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.  

Before becoming a collage artist, Cherie was a photographer who shot 35mm film. For fun she would travel to England and upstate New York for workshops on historic processes, visiting the birth places of photography. Cherie studied at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, California from 2006-2011, while she worked my full time job as a hairstylist.

Cherie was drawn to collage artwork in 2020 when she learned she had lung cancer. She stopped doing hair after 26 years and I changed my art medium so I could work at home. 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

ARTIST STATEMENT: My name is Cherie Savoie Tintary, a.k.a. Kitschy Collagist; I have been cutting it up since 2020. Before becoming a collage artist, I was a photographer who shot 35mm film. For fun I would travel to England and upstate New York for workshops on historic processes, visiting the birth places of photography. I studied at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, California from 2006-2011, while I worked my full time job as a hairstylist.

In 2020, I learned I had lung cancer. I stopped doing hair after 26 years and I changed my art medium so I could work at home. 

I have found a connection with the collage community. I’m part of several collectives. The one I’m most active in is the PNW Collage Collective. We have meet ups and do group art shows. We currently have a group show up at Powells until June 2nd. We also have a group show up at Slip Gallery in Seattle and I participate in an Exquisite Corpse that will be up at Lewis and Clark Community Center.

I turned fifty this year, so my new works are about nostalgia for the place I grew up, places I have traveled, and creative places collage has allowed me to venture to.

All my materials are second hand using vintage magazines from 1890-1980. My art goals include making people smile and sparking memories.

I will be hosting free collage workshops in Forest Grove May 1st and June 5th as part of the Festival of the Arts the Public Arts Commission is putting together. SEE MORE WORK

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!

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Maddie Koch

Title of Show: Proof of Purchase

"As humans, we tend to have a complex relationship with consumption. We need it to survive, but in excess, it can be damaging. Consumerism plays a role in how we cope with our mental health, so how does that manifest in our daily lives?"

Claire Russell

Title of Show: Retrospective

"Nostalgia, complexity, and curiosity are present in Claire Russell’s Retrospective as she uses personal and vintage materials in an exploration of identity, passing time, and growing up. This interactive show plays with the relation of memory and self-perception."

Sandra Montes

Title of Show: "Belleza Dentro de la Tradición"(Beauty Within Tradition)

The exhibition centers on the beauty of Baile Folklorico through oil paint portraits. The portraits depict dresses found within traditional Mexican dances, while also being reflective of my own Mexican-American identity and experiences.

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.

ABOUT THE JUROR

While pursuing a degree in molecular biology and a master's in biomedical illustration, Sue Benner created her vision of the microscopic universe in painted and quilted textile constructions. Her early work propelled her to become a studio artist in 1980, working primarily in the medium that later became known as the Art Quilt.

An innovator in her field, Benner creates complex dyed and painted textiles combined with recycled fabrics to form collaged fields of pattern, color, and beauty. Her work is shown world-wide in galleries, US embassies and museums including the International Quilt Study Center and Museum, National Quilt Museum, and Neville Public Museum.

Her quilts have been juried into Quilt National eight times, recently winning the Most Innovative Use of the Medium award. She served as a juror in 2009.

A respected educator, she lectures and teaches workshops nationally and internationally in the areas of surface design, textile collage, fused quilt construction and artistic inspiration. She is well known for her communications skills and her ability to bring her knowledge of design and technique to the classroom experience.

Living in Dallas, Texas, with her husband, J. Craig Jett, Benner works in her studio custom-built in the backyard of their family home. They have two grown sons, Kellan and Calder Jett, who were the muses for many of her early series.

Although she has lived in Texas for over 40 years, part of her heart resides still in her home state of Wisconsin.

Return to Reason is an exhibition by Pam Quataert, featuring her floral and botanical inspired paintings.

“In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Emerson described it so well.  Nature refreshes, restores, inspires, reassures.  I retired early after 26 rewarding years working as a mental health therapist.  Why?  To live full-time on a 30-acre nature preserve and to make paintings.  This exhibit is about nature: the feel, sounds, vitality, sensuous forms.

Sometimes when painting a subject (a native flower or landscape), triptychs or diptychs evolved to capture stages, rhythms and connections. Each painting developed as multiple layers of lush colors were added and subtracted using various tools.  The challenge was to capture in two dimensions the energy and depth of a 3-dimensional experience.

The “push-pull” influence of Abstract Expressionism is evident.  My work is influenced by many artists:  Willem deKooning, Joan Mitchell, Gerhard Richter, Paul Cezanne, Georges Braque, Gerhard Richter, Wolf Kahn . . .

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Featuring artwork by Marvin Eans, 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.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

As an artist, several influences appear in Marvin's work. However, the three most impactful aspects include social, historical, and cultural diversity. His motivation is people and the understanding that he is an agent of change as a visual communicator (graphic designer). Marvin believes there is power in design that can help positively shape our society. Inspired by the historical, intellectual, social, artistic explosion of the Harlem Renaissance and understanding the power of unity in the diversity of today's society, Marvin fuses these qualities to produce impactful work and support a message of faith, hope, and love. Marvin's design process consists of a methodology through empathy that is forever shifting and changing to bring the best, relevant results. The challenge of each design placed before him informs the piece's style, tone, and message.

Marvin studied at Ball State University, where he received his B.F.A in graphic design and completed his M.F.A. in graphic design through the Savannah College of Art and Design. Marvin has two decades of experience as a designer working for publishing companies, ad agencies, and non-profit organizations. He has also worked as an adjunct online instructor in higher education for seven years. His recent research "Healing for Humanity" explores the impact and power of words in society through design utilizing typography, mixed media, and digital formats.

Marvin's work is showcased in national and international exhibitions such as The Center of Contemporary Art. His work has also been awarded through the Ad Federation, and Book Cover designs are featured as New York Times Best Sellers for world-renowned Christian authors. Marvin is a passionate creative, focused on impacting culture through design positively and compellingly. Marvin's ultimate goal as a designer is to shed the light of influence so that it is engaging, compelling, and advocates for diversity, equity and unity. He desires to impact culture through design and help people feel confident and hopeful.

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. 

The Illustration one class at George Fox University decided to take on the task of rendering the good people of Yamhill County for the Chehalem Cultural Center atrium.  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.  The camellia flower was used as the element of connection between the individuals. The students hope that somewhere up in the atrium you’ll see a reflection of yourself, and see how you are part of this community we call home.

