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Exhibit: Artwork created by students at Grants Pass High School and the Grants Pass chapter of the Boys & Girls Club.
Dates: January 4- 26, 2008
Artist: Students
Title: GPHS & Boys and Girls Club Exhibit
Media: mixed media

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Exhibit: A mysterious beauty resonates through these paintings instilling dark reverence. Lewis’ contrasting use of deep shadows and warm light appeals to our subconscious with the flavor of ancient folk tales.
Dates: January 29 - Febuary 29, 2008
Artist: David Carmack Lewis
Title: Night Scenes
Media: oil on canvas

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Exhibit: Freeman portrays the place where science meets the occult, truth meets contradiction, and spirit meets life. Using collage, language, and symbolic forms of science she conveys how we pull these public themes into our private lives.
Dates: March 4- 22, 2008
Artist: Heather Freeman
Title: Fuzzy Pictures
Media: mixed media

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Exhibit: In the paintings of Leslie Holt’s “Hello Kitty” series she joins together an odd juxtaposition of famous paintings with a familiar pop-culture icon. She instigates a mildly perplexed chuckle at the unusual blend of popular images.
Dates: April 1-25, 2008
Artist: Leslie Holt
Title: Hello Kitty "Art Appreciation" series
Media: oil on canvas/paper

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Exhibit: Using materials from agriculture, gardening, and beekeeping Wood’s installation explores the symbolic nature of the beehive and the production of honey. She portrays the matriarchal structure of bee society as well as their ecological influence.
Dates: April 29 - May 23, 2008
Artist: Melissa Wood
Title: Sweet Layers: Hive II
Media: mixed media

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Exhibit: A non-juried regional art show with professional, amateur and youth categories. The art show also features a series of hands-on workshops including, metal sculpture, PMC art clay, dry pigments, resin casting, clay sculpture, mosaics, pastels, watercolor and printmaking.
Dates: June 6 - 27, 2008
Artist: local artists
Title: Southern Oregon Art Show
Media: multi-media

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Exhibit: A traveling fiber art show juried by the Weaving Guilds of Oregon.
Dates: July 1 - 26, 2008
Artist: juried artists
Title: WEGO Traveling Fiber Art Show
Media: fiber

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Exhibit: Through assemblage and metal sculpting Widmer collects and combines objects that represent an ever-changing reliance on what we once considered to be modern technology. He uses objects reminiscent of scientific and medical equipment in unique representation to express the fragility of existence and the objectification of humanity by science.
Dates: Jul 29 - August 30, 2008
Artist: Donovan Widmer
Title: Conditional Response
Media: mixed media

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Exhibit: Barton illustrates whimsical underwater scenes in black and white. He uses his drawings as an elementary form of storytelling, capturing the essence of life under the sea by focusing on movement and fluidity.
Dates: September 2 - 27, 2008
Artist: Bruce Barton
Title: A Certain Melancholy at Lido Bay
Media: b & w drawings

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Exhibit: Spirit of the Rogue featuring Medora Nankervis. A multi-media exhibit that celebrates life along the Rogue River. Spirit of the Rogue runs in conjunction with the Art Along the Rogue street painting and music festival in downtown Grants Pass.
Dates: October 1 - 25, 2008
Artist: juried artists
Title: Spirit of The Rogue
Media: multi-media

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Exhibit: This bilingual show celebrates Mexican votive painting. Together with traditional images of people praying to saints, Layton adds contemporary pieces painted in the same tradition with saints praying to the people. This show is intended to pay tribute to a culture that is rich in humility and optimism and how it is affected by globalization.
Dates: October 28 - November 19, 2008
Artist: Heather Layton
Title: Thank You for Everything
Media: oil on steel

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Exhibit: An eclectic collection of unique gift items created by local artists. Support your local artists! Give the gift of art.
Dates: November 25 - December 13, 2008
Artist: local fine art & craft artists
Title: Holiday Art Gift Sale
Media: multi-media

