Corvallis Fall Festival

Fall Festival is proud to offer this invitational exhibition of artwork in the gallery-like setting of the Corvallis-Benton County Library's Main Meeting Room. This year's 9th Annual Showcase features artists in a variety of media. On view will be "Celebrating the Harvest" -- the painted created by Carol Chapel for this year's poster, along with other pieces from Carol.

Others Artists in this year's Invitational:

C. Lill Ahrens, Greta Ashworth, Eric Baily, Christine Baxter, Cherrill Boissonou, Wendy Brewer, Joyce Canan, Claudia Cave, Carolee Clark, Kelly Collins, Shelley Curtis
Rob Dudenhoefer, Linda Fire, Terry Inokuma, Charles Leach
Naoko Machida, Sabine Miner, James O'Shea, Laura Peters
Lynn Powers, Paul Rickey, Pam Serra-Wenz, Alexis Spakoski
Frances Stilwell, Leetra Taylor, Bruce Tucker, Tony Van Vliet
Rusty vanRossmann

This year the show will be available to the public for a bit longer: Wednesday-Saturday, 12 noon - 5 pm each day. Don't miss an opportunity to visit the show and vote for your favorite piece for the People's Choice Award. Last year's People's Choice Winner was Leetra Taylor for her "Walking the Dog"

This year's Poster Artwork, "Celebrating the Harvest" is by a Carol Chapel from her Fall Abundance Series. Carol’s artwork often celebrates our area’s flora and fauna and the bounty of living here. When her retrospective show at the Benton County Historical Museum went up last fall it reminded us of what great work she has done over the years. We decided an original from her would be a great image for this year. More of her artwork can be seen on her website. .

Carol is happily RETIRED from the work she did for many years. Her graphic design business created many business logos and signs and many a log truck in the area was painted by her. Now she is focused on her fine art and sharing it more with the public and for this we are glad.

This original acrylic ($900) will be shown along with another of Carol’s pieces at this year’s Fine Arts Showcase.