https://agsci.oregonstate.edu/art/art-shows/2025-competition-and-touring-exhibition

OSU Art About Agriculture, Oregon State University, 248 Strand Agriculture Hall, Corvallis, OR (2026)

08/27/2026

Julia Lont, “Drinking from the Hose”, 2012, lithography, 21” x 30”.

2026 Margaret Hogg Memorial Art About Agriculture Purchase Award, sponsored by the late Margaret Hogg, and OSU College of Agricultural Sciences.

This lithograph creates a dreamlike rural landscape from a montage of imagery--both drawn (in lithographic crayon) and transferred from old photographs (using a solvent-based image transfer method.) Enormous root vegetables, messy grasses and a gnarled oak tree all draw sustenance from the same earth and water that sustains the young child, who is drinking from the hose. The idea of roots brings many associations, including nourishment from, connection to and history on... the land.

Julia Lont is an artist, illustrator and graphic designer, living and working in Corvallis, Oregon. She was an art teacher at Corvallis High School before becoming a graphic designer. She currently works as assistant art director at Oregon State University College of Forestry.

-Julia Lont, 2026
Corvallis, OR

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Art About Agriculture Competition and Touring Exhibition 2026: Field Report

Giustina Gallery at The LaSells Stewart Center (3/9 – 4/17), Josephy Center for Arts and Culture (4/24 – 5/30), Grants Pass Museum of Art (8/7 – 9/25) and Feves Gallery at Blue Mountain Community College (10/5 – 11/25). (link in bio)

08/26/2026

Niya Lee, “Specimen 2 (Snowy Plover)”, 2025, soda-fired porcelain with oxide wash and soda-slip, 4.5” x 6” x 0.75”.

Specimen 2 (Snowy Plover) is part of a series of wall sculptures exploring species of concern in the Pacific Northwest, where I regard each specimen as a relic of biodiversity at risk of vanishing. This specific work depicts the Western Snowy Plover, a shorebird once pushed to the brink. After a 30-year absence, these ground-nesting birds are finally returning to Oregon’s north coast—a fragile recovery for a species that numbered fewer than 50 breeding adults in the early 1990s.

This piece is finished in a soda kiln, an atmospheric firing process where sodium vapors interact with the clay to create an unpredictable, organic surface. With this finish I hope to echo the rugged, wind-swept coastal landscape where these birds inhabit. Nearly lost to history, the Plover now serves as a symbol of precarious resilience—the sculpture hangs as a lone specimen, a reminder of how easily a species can be lost.

-Niya Lee, 2026
Corvallis, OR

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Art About Agriculture Competition and Touring Exhibition 2026: Field Report

Giustina Gallery at The LaSells Stewart Center (3/9 – 4/17), Josephy Center for Arts and Culture (4/24 – 5/30), Grants Pass Museum of Art (8/7 – 9/25) and Feves Gallery at Blue Mountain Community College (10/5 – 11/25). (link in bio)

08/25/2026

Julia Lont, “Drinking from the Hose”, 2012, lithography, 21” x 30”.

2026 Margaret Hogg Memorial Art About Agriculture Purchase Award, sponsored by the late Margaret Hogg, and OSU College of Agricultural Sciences.

This lithograph creates a dreamlike rural landscape from a montage of imagery--both drawn (in lithographic crayon) and transferred from old photographs (using a solvent-based image transfer method.) Enormous root vegetables, messy grasses and a gnarled oak tree all draw sustenance from the same earth and water that sustains the young child, who is drinking from the hose. The idea of roots brings many associations, including nourishment from, connection to and history on... the land.

Julia Lont is an artist, illustrator and graphic designer, living and working in Corvallis, Oregon. She was an art teacher at Corvallis High School before becoming a graphic designer. She currently works as assistant art director at Oregon State University College of Forestry.

-Julia Lont, 2026
Corvallis, OR

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Art About Agriculture Competition and Touring Exhibition 2026: Field Report

Giustina Gallery at The LaSells Stewart Center (3/9 – 4/17), Josephy Center for Arts and Culture (4/24 – 5/30), Grants Pass Museum of Art (8/7 – 9/25) and Feves Gallery at Blue Mountain Community College (10/5 – 11/25). (link in bio)

08/25/2026

Nan King, “ICE’D”, 2026, acrylic, 26.5” x 20.75” x 1.25”.

