Dee Moore

Dee Moore is a queer freelance journalist and artist whose personal work focuses on gender identity and explores the dynamics of gender expression and what gender means. She grew up in Beaumont, Texas, where she longed to be a boy. She studied journalism and art at Lamar University in Beaumont, and now lives in the Salem area, where she works, sculpts and shoots. She was an artist in residence at the Salem Art Association Bush Barn Annex, where she took studio portraits of members of Salem’s LGBTQIA community who often fear getting professional photos taken because of prejudice and bigotry. She has exhibited work at Bush Barn Annex, Prisms Gallery, and The Space. Dee is genderfluid (this is one word) and bisexual. Her pronouns are she/her or they/them. Find more of her work at cameraobscuraimages.com.

Make Music Salem: Let the good vibes (and the rain) pour on the longest day of the year

June 25, 2025Dee Moore

So what if the rain poured in sheets and forced much of the music to go inside? Salem's annual celebration of its hometown music and musicians rang out loud and clear.

McMinnville’s out-of-this-world parade

May 20, 2025Dee Moore

In 1950 a photo of a possible UFO hovering in the Yamhill County sky swept the nation. In the 21st century, space-visitor wannabes strut their stuff once a year in celebration.

In Salem, arts leaders and advocates gather to plan for a better future

April 17, 2025Dee Moore

At a reception sponsored by the Cultural Advocacy Coalition of Oregon, Oregon Cultural Trust and Oregon Arts Commission, leaders from across the state tell their stories and plan to lobby legislators.

‘Hands of the Ancestors’: Kalapuya artist Stephanie Craig’s mix of past and present

April 15, 2025Dee Moore

Craig's woven basketry at the Linfield Art Gallery rekindles a fading heritage, blending contemporary methods with the traditions and meanings of ancestral ways.

Two Spirit and Third Gender: More than entertainment

April 4, 2025Dee Moore

An exhibit and performances in Monmouth are both drag show and protests in favor of Indigenous Queer acceptance and against the effects of climate change.

April Waters’ ‘Sheroes,’ big and bold

March 13, 2025Dee Moore

The Salem artist's giant portraits of activist women including Dr. Helen Caldicott and water rights advocate Maud Barlow stare forthrightly out of their frames.

Oregon Legislature’s Arts Caucus rolls out its five-bill agenda for the current session

February 16, 2025Dee Moore

Bills announced at a Salem gathering range from increased funding to cultural construction projects to a merger of two state cultural agencies and a crackdown on ticket scalping.

Brenda Mallory’s threads of time, family, culture, and nature at Hallie Ford Museum

February 5, 2025Dee Moore

In a show that began at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, the Portland artist's sculptures at the Salem museum call on influences ranging from her Cherokee heritage to the art of Marcel Duchamp.

Angels and disruptions: Two young artists shake things up in Salem shows

January 15, 2025Dee Moore

The artists Peregrine, at Salem on the Edge, and EGOR, at Bush Barn Art Center, tell distinct yet similar tales of discovery.

Daniel Tankersley’s Unknown Unknowns

January 10, 2025Dee Moore

Creating mysteries: Tankersley's exhibition at Western Oregon University of manipulated digital photographic prints manipulates the perceptions of gallery viewers, too.

Ryan Hopper: Art from Arizona’s Diné reservation to Salem’s Bush Barn Annex

January 2, 2025Dee Moore

The printmaker and painter, who now lives in Salem, invests his art with memories of his grandmother's Navajo rug weaving, his childhood on a sheep camp, and the realities of his everyday life.

Jason Hill’s superheroes of Afrofuturism

November 27, 2024Dee Moore

The Portland photographer's vibrant portraits of Oregon Black "superheroes" fill two galleries at Salem's Bush Barn Art Center and Bush Barn Museum and a third at Portland Center Stage.

A boy, a deer, and a world of magic

October 18, 2024Dee Moore

Salem artist Randall Tosh's dreamlike photographs, springing from a memorable boyhood encounter in the woods, pierce the veil between the known and the unknown.

Four years after, a slow revival takes root along the Santiam Canyon

September 14, 2024Dee Moore

Returning to the towns and forest devastated in 2020's wildfires, writer and photographer Dee Moore discovers new growth, rebuilt communities, and continuing evidence of the disaster.

Pride and Prejudice in Keizer

June 14, 2021Dee Moore

The Oregon city has an LGBTQIA celebration in the park – and then the religious protesters crash the party.

After the Fire 2: Starting Again

December 28, 2020Dee Moore

2020's wildfires left the artisans of Santiam Canyon reeling. A luthier and a painter look at what comes next.

After the Fire 1: Scarred Landscape

December 27, 2020Dee Moore

Looking back: A devastating 2020 fire leaves ashes where the Santiam Canyon and its cultural life once thrived.