MIXED MEDIUM
THE ARTS AROUND
EASTERN OREGON
came to her feeling like the task
ahead was impossible. Through
her encouraging teaching style,
her students were able to fi nd
within them a way to overcome
the impossible to not only
create art but to also deeply
appreciate art.”
Galloway helped form the
Union County Arts and Cul-
ture Center (UCACC), which
merged with ArtsEast in 2015
to become Art Center East, and
worked to lease the Carnegie Li-
brary from the city of La Grande
to create a home for Art Center
East.
VOTE
Help rename the Co-Op
Gallery at Art Center East
by casting a vote for one
artist, who was nominated
posthumously for this honor.
The artists are: Tom Madden,
Sue Orlaske, Kat Galloway,
and Craig Canoy.
Vote at www.artcentereast.
org, by calling 541-624-
2800, or at ACE, 1006 Penn
Ave. in La Grande.
and has been carried by several
galleries in Oregon and Southern
Washington. She won several
regional art awards and was a
featured artist on Oregon Public
Broadcasting’s Oregon Art Beat.
THOMAS ‘TOM’ MADDEN
KAT GALLOWAY
Galloway held a bachelor’s
and master’s of fi ne arts and
taught printmaking and drawing
at Eastern Oregon University.
She was a major player in Arts
River & Wave/Contributed image
The ACE Co-Op Gallery, as seen during The Big, a recent annual exhibit.
for All and Central School’s Art
Literacy program.
According to her family, “Kat
was an inspired teacher who
brought out the best in all of
her students, many of whom
Madden taught English, writ-
ing and journalism at Eastern
Oregon University for 25 years
and led poetry workshops at Art
Center East after his retirement
from EOU in 2000. He resided
in La Grande from 1975 until his
death in 2017.
He enjoyed teaching com-
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munity members to write poems
about many subjects, especially
the natural environment, helping
them craft short pieces about
landscape, seasons, weather,
plants and animals. He was
above all else a teacher and em-
phasized a constructive, friendly
atmosphere in his classes and
workshops.
A native of Montana, Mad-
den studied at Carroll College
in Helena and earned gradu-
ate degrees at the University
of Montana, where he studied
with poet Richard Hugo, and
at the University of Oregon.
Early in his career, he worked
as a reporter for several news-
papers, including the Portland
Oregonian. He published three
collections of poems: “Graves
in Wheat” (1998), “Lessons for
Custer” (2006) and “This Dialect
of Grass” (published posthu-
mously in 2019). He also wrote
short plays, book reviews and a
libretto for a children’s opera.
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