Sculptor M.J. Anderson explores the female form in Newport Visual Arts Center exhibit
Jordan Essoe
February 18, 2022
The Nehalem artist says her work reflects what it feels like to be a woman, not what it looks like.
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The Nehalem artist says her work reflects what it feels like to be a woman, not what it looks like.
71 porcelain princesses grace Juan Santiago’s exhibition “No Mirrors in this House” at Gambrel Gallery in Ashland. Though cast from a single mold, each figure’s appearance varies due to the mold’s inevitable degradation.
Linfield Gallery opens a window on the remarkable life and work of an Oregon artist who traveled the world restlessly and created beautiful, disquieting art.
A morning spent amid the Columbia Hills inspires musings on the rock paintings and carvings that dot the landscape.
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.
Natural history museums are not known for their authentic or accurate representations of Indigenous communities. The High Desert Museum in Bend is committed to changing this.
Eugene Ballet’s “Uncommon Woman” brings to the forefront dances by five contemporary woman choreographers.
The images, from the collection of photographer Bill Rhoades, run from the New Deal to the present and include work by famous Oregon photographers.
A stunning staging with top-notch design and choreography brings Gluck’s 1762 music into a thoroughly contemporary Underworld.
Boosters envision the town of 2,300 becoming the “arts center of the Central Oregon Coast.”
And in Salem, the Hallie Ford Museum showcases Northwest photography, as well as Arvie Smith’s paintings exploring race and identity.
“One also sees the beauty in the organic, in the actual,
the particular”: At the Seattle Art Museum, an eloquent look at the great West Coast photographer.
The holiday tradition returns Dec. 17 and 18 after the theater company went dark for nearly two years due to COVID.
Any member of the Maude Kerns Art Center can exhibit at the annual “Art for All Seasons” event. Ester Barkai explores this democratic approach to showing art.
“OFFAL,” Simone Fischer’s exhibition at Astoria Visual Arts, offers a meditation on consumption and industrial farming.
The 60-plus pieces in the Salem show include work by Elizabeth Conrad Hickox, Andrew McDuffie Vincent, Carl Hall, April Waters, and Henk Pander.
The bellwether: In Maryhill Museum’s second collaborative art project along a 220-mile stretch of the Columbia River – this one by fiber artists – sheep and their wool lead the way.
Chehalem Cultural Center showcases local artists, and new owners plan to bring the long-shuttered Mack Theater back to life.
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.
An exhibit at Linfield Gallery raises deep and abiding questions about social values and the meanings of art.
A record-setting round of awards will help fund projects by 140 cultural organizations across Oregon.
The Waldport cartoonist has been a cartographer, written a book about an Oregon cult, and traveled the world.
Imago director brings his offbeat imagination to Eugene Opera’s “Lucy” and his own “Satie’s Journey.”
The project combines condos and a home for Eugene Ballet, plus office space for seven other arts groups.
A little bit of architecture and a little bit of Dr. Seuss mix it up in the Oregon artist’s Hallie Ford Museum show.
Oregon unveils a new license plate with 127 cultural symbols and an interactive key to decode the design.
Judy Fleagle, co-founder of the Florence Festival of Books, which begins Friday, says organization is key to the event.
Local galleries and theaters share common themes this fall.
Chor Anno initiates the return to live choral singing
The Oregon Coast Jazz Party director says his musical influences run from Benny Goodman to The Beatles.
It’s TBA time! Amy Leona Havin checks out the literary side of PICA’s festival and other book events.
The immigrant founder of Advance Gender Equity in the Arts says she often did not fit in – until she found theater.
The Delta variant and ensuing restrictions effectively stopped ticket sales, then the headliner pulled out.
The poet and Quaker minister talks about her books, hospice work, and the connection between poetry and science.
COVID concerns prompt organizers to adopt a drive-by format for the 18th annual tour of historic homes.
Maeve Z O’Connor talks about her stuck-in-a-storm play “Omission,” opening at the Keizer Cultural Center.
Plus, Yamhill County galleries offer impressionistic paintings and clocks with an attitude.
The Oregon Coast Council for the Arts’ repurposed school bus will bring activities to children in rural areas.
The Emerald City is tiptoeing back into live performances. It’s still spotty – but Shakespeare’s in the parks.
A Lincoln City exhibit calls attention to “living laboratories” set aside for conservation and research.
From a barn studio in Ashland, the sculptor creates works infused with the spirit of his native Japan.
The Lincoln County clay sculptor, who has a show opening Saturday, says faces are more alike than different.
The McMinnville actor and construction contractor says he is selective about the roles he accepts.
Lindsay Costello reviews Jeanine Jablonski’s (of Fourteen30 Contemporary) latest curatorial project at the Courtyard House in Aurora.
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.
The 28th annual anthology features the work of adults and children in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
Nehalem resident Paul Letersky’s new book describes working for “the greatest bureaucrat of all time.”
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