NSH Gallery Features Four Northwest Artists
John Van Dreal oil painting - "Again #2" Four Willamette Valley artists will be exhibiting a wide variety of media in the third annual LBCC Invitational from Jan. 7 to March 1 in the North Santiam Hall Galleries at Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany. Eugene sketchbook artist Ken O’Connell and Salem painter John Van Dreal will share the gallery walls with multi-media artist Shelley Jordon and photographer Julia Bradshaw, who are both on the faculty at Oregon State University in Corvallis. A public reception and gallery talk with the artists will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 30, from noon to 1 p.m. in the NSH second floor atrium. At 2 p.m. O’Connell will lead a workshop on the use of sketchbooks in the art and design process in the Fireside Room on campus. “These four artists are great examples of the vitality of the local art scene,” said Dori Litzer, chair of LBCC’s Visual Arts Department. “That’s why we organize the invitational show every ...