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Adams tells a Columbia River Maritime Museum audience of her adventures on the seas, including storms, loneliness, and (maybe) cannibals.
July heats up with a revisionist anthology reconsidering “Sex and the Single Girl” and a panel discussion of Oregon author Ursula K. Le Guin.
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.
The museum, a thriving cultural hub on the Oregon coast, is more than ever asking its audience to consider how the past shapes the future.
The artist’s “Museo du Profundo Mundo” at the Newport Visual Arts Center reimagines the curiosities and collections of natural history museums.
The mural, created with the help of the Oregon Coast Children’s Theatre & Center for the Arts, offers a positive message about coming together after the pandemic.
An unrepentant (and successful) outsider talks from his Oregon coast home about indie movies, American imperialism, and the pleasures of a good beer and a good dog.
Yes, it’s a great beach town – and part of that is its cultural life. K.B. Dixon brings home the photographic proof.
The pandemic turns a theater project by Dell’Arte International and the Wiyot Tribe into an online effort by four filmmaking teams.
Broadway Books throws a party, a traveling bookstore stops in Portland, and writers Karl Marlantes, Shawn Levy, Emily St. John Mandel, and Peter Rock talk books.
An instrument cannot truly be owned, the luthier says: “You are its custodian, for as long as you keep it, or for as long as you live,” but the instrument belongs to history.
Lloyd and Myrtle Hoffman, who offered classes and opened their home to friends and strangers, left as their legacy a gathering place for art lovers.
The retired college professor says her Irish chambermaid hero appeared to her on a road trip.
This year’s Soapstone Bread and Roses Award recipient discusses hosting successful reading series and life on the Oregon Coast.
This month brings a feminist book club, a look back at the Rajneeshees, plenty of author readings, and Oregon Book Award finalists
Two potters have turned an abandoned middle school into a center for art classes serving adults and Reedsport School District students.
The Nehalem artist says her work reflects what it feels like to be a woman, not what it looks like.
The Feb. 19-21 show will include quilters from around the world competing for $2,000 in prize money.
Students are using non-recyclable debris to create a tidal-rock sculpture that will grace the new Lincoln City Cultural Center Plaza.
After a year-and-a-half pandemic shutdown, the community gathering place welcomes the public back with two days of bluegrass and Americana.
Boosters envision the town of 2,300 becoming the “arts center of the Central Oregon Coast.”
The holiday tradition returns Dec. 17 and 18 after the theater company went dark for nearly two years due to COVID.
Joyce Centofanti and Robert Conway’s community-based creative space will have a soft opening Wednesday
Niki Price of the Lincoln City Cultural Center is hiking the Coast to raise money for the center and awareness of public art.
The Waldport cartoonist has been a cartographer, written a book about an Oregon cult, and traveled the world.
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.
Poet, teacher, memoirist and activist Judith Barrington talks about her career with ArtsWatch’s Amy Leona Havin.
The Delta variant and ensuing restrictions effectively stopped ticket sales, then the headliner pulled out.
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.”
With their art gallery space on the market, owners are moving the business to Florence’s bayfront.
Five birdhouse-like boxes in Manzanita prove that good things do indeed come in small packages.
Colorful banners hanging from downtown lamp posts are the Alsea Bay Center for the Arts’ first project.
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.
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