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Exhibit: Peek and Townsend help us to contemplate our cultural fears and the things we refuse to examine. Peeke’s two dimensional mixed media juxtaposition of idealized images of men against the images of real men encourages us to question societies’ concepts of beauty and focus on the complex and suppressed relationship of men to their physical form in a public venue. Townsend’s use of found and salvaged objects explores our cultural fears, unifying us by our imperfections, bonding us by our faults and shortcomings and the things we refuse to examine.
Dates: April 1-25, 2009
Artist: Cory Peek and John Townsend
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Media: Installation

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Exhibit: Artwork created by students at North Valley High School and the Grants Pass Chapter of the Boys and Girls Club.
Dates: January 7-31 2009
Artist: students
Title: North Valley/Boys & Girls Club Art Exhibit
Media: mixed media

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Exhibit: Come view the art to be auctioned at this year's Black, White and the Blues scheduled for February 28 at the Lodge at Riverside Event Center.
Dates: February 4-27, 2009
Artist: Community Art Donors
Title: Black, White, and the Blues
Media: mixed media

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Exhibit: A multi-media exhibit of artwork created by the art faculty of RCC. Includes work by Bobbie Blakely, Tommi Drake, Karl Brake, Janet Higgins, Eric Gorder, Pat Enos, Tom Wilson, Madaline Blue, and Josh Tollefson.
Dates: April 29-May 16, 2009
Artist: RCC Art Faculty
Title: RCC Art Faculty Exhibit
Media: mixed media

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Exhibit: Kirchen creates simple intimate views within the grand vistas of the landscape. These images contain recognizable elements that often go unnoticed by most busy people. The viewer is encouraged to a renewed awareness of the natural world.
Dates: March 5-21, 2009
Artist: Thomas Kirchen
Title: The Intimate Landscape
Media: digital photography

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Exhibit: In celebration of Oregon's 150th year of statehood, thirteen professional writers from throughout the state have written a subjective description of an historical Oregon photograp. The description is then sent on to thirteen professional artists who create a two-dimensional piece based on the written description. The "Perceptions of the Past" exhibit consists of a framed enlargement of each historical photo matched with a framed and signed version of its written description and the artist's interpretation.
Dates: May 20-June 27, 2009
Artist: Selected Oregon Artists and Writers
Title: Perceptions of the Past
Media: Photographs, Poems, Prose and mixed media

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Exhibit: A non-juried regional art show with professional, amateur and youth divisions. Categories include watercolor, oil, and acrylics, photography, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, drawing and fibers.
Dates: August 5-29, 2009
Artist: local artists
Title: Southern Oregon Art Show
Media: multi-media

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Exhibit: Van Ness' painted wood and fiberglass sculptures are bold, colorful and satirical. They are fed by politics, war and pop culture, and geared toward the raising of consciousness.
Dates: July 1-31, 2009
Artist: Gerrit Van Ness
Title: Current Events
Media: Sculpture

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Dates: September 2nd-26th, 2009
Artist: Marzi
Title:
Media: sculpture

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Exhibit: A multi media exhibit that celebrates life along the Rogue River. Spirit of the Rogue runs in conjunction with the Art along the Rogue Street painting and music festival in downtown Grants Pass.
Dates: September 30th-October 30th, 2009
Artist: Community Artists
Title: Spirit of the Rogue
Media: Mixed media

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Dates: November 4th-25th, 2009
Artist: Claudia Marchini
Title:
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Exhibit: Holiday Art Gift and Show Sale
Dates: December 3-18th, 2009
Artist:
Title: Holiday Art Gift and Show Sale
Media: mixed media

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Exhibit: Warm tones capture summer fields and emptiness. Stark but beautiful atmosphere encompasses images of agricultural buildings into strong compositional elements. Schlegel’s work is representative of the delicate balance of nature and how it is affected by agriculture.
Dates: January 7 - Febuary 2, 2008
Artist: Robert Schlegel
Title: Particular Places
Media: acrylic

