Not your grandmother’s watercolors
David Bates
October 19, 2020
The Watercolor Society of Oregon’s show in Newberg debunks stereotypes about the medium.
This coverage is made possible in part by a grant from the Yamhill County Cultural Coalition.
The Watercolor Society of Oregon’s show in Newberg debunks stereotypes about the medium.
Organizers are coming up with two scenarios for February, and a virtual fundraiser this weekend will feature greatest hits.
Yamhill County calendar: A “season like no other” on campus, plus a watercolor show and film festival preview.
Artists Natalie Niblack and Ann Chadwick Reid explore climate change in a Chehalem Cultural Center show.
Chehalem Cultural Center and Converge 45 respond to a year of crisis with a show of contemporary posters.
With autumn around the corner, arts and culture events are creeping back onto the Yamhill County calendar.
Composer Gabriela Lena Frank and Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival create an album in a wine cellar.
The work of more than 40 Yamhill County artists is displayed in Newberg.
A music festival known for blending sounds and wine pops the cork on its fifth vintage – this time, via streaming.
Chehalem Cultural Center showcases work by the late Michael Gibbons, Kerri Evonuk, and Sara Siestreem.
The Oregon artist helped create Toledo’s arts colony, and has a show at Newberg’s Chehalem Cultural Center.
The Fire Writers conference helps Yamhill County teenagers tap into their potential.
Limited hours and requests to wear masks are common as galleries start welcoming back visitors.
Voices from the front: Members of the coastal arts community talk about how the pandemic has changed them.
Voices from the front: Philanthropist Ronni Lacroute says COVID-19 is forcing arts groups to think in new ways.
An online exhibition at Chehalem Cultural Center explores artistic responses to COVID-19.
McMinnville’s Third Street Books rides out COVID-19 with home deliveries, curbside pickup, and mail order.
Fiber artists explore the toll plastics are taking on the oceans in a Chehalem Cultural Center exhibit.
Voices from the front: Anton Belov brings a community of singers together through Facebook Karaoke.
Yamhill and Polk county residents will have clearer listening to the classical radio station beginning Thursday.
Things are changing daily, but most local art and cultural events have been closed or postponed because of COVID-19.
Wine country calendar: A little of everything at Linfield, new shows in Newberg, and Salem goes steampunk.
From horse-racing to Newberg’s 99W drive-in, there’s a lot to like in this weekend’s McMinnville Short Film Festival.
The Yamhill County calendar also includes new gallery shows and jazz by the Christopher Brown Quartet.
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn will talk about their book, “Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope.”
Gallery shows on glass, Rogue River Wars, and tea service; a play reading; and a native son comes to town.
A student show at The Gallery at Ten Oaks provides an encouraging view of arts education in Yamhill County.
Leaders of Newberg’s Chehalem Cultural Center look forward to more performing arts and a new culinary center.
Book author John Dodge will speak in Cannon Beach about the 1962 Columbus Day Storm.
The new year rolls in with a little of everything: gallery exhibitions, TEDx talks, readings, and music.
The Chehalem Cultural Center fills its galleries with masks by Tony Fuemmeler and other artists.
This drama of working-class life is difficult and ambitious — and Linfield College’s production will leave you gobsmacked.
Adleane Hunter directs Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of identity, economics, and race.
An interview with Justin Zimmerman of the McMinnville Short Film Festival.
It’s a busy month in Yamhill County: art openings, author readings, theater, and music.
Artist Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr. and a 6-year-old boy collaborate on a Newberg installation.
Besides Art Harvest, shows explore fiber art, and prints about the political/cultural moment.
Monica Setziol-Phillips’ art is installed at Salishan, within steps of work by her famous woodcarver father.
Author JB Fisher discusses the 61-year-old mystery of what happened to the Martin family of Portland.
Yamhill County kicks into fall with gallery shows, a Greek theater fest, an unsolved mystery, and more.
Jessica Holder captures images of her co-workers, while Liz Obert’s photos explore the Portuguese city.
Founder of Ships to Roam at Walnut City Music Festival credits influences from yodelers to grunge.
Sculpture is the focus of a fundraiser show for the Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg.
More than 50 Yamhill County writers are featured in a new collection at bookstore and on library shelves.
Old world and new meet and match in a heady balance at the Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival.
Before we get to this week’s most exciting theater opening — an open-air production of As You Like It — let’s quickly cast our gaze just south of Yamhill County, where an intriguing Hamlet will be found. Western Oregon University keeps Shakespeare
The hottest theater ticket in Yamhill County this week is unquestionably at Gallery Players of Oregon in McMinnville, where a three-week run of The Graduate (yes, that Graduate) opens Friday. Terry Johnson’s adaptation of Charles Webb’s novel (which became an award-winning film
Biological Dissonance, a collection of paintings and sculpture by Portland-area artists Tammy Jo Wilson and Amanda Triplett, is the newest exhibit to take up residence in the Chehalem Cultural Center’s largest gallery. While I was visiting it recently, two other names came
This week’s survey of Yamhill County’s cultural scene is All Things Musical — or as close to “all” as is possible to get without being omniscient. The opera-oriented Aquilon Music Festival is in the thick of it, but they’re not the only
Penguin Productions was the new kid on Yamhill County’s theater scene just a couple of years ago, mounting productions of Macbeth and As You Like It right out of the gate. Last year, they forged ahead with Hamlet and Oscar Wilde’s An
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