Jasper Arts announces 2026 gallery lineup spanning prints to sculpture
Jasper Arts’ 2026-27 gallery slate runs from Rhonda Smith’s prints to Chris Dixon’s wood sculptures, giving downtown Jasper reasons to keep drawing visitors all year.
Jasper Arts has mapped out a gallery year that should keep people coming back to the Thyen-Clark Cultural Center long after one opening night. The schedule runs from the spring shows already in place to Chris Dixon’s wood sculptures, which stay up through Feb. 28, 2027, and it mixes prints, oil painting, sculpture, textiles, quilting and community exhibitions in a way that gives downtown Jasper more than one reason to stop in.
The first stretch includes Uebelhor, Bill Whorrall, Ashley Brossart, Art Orr and Curtis Grace, which ran Feb. 5-April 26; Youth Art Month, March 5-29; and the Dubois County Art Guild, April 2-May 24. Rhonda Smith’s solo exhibition of linoleum and intaglio prints opened April 2 and continues through June 26, while Tashema Davis’s oil-on-canvas solo show runs May 7-July 26. Christina Zimmer Robinson’s sculpture exhibition follows June 4-Aug. 23.
Late summer brings two shows with especially local ties. The Patoka Valley Quilters Guild takes over July 2-Sept. 20, and Erin Hochgesang’s work in textiles and natural dyes runs July 30-Sept. 27. Those dates place the gallery circuit squarely in the middle of Jasper’s downtown season, when First Fridays and Alive After 5 are scheduled from May through December and can funnel more foot traffic toward Courthouse Square and the surrounding shops and restaurants.
The fall lineup adds the 33rd Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Sept. 3-Nov. 22, and Dubois County Ofrenda, Oct. 1-Nov. 22. A Sculpture Invitational also opens Oct. 1 and stays through Dec. 27, giving the center a three-dimensional anchor as the year winds down. In December, the Visual Arts Committee show runs Dec. 3, 2026-Jan. 31, 2027, before Chris Dixon’s solo display continues the cycle through the end of February.
The exhibitions will unfold inside the Thyen-Clark Cultural Center, home to Jasper Arts and the Jasper Public Library. The arts wing includes multiple galleries, workshops, private studios and a Black Box Theatre, all inside a downtown complex that Heart of Jasper describes as more than 63,000 square feet of cultural space. Jasper Arts also manages the Jasper Arts Center and the Atrium and Arts Wing of the Thyen-Clark Cultural Center, backed by an 11-member government-appointed commission. The result is a gallery calendar built less like a one-time showcase and more like a steady downtown draw.
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