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.

The show features artists: Adam Long, Airen Vandevoort, Anna Hoffee, Annelise Aleman, Annie Gee, Austin Coates, Barbara Paanakker, Britt Block, Candice Cameron, Cecelia Sheoships, Chandler Everett, Christa Bradenburg, Christiane Payton, Christine Swanson, Cindy Stinson-Chennell, David Huston, Denise Marshall, Donna Sires, Emily Salsbury, Janice Jones, Jason McMillen, James Dowlen, Jeanne Ann White, Jeffrey Cameron, John Cummings, Jon Conchuratt, Karin Carter, Kathleen Buck, Kerrie Savage, Kimberly Kahoot, Larry Wheeler, Leslie Anne Struxness, Maida Cummings, Mark Woolbright, Marvin Eans, Mary Weil, Micah Donor, Natasha Luepke, Noelle Evans, Pamela Quataert, Pilar Swanson, Rebecca Kiser, Ricardo Gomez, Rob Ramage, Sally Dallas, Sandy Shuler, Savannah Stanton, Shannon Ray, Su Limbert, Susan D. Gorrie, Tim Timmerman, Toni Tyree, Tracy J. Hayes, Tricia Heiser Wente, and Veronica Bartlett.

Yamhill Artist Showcase

Best in show: 

Karin Carter - And then Her Head Exploded

David Huston - Barnyard Drama

Sally Dallas - Peppermint Peony

Honorable Mentions: 

Toni Tyree, Lincoln City Storm

Veronica Bartlett, St. Frida

Larry Wheeler, She Kept Him

Christa Bradenburg, Granary District, With Pigeons

Rebecca Kiser, Golden Path

Britt Block, Painting with a Secret Name

Maida Cummings, Coast Pine
Su Limbert, Lead with Love

Janice Jones, Just Because

Adam Long, John Arnold

Yamhill Student Showcase

Awards of Excellence:

Adaleigh Long, The Blossoms of Promise

Nikolai Kultajev, Hole in the Wall

Kiera Regele, Fierce Darkness

Adaline Wolfe, Storytale Mountain

Lillian Johnson, Fairy House

A selection of pieces from the 2023 Showcase:

“Watering My Stone Garden” was born as a response to my last exhibition titled “In The Mourning”; a graveyard made for my closeted self. I have mourned and now feel something new growing. Following a journey of self discovery, love, and healing, this exhibition is about coming into the light and the rain. The medium of ceramics, especially wood fired, speaks in metaphors of formation, process, and the story of fire on the ceramic surface. In the soil, a deep joy has been budding, blossoming, flourishing, and overtaking the stones. This stone garden, contrasted to the last, is one where hardships are celebrated, vulnerabilities are recognized, and love is sowed and watered.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Benjamin Cahoon is a ceramic artist and arts administrator based in the Willamette Valley. With a bachelor's degree in Arts Administration and Studio Arts, Benjamin is the manager of the Chehalem Cultural Center Ceramic Studio and a social media consultant at Greenhouse Collaboratives. Benjamin has been professionally practicing art for over 10 years and has been teaching ceramics for 7. 

A heavy emphasis in Benjamin's practice is placed on large scale installations, conceptual sculpture, and illustration. Through the lens of growing up queer on the beautiful Oregon Coast, Benjamin’s work leans into the integration of emotionality and the natural world. 

This being his fourth solo exhibition, Benjamin has shown nationally in Oregon, Idaho, and Washington DC. You can find Benjamin’s work in private and public collections including large scale installations at George Fox, Downtown Newberg, Sandpoint Idaho, and the Florence Public Library. Stay up to date with Benjamin’s work and learn more about his process on all social media @benjamincahoon or get in contact with him at benjamincahoon.com.

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.

The Stone Path celebrates eight remarkable indigenous artists whose artistry expands our understanding of Oregon’s communities, cultures, and histories.  The exhibition title references the flat stones used in lithography, a fine art printmaking process ingeniously represented in Crow’s Shadow Permanent Art Collection. During their residencies artists work closely with CSIA’s master printmaker towards realizing limited-edition prints that strive to capture the artist’s unique vision through innovative augmentation and invention. CSIA residency prints are highly regarded and collected throughout the world.  The exhibition will showcase additional art pieces from participating artists in complement and juxtaposition to their fine art prints. 

Art in Oregon is a Black-led, statewide visual arts focused 501(c)(3) non-profit working to build bridges between artists and communities. The mission of Art in Oregon is to foster culturally rich regional communities through partnerships, advocacy, and investment in artists, businesses, educational spaces, and community spaces.  Our goal is to build and sustain art patronage through pride in Oregon artists and pride in art ownership.  We work to establish collaborative relationships with the common goal of increased visibility and access to art for all people.

Crow’s Shadow is a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization formed in 1992 by local artists James Lavadour (Walla Walla) and Phillip Cash Cash (Cayuse and Nez Perce). CSIA’s mission is to provide a creative conduit for educational, social, and economic opportunities for Native Americans through artistic development. Over the last 30 years, Crow’s Shadow has evolved into a world-class studio focused on contemporary fine art printmaking. 

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To Demian DinéYazhi, Art in Oregon, and each of the artists in The Stone Path,

Your work is beautiful, thought provoking, and bold.

The Chehalem Cultural Center’s community is fraught with charged emotion. Over the last two years the organization, staff, and board have become the target of troubling attacks with increasing frequency and growing aggression. In the last several weeks the circumstances surrounding our galleries have changed drastically in ways we failed to predict and prepare for. There is no apology that can excuse the removal of work from our gallery. We, however, offer our complete and unqualified apology. 

To Demian, we apologize for removing your work and for the harm it causes you.

To Tammy, Owen, and Selena, we apologize for altering your show and for the hurt it causes you.

To the artists in the show, we apologize for the pain the removal of Demian’s work causes you.

To your communities and to ours, we apologize we could not bring you together in understanding and for the sorrow it causes you.

The Chehalem Cultural Center’s central mission is to “connect community and culture” and in this moment we have failed that mission. We have great personal anguish over this failure. We carry this collapse forward with us and in it seek bravery and strength on the path of better understanding ourselves and healing our community. The course of our lives are irrevocably altered by the impact of The Stone Path.

Thank you.

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! 

