This coverage is made possible in part by a grant from the Yamhill County Cultural Coalition.
The show, at the Newberg center through March 13, features tree-themed art by Tabby Ivy, Rebecca Kiser, Elena and Trifon Markova, Karin Carter, and Linda Workman-Morelli.
January 21, 2025David Bates
Roughly 300 people gathered at Monday’s event in Newberg for a multi-media production by Denver’s Mizel Museum.
December 3, 2024David Bates
From pastel drawings to ceramics to metal crafts, artsy options are plentiful in wine country.
November 23, 2024David Bates
The 2024 releases include a novel, poetry, nonfiction, and memoir.
November 17, 2024Richard W. Etulain
The poetic satire pitted Democrats against Whigs in a story of a judge willing to break laws to fulfill his outsized political ambitions.
November 12, 2024David Bates
Murals by professor Tim Timmerman and stained glass by Bryant Stanton add color to the graceful space, where an open house on Thursday will welcome visitors.
November 7, 2024David Bates
The show, running through Nov. 22, is a tribute to the power of ink on paper and how that power has functioned as a political tool — and still can.
October 31, 2024Amy Leona Havin
The Linfield University professor has written poetry, novels, essays, and memoir. "Working with language and story somehow gets me back into the way I need to be," he says.
October 7, 2024David Bates
Time, talent, and a fertile soil for nourishing creativity: At Yamhill County's A to Z Wineworks, artists in residence help produce the wine as they create their art.
October 1, 2024David Bates
For two weekends, more than 60 wine country artists will open their work spaces to visitors for the 30th annual Art Harvest Studio Tour of Yamhill County.
September 26, 2024David Bates
This month’s opening of the 250-seat theater makes the Newberg cultural hub one of the largest in the state, as well as an example of the “everything-for-everyone” center that thrives in smaller Oregon cities.
September 22, 2024David Bates
A summer project adds seven works of art to a downtown alley between Davis and Evans streets.
September 5, 2024David Bates
The gallery, in an industrial park, is a sprawling nexus of beautiful, high-end art, savvy entrepreneurship, state-of-the-art technology, and light industry.
Drama, comedy, and music take center stage at Gallery Theater, Linfield University, Struts & Frets Theatre Company, Gather Repertory, and Pentacle Theatre.
July 30, 2024David Bates
August shows also include a family of ceramicists at Linfield University and stories from the forest at the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde's cultural center.
June 5, 2024David Bates
The Forest Grove artist uses images from old maps and nearly a century's worth of American magazines to create pieces that range from overstuffed to exuberantly symbolist.
May 6, 2024David Bates
Witte will read May 9 from her collection "A Rupture in the Interiors" during the McMinnville Public Library’s monthly Poetry Night.
April 15, 2024David Bates
The show leads into Linfield’s May 10 Camas Festival, which honors the cultural significance of plants and landscapes important to Northwest Indigenous peoples.
March 17, 2024David Bates
Jazz, string quartet, rock violin and more set the rhythm for the new festival in a music-happy town. Next up, March 20: Peter Eldridge of New York Voices.
March 16, 2024K.B. Dixon
K.B. Dixon takes a camera tour through the McMinnville museum, from the Spruce Goose to the world's fastest jet to replicas of the Spirit of St. Louis and Apollo Lunar Rover & more.
February 28, 2024David Bates
Students had a say in picking the artists whose work is featured in the artistically complex and politically engaged exhibition, which runs through March 16 at the McMinnville university.
February 19, 2024David Bates
The 13th annual festival runs Feb. 23-25 with something for everyone -- more than 100 films will be screened in 90-minute blocks.
February 12, 2024David Bates
The exhibit, which runs through February, includes both aesthetic and pedagogical components, and has a high “wow” factor. An artists' reception will be Feb. 16.
December 28, 2023
From coast to desert to hills and valleys and places in between, culture thrived in towns large and small around the state. Wherever people were, so was art.
December 5, 2023David Bates
The year ends with holiday opportunities to shop local, view art, hear music, or see a play.
December 4, 2023David Bates
The weekly McMinnville gathering, like others around the state, draws participants who say they are both energized and calmed by the practice. “The primitive nature of the drum in the story of humanity,” says one drummer.
November 8, 2023David Bates
The library has weathered budget and staff cuts, an unwieldy inventory, and the pandemic to deliver everything from books to workshops, games, and homeless outreach to the Yamhill County community of 2,200.
November 2, 2023David Bates
The Turkish-born professor populates his politically charged work with images of Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, Allen Ginsberg and Gollum.
October 25, 2023David Bates
Kulla, part of a team that documented 70 plants around the world, combines her organic-farming and illustrating skills on an international publishing project.
October 23, 2023Brian Libby
"Quarterback Princess," a 1983 TV movie that kicked off two future Academy Award winners’ careers, is also a McMinnville (or rather, “Minnville”) time capsule.