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Collaborative Work Of Art On Display At The Rebecca Anstine Gallery (Photo) - 05/22/26

Vancouver, Wash. – Artist K.C. Madsen facilitated a collaboration involving Vancouver School of Arts and Academics that resulted in a work of art now on display at the Rebecca Anstine Gallery. The show will run through the end of June 2026.

 

The gallery is on the sixth floor of the Clark County Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin St. It is open 8 am to 5 pm Monday through Friday.

 

A reception for the artists will be held at the gallery 5-7 pm Friday, May 29. The event is sponsored by the Clark County Arts Commission. It is free and open to the public.

 

The show features two exhibits:

 

 Exhibit A: Evidence of an art occurrence
 

This was a collaboration involving Vancouver School of Arts and Academics (VSAA) fine arts, music, dance and film students and art teacher Crystal Zeller and family—all under the direction of artist K.C. Madsen, who “conducted” the performance on Saturday March 29, 2014. There was no audience present, only performers and documenters.

 

Everyone wore white Tyvek coveralls. Pots of paint from a specific color palette along with various widths of brushes were provided. Plastic sheeting covered the floor of the VOCA art space and two long rolls of white paper were laid out to capture the evidence.

 

At Madsen’s prompt, music played and the visual arts students started to paint the dancers’ coveralls. The dancers were encouraged to respond to the music being played and use the paper as their stage to step on, roll on, or paint with movements of their bodies and feet.

 

The art students also painted each other. Madsen “conducted” with the use of visible cards showing prompts for both the dancers and the visual artists to respond to.

 

The performance was video-recorded and photographed by participating students. Documentation of the performance was then shared with the public as a part of downtown Vancouver’s First Friday Art Walk, April 4, 2014.

 

Exhibit B: A collaboration with the past

 

Artist K.C Madsen returned to VSAA to facilitate workshops in which she encouraged current students to collaborate with a group of students from 2014. Exhibit A: Evidence of an Art Occurrence was an orchestrated yet spontaneous event that resulted in two 4x50-foot paintings as well as other documentation of the event.

 

Now, twelve years later, students have responded with new art “occurrence,” Exhibit B: A collaboration with the past. On February 9, 2026, Madsen gave each participant a piece of the original painting and asked them to respond to this past evidence as a current VSAA student. The new paintings were then assembled into an 8x20-foot mural.

 

The creation and assembly were energetic and spontaneous, as students were prompted to place their attention in the present moment—in the process of making rather than on the end product. And yet the mural holds all the energy and evidence of a process from students, both past and present.

Attached Media Files: KC_Madsen.png,

Collaborative Work Of Art On Display At The Rebecca Anstine Gallery (Photo) - 05/22/26

Vancouver, Wash. – Artist K.C. Madsen facilitated a collaboration involving Vancouver School of Arts and Academics that resulted in a work of art now on display at the Rebecca Anstine Gallery. The show will run through the end of June 2026.

 

The gallery is on the sixth floor of the Clark County Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin St. It is open 8 am to 5 pm Monday through Friday.

 

A reception for the artists will be held at the gallery 5-7 pm Friday, May 29. The event is sponsored by the Clark County Arts Commission. It is free and open to the public.

 

The show features two exhibits:

 

 Exhibit A: Evidence of an art occurrence
 

This was a collaboration involving Vancouver School of Arts and Academics (VSAA) fine arts, music, dance and film students and art teacher Crystal Zeller and family—all under the direction of artist K.C. Madsen, who “conducted” the performance on Saturday March 29, 2014. There was no audience present, only performers and documenters.

 

Everyone wore white Tyvek coveralls. Pots of paint from a specific color palette along with various widths of brushes were provided. Plastic sheeting covered the floor of the VOCA art space and two long rolls of white paper were laid out to capture the evidence.

 

At Madsen’s prompt, music played and the visual arts students started to paint the dancers’ coveralls. The dancers were encouraged to respond to the music being played and use the paper as their stage to step on, roll on, or paint with movements of their bodies and feet.

 

The art students also painted each other. Madsen “conducted” with the use of visible cards showing prompts for both the dancers and the visual artists to respond to.

 

The performance was video-recorded and photographed by participating students. Documentation of the performance was then shared with the public as a part of downtown Vancouver’s First Friday Art Walk, April 4, 2014.

 

Exhibit B: A collaboration with the past

 

Artist K.C Madsen returned to VSAA to facilitate workshops in which she encouraged current students to collaborate with a group of students from 2014. Exhibit A: Evidence of an Art Occurrence was an orchestrated yet spontaneous event that resulted in two 4x50-foot paintings as well as other documentation of the event.

 

Now, twelve years later, students have responded with new art “occurrence,” Exhibit B: A collaboration with the past. On February 9, 2026, Madsen gave each participant a piece of the original painting and asked them to respond to this past evidence as a current VSAA student. The new paintings were then assembled into an 8x20-foot mural.

 

The creation and assembly were energetic and spontaneous, as students were prompted to place their attention in the present moment—in the process of making rather than on the end product. And yet the mural holds all the energy and evidence of a process from students, both past and present.

Attached Media Files: KC_Madsen.png,