Visual Arts League (VAL) gathers global creative energies and gives them focus. Through the VALWEB site we are setting up a framework to come together to create, experiment, and nurture ideas.

Who started ValWeb?  East Brunswick artist, Judith Wray and Laszlo Krisch incorporated Visual Arts League (VAL) in 1990 as a non-profit, tax exempt charitable arts organization..

Judith's Art background: Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, Pa; Washington State University; Idaho State University; Rutgers University; Mason Gross School of the Visual Arts; Arts Students League, New York; Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture, Mercerville, NJ

Why was ValWeb started? 

"Thinking globally, working locally!" Local endeavors can get bogged down. Reaching out Internationally removes all the stops. People all around the world are eager to come together to create. VAL initiates projects which invite and explore  possibilities with spontaneity and fun and expertise to the greatest extent possible. VAL projects involve people of all ages, from all backgrounds and go on forever, changing shape and direction, experimenting.

The Internet opens up new possibilities to explore together for the pure exercise of doing so.

What are your biggest successes from ValWeb?

A sense of trust across time and space! We have sponsored artists from Canada, France, New Zealand, a show with 100 teens; the 3 Americas show, (as big and long as it sounds), a digital show from 12 States, 5 countries and 40 artists. We are documenting and sewing it all together on the Internet.

                   Join Today!

The Visual Arts League began 10 years ago. There have been many changes along the way problem solving. We have jumped from a newsletter in the early formative days, to an Internet web site for faster, more economical, more colorful and up-to-the-minute communication. The web site has become a resource and a tool for artists to use. To continue our efforts, we appreciate your help in creating support for artists and our communities.

Today, artists are challenged to join with the world community in creating a hot house environment which nurtures creativity. How do we bring art off the walls and pedestals and put it to work?

VAL is addressing that issue. VAL is growing, and with its growth we are an engine for change. There are many ways that we can work together. Your membership means a lot to us. Cruise around our web site, Click the head of Van Gogh for the artists listing...and to see some of the ways we work creatively in the community with teens, children and artists..click the red car, the magnet, the EYE, American Harvest, and the sneaker!! Then you can go down near the bottom and visit past shows at Lincoln Center, NY and the University of Medicine and Dentistry, Piscataway, NJ.

VAL is a tax exempt, non-profit, charitable arts organization. Our funding comes from many directions. If you would like to help us from your direction, make checks out to Visual Arts League and send to 1007 Old Bridge Tpk. East Brunswick, NJ 08816.