July 7 – August 28, 2025

2025 Southwest WA Regional Juried Art Exhibition

Guest Juror: Janae Huber

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

Exhibition Open: 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

Guest Juror

Janae Huber Bio and Info

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.