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and two motorcycles from June 16 to Sept. 16.
In collaboration with Eugene Ballet, White Lotus gal-
lery will showcase watercolors this spring by Satoko
Motouji that will be used in the ballet’s April production
of Peer Gynt.
A well-known Eugene artist and teacher, Satoko worked
with the ballet’s artistic director Toni Pimble to cre-
ate a series of paintings that, reproduced, will be used as
the backdrop for the ballet.
The original watercolors will be shown at the gallery
March 25 to May 19.
Eugene’s actually got two small photography galleries,
both tucked away inside commercial businesses. One,
O’Brien Photo Gallery, is run by master printer Walt
O’Brien at 2833 Willamette Street, Suite B; it is currently
showing his landscapes in platinum, silver and pigment
through March 8.
The other is Don Dexter’s dental office not far away at
2233 Willamette Street, Suite B. Dexter, who has shown
rotating art exhibits for many years at his office, recently
began to specialize in photography, with shows changing
each quarter. His current exhibit, running through March
26, is Landscapes Near and Far, with photographs from
Oregon and from Cape Town by Zoey Miller.
Printmakers and fans of that medium will be happy to
see that Whiteaker Printmaking, better known as WhitPrint,
is bringing back its popular Big Ink festival July 20 to 21.
We’re talking prints so big — 4-by-8 feet — that they’re
printed flat on the ground using a steamroller.
WhitPrint has lots of other activities, from classes to
demonstrations; see more at whitprint.com.
Finally, it looks like the Mayor’s Art Show may actu-
ally be returning. The popular juried exhibition ran for
years at the now-defunct Jacobs Gallery in the Hult Center
but ended when the gallery closed in early 2016.
Isaac Marquez, head of the city’s Cultural Services
Division, said he’s trying to pull together staff and funding
for the show, which would run in late summer in the for-
mer (and now even smaller, thanks to new construction)
Jacobs Gallery space — which is once more called the
Maurie Jacobs Community Room — downstairs in the
Hult.
When the old mayor’s show ended, gallerist Karin
Clarke stepped up and held a juried Eugene Biennial
exhibit at her downtown gallery.
Marquez said he’d like to see the city-sponsored may-
or’s show run in the Jacobs at the same time Clarke has her
biennial in the gallery, which is half a block from the Hult
Center. A third element in his rough plan would be to bring
in a couple artists to create outdoor installations that could
be viewed simultaneously.
Clarke’s Eugene Biennial is accepting artist submis-
sions through April; details at karinclarkegallery.com.
Jurors will be Clarke, artist Craig Spilman and Schnitzer
Museum associate curator Danielle Knapp. The show will
run Aug. 1 to 25.
Meanwhile, Marquez is also working on continuing the
20x21EUG Mural Project, which aims to have 21 out-
door murals created in town by internationally prominent
artists. The first seven were installed last summer; Marquez
says he’s talking to as many as nine new artists to create
new work for the project this summer.
Stay tuned. ■
AI WEIWEI’S ‘CIRCLE OF ANIMALS/ZODIAC HEADS.’
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Saturday, Jan. 27 | 7:30pm
The LaSells Stewart Center, 875 SW 26th St, Corvallis
TICkETS: $35, $45 in advance | $40, $50 at the door
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