Windowfront Exhibitions
Windowfront Exhibitions
Downtown Eugene’s empty storefronts become galleries and spaces for artists to demonstrate their craft. Come downtown by foot, car or bike to enjoy windowfronts transformed into art installations.
Tour downtown to enjoy:
- Eugene Indigenous and Latina/o/x Artists working in various art forms and mediums, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, textiles and more.
- R0 Prayer Flag Redux Community Art Project: a community art project raising funds to support Lane Arts Council.
- Windowfront paintings by Urban Canvas artists.
- Eugene Indigenous and latina/o/x Artists
- R0 Prayer Flag Community Project
- Windowfront Paintings
- Call to Artists
Eugene Indigenous and Latina/o/x Artists
October 8 - November 28, 2021
This season’s installment of Windowfront Exhibitions celebrates artists from diverse backgrounds and cultures that have historically been under-represented. Walk around downtown and enjoy works from artists who identify as American Indian and Alaskan Native, Hispanic, Latina/o/x, including indigenous tribes, Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and any other regions that identify with these cultures.
Exhibition Highlights
- 833 Willamette St.: discover the origin and symbolic details of the Charro outfit at the Charro Attire Exhibition | Exhibición de Atuendo Charro.
- 856 Willamette St & 280 W. Broadway.: stop by these galleries that includes mixed media work, bronze, basket, sculpture, textile, acrylic, watercolor and graphite pieces by artists Johnny Rolling Thunder, Rogene Mañas, Marina Hajek, Mija Matriz, Esteban Camacho Steffensen, Joanna Irizarry, Andrea Ros, Patricia Montoya Donohue and Mujeres con Alas.
- 1004 Willamette St.: see the projection exhibit Riqueza Natural de México, 2020, which includes images by 77 photographers, sharing the natural beauty of Mexico.
- 270 W. Broadway: Enjoy sculpture, painting and prints curated by VRGNZ that feature artists from the Queen Vandals Collective including the largest skateboard display ever seen in Eugene.
Exhibition Details
Learn more
Hispanic Heritage Month (Sep. 15-Oct. 15) and American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month (November) celebrate the histories and cultures of American Indian and Alaska Native, Latina/o/x and Hispanic Americans.
On October 11, Windowfront Exhibitions stands with Native communities in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day |Dia de las Indigenas. This day raises awareness of the true history while celebrating the culture and resilience of Native people. In 2020, Mayor Vinis proclaimed in support of Indigenous Peoples Day, “...ask the residents of Eugene to utilize this day as an opportunity to reflect on the ongoing struggles of Indigenous people of this land, to celebrate the thriving cultures and values of Indigenous Peoples of our region, and stand in solidarity with Indigenous peoples…". It is in this spirit that Windowfront Exhibitions stands in solidarity with Indigenous peoples elsewhere.
We invite you to learn more:
When Labels Don’t Fit: Hispanics and Their Views of Identity
Doctrines of Dispossession - Racism against Indigenous peoples
R0 Prayer Flag Redux Community Art Project
Call for prayer flags closes October 28
On display in November
Join curator, Donald R. Dexter, Jr., DMD in a community art project, the R0 Prayer Flag Redux, to raise funds to support Lane Arts Council’s programs for local artists. Lane Arts Council supports local artists and arts groups to advance their creative projects and careers. The goal is to collect 200 prayer flags along with $10 or more donations to Lane Arts Council. Participant's donations will be matched by Dr. Dexter (up to $1,000 total match).
The call closes on October 28. Your prayer flag will be displayed in a Windowfront Exhibition in November. Encourage friends and family to submit prayer flags!
Visit Lane Arts Council for participation details. For questions regarding prayer flag submission, contact media@drdexter.com.
Windowfront Paintings
Urban Canvas artists bring color and vibrancy to windowfronts.
Alejandro Sarmiento
Dates Displayed: October 8 - November 28, 2021
Presented by: Urban Canvas
Location: 1038 Willamette Street
About: My art is always changing, always evolving. I believe that repetition is the mother of perfection so I aim to create as much as I can whenever and wherever I am. I love creating representational art, and currently, I am really enjoying mixing references from real life with images with my imagination. To me, the melange of real with imagined feels like adding my own flavor or lens to life.
