Linn-Benton Community College

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...

Four Corvallis art gallery curators are stepping out from behind the scenes to display their own artwork in an exhibit in the North Santiam Hall Galleries on the Linn-Benton Community College Albany campus, 6500 Pacific Blvd SW, from March 7 to April 15. “Curators’ Holiday” features the work of Hester Coucke, curator of the Corvallis Arts Center; Shelley Curtis, director of the Art About Agriculture collection at Oregon State University; Tina Green-Price, curator of the Giustina Gallery at OSU’s LaSells Stewart Center; and Douglas Russell, director of OSU’s Fairbanks Gallery. A reception and gallery talk featuring all four artist/curators will be held on Thursday, April 7 from 2 to 3 p.m. Hester Coucke, who was born and educated in the arts in The Netherlands, is showing a collection of recent work, including collage, oil pastel, pen-and-ink drawings, and “drawings in twigs.” She calls her position at the Corvallis Arts Center, which she has held since 1995, her “dream job” because it...

Portraits of farmers, families and colorful individuals by Eugene photographer Susie Morrill are on exhibit at LBCC’s South Santiam Gallery Jan. 3 through Jan. 28. A public reception and gallery talk by the artist will be held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday Jan. 13 at the gallery, located on the Albany campus, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW. “Portraits in Place” features 20 of Morrill’s black-and-white prints of “ordinary Oregonians” who work and live in the southern Willamette Valley. Morrill’s approach to portraiture is direct and engaging, showing us fathers and sons, homeless families, ranchers with their dogs, and other characters she has met in her nearly three decades in photography. Morrill’s style is often described as “environmental portraiture,” in which the settings where she places her sitters offer the viewer more information about the subject than they would glean from a traditional studio portrait. Morrill is a long-time member of the PhotoZone Gallery in Eugene and chairpe...

Left: Yuji Hiratsuka, professor of art “Jungle Gems 2010”, Intaglio Right: Julie Green, associate professor of art “Hamawari”, Oil on Linen An exhibit of work by more than a dozen Oregon State University art faculty will be on view at Linn-Benton Community College’s North Santiam Hall Gallery from Oct. 18 to Dec. 1. An artist reception will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 20 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the second-floor atrium of the NSH Gallery. This is the inaugural exhibit in what will become an annual series of shows at LBCC’s NSH Gallery featuring the art faculty from Oregon’s six state universities. The OSU show demonstrates a dynamic diversity of styles and approaches to the making of art. Participating in the show are: •Yuji Hiratsuka, one of the Northwest’s most famous printmakers, whose colorist talent in the rare reduction intaglio process will be on display with three pieces; •Kay Campbell presents two series of mixed-media screen prints, Strings Attached and Closure. •Gr...

The annual Art Faculty Exhibit is now on view in the South Santiam Hall and Calapooia Center galleries at Linn-Benton Community College through Oct. 27. The exhibit includes new paintings by Gary Westford, several colorful oils by Dori Litzer and Analee Fuentes, and ceramic art by Jay Widmer. Also on exhibit is work by part-time art instructors Cynthia Herron featuring acrylic paintings; Ken Herin featuring mixed-media sculpture; masks by new theater instructor Dan Sone; and photographs by gallery coordinator Rich Bergeman. A special event in conjunction with the show this year is a Silent Art Auction. Up for auction in the South Santiam Hall Gallery conference room are more than a dozen pieces donated by Westford, Fuentes, Litzer, Widmer and Bergeman. Bids are accepted through the month of October. Auction proceeds help support the LBCC art galleries. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information, contact the SSH Gallery at 541-917-4247. Photo capti...