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James Lavadour and Storm Tharp both have work in Vitamin P:NW, Recent Painting in the Pacific Northwest, now on view at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Connor, WA through January 11, 2026.
"Vitamin P:NW offers a bird’s-eye-view of recent trends in painting in the Pacific Northwest. Surveying the thematic landscape of current painting in the region, the exhibition features artist’s fresh takes on the environment, themes of introspection and cultural critique, and pushing the physical boundaries of painting past two-dimensional space."

Vitamin P:NW Recent Painting in the Pacific Northwest
October 11, 2025 - January 11, 2026

Museum of Northwest Art
121 South First Street, PO Box 969
La Conner, WA 98257

For more information: https://www.monamuseum.org/vitamin-p

Join us on Saturday, October 25th, at 10:00 am at the gallery for a walk-through of Visual Fields with artist Heather Watkins and Co-Director of Mullowney Printing, Harry Schneider, for a discussion of the printmaking process and its connections to the artist’s broader practice.   

Visual Fields consists of photogravure etchings, direct gravure etchings, and collagraphs made at Mullowney Printing presented alongside installations resembling the artist's studio—an ever evolving collection of objects, ephemera, and artwork.   

By arranging remnants from past projects into different configurations and introducing new techniques and elements, the works in the exhibition connect Watkins' earlier work with the new—reprising and recombining materials and language she has been working with for years.

You are invited to an artist talk on October 19 with artist James Lavadour and art historian Kate Morris, on occasion of the artist’s exhibition James Lavadour: Land of Origin, now on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene, Oregon.

Starting at 2:00 pm, join Lavadour and art historian Kate Morris,  UO Executive Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, for a discussion of painting, printmaking, Lavadour's approach to understanding the land, and his place in contemporary American art.

https://jsma.uoregon.edu/events/artists-talk-james-lavadour-conversation-kate-morris

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
University of Oregon
1430 Johnson Lane 
Eugene, OR 97403

Congratulations to Marie Watt on receiving the Heinz Award for the Arts!

The Heinz Awards recognize bold, curious and passionate risk takers and changemakers making contributions to the Arts, the Economy and the Environment.

“I approach this dance between community, conceptually storied materials and my studio with openness. I am drawn to the relationship between part and whole, call and response, individual and group. Working with the community resonates with me as it connects art and life in a tangible way.”  — Marie Watt

Congratulations, Marie!

For more information: https://www.heinzawards.org/pages/marie-watt

Ellen George was interviewed by David Schell for The Semi-Finalist!

Read the full interview HERE

James Lavadour's retrospective James Lavadour: Land of Origin was reviewed by Kristi Turnquist for the Oregonian. 

Read the full review HERE

“James Lavadour: Land of Origin” is on display through Jan. 11, 2026, at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Admission is $5 for adults; $3 for seniors (62+); and free for children under 18, museum members, University of Oregon faculty, staff and students, and all college students.

Jeffry Mitchell's work is included in All These Growing Things, on view at the Tang Museum at Skidmore College from August 23, 2025 - July 19, 2026.

"All These Growing Things presents contemporary and historical paintings, prints, textiles, photography, and sculpture from the Tang Museum collection that explore questions of becoming and belonging. It will examine connections to personal, ancestral, and cultural histories; masking as an approach to both reveal and conceal identities; and the possibilities of transformation."

Read More HERE 

The Frances Young Tang
Teaching Museum and Art
Gallery at Skidmore College
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

We are so excited that Watt’s work will be included in the Obama Presidential Center!
 

“The Obama Presidential Center has selected 10 more artists to create major works for the highly anticipated project, which is currently under construction on the South Side of Chicago and scheduled to open in 2026. The latest artists to be named for the campus-wide art program are Nick Cave, Nekisha Durrett, Jenny Holzer, Jules Julien, Idris Khan, Aliza Nisenbaum, Jack Pierson, Alison Saar, Kiki Smith, and Marie Watt.”

Previously selected artists include Spencer Finch, Richard Hunt, Maya Lin, and Julie Mehretu, among others.

Congratulations, Marie!

Read more HERE

Justin L'Amie's exhibition Dismal Nitch Polyphemus Moth was reviewed in Willamette Week. 

Read the review by Ashley Gifford below:

Justin L’Amie’s “Dismal Nitch Polyphemus Moth” Continues the Northwest Mystics Tradition
L’Amie’s eighth exhibition at PDX Contemporary reveals an enchanted forest of delightful bugs and flowers.
 

An interview with Marjorie Dial's  is featured in the new issue of Arcade NW.

"Issue 42.1: Materiality will be released alongside a specially curated exhibition of work from national artists, centering the themes of material and material use.

Issue 42.1: Materiality
Co-edited by John Parman & Camilla Szabo
Design by Finnegan Schneider

Issue 42.1: Materiality centers around critical discourse on architecture and the built environment, materials and sustainability in relation to a rapidly advancing world, and ephemeral works relating to scent, photography, textile, and sculpture. Themes include tactile engagement with the natural world, craft as a record of time, the role of technology in material understanding, and Indigenous fables on timber, territory & extractivism.

Materiality is a rich, sweeping theme which can’t be contained by one literal definition. It can include the ephemeral—scent, a shadow, an echo... It can be the poetry of architecture, or a photograph which leaves a trace of a history—or obstructs history altogether. It can be a clay vessel casting an incantation, acting as both a transmitter and receiver. Or the discolored patina on a hand painted cabinet after years of wear, each door a slightly different shade than the rest."

Read the interview here: https://www.arcadenw.org/print-magazine-articles/a-q-a-with-marjorie-dial