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0.6 miWillamette Drive & Walling Circle
0.8 miWillamette Drive & Cedar Oak
1.3 miSoutheast McLoughlin & Vineyard
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Specialties
The Art Gym’s regionally recognized program serves the Portland metropolitan area and the surrounding Lake Oswego and West Linn communities, areas where Marylhurst University has become a focal point for artistic expression and cultural risk-taking.
Since 1980, The Art Gym, under supervision of director and curator Terri M. Hopkins, has shown the work of more than 300 artists, produced more than 50 exhibition catalogs, and sponsored numerous artist roundtables and public forums.
History
Established in 1980.
In 1980, few institutions took the art of the Northwest seriously. The Portland Center for the Visual Arts focused on national and international work, while the Portland Art Museum mounted infrequent regional shows and published only rarely. The handful of commercial galleries and artists’ spaces concentrated, as they do now, primarily on recent work by individual artists.
The Art Gym began as the vision of Kay Slusarenko (Chair of the Art Department from 1978 – 1998), who saw the potential of the unused college gymnasium. In collaboration with faculty members Terri Hopkins and Paul Sutinen, the decision was made to dedicate the space to exhibitions and publications featuring art of the Pacific Northwest.
Sutinen supervised the initial physical transformation of gym to gallery and the community donated $ 1,500 and 400 hours of volunteer labor to the cause. Under the direction of curator Hopkins, The Art Gym opened its first show of contemporary Northwest art in September 1980.
