“I want to paint them the way the spirits would see them,” the artist says of the 40 portraits in the show, which opens Feb. 2 in Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center.
Composer Sara Graef says her piece strives to express gratitude for the spirit of the 400-acre space, “what was decimated and what has been given back.”
In an annual sewing challenge, members of the fiber arts group make wearable art. Themes in the Lincoln City Cultural Center exhibit include marriage, recycling, and women leaders.
Ngo, who says one of her strengths for mosaic is her tolerance for tedious work, will give a Jan. 14 presentation on what she saw in Ravenna and other mosaic centers of Italy.
The pandemic inspired five women to find a new way to “keep each other buoyed in the storm,” both financially and spiritually.
The composer of country hit “My List” says he is proud to be performing in the theater named for his friend, David Ogden Stiers.
The watercolorist will speak Thursday at a free “Tea and Talk” in Newport’s Visual Arts Center.
Henk Pander and Noel Thomas are among the 20 artists celebrating ships, which “speak to an earlier time and a slower pace of travel,” the curator says.
The Corvallis photographer used a folding field camera from the early 1900s to take the 25 images on exhibit at Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center.
A health scare got art collector Duane Snider thinking about where his art would go after he died. The process continues – with helping hands.
About half of the 61 banners hanging from Newport lampposts – and to be auctioned in November – sport blue and yellow colors.
Chasse Davidson at the Newport Visual Arts Center and India Downes-Le Guin at the Hoffman Center
for the Arts tout the sense of community at their coastal centers.
The co-founder of Rising Tide Productions, which will open “Seascape” on Friday, calls theater a “blood event.” Unlike the movies, “you have a direct, visceral response.”
Steve Saubert, whose family has been involved since the 1930s, remembers a fire, construction of an elevator with a 208-foot shaft, and discovery of a 400-year-old skeleton.
The old school bus, which brings art to kids along the central coast, gets a vibrant re-do and becomes a work of art itself.
The Eugene muralist says seeing her work on the Oregon Coast Art Bus is both meaningful and flattering.
Berry says his work, part of the “Animals in Nature” show at the Newport museum, aims to raise awareness of climate degradation and loss of species.
The Newport artist (and former mayor) finds her new show’s inspiration along the tidal flats of Yaquina Bay Road.
To celebrate one of the world’s rare biospheric reserves, scientists, artists, and the public will gather on the Oregon beach to talk, learn, and create images in the sand.
Adams tells a Columbia River Maritime Museum audience of her adventures on the seas, including storms, loneliness, and (maybe) cannibals.
On July 9, poets will read their work around town, and the event culminates with a July 31 reading by Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani.
Marilyn Milne and Linda Kirk have written a journalistic memoir about the 1960s battle that followed changes in the local dairy industry.
Judy Fleagle, co-founder of the Florence Festival of Books, which begins Friday, says organization is key to the event.
The Oregon Coast Jazz Party director says his musical influences run from Benny Goodman to The Beatles.
COVID concerns prompt organizers to adopt a drive-by format for the 18th annual tour of historic homes.
The Oregon Coast Council for the Arts’ repurposed school bus will bring activities to children in rural areas.
A Lincoln City exhibit calls attention to “living laboratories” set aside for conservation and research.
The Lincoln County clay sculptor, who has a show opening Saturday, says faces are more alike than different.
After COVID and wildfires, Yaacov Bergman felt compelled to recognize the pain, as well as the courage.
And in Lincoln City, a stretch of U.S. Highway 101 becomes a gallery for landscape paintings.
Nehalem resident Paul Letersky’s new book describes working for “the greatest bureaucrat of all time.”
Five birdhouse-like boxes in Manzanita prove that good things do indeed come in small packages.
When Coaster Theatre Playhouse moved shows outdoors, it confronted a new challenge: being heard.
Kathe Todd-Hooker is among artists in a Lincoln City show of tapestries limited to 100 square inches.
The Lincoln City Cultural Center hopes to ignite excitement for its plaza redevelopment with a concert series.
Sam Briseño’s welcoming sculpture is undergoing restoration to repair the toll of time and the elements.
The new executive director of the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts is excited by his new job and his new home.
Crystal Meneses brings art, words, and music together in an effort to put death back in the community’s hands.
Vandalism has supporters wondering how to maintain public access while protecting the Newport memorial.
An effort to remove offensive language from the state song could end up with dual anthems to Oregon.
Port Orford author Ann Vileisis has been nominated for an Oregon Book Award for her book on the shellfish.
Two glass artists in Cannon Beach’s Spring Unveiling Arts Festival collaborate to make finned figures.
Pacific City author Ben Moon’s memoir, “Denali,” is a finalist for an Oregon Book Award.
The Lincoln City Cultural Center gathers photography and items culled from the rubble of last fall’s fire near Otis.
After a quiet year, the Nehalem theater company is back with a play in which all the characters are canine.
The Hoff Online program celebrates Manzanita Day with a talk by Ketzel Levine.
Lincoln City students blend art with technology to create self-portraits during a year of virtual learning.
Niki Price plans to create a series of itineraries for people who like to hike and “tour art and see beautiful things.”
The Cannon Beach Library hosts a virtual reading Saturday of pieces inspired by life during COVID.
Newport Symphony brings a concert to your living room, and the Coaster Theatre gets Shakespearean.
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