Linn-Benton Community College

An exhibit of prints from Oregon State University’s Cascade Print Exchange IX, will be shown through April 24 in the South Santiam Hall Gallery of Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 Pacific Blvd SW, Albany. The 105 prints on display are from this year’s Cascade Print Exchange. Because of their multiplicity, prints are often traded from artist to artist. Print exchanges foster a communication of ideas, explore others’ techniques as well as give a chance to form a connection between artists who have never met one another before. Each artist in the CPE IX submitted his or her image in an edition of 15 identical 5 x 7 inch prints. The prints were created with relief, intaglio, lithography, serigraph or any combination of those techniques. In exchange, each participating artist will receive a portfolio of 13 randomly selected prints for their collection and a catalogue with images of all the submitted prints. After the LBCC show, the exhibit will travel to River Gallery in Independence f...

"Cold and Lonely in the Street" by Caitlin Little. Students and staff of Linn-Benton Community are celebrating National Poetry Month in April with Ekphrasis II, an exhibit of poetry and paintings at the South Santiam Hall Gallery at LBCC, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany. The exhibit, with features 27 paintings in a variety of media along with the poems that inspired them, will be on view through May 2. A reception and book release will be held in the gallery Tuesday, April 15, from 3 to 4 p.m., when the poets will read from their work and be available to sign copies the exhibit catalog. In her artist's statement for the exhibit, Kierra Lynn, LBCC's student poet laureate, writes: “The art of ekphrasis is the process of using grand description and rhetoric to represent a work of art. In the case of this project, the poems were created first, leaving the artist to render a visual interpretation from the words upon the page. A picture may be work a thousand words--but h...

Dave McIntire photograph - Mt. Rainer "Renticular Cloud." An exhibit of photographs of Mount Rainier by Corvallis photographer Dave McIntire will be on display Jan. 9-31 in the South Santiam Hall Gallery at Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 Pacific Blvd SW, Albany. A reception for the artist will be held Thursday, Jan. 9, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The public is invited. The exhibit features more than 20 of McIntire's large color and black-and-white images, many of which are being shown publicly for the first time. Several reveal the massive, 14,411-foot volcanic peak surrounded by dramatic, swirling clouds and cloaked in snow and ice. Others explore the glaciers slowly snaking down the mountain's slopes, and the many waterfalls, wildflower meadows and tumbling steams in the surrounding wilderness. One particularly impressive image presents a 6-foot long panorama of the mountain flanked by several neighboring peaks. A retired botany professor at Oregon State University...

Kat Sloma, "Memory of Autumn" Phil Coleman, "Blossom Lane" The Willamette Valley PhotoArts Guild and the LBCC Poetry Community are celebrating National Poetry Month in April with an exhibit at the South Santiam Hall Gallery at Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany. “Ekphrasis: Photos Speak Out” features 20 pairs of photographs and poems on view from April 1 – May 3. A reception and book release will be held in the gallery on Wednesday, April 3, from noon to 1 p.m., when the poets will read from their work and be available to sign copies the exhibit catalog. In addition to the exhibit, a silent fund-raising art auction will be held during the exhibit to benefit The Valley Writers Series, a non-profit group that sponsors local workshops and readings by prominent authors. The auction items will be on display and open for bidding until April 19, with the final week of bidding continuing on-line at tinyurl.com/vwssaa  In her artist...

“Nine by Nine: Designing Words,” a collaborative exhibit by student designers and poets at Linn-Benton Community College, is on view in the college’s South SantiamHall Gallery May 21 through June 8. An opening reception will be held on Tuesday, May 22, at 3:30 p.m. in the SSH Gallery, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany. The exhibit showcases the illustrations of nine graphic design students who created their work in response to nine original poems written by student and faculty poets. The show pairs the illustrations with the poems that inspired each of them, and the poetry itself has been lettered for display by the design students.  “It is a pleasure and an honor to combine our word craft with the fine work of the graphic design students,” said Ruth Krueger, LBCC’s student poet laureate. “We hope the combined art stirs within the audience a desire to search for meaning, to find life.” Krueger, a resident of Lebanon, is one of the nine poets participating in the show. ...

