The Little Art Exhibit
Free Public Artist Reception: Friday, March 7 | 4pm - 6pm
If you are interested in purchasing art from any exhibits, please email Galleries@ChehalemCulturalCenter.org or call 503-487-6883
Featured Artwork: Prince Zephyr's Castle, Hazel Glass
The Little Art Exhibit invites you to embark on a fascinating journey into the world of the tiny, the delicate, and the intricately detailed. This small group show celebrates that size is no obstacle to creativity. From tiny paintings to intricate paper-cuttings and minuscule sculptures, this exhibition offers a diverse range of artworks that challenge the boundaries of scale, craftsmanship, and imagination. Every minuscule brushstroke, cut, or sculpted form tells a story of its own. In a world where bigger often takes center stage, The Little Art Exhibit encourages you to slow down, lean in, and celebrate the small things.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Jessie Garrett | jessiegarrettart.com | @jessiegarrettart
Jessie’s travels, music & family have shaped her artistic journey in every way imaginable. Along with a deep connection to nature & art that was born from a childhood spent in the Willamette Valley & on the Oregon Coast. She flows freely between graphic design, colored pencil illustrations, acrylics, watercolors & woodworking. All of these aspects have led to a signature style & come together harmoniously in the form of her vibrant wave shadow boxes.
Hazel Glass | artbyhazelglass.com | @hazelsebastianglass
Hazel Glass creates intricate windows into abstracted worlds. Her Paper Strata sculptures began as a studio experiment in 2015, and have since taken her around the world in over sixty exhibitions and publications. Though Hazel has called many places home over the years, she only ever really meant it about Portland, Oregon.
Heather Kent | heatherkent.etsy.com | @heatherkentart
Heather Kent studied Studio Art at California State University, Long Beach and began her profession as an entrepreneurial artist in 2009. She specializes in miniature watercolor paintings that reflect the beauty of nature and animals. Heather feels blessed to be living in charming Newberg, Oregon as a wife, mother, artist and art teacher.
Juli Lang | sweetlifeceramics.com | @sweetlifeceramics
Clay enchanted me from the start—its endless possibilities invite play, patience, and presence. I sculpt and spin with curiosity, experimenting wildly for the joy of it. If my work makes you smile, laugh, or wonder, I’ve done my job. Follow along as each of my whims takes shape in clay!
Courtney Maulding | courtneymceramics.com | @courtneymceramics
Courtney Maulding is a ceramic artist who grew up in Houston, Texas. She received a bachelors of fine arts at University of Houston-Clearlake in 2021. Courtney was an artist in residence at the Chehalem Cultural Center in 2024. She is currently focused on a cyanotype ceramic body of work and utilizes design and imagery on utilitarian vessels. She currently serves as a Ceramic Interim Manager at the CCC. She has exhibited her work at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, at the UHCL art gallery, and Chehalem Cultural Centers Parish Gallery.
Sarah Joy Silva | Represented by Art Elements Gallery | @artworksbysarahjoy
In awe of little insects and small flowers, my love of tiny things has only grown over the years. Making tiny art reminds me that even the smallest things in life can influence us in a positive way. I have learned that art can be one of the most incredible ways to bring goodness to those around us and it is an honour to participate in bringing light and hope to others through the avenue of art. To me, it seems that if we can attend to the tiniest of lovely things in our day, the door to all that is good around us opens all the wider.