Welcome to the Gilbert Visual Art League
The Gilbert Visual Art League strives to increase artistic awareness and appreciation in the East Valley community. We offer artists fellowship and support through monthly meetings, which include professional artist demonstrations. Throughout the year a variety of sales venues are available exclusively to our GVAL Membership. Our members also have the opportunity to participate with volunteering in community events.
The 2025 GVAL Member’s Holiday Social was a tremendous success!
Event coordinators Suzanne Rios and Olivia Shelton did an outstanding job decorating and organizing this year’s celebration. Their hard work created a warm, festive atmosphere for everyone to enjoy.
We were especially delighted to welcome a live performance by Haven Shelton, whose talent added a beautiful musical highlight to the evening. She was accompanied on guitar by her father, Jerome Shelton, making the performance even more memorable.
Members joined in the fun by participating in our Holiday Sweater Contest, and this year’s winner was none other than Olivia Shelton! All contestants showed great creativity and holiday spirit.
Get to know our GVAL Members! Many of our members are professional artists.
Original artwork makes a wonderful gift which will be treasured for years to come!
Click HERE for the Member Directory
Members, let’s get to know each other and share your art with the world! Just upload a photo of yourself and a photo of your art. You can share your contact information if you wish (optional).
Use the easy to fill out form HERE
Reach over 500 Area Artists!
Advertise in the Art Vine, the GVAL Monthly Newsletter.
GVAL Newsletter
GVAL Members, do you have an art related news item you’d like to share? Contact Jane Bradley, GVAL Newsletter Coordinator at
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Browse earlier copies of our Newsletter by clicking here.
Community Outreach
Gilbert Visual Art League strives to provide education at our monthly meetings through professional artist presentations and by supporting various outreach programs in our community.
Monthly Membership Meetings
Join us! We meet the first Thursday from September through June.
GVAL hosts monthly membership meetings September through June on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm in the Neely room at HD South, Home of the Gilbert Historical Museum. Our meetings generally include a critique of members works in progress, GVAL announcements, a guest presenter, and voting for Artist of the Month. See the upcoming dates for meetings.
Meeting Location: 10 S. Gilbert Road, 85296 (located just south of downtown Gilbert). We meet in the Neely Room. Please use the parking lot off W. Elliot and enter through the open gate as shown on the map. Click here to see a map
November Artist of the Month
Congratulations to Linda McGuinness, GVAL November Artist of the Month!
“For the Birds” is a 16×20 framed watercolor.
November Presenter Jean Hildebrant
What a wonderful presentation by Jean Hildebrant at the GVAL November member meeting. Thank you so much Jean for sharing some of your art wisdom and exceptional art pieces! Members learned a great deal about creating animal and people portraits. Jean’s information on pastel products was helpful as well. Artists who want to learn more about painting animals, enroll in Jean’s class scheduled to start in February at Scottsdale Art School. To see more of Jean’s work, visit her website here.