Jason and Deb Sheldon see the world as created. With the eyes and hands given to them and with a deep sense of the need to do so, they the created, also create. In so doing, Deb and Jason strive to proclaim their Maker by fashioning works which imitate and capture the spirit of this world. They hope He likes what He sees.

Paintings by Deb Sheldon

Three Dimensional Works by Jason Sheldon

Opening || June 4, 2010 || 5:00-9:00 pm

Clearstory is a Friday night destination and is part of Spokane’s Visual Art Tour 

Enjoy outrageous hors d’oeuvres with us and live music: Keisha Brown on Celtic Harp and Rachel Capezza on violin.

Winds of up to 175 mph, a death count of 1,836 with 705 still unaccounted for. People swam for their lives or became prisoner to 15 feet of water. That was five years ago. Today it looks as if hurricane Katrina just struck. Tragedy can happen anywhere despite the fact that God is everywhere. Living inside that conundrum, those who remain in New Orleans will tell you hope is their home. Come and see what remains from disaster—temporary treasures and permanent scars—odd symbols of hope for us these five years later.

Photographs by Miranda Clott

Opening || February 5, 2010 || 5:00-9:00 pm

Part of the Spokane Visual Arts Tour

hors d’oeuvres & live music – featuring Greg “Lightning Boy” Juran & Scott “Smokehouse” Brown

Enigma is a word artists love. Caught in the draft between the spirit and flesh, West Coast artist Glen LaMar probes the lives of Paul and Job. A consummate colorist, LaMar’s work is both gesture and vivid abstraction. Brilliant patterns resound with light and emotion having woven the paradoxes of faith in between the canvas and paint.

Opening    ||    October 2, 2009    ||    5:00-9:00 pm

We trust our eyes. Usually. We see what we see and act accordingly. Or not. But what happens as we skirt the apparent to imagine what God sees — risk knowing and being known. Clearstory Gallery’s newest interactive installation wrestles with poverty and redemption in a barrio in Mexico, where you just might find that beneath the surface we are them and they are us.

Clearstory Gallery is honored to present a photographic installation by artist and photographer Jim Van Gundy.

Opening    ||    June 5, 2009    ||    5:00-9:00 pm

Broke-whether it means penniless, reduced to fragments, or just plain inoperative, Clearstory’s latest show wrestles with the frailties of our humanity, how the wrecked parts of our lives reveal the extent of redemption.

Artists include Whitworth University art faculty and selected Whitworth students. Among these are Scott Kolbo, Gordon Wilson, Steven Rue, Nathan Ellefson and Katrina Snediker.

Opening will be part of the Spokane Visual Arts Tour Friday February 6th.  Come between 5:00 and 9:00pm and enjoy hors d’oeuvres.  We will have live music featuring classical guitarist Art Corcoran.  The coffee bar will be open.

We were featured by IMAGE in their most recent ImageUpdate in the Gallery Watch section which highlights new gallery and show openings. Check out the article here and the rest of Image here.

And if you are coming to us from IMAGE, thank you for checking us out and hopefully you can visit us in person sometime.

Check out some photos from our opening night reception…

Here is a virtual tour of the UNDONE show located in the Shows section.

Here is the final list of artists displaying work at UNDONE:

Kathleen Cavender, Foxhole Prayers Detail

A CONTAGION of churches embracing Fine Art as a spiritual medium: This is not your mama’s golden calf. Or is it? The ten artists probe the theme “UNDONE” for connection/disconnections of the soul regarding God.

Opening     October 3, 2008     5:00-9:00 pm
Clearstory Gallery at Life Center
1202 N. Government Way
Spokane WA 99224

Ten Artists: Stephen Rue, Gordon Wilson, Kathleen Cavender, Jesse Pierpoint…

Clearstory Gallery is a new Fine Art Gallery on the Life Center Campus near Spokane Falls Community College. Connecting People to God through the influence of image, color, form, through pure adoration of God in the reality / beauty / power of art.