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Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts navigates transition

The Biennial at Hallie Ford Museum of Art showcases CSIA's recent prints, celebrates its 33-year legacy, and hints at the organization's priorities moving forward.

Keep our public library open, Grant County residents urge county commission

A packed public hearing in John Day this week shows substantial support for the library, with momentum building to create a special tax district.

MFA:NW connects emerging artists and rural communities, this month at the Pendleton Center for the Arts

In its pilot year, a juried show of work by eight young artists explores issues of gender, sexuality, and being in the world as a physical body.

Art Center East in La Grande: Bringing art opportunities and access to Eastern Oregon

The nonprofit center serves a 10-county swath of the state with exhibitions, classes, and annual events, often engaging with the past in ways that speak to the present.

A La Grande old time: The Eastern Oregon Film Festival keeps on truckin’

Highlights from the festival's 14th season included the documentaries "Kim's Video" and "Finding Groovopolis" and the narrative features "Free Time" and "The Secret Art of Human Flight."

Fertile ground: Pendleton Center for the Arts

Access and opportunity are at the heart of the mission of Pendleton Center for the Arts. The mission is especially fitting given that the center's brick-and-mortar location was originally a Carnegie library.

Celebrating the land and its people: Tamástslikt Cultural Institute

This cultural hub in Pendleton, Oregon celebrates the past, present, and future of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. It is also one of the state's five Oregon Trail Interpretative centers.

Bobby Bermea: Au Revoir, Elgin

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.

Bobby Bermea: Welcome to Elgin

In far northeastern Oregon, the curtain's rising on a brand new Shakespeare festival. A Portland actor revels in the adventure.

Take a tour of Eastern Oregon bookstores

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.

Vision 2020: Darcy Dolge, Sarah West, and Nancy Knowles

Leaders of an art center in La Grande say funding cuts could have been dire, but the community stepped up.