Linn-Benton Community College

Linn-Benton Community College ceramics instructor Renee McKitterick will hold a slide lecture and demonstration on working in porcelain Feb. 19 and 20. McKitterick spent last summer as an artist in residence at The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China, where she completed a body of work in porcelain while exploring the technical methodologies. She will present a free slide lecture Friday, Feb. 19 from 7 to 8 p.m. at the LBCC Benton Center , 757 Polk Ave., room BC-244, Corvallis. McKitterick will also give a demonstration on porcelain techniques Saturday, Feb. 20 at the Benton Center ceramics studio. Cost is $45. The slide lecture is open to the public. For more information, or to register for the ceramic demonstration, contact the LBCC Benton Center at 541-757-8944.

An exhibit of work by three art instructors from Linn-Benton Community College’s Benton Center will be shown in LBCC’s North Santiam Gallery, 6500 Pacific Blvd SW, Albany through December 11.  A reception and gallery talk will be held Thursday, October 29, from 3 to 4 p.m. in the NSH second floor atrium. The exhibit represents a wide range of artistic approaches brought to the Benton Center art department by the three artists; from the colorful and diverse paintings by Mark Allison, to the expressive, monumental mixed media drawings of Andrew Myers, to the delicate, sophisticated, and whimsical ceramics of Renee McKitterick. McKitterick is the new ceramics instructor at the Benton Center, coming to Corvallis most recently from New Mexico, where she completed her MFA in 2012. This summer she did a residency in Jingdezhen, China studying ceramic and glazing techniques. Most of McKitterick’s work in this exhibit, which includes pottery, sculpture, and installation, was created durin...