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Art Harvest Studio Tour
September 3 - October 24 in the Parrish Gallery
Join us for the 30th anniversary of Art Harvest Studio Tour! The tour is an organization of visual artists who annually open their studios to the public for a two weekend tour around the valley. The first annual Art Harvest Studio Tour began in 1993. Since then, thousands of visitors have come to beautiful Yamhill County to meet some of the area’s most talented artists. This year the Chehalem Cultural Center is featuring a sampling of each artists’ work. It’s a great way to get an idea of who’s studio you’d like to visit!
Images of Oregon
A Duo Exhibit By Maida & John Cummings
July 2 - August 29 in the Central Gallery
This exhibition features the artwork of Maida and John Cummings, an artist couple dwelling locally. Much of Maida’s printmaking features creatures or the natural world, and her handling of imagery is playful and direct. John’s pastel work feels idyllic and dreamy, often featuring stunning summery blue skies and rolling hills. Selected works for this exhibit are in conversation around their shared love of the environment and Oregon’s natural beauty.
Why I Teach
An Exhibition Featuring Newberg’s Art Educators
June 11 - August 29 in the Parrish Gallery
Art educators serve many in our community, from PreK to higher education and beyond to hobbyists and specialists. Whether it's for personal enjoyment, enrichment, education, or developing a skill set, our art educators support our community and guide us to become more creative. With 20 participating local artists, don't miss, "Why I Teach: An Exhibition Featuring Newberg’s Art Educators," and dive deeper into "why" many of them continue to show up and serve.
Hand Cut Life
A Solo Exhibition: Cherie Savoie Tintary
April 30 - June 27, 2024 in the Central Gallery
In this exhibit, Cherie Savoie Tintary, a.k.a. Kitschy Collagist, will be displaying an assortment of of her collage work. Cherie’s new works are about nostalgia for the place she grew up, places she’s traveled, and the creative places collage has allowed her to venture to. All her materials are upcycled, using vintage magazines from 1890-1980.
Biophilia
A show presented by SAQA Oregon. Juried by Sue Benner.
March 5 - May 30, 2024 in the Parrish Gallery
Our world is filled with an endless variety of flora and fauna that create joy, comfort, and wonder in our lives. Artists were encouraged to draw from this broad theme to express their inspiration and perspective on our vital world, from tiny organisms to entire ecosystems. Explore the rich textures, patterns, and rhythms of our natural world in this exhibition, juried by Sue Benner, an artist and innovator in the field.
George Fox University Senior Exhibitions
A show presented by Maddie Koch, Sandra Montes, & Claire Russell
April 16 - April 26, 2024 in the Central & Community Gallery
Students Maddie Koch, Claire Russell, and Sandra Montes from George Fox University’s Art & Design Department have been selected to display their senior exhibitions at the Chehalem Cultural Center!
A Call To Conscience: Reflecting and Embracing the Work of Martin Luther King Jr.
Featuring work by Marvin Eans
January 9 - February 29, 2024 in the Parrish Gallery
This three part reflective exhibition will feature a timeline of Dr. King’s life and work, artwork inspired by his speeches, and a community interactive mural.
2023 Chehalem Ceramic Studio Juried Exhibition
December 12, 2023 - February 2, 2024 in the Central Gallery
This exhibition was open to Chehalem Cultural Center Studio users and students from the year 2023.
That’s Me, Blooms of Yamhill County
George Fox University Illustrations Class: Adriana Bahn, Ben Bensonm Charis Berglin, Claire Caldwell, Pari Collins, Tara Davenport, Kaden Gomes, KaiLee Jones, Rylee Kramer, Lily Tamminga
October 3 - November 30, 2023 in the Mezzanine Gallery
After researching the demographics of the community, the students began thinking about what to focus upon. “That’s Me, Blooms of Yamhill County” is the result. The class chose to create a work that focused upon the diversity of occupations and people that make up our community. Students purposely chose to work in distinct styles in order to emphasize the variety of folks that create our community.
Transformations
A solo show by Eduardo Cruz
October 3 - November 30, 2023 in the Tri Family Lobby Gallery
Self-taught mixed media artist and performer, Eduardo Cruz Torres, is displaying a wide range of work. Eduardo is the leader and founder of the Cultural Group Huehca Omeyocan Art, Music and Dance of the Cem-Anahuac (universe). The exhibition will feature a sampling of Eduardo's work, including etchings and paintings.
Yamhill County Artist Showcase
October 3 - December 22, 2023 in the Parrish Gallery
Featuring Local Yamhill County Artists
The Chehalem Cultural Center is excited to announce the second biennial Yamhill County Artist Showcase! This exhibition is a celebration of our local artists & makers of any skill level displaying a variety of mediums. This show is juried by Lawrence Gallery owner, Bradley Lawrence.
Watering My Stone Garden
July 5th - September 28th in the Central Gallery
“Watering My Stone Garden” was born as a response to my last exhibition titled “In The Mourning”; a graveyard made to my closeted self. I have mourned and now I feel something new growing. A joy has been budding, blossoming, flourishing, and overtaking the stones. In this stone garden, contrasted to the last, is one where hardships are celebrated and joy is sought out.
The Stone Path
Curated by Art in Oregon Selena Jones, Owen Premore, and Tammy Jo Wilson.
