Safeco Insurance Co. recently donated more than 800 works of art to the Washington Art Consortium (WAC), of which Western Washington University’s Western Gallery is a charter member.

“This unprecedented donation from Safeco Insurance is both significant and impressive,” said Sarah Clark-Langager, director of the Western Gallery and a WAC board member. “This recent partnership with Safeco Insurance gives the Consortium the real opportunity to further one of its missions – to foster the appreciation of Northwest Art.”

Victoria Calabro, whose work “Yo-yos on Yellow Hill” is included in the Western Gallery winter exhibition “Transformations 6: Contemporary Works in Glass,” spoke on campus Tuesday, Jan. 19, as part of the Western Washington University Department of Art’s Studio Speaker Series.

Victoria Calabro, whose work “Yo-yos on Yellow Hill” is included in the Western Gallery winter exhibition “Transformations 6: Contemporary Works in Glass,” will speak from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19, in Room 238 of the Fine Arts building on the WWU campus.

The lecture is part of the Western Washington University Department of Art’s Studio Speaker Series.

The Western Gallery will present “Transformations 6: Contemporary Works in Glass,” an exhibit that unites the work of 28 internationally recognized and emerging artists, from Jan. 19 through March 13.

Geraldine Ondrizek, whose exhibition “The Sound of Cells Dividing” is currently being shown at the Western Gallery, will present a lecture at 4:15 p.m. today, Oct. 21, in SMATE 120 on Western’s campus.