Featured Artist List: Theresa Andreas-O'Leary, Don Bishop, Brenda Boylan, Gary Buhler, Kimberly M Chai, Donna Clark, Nathalie Equall, Peter Fox, Susan Elwart Hall, Tara Kemp, Susan Kuznitsky, Tracy Leagjeld, Patti McNutt, Michael Orwick, Margaret Plumb, Shannon Ray, Raphael Schnepf, Christine Swanson, James Syfert, Elo Wobig, Ramona Youngquist, and our featured Mothers of Lavender, Susan Day, Kristen Horn, Marilyn Kosel, and Kathy Johnson. 

Adult and Student Entries are closed. Check out the show starting Oct 3!

The Chehalem Cultural Center is excited to announce the second biennial Yamhill County Artist Showcase! This juried exhibition will select artworks to be exhibited for a three-month period as well as award prizes among the selected artists. The goal of this County-Wide showcase is to highlight, honor and create broader recognition of the incredible artistic talent of Yamhill County Visual Artists. See below for details to apply

ELIGIBILITY: This opportunity is open to all Yamhill County-based artists, 18 years or older. Students from 1st-12th grade are encouraged to apply for our Yamhill County Student Artist Showcase. All mediums and sizes will be considered. Artists at any point in their careers are encouraged to apply. 

If you need assistance submitting your materials digitally or need a special accommodation, please email galleries@chehalemculturalcenter.org or call 503-487-6883

Check out some pieces from the 2021 Showcase:

2021 Showcase Results:

Best in Show: Noelle Evans--Blue Fern, textile/quilt
1st Place: Jon Conchuratt--Dusk, porcelain
2nd Place: Steve Tyree--Jack, deep fabricated bronze
3rd Place: Kathy Cupp--Grandma’s Quilt, acrylic

Honorable Mentions:
Adrian Chitty--Negative Tides, digital photography
Airen Vandevoort--Oak Tree, digital photography
Claudia Herber--Green Deco, Gourd
Christiane Payton--View Towards Railroad, oil
Cecilia Sheoships--Sunset Symphony, oil
David Bruce Hegeman, Untitled (25 Nails), encaustic
Kerrie Savage--Oyster Shells Netarts Bay Oregon, watercolor and ink
Ricardo Gomez--El Mexicano, digital photography
Savannah Stanton--Oculus, fungal pigment & wood (quilted bigleaf maple)
Kimberly Chai--In the Spotlight, relief print

After the Rain: Kanani Miyamoto

May 9th - June 30th in the Central Gallery

Free Public Artist Reception: June 30th, 5 - 7pm

If you are interested in purchasing art from any exhibits, please email Galleries@ChehalemCulturalCenter.org or call 503-487-6883

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. 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Kanani Miyamoto is an artist and educator. Her art work has shown nationally. She is originally from Honolulu, Hawai`i and is currently living in Portland, Oregon. 

Kanani Miyamoto, is an individual of mixed heritage and identifies most with her Hawaiian and Japanese roots. Important to her work as an artist is sharing and celebrating her unique mixed background in our contemporary art world in hopes to represent her community and the beauty of intersectional identities.

In addition to being a practicing artist Miyamoto is an advocate for art education and a passionate community worker. She teaches at Pacific University, PNCA, Portland Community College, Young Audiences, The Right Brain Initiative and volunteers with p:ear and NW Noggin’s STEAM program. Miyamoto believes creative learning and sharing fosters productive, divergent thinkers and that our society is always in need of more creatives. 

Passages: Visual Stories of Liminal Places

April 11th - June 22nd in the Parrish Gallery

Free Public Artist Reception: April 21st, 5 - 7pm

If you are interested in purchasing art from any exhibits, please email Galleries@ChehalemCulturalCenter.org or call 503-487-6883

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.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Alexis Day

Alexis Day’s creative practice is a form of introspection, cultural interrogation, and material play. Utilizing a background in psychology and anthropology, she is interested in the human mind, and how cultural norms and expectations impact its functioning. Working with a variety of mediums including paint, photographs, fabric, thread, and drawing media, Day creates tactile and materially complex artworks that explore these themes. The resulting pieces are distorted reflections, and dream-like interpretations, of the contemporary world that the artist experiences.  

Day is originally from Bandon, Oregon, and is based in Newberg, Oregon. She is represented by Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, Oregon and has had two solo exhibitions with them, Faceted: Time and Expectations, in 2021and Cascades: Synapse and Satin, in 2020. She earned an MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2019, a Bachelor of Science in Art Practices from Portland State University in 2017, and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Oregon in 2010. She had a solo exhibition Schemata: Dissonance and Distortion at the Forsberg Art Gallery in Longview, Washington, in 2021, and Dismantled, at the Lodge Gallery in Portland, Oregon in 2019. Day was included in the Forefront Symposium at Cynthia Reeves Gallery, in North Adams Massachusetts in 2020, and has participated in several artist residencies including The Studios at Mass MoCA, in North Adams, Massachusetts, in 2020 and again in 2022, The Studios of Key West, in Key West, Florida, in 2021, and Caldera, in Sisters, Oregon, in 2018.

Tyler Goodwin

My art practice is distilled into the sharing of my own and others’ experiences in and connection to wilderness and our navigation through it. I explore the uses of line and organic imagery through unconventional cartography and explore its connection to wayfinding. My work balances between the recognizable and unfamiliar that pushes to the edge of representation. I investigate the visual rhythm of natural materials and utilize them either as tools or subjects. A mostly grayscale palette and the obscuring/combining imagery speaks to my own memory and the act of recollection. Through my work I convey the importance of appreciating wilderness and the feeling of wonder that is experienced through its exploration.

Paul Trapp

Paul Trapp is best known for his painting of interior and exterior places.  Mainly working in acrylic, he depicts distorted domestic spaces with doors and windows that open up to sea and landscapes.​

Being influenced by the Cubists and the San Francisco Bay Area painters, his work has moments of visual distortion that contradict our typical perception of reality. He does this to show that the mundane and ordinary are not what they appear to be, because our experience of them can be unique, magical, and filled with wonder.  

Paul earned his MFA in painting from Illinois State University in 2011. He currently resides in Tacoma, Washington with his wife, son, and animals.

