The works of Robin Valle, a deceased art professor from EC, are being showcased in the Art Gallery through September 25.

Collections from her student days during the 1970s to some of her latest works are displayed in a way to celebrate her artwork.

Valle, who died this past June, lives on through her art.

The show “From Darkroom to Digital” showcases her images.

Black and white photographs to colorful, intricately-layered patterns, decorate the gallery walls.

As one of the first local photographers to explore digital media, Valle was crucial to the development of the EC digital arts program.

“Her work was always inventive,” EC art curator, Susanna Meiers, said.

Early black and white photography, such as her self-portrait, has hints of color within the photograph.

“She followed her own thread,” Meiers said. “She didn’t latch onto topical things that were popular. She would pick the things that really applied to her life at that moment.”

“There is a fanciful, imaginary quality of her work,” Meiers said.

From her quirky pieces of birds, zebras and even dinosaurs enveloped in patterned, colorful, designs, to her more serious themed feminist pieces, her eclectic, colorful style breaks through.

“Expectations” illustrates women’s ability to “look good and produce children,” Meiers said.

A bright human embryo steals your attention dead center; with a June Cleavet type 1950’s woman smirking at your from either side of it.

The Art Gallery is open Monday and Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.