The Nightingale Gallery begins a new year and academic term with an exhibition of works by Eastern Oregon University’s accomplished visual arts faculty. The exhibition opens with a reception on Friday, January 11 from 6-8pm in the gallery located in Loso Hall.  The show will run through Friday, February 1. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 11am to 4pm. The biennial Faculty Exhibition features work from the six nationally and...

The La Grande Arts Commission will host the 26th Annual Season’s Faire on Saturday, November 3, 2012, in Loso Hall on the campus of Eastern Oregon University.  Over forty area artists will be exhibiting their work in the Nightingale Gallery and competing for $1,000 in prize money, donated by Patrick McCarthy, MD, Mountain Valley Therapy, Union Wallowa Baker Federal Credit Union and Fortis Construction. In addition, Juror Jessica Riva Cooper,...

Assistant Professor of Art and Media Arts Communication Michael Sell will present his latest body of photographic work at the  Northwest Conference in Eugene, Oregon in November. His lecture, titled “A Meme of One: The UFCK Family,” explores issues such as living our lives in public forums, privacy, and how the Internet helps the discourse of fictional narrative through portraits of the members of the online community ufck.org. The...

As part of both our department’s outreach and recruitment efforts, seven art faculty from Eastern Oregon Universityare featured in an exhibit now on view at the North Santiam Hall Galleries at Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 Pacific Blvd SW, Albany, OR. The work ranges from sculpture and collage to oil painting and photography, and demonstrates the EOU Art Department’s mission to “actively contribute to the aesthetic and conceptual...

Aaron McNamee  (B.A. 2004) is having great success as an artist in his new home of New Orleans. His work has recently been acquired by the New Orleans Museum of Art and by the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation in Los Angeles. Below are the press release for his solo exhibit at the prestigious Heriard-Cimino Gallery as well as links to some articles and interviews with the artist as well as website. Congratulations Aaron!! NEW ORLEANS –...