Past Gallery Showings & Exhibitions
Creative Partner Showcase
The 2026 Creative Partner Showcase is an annual exhibition that highlights the incredible talent within our Creative Partnership community. This showcase features artwork exclusively from Creative Partners, celebrating the diversity, imagination, and creativity that make our region thrive.
Distorted Signals by Dustina Hooper
Dustina was a winner of a solo show in the Potsdam Town Hall for 2026. Their work is comprised of punk shows at the Creative Spirit Arts Center.
The exhibition is on display until Friday, September 18th.
IN FULL COLOR: Exhibition to Showcase LGBTQ+ Artists
SLC Arts invite artists to submit work celebrating the diversity, strength, and creativity of the queer community.
The exhibition is a space to express your truth, your identity, and your journey. Whether your art is bold and loud, quiet and reflective, joyful or defiant—your voice matters. We invite work that reflects the full spectrum of queer experiences—love, struggle, celebration, resistance, healing, and hope—brought to life in full color.
“IN FULL COLOR” Is supported by Potsdam pride. Join us in making a powerful statement through art at the official kickoff to Pride Weekend.
Guidelines:
– Any medium, 2D and 3D work is encouraged. Although size will not be limited per piece, if a piece is too large based off of other submission, we will not be able to accommodate.
– Supports the queer community.
– Artists are strongly encouraged to have their work for sale, but not required.
– Listed price should include a 30% or 40% commission for SLC Arts, dependent on Creative Partner Status
– NYS Sales Tax ID required for all artists selling work.
– Each artist may submit up to five pieces. Submissions will be juried.
Double Exposure: Show by Cassandra Leona Desjardins-Bolesh and Lainie Calhoun-Bouchey
This exhibition is one of our winners of the solo show call. This duo show explores poetry and photography as mixed media pieces.
This show was on display May 21-July 22.
NCATA Scholar Show
Our annual NCATA Scholars Exhibition showcases talented high school students from around the North Country. Each year students attend multiple workshops focused on deepening their skills and create three works based on the skills attained at the workshops. One display until June 3.
Any artwork left in the possession for 3 months after the close of the show becomes property of SLC Arts.
Postcards: A Global Show at the Potsdam Town Hall
This show at the Potsdam Town Hall showcased postcards from local artists as well as Philadelphia, PA and even Wisconsin.
A selection of postcards are available for purchase at the Creative Spirit Community Arts Center.
More Than a Mirror: Interactive Self-Portrait Show
Anna Warfield : Word Salad : Two Parts
My work is queer.
It’s both straightforward and unclear.
It’s a processing of identities – many of them.
It’s about how we communicate; the words we use and don’t use.
It’s about unlearning what we’ve been socialized to understand and expect.
It’s nonsensical sense.
It’s the space in between definitions.
My art is soft whimsy tinged with a biting reality. I reclaim methods of making typically coded as feminine (i.e. fiber, sewing, knitting, and dyeing) in combination with original poems to broach complexities in identity, understanding, and unlearning.
Existing beyond neatly defined borders and categories, my work explores communication and settles into the spaces we can hardly find words for; asking us to push through discomfort and find ease in uncertainty. I write poems, at times in concert with the community, and translate them into soft sculptural objects reminiscent of learning tools.
I work mainly with fabric – dyeing, cutting, sewing, stuffing, knitting, and suspending it to create soft and inviting environments. Informed by elementary learning devices and play, the forms and visuals are reminiscent of concrete poetry, word searches, ball pits, MadLibs, mobiles, bubbles, and soft children’s books. These visual cues invite viewers into a nostalgic conversation that ultimately challenges understanding and stirs more questions than it provides answers.
The color and material choices underscore my interest in conversations around identity. Fabric, historically associated with “women’s work,” is ripe with associations I ask viewers to question and unlearn through my practice. Similarly, shades of pink and blue offer an entry point into evolving conversations around gender.
I’m fascinated by language, word choice, and the fine line between individual and collective interpretations. My work considers etymology and the shifting meaning of words over time. My practice is a means of exploring the breadth of associations we both collectively and individually have with words. I look for the tipping point between clarity and nonsense; personal and collective (mis)understanding.
My work ranges in scale from intimate hand held fabric books to large public installations. At times the final form is dictated by the language and at other points the form invites the language of the work. The range in work is the result of a responsive practice that seeks the best vehicle for communicating the underlying idea.
“Fragments” at the Creative Spirit Community Arts Center
An exhibition exploring the pieces that make a whole.
This exhibition invites artists to reflect on what is broken, gathered, remembered, or rearranged. Whether literal or metaphorical, fragments can be physical materials, fractured memories, cultural inheritances, or personal moments revisited. Artists working in all mediums—collage, sculpture, painting, photography, digital, fiber, mixed media, and more—are encouraged to submit works that explore the beauty, tension, and meaning found in pieces, remnants, and reassemblies.
One Couple. Two Views. Potsdam Town Hall
A Duo Show with married couple Pat and Betty Hendrick that gave both individuals attention but also puts a spotlight on how two artists who have shared their lives for more than 30 years can end up seeing things … and expressing them … in very different ways.