GFU Senior Thesis Exhibition: Carla Cieza, Emily Cody, George Inglesby

April 11th - 27th in the Tri Family Grand Lobby Gallery

Free Public Artist Reception: April 21st, 5 - 7pm

If you are interested in purchasing art from any exhibits, please email Galleries@ChehalemCulturalCenter.org or call 503-487-6883

Carla Cieza, Emily Cody, and George Inglesby, students at George Fox University, will have their senior thesis exhibitions on display, featuring a range of mixed media, drawings, mural installation, and interactive sculptures.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Carla Cieza: Through a mix of satire and criticism, Carla Cieza examines the exoticism and the glorification of brands in Commercial America within the context of a market space and from the perspective of an immigrant.

Emily Cody: The show questions the overabundance of shallow, pop content using ephemeral, everyday materials that are similarly mass produced. By focusing on the disposable in contrast with an intimate record of life in a female body, the work finds curiosity between personal identity and cliches.

George Inglesby: This installation consists of a large hexagonal sculpture that uses animals, symbolism, color, and shapes, unfolding a visual story as you move around it. This is a deep dive into subjectivity and identity; a visual representation of emotions and perspectives which calls the viewer to action in their own lives.

CENTRAL GALLERY

Explorations in Texture and Form

A Solo Exhibition by Sam Ashton

March 7th - April 27th in the Central Gallery

If you are interested in purchasing art from any exhibits, please email Galleries@ChehalemCulturalCenter.org or call 503-487-6883

Using materials such as pigment, acrylic and graphite, sandpaper, frayed brushes and various found objects, Sam Ashton guides his viewers through an experimental journey showcased within collage and paint. 

Artist Statement: I am a visual artist born and raised in London, England. My work is painting and collage, with experimental processes of creating texture with mixed media. With the exception of some digital editing at the end stage, my work is produced by hand. I make my textures in a variety of ways with conventional materials such as pigment, acrylic and graphite, and also unconventional and repurposed tools such as sandpaper, frayed brushes and various found objects. The process of making my textures is continually experimental and unpredictable, but always hand-made. My work takes influence from a wide range of areas, from Expressionist painting, to outsider art, to graphic design, but much of my inspiration comes from outside of the visual art and design spheres.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

PARRISH GALLERY

Figures and Faces by Don Hoskisson and Mya Cluff

January 31st - March 30th in the Parrish Gallery

Free Public Artist Reception: February 3rd, 5 - 7pm

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While “Figures and Faces” is the first duo show between artists Don Hoskisson and Mya Cluff, in a way, this body of work is the culmination of twenty-eight years of collaboration and mentorship. While Don has been working and teaching as an artist for over fifty years, and Mya is in the first decade of her career, primarily as a ceramic sculptor - as father and daughter their creative approaches are inextricably linked. In recent years, both artists have gravitated increasingly toward the human figure as a site of formal and conceptual exploration. This shared interest serves as the point of intersection and inspiration for this show. 

Though best known for his highly patterned pottery, throughout his career Don has returned repeatedly to studies of the face with a particular interest in varied physiognomies and fantastical features. Many of the works in “Figures and Faces” reflect a new turn in his studio practice, toward an experimental marriage between his love of pattern and fantastical facial types. Highly imaginative, his portraits are imaginative caricatures rather than representational portraits, that together offer a lexicon of whimsical characters. The play with noses, eyes, lips and brows is as much a meditation on the surface as the detailed decorative patterning that accompanies them.

Mya has spent the last several years building a practice that is primarily focused on the exploration of motherhood as form and subject. Although highly naturalistic in style, at her hand the maternal body becomes a symbolist gesture that alludes to the intimacy and interiority of motherhood in its many manifestations. Mya’s sculptural practice explores the extent to which both internal and external signifiers of maternity in the body are charged with symbolic, psychological and social significance, calling up themes of love, loneliness, intimacy and alienation, responsibility and respite. “Figures and Faces” also marks the first series of collaborative works produced by father and daughter, with Mya producing the figural forms and Don providing the surface design for a small sculpture series, as well as a series of collaborative 2D works. 

Although different in style and technique, Don and Mya both continue to be inspired by interplay/ exchange between human figures and the materiality of sculpted clay. “Figures and Faces” serves as a dialogue between father and daughter around the human form as an indexical source for imaginative play, personal reflection and social connection. They are happy to have had this opportunity to explore these ideas together, and to share this conversation between father and daughter with the patrons of the Chehalem Cultural Center.

Author: Brittney Bailey

Below is a sampling of works from this shop. Please stop by the Center to see the entire show! You can also support artists and the Center by purchasing work! Please call or stop by for more information.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

inspiration from written accounts on Motherhood, feminist literature, and folklore. Mya has been included in many group exhibitions, and exhibited her first solo show in the summer of 2021 at the Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture in Bozeman, MT. She received her BFA from the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, Oregon, during which she had her first child, and her work has focused on the maternal experience ever since her undergrad thesis body of work which highlighted the transition to motherhood. More about Mya at MyaCluff.com on Instagram @myacluffstudio

He works primarily with functional, highly patterned pieces, however he has also works with beautiful and imaginative sculptural creations , and hand built and functional wear. He has a deep affinity for pattern and the exploration of geometric shapes. As an educator Don Hoskisson has a vast and star studded progeny of students who consider him to be their mentor. More about Don at JustTwoPotters.com and on Instagram @JustTwoPotters

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

Join us at the Artist Reception on Friday, February 3, 5-7pm

If you are interested in purchasing art a current exhibition, please call 503-487-6883 or email Info@ChehalemCulturalCenter.org

Through the medium of photography, this collegiate group of photographers, who are also co-workers, explore the concept of Home.

We work for an animation studio in Portland, Oregon. Before the Covid pandemic shut down we came in person to the office. Since the first shut down our office has been mostly remote. We formed connections in this new remote work world over our love of photography. We are all creative people and although photography is not our career medium, it is another way to explore, express, and grow in a visual medium. We shoot digital and analog, using an array of cameras from DSLR to vintage, point-and-click plastic to phone cameras, with a range of post editing. We 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 our friendship has grown deeper and our view of what "Home" is has been viscerally impacted.

Below is a sampling of works from this show. Please stop by the Center to see the entire show! You can also support artists and the Center by purchasing work! Please call or stop by for more information.

FORECAST//RECAST

December 6, 2022-January 27, 2023 in the Parrish Gallery

Artist Reception: December 9, 2022, 5pm - 7pm

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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.

