Plank Town Art Gallery
local artists featured every month in our lounge area.check out these amazing works created right here in our community.
Kalapuya high school - February '26
February's featured artists:
Kalapuya Data Graffiti
In a Kalapuya High School classroom the week before winter break, a group of students grappled with the issue of industrial pollutants in West Eugene where they live. Creosote has been dumped in their community for almost a century, and residents have filed thousands of complaints about the nauseating odors and health issues that have defined living in this area. Years of community organizing and public pressure led to the closure of JH Baxter in 2022, a wood treatment processing facility and one of the major sources of pollutants in West Eugene for over 40 years.
Students were asked to imagine potential pathways forward for their community, and began to explore what their role could be in enacting change. In order to bring awareness to the fact that West Eugene is disproportionately impacted by pollution, these high schoolers created abstract art inspired by different datasets that detail dimensions of environmental injustice in their community.
(Currently featured on the Beyond Toxics’ website)
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