Featuring the work of: Jeremy Red Star Wolf, Ka'ila Farrell Smith, Vanessa Enos, Natalie Ball, Wendy Red Star, Marie Watt, Lillian Pitt, and Demian DineYazhi
August 1st - September 28th in the Parrish Gallery
Art in Oregon presents The Stone Path, a traveling exhibition showcasing the work of Natalie Ball, Demian DineYazhi, Vanessa Enos, Ka'ila Farrell-Smith, Lillian Pitt, Wendy Red Star, Jeremy Red Star Wolf, and Marie Watt. Through their common connections as former artists in residence at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts (CSIA) and Oregon-based artists with Native American tribal heritage, this exhibition presents select permanent collection fine art prints from the artists’ residencies alongside artworks representing their studio practice. Curated by Art in Oregon Selena Jones, Owen Premore, and Tammy Jo Wilson.
Legends of Lavender
June 27th - July 27th, 2023 in the Parrish Gallery
The Northwest Lavender Festival Paint-Out has been around since 2007, culminating in an annual exhibition feature at the Willamette Valley Lavender Festival. This year, as a special celebration of the Paint-Out’s “sweet sixteen," the Chehalem Cultural Center is putting on the Legends of Lavender exhibition. This show will highlight artists & others that have in one way or another made a splash in the Lavender Paint-Out, whether that’s through long time participation, recognition, or affiliation. Come celebrate community, art, and agriculture with us at this year’s show!
After The Rain
By Kanani Miyamoto
May 9 - June 20, 2023 in the Central Gallery
The change of the seasons highlight duality in nature and remind us that all components of the natural world are working in harmony. Inspired by both the Japanese philosophy that blossoms hold the whole universe and the yearning to feel the warmth of the summer sun again, Kanani Miyamoto will be creating a custom mural installation using printmaking, traditional Japanese tools, and wheat paste.
PASSAGES: Visual Stories of Liminal Places
by Alexis Day, Tyler Goodwin, and Paul Trapp
April 11th - June 22nd in the Parrish Gallery
Passages: Visual Stories of Liminal Places is a small group show featuring Alexis Day, Tyler Goodwin, and Paul Trapp. Through fiber art, mixed-media photography, painting, and printmaking, viewers will traverse into visual contradictions, distorted realities, and fractal spaces.
No Place Like Home
A group show by Bryant James, Jenni Lippold, Jeremy Spingath, and Nick Wonnell
January 3 - February 24, 2023 in the Central Gallery
Through the medium of photography, this collegiate group of photographers, who are also co-workers, explore the concept of Home. During the Covid-19 pandemic the artists, who worked together at a Portland animation studio, found themselves working remotely. They started to share our photos with each other through an online chat tool at work. This started a group that sought to encourage each other and share our lives. As time passed, some moved out of the PDX area while others stayed. The world has changed, but their friendship has grown deeper and their view of what "Home" is has been viscerally impacted.
FORECAST // RECAST
December 6, 2022-January 27, 2023 in the Parrish Gallery
Forecast//Recast brings together artists and artworks that explore ideas of predicting, reshaping, and re-predicting — works that offer a glimpse of possible futures, reexamine historical narratives, shed light on needed social and ecological interventions, and bend inquiry towards new aims to reframe the way we view the world.
Highlighting fiber and textile-based materials and techniques, cross-disciplinary practices, experimental processes, and material innovation, this exhibition prompts a reshaping of the future with works that predict our current trajectories, cast a new gaze on the past, and revise what is to come.
Color and Shade
By Hadley Hatcher
Nov 1 - Dec 30, 2022 in the Central Gallery and Community Gallery
Browns, Purples, Greys
by Nieko McDaniel
Nov 1 - Dec 30, 2022 in the Central Gallery and Community Gallery
A beautiful, ongoing project honoring the process of Growing in the Dark. The darkness we’re acknowledging is Grief. We’re tuning in to the earth and each other so that we may strengthen our ability to grow even during the darkest of times.
Art Harvest Studio Tour 2022
October 4th - December 2nd in the Parrish Gallery
Art Harvest Studio Tour is an organization of visual artists that open their studios to the public annually for county-wide tours. Starting the tradition in 1993, Art Harvest Studio Tour is now celebrating their 26th year! Since then, thousands of visitors have come to beautiful Yamhill County to meet some of the area’s most talented artists. They watch demonstrations, admire creative studios and purchase their work.
Spirit of Pastel 2022
August 2-September 30, 2022 in the Parrish and Central Galleries
The Pastel Artists of Oregon (PAO), in partnership with the Chehalem Cultural Center, present their 2nd biennial, Open International Juried Exhibition “Spirit of Pastel”. Juried by Oregon Artist, Amanda Houston, this exhibit received submissions from pastel artists all over the world and offers a unique opportunity for art enthusiasts to view and purchase pastel pieces in a variety of genres and styles.
The Art of Hampton Rodríguez
April 5-May 28, 2022 in the Central Gallery
Growing up in the Dominican Republic, Rodríguez was profoundly influenced by the intellectual pursuits of the contemporary abstract art movement in his country. After exhibiting his work in Spain and Belgium, he arrived in Oregon in March of 2002. Since then, he has become a different artist.
The focus of his work shifted to capture the idiosyncratic culture of Portland’s diverse neighborhoods; the cadence of people’s lives here, the scenes of cultural clashes, Urban vs. Rural. And the development of images that tap into shared concepts and feelings.