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A note from our guest juror, Tanya Aguiñiga: The premise of Forecast//Recast made me think deeply about the current state of our earth and global societies, and how as artists our work is deeply important as a source of healing, recording histories and re-shaping how to live justly. In reviewing works submitted to this year's call, I was moved by the vulnerability and urgency exhibited in works. A huge thank you to all who answered the call for this years’ Surface Design Association competition. Thank you for sharing your unique visions and expressions for our shared future through textiles, for helping push our medium forward and for making work that reminds us to keep finding ways to learn and tell alternative histories.

U.S.-Mexico border. The artist co-built and for six years ran a community center in Tijuana, aimed at bringing attention through arts initiatives to injustices that the local community faced. Aguiñiga has maintained this spirit of activism and community collaboration throughout her career, going on to create many performances and installations that involve the participation of other artists, activists, and community members. In her installations, furniture, and wearable designs, Aguiñiga often works with cotton, wool, and other textiles, drawing upon Mesoamerican weaving and traditional forms. In 2016, in response to the deep polarization about the U.S.-Mexico border, Aguiñiga created AMBOS (Art Made Between Opposite Sides), an ongoing series of projects that provides a platform for binational artists. Her inaugural AMBOS project, Border Quipu, used brightly colored strands of fabric to create quipu—an Andean pre-Columbian organizational system—that recorded the daily commutes to and from the United States. 

Tanya Aguiñiga holds an MFA in furniture design from Rhode Island School of Design and a BA from San Diego State University. She is a United States Artists Target Fellow in the field of crafts and traditional arts, a National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures awardee, Creative Capital grant awardee, and a recipient of an Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities. She has had major solo exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (2018); Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2018); among others. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Annenberg Space for Photography (2019) and Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles (2018), among others. Aguiñiga lives in Los Angeles, California.

Color and Shade by Hadley Hatcher

Browns, Purples, & Greys by Nieko Giancarlo McDaniel

Nov 1 - Dec 30, 2022 in the Central Gallery and Community Gallery

Join us at the Artist Reception on Friday, December 9th, 5-7 PM

painting in earnest for eight years but chose to keep my creative endeavors for my pleasure. 

During such tumultuous times, I am thankful for the ability to bring more art to the community. The residency also afforded me the opportunity to consider a more direct response to the vineyards and winemaking that have been a key part of my life.  

While all creativity stems from our connection with nature, I am particularly drawn to working with color and form abstractly in both paint and photography.

Browns, Purples, Greys by Nieko McDaniel

“Functional Imbalance” talks about my endeavors to balance offers and opportunities in my life from Ph.D. offers, residency offers, being a professor, making art, and having a personal life. Though my life isn't balanced, it still functions.”

“Camouflaged” is an abstraction of how I perceive the barrels from A to Z Wineworks and Rex Hill. In this artwork, I abstract the branding logo on each of the barrel heads and change the organization of the wine types that would be in the barrel. I paint each barrel head with lees respectively with the type of wine that would be in that barrel. Even the metal stands on which the barrel heads lay are differently shaped but are designed to show that they would support the weight of the barrels.

A to Z Wineworks Residency 

Along with environmental and wellness initiatives, A to Z Wineworks supports literacy and the arts. The liberal arts can enrich lives and it seems more important than ever now to find ways to expand our vision and engage with diverse, thoughtful perspectives that help us grow as human beings. The winery’s art residency program offers an immersion within a dynamic setting far from an artist’s usual surroundings and obligations. The time and space afforded after the initial harvest enables an artist to reflect and expand their work in a fascinating new environment. They might produce an individual project, a body of work in response to the winery, or continue developing their course of study and exploration. 

The winery benefits from the presence and participation of the artist in residence who brings new ideas and fresh inspiration as well as artwork for the campus.  The community benefits when the artist in residence presents talks, demonstrations, experiential opportunities, and exhibits of their art. In the tasting room, selections are chosen to reward attention mirroring the wine tasting experience. An initial response to the color, clarity, and feel of a work can deepen upon reflection and perhaps even leave a lingering impression after departure. 

A to Z’s Artist in Residence program was launched in 2019 with Adrian Chitty’s fifteen-month, two harvest commitment to chronicle the natural cycle of a vintage.  Many of his beautiful images of daily life in the vineyards from dormancy to harvest and of winemaking from crush to bottle are moments not ordinarily available to photographers. These photographs reveal the care, attention, and expertise brought to the growing and making of quality wine.

The program is designed to overlap the current artist in residence completing their second, half-time, harvest with the incoming artist in residence as they join the winery for their first full-time harvest before a year of creative concentration.  This overlap deepens the potential for art in our company and community while offering artists some time together and an opportunity for possible collaboration.  Hadley Hatcher was our second artist in residence joining the winery for her first vintage at the beginning of the Covid pandemic in 2020. Nieko joined the winery for the 2021 vintage, overlapping with Hadley and Adrian, who returned for a third harvest. 

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

Growing In The Dark

by Amanda Bayha of Soul Seeds

A beautiful 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.

People need more opportunities to process change and grief together, especially in light of the isolation and uncertainty of the past few years.

Let’s pay tribute to who and what we’ve lost.

Fresh flowers decompose quickly if left to their own nature processes. Slowing this cycle by drying them is a great way to provide more space in the transition.

Let’s acknowledge the growth and beauty in the breakdown.

Witnessing Nature and its inevitable cycles of life and death can give us a better understanding of ourselves and each other.

DO YOU HAVE SOMEONE OR SOMETHING YOU’D LIKE TO DEDICATE FLOWERS TO? Collection sites are set up in the front and back lobbies at the Chehalem Cultural Center. When you drop off your contribution, you’ll have the option to fill out a dedication form. We’ll weave these names in to the sculpure and read them aloud at a closing ceremony in Fall 2022.

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CCC Juried Ceramics Studio Exhibit

Dec 6th - Dec 30, 2022 in the Tri Family Lobby Gallery

Join us at the Artist Reception on Friday, December 9th, 5-7 PM

If you are interested in purchasing art a current exhibition, please call 503-487-6883 or email Info@ChehalemCulturalCenter.org

We were honored to have Sean Andries // CCC Director, Benjamin Cahoon //  Ceramic Studio Manager and Ceramic Artist, Mark Terry // CCC Board Member and Ceramic Artist, & Karin Pugsley // CCC Board Member and Ceramic Artist as our jurors. Each was invited to select an artwork to assign a Juror's Choice Award.

