Virtual art show goes viral
David Bates
April 28, 2020
An online exhibition at Chehalem Cultural Center explores artistic responses to COVID-19.
This coverage is made possible in part by a grant from the Yamhill County Cultural Coalition.
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
We have another gallery show in Newberg this week, but before that, please indulge a brief diversion as we drop in on Salem. My ArtsWatch colleagues may write more about this later, but for now you should know that the Hallie Ford
Our lives are saturated with photographic images — pictures taken by tens of millions of people daily on phone cameras, photos that are then Facebooked, Instagrammed, and Tweeted into the world, where our eyeballs are bombarded with this digital hail. Those who
Not to be hyperbolic about it, but my first impression stepping into the Roger and Mildred Minthorne Gallery at George Fox University in Newberg was one of visual perfection. Occasionally, one walks into a show where a cavernous space swallows up everything
This is the late spring lull before Yamhill County’s summer stage productions come to life. The Aquilon Music Festival is still a month away, though the wise would do well to buy tickets now. Tickets are also on sale for the 8th
Portland prides itself on keeping weird, but this weekend, McMinnville owns bragging rights for Oregon Weird. Saturday afternoon on Third Street, the restaurant-and-tasting-room-thick thoroughfare downtown, the weird will be out in force during a parade celebrating the city’s annual UFO Festival. Every
It’s one of those weeks where there’s so much going on, we have just enough space to squeeze in enough about everything for you to click ahead and decide whether to investigate further. Let’s go. THE CHEHALEM CULTURAL CENTER IN NEWBERG has
The artist’s statement that accompanies Linden Eller’s Little Small exhibit, on display through June 1 in Newberg’s Chehalem Cultural Center, makes a fascinating point about the nature of individual memory, which is integral to the images she’s given us. Amnesia is popularly
Here are two ways to know a poet: One is to read the work, which in the case of José Angel Araguz, offers an astonishingly intimate window into his journals – not “poetry notebooks,” per se, but the Moleskines where he writes
Aspiring poets who struggle either with writing or getting published should take heart from the example of Alice Derry. She doesn’t consider herself a natural; a teacher even once “shut down” her work in school, she said. But she discovered early on
This weekend marks the 10th annual Terroir Creative Writing Festival, which for the first time in the event’s history has sold out. Organizers hit the legal capacity for their venue in McMinnville weeks ago and started a waiting list. Fortunately, we reached
Those of us who write about the arts at some point trot out “visual poetry” to describe something other than actual verse — a painting, a film, even a tour de force staging of a dance or scene in a play. Though
The United States has a long tradition of sketch comedy, with origins in vaudeville and later popularized on radio and eventually on television shows such as Saturday Night Live and The Carol Burnett Show from the 1970s. Ty Boice and Cassandra Schwanke,
In his introduction to The Best American Poetry 2018, published last fall by Scribner, editor Dana Gioia took a swing at the question, “What is the state of poetry?” and concluded with a wink and eye roll that it was both awful
When I’m paying attention, I occasionally catch word about a Yamhill County artist showing his or her stuff at the Bush Barn Art Center in Salem. So let’s kick off this week’s round-up of what’s going on arts-wise with Totem Shriver. Shriver
The Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg rarely devotes more than one of its half-dozen galleries to a single artist or exhibition, so when curators decide to allocate three galleries to one show, one is obliged to pay attention. Last week, the center
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