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Cottage Grove people highlighted at Portland Airport art exhibit
June 15, 2023
Travelers at Portland International Airport are getting a glimpse of small town life in Cottage Grove through an exhibition of oil paintings by Uyen-Thi Ngyuen. She also created a book, Garden of People: A Portrait of Cottage Grove.
She told KLCC’s Rachael McDonald she started the project during the pandemic. She was eventually able to get a grant from the Lane Arts Council...
Cottage Grove Artist selected for PDX exhibit and Eugene gallery show
December 23, 2022
Cottage Grove artist Uyen-Thi Nguyen has been selected to share her artwork from "Garden of People, A Portrait of Cottage Grove" at the Portland International Airport for the first half of 2023. "I was so happy to get this opportunity to share the people of Cottage Grove with folks in Portland, and all those people traveling too," says Nguyen...
FROM PORTRAITS TO LANDSCAPES TO ABSTRACTS, THE SECOND FRIDAY ART WALK...
June 8, 2022
A special exhibit titled Garden of People, A Portrait of Cottage Grove by artist Uyen-Thi Nguyen anchors the Emerald Art Center’s displays for June. Nguyen, who lives in Cottage Grove, came up with the idea during the pandemic...
TWO SHOWS AT THE MAUDE KERNS ART CENTER CELEBRATE THE BEAUTY...
February 22, 2022
One is called Environs: A Plein Air Painters of Lane County Invitational, and is just that, a juried show that includes paintings by 25 artists who are members of that artists’ group. Works included in that exhibit were chosen by art center executive director Michael Fisher and exhibits coordinator and Sarah Ciampa.
The Portraitist
Fall 2021
Shortly after lockdown last year, Cottage Grove visual artist Uyen-Thi “T” Nguyen embarked on a 100-day portrait challenge, reaching out through social media to people she knew in her community. She had no trouble finding participants willing to submit a picture of themselves for her to work from...
A portrait of Cottage Grove
Jul 28, 2021
If you have visited historic downtown this month, you have no doubt noticed art hanging in local businesses, 10 of them to be exact. This would not be unusual if these shops were all art galleries or gift boutiques. But when fine art portraits start popping up at Rainy Peak Bicycles or Buster’s Bottle Shop...
Downtown sprouts a “Garden of People"
Jul 7, 2021
Through windows of local businesses like Delight, the Bookmine and Buster’s Main Street Cafe, portraits of the people of Cottage Grove are on display.
After nearly a year of painting, interviewing and getting to know various people in Cottage Grove, Nguyen’s book, “Garden of People, A Portrait of Cottage Grove,” is...
A Walk through a ‘Garden of People‘
May 19, 2021
Local artist Uyen-thi Nguyen has found a unique way to get to know her community – and is inviting others to “walk through the garden” she’s cultivated.
Her book, “Garden of People, A Portrait of Cottage Grove,” is an artist’s perspective on society, using Cottage Grove as the basis for exploration...
The Portrait of a City
Mar 2021
The interactions Uyen-Thi remembers having with customers as a business owner in Cottage Grove are what ultimately inspired the premise of the arts and community-heritage project on which she has been working for nearly a year now. The project, entitled “A Garden of People: A Portrait of Cottage Grove,” will endeavor to “create a portrait of a city through its people.”
This is not like a portrait in the usual sense of the word, mind you...
Nguyen paints the Grove
Nov 18, 2020
Cottage Grove artist Uyen-Thi “T” Nguyen wasn’t the sort of person to stay in one place for very long – that is, before she landed in Cottage Grove.
She and her family decided to move here to enroll her kids in Blue Mountain School. When the school closed, other qualities of the community served to keep her here...
Water down the drain...Art on top
Oct 1, 2020
Although Oregon’s waterways are one of the state’s greatest assets, many residents might not realize that everyday behaviors can damage the water’s health. As rainwater flows over buildings, yards and streets, it washes pollutants into storm drains and into waterways where they can harm...
CG artist awarded grant for local project
Aug 17, 2020
The Lane Arts Council has awarded local artist Uyen-Thi Nguyen with a $2,000 grant to complete a project centering around the Cottage Grove community.
Nguyen was among only five artists in Eugene and the surrounding area to receive the award through the Artist Grant program...
There's a gem of an art show on display now at the Corvallis Arts Center
Jul 1, 2019
Eugene artist Uyen-thi Nguyen’s oil-on-canvas painting, “The Truth About Adults” is part of the Around Oregon Annual juried art show at the Corvallis Arts Center; the artist’s aim, according to the artist’s statement is “to make discoveries about both inner and outer worlds, and bring to life pictures that...”
