Image: 2024 Viewer's Choice | Sandra Bocas | Welcome Home | Acrylic on Heavy Watercolor Paper | 24”x 25” 

July 7 – August 28, 2025

Artist Talks:
Thursday, July 17, 6:00 pm -7:30 pm - Faith Hagenhofer
Thursday, July 31, 6:00 pm -7:30 pm  – Ryker Black
Thursday, August 14, 6:00 pm -7:30 pm – Danny Schreiber
Thursday, August 28, 6:00 pm -7:30 pm - Parker MacCready

The Southwest Washington Regional Juried Exhibition serves area artists by providing a high-quality exhibition opportunity that promotes the region’s creative identity. 

The Southwest Washington Juried Exhibition is organized by The Leonor R. Fuller Gallery at the Kenneth J Minnaert Center for the Arts on the campus of South Puget Sound Community College. Artists working in all media and residing in Clark, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Pierce, Skamania, Thurston, or Wahkiakum counties are invited to submit an entry for consideration.

Congratulations to our award winners! 

Merit Awards - Winners receive $100, and inclusion in the 2026 Juror's Invitational
Jeanette Jones, Ryker Black, Lynn Helbrecht, Parker MacCready, and Neil Peck

Purchase Awards - Artwork is purchased by SPSCC, and the artists will be included in the 2026 Juror's Invitational
Nancy Romanovsky and Michael Diamond

Viewer's Choice Award - Artwork is featured on all press for the 2026 Southwest Washington Regional Juried Exhibition
Jimmy Ulvenes 

Janae Huber

Janae Huber

Guest Juror

Janae is a seasoned administrator, who works in the field of public art. She oversees the care and conservation of the State Art Collection for the Washington State Arts Commission (ArtsWA), where she has been the collections manager since 2005. She is active in the national public art field, presenting at conferences and leading workshops on the care of artworks in public spaces. Prior to her work in the field of public art, Janae was the registrar and collections manager at Tacoma Art Museum and the coordinator for a documentary photography and oral history project at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona.

She is also the co-founder of Olympians for People-Oriented Places (O-POP), an organization dedicated to making Olympia, Washington a vibrant, well-planned city. Janae advocates for diverse housing, smart land use, and multimodal transportation. Through this work, she has coordinated successful advocacy campaigns, community forums, and positive public discourse on challenging civic issues, including “missing middle” housing and the event series Olympia Design Month. In 2017, she served on the City of Olympia's Downtown Strategy Stakeholders Group. She has been the chair of her neighborhood association and was a two-term Council-appointee to the Olympia Arts Commission. She currently serves as the Board Secretary for the nonprofit organization, Futurewise.

Janae has lived in Olympia since 2000.

Selecting artworks for this exhibition has sent me through a series of reflections–not all positive–but where I have landed is in a place of thanks. I want to make visible some of the individuals and institutions responsible for the work of any exhibition including this exhibition.

South Puget Sound Community College (SPSCC) plays an incredibly important role in the arts ecosystem in Olympia and the South Puget Sound more broadly. This is not a given. Not all of our state colleges and universities have galleries. And not all of them keep galleries funded year in and year out. The people who gather to celebrate the opening of an exhibition, visit the campus to spend time with the artworks, and attend artist talks to learn about individual artists and their process, recognize the benefit of the arts. You are reading this because you do.

The gallery space, and the entire Minnaert Center for the Arts, are ways SPSCC invites the community onto this campus and, as an institution, helps us create connections. Those connections matter and, in this moment, it is essential that we see those connections, acknowledge and appreciate them.

I also want to acknowledge Sean Barnes, and the work he does to keep this gallery strong, to make visible the work of artists in this community and around our region. While working with and mentoring students, Sean schedules the exhibitions; coordinates how and when the artwork gets to the gallery; lays the shows out, and installs, lights, and labels them. He also organizes exhibition-related events - which are additional ways SPSCC invites all of us to be a part of this community.

I want to thank all the artists, those whose work I selected and those whose work I did not. It takes a phenomenal amount of courage to make artwork, and another level altogether to share your work with others and invite judgement. The very essence of a juried exhibition requires this kind of judgement. Artists put their work out into the world, invite review, share it (or not), and celebrate it. 

I invite you to celebrate the work of others. Do not take it for granted. All of us, as audience members, have a richer world because artists are making work. 

In this time when we are seeing profound and consequential disruption to our institutions and to the lives of individuals, please see the connections around us. Be a part of them and the institutions that make them possible.

Featured Works

Cassandra Brown | Nascense | Watercolor, Colored Pencil, and Gold Foil | 16" x 20"

Laurel Henn | Encompassing | Woodcut | 11" x 13"

Jeanette Jones | Fire Hazard | Oil on Canvas | 20" x 16"

Sam Ken | Peeled | Oil on Canvas | 20" x 16"

Parker MacCready | The South Ravine | Oil on Paper | 22" x 30"

Nancy Romanovsky | Summer Reflections | Oil on Linen | 12" x 16"

Aimee Schreiber | Impermanence | Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Linen | 20" x 24"

Exhibiting Artists