Dozens of artworks fill the gallery walls floor to ceiling at The Art Center in a salon-style arrangement, placing submissions from first-time participants alongside longtime participants in the annual Howland Community Open.
On Tuesday, Jan. 27, the Howland Community Open gallery opened to the public. The gallery will run until Thursday, March 5, and is located in The Art Center (TAC) in Corvallis. Admission is free for viewing and for voting on the People’s Choice Awards. TAC is open Tuesday through Saturday from 12 P.M. to 5 P.M.
Jennie Castle, the curator and associate director at TAC for the past four years, said that this show specifically “gives hope that there is creativity and critical thinking and joy and, you know, all these different things that I think are necessary for a healthy community. It exists and you see it in one room.”…