If you are interested in joining our growing clay community, please visit our page for classes or speak with the front desk.

Art Harvest Studio Tour

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. You can view samples of each artist’s work in our Parrish Gallery from Oct 4- Dec 2nd. 

For more information and tour dates, please visit their website at http://www.artharveststudiotour.org

Join us at the Artist Reception on November 4th from 5 - 8pm

Parrish & Central Gallery

Spirit of Pastel 2022

August 2-September 30, 2022

Artist Reception & Awards: August 5, Private Reception 3:30-4:30pm, Public Reception 5-7pm

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.

PAO is an artist society whose mission is to provide members with opportunities to exhibit their work,  learn new skills in workshops and demos, and enjoy the camaraderie membership brings. Juried exhibits are held annually; the Membership Online Exhibition MOX and the Biennial Open International Juried Exhibition “Spirit of Pastel”.  

2022 Selected Artists:

Shirley Anderson, Patricia Arbino, Christopher Atkinson, Genie Aylor, Willo Balfrey, Marcia Ballowe, Steve Bennett, Sue Bennett, Virginia Bittler, Bithia Bjurman, Britt Block, Lora Block, Peggy Braeutigam, Vicki Brink, Jane Buccola, Rosemarie Caffarelli, Carrie Cantu, Janice Carlton, Nana Carrillo, Mark Cole, Patricia Cook, Molly Cooley, Peter Coons, Katy Despot, Janis Ellison, Kim Eshelman, Linda Evans, Diane Fechenbach, Kathryn Fehlig, Adrianne Feldstein, Thomas Frey, Susan Gorrie, Doug Graybeal, Patti Hagan, Paula Hansen, Jan Horn, Marilyn Hurst, Margaret Jamieson, Randye Jensen, Janet Johnson, Kathleen Johnson, Annie Jones, Kae Kinley, Christine Knowles, Cathy Kohler, Mike Kolasinski, Cora Larson, Suzanne Leslie, Julia Lesnichy, Ginny Lieberman, Gretha Lindwood, Melissa Losano ,Tatiana Makht, Kate McGee, Bonnie McManus, Nancy Misek, Clark Mitchell, Connie Noah, Barbara Parker, Janet Patterson, Laura Pritchard, Stephanie Reitmajer, Judy Richardson, Julianne Ricksecker, Debbie Robinson, Jan Rosenberg, Janet Rothermel, William Schneider, Karen Shawcross, JOHN SHERRY, Donna Sires, Elizabeth Spona, Betty Stanfill, Donna Stevens, SJ Swinyard, Harley Talkington, Nori Thorne, Viviane Trubey, Mary Weil, Stephanie Wiarda, Lewis Williams, Kimberly Wurster

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CENTRAL Gallery

The Art of Hampton Rodríguez

April 5-May 28, 2022

Artist Reception: April 15, 5-7pm

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.

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Past Exhibitions

Past Parrish Gallery Exhibits:

DECEMBER 2021-JANUARY 2022
Dee Vadnais: Her Family’s Story in the Oregon Landscape
Presented by Art in Oregon
Art in Oregon presented the artwork of Deer Island artist, Dee Vadnais, contextualized in the story of her family’s six generations in Oregon and the creative communities inspiring her art.

photography by Charlie Hyman

OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2021
Yamhill County Artist Showcase
This first Biennial Yamhill County Artist Showcase was an open call to any artist living in Yamhill County over the age of 18. The exhibit was juried and judged by Erik Sandgren.
Selected Artists:
Adrian Chitty, Airen Vandevoort, Andrea Brown, Angelina Koeppen, Annie-Joy Bays, Barbara Paanakker, Brenda Botten, Britt Block, Candice Cameron, Cecilia Sheoships, Christa Brandenburg, Christiane Payton, Christine Joy Swanson, David Bruce Hegeman, Deb Evans, Dee Boyles, Diane Evans, Elisabeth Freise-Mick, Gil Reynolds, Jeanne Ann White, Jim Smith, Jon Conchuratt, Jon Witherspoon, Karl Birky, Kathleen Buck, Kathy Cupp, Katie Spain, Kerrie Savage, Kimberly Chai, Mary Weil, Natasha Luepke, Noelle Evans, Pamela Quataert, Pilar Swanson, Ricardo Gomez, Richard Thompson, Samantha Paul, Sandy Shuler, Savannah Stanton, Shannon R Ray, Steve Tyree, Toni Tyree, Tricia Wente

photography by Charlie Hyman

AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2021
Art About Agriculture
Oregon State University College of Agricultural Sciences
Featured Artists:
C. Lill Ahrens, Greg Bal, Rich Bergeman, Lisa Brinkman, Zel Brook, Jonathan Bucci, Carissa Burkett, Kathleen Caprario, Jeanne Chamberlain, Sally Cleveland, Bets Cole, Philip Coleman, Kathryn Cotnoir, Tallmadge Doyle, Norma Eaton, Humberto González, Phyllis Helland, Irene Henjum, Robin Hostick, Shobha Jetmalani, Paulette Kaskinen, Tara Kemp, Kitty Kingston, Eilleen Knott, Steven Kratka, Roberta Lavadour, Sheryl LeBlanc, Doyle Leek, Steve Leishman, Bill Marshall, Patti McNutt, Rinee Merritt, Karen Miller, Lauren Ohlgren, Michael Ousley, Mark Reid, Karen Russo, Erik Sandgren, Angelita Surmon, Jean W. Thomas, Van C. Tran, Dee Vadnais, Yolanda Valdés Rementería, Angelyn Christy Voss, Liz Walker

JUNE-JULY 2021
Black Matter
Curated by Tammy Jo Wilson
Artists: Zina Allen, John Adair, Jamila Clarke, Janique Crenshaw, Jeremy Okai Davis, Santigie and Sapata Fofana Dura, Rinee Merritt, Keeva Moselle, Christine Miller, Maya Vivas, MOsley WOtta

