Rotunda Gallery Past Exhibits

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2026

Exhibits

  • Bare Limbs: Photography by Breezy Winters

2025

Exhibits

  • Turtle Wisdom: Personal, Political, Playful by Betty LaDuke
  • Departure Detour Divergence, Featuring Studio 6000
  • Rain Shadows: Paintings by Don Olsen
  • A Life Well Woven, Dee Ford Potter

2024

Exhibits

  • High Desert Art League Spring Show
  • Gradients, Gatherings and Glimmers: Paintings by Bill Hoppe
  • RESOURCEful: Art about Agriculture, a traveling exhibition from OSU's College of Agricultural Sciences
  • Summer Mares by Paula Bullwinkel

2023

Exhibits

  • From the Margins: Artist Books and Assemblage Sculptures by Krayna Castelbaum
  • Early Spring in the Mist: Paintings and Drawings by Cheri Lee Helfenstein
  • Spring Experimental Exhibition, Watercolor Society of Oregon
  • Oregon Tapestries by Margaret Kilbuck Johansen, in partnership with the Association of Northwest Weavers' Guilds and Weaving Guilds of Oregon
  • Filaments, sponsored by the Weaving Guilds of Oregon
  • Plen Air Painters of Oregon

2022

Exhibits

  • Plein Air to Studio: Oregon Landscapes
  • A Constant Presence: Patricia Clark
  • Student Art Exhibition
  • Just Around the Corner: Paintings by Brad Earl
  • Brave New World, featuring work by mixed media artist Lloyd McMullen

2020

Exhibits

  • Bird Stories: Flying with Nature
  • In Full Bloom, paintings by former COCC president Dr. Robert Barber

2019

Exhibits

  • A Tom Meret Retrospective
  • If Trees Could Dream, Tom Gladu
  • Novel Idea: COCC student art inspired by Deschutes Public Library's 2019 Novel Idea selection, Rocket Men by Robert Kurson
  • Student Art Exhibition
  • Watercolor Society of Oregon

2018

Exhibits

  • Weaving Guilds of Oregon
  • Panopticon by Kiel Fletcher
  • Student Exhibition
  • Water Tables: Mixed-media Drawings by Patricia Clark

  • Paintings by Dr. Robert Barber
    Purple tulips
  • Paintings by Dr. Robert Barber
    4 artworks hanging on gallery wall
  • Musical entertainment at In Full Bloom reception
    Guitarist
  • Attendees at In Full Bloom reception
    Crowd mingling in gallery
  • Attendees looking at Dr. Barber's paintings
    People discussing a painting of a dahlia
  • Attendees reading Dr. Barber's artist statement
    Two people reading the artist statement by a painting
  • Attendees looking at sketches
    People viewing art in the gallery
  • Dr. Robert Barber, library director Tina Hovekamp, and COCC faculty
    Dr. Robert Barber and library director Tina Hovekamp share a laugh
  • Tina Hovekamp introduces Dr. Barber
    Attendees gather for some words by the artist
  • Dr. Barber presents his show, "In Full Bloom"
    Attendees gather in the Rotunda to listen to the artist
  • Dr. Barber presents his show, "In Full Bloom"
    The Gallery is full of attendees on both floors