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Exhibit: This two-person show combines elements of antiquity, modern life, and strange or interesting juxtaposition. These photographs express the duality of European life by capturing elements of majesty with matters of daily living.
Dates: Febuary 6 - March 3, 2008
Artist: Laine Wyatt & Harry Wilson
Title: Two Views
Media: photography

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Exhibit: A small-format juried show in celebration of Women's History Month.
Dates: March 5- April 16, 2008
Artist: juried artist
Title: Home Sweet Home
Media: multi-media

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Exhibit: Hunter analyzes in her pen and ink drawings, through historical narrative, the progression of body-type propaganda in pop culture over time. Each piece represents the month in which the image was referenced from “Vogue” magazine. In this way she contemporizes these images in her blend of images directly from the source.
Dates: April 16 - May 14, 2008
Artist: Dawn Hunter
Title: Spectacle Spectacular
Media: pen & ink

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Exhibit: An annual exhibit of artwork created in this year's studio courses.
Dates: May 19 - June 11, 2008
Artist: Rogue Community College Student
Title: Rogue Community College Student Art Exhibit
Media: multi-media

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Exhibit: CFA presents this traveling exhibit produced by a eclectic group of fiber artists. This dynamic show offers a dynamic selected of styles from quilt making to fiber books. These pieces of fiber art offer a diverse view into the world of fiber art.
Dates: July 7 - August 28, 2008
Artist: Califoria Fiber Artist
Title: Layers for Stitch
Media: fiber

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Exhibit: Through use of digital imaging Lundquist has created an interesting and sometimes whimsical world of fancy and intrigue. The world offers shifts in space as well as elements of disobedience to traditional laws of nature.
Dates: September 22 - October 31, 2008
Artist: Tom Lundquist
Title: Poissons de Chant
Media: computer illustration

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Exhibit: Ancient Japanese myths about the creation of man inspired this series by Higuchi. She draws upon the spirits of Fire, water, and Wind to create this combination of paintings and colorgraphs. The emotions of these elements are strong throughout this series and bring about the soul of the fundamental human.
Dates: November 3 - December 5, 2008
Artist: Iku Higuchi
Title: Creation of Man
Media: mixed media

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Exhibit: Long and Sartori use graphite; Long with markers, paper and monoprints, and Sartori with oil, copper and wood each creating varying abstract images using text, line and shape.
Dates: January 5-30, 2009
Artist: Allison Long and Luisa Sartori
Title: Systematic Disorder
Media: mixed media

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Exhibit: Condos creates collages using mixed media with colored pencils and ink on posterboard. Each work contains many separate enlarged drawings of characters or objects which Condos developed from small images in books or magazines.
Dates: February 4th -27th, 2009
Artist: James Condos
Title: Expressions with Colored Pencil
Media: collage

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Exhibit: A juried small format exhibit in celebration of Women's History Month, March.
Dates: March 4-April 11, 2009
Artist: Juried Artists
Title: Women's History Month
Media: mixed media

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Exhibit: Usher uses linocut prints on bags, toilet paper, pillows, pizza boxes, desk calendars, and sponges to connect everyday people with everyday items. She uses humor and irony to visually represent the value that the mundane holds and the connections we all share.
Dates: July 6-August 27, 2009
Artist: Lauren Odell Usher
Title: "Did You Wake Up This Morning?"
Media: mixed media environments

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Exhibit: Patterson's oil paintings reference the Dutch tradition of detailed realism and hidden symbolism. She places incongruous objects from contemporary culture in juxtaposition, creating unpredictability.
Dates: April 15th-May 15, 2009
Artist: Rena Patterson
Title: Rena Patterson-Still Lifes
Media: oil paintings

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Exhibit: The Women's Crisis Support Team presents the Silent Witness Exhibit during Domestic Violence Awareness Month, October.
Dates: September 28-October 30, 2009
Artist: Various Community Artists
Title: Silent Witness of Josephine County
Media: paint and woood

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Exhibit: An annual exhibit of artwork created in this year's studio courses.
Dates: May 20-June 10, 2009
Artist: Rogue Community College Students
Title: Rogue Community College Student Exhibit
Media: mixed media

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