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Manzanita-based North Coast Squid grows from a tiny newspaper insert to glossy literary journal with a ‘bigger reputation’

The 10th edition of the publication will accept written and art submissions from those with "strong connections" to the North Oregon Coast starting May 1.

Rick Bartow Art Studio finds a new home at Yakona Nature Preserve & Learning Center

April 17, 2025Lori Tobias

The tiny building when the beloved Newport artist worked will be reconstructed at the preserve, giving the arts program the home base it has lacked.

‘You Can’t Be Serious’: Andrea Parson’s solo show inspired by her sister’s death comes to Astoria

April 14, 2025Lori Tobias

The choreographer will present her award-winning performance of dance and storytelling May 2 and 3 at Ten Fifteen Productions.

North Lincoln County Historical Museum exhibit tells stories of past Oregon post offices through letters and photographs

April 1, 2025Lori Tobias

Visitors are invited to read from their own old letters during the April 3 opening reception in Lincoln City.

Astoria Public Library’s renovation looks to the future while preserving building’s history

March 27, 2025Amanda Waldroupe

The full-scale refurbishment doubles the library’s size, adds windows, and celebrates Astoria’s history, culture, and architectural heritage.

Crystal Meneses: Raising ‘A Thousand Hands’ for art as spiritual healing

March 24, 2025Lori Tobias

The Lincoln City artist honors her Pacific Islander heritage and relationship with Kuan Yin in an exhibit opening April 4 in Newport.

Former Major League Baseball player Dave Baldwin of Yachats has gone from pitching to poetry, and now, big bold paintings

March 21, 2025Lincoln Chronicle

The retiree, whose resume also includes work as a geneticist and engineer, is one of three artists in a new venture: Little Art Museums of Yachats.

For three decades, Newport Paper & Book Arts Festival has been doing things by the book

March 18, 2025Lori Tobias

The three-day festival in April offers 10 workshops on a range of paper arts — and the opportunity for bookmaking friends to reconnect.

Tolovana Arts Colony: Nurturing the Cannon Beach arts scene for 20 years

March 12, 2025Lori Tobias

The nonprofit sponsors this week’s comedy festival and Get Lit at the Beach in April, as well as an autumn celebration of Indigenous heritage, art classes, concerts in the park, and a mini-golf fundraiser.

Writer and activist Thalia Zepatos receives the 2025 Soapstone Bread and Roses Award

March 6, 2025Amy Leona Havin

The author of "A Journey of One's Own," who helped come up with the marriage-equality slogan “love is love," will be honored on International Women’s Day.

LitWatch March: Small Press Month, N.K. Jemisin, Ellen Waterston, Gorge Book Festival, and Cannon Beach Library’s 7th Annual Writers Read

March 2, 2025Amy Leona Havin

Spring brings an inaugural book festival in Hood River, a tour by Oregon's Poet Laureate, readings, and workshops.

North County Recreation District: From a pool to plays, Nehalem’s hub serves coastal community

February 12, 2025Lori Tobias

Based in a school designed by A.E. Doyle, the 30-year-old NCRD is home to concerts, lectures, an art gallery, and soon, a new $16.4 million aquatics center.

Reclusive Washington artist Charles Swank subject of two-day show in Yachats

February 10, 2025Lincoln Chronicle

Local art appreciator Dan Stein brings a five-decade retrospective of his friend's work to Yachats Commons on Feb. 15 and 16.

Sea fever: Big Blue Film Festival brings 34 films about the ocean to Newport

January 22, 2025Lori Tobias

The Jan. 24-25 festival aims to raise awareness about challenges facing the ocean while fostering hope in viewers.

With everything from bluegrass stars Della Mae to instrumental workshops, the Florence Winter Music Festival promises to be a hootenanny

January 22, 2025Lori Tobias

Ticketed events are nearly sold out, but the festival, which starts Thursday, also includes workshops and free jam sessions.

Woven, stitched, and recycled: Fiber Fest brings fabric art to the Newport Visual Arts Center    

January 8, 2025Lori Tobias

The show opens Saturday in four galleries and includes quilts, Siletz basketry, weavings, and wearable art, as well as classes.

Painter Shirl Ireland: From the Adirondacks to Nehalem’s NCRD Gallery, by way of Yellowstone

December 12, 2024Lori Tobias

The recent arrival to the North Coast has her first Oregon show, “Ode to Mother Nature,” at the gallery through Dec. 31.

Happy theater holidays on the Oregon Coast

December 6, 2024Lori Tobias

Theaters in Nehalem, Cannon Beach, and Newport welcome the season (and audiences) with some timely onstage comedy, family-friendly nostalgia, and a live radio-style "Wonderful Life."

Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center chronicles history of Black sailors

December 4, 2024Lori Tobias

"Take Me to the Water," on display through Jan. 12, includes panels on Oregonians Louis Southworth and Alvin McCleary.

Kids Make Theatre: In Astoria, teaching the performing arts, igniting a passion

November 17, 2024Lori Tobias

Since April 2023, the Liberty Theatre’s low-cost program has brought theater, dance – and self-confidence – to North Coast kids.

22nd annual Yachats Celtic Festival brings music, dance, food — and hundreds of visitors — to Oregon Coast

November 7, 2024Lincoln Chronicle

Full-day passes sold out by summer's end, but individual tickets remain for some concerts, and free events are scattered throughout the weekend.

LitWatch November: Readers, rejoice! Portland Book Festival returns with Ani DiFranco, Richard Powers, and scores more

October 27, 2024Amy Leona Havin

More than 100 writers and interviewers will talk about books -- fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, graphic novels, and books for children and young readers -- during the Nov. 2 festival.

Latimer Quilt & Textile Center: A little-known hive of fiber-arts activity near Tillamook

October 21, 2024Lori Tobias

Housed in an old schoolhouse containing looms, a library, a gallery, and gift shop, the center is one of 10 working fiber arts museums in the United States.

Karl Marlantes, Deep River Storyteller

October 12, 2024Susan Grace Banyas

A conversation with the keynote speaker at this year's Astoria Creative Writing Festival Oct. 18-20 about his novel set amid Finnish immigrants in Astoria and Southwest Washington.

Art on the Road: On the Oregon coast, a crossover of art and nature

September 23, 2024Friderike Heuer

A "PaintOut" tradition with friends, begun by artist Nelson Sandgren in 1978 and carried forward by his son Erik, gets a lively retrospective at Oregon State University's Giustina Gallery.

Elakha Alliance’s art auction raises funds to bring sea otters back to Oregon Coast

September 20, 2024Lori Tobias

Online bidding starts Monday for work by two dozen artists, including a Lee Kersh ukulele, culminating in a Sept. 28 event in Newport.

Oregon Mural Trail reaches Lincoln City with new painting commemorating kite festival

September 16, 2024Lori Tobias

The 26-by-62-foot work along U.S. 101 brings to 10 the murals designed to bring artwork to life in rural locations around the state.

At 93, Newport artist Ed Cameron prepares for his first solo show, at the Yaquina River Museum of Art

September 15, 2024Lori Tobias

The author, musician, actor, as well as artist, has been sketching since he was inspired by “Terry and the Pirates” as a child.

A ray of hopefulness: Closing Siletz Bay Music Festival with Nancy Ives, Daniel Freiberg, and Paquito D’Rivera

September 10, 2024James Bash

Jazzy clarinet concerto and a tribute to Celilo Falls closed out this year’s festival on the Oregon Coast.

Hoffman Center for the Arts: Manzanita’s cultural heart celebrates 20 years, looks to future expansion

August 26, 2024Lori Tobias

Saturday’s anniversary party will include fun ranging from horticultural-themed bingo to magnet poetry, from life drawing to historical presentations.