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The Linfield Art Gallery

Welcome to the Linfield Art Gallery

The Linfield Art Gallery is a vibrant learning laboratory that invites nationally and internationally recognized artists, emerging artists and Linfield student artists to our space. Solo and group shows, often with artist residencies, are a part of exhibits developed to create dialogue and critical thought through provocative, challenging and diverse programming. We strive to create an enriching visual experience for everyone.


Our exhibits are free and open to the public.

Upcoming Exhibition

 

photo of a sunset from Leland Butler.Connected to the Land

An Exhibition by Leland Butler

March 20 — May 3

(Closed March 25 - 30)

Artist Talk & Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 20 from 5 to 7 PM in the Linfield Gallery

STATEMENT FROM THE ARTIST: “Over the course of making photos, I’ve become attached to the duality of light and shadow and the beauty it creates in an image. With that same idea, there is an internal exploration that takes place throughout life and similarly, one can find the beauty in the duality of our own internal light and shadow through expression and exploration (internally and externally). This collection of photos explores that concept through landscape photos of the Pacific Northwest that were created while also exploring the internal light and shadow. The spiritual journeys we embark on to find life’s answers about self often brings us back to nature and that's what connects us to the land.”

ARTIST BIO: Leland Butler is a Grand Ronde tribal member who is also Siletz (tribe) and Yurok (tribe). Leland started taking photos 10 years ago with the curiosity of self in mind and exploration of land and people. Today that curiosity has brought him to exploring further into the duality of light and shadow and how the two co–exist both in nature and inside of us.

Artist Instagram: @leland_butler1

This exhibition is co–curated with the Chachalu Museum and Cultural Center of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and the Linfield Gallery. It is sponsored by the Lacroute Arts Series and the Department of Art. The Lacroute Arts Series at Linfield University is made possible by the generosity of arts benefactor Ronni Lacroute. The series, sponsored by the Lacroute Arts Fund at Linfield, is dedicated to helping the university present art events and activities for the campus and community. It provides programs featuring artists in the areas of music, art and theatre.

Past 2023-24 exhibits

Earth_Place_Roots_Movement_Graphic.jpgEarth & Place/Roots & Movement

An Exhibition by Jess X Snow & Kill Joy

Exhibition Dates: February 7 — March 16, 2024
Opening Reception Wednesday, Feb. 7: 5–7 p.m.
Artist Talk in the Austin Reading Room 5–5:30 p.m.
Poetry Reading and Refreshments to follow in the Gallery.

Earth & Place/Roots & Movement explores the works of queer Chinese diasporic artist, Jess X Snow and Filipino American artist Kill Joy. Through films, liberation graphics, community–created murals, poetry and installation, the works imagine healing in the aftermath of violence and transnational worlds without borders.

Drawn from their ancestors, lands of origin, and speculative visions, these multimedia works create visions of abolition, feminism and mutual care. Bridging the historical intersections of art and social movements, this exhibit plants seeds of coalition–building across the Asian diaspora. In collaboration with New Orleans–based Palestinian organizer and poet, Amira A, the exhibit includes an interactive altar offering a healing space to help the viewer keep Gaza alive in their hearts and examine the ways their own struggles can be entwined with Palestinian liberation. 

Photo collage including a man in the woods, bare feet walking i dirt, a man on a park bench next to Serhat, and Serhat speaking to to men sitting on a public bend.In-between Poetical Absurdities

Oct. 18-Nov. 17
Artist talk and opening reception on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 5:30 p.m. in Delkin Recital Hall in Vivian Bull Music Center.

Serhat Tanyolacar is a Turkish artist, autism father, educator, socio-political activist, and free-expression advocate currently living in Oregon. This exhibit takes us into his journey of being an oppositional artist.

As a conscientious objector, he has been self-exiled from his native country since 2015, producing poetically political artworks through print, performance and multimedia. For more than 20 years of his artistic career, he has shown works and intervened in public life both in America and internationally with his provocative and radical art-making process.

Serhat Tanyolacar is an assistant professor of studio art at Linfield University.

Photograph of a deteriorating building, titled "Rifles" by Marcieline Novatore.Blame it on Art: Creative Mentorship Outside The Frame

Aug. 30-Oct. 6, 2023

If youth experiencing houselessness can make films, they can do anything. At Outside The Frame, we believe that creative collaboration is an essential ingredient for healing, growth and empowerment. Our professional and peer mentors take the work of making art seriously - and playfully - with those we support and in our own art practices. At the Linfield Art Gallery, see Outside The Frame youth films alongside mentor-made art.

This exhibition is sponsored by the Lacroute Arts Series and the Department of Art. The Lacroute Arts Series at Linfield University is made possible by the generosity of arts benefactor Ronni Lacroute. The series, sponsored by the Lacroute Arts Fund at Linfield, is dedicated to helping the university present art events and activities for the campus and community. It provides programs featuring artists in the areas of music, art and theatre.

Gallery hours and information

Gallery hours: Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Saturdays, 12 - 5 p.m.


Directions: from 99W, turn east on Keck Drive at the McMinnville Market Center in south McMinnville. Turn right at the first street onto Library Court. The art gallery is located in the second building on the left, Building B. Parking is available on the street and in the lot west of Nicholson Library.

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