Night Herd by Millard Sheets Public Domain photograph

Get Connected!

Everything begins with a connection, and there are many ways to connect with us. Take a look at the Events page and you will see we are very active in community events: Claremont’s Monthly Art Walk, the LA Co Fair, Claremont’s Village Venture, Wine Walk, Chocolate Walk, and Beer Walk. We also offer free Summer classes mostly for kids, but there are on-going art classes offered as well. We are engaged in a healthy series of annual exhibitions as you can see by our exhibitions page. Join us for any and all these events.

You can volunteer: We need people to help us host during open hours, strong bodies to move things for a show, sunny faces to greet shoppers. Your efforts spent at our gallery will be repaid by many grateful hearts. Volunteering is a good way to check us out, see who we are. Becoming a member of PVAA is the gateway to an opportunity to exhibit at Gallery SOHO. Claremont has long been a center for the arts. And PVAA has a long history in this area. As a result, Gallery SOHO enjoys many visitors.

Interested in exhibiting at Gallery SOHO? It begins by becoming a member of PVAA because Gallery SOHO is the gallery of PVAA. Gallery SOHO is set up as a cooperative which means the gallery is completely run by PVAA’s exhibiting artists. So by applying for Exhibiting Artist you will be joining a community of artists. Our walls are always full and even though it can be a long wait before a spot opens up, be ready, get your name on the list: come into the gallery and ask for an Exhibiting Artist form.

Exhibiting Artists pay 20% of all sales made to the gallery, monthly “rent” for the exhibiting space used, and exhibiting artists contribute two scheduled hosting days at the gallery per month. We are a community of artists who pitch in to make our gallery operate as well as it does. And this can only be accomplished by teamwork and so, by becoming an Exhibiting Artist, you will also join a team. Three times a year we completely change out our Gallery SOHO installation which takes the talents of many of us working together. Exhibiting Artists can also offer classes at the gallery.

Most artists wait patiently for their opportunity to become an exhibiting artist after they become members … and it does happen. Our body of exhibiting artists is continually changing as artists move in and out of the area or face changes to their life. Southern California is a constantly changing place. And when someone decides to leave the gallery, we invite new members to exhibit. Until that opportunity arises, we make room for those waiting for their opportunity to exhibit in our monthly Art Walk. Also PVAA members may enter the PVAA Tri Annual Juried Exhibition at Claremont’s City Hall which offers prizes for those who win a ribbon.

Being an Exhibiting Artist has many advantages. Exhibiting Artists can participate in our annual exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Fair, and Village Venture. Exhibiting artists are featured in our monthly newsletter and can submit for publication short articles about other shows or art activities they are involved in outside of PVAA.

Stallions, Milford Zornes 1991