The Behnke Family Gallery is a new exhibition venue at Cornish College of the Arts which includes a ground-level gallery space and an outdoor exhibition space, the Ivey Art Wall, currently featuring the work of Professor Emeritus Preston Wadley. The inaugural show in the gallery was the 2022 Neddy Artist Award Exhibition. The 2023-24 exhibition season was curated by Cornish Art professor Robert Campbell and featured the work of Mary Sheldon Scott, Gary Hill, Preston Wadley, Gala Bent, and Laura Hart Newlon. The 2024-25 exhibition season, also curated by Cornish Art professor Robert Campbell, featured the work of Design Faculty Susan Boye, the Cornish Art Faculty, Seattle artist Brent Watanabe and Cornish Design alum Victor Melendez.
The Behnke Family Gallery
The Behnke at Cornish
1077 Lenora Street (corner of Lenora and Boren)
Seattle, WA 98121
Gallery hours: Thursdays – Saturdays, 12 – 5 PM
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2025-2026 Exhibit Calendar
Seattle University at Cornish College of the Arts: A Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition | Sept 26th – Oct 25th
Currents: Cornish Staff Exhibition | Nov. 14th – Dec. 13th
Robert Campbell (Sabbatical Exhibition) | Jan. 16th – Feb. 14th
Erin Burns (Sabbatical Exhibition) | Feb. 20th – April 4th
Platforms of Exchange | April 17th – 30th
2026 Neddy Artist Award Exhibition | June 6th – TBD
Coming Soon
Currents: Cornish Staff Exhibition
Opening Reception
Nov. 14th, 4:30 – 7:00 PM
On View
Nov. 14th – Dec. 13th, 2025
Gallery Hours
Thursday – Saturday, 12:00 – 5:00 PM
The Behnke Family Gallery is proud to announce Currents: Cornish Staff Exhibition, a group show featuring fourteen talented and dedicated staff members from Cornish College of the Arts. The exhibition opens Friday, November 14, and runs through December 13, 2025, with a public opening reception on November 14, 4:30–7:00 p.m
Featured Artists:
Rachael Benson
Ryleigh Brown
Therese Buchmiller
Pinky Estell
Tory Franklin
Stefan Gonzales
Germain Mitacc
Calley Morrison
Moon Muschany
Bridget Nowlin
Sanoe Stevenson-Egeland
Kristin Swenson-Lintault
Bradley Taylor
Winifred Westergard
Curator’s Note:
Cornish College of the Arts has a long-standing tradition of celebrating the individuals who sustain and enrich our community—those who keep our studios, library, and facilities vibrant year after year. Currents continues that tradition, honoring the staff members who not only support Cornish in the classroom and behind the scenes, but also maintain dynamic and evolving art practices of their own.
This exhibition marks a moment of renewal as Cornish merges with Seattle University, bringing together our extended community of students, staff, and faculty. The fourteen artists featured here are not only practitioners of exceptional caliber but also mentors, collaborators, and daily sources of inspiration. We invite the public to join us in celebrating their diverse creative voices and the powerful currents of creativity that connect them all.
Robert Campbell, Professor | Cornish Art Department
MYOPIA: Cornerstone Recital
November 16th, 2025
5:00pm
Behnke Gallery
Salma Zenia’s “MYOPIA” is a performance piece inspired by the fundamental identity crisis our current society faces and the struggle to redefine a shared future due to fear. MYOPIA brings together music performance and multi-media staging presented through exhibition, to discover and reflect a void where society should constructively be, with the intention to reimagine collective introspection that leads to rebuilding new principles of truth and trust. The project is an interdisciplinary collaboration with Cornish College of the Arts music, visual art and performance production students Salma Zenia, Dahyun Kim and Miru DePeralta. Supported through iET+I Residency and The Behnke Family Gallery.
