2019-2020 Exhibition Season

September 2nd – September 27th, 2019
New work by South Puget Sound Community College art faculty and staff including Sean Barnes, Joe Batt, Liza Brenner, Colleen Gallagher, Nicole Gugliotti, Lisa Mellinger, Dan Meuse, and Bruce Thompson.

Image: Liza Brenner | Professor of Art | Dougie | 36 x 36 inches | Oil on panel

October 7th – November 1st, 2019
Melinda Hurst Frye is a Seattle-based artist whose work and approach aim to create curious representations of the ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest through capturing images using both flatbed scanners and cameras in order to achieve a specific viewpoint, both technically and conceptually. Cyrra Robinson is an Olympia-based artist whose bronze and stone sculptures explore the spaces between the fantasy and reality of our natural world to discover and highlight where they most intersect.

Image: Melinda Hurst Frye | Underneath

November 11th – December 13th, 2019
Eun-Kyung Suh is a Full Professor of 3D art at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Eun-Kyung Suh will present new work examining the cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic dissimilarities experienced by refugees and asylum seekers during the course of migration; from their departure to their destination. Suh’s sculptures symbolize barriers between the insiders and outsiders, using domestic materials suffused with meanings and consequences of migration or forced displacement.

Image: Eun-Kyung Suh | Enclave

January 10 – February 7, 2020
The Fine Art Postcard Exhibition is an annual event that brings the local creative community together under one theme. The 2020 theme is “POWER TOOLS”. Postcard sized original artworks, created by artists of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds, will be sold through silent auction. Proceeds from this fundraiser benefit The Gallery. All are invited to join the creative celebration!
Sponsored by Nineveh and Dingle Bay Art

Image: 2019 Viewer's Choice | Joe Batt | Wrestling Hares

February 18th – March 20th, 2020
A themed exhibition, shaped and selected by Native guest curators, which engages viewers and the community celebrating the arts and culture of our Native community members. The exhibition will highlight work by Native artists, adult and youth from local and regional tribes, and Native artists from other locations who now live in the area.
Sponsored by Nisqually Tribe

Image: Robert Upham | Snake Ledger

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic this exhibit was online only

Award winning artists from the 2019 Southwest Washington Juried Exhibition, selected by juror Dawna Holloway, are invited back to show new work online in this group exhibition. Participating artists include Marilyn Frasca, Hart James, Irene Osborn, Jay Shepard, Julia Szten, and Gail Ramsey Wharton.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic this exhibit was online only

The SPSCC annual Student Art Exhibition showcases exceptional talent chosen by the college's art faculty from the creative endeavors of students in studio art classes throughout the 2019-20 academic year. This diverse exhibition encompasses a range of mediums, including ceramics, drawing, painting, printmaking, digital photography, mixed-media, as well as 2D and 3D design explorations, and sculpture.

Image: Poster Award 2019 | Christian Morrison | The Succulent Man |

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic this exhibit was online only

The 2020 Southwest Washington Regional Juried Art Exhibition extends an invitation to artists residing in Clark, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Pierce, Skamania, Thurston, and Wahkiakum counties to submit their artwork across all mediums for consideration by a guest juror. Purchase prizes and honorable mentions will be granted, and recipients of these awards will be invited to showcase their pieces collectively in the following exhibition season's Juried Invitational . This event is proudly sponsored by April Works.

Image: Jennifer Lauer | Fisherman’s Home, South China Sea