The collection of a lifetime
Lori Tobias
October 2, 2022
A health scare got art collector Duane Snider thinking about where his art would go after he died. The process continues – with helping hands.
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.
The Scottish painter created images from the Middle East, traveling “at a time when things looked very different,” the exhibition curator says.
The New York-based trio brings jazz and swing influences to its music; Brongaene Griffin and Cary Novotny also are on the bill.
After the COVID shutdown, the choral group has scheduled three performances next week.
Sitting in on one of Erik Sandgren’s painting-from-nature group adventures in Depoe Bay. A photo essay by Friderike Heuer.
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.
A trip into the toxic center of the Northwest’s nuclear legacy, and to the museum that tells part of its story, reveals still-potent fissures over power, safety, and rights.
Ted Tally’s surreal play about Robert Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole is seldom staged, but you can see it this month in Salem.
After traveling cross-state to play Othello, a Portland actor bids a fond farewell to a brand new Shakespeare festival and its small town in the northeast corner of Oregon.
July heats up with a revisionist anthology reconsidering “Sex and the Single Girl” and a panel discussion of Oregon author Ursula K. Le Guin.
In praise of the hands and minds behind a massive museum yarn-bombing, and the parade of poppies that bring light and remembrance.
At the confluence of the Snake and Columbia rivers, the artist’s seven “Story Circles” tell a tale of past and present culture from ground level.
The festival, which starts Thursday, includes musical chestnuts as well as concerts benefiting Ukrainian relief and “Ourland,” a modern, dystopian opera.
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.
At the Corvallis Arts Center, an exhibit by Hanne Niederhausen and Judith Wyss reveals a continuing artistic evolution and inventiveness in maturity.
The Maupin therapist and Oregon Book Award finalist says both poetry and psychotherapy are about discovery.
Marilyn Milne and Linda Kirk have written a journalistic memoir about the 1960s battle that followed changes in the local dairy industry.
Fabric artist Amanda Triplett and her team learn the science of the Columbia River Basin and transform it into the language of art.
As a new season kicks off, Eugene’s venerable music festival showcases a trio of artistic director candidates and music from Baroque and beyond.
The Bend poet and author of Oregon Book Award-nominated “spare change” says the most essential quality for a writer is perseverance.
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.
Married artists Tammy Jo Wilson and Owen Premore bring a collaboration of diverse approaches to Maryhill Museum’s Columbia River art project.
In far northeastern Oregon, the curtain’s rising on a brand new Shakespeare festival. A Portland actor revels in the adventure.
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.
Saturday’s multimedia concert pays tribute to track star Steve Prefontaine.
Yes, it’s a great beach town – and part of that is its cultural life. K.B. Dixon brings home the photographic proof.
Though the pandemic led to the demise of several wine-country arts groups, others are gearing up for summer.
Fiber artist Lynn Deal stitches history, culture, and social issues into her section of Maryhill Museum’s Columbia River craft art project.
The company’s “Taming of the Shrew” takes a steampunk edge, resurrects the work of a 19th century woman composer, and flirts with the idea that the play was written by a woman.
The pandemic turns a theater project by Dell’Arte International and the Wiyot Tribe into an online effort by four filmmaking teams.
Booklovers itching to hit the road will find plenty to read – and sometimes coffee and friendly shop dogs – at 13 independent stores east of the Cascades.
The Portland artist is donating 100 percent of the proceeds from pieces sold — more than $60,000 so far — to GlobalGiving’s Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund.
Juliana Souther’s multimedia exhibit at The Arts Center conveys a sense of deep longing for connection.
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.
Artist Ophir El-Boher and Desert Fiber Art interweave ideas of consumption, extraction, fashion, and refashioning.
A major new work from choreographer Suzanne Haag, delayed by the pandemic, arrives at last on the Hult Center stage.
“We’re looking to be Ashland, but with the clout and the power of Sundance”: Virtual or not, the festival opens up to a wider world.
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