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.

Poets aplenty are on the literary calendar this month, as well as journalist Elizabeth Mehren and the Terroir Creative Writing Festival in Newberg.

OSU’s new performance and exhibition space, a busy hub of activity from morning to evening, brings a chance to transform how people see the university – and it has an open house April 6.

The show of “outsider art” by some 30 creators with no formal training illustrates art in its purest form: Art for the sake of art, art for the artist.

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 founder of the Waterston Desert Writing Prize and the Writing Ranch will receive the Holbrook award during the April 8 Oregon Book Awards ceremony.

Five artists interpret the legendary creature in sculpture, paintings, film, and multi-media work in a show that goes beyond the popular-culture image of Bigfoot.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival shifts into its '24 season with "Macbeth" and three other shows. Plus: Openings, last chances, a Steep & Thorny party, a pre-peek at Fertile Ground.

The Clackamas-based historian's new book documents the work of writers from 1800 to the present to help readers expand their understanding of the Pacific Northwest.

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.

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.

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.

The Dutch-born American artist's retrospective at the Salem museum showcases neon not as a gaudy symbol of advertising but as a key element of art for art's sake.

The exhibition "Strange Weather" at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon brings together a diverse roster of artists and perspectives.

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 traveling exhibition, created by the Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center, reminds viewers of the multiracial history of Oregon’s timber towns.

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 65-year-old Grants Pass library has not kept pace with the city's growth; funds from the Cow Creek Band and a bill before the Legislature would help pay to replace it.

A former student recalls how the one-time University of Oregon and Oregon State professor taught generations of writers to use the techniques of drama to tell true stories.

Themes of populist insurgency, ballot theft, and violence in 1930s Oregon carry resonances for modern readers.

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.

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.

From a Cirque du Soleil hit to updates on Don Quixote and Maxim Gorky to an opera about Malcolm X and more, Seattle's stages are bringing some heat to the chilly season.

The Eugene museum, which began with a collection of pioneer memorabilia, has evolved into a more inclusive institution.

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.

Brett Campbell looks back on his year in the seats and declares the lively works-in-progress festival his most memorable theater experience of 2023.

In a show of paintings at the Columbia Gorge Museum, the artist reveals a Realism beyond reality – and a gnarly Medusa-like image blowing in the wind.

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 notable Oregon artist is selected to show his ceramic pieces at the Smithsonian Craft Show in Washington, D.C., this spring, and he hopes to complete a 13-foot owl sculpture in 2024.

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.

Through personal interviews, intergenerational research, and visual art, the Rogue Valley native is leading the Latinx community of Southern Oregon on a journey to challenge cultural stereotypes and change society.  

The Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts will provide science, technology, engineering, and math students the opportunity to receive a unique understanding of the world through the arts.

Community organizer Nik Portela embraced The Dalles as their home, tipping the rural town's local culture toward more LGBTQIA2S+ acceptance.

The five-time Oregon Book Award winner exhibits his critical literary skills and extensive research in a sweeping biography of the “Lonesome Dove” author.

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.

Thