Creative Spirits Gallery
The goal of the WLLC Creative Spirits Gallery is to support emerging and established artists and give their works exposure. The gallery exhibits works by area professional artists with opportunities for amateur artists as well. The gallery team seeks to create collaborations among the artists and between the artists and the community.
The gallery has two main exhibition walls, each approximately 15 feet long and 8 feet tall. In addition to this space, two of our sanctuary’s walls serve as exhibiting walls, each approximately 8 feet tall and 40 feet long. There is also a niche gallery space called “Little Spirits” that can hold 2 large or up to 20 small pieces. Glass art can be displayed in natural light and fabric art hanged on poles or with clips. Artists also have brought in their own cabinets for display of jewelry and other 3D pieces.
Artists Currently on Display in the Gallery
Carrie Gilbert
I am a printmaker and mixed-media artist working out of my home studio in West Linn. I use my art as a means of examining our complex relationship with the natural world around us.
I often juxtapose images of nature with artifacts of humanity’s attempts to quantify, predict, or otherwise understand it, such as maps, textbooks, gardening references, and other abstractions.
My creative process and its related research has led me to learn about various systems aimed at demystifying natural phenomena, from ancient calendars to sustainable agriculture, backyard birding to topographic maps, with various stops in between.
In addition to my art practice, I enjoy volunteering with arts organizations, writing, cooking, and spending time with my husband and two teenagers.
Judy Liebo
Although my background is in the medical field, my spare time is spent fondling fabric. I’ve always been crafty but for the last 25 years have worked exclusively with fabric, usually in the form of quilts.
I have always loved to work with my hands to create art, often using fabric, yarn, threads or paint. I enjoy studying an object and then recreating it in fabric. It may look realistic and true-to-life or only show a suggestion of its original shape. The easiest form this has taken has been through quilting.
Quilting allows me the freedom to determine my own size and pattern while providing me with multiple display opportunities. There is something so satisfying in creating and finishing a quilt that formed in my mind and flowed out from my hands. To be able to step back, look at my quilts and say, “Yes…that’s what I saw.” makes my heart happy.
Yong Hong Zhong
Yong Hong Zhong was born in Canton, China and immigrated to the United States when he was twelve years old. Yong attended High School of Music and the Arts in New York City followed by a degree in Illustration and Art History from Pratt Institute.
Yong worked for Disney Animation Studios from 1995 to 2008, his film credits including Princess and the Frog, Tarzan, Mulan and among others.
Since 2009, Yong has transitioned to painting full-time, participating in plein air competitions around the United States, judging art shows and teaching watercolor painting workshops both in-person and online. He has won many awards, published in art magazines, participated in many group and solo exhibitions. Yong’s works are in the permanent collection of the Maryhill Museum, City of Hillsboro Public Art Collection and City of Lake Oswego Public Art Collection.
Past Artists
