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Current Events and Exhibits

September 5 – 28, 2025

Reception: September 5, 5 pm

2025 Northwest Pastel Society Member Show, juried by Gail Sibley. This year the show is in Hood River, Washington at Columbia Center for the Arts and will include between 75 and 100 pastel paintings.

Columbia Center for the Arts
215 Cascade Ave, Hood River, Washington.

https://www.columbiaarts.org/


Awards

  • 2023 Northwest Pastel Society Member Show
    Honorable Mention

  • 2021 Pastel Artists of Oregon Member Show, Brenda Boylan Jurors Award

  • 2021 SWA Vancouver Spring Show, Honorable Mention


Membership

  • Northwest Pastel Society

  • Pastel Society of the West Coast


Past Exhibitions

  • 2023 Northwest Pastel Society Member Show
    Larson Gallery, Yakima, Washington

  • 2022 Pastel Artists of Oregon Spirit of Pastel Show
    Newberg, Oregon

  • 2022 Voices in Pastel, Pastel Society of the West Coast, Hilbert Museum at Chapman University, Orange, CA

  • 2022 Pastels USA/99 Voices in Pastel
    36th Annual International Open Exhibition, Contemporary Impressionism category, Morro Bay, CA

  • 2022 Northwest Pastel Society 36th Annual International Open Exhibition, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA

  • 2021 Pastel Artists of Oregon Member Show

  • 2021 Juried into Portland Open Studios

  • 2021 Oregon Society of Artists, Hope Reigns show, Portland, OR

  • 2020–2021 Featured Artist at Frame Central Macadam, Portland, OR

  • 2020 Art at the Cave Gallery (as part of the SWA Fall Show), Vancouver, WA

  • 2018 Northwest Pastel Society member show, Kirkland, WA

  • 2018 Pastels USA Competition Show, Morro Bay, CA


Some artists I’ve taken classes and workshops from