Linn-Benton Community College

Framed print by Chelsea Granger A variety of artwork will up for bid during a silent auction benefiting the Linn-Benton Community College art galleries through December 1. Donated art can be previewed and bid on through the college website and in the LBCC Calapooia Center Gallery through November 20 at www.linnbenton.edu/calapooia-gallery . Final bids are due by 12:45 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1, with winners announced at a reception held from Noon to 1 p.m. that day in the Calapooia Center Gallery. Proceeds from the auction will benefit the LBCC art galleries, and support student and community shows and promote artistic development. Bidders should keep checking their bids. New works may be added. Auction winners will be contacted to arrange for delivery of purchased works. Thank you to the many artists making the donations: Rich Bergeman, Laurie Childers, Maddison Colvin, Ted Ernst, Chelsea Granger, Laura Hoffman, Alex Krajkowski, Anne Magratten, Renee McKitterick, Sin Melendez and Rinee ...

The exhibit “Ourselves, Our Environment and Modernist Abstraction” will be on display through October 30 in the South Santiam Hall and Calapooia Center Galleries at Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany. The body of work by LBCC art faculty member and department chair Dori Bartholomew Litzer includes colorful oil paintings that reflect “both long held interest in modernist abstraction and a compulsion to visually express sensory aspects of our environment,” said Litzer. A reception will be held Thursday, Oct. 15 from 12 to 1:30 p.m., and from 5 to 7 p.m., in the South Santiam Hall Gallery. Litzer’s work can be viewed online at www.dorilitzerart.com . Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

"Ethan's Garden" by Rosalie Lingo. LBCC art major Rosalie Lingo, a Corvallis resident, is exhibiting a selection of her paintings in the Calapooia Center Gallery at Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 SW Pacific Blvd., Albany through April 18. On view are eight figurative pieces from Lingo's illustrated stories, which she has titled “Consumption.”  “I have tried to combine archetypes with pieces of my own experiences to create snapshots of human lives,” she explains.  “This group of paintings, drawings and mixed-media pieces seeks to create an album that draws from different life circumstances.” Originally from Salem, Lingo plans to transfer from LBCC to Oregon State University to study graphic design or applied visual arts. Calapooia Center Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.

"Girl on Steps" charcoal drawing by Audra Mote. Graphic arts major Audra Mote is the featured student artist in the Calapooia Center Gallery at Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW., this month. Mote is showing a selection of her paintings, drawings and calligraphy through Jan. 31. A resident of Corvallis who grew up in Quebec and Vermont, Mote is in her second year of the LBCC graphic arts program. She has an undergraduate degree in languages and took post-graduate studies in calligraphy, drawing and painting before enrolling at LBCC in 2012. Her collection of calligraphy and art on display in the Calapooia Center Gallery contains pieces that take their inspiration from things that have special meaning for her, including family ties, poignant words and beautiful views. The charcoal drawing titled "Girl on Steps" is especially meaningful, she said, because it is a study from a photograph of a girl who was the victim of the child sex trade in Camb...

South Santiam Hall Gallery More than 25 art faculty from Clatsop, Mt. Hood and Linn-Benton community colleges are exhibiting their work at the LBCC Albany campus, 6500 Pacific Blvd SW, through December 6. “Community Ground v.2” fills three galleries on campus, with over 100 works of art in a wide array of media, including painting, ceramics, metal-smithing, photography, drawing, mixed media and installation art.  The traveling exhibit is intended to celebrate the work of teaching artists and the role their art plays as a source of inspiration to their students and the community.  The exhibit at LBCC is the second of three shows that grew out of collaboration between the three colleges. The first show was held at Clatsop last January, and the third will be held at Mt. Hood in 2014. According to Richard Rowland, ceramics instructor at Clatsop and the inspiration behind the collaboration, “Community Ground” reflects how community college art faculty bridge the gap between tea...

Paintings by Jessie Barnhouse of Alsea are on display through May 3 in the Calapooia Center Gallery at Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany, Ore. A former fine art major at LBCC, Barnhouse is exhibiting five new pieces done in oil, watercolor, acrylic, encaustic and spray paint in various combinations. Barnhouse is a member of the Temporary Artists Guild and is also known for her work in clay and jewelry, which she sells at the Eugene Saturday Market. She attended Southern Oregon University after graduating from Alsea High School in 1997, left school to raise a family, and began taking classes at LBCC in 2008. “After several years spent working and raising my boys, I found myself at LBCC and back on the path of going to school for art,” she said. “I love to learn and experiment with new ways of expression. That’s probably why I found putting together a collection for this show so difficult; too many directions and no ‘voice,’ at least not yet.” The Calapooia...

“Greece: A Study in Contrasting Views,” an exhibit of photographs by Frossene King of Corvallis, is on exhibit through May 11 in the Calapooia Center Gallery at Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 SW Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany. King’s photographs, which show the economic turmoil in contemporary Greece set against its ancient culture, were made last summer while she was in a study abroad program in Athens. “Each day our drawing class would walk to ancient archeological sites and picturesque landscapes to sketch the beauty of Greece in the warm summer sun,” King said. “On the way home, however, I saw a much different view–one under great pressure and strife.” The exhibit includes about 20 photographs taken with an iPhone and small point-and-shoot camera that document the demonstrations and social upheaval currently underway in a country suffering from high unemployment, government budget cuts and a depressed economy. King is a graduate of LBCC and OSU with two bachelor’s degrees and multi...

The art faculty at Linn-Benton Community College are opening the 2011-12 fall term with their annual exhibit in the South Santiam Hall and Calapooia Center galleries on LBCC, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany. Featured in the show are several colorful oil paintings by Department Chair Dori Bartholomew Litzer; recent watercolor paintings, photographs and mixed-media by Analee Fuentes; large-scale oil paintings by Gary Westford; and wood-fired ceramics by Jay Widmer from his 2011 Alsea Anagama firing. Also on view are pastel concept drawings of “A Christmas Story” by performing arts instructor Dan Stone, and platinum photographic prints by gallery coordinator Rich Bergeman. This is the 17th year for the exhibit, which runs through Oct. 28. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Caption info: “Onramp,” oil on canvas, by instructor Gary Westford