(Above: Protect Your Light, by collage artist Sarah Rose, is one of the many collage pieces on display in Piecing It Together at the Maude Kerns Art Center.)
Edited by Randi Bjornstad
It’s called Piecing It Together: A Regional Collage Exhibit, and it opens at the Maude Kerns Art Center with a reception from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, June 19.
Here’s how the art center sums it up:
The exhibit features the work of 69 artists from four states and celebrates the versatile and inventive art of collage. By juxtaposing and layering images, playing with multiple perspectives, and exploring a diversity of mediums, the selected artists create striking and often surprising visual statements.
It’s a juried show, and the people who went through all the submissions and chose these artists and pieces are: Kellette Elliott, teacher and co-founder of the Pacific
Northwest Collage Collective; Beth I. Robinson, Kolaj magazine featured
artist and conservator at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; and Judy Vogland, artist
represented by RiverSea Gallery in Astoria and guest instructor at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in the community of Otis in Lincoln County.
Dianne Erickson’s collage, Holding Patterns, is another of the widely varying art pieces in the collage show.
As defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, “collage is an artistic technique and resulting artwork where various materials — such as paper, fabric, photographs, and found objects — are arranged and glued onto a supporting surface. The term also refers metaphorically to any collection of disparate or unrelated things brought together to form a whole.
Piecing It Together: A Regional Collage Exhibit
When: June 19 through July 17, 2026
Where: Maude Kerns Art Center, 1910 E. 15th Ave., Eugene
Opening reception: 5-7 p.m. on Friday, June 19
Regular gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday when exhibits are on display
Information: 541-345-1571 or mkartcenter.org
