 Students

February 2014
Ebenezer
Jeffrey Guinn

March 2014
Contemporary Photography and Visions of Arab Identity
Lalla Essaydi

April 2014
12×12
Rebecca Silberman

May 2014
Artery

June 2014
Select 2014 Bridgewater College Art Graduates
Various Bridgewater College Art Graduates

July 2014
Brownsburg Skyline
Michael Papit

August 2014
Refraction of Wounds
Angela Carter and Dave Buracker

September 2014
The Long View
Lyndi Angemeier

October 2014
New Metal Sculpture
Michael Hough

November 2014
Eastern Mennonite University Silent Auction Preview
Various Artists

December 2014
artVISION: Rockingham County Youth Art Month Show
Rockingham County Public School Students, K-12

2013

January 2013
The Hunger Project
JMU’s Photo as Document Class

March 2013
Bear House
Jade Webber

April 2013
New Works
Elliot Downs

May 2013
Residence & Refuge
Work by Children from Mercy House

June 2013
Women’s Work
Lynda Bostrom, Lynn Lough, Morgan Fink, Denise Kanter Allen, Brandy Somers, and Ragan McManus

July 2013
Collage
Ann Harrison

August 2013
Mythunderstandings
Wes Way

September 2013
Best of JMU Undergrads
Various Students

October 2013
Garden Variety
Juried Show

November 2013
It’s the Way I See It
Elwood S. Madison III

December 2013
artVISION: Rockingham County Youth Art Month Show
Rockingham County Public School Students, K-12

2012

December 2012
The Hunger Project
JMU’s Photo as Document Class