The Annex
2025 Central Oregon Collegiate Art Exhibition
January 13 - February 22, 2025
First Friday Reception: February 7, 5:00 – 7:00 PM. Toasts and announcements at 6PM.
The 2025 Central Oregon Collegiate Art Exhibition celebrates the dynamic talent of student artists from Central Oregon Community College (COCC) and Oregon State University Cascades (OSU-C). This exhibition brings together a diverse collection of artworks that showcase the creativity, skill, and vision of student artists from across the region.
Featuring student submissions in five distinct categories— Digital, Drawing, Painting, Photography and Printmaking —the exhibition offers a vibrant snapshot of the innovative and thought-provoking work emerging from these two institutions. The exhibition not only reflects the individual creativity of each student, but also the unique educational environments of COCC and OSU-C. From intricate drawings to compelling photographs, the show highlights the diverse approaches and perspectives shaping contemporary artistic practices.
Visitors will encounter a wide range of styles, techniques, and concepts, inviting reflection on the role of art in both personal expression and the broader cultural conversation.
FEATURED ARTISTS:
Natasha Anderson-Butler
Mariah Ayers
Steve Bachtel
Sasha Castellino
Alex Cloutier
Ellie (El) Clute
Andrea Comer
Charlie Davis
Gabriel Favia
Owen Flannery
Mahina Gelderloos
Katie Givens
Kaia Jordan
Jessica Lovelace
Roman Matejsek
Alyssa McCance
Laney Meierhoefer
Ella Merkel
Marc Naylor
Carolyn Parker
Diana Popp
Indigo Stone
Elena Strange
Samantha Townsend
Thomas Tucker
Dylan Wiens
Places
Emily Livengood
March 7 - March 30, 2025
First Friday Reception: March 7, 5:00 – 7:00 PM.
Pausing to connect, notice, and let a place impact you, changes you. However, many of us rarely pause. We live in the furfur of our to do lists and the expectations we, or others, have set. When you stop and embrace the place you have decided to be, your body and mind change. The landscape gets under your skin. When you begin to deeply look at and feel a place, your nervous system reacts. Often matching the pace of the environment. I like to collect those Places. The Places that impact me, make me pause, teach me something. Calm my nervous system. Healing Places. But only if I take the time to pause and notice. This collection, Places, are paintings of the landscapes that have changed me. Places that if you have paused to experience have likely changed you too.
ABOUT EMILY LIVENGOOD:
I am an artist, naturopathic doctor, mother, environmentalist, and lover of sleeping under the stars. And am consciously returning to art after pushing my creative self into the background for much of my adult life. I was busy adulting until the pain of not creating, seeing, and experiencing life through an artist's lens, became enough to make me pause, reassess my hustle, and decide it was time for an elegant pivot. A shift in direction that has slowed me down, grounded me in the power of place, and finally makes me feel fully alive. My art has long been a supporting character. Studying ecology/pre-vet during my undergraduate training, but strategically arranging my course schedule so I could also fit in as many art classes as possible. Always bringing my sketch book and travel painting kit with me as I worked in the field as a wildlife biologist. Leaning heavily on my anatomy coloring books throughout my medical training. Then finding painting again as the balm against burning out while in the dance of motherhood and practicing medicine. I now feel that I have come full circle. My 18 year old self would be proud. I never stopped making, painting, and creating but have kept it tucked away for too long. I am stepping into my version of an artist's life that I was too afraid to follow when I was younger. Finally letting my creativity play a leading role.
THE ANNEX: A Scalehouse Project located in the atrium of Franklin Crossing is the latest program from Scalehouse Collaborative for the Arts. Through an online application, artists will submit work and proposals. We are delighted to support local artists with a space to show new works, gain experience and exposure in the field, and add to Scalehouse's mission of building community around arts and culture events. View previous Annex Artists here.
