Callanwolde Fine Arts Center hosts 4-6 gallery exhibitions each year, including juried exhibitions and group shows in collaboration with other regional arts organizations.
Standard Gallery Hours:
By appointment -or-
Monday – Thursday: 9am-3pm
Friday-Sunday: 9am-12pm
Subject to change due to Events.
See Gallery Hours link for each show to confirm.
Schedule Tours or Appointments by emailing Gallery@Callanwolde.org.
Entry is free, Donations are appreciated and contribute to continued arts programming.
Embracing the Frivolous - presented by ATL Art Gals
April 9th - May 21st
Opening Reception
April 9th 6:00-8:30pm
Embracing the Frivolous reexamines the ways women’s choices, emotions, and art have been devalued. Historically, when women spent on beauty, fashion, or gifts, it was criticized as wasteful, while men’s leisure purchases were rarely questioned. The same logic applies to expression: women’s emotions outside caregiving roles are often minimized, and art that centers beauty is dismissed as superficial. This exhibition gathers women artists who reclaim those narratives and reframe the so-called frivolous as worthy of attention.
Here, beauty is not an afterthought, it is the point. The works on view revel in color, pattern, and joy, pushing against the pressure for art to always carry grave meaning in order to matter. Together, these artists insist that what has long been dismissed as trivial is in fact essential: a radical affirmation of self, an embrace of pleasure, and a celebration of humanity.
CFAC 2026 Gallery Exhibition Schedule
RSVP Links and more information to come!
Contemporary Woodfire Potters of Georgia
April 9th - May 21st
Opening Reception
April 12th 2:00-5:00pm
Rick Berman