Chancellor’s Art Exhibition Series opens Monday at WSU Tri-Cities

Note to Editors: Professor Douglas Gast will be installing artwork from 11:30 a.m. to noon Thursday, Aug. 23, in the East Building hallway near the Chancellor’s office. The 14 paintings will be hung from a track-and-cable display system.

High-resolution version of artwork and exhibit posters available upon request.

RICHLAND, Wash. — Four Tri-City artists are featured in the inaugural Chancellor’s Exhibition Series, opening Monday at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

The artists will be honored at a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 27, in the East Building at WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 University Drive. The 14 paintings will be on display through December in the administration corridor. The East Building is open to the public from 7 a.m. to 1 0.m. weekdays and 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

This is a semi-annual juried exhibition series designed to showcase the remarkable art of the Columbia Valley. Chancellor Vicky L. Carwein will present a special award to one of the artists at the reception.

The artists and their works are:

• Tracy Horner: Insect Mandala and Meet the Beetles.

• Vali Hawkins Mitchell: The Palouse at 60 MPH, Untitled, and Your Dinner is Getting Cold.

• Heather Willoughby: All There Is, Rare Respite, Eternally on the Verge of Tears, and A Sense of Tangibility.

• Leonard Orr: 99, 103, 49, 105, and 104.

Additionally, Leonard Orr will display “Fluent Borders: 50 paintings,” from Monday until Sept. 24 at WSU Tri-Cities in the Consolidated Information Center art gallery. The reception for Orr, the academic director of the WSU Tri-Cities College of Liberal Arts, takes place from 5 to 6 p.m. Aug. 27. The CIC is at 2770 University Drive, and the art gallery is open Monday through Thursday from noon to 6 p.m.

Admission to the receptions and the art exhibits is free and open to the public.

For more information on art exhibits at WSU Tri-Cities, go to www.tricity.wsu.edu/artgallery.