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The plan to make up the balance needed for the $1.45 million project now goes to the City Council.
Tissot, who joined the Lincoln County Historical Society in 2022, says she plans to take time for family projects, hiking, and kayaking.
John Bradley, who took up painting 33 years ago when he was 70, is among about 150 members participating in the annual show and convention beginning April 5.
The installation by Christina Harkness and Shanna Smith Suttner opens March 22 at the Willamette Heritage Center in Salem, before returning to Lincoln City in August.
Entries are open for May’s “Rising from the Trashes” event, which includes an art gallery, fashion show, and storytelling – all spotlighting trash.
On March 14, tours and an open house will celebrate the 37th anniversary of the hotel that lifelong friends Goody Cable and Sally Ford took from flophouse to world famous.
Other literary events this month include readings by nine writers at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center in Newport and a celebration of small presses.
The quirky museum includes what may be the largest glass fishing float collection in the Northwest and an exhibit about a 1930s celebration of redheads.
The exhibition’s first iteration since the pandemic opens Feb. 1 as an invitational event and honors Henk Pander, the Northwest art giant who died last year.
The father and son artists share gallery space in the “Au Naturel” show of nude art opening Feb. 1 in Astoria’s Royal Nebeker Art Gallery.
In upcoming workshops in Cannon Beach and Astoria, the self-described “story doula” will help participants hone personal tales of their hero’s journey.
Winners in seven categories will be announced April 8 during a ceremony in Portland. In addition, Ellen Waterston of Bend will be recognized for her contributions to the state’s literary scene.
A photograph begets a mosaic begets quilted fiber art in an iterative exhibit at the Lincoln City Cultural Center.
Two February performances of “My Words Are My Sword” will celebrate Black History Month and the memory of the long-time festival conductor, who died in September.
Films range from 3 minutes on an 83-year-old collector of sea lion data to a one-hour documentary about a Hawaiian woman trying to maintain a family bay-keeping legacy.
In small towns, libraries are often the only places that host art and cultural events. Librarians say grants, such as one open this month from Oregon Humanities, are crucial to making that happen.
A new year brings a Fishtrap workshop, as well as authors talking about philanthropy, Higgs boson, and becoming a better cook. And chickens.
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.
The 12-minute show, free and visible from the Bayfront, brings to life images of Native Americans, loggers, fishing fleets, and farmers.
Webb’s colleagues remember him as a passionate and creative supporter of the arts.
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.
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.
For 16 years, the center has provided cultural programs – everything from ceramics to concerts to yoga – out of the historic Delake School, but it hasn’t been easy.
The 45-year-old community theater emerges from the pandemic shutdown with its first full-scale musical since 2019 and a new focus on fundraising and drawing fresh, young faces.
The nonprofit supports the Yachats Celtic Music Festival, happening Nov. 10-12, an art quilt show, a banner project, and the Yachats Arts Guild, among others.
Friends have started a GoFundMe account to help the Newport business owner hurt while taking banners down for the November fundraising auction.
The author of “There Was an Old Woman: Reflections on These Strange, Surprising, Shining Years” will lead a Zoom conversation from Newport on growing old.
“Lucky to be Alive,” at the Newport Visual Arts Center, takes viewers on “a journey through the artist’s subconscious.”
Warm up with M.R. O’Connor on the science of wildfires, poetry readings, and Halloween story time.
The center, with The Refindery shop and Repair Cafe, has a mission of helping people “step away from the garbage.”
The “Ambassador’s Portal” by Ken McCall replaces a beloved sculpture as the city expands its public art offerings with plans for five more new pieces and an arts garden.
Ten Fifteen Theater will present a world-premiere staged reading of “Bartow” next month in Astoria.
The Toledo Art Walk over Labor Day weekend epitomizes the city’s arts-centric focus, built largely on the legacy of painter Michael Gibbons.
The new-music flutist joins an extensive roster of musicians at four concerts on the coast.
“How Can You Own the Sky? A Symphonic Poem Honoring Native Wisdom” tells the story of the forced march of Native Americans from the Rogue Valley to the Coast.
A new Cultural Center and Museum will expand the tribe’s outreach, which includes classes in the Siletz Dee-ni language, two pow-wows, and the Run to the Rogue relay.
Organizers say tickets are going fast for the event, which will feature the Irish band Dervish and Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas as headliners.
Among participants in the self-guided tour is painter Pam Greene, who tries to capture on canvas the “overwhelmingly wonderful” moments of living on the coast.
Everlasting summer brings readings by surfing legend Gerry Lopez and the authors of a new book celebrating Steely Dan.
In “Pacific Waters” at the Corvallis Arts Center, students composed works for strings to go with Mary Frisbee Johnson’s water sketches.
The grant from The Ford Family Foundation of Roseburg is believed to be the largest single private foundation award in city history.
The pandemic gave the 53-year-old coastal center opportunities to “look at things in fresh ways,” including youth programs, residencies, and Indigenous fellowships.
The weekend event also includes free, self-guided tours of the work of 70 artists in 28 locations along the Central Oregon Coast.
Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center hosts the traveling exhibition “The Curious World of Seaweed,” which explores the importance of seaweed and kelp to ocean health.
Tom Hanks comes to Portland to talk about his first novel, poet Jessica Mehta heads to Cannon Beach, and Oregon Book Award recipients go on tour.
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.
In 2012, I interviewed the Newport artist about two pieces commissioned by the Smithsonian. Earlier this month, I saw the installed poles for the first time.
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.
March brings ambitious projects: Writers imagining themselves in Ernest Hemingway’s shoes, a modern riff on “Finnegans Wake,” and a browse of the typical Soviet Jewish bookshelf.
Born of the pandemic and the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the group of eight singer/songwriters begins a four-city tour March 18 in Lincoln City.
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