The Open Gallery

09/17/2026

So happy to be sporting our own Colleen Reed original mural. Thank you Sarah and THANK YOU COLLEEN! We love it.

09/12/2026

“I’m grateful for having seen your show just now, by myself in your gallery. I knew it would be an intense experience but can’t even find words for how moving it was to see those works and read the writings in the semi-darkness.
You are offering a transformative experience. Thank you. ❤️🙏🏻”

This review of our current exhibition, “Portraits of People You Hate” is so powerful and so true. It’s not just art on a wall; it is an experience in and of itself.

Come and experience it for yourself and talk to a few of the artists who took a chance with a very sensitive and personal topic and succeeded in transforming brokenness into connection.

Thursday, September 17 at 6:00 p.m. at The Open Gallery, 329 Main Street.

08/17/2026

The Vincennes Sculpture Project is excited to bring 3D artwork across Vincennes, Indiana for all to enjoy. Discover artists' work in the community through our rotating public art installation project, and give feedback on exhibited sculptures.

08/15/2026

New business downtown. Looks like it’s gonna be a groovy kinda vibe. Welcome !

06/28/2026

The Open Gallery is proud to welcome Julia Wright for a solo exhibition of her work titled "So Tall Grows the Corn: Rural 'Insouciantism' in the Muck of Modern Times." The title may be ponderous but the work is an eclectic mix of large paintings, monoprints and drawings that explore optimism and humor in the face of the mundanity of modern life.

As a word person by trade, I tend to think of insouciance in the pejorative, as a glib and careless outlook on life in most situations. However, Wright applies the term here to the more positive nature of those who see the world in a carefree, lighthearted, and even blithe way. Make of that term an "ism," and we can infer that Wright believes a rural way of life is not just empathic and sustaining to the individual, but it also can provide a source of inspirational navigation through a life fraught with uncertainty and "muck."

"Focusing on the positive, lighthearted, humorous bits of existing ...is real(rural?) treasure if you can hone it." I think you will agree that she is able to do just that in these works.

Julia Wright lives with her husband Mike and daughter Jo on a farm near Freedom, IN. She is a graduate of VU's Agribusiness dept followed by a degree in Fine Arts, Studio Concentration under the tutelage of such artists as Bernard and Deborah Hagedorn and Andy and Amy Jendrezjewski, so we are sure you will be delighted by her visual sense of wonder in the world.

Artist reception is Friday, July 3, from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. at The Open Gallery 329 Main Street in Vincennes. A second reception will be held on Friday, August 7 with a new set of paintings. The show will close at the end of August.

Gallery hours: Tuesday- Saturday, 12:30-4:30p.m.; closed Sunday and Monday.

Track and Field, Julia Wright

05/17/2026

Come on down to The Open Gallery and help us put this puzzle together. Goal is July 4th, of course. Sign in, sit a spell and watch it come together. Oh yes, and celebrate our local artists. T-Sat., 12:00-4:30 p.m. 329 Main Street

05/01/2026

🎤The Fun Dunns will be at the First Friday Art Walk downtown Vincennes Main Street this Friday May 1st from 5:30-7:30 p.m.! They will be outside in the pocket park by The Pantheon!!🎤

05/01/2026

SCAVENGER HUNT - MAY 1, 5-8 PM!
1. Pick up a search card at any of the 3 Downtown Galleries.
2. Visit all 3 Galleries.
3. Find the items listed on the card and take a selfie with each one.
4. Show your pics at the Scavenger Hunt station.

There will be a PRIZE for the first person to complete the Scavenger Hunt!

04/30/2026

“Don’t Be a Stranger” tomorrow evening at The Open Gallery, featuring artwork by that dynamic duo, Hattie Sherfield and Sarah Wolfe. It’s a May Day feast for your senses. 329 Main Street/VI from 5-8 pm EDS.

04/10/2026