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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.
Quilter Ruth Bass is curating the show, her last local production.
For decades Jim Kingwell and friends have been firing up the 2,400-degree furnace at Icefire Glassworks in Cannon Beach and transforming nature.
The chateau-style building with breathtaking views has to overcome issues with accessibility and identity. The Feb. 19 Crab Krack is an opportunity to visit.
Clatsop Community College’s Royal Nebeker Art Gallery, named for the artist and teacher, is a hub for students and showcase for exhibits that draw visitors from throughout the Northwest.
“I want to paint them the way the spirits would see them,” the artist says of the 40 portraits in the show, which opens Feb. 2 in Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center.
Composer Sara Graef says her piece strives to express gratitude for the spirit of the 400-acre space, “what was decimated and what has been given back.”
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.
Suggestions to delight book lovers include works by Charlie Mackesy, Madeline Miller, George Saunders, and Richard Powers.
Ngo, who says one of her strengths for mosaic is her tolerance for tedious work, will give a Jan. 14 presentation on what she saw in Ravenna and other mosaic centers of Italy.
The composer of country hit “My List” says he is proud to be performing in the theater named for his friend, David Ogden Stiers.
The watercolorist will speak Thursday at a free “Tea and Talk” in Newport’s Visual Arts Center.
Other events include author readings from the Coast to Eastern Oregon, Anthony Doerr at Portland Arts and Lectures, and the reopening of Multnomah County Central Library.
Henk Pander and Noel Thomas are among the 20 artists celebrating ships, which “speak to an earlier time and a slower pace of travel,” the curator says.
More than 100 pieces from the George and Colleen Hoyt collection show that Native art is both contemporary and as much about beauty as utility.
The Corvallis photographer used a folding field camera from the early 1900s to take the 25 images on exhibit at Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center.
A health scare got art collector Duane Snider thinking about where his art would go after he died. The process continues – with helping hands.
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.
Multi-week Siletz Bay Music Festival brings classical, jazz, hip-hop, and a relaxed vibe to Lincoln City Cultural Center.
The co-founder of Rising Tide Productions, which will open “Seascape” on Friday, calls theater a “blood event.” Unlike the movies, “you have a direct, visceral response.”
This month’s lit calendar is chock-full of free author readings from the likes of Lidia Yuknavitch, Wendy Red Star, Leanne Grabel, and others.
Steve Saubert, whose family has been involved since the 1930s, remembers a fire, construction of an elevator with a 208-foot shaft, and discovery of a 400-year-old skeleton.
The old school bus, which brings art to kids along the central coast, gets a vibrant re-do and becomes a work of art itself.
OSU’s touring Art About Agriculture exhibit, now at Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center, explores the ways we grow and eat our food.
Berry says his work, part of the “Animals in Nature” show at the Newport museum, aims to raise awareness of climate degradation and loss of species.
The New York-based trio brings jazz and swing influences to its music; Brongaene Griffin and Cary Novotny also are on the bill.
After the COVID shutdown, the choral group has scheduled three performances next week.
Sitting in on one of Erik Sandgren’s painting-from-nature group adventures in Depoe Bay. A photo essay by Friderike Heuer.
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