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Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon
Public information officer: Joan Aschim, (541) 463-5591, aschimj@lanecc.edu
Contact: Hillary Knox, Center for Meeting and Learning Events Coordinator, (541)463-3511, knoxh@lanecc.edu
For release Tuesday, September 6, 2005
New LCC art gallery to honor memory of famous local artist/teacher
EUGENE, OR - The Center for Meeting and Learning at Lane Community College will dedicate its opening art gallery exhibition to commemorating the life and work of David Joyce. "Studio Mates: Remembering David Joyce through the work of John Bauguess, Bob Devine and Ron Finne," will kick off with a reception on Wednesday, September 21 from 5 to 7 p.m. It will highlight the work of Joyce, Bauguess, Devine, and Finne by featuring art created while they shared studio space together.
"We are so honored to be able use our facility to celebrate such a wonderful person as David" says Peg Allison, director of Conference and Culinary Services at Lane. "We hope the gallery will serve as a great resource for both our guests and our local communities well into the future.”
The exhibition also will recognize the generous art donation given in Joyce’s memory to the college by the artist’s wife, Kacey Joyce. The piece, "Komachin,” is a unique digital mosaic comprised of thousands of pictures of school students and staff, and now hangs permanently in the Center for Meeting and Learning main lobby.
Joyce is best known in the local community for his flying people mural at the Eugene Airport and has reached national acclaim through his photo mosaics and other work. He was a popular local artist/photographer and taught art and media arts at Lane for 25 years from 1976 to 2001. Joyce passed away December 3, 2003 at the age of 57 from non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
The exhibition will run from Wednesday, September 21, 2005 until the first week in February 2006, in the upstairs lobby of the Center for Meeting and Learning, located on the west end of Building 19 on the LCC main campus.
The gallery is open to the public during normal college hours. To attend the opening reception, RSVP by Friday, September 16 to cml@lanecc.edu. For more information, please e-mail Hillary Knox at knoxh@lanecc.edu or call (541) 463-3511.
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