You can't miss the gallery in this multi-purpose art center, which also houses a theater and classrooms. It's right in the entrance lobby. That way, people can immediately engage in the works, according to center director Andrew Edwards, who calls it a living-room atmosphere. The gallery, which began in 1979 when the center opened, displays six to seven shows a year, and the center promotes primarily regional artists, with an emphasis on art education. Now, he carries hundreds of artists, many of them 19th-century Northwest regionalists.
Fresh merchandise arrives daily, with occasional shows and exhibitions.