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The Portland-based ensemble performs Philip Glass’ science-fiction music drama under the Spruce Goose as the finale to its season exploring the human mind.
For decades, Gary Harvey built fences and secretly made art in Wasco County. A first-ever showing of his work is also an art center’s fresh start.
A neighborhood print studio highlights the social aspect of printmaking and provides members 24-hour access to a variety of presses, some more than 100 years old.
Since 1986, the all-volunteer gallery has worked to exchange ideas and opportunities for artists in all mediums and cultures.
Tom Hanks comes to Portland to talk about his first novel, poet Jessica Mehta heads to Cannon Beach, and Oregon Book Award recipients go on tour.
Two Southern Oregon painters with distinctively indefinable styles find rejuvenation and inspiration in a post-pandemic respite.
The Native American painter and mixed media artist, who draws inspiration from his father and uncle, has a show opening Friday in the Newport Visual Arts Center.
In 2012, I interviewed the Newport artist about two pieces commissioned by the Smithsonian. Earlier this month, I saw the installed poles for the first time.
The venerable Ashland festival’s effort to save the 2023 season follows years of wildfires, pandemic shutdowns, and staff turnover. Plus, openings, closings, and this weekend’s shows.
For 73 years, the gallery and studio space has offered amateurs and professionals a place to show their work and to share skills and support.
The diverse production fuses the work of four renowned choreographers, including a world premiere by EB’s resident choreographer Suzanne Haag
The 35-year-old building, along with the nearby Visual Arts Center, has helped transform the Nye Beach neighborhood from “poverty gulch” into an arts community.
After losing her home in the Beachie Creek Fire, the Willamette Valley poet says she “felt compelled both to articulate it and to make something of value from it.”
The Dalles Art Center is racing to raise enough money to keep its doors open. (So far, so good.) And in nearby Hood River, another arts center is out to reinvent itself.
Born of the pandemic and the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the group of eight singer/songwriters begins a four-city tour March 18 in Lincoln City.
The Portland artist’s nearly half-century of work is informed by her travels and curiosity about subjects ranging from ecology to Asian art.
Quilter Ruth Bass is curating the show, her last local production.
For decades Jim Kingwell and friends have been firing up the 2,400-degree furnace at Icefire Glassworks in Cannon Beach and transforming nature.
The chateau-style building with breathtaking views has to overcome issues with accessibility and identity. The Feb. 19 Crab Krack is an opportunity to visit.
Clatsop Community College’s Royal Nebeker Art Gallery, named for the artist and teacher, is a hub for students and showcase for exhibits that draw visitors from throughout the Northwest.
“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.
The medium is “having a moment in the arts world” due to interest in studio crafts and handmade work, sustainability, and local cultures.
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.
2023 begins with readings by authors including Erika Bolstad, Nathan Slinker, Leanne Grabel, Bill Siverly, Curtis White, Dianne Stepp, and Josephine Woolington.
Suggestions to delight book lovers include works by Charlie Mackesy, Madeline Miller, George Saunders, and Richard Powers.
The combination of studios and gallery in the old Bend Iron Works is a communal space for artists to share their creative process with the public.
The Dec. 10 show at the Yamhill Valley Heritage Center features 30 artists who make everything from jewelry to Viking armor.
Joint shows at the Schneider, a solo show of Prest’s work and a group show curated by Prest, offer viewers a meditative moment contemplating abstraction.
Theater companies in McMinnville, Salem, and Forest Grove stage holiday plays, including a new “Christmas Carol,” and look ahead to their 2023 seasons.
From the nouveau-cirque of Teatro ZinZanni to Jane Austen, Mr. Dickens, and some holiday noir, the city’s theater scene is flying high again.
The Lane County photographer’s retrospective in Springfield surveys 60 years of work. Blake Andrews reviews the show and considers Neevel’s wide-ranging interests.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Ashland New Plays Festival wrap up seasons of bold plays that grapple with modern issues and life.
The watercolorist will speak Thursday at a free “Tea and Talk” in Newport’s Visual Arts Center.
Other events include author readings from the Coast to Eastern Oregon, Anthony Doerr at Portland Arts and Lectures, and the reopening of Multnomah County Central Library.
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.
More than 100 pieces from the George and Colleen Hoyt collection show that Native art is both contemporary and as much about beauty as utility.
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 show at Newberg’s Chehalem Cultural Center focuses on Mexican artisans, many in trades on the cusp of vanishing.
A health scare got art collector Duane Snider thinking about where his art would go after he died. The process continues – with helping hands.
The self-guided tour over two weekends includes 49 painters, sculptors, book and jewelry makers, ceramacists, and fabric artists, among others.
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.
Evan Baden’s photobook publishing venture is a passion project two years in the making. Blake Andrews visits Baden in his Corvallis garage, the home of Push Pull Editions, to discuss process and motivation.
Multi-week Siletz Bay Music Festival brings classical, jazz, hip-hop, and a relaxed vibe to Lincoln City Cultural Center.
The Corvallis author of “Count On Us!” says she works through plot problems on long walks and has been inspired to activism by her daughter.
Coming months also see the return of the Walnut City Music Festival and Art Harvest Studio Tours, as well as Gallery Theater’s season and a Scottish festival.
The Roseburg show of nearly 100 pieces in various media explores the gap between urban and rural Oregon — and strives to bridge it.
Maryhill Museum of Art finishes its sweeping Columbia Gorge fiber-arts project with a grand party on the museum grounds.
The nonprofit offers two-week immersive classes in everything from print-making to Ghanian drumming to performing in a Shakespearean play.
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.
For the first time in two years, Baroque and Romantic classics will ring out at the historic Oregon monastery.
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