The Rogue Valley of Southern Oregon, where the artist lives, is known for its pear orchards, vineyards and organic truck farms. This agricultural industry is labor intensive, requiring many hands to cultivate, plant, prune and harvest the fruit and specialty row crops. So one must question the road we’re on. Where does it lead? What becomes of our orchards, our vineyards, our farms—our very food supply—when we no longer have the agricultural workers to tend and harvest these crops?

A foggy fall morning at a local pear orchard provided the impetus for this painting.

About the Artist:
As a small child visiting a museum I had an awakening upon seeing a striking oil painting. “I can do that!” It was a revelation. Art lessons soon ensued and with them, the thrill of having paintings shown in school and college art exhibitions. It was exhilarating to have recognition. But not knowing back then what I wanted to say as an artist, I pursued another career. After many decades of diversion as a professional copywriter, I’ve returned to making art. Through painting I can portray life experiences and explore social injustices that tug at my heart. To express these themes, inspiration comes from books, dream states, photography and film.

-Nan King, 2026
Medford, OR

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Art About Agriculture Competition and Touring Exhibition 2026: Field Report

Giustina Gallery at The LaSells Stewart Center (3/9 – 4/17), Josephy Center for Arts and Culture (4/24 – 5/30), Grants Pass Museum of Art (8/7 – 9/25) and Feves Gallery at Blue Mountain Community College (10/5 – 11/25). (link in bio)

08/13/2026

Jennifer Joyce, “Backyard Troop”, 2025, acrylic, 13” x 14”.

I have always been an artist. From grade school, through high school painting murals, Christmas windows, entering competitions. I carried my folding easel on the bus to do plein air painting down at the harbor. I went on to study at Hofstra University in New York State, majoring in Fine Art and Education with a focus on painting. Located near Manhattan, I was able to visit the museums and galleries of the city which underscored and strengthened my desire to be a painter. Following graduation, I taught English in Ethiopia with the Peace Corps. Being immersed in such a different culture had a profound effect on my art.

I maintain a studio in Portland where I create paintings primarily in oils. I show at the Portland Art Museum’s Rental Sales Gallery and the Attic Gallery in Camas, Washington. My website is jennyjoyceart.com

Regarding Backyard Troop, I was on a walk in NE Portland when I saw this eruption of mushrooms in a private yard and was captured by the sheer life force and symmetrical beauty of this volunteer growth of fungi.

It was like a gift that nature was handing me, saying “Here, and it’s already designed for you”.
A friend had given me a sheet of tinted and textured rice paper, which formed the perfect background. Everything just came together.

My personal belief is that a good painting needs three elements: beauty, emotion and mystery. This troop had it all for me.

-Jennifer Joyce, 2026
Portland, OR

08/07/2026

Julie Johnson, “Resilience”, 2025, basketry from ivy vines and roots, 14” x 14” x 14”.

Julie Johnson works with plants. With a BS in Forest Management from OSU and decades of work in natural resources, she’s also been a practicing studio artist for over 30 years. Her sculptural basketry and handmade paper pieces are all created with plants that she and her husband harvest all over the Pacific Northwest.

While she works mostly with native species, Julie also includes a variety of invasive plants in her artwork to help increase public awareness of the challenges they pose in our ecosystems.

Resilience is a random weave sculptural basket made with ivy vines and roots. This ivy was collected during an eradication effort on private land in Clackamas County, Oregon in 2025.

The vines were intentionally woven so their roots would land unrestrained at the top of the basket – to evoke a feeling of wild abandon and celebration, as if the ivy is reveling in its hardy ability to elude eradication and continue to dominate so many landscapes!

Only, these roots, and the vines they’re attached to, are dead…

Explore more of Julie’s work on Instagram: .

-Julie Johnson, 2026
Portland, OR

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Art About Agriculture Competition and Touring Exhibition 2026: Field Report

Giustina Gallery at The LaSells Stewart Center (3/9 – 4/17), Josephy Center for Arts and Culture (4/24 – 5/30), Grants Pass Museum of Art (8/7 – 9/25) and Feves Gallery at Blue Mountain Community College (10/5 – 11/25). (link in bio)

08/06/2026

Liv Jerome, “Chicken Food”, 2025, felted wool, eight objects ranging from 2” x 2” x 1” to 7” x 1” x 1”.

Made of 100% dyed sheep’s wool, these eight needle-felted sculptures are products of the same multifaceted agricultural utility they represent.

This piece is intended to be both a visual and tactile experience. My hope is that viewers will touch, squeeze, and reposition the art, creating endless ephemeral compositions.

