Sperryville ARTist Cooperative
Deeply rooted in its agrestic community, Sperryville ARTist Cooperative & SPAC Gallery features new, emerging, and independent artists, musicians, and craftsmen who celebrate the natural beauty and farmland heritage of Virginia’s Piedmont Region.
Sperryville, Virginia was founded in 1820 and remains a predominant farming village nestled at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The gateway to the Shenandoah National Park and Old Rag Mountain, Sperryville is little more than an hour’s reach from Washington D.C., Northern VA, Fredericksburg, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, and Winchester.
Enjoy a scenic drive with beautiful backdrops and rolling hills in all directions.
Celebrate the Art of Existence
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For the Kids & the Community
Sperryville ARTist Cooperative is umbrellaed under the Living Sky Foundation, A 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization in support of the living arts.
Living Sky serves the earth in an endless mission to reduce a toxic inhabitance, and fuels communities with knowledge and the tools to create a joyous, simpler existence.
A focus on self-expression, regenerative arts, mindfulness, and positive values are emphasized through creative and cultural enrichment programs, curriculum development, and environmental stewardship.
Committed to improving the quality of rural existence through social change, peaceful resolution, and public outreach, the timeline of its success is emphasized through collaboration and partnerships with other unique community organizations, individuals, and like-minded businesses.
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Dream-Live-Create-Share
Art is a tool used for communication, education, social transformation, spiritual, cultural, and personal exchange. As humans, we embrace artistic expression and visual storytelling as a process of non-confrontational sharing of internal and external experiences as we form, and define and preserve our culture.
SPAC offers local artists and art students opportunities to join our creative community as a resident or featured artists, member or volunteer. Artist services are made available to assist aspiring talent with the process of establishing their creative expression so they may freely support themselves.
“Becoming an Artist is not a status, an honor, a right, or a privilege. It is a voice, the soul’s calling, a safe place, and a source of liberation available to everyone, on every path, in every walk of life.
- Cherl Crews, Artist’
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Frederick Harry Kahler
Frederick Harry Kahler was born in Washington, D.C. on July 26, 1942. Fred was a true Visionary Artist and one of the Founding Member of the Sperryville ARTist Cooperative.
Fred employed the timeless methodology of traditional pen and ink, without the use of magnification, to illustrate the many layers of his extremely intricate drawings. What evolved was ART infused with philosophy, mythology and mystical existence.
Recognized as a Self~Taught Artist, Kahler's drawings are in significant private collections around the globe, as well as in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and Philadelphia Museum of Art.
“I am just the Holder of the Pen” -Fred Kahler
Visionary/Artist 1942-2018