Alejandro Sarmiento is an artist who specializes in acrylic painting and drawing. He began his artistic journey at a young age, drawing on any surface he could find and filling his school notebooks with doodles. Mostly self-taught, Alejandro further developed his skills with a few years of formal art training at Lane Community College in his mid-twenties. Today he continues to learn and evolve his craft through daily practice, interacting with other mediums and artists, and independent research of techniques and best practices. Alejandro has created artwork for local and city projects, in both the private and public sectors, including large-scale murals, custom portraits, logos, and collaborative pieces. After eight years of working as a paid professional artist, Alejandro opened his own art business in 2020 where he continues to create commissioned work and teaches art classes for both novice and experienced painters. Artwithalejandro.com
Lisa Yu
MAKE WAY
Dates displayed: March 5 - November 21, 2021
Presented by: Urban Canvas
Location: 858 W. Park
About: Lisa Yu is a painter and assemblage artist originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan. She uses mostly re-purposed materials. Her art celebrates ordinary life, through subject matter, means of exhibition, and media. As an artist, she thrives on collaboration and works to support social and environmental justice. Since moving to Eugene in 2009 from Chicago, she has taken part in public art projects utilizing various mediums: Upstream Art Springfield, the Umbrella Project, Eugene Storefront Art Project, RainPlay and BRIDGE Exhibitions: Reflections Space. lisayuart.wordpress.com
Eleanor Soleil
HUMILITY OF NARCISSUS IV
Dates displayed: March 5 - November 21, 2021
Presented by: Urban Canvas
Location: 133 W. Broadway (Pipeworks Studios)
About: Eleanor Soleil is from Eugene, Oregon. Her work is inspired by experiences as a nonbinary trans woman, a person with mood disorders, and the struggle for liberation under the weight of capitalism. Through a variety of self-taught painting techniques, ranging from photorealism to impressions to total abstractions, she creates surreal paintings that combine a personal and common mythos to weave the real with the imaginary with the symbolic. She is passionate about art and the liberation of the oppressed classes, and considers her art practice as one of the only ways that she can truly be free. As a 21 year old emerging artist, she has been involved with many projects and collaborations with artists in the Eugene and Portland area, most notably with the murals by Ila Rose. She received the Mayor’s Art Show People’s Choice Award for best artist in Eugene in 2019.
David Placencia
SPRING OWL
Dates displayed: March 5 - November 21, 2021
Presented by: Urban Canvas
Location: 1045 Willamette Street
About: Born in Southern California, David CP Placencia moved permanently to Eugene, Oregon in 2008 to focus on his art practice. 2012 marked his first solo exhibition at a local art gallery and he continues to show artworks, public art and provides art instruction in Eugene religiously since graduating from the University of Oregon in 2013. Teaching and being active in community projects became a large part of his practice. In 2019 he founded WheelHaus Arts, a K-12 art studio and gallery. khaostasis.com/
Janene Block
SPRING FLING
Dates displayed: March 5 - November 21, 2021
Presented by: Urban Canvas
Locations: 39 W. Broadway (Manifest Brewing)
About: Janene Block is a local artist who has lived in Eugene/Springfield most of her life and received her education in Fine Arts at the University of Oregon. She is an illustrator and painter with a passion for studying the human body through dance and portraiture. She is a special needs mom who, in her spare time uses painting as a means of catharsis. She also enjoys painting landscapes and murals while finding comfort and solace in creating portraits, particularly those who have passed on. It is a great honor for her to commemorate people through her paintings. It is a spiritual and intimate experience and a very special gift to share with others as a way to give back to her community. facebook.com/JaneneBlockStudios/
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Windowfront Exhibitions - Call to Artists
We are looking for artists to help enliven Downtown Eugene through the placement of artwork in storefront window installations. Submission deadline October 25.
Contact Us
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Public Art Manager
Ph: 541-682-6314
Downtown Public Art Program Assistant
Windowfront Exhibitions showcase local artists and arts organizations, transforms vacant storefronts into works of art, highlights our downtown businesses and offers vibrancy and engagement to the community. We believe that all empty spaces have great potential to be transformed by artists and innovation.