CORVALLIS ARTS WALK | every 3rd thursday, 4-8:00 pm
Wellsher Hallway Gallery, 460 Madison Avenue (2nd floor), corvallis
collaborate with adrienne
Borders: You Fill Them In
Borders by Adrienne, Art by YOU! (Pros & Amateurs Welcome)
Adrienne Fritze
I love creating borders—on journal pages, art papers, photo mats, and more. Some start as sketches, then get scanned and reprinted on new papers or substrates. Others, like the Mattes, are original drawings.
Every so often, I invite others to collaborate with me by filling in or transforming these borders. This year, I’m starting early so we can showcase our combined work in the December CAW Hallway Gallery.
We already have 16 collaborators, and there’s room for more! If you’d like to join, just let me know. Finished works need to be returned by Thanksgiving so I have time to matte and frame them.
Interested? Reach out today to reserve your border and be part of the show!
immerSive, relational art experience
Empty & Meaningless: Shaping the Light Within
Stories Into Art: Shaping the Light, Together
Adrienne Fritze
It’s been over fifteen years since my last solo exhibition. When I booked this show a year ago, it was a personal challenge to begin creating art again. For months, nothing came. But as events in the U.S. rippled through my community and family, I chose to relaunch Empty & Meaningless: The Box Project — a space for people to lay down their sorrows, anger, and confusion, and a way to spark my own work. What emerged was an unexpected dialogue: their stories and mine, shaping each other, finding light between resistance and creation.
Empty & Meaningless: Shaping the Light Within grew out of years of leading Empty & Meaningless workshops, where I’ve seen people uncover truths they’ve carried quietly for decades. In those moments, I learned that transformation isn’t solitary — it ripples outward.
Some of the works in this show were born from my own journey, my own reckoning with the stories that shaped me. Others are inspired by the words and reflections shared during past community events in Corvallis. And during the run of this show, I’ll create two or three entirely new pieces from the voices of visitors — people who choose to sit at The Writing Desk, post to The Freedom Wall, or step up to The Dialogue Frames and offer something real.
When the lights are on and the room is full, this isn’t just my work anymore. It becomes ours. The boundaries blur — between artist and viewer, between individual story and shared experience — and in that blur, something luminous takes shape.
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introducing a new work & 2 repaired pieces
Doodles by A
A Long, Long Time Ago, in a Metropolis Far, Far Away...
Adrienne Fritze
Before moving to Corvallis, I lived in Portland, where I was a working artist, co-ran a studio/gallery collective, and led business workshops for artists called The Guerrilla Exhibitor. I also spent significant time advocating for artists to local government and developers.
That advocacy work often kept me out of the studio, so to stay creative, I carried a 9×12″ ink pad and a dozen colored Sharpies in my briefcase. I’d sketch while waiting—often for delayed meetings—with city officials and developers.
Thus was born my form of doodles…
introducing a new work & 2 repaired pieces
On Gem Laden Wings,
I Carry Thee
Inspired by My Catholic Upbringing Thru the Divine Nature of My Mom
Adrienne Fritze
I miss my Mom more than any soul departed. “You's is a good kid, Enger,” resonated as the bedrock of her affection and camaraderie, spoken to me since my earliest days in school. It derived from the faith instilled in her upbringing: Catholicism.
To me, this piece embodies the gentle embrace of a guardian angel, leading my dearest dame, Jean Marie, towards the mysterious realm that is now hers
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