MAY-JUNE 2021
From Gesture to Jester: Finding the Reality of Memory
by Joe Robinson & Molly Van Austen

photography by Charlie Hyman

APRIL 2021
Ikanum: Contemporary art from the Columbia River and Willamette Valley
presented in partnership with Chachalu Tribal Museum
Artists: Greg Archuleta, Stephanie Craig, David Harrelson, Sky Hopinka, Topaz Jones, Margaret Mathewson, Adam McIsaac, Bobby Mercier, Jordan Mercier, Teal Reibach, Travis Stewart, Crystal Szczepanski, Shirod Younker

photography by Charlie Hyman

FEBRUARY-MARCH 2021
Understanding Ourselves: Narrative Paintings Curated by Jen Brown
Artists: Caitlynn Abdow, Tanmaya Bingham, Jen Brown, Austin Eddy, Greg Hergert, Maria Housley, Aron Johnston, Joshua Langstaff, Chris Pothier, Elliot Wall, Tammy Jo Wilson

photography by Charlie Hyman

DECEMBER 2020-JANUARY 2021
Domestic Landscapes by Zemula Barr, Bethany Hays, Colin Kippen, & Rachael Zurr

photography by Charlie Hyman

OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2020
Watercolor Society of Oregon-Fall Juried Exhibit
Participating Artists: Mark Adcock, Jenny Armitage, Ruth Armitage, Sally Bills Bailey, Bill Baily, Maria Berg, Linda Boutacoff, Sarah Bouwsma, John Bradley, Helen Brown, Mary Burgess, Patrice Cameron, Jennie Chen, Leslie Cheney Parr, Tara Choate, Cathy Cramer, Leslie Dugas, Rene Eisenbart, Mary Elle, Susan Escobar, Alexandra Eyer, Airi Foote, Jean Gale, Winnie Givot, Margaret Godfrey, Angela Grainger, Vernon Groff, Elizabeth Haberman, Kathleen Haney, Christine Helton, Dianne Hicks, Judy Hoiness, Nancy Holzhauser, Eileen Holzman, Laura Hopper, David Howell, Marjorie Kinch, Yvonne Knoll, Karen Kreamer, Ed Labadie, Doyle Leek, Debbie Loyd, Steve Ludeman, Kathie McEvers, Britt McNamee, Phyllis Meyer, Emily Miller, Kristie Mooney, Marcia Morrow, Judy Nigh, JoAnn Pari-Mueller, Charlotte Peterson, Kara Pilcher, Hazel Reeves, Patricia Renner, Mary Rollins, Steve Rothert, Marjett Schille, Elizabeth Schilling, Kim Smith, Ron Spears, Susan Spears, Ginny Stevens, Chris Stubbs, Sandra Swanson, Sandra Takabayashi, Lynne Taylor, Kathy Tiger, Anna Timm, Bergen Todd, Cindy Triplett, Ted Vaught, Liz Walker, Harold Walkup, Rose West, Dona White, Jeanne Ann White, Alisha Whitman, Sandra Wood, Loisann Young

photography by Charlie Hyman

AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2020
Selections from Studios of Yamhill County
Participating Artists: Dan Bowyer, Dorothy Eshleman, BJB Hickerson, Joanne Licardo, Savannah Stanton, Leslie Struxness, Pilar Swanson, Steve Tyree, Toni Tyree, Vikki Wetle, Marilyn Affolter, Maggie Bowman, Dee Boyles, Candice Cameron, Evonne Cramer, James Dowlen, Chris Eckberg, Dave Hanson, Jim Hayes, Zach Hixson, Sherry Howk, Ralph Kraft, Terry Peasley, Rob Ramage, Doug Roy, Kerrie Savage, Rick Schanche, Gabrielle Taylor, Kathleen Buck, Gary Buhler, Wes Cropper, Jeanne Cuddeford, Marion McMuldren, Adele O’Neal, Alanna Pass, Donna Sires, Peter Snow, Kathy Thompson, Linda Workman-Morelli,Dwight Evalt, Teresa Shelton, 

Each year, in cooperation with the Art Harvest Studio Tour of Yamhill County, the Chehalem Cultural Center proudly exhibits works from participating artists in a single curated exhibition. The 2020 Art Harvest Studio Tour (AHST) was cancelled due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, but the CCC decided to continue this exhibition tradition and presented works by many of the participating AHST artists who are planning on next years Tour.

Photography by Charlie Hyman

JULY 2020
The Yaquina Exhibit: a Painted Voice for a Sacred Landscape by Michael Gibbons

The purpose of this exhibit was to offer a visual documentation of the beauty, history, health and viability of the Yaquina Watershed.  Through experiencing these poetic landscape interpretations, a benchmark is offered for sustaining this significant environment for forests, fish and wildlife.  
Included in the Yaquina Exhibition were over forty-five plein air oil paintings created over thirty-five years by Michael Gibbons on location throughout the Yaquina River Watershed of Oregon.

photography by Charlie Hyman

MARCH-JUNE 2020
Shifting Tides by Studio Art Quilt Associates
Participating Artists: Ann Johnston (Juror), Clare Attwell, Karen Balos, Nancy Bardach, Diana Bartelings, Alice Beasley, Beth Blankenship, Bonnie M. Bucknam, Sharon Carvalho, Barbara Confer, Judith Content, Phyllis A. Cullen, Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Judith Quinn Garnett, Alisa Golden, Louise Hall, Janet Hiller, June Jaeger, Lisa Jenni, Jennifer Hammond Landau, Cat Larrea, Sheryl LeBlanc, Nancy Lemke, Jacqueline Manley, Kathleen McCabe, Amanda Miller, Denise Oyama Miller, Cathy Miranker, Deborah Runnels, Nancy Ryan, Roxanne Schwartz, Janet Scruggs, Maria Shell, Sue Siefkin, Sue Siefkin, Sigrid Simonds, Gail P. Sims, Bonnie J. Smith, Amanda Snavely, Carla Stehr, Nan Thompson, B. Lynn Tubbe, Carolyn Villars, Deborah Weir, Jean Wells, Libby Williamson, Amy Witherow

As residents of the greater North Pacific region, fiber artists share personal narratives and statements regarding the Pacific Ocean ecosystem, its marvelous natural diversity, and the human activities that both sustain and threaten it.

photography by Charlie Hyman

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2020
Hanging River by Takahiro Yamamoto & Andy Paiko

Hanging River was an exhibition of new work in collaboration of Takahiro Yamamoto and Andy Paiko. As multiple transparent objects shaped as utilitarian objects are precariously hung from the ceiling, a large glass sculpture resembling a string-instrument is placed in the corner, unplayed but displayed. Through the physical and visual presentation of the installation, this project attempts to find embrace in cognitive dissonance. How can we locate our sense of belief in the wedge of dystopia and utopia?

photography by Charlie Hyman

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2019

Reveal/Conceal: the Transformative Masks of Tony Fuemmeler

Masks offer a unique sort of transformation. They are full of paradox: masks reveal and magnify even as they conceal. Despite their obvious and observable presence as objects, masks in performance can so engage the viewer that we forget they are there. They can seem to defy their static form and move in front of the audience. They hold a kind of magic.  The masks in this exhibit were designed to be worn and performed. Rather than serve as a disguise, they are intended as the true face of the character presented. Many are three-quarter masks, completed by the face of the actor; others are designed to cover the whole face, or sit above it. All of them significantly inform the way an actor moves.

