Mission
The Leonor R. Fuller Gallery at the Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts fosters transformative education and community connections through engaging and challenging exhibitions and programming.
Monday - Friday 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
2011 Mottman Road SW
Olympia, WA 98512
Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts
Parking is free
Closing reception and Art Talk: Friday, Sept 29
SPSCC Art Faculty talk about the intersections of education and community in their roles as artists, writers, film makers, and photographers.
The event is free and open to the public. Parking is free.
The Leonor R. Fuller Gallery proudly presents new work from South Puget Sound Community College art faculty and staff: Sean Barnes, Joe Batt, Liza Brenner, John Brooks, Steven Davis, Michael Gray, Melissa Meade, Edgar Smith, Bruce Thompson, and Crisha Yantis.
Image: Edgar Smith, Higher Seas of Education, oil on panel, 12"x12", 2022.
Opening reception: Friday, October 6 (6:00 – 7:30 pm) Lobby and Gallery
Artist Nishiki Sugawara-Beda installs the Kotodama Converse, a light weight paper and script sculptural installation, with accompanying small sumi paintings on wood. The installation provides a blank canvas that serves as an invitation for the viewer to complete the work, bringing their own emotional state, words, and phrases both physically and metaphorically. The act of viewing becomes the act of participation. Nishiki Sugawara-Beda is a Japanese-American visual artist based in painting and installation. She draws upon her Japanese heritage to explore themes related to culture, language, and spirituality rooted in Zen Buddhism. Connecting across space and time, she experiments in ancient Japanese materials and techniques including Sumi ink, Kakejiku landscapes, and rice paper, to merge them with abstract and expressive forms familiar to the modern Western aesthetic.
Image: Kotodama Converse, 12ʹx 10ʹ x 16ʹ, Mesh wire, rice paper, rice glue, fishing line, and seal ink, 2012-2020.
The Leonor R. Fuller Gallery and South Puget Sound Community College invites persons working in the arts or arts administration to gain hands on experience in the field of exhibition curation with the guidance and assistance of the Leonor R. Fuller Gallery Coordinator and SPSCC campus resources. The Emerging Curator Program gives structure to a community building model of exhibition programming that fosters education, community values, outreach, and creates a unique opportunity for an emerging curator(s)/artist(s) to present a diverse exhibition representing a broad spectrum of ideas. Emerging curators and artists from all backgrounds and identities residing in Clark, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Pierce, Skamania, Thurston, or Wahkiakum counties are invited to submit an entry for consideration.
The Leonor R. Fuller Gallery at The Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts fosters transformative education and community connections through engaging and challenging exhibitions and programming.
About
The Leonor R. Fuller Gallery is 1,200 square feet in size. The walls are white and made of drywall backed with 3/4-inch plywood. There is an 11-1/2 foot high Unistrut grid system with track lighting throughout, and the gallery is wired for media art.