“The Nature of Oregon,” a photography exhibit featuring 30 color and black-and-white images by members of the Willamette Valley PhotoArts Guild , will be on an exhibit April 2 to May 4 at the South Santiam Hall Gallery at Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 SW Pacific Blvd, Albany. “Our objective with this show was to capture the essence of Oregon, both as a place and a lifestyle,” said PAG Vice President Dan Wise of Corvallis, an LBCC journalism graduate. “We wanted to show off the natural and man-made features and activities that reveal the inherent character of this place we call home.” Exhibiting photographers are: From Corvallis—Owen Bentley, Rich Bergeman, Mike Bergen, Phil Coleman, Joe Crockett, Jack DeAngelis, Allan Doerksen, John Ginn, Craig Hanson, Marjorie Kinch, Bill Laing, Jack Larson, Dave McIntire, John Morris, Lew Nunneley, John Ritchie, Rosie Saraga, and Kat Sloma. From Albany—Ellen Hamill, Jim Magruder, Kurt Norlin, Bob Ross, Ricardo Small, David Smith, and Dan Wise...

LBCC SSH Gallery Show “Painting My Way Through Cancer” Opens Jan. 9 Salem Painter Explores Her Recovery from Cancer “Painting My Way Through Cancer,” an exhibit by Salem artist Susan Trueblood Stuart, will be on view Jan. 9 through Feb. 10 in the South Santiam Hall Gallery at Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 Pacific Blvd SW, Albany, Oregon. A public reception for the artist will be held Thursday, Jan. 19, from 2 to 3 p.m. in the gallery. The artist is exhibiting a collection of about 20 paintings made over the past four years that reflect the anguish, pain and perseverance she experienced during her battle against cancer. Trueblood Stuart was diagnosed with cancer of the jaw in 2007 and has undergone several surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation treatment since then. While the cancer is currently in remission, she continues to receive treatment to rebuild and strengthen her jaw, which was ravaged by the disease. “This series depicts that which I felt before and after surgery,” she ...

The Willamette Valley PhotoArts Guild and the LBCC Poetry Club are celebrating National Poetry Month in April with an exhibit at the South Santiam Hall Gallery at Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany. “Word & Pictures,” which features 17 pairs of photographs and poems, will be on view from April 4 to 29. A reception and poetry reading will be held in the gallery on Wednesday, April 13, from noon to 1 p.m. During the run of the show, a silent fund-raising auction of arts and crafts donated by LBCC faculty and staff will be held in the adjoining SSH Gallery B to benefit The Valley Writers Series, a non-profit group that sponsors local workshops and readings by prominent authors. Bidding will close on April 29 at 1 p.m. In her artist’s statement for the exhibit, Whitney Smith, LBCC’s student poet laureate, writes:“You cannot write from the heart unless you first see from the heart, and so several local artists and poets have collaborated efforts into a display...

The creative work of LBCC theater instructor Dan Stone and stage manager Leslie Hammond will be on view in the LBCC South Santiam Hall Gallery, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany, through March 4. Stone is presenting a selection of original hand-molded masks and hand-sewn costumes from past productions he has directed. The masks and costumes were made by Stone and his wife, Tina Marie, and are based on his long time interest and research into Commedia dell' Arte, an important theater form that began in the 14th century and that became very popular during the 17th and 18th centuries in Italy. Though it has a long tradition, it continues to be an influential art form in contemporary theater. Hammond is a master technical theater builder who has worked on numerous set constructions for productions across America. Her recent set design work includes work on "She Stoops to Conquer" (Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 2005); "The Scarlet Letter" (Indiana University, 2005); and ...