A Universal Feeling: A collaborative mask installation by Tony Fuemmeler

In this installation, mask maker Tony Fuemmeler collaborated with sixty artists around the world to make an installation which examines our personal and collective experiences of emotion.

photography by Charlie Foster

AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2019
Art Harvest Studio Tours Exhibit

In cooperation with the Art Harvest Studio Tour of Yamhill County, the Chehalem Cultural Center proudly exhibits works from participating artists in a single curated exhibition.  2019 Participating Artists: Marilyn Affolter, Jennifer Bencharsky, Michael Bittle, Maggie Bowman, Dan Bowyer, Kathleen Buck, Gary Buhler, Benita Cole, Evonne Cramer, Wes Cropper, Jeanne Cuddeford, Eve Dellavalle, James Dowlen, Dorothy Eshleman, Reetsie Fuller, Charles Gluskoter, Jennifer Rose Harlow Smith, Jim Hayes, Bonnie J. Borschowa-Hickerson, Sherry Howk, Ralph Kraft, Natalia Novikoff, Adele O’Neal, Alana Pass, Dawn Severdia, Teresa Shelton, Ted Simon, Donna Sires, Peter Snow, Bradley Speer, Kathy Thompson, Steve Tyree, Toni Tyree, Vikki Wetle, Tracy Lee White, Linda Workman-Morelli

JULY-AUGUST 2019
Biological Dissonance by Tammy Jo Wilson and Amanda Triplett

Biological Dissonance was an exhibition about the irrepressible metamorphosis of the human body and beauty within the organic form. Artists Tammy Jo Wilson and Amanda Triplett blended their creative expressions in this compelling and tactile exhibit about the biological body, through works of encaustics, paintings, prints, fiber and textile installations. Pairing together their individual approaches to process and medium, they built a visual dialogue expressing the visceral nature of the vessels to which all humans are confined and examining the relationship between flesh and bone; and society, cultural experience and self awareness.

MAY-JUNE 2019
Stratifying the Unknown by Clairissa and Colby Stephens

The drawings, photographs, paintings and sculptures composing this body of work explored the ways horizon lines shape our understanding of place and space and one’s location within it. 

MARCH-APRIL 2019
Asian Art Collection on Loan from Royal Arts Gallery

Since the late 1980’s the term “Yunnan School” has been applied more broadly, to encompass, not only all of the artistic production coming from this region, but also the very distinctive style and techniques of a small group of highly respected, enormously talented, avant-garde artists associated with this province and its schools, who introduced a Renaissance in Chinese art.
Featured Artists: Abdullah Sudjono, Chen Yongl, Cheng Leping, David Lee, He Deguang, He Neng, Jiang Defang, Jiang Tie-Feng, Lu Hong, Ting Shao Kuang, Yang Peng, Zhou Ling

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2019
A Catalyst of Empathy By Tim Timmerman & Stan Peterson

Mixed Media works by Tim Timmerman and wooden carvings by Stan Peterson explore narratives that spoke with sincerity through a somewhat whimsical lens, striving as best as they were able to encounter the “other” with benevolence and generosity.

NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2018
Heat Wave by High Fiber Diet-a special interest group of Columbia Fiber Arts Guild

A Juried Exhibit of Fiber Art that explored themes of heat.
Featured Artists: Elizabeth Bamberger, Susan Circone, Kimberly Connelly, Diane English, Pat Fifer, Mary Goodson, Terry Grant, Jill P Hoddick, Laura Jaszkowski, Sheryl LeBlanc, Annette McFarlane, Mary McLaughlin, Karen Miller, Sara Shayne, Sherrie Moomey, Jo Nobel, Pam Pilcher, Lottie Smith, Emily Stevens

AUGUST-OCTOBER 2018
Art Harvest Studio Tour Exhibit

In cooperation with the Art Harvest Studio Tour of Yamhill County, the Chehalem Cultural Center proudly exhibits works from participating artists in a single curated exhibition. 2018 Participating Artists: Dorothy Eshleman, Bonnie Hickerson, Natalia Novikoff, Ted Simon, Steve Tyree, Toni Tyree, Marilyn Affolter, Mike Bittle, Maggie Bowman, Benita Cole, Evonne Cramer, Donna Delzel, James Dowlen, Reetsie Fuller, Jim Hayes, Sherry Howk, Ralph Kraft, Terry Peaseley, Doug Roy, Adam Rupniewski, Rick Schanche, Marilyn Worrix, Jennifer Bencharsky, Kathleen Buck, Gary Buhler, Wes Cropper, Jeanne Cuddeford, Jennifer Harlow-Smith, Adele O’Neal, Pamela Quataert, Donna Sires, Peter Snow, Bradley Speer, Kathy Thompson, Linda Workman-Morelli, Susan Day, Dwight Evalt, Jill Gailey, Julia Hamilton, Mark Hamilton, Teresa Shelton, Shannon Ray

JUNE-JULY 2018
Intimate Spaces by Tyler Mackie

Intimate Spaces was a retrospective body of sculptural and two-dimensional work that manifested the divine, wounded, and everyday contradictions of a lived female experience.

MARCH- MAY 2018
Strange Narratives by Jamila Clarke

Strange Narratives was an exhibition of photographic narratives that combined the extraordinary with the commonplace, using the imagery and language of folktales and literature to explore the complex emotions of everyday life.

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018
(PAINT) the Ten Thousand Things an installation by Meghan Hedley

A visual inquiry into aliveness, shaped by studies of Chinese Medicine and built with a language of color and mark.