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Our Gift Shop

Visual Art Center Gift Shop has new & unique gifts all the time!You’ll always find a friendly face and helpful service in the Visual Arts Center Gift Shop

The Visual Arts Center’s Gift Shop features American artists’ work in glass, jewelry, painting,pottery, metal, wood, and textiles … art for your table, your walls, your outdoors.

We celebrate creativity, originality, and fine craftsmanship.

We can help you select the right piece for yourself, your family and your friends.


Let Us Help with...

  • Gift Solutions We have helpful and friendly people to look after you, ready with gift ideas of original one-of-a-kind art.
  • Secret Gifts We understand whispers and hand signals indicating your shopping companion would really like that item, and would we put it on hold for a week until you can come back to make your purchase.
  • Business Gifts We can make your gifts the kind your employees will truly appreciate and use. We also have splendid solutions for your executive gift lists.
  • Bridal and Gift Registry We are just the place for your bridal registry of unique art, where your family and friends will enjoy the shopping experience as well.
  • Complimentary Gift Bags We offer this special touch for your selection.
  • Gifts by Phone We are happy to help with gifts of art over the telephone.
  • Contact the Gift Shop Manager VACgiftshop@yahoo.com

Brenda Berdnik

Featured Artist: Patricia Turner

Patricia Turner creates vibrant work using Procion Mx dyes to dye-paint on natural fibers; mainly silks, bamboo, cellulose rayon, burlap and hemp. She has exhibited her unusual work all across the country in juried national competitions; and has been awarded a 2nd place and three honorable mentions in VAC exhibits.

"I ablsolutely love mixing my colors using only primaries", says Patricia, "and seeing how the mixtures interact with natural fibers. My process differs from painting on canvas in that...rather than starting with line, adding shape, and then color...I START with color, then add shapes and, finally, complete the piece with the lines of my stitching."

Patricia's work may be seen AND purchased in our Gift Shop.