Royal Nebeker Art Gallery

Exhibit dates: April 2 – April 30, 2026
Reception: April 16, 6:00–7:30 pm

The Royal Nebeker Gallery at Clatsop Community College is pleased to announce the 2026 Faculty Plus Show, on view from April 2 through April 30, 2026. A community reception will be held on Thursday, April 16, from 6:00–7:30 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

The Faculty Plus Show highlights recent creative work of Clatsop Community College art faculty alongside invited guest artists from the broader regional arts community, reflecting the breadth of CCC’s visual arts program.

Featured CCC Art Faculty include:

• Ben Rosenberg (printmaking)

• Brad Menninga (ceramics)

• Kristin Shauck (design, drawing, painting, and art history)

Although David Homer (photography and graphic design) will not be exhibiting work in this year’s Faculty Plus Show, his contributions to CCC’s art curriculum are significant components of our department’s course offerings.

This year’s “plus” artists include recently retired CCC Professor Emeritus of Ceramics, Richard Rowland, as well as invited guests Anna Daedalus and Kerry Davis, Hans Miles, Laura Ross-Paul, and Julia Mabry.

Richard Rowland received his BA from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, where he studied art, religion, and ceramics, and later continued ceramics studies at Portland State University. In 2005 he earned his MFA from the University of Tasmania in Launceston and has since traveled widely to study ceramic processes in Japan, Hawai‘i, and Aotearoa. Of his work and the anagama kiln Ahikaaroa (fire from long ago), Rowland writes, “I have always viewed my clay pots as living organisms. My Polynesian ancestors have guided me in this creative process, and I hear their voices on a daily basis influencing my clay work.” His practice reflects a deep sense of kuleana (responsibility) to his local community, material knowledge, and cultural identity.

Anna Daedalus and Kerry Davis are a married artist team whose multidisciplinary work spans photography, installation, sculpture, and land art. Kerry studied photography and filmmaking at Portland State University and Oregon College of Art and Craft, and Anna earned her BA from Reed College. Their collaborative projects have been supported by grants and residencies and have been shown regionally, including at the Littman Gallery and Schneider Museum of Art. Anna and Kerry live in Wahkiakum County, Washington, and will also serve together as jurors for this year’s Annual Juried Art Student Show at Clatsop Community College. Their series Columbia River Shadows consists of photograms made directly in the water at ten sites along the lower Columbia River, from the Hanford Reach to its mouth on the Oregon Coast. Reflecting on interdependence and impermanence, the project alludes to environmental crisis, the Anthropocene epoch, and geologic time; the river and ocean waters, which flowed directly over the photographic paper, left palpable traces of their presence.

Ceramic artist Hans Miles, raised in Prescott, Arizona, comes from a family of artists, makers, and tinkerers. He earned his BFA in Ceramics from Arizona State University, focusing on atmospherically fired pottery and cast objects, and later served as coordinator of the Art and Industry residency program at Mission Clay, a ceramic sewer pipe factory where he developed monumental-scale ceramic sculpture. In 2024 he completed an MFA in Ceramics at the University of Notre Dame. Now based in Ilwaco, Washington, Miles is lead instructor and studio manager at Ilwaco Artworks, where he continues to explore human-scaled sculpture, wood-fired pottery, “plastic” slip casting, and glaze chemistry. Describing his current body of work, Miles notes that the pieces present “a tableau of human-scaled objects that exhibit corporeal physicality and the suggestion of self-ownership. In static engagement, in halted propinquity, like a frozen gathering these pieces behave as ‘nearly known objects’ and are interrupted by our presence.” Their non-objective forms “linger on the periphery of definition,” with atavistic textures that invite touch—“always the other, always at arm’s length, yet calling to be pressed tightly against our palms and fingertips.”

Northwest painter Laura Ross-Paul is known for evocative figurative works that explore resilience, empowerment, and transformation. With a career spanning more than four decades as both an exhibiting artist and an academic, her paintings have been shown widely across the country, particularly on the West Coast. Dividing her time between Portland and Manzanita, Ross-Paul will teach a portrait workshop at the Hoffman Center this summer. Her work in the Faculty Plus exhibit, Jessie’s Jewels and Three Orbs, is executed in charcoal with flash acrylic overlay; figurative imagery is overlaid with transparent gold, symbolic orb shapes representing the female body’s assets and gifts.

Julia Mabry, MS, MPH, has been teaching biology at Clatsop Community College since 2020 and in recent years she has also been actively developing her painting practice. She relishes the challenge of building new skills; for her, acrylic paints and a blank canvas bring out the friction between vision, technical ability, and allowing the paint to ‘do its thing.’ Her paintings in this show include Rainbow Valley. Of this work, Mabry writes in her artist statement that it was ‘inspired by the many climbers who, in their colorful mountain gear, lost their lives attempting to summit Mt. Everest and now remain frozen in time at 25,000 feet—a reminder of human hubris and the desire to touch the sky.’”

The CCC Royal Nebeker Gallery, located at 1799 Lexington Avenue in Astoria. is dedicated to enriching the cultural life of the campus, the local community, and the North Coast region. Please join CCC in its mission to sustain and promote contemporary art and visual culture through professional exhibitions and programming.

Gallery hours are from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, and on weekends and holidays by appointment only. For more information, please contact Kristin Shauck by phone (503-338-2472) or e-mail kshauck@clatsopcc.edu.