2025 Exhibits
Middle School Art Exhibit - August 2025
Following the high school exhibit, the Second Story Gallery is featuring an equally impressive collection from our middle school students at Liberty, Odyssey, and Skyridge Middle Schools. This showcase provides a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the budding talents of younger artists and encourages their continued artistic growth.
Special thanks to art teachers Erin Marcell (Liberty MS), Kobie Moore (Odyssey MS), and Laura Richards (Skyridge MS) for coordinating this show.
High School Art Exhibit - July 2025
For the month of July, the Second Story Gallery welcomes its annual exhibition of artwork from local high school art students in the Camas School District. This showcase highlights the creativity and skill of our young artists. Visitors can see the students’ diverse range of mediums, including mixed media, painting, and sculpture.
Special thanks to art teachers Heidi Keith (Camas HS), Jordan King (Camas HS), Kobie Moore (Discovery HS), and Miranda Wakeman (Hayes Freedom HS) for coordinating this show.
Storyteller Quilters: Monochromatic and Achromatic Quilts - June 2025
Storytelling is a tradition in all cultures, first as oral, and then as pictorial, such as cave paintings. The Storyteller Quilters group was formed because they all wanted to continue that tradition by using quilts to present visual stories. The most recent challenge was to create 30" x 30" monochromatic pieces, each in a different color on the color wheel. They complemented these pieces by each creating an achromatic black, white, and gray quilt.
Contours: Artwork by Travis London - May 2025
Travis London’s solo exhibition, “Contours,” explores the diverse landscapes and nonhuman inhabitants that make up the Pacific Northwest. The paintings chronicle some of the last wild places and aim to evoke a sense of interconnectedness and beauty, and calls out to us to protect these public lands.
Roots of a Movement: Denis Hayes, Camas, and Earth Day - April 2025
Roots of a Movement: Denis Hayes, Camas, and Earth Day, presented in collaboration with the Camas Earth Day Society, explores the origins of Earth Day and the pivotal role played by Camas native Denis Hayes in launching the environmental movement that continues to shape the world today.
Denis Hayes, a key organizer of the first Earth Day in 1970, has been instrumental in advocating for environmental awareness and action. The exhibit tells the story of how Earth Day began, highlights Hayes’ contributions, and showcases the lasting impact of this global movement.
Fill the Gallery! A Celebration of Youth Art Month - March 2025
In honor of Youth Art Month in March, the Second Story Gallery invited elementary school students throughout the community to showcase their talent. By providing a platform to celebrate and recognize the creativity of young artists in our community, we can collectively help foster a sense of pride and encourage the development of talent.
Buzz and Bloom: Art by Joanne Adams Roth and Cindy Wilson Geffel - February 2025
BUZZ AND BLOOM is a collection of works by nature lovers Joanne Adams Roth (fiber art) and Cindy Wilson Geffel (painting and assemblage).
Joanne, who is also a Master Gardener in Clark County, is presenting her fiber art series of Garden Ladies. They were inspired by works of artists and photographers from around the world. She placed each of the figures in artistic backgrounds that represent flora and fauna imagined or familiar to her.
Cindy is inspired by her rural landscape, including the thousands of bees managed on her farm. A Master Beekeeper, she is exhibiting paintings, assemblages, and sculpture works celebrating her favorite insect.
Transformation Through Travel: Photography by Leslie Struxness - January 2025
Our world, with all its beauty and wonder, is ever changing.
Walk with me - seeing people, places, culture and diversity captured through photography - each just one moment in time.
Some are simply stunning landscapes, others a street scene, or a portrait, but each has a story, documenting a specific time and place.
As the viewer, I strive to have you connect with these images, to provoke an emotion, to ask questions, and to want to know more. I want to take you to another place - a place of wonder, a place, perhaps, unfamiliar or even uncomfortable.
Travel, for me, has been transformational. It has given me a wider worldview. It provides a window into other perspectives. I’m more knowledgeable, more compassionate, and more whole because of the places I’ve been and people I’ve met. I want to open that door for you too. Walk in, and experience the transformation of travel.
