Small format invites close scrutiny
Lori Tobias
June 22, 2021
Kathe Todd-Hooker is among artists in a Lincoln City show of tapestries limited to 100 square inches.
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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.
The music fest, which lost its 20th season last year to the pandemic, plans to start again in ’21 – if restrictions are eased in time.
Lincoln City students blend art with technology to create self-portraits during a year of virtual learning.
The winner of the Soapstone Bread and Roses Award brings out a fresh look at the history of women’s suffrage.
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.
The Astoria artist has gone from designing giant inflatables to painting the city’s landmarks.
Eleven artists will benefit from nearly $14,000 awarded by the Lincoln City Cultural Center.
Coastal painters Katia Kyte and Victoria Biedron agree that flowers “exist to give you joy.”
A grant will help a Lincoln County arts activist spread happiness, one ukulele at a time.
Band students at Toledo Jr/Sr High School have their choice of instruments, but a tuba remains out of reach.
The oil painter and former Newport mayor says she can’t separate politics and art.
The Olalla Center’s event and a gallery tour are virtual, but Siletz Bay Music Festival is hoping to be live next summer.
Coaster Theatre will present, virtually, the Dickens classic as radio theater set during the Great Depression.
From pets to the pandemic, a Sitka Center project spurs discussion among second-graders about the year’s events.
COVID has put the kibosh on the popular reindeer room, but the community still has holiday plans.
Sitka Center brings a Native American tradition to elementary students.
The Music is Instrumental program pays for mentors to keep music education alive in Lincoln County schools.
The fundraiser for arts education includes work by artists in Newport’s sister city of Mombetsu, Japan.
Sculptor Sam Briseño’s last works are available, and the city’s exhibition space prepares to welcome visitors again.
The owner of Cloud & Leaf in Manzanita discusses what it’s like running a bookstore during a pandemic.
Coast calendar: Cellists perform for aquarium residents; online talk about Rick Bartow; Andean music.
Photographer Benjie King captures haunting images of Newport in the orange glow cast by wildfires.
A pandemic, a wildfire – while the hits keep coming, the Lincoln City Cultural Center responds online.
Museum veteran Faith Kreskey is leading the Lincoln County Historical Society into the future.
In difficult times, two workshop instructors say, writing restores a sense of possibility.
Painter Michael Orwick, whose work will be in an October show in Astoria, says his dyslexia helped him become an artist.
Technology challenges an online drama club, but the tradeoff is lessons in creativity and self-reliance.
Oregon Coast Aquarium partially reopens this week and other news from the art and animal worlds.
The pandemic forced owners of Brumfield Gallery to pick between two locations; they chose their hometown.
Carrie Lewis, CEO of the Oregon Coast Aquarium, says the Newport attraction awaits the governor’s OK to reopen.
Chehalem Cultural Center showcases work by the late Michael Gibbons, Kerri Evonuk, and Sara Siestreem.
An “incredible world of beauty right out your front door”: Michael Gibbons, 76, was a legend along the Yaquina River.
Catherine Rickbone of the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts says pandemic cutbacks make this a good time to retire.
The Oregon artist helped create Toledo’s arts colony, and has a show at Newberg’s Chehalem Cultural Center.
The Newport Symphony Orchestra has to forgo its July Fourth concert, but an encore broadcast keeps the spirit alive.
Kids in Newport’s Online Summer Drama Club will learn all about theater — and put on a play — via computer.
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