-Liv Jerome, 2026
Corvallis, OR

Student at Oregon State University
College of Forestry
Majoring in Natural Resources

Margaret Hogg Art About Agriculture 2026 Jury Student Honorarium
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Art About Agriculture Competition and Touring Exhibition 2026: Field Report

Giustina Gallery at The LaSells Stewart Center (3/9 – 4/17), Josephy Center for Arts and Culture (4/24 – 5/30), Grants Pass Museum of Art (8/7 – 9/25) and Feves Gallery at Blue Mountain Community College (10/5 – 11/25). (link in bio)

08/06/2026

The Art About Agriculture 2026 Tour has arrived at Grants Pass Museum of Art! The opening reception is this Friday, 8/7, in alignment with Grants Pass’ dynamic First Friday events. 5pm – 8pm at 229 SW G St. 2nd Floor, Grants Pass, OR 97526

gpmuseum.com

Grants Pass Museum of Art is also hosting the United Nations’ International Year of Rangeland and Pastoralists traveling exhibition, which is touring western Oregon with support from OSU College of Agricultural Sciences’ Animal and Rangeland Sciences Senior Instructor, Claudia Ingham. Art About Agriculture is thrilled to support Claudia and GPMA’s presentation of this important project in Southern Oregon with transportation and installation assistance.

https://iyrp.info

Thank you Grants Pass Museum of Art staff and volunteers!

Art About Agriculture Touring Exhibition 2026: Field Report will be on display at Grants Pass Museum of Art August 7 – September 25. Open hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10- 5pm.

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07/28/2026

Yuji Hiratsuka, “Fertile Nest”, 2025, intaglio and chine collé print, 16” x 11”.

Biography:
Yuji Hiratsuka was born in Osaka, Japan. He has a B.S. in Art Education from Tokyo Gakugei University, and degrees in printmaking from New Mexico State University (MA) and Indiana University (MFA). He has been teaching printmaking and drawing since 1987 and until his retirement in 2022 served as a Professor of printmaking at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.

Some of the public collections that include Hiratsuka’s art are The British Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, Tokyo Central Museum, Panstwowe Museum in Poland; The House of Humor and Satire in Bulgaria, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cleveland Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, New York Public Library, The Library of Congress and The Smithsonian’s Museum of Asian Art.

Artist Statement:
I like to employ mystical and ambiguous aspects in my color intaglio. In this print, an imaginary plant is floating up in the air or floating on water. I wanted the flower as a metaphor of mother bird guarding pink seed like an egg… The visual elements are arranged near perfect symmetrical setting which gives a solid composition.

-Yuji Hiratsuka, 2026
Corvallis, OR
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Art About Agriculture Competition and Touring Exhibition 2026: Field Report

Giustina Gallery at The LaSells Stewart Center (3/9 – 4/17), Josephy Center for Arts and Culture (4/24 – 5/30), Grants Pass Museum of Art (8/7 – 9/25) and Feves Gallery at Blue Mountain Community College (10/5 – 11/25). (link in bio)

07/23/2026

Brad Gooch, “Lumber Mill at the mouth of the Wind River in Summer”, 2021, oil, 18” x 25”.

Biography:
I grew up in Marquette, Michigan until my family moved to Madison, Wisconsin in 1969 where I attended high school and college. I studied painting at the University of Wisconsin, earning a fine art degree in 1979. I first saw the west on hitchhiking trips in the 1970s and was drawn to Oregon. I moved to Portland in 1979, where I worked as a graphic designer in a large electric utility for 25 years. I’ve since refocused on painting.

Artist Statement:
I paint places I see while hiking and traveling, as well as people I know. Although the Columbia Gorge is famous for scenery and sports, what interests me is the work taking place there, such as shipping, farming, and lumber mills. This piece is one of a series showing lumber mills at different times of year and times of day. I note the contrast between the blue Wind River and the muddy Columbia River in the foreground. I also like the contrast between the orderly lumber mill and the forested hills, although they, too, have been partially shaped by logging and farming. My paintings of rivers often have little or no sky, with the expanse of water providing a similar compositional element. They become a sort of upside-down landscape form.

-Brad Gooch, 2026
Portland, OR

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Art About Agriculture Competition and Touring Exhibition 2026: Field Report

Giustina Gallery at The LaSells Stewart Center (3/9 – 4/17), Josephy Center for Arts and Culture (4/24 – 5/30), Grants Pass Museum of Art (8/7 – 9/25) and Feves Gallery at Blue Mountain Community College (10/5 – 11/25). (link in bio)

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