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  • Exhibits 1
    • Doughnut Power . Robert Don
    • S/PLI/T Projects with Tessa Heck, Chloe Cooper
    • Clay Lohmann (2)
    • Julia Bradshaw
    • Subarna Talukder Bose
    • GOT IT MADE
    • Dana Reason . UNhearD (2000-
    • WE LIVE HERE the artists of Benton Plaza
    • Her Mind Moves Upon Silences
    • preundermeaning
    • THIS IS MUTANT POP!
    • Patrick Collier
    • Jonathan Ware
    • Anna Fidler + Tropical Contemporary
    • IN YOUR HOUSE... A DOOR with Zachary Gough
    • Hester Coucke with Mandy Hampton
  • 2
    • Johnny Beaver/Andrew Fisher
    • Aisha Rose McCoy
    • Roxanna Hendricks
    • The David Angel
    • GlosureAndContinuity
    • +/-
    • Brianna Miller & Dale Scott at Prisms Gallery
    • Silas Jones
    • Corvallis Word Factory
    • Storming The Academy
    • Jonathan D. Parks
    • Steve Pavey
    • Rachel Warkentin
    • Rachel Mulder
    • REEDYMON
    • Francisco Morales
    • Jamie Walsh
    • 10 in 10
  • 3
    • Photographs by Natalie Krick
    • Kaitlyn Wittig Mengüç
    • G-Litter
    • Caroline Moses
    • Lily Hudnell-Almas
    • Looking West: Exploring with the Corvallis Tree Being (With Kaitlyn Wittig Menguc)
    • Justin Lodge Vivid Conjuring
    • I Understand Where You're Coming From
    • Cara Tomlinson
    • Daniel Watkins and Milla Oliveira
    • Larry Hurst
    • CEI ArtWorks @ Bison bison
    • Eliza Murphy
    • Workbooks . Phillip March Jones
    • etc.
    • Shawn Creeden
  • 4
    • Kathryn Cellerini Moore
    • Muriel Condon
    • Michael Boonstra
    • The Adventures of the Worlds Royal Family's as they separate from the world we live in
    • Andrew Myers.Drawing Constructions
    • Cynthia Lahti
    • AUTOSPACE
    • I Did This to Myself
    • Portland Art and Learning
    • Patrick Hackleman (CEI)
    • Rachel Grant/Paul McGurl
    • Voices from Home
    • We Take the Long Way
    • Tropical Contemporary: A disappointing weather report
    • Anne Magratten
    • inVISIBLE 2015-2016 (evoking fairiew training center) >
      • inVISIBLE (Spring 2015)
      • Sam's interviews (disability culture) Story.Corps.Me
      • inVISIBLE
  • 5
    • Perry Johnson & Terry Johnson
    • Bruce Conkle
    • Jonathan Bucci
    • 3 Floods . R.J. Baynum Jr.
    • Jill R Baker
    • COLLAGE MONSTER
    • Michael Reinsch
  • artists
    • Kurt Fisk
    • Patrick Hackleman
    • Kris Askew
    • Dale Leroy Scott
    • Ruth Van Order
    • Matt Conklin
    • Matt Conklin's World of Wonders
    • Rick Kleinowski
    • Amy Turner
    • Susan Woods
    • Jeremy Cheney
    • Linda Bach
    • Mike Fairchild
    • Marieke Mirsch
  • Living Studios
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WE LIVE HERE
The Artists of Benton Plaza

The former Hotel Benton is a Neo-Renaissance styled structure which opened in 1925 in downtown Corvallis, Oregon. Repurposed as a mixed use building and renamed Benton Plaza, it blends small businesses and social service programs on its lower floors while offering supported housing opportunities on its upper floors. Some 50+ residents meet the requirements for housing and live in studio style apartments here. For the past two years ArtWorks has operated an art gallery and studio in Benton Plaza. ArtWorks is a program of Collaborative Employment Innovations or (CEI). CEI is recognized state-wide as a progressive agent, linking job seekers considered to have disabilities to employment opportunities. 

Over time it has become clear that many of the residents of Benton Plaza are engaged in extraordinary creative practices. Some resident practitioners came forth early on and have been mainstays of our ‘open studio’ program. Over time we have been introduced to many other creatives who live here. Discussing this informally with those who have expertise in both the arts and housing, we recognized that roughly 30% of those living here are engaged creatively. This seems like an amazing accounting and frankly given that we so often undervalue creative lives, this number seemed startling to us. We wonder if this is typical and if so are we underestimating the potential and numbers of those who create in a singular fashion all around us day in and day out, or could it be that there is something unique about the culture of this place?

​Though we can’t answer this we feel that this is a thread that bears consideration. With this exhibit we celebrate the achievements of some of those who live(d) in this place and also indulge in some speculation on the nature of creation.  
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​ Bruce Force:  Brute Force Article

Eugene Weekly: www.eugeneweekly.com/2017/02/09/welcome-to-the-accidental-art-hotel/
​Gazette-Times:  Corvallis Gazette-Times Article
OUTPOST1000:http://outpost1000.weebly.com/we-live-here-the-artists-of-benton-plaza.html​
 , CEI: http://ceiworks.org/

Amy Turner

Ruth Van Order

Andrew Fisher

Victor Nyland

Rick Kleinowski

REEDYMON

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