Tom Webb, former director of Newport Visual Arts Center, dies at 58
Webb’s colleagues remember him as a passionate and creative supporter of the arts.
Webb’s colleagues remember him as a passionate and creative supporter of the arts.
The painter, who lost everything in a fire two years ago, will present his performance piece on the Earth and environment Dec. 3 during a Unitarian service in Newport.
“Lucky to be Alive,” at the Newport Visual Arts Center, takes viewers on “a journey through the artist’s subconscious.”
The Native American painter and mixed media artist, who draws inspiration from his father and uncle, has a show opening Friday in the Newport Visual Arts Center.
April pushes us further into spring and there’s plenty of art to see all over the state. VizArts Monthly has recommendations for everything from paintings to recycled fabrics to suspended plant matter.
The 35-year-old building, along with the nearby Visual Arts Center, has helped transform the Nye Beach neighborhood from “poverty gulch” into an arts community.
In an annual sewing challenge, members of the fiber arts group make wearable art. Themes in the Lincoln City Cultural Center exhibit include marriage, recycling, and women leaders.
The watercolorist will speak Thursday at a free “Tea and Talk” in Newport’s Visual Arts Center.
About half of the 61 banners hanging from Newport lampposts – and to be auctioned in November – sport blue and yellow colors.
Chasse Davidson at the Newport Visual Arts Center and India Downes-Le Guin at the Hoffman Center
for the Arts tout the sense of community at their coastal centers.
OSU’s touring Art About Agriculture exhibit, now at Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center, explores the ways we grow and eat our food.
The artist’s “Museo du Profundo Mundo” at the Newport Visual Arts Center reimagines the curiosities and collections of natural history museums.
A month to focus on Asian American culture, Betty LaDuke in Grants Pass and Lillian Pitt in Newport, PassinArt and Center Stage party down, legislators join the Cultural Trust.
The Nehalem artist says her work reflects what it feels like to be a woman, not what it looks like.
The Oregon Coast Council for the Arts’ repurposed school bus will bring activities to children in rural areas.
ArtsWatch Weekly: As Covid concerns grow again, the arts world moves half-speed ahead. But it IS moving.
The Lincoln County clay sculptor, who has a show opening Saturday, says faces are more alike than different.
The new executive director of the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts is excited by his new job and his new home.
Lindsay Costello discovers a state of wonder in her roundup of art to see in May.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A young poet and a steady voice highlight the clarity of ritual and the art of governance.
Coastal painters Katia Kyte and Victoria Biedron agree that flowers “exist to give you joy.”
The oil painter and former Newport mayor says she can’t separate politics and art.
The fundraiser for arts education includes work by artists in Newport’s sister city of Mombetsu, Japan.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Portland Book Fest goes virtual; art all around; dance on film; October musical surprise.
Sculptor Sam Briseño’s last works are available, and the city’s exhibition space prepares to welcome visitors again.
Coast calendar: Cellists perform for aquarium residents; online talk about Rick Bartow; Andean music.
Oregon Coast Aquarium partially reopens this week and other news from the art and animal worlds.
Catherine Rickbone of the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts says pandemic cutbacks make this a good time to retire.
Art by the late Juergen Eckstein is included in an online sale and show at the Newport Visual Arts Center.
Voices from the front: Members of the coastal arts community talk about how the pandemic has changed them.
Opening receptions March 14 at the Visual Arts Center include art ranging from landscapes to whalers to crows.
Art exhibits and author readings are among events getting 2020 off to an inspiring start.
It seems dark and stormy at the end of December, but upcoming events promise a lot of merry and bright.
Giving, receiving, and digging in to Oregon’s lavish cultural banquet: the arts beat goes on.
Giving isn’t just an action but a process, as big as a sea lion and as small as a salmonberry.
Portland Book Fest turns the page, downtown gets a new museum, and it’s beginning to feel a lot like … already?
Newport Visual Arts Center celebrates Astoria to Brookings in paint, woodwork, and film.
Late August is the time to apply to teach a workshop, audition for a play, or beat the heat by visiting a gallery.
If there was any doubt the new exhibit at the Oregon Coast Aquarium was a success, one only had to listen last weekend as visitors discovered Seapunk: Powered by Imagination. “This is awesome,” said one. “This is so cool,” said another. And
When Margo Klass boards the plane in Fairbanks bound for Oregon, she’ll be carrying a most unusual book. Open, it stretches 6 feet. It’s a work of art, a memoir in abstract, the story of nine days Klass spent with her writer
When Portland artist Anne Mavor attended a meeting a few years ago to learn about Native Liberation, the movement to free native peoples from capitalism and colonialism, she was already thinking about collaborating with a Native American on a project. But after
In 2018 ArtsWatch writers spent a lot of time out and about the state, putting the “Oregon” into “Oregon ArtsWatch.” Theater in Ashland and Salem. Green spaces and Maori clay artists in Astoria. A carousel in Albany. Aztec dancing in Newberg. Music
Fourteen years ago, I was reporting a news story when I encountered a man weed-whacking. His back was turned and he wore a headset meant to protect his hearing. Few things are more awkward — and possibly risky — than approaching a
Organizers can smile about it now, but 10 years ago, few involved in the fledgling Nye Beach Banner Project saw the humor. It all came down to one banner, the work of Rowan Lehrman. The front featured a topless woman painted in
This seems to be the season for kids and art — a topic that naturally came up earlier this month when the Newport Performing Arts Center celebrated its 30th anniversary. Talk of old times (and new) called to mind for many all
Photos by JOE CANTRELL A collection of seventeen drawings by the late Oregon artist Rick Bartow, From the Heart: Author Drawings by Rick Bartow, is on view through September 29 in the Upstairs Gallery of the Newport Visual Arts Center, and it
As a journalist, I’ve had the privilege of working with some amazing photographers, pros who could take what I saw as a simple, even uninspiring, scene and render it into a work of pure art — often in the most fleeting of
The central Coast pays homage to two of its famous former citizens this month. As part of the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts’ capital campaign program, plans are under way to change the name of the Performing Arts Center’s Black Box
Hot, sunny days make it prime viewing season for the art and entertainment nature offers along the Oregon Coast. But when the sand, wind and occasional rain get to be too much, beachgoers can find plenty of manmade amusements. Summer on the
NEWPORT — When celebrated Portland artist Henk Pander opens his show here Friday, July 6, it will mark not only his first exhibit in this coastal town, but also the first time nearly all of the watercolors have been out of his
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