Candace Nicol, Firewalls, Feb. 23 - March 12

The LCC Art Gallery presents an exhibit by Candace Nicol, Firewalls, February 23 to March 12.

The LCC Gallery is located in the Art and Applied Design Department, Building 11, on the main campus of Lane Community College. The Gallery is open Monday to Thursday, 8 am -5 pm and Friday, 8 am-4 pm. For more information contact the Art and Applied Design Department at 463-5409.

Collagraph Printmaking with Jody Dunphy, Feb. 7-8

A Collagraph Printmaking Workshop with Jody Dunphy was held on February 7-8 in the LCC Printmaking Studio. An intensely rich, organic image quality and immediacy in working with the plate are the defining characteristic of this intaglio process. Collagraph is extremely versatile, allowing for the incorporation of found objects, drawing, painting, and/or relief.

Jody Dunphy is an artist and printmaker specializing in collagraph and combined printmaking processes. Her choice of materials and mode or working yields intensely layered, organic, reverent works of art. Jody creates her prints on a vintage, hand-made press in her home-studio in Eugene. For more information, contact Susan Lowdermilk, 463-5413.

JS Bird - Storylines - February 19 - March 19

J.S. Bird: Storylines is an exhibit of work by LCC art instructor J.S. Bird. The exhibit is in the Main Gallery at The Arts Center in Corvallis, February 19 to March 19. An opening reception will be held on Friday, February 20, 5:30 - 7:00 pm.

The Arts Center is located at 700 SW Madison Avenue, Corvallis, Oregon 97333. Gallery hours are 12:00 to 5:00 pm, Tuesday to Saturday. For more information, contact J.S. Bird at 463-5414.

Artist Book & Pop-up Basics Workshop

Susan Lowdermilk, book artist and printmaker will present an "Artist Book and Pop-Up Basics" workshop at the Eugene Textile Center. The workshop will be held on Saturday, February 21, 
10 am to 4 pm.

The workshop will include a presentation of artist books from Susan’s collection. Students will create a variety of basic folded and stitched book structures and pop-ups. The goal is to learn beginning skills and binding styles, enough to charge your imagination to start creating your own books.

An artist book differs from a typical book in that the book is not merely a container for art, but is designed, conceived and created by the artist as an art form in itself. The viewer is encouraged to touch, explore and take a journey as they experience an artist book. Artist books often use text and/or images. However some artists’ books are solely conceptual. As a book artist, you are your own author, artist/illustrator, typographer, printer and binder.

The Eugene Textile Center is located at 1510 Jacobs Drive, Eugene, Oregon 97402. To register, contact ETC at 541-688-1565
or by email at info@eugenetextilecenter.com. The workshop cost is $60 + $10 materials fee. For more information, contact Susan Lowdermilk, 541.463.5413.

Brad Mildrexler Sculpture Workshop

Brad Mildrexler will be giving a sculpture workshop in the Ceramics Studio in Building 11 at Lane Community College on Saturday, January 31, 10 am to 4 pm.

Mildrexler describes his large ceramic wall reliefs as "abstract expressions in textural form." Gallery owner Jack Walsh says that "Brad is truly respected in the ceramics worls - he's an artist, not because of the clay, but because he uses the clay as a vehicle to express modern ideas."

For more information contact Local Clay at 541.466.5635 or by email at flashpointartworks@gmail.com. At LCC, contact Tom Rohr at 541,463-5417.

Malia Schultheis at Fenario Gallery

Malia Schultheis' first show, "An Equation of Meaning," features her most recent work. She began to devleop a style under the instruction of LCC Art Instructor J.S. Bird.

Schultheis writes: My winter show at Fenario Gallery, "An Equation of Meaning", is titled to claim my revelation of the real. It's a reflection of the part of existence that I embody (my observations and perceptions that speak to the souls of so many others). Furthermore, we as humans, create, manifest, mold, define, develop, destroy, and understand with an ever evolving consciousness. I endeavor to illustrate this human consciousnessas I experience it,with an attempted objectivity.

The show of new drawings and paintings will be at the Fenario Gallery, 881 Willamette, Eugene, from January 16 to February 29. For more information, contact the Fenario at 541.393.3333 or at http://www.fenariogallery.com/

Ian McNicol - Some Aspects of Soundscape

The Lane Art Gallery presents "Some Aspects Of Soundscape," a collective body of work by Oregon artist Ian McNicol.

McNicol says, "This series is inspired by music. This body of work is a dimensional response to the intangible. It is not only a visual exploration from sine waves and the motion of sound in space, but an interpretation of musical works and a listener’s relationship with the musicians who have created them."

The show runs February 2-19. There will be an artist’s talk on Thursday, February 12, at 3 p.m. with a reception immediately following at 4 p.m., both in the gallery, building 11, main campus. Contact: Art and Applied Design, 463-5409.