Vision Gallery

Art Social: Needle-felted Ornaments
2025-11-15 10:00 - 13:00 (America/Phoenix) | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Let your imagination go wild as you explore the wonderful world of wool by creating your own felted ornament. You will learn the basics of 3D needle felting, working with various shapes to create hanging pieces of art. You can choose to create any form you want, including gnomes, mushrooms, cacti, traditional holiday shapes, as well as a variety of animals and birds. Have fun creating something for yourself or to give away – the hardest choice will be what to make during class! Led by Memory Bradley.
This casual 3 hour class doesn’t require any prior knowledge or skill, and all materials are included in the $35 class fee. This class is for adults 18 and older.
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Make and Take: Perler Bead Ornaments
2025-12-06 11:00 - 15:00 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Get in the spirit with a fun holiday craft! Stop by Vision Gallery on Saturday, December 6 to make an ornament with fusible beads. Enjoy free hot cocoa or cider as you do any last-minute shopping in our gift shop too!
This is a free, self-led activity for all ages, including adults. Children are welcome to participate with assistance from an adult. Registering for a time slot helps us plan, but drop-ins are welcome!
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Land Valuation: Luke Watson
2026-01-24 - 2026-03-21 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
From the luscious panoramic landscapes of the Hudson River School to Maynard Dixon’s seemingly endless cloud filled skies set behind painted mesas to Grant Wood’s overly saturated and stylized pastoral scenes of the Midwest, American painters have long shaped a romantic vision of the land. These images helped construct a narrative of the United States as expansive, untouched, and waiting to be explored. This myth has further been perpetuated by tourism imagery, National Park postcards, and idealized and sometimes altered travel photography. Yet the land has always borne evidence of habitation, use, and intervention. This tension between the idealized landscape and the lived landscape raises ongoing questions about perception versus reality, and what it means to love, occupy, or lay claim to the land.
For Land Valuation, Phoenix-based artist, Luke Watson, reframes the conversation around the American landscape by centering the human experience. Within the exhibition, Watson creates macro and micro encounters with nature from atv tire tracks set in front of looming mesas to a birdwatcher standing in a parking lot to an intimate rendering of an endangered bird. By foregrounding ordinary interactions with the outdoors, Watson challenges the expectation that nature must appear untouched to be meaningful. His work invites viewers to reconsider how land is valued—as scenery, resource, recreation site, habitat, or cultural inheritance. Rather than presenting answers, Watson opens space for reflection: Who gets to define what nature is? What constitutes a “nature lover”? And how do our everyday choices, movements, and pleasures shape the landscapes we claim to admire? These questions form a more contemporary discussion around our value system around land and expose inherent biases we all have around the use of nature.
Opening Reception
Friday, January 23, 2026 6-8 pm
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(Be)Longing
2026-02-14 - 2026-04-18 | Chandler Center for the Arts, 250 N. Arizona Ave., Chandler, AZ, 85225
Moving to a new country can be a daunting experience, especially as an adult. You leave behind familiar language, culture, and customs, and face the challenge of adapting to a new way of life. Yet, alongside the pressure to assimilate is the desire to preserve your identity and traditions. How do you find balance and create your own path. For the artists featured in (Be) Longing, they attempt to reconcile their two identities through art.
This exhibition features four Japanese-born artists who have immigrated to the United States and now call Arizona home. Through diverse materials from resin to clay to paint, they explore the complexities of cultural identity, nostalgia, and belonging. Their works are contemporary, yet deeply rooted in Japanese aesthetics, drawing inspiration from folklore, religious rituals, Zen philosophy, and historical art forms like Fusuma-e and Mingei craft.
Each piece offers a personal narrative: a reflection on the tension between longing for home and finding one’s place in a new land. Together, they present a multifaceted view of the Japanese immigrant experience—one that is as much about resilience and transformation as it is about memory and tradition.
Featuring artwork by: Kazuma Sambe, Kaori Takamura, Hirotsune Tashima, and Yuko Yabuki
Opening Reception
Saturday, February 21, 2026 5-7pm
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Is There Wi-Fi in Heaven? Grieving in the Digital Age
2026-03-28 - 2026-06-06 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Have you ever sent a text message you knew would always go unanswered? Or visited a dead loved one’s social media profile just to reflect on them? You’re not alone. Is there Wi-Fi in Heaven: Grieving in the Digital Age explores how technology reshapes the ways we mourn and maintain bonds with the dead. As social media and digital tools transform our interactions with the living, they also create new tools for how we grieve. Through works that consider online rituals, digital memorials, and the management of “digital remains,” this exhibition reflects on emerging practices of public mourning, continuing bonds, and even pseudo-spiritual attempts to connect across the divide. In the networked age, grief too, is increasingly mediated through screens, raising questions about permanence, ritual, and what it means to visit the dead when physical presence is no longer required.
Opening Reception
Friday, March 27, 6-8 pm

CUSD Annual Showcase
2026-04-22 - 2026-05-12 | Chandler Center for the Arts, 250 N. Arizona Ave., Chandler, AZ, 85225
Chandler Unified School District’s most gifted artists put their work on display for the community to experience in this annual showcase. The burgeoning artists from Basha, Hamilton, Perry, Arizona College Prep (ACP), Casteel, and Chandler high schools display their talents and viewpoints through ceramics, paintings, drawings, sculptures, jewelry, and photographs. With nearly 100 works on display, there is always something for everyone in this exhibition.
Opening Reception
Thursday, April 30
