PAST EXHIBITS
The Stone Path
Marie Watt, Door
The Stone Path was a traveling exhibition showcasing the work of Natalie Ball, Demian DineYazhi, Vanessa Enos, Ka’ila Farrell-Smith, Lillian Pitt, Wendy Red Star, Jeremy Red Star Wolf, and Marie Watt.
Through their common connections as former artists in residence at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts (CSIA) and Oregon-based artists with Native American tribal heritage, this exhibition presented select permanent collection fine art prints from the artists’ residencies alongside artworks representing their studio practice.
Curated by Art in Oregon Selena Jones, Owen Premore, and Tammy Jo Wilson.
October 4, 2023- November 2, 2023
Gretchen Schuette Gallery
Chemeketa Community College
The Stone Path
Wendy Red Star, enit
November 23, 2023- January 4, 2024
Archer Gallery
Clark College
The Stone Path
August 1 - September 28, 2023
Parrish Gallery
Chehalem Cultural Center
Natalie Ball, Mama Bear IV
Holiay Art Show
December 2022
Mary Elizabeth Gallery
Allison-McClay, The Dalles
Ghost Show
Natalie Wood, Ghost
Participating Artists: Alycia Helbling, Autumn Cornell, Don Hudgins, Elliott Wall, Erik Sandgren, James Dowlen, Jennifer Viviano, Kelly Shannon Chester, Kristin Neuschwander, Laura Weiler,Leslee Lukosh, Leslie Peterson Sapp, Nanette Wallace, Owen Premore, Tim Dallas
September 23 - November 1, 2022
Mary Elizabeth Gallery
Kelsey Birsa at Mary Elizabeth Gallery
Kelsey Birsa, Here
Using detailed rendering and abstract marks to explore everyday moments of her communities, Birsa combines traditional oil painting techniques with the contemporary use of mixed media to reflect on the human experience and the desire to feel connected. Through her paintings, Birsa explores experiences of the pandemic and the feelings of anxiety and depression that it has created in herself and many others. While we each experienced last year a little differently, in her paintings of these unique experiences, Birsa’s highlights that we are together in our loneliness.
July 26 – September 17, 2022
Mary Elizabeth Gallery
Haelyn Y at Mary Elizabeth Gallery
Haelyn Y, I and the Village
May 20 - July 9, 2022
Mary Elizabeth Gallery
BLACK MATTER
Stormie True
EXHIBITING ARTISTS: Zina Allen, Jamila Clarke, Jeremy Okai Davis, Sapata Fofana-Dura, Israel Hammond, Rinee Merritt, Keeva Moselle, Lorraine Richey, Daren Todd, Stormie True, MOsley WOtta
May 5 – June 25, 2022
A.N. Bush Gallery
Salem Art Center
BLACK MATTER: PHOTOGRAPHY
Lorraine Richey
BLACK MATTER: SCULPTURE
Maya Vivas
BLACK MATTER: PAINTING
MOsley WOtta working at Souvenir Gallery
Artist in Residence Exhibition
Fernando Pedroza, Eléctrico
New work by SCHH 2020/21 Arists in Residence: Paul Trapp, Katie Spain, Natalie Wood, Fernando Pedroza, Beckey Kaye, Johnny Beaver, Quire
November 12 - December 18, 2021
Stevens Crawford Heritage House
BLACK MATTER
Zina Allen
Featured Arists: Zina Allen, John Adair, Jamila Clarke, Janique Crenshaw, Jeremy Okai Davis, Santigie and Sapata Fofana Dura, Rinee Merritt, Keeva Moselle, Christine Miller, Maya Vivas, MOsley WOtta
June-July 2021
BLACK MATTER
Jeremy Okai Davis
Featured Artists: Jamila Clarke, Maya Vivas, Jeremy Okai Davis, Mosley Wotta, Christine Miller
May 6 – June 19, 2021
Dee Vadnais: Her family’s Story
in the Oregon Landscape
Dee Vadnais, Contemplating Elephant Rock
From the original Aurora Colony settlement to the Rhapsody Project, this exhibition celebrates a sampling of Oregon’s creative communities, rural history, and cultural heritage through the Vadnais family explorations of visual art, experimental architecture, intentional communities, and roots music.
This exhibit was organized through the nonprofit Art in Oregon’s Artistic Heritage Program, which celebrates without prejudice or generalizations the role of creativity in artists’ families towards inspiring people to appreciate traditions of expression in their own heritage.
Curated by Owen Premore
December 7, 2021 – January 28, 2022
Parrish Gallery
Chehalem Cultural Center
Tied to the Moon: Friderike Heuer
Friderike Heuer, Curiosity
This photomontage series describes some of the common experiences of women across centuries. Just like our physiologies are tied to the phases of the moon so are we tied through shared life events and states connected to our lives.
Fall 2020
Virtual Exhibit
You Are Not A Robot
Jen Brown, The Allegory of Post Truth
This exhibit examines humanity’s emotional logical, bringing together artwork and projects that reflect the familiar complexities of life; asking questions with no definitive answer. As we bravely navigate our daily lives, we are keenly aware of the risks we take. Still, we venture forth with optimism that we will make the best decisions we can based on information from our complex personal and social experiences. Our logical calculations include the incalculable, such as emotions, beliefs, ethics, traumas, joys, love, legacy, loyalty, and longing. All personal truths are valid, as chance has brought us together in this moment from our different paths.
Participating artists: Jen Brown, Elise Azam Mravunac, Alan Rose, Cayla Skillin-Brauchle, Quire, Ken Eklund, Austin Fields, Barbara Martin, Carissa Burkett, Karly Villaseñor, Don Hudgins, Tim Timmerman, Audra Harley, Brianna Lewis, Annie Bunch, Michelle L. Purvis, Paul Silas Trapp, Lawrence Short, Devin James & Milena Matic.
September 2020
Virutal Exhibit
The Character of Trees: Dotty Hawthorne
Dotty Hawthorne, Creek Side Drama
November 2, 2019 – February 1, 2020
Stevens-Crawford Heritage House Museum
An Artistic Heritage
Carrie Gilbert, I See A Pattern
This group exhibition explores the influence of artistic expression in family upbringing and legacies of creativity. Inspired by conversations and reoccurring themes discussed among artists at AiO’s PACT (Professional Artists Coming Together) events, An Artist Heritage showcases generations of creative expression across a wide array of mediums. The 13 professional artists represented in the exhibition were selected through invitation and an open call for art. Artist selections were made with diversity of relations and mediums in mind. In all, artworks from 33 creative individuals will be on display in the Dance Studio Gallery inside Lakewood Center for the Arts. AiO hopes this exhibition inspires conversations about the importance of having support and role models in family life, in particular as this support relates to creativity, arts, and culture
Participating artists: Ruth & Amelia Armitage, Oliver Buckingham, Ron & Annie Bunch, Douglas & Desmond Burns, Tamara & Mabel English, Gabe & Sophie Fernandez, Elizabeth Mills Fingers, Penelope Franklin, Carrie & Wesley Gilbert, Roberta Killian Hipp, Lee, Kassandra & Lucy Kelly, Kendra Larson, Micaiah & Phoenix Lebron, Gabriel, Saul & Elio Parque, Keely Rademacher, Veronica Reeves, Samantha Ross, Erik & Nelson Sandgren, Clairissa & Sorena Stephens, Amanda Triplett.
June 21 - 23, 2019
Lakewood Center for the Arts