Linn-Benton Community College

Be-Longing, Linn-Benton Community College’s third Life in Art project, brings together five trios of Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center community members, LBCC poets, Photo Arts Guild members, and other local photographers.   Local writers and photographers interviewed literacy center community members, listened to their life stories, and photographed them. This collaboration between LBCC and the CMLC, on the theme of Be-Longing, has sparked two creative portraits—a poem and a photograph—of each participant.   The show will be on display at the Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center, 128 SW 9 th Street, during the Corvallis Arts Walk on May 17 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. and continuing through June 30. The exhibit is free and open to the public. CMLC is not currently wheel-chair accessible. Life in Art furthers LBCC’s mission to promote meaningful, diverse and resonant relationships within our community and shows how the arts, pa...

Life in Art, directed by LBCC’s Student Poet Laureate Dari Lawrie, brings together eight trios of local elders, writers, and photographers to create an exhibit on display at Linn-Benton Community College Benton Center through June 12. During April, writers and photographers spent three afternoons listening to the life stories of local elders and taking photographs. The collaborative work resulted in two creative portraits, one written and one visual, of each elder. The elders and artists will be honored at the Life in Art Reception and Presentation on Friday, May 29, at 2 p.m. at the LBCC Benton Center, 757 Polk Ave, Corvallis.  The event is free and open to the public. Life in Art furthers LBCC’s mission to promote meaningful, diverse, and resonant relationships within our community, showing how the arts, particularly poetry, have the power to penetrate to the heart of a matter to unwrap understanding and weave new connections. Participants come from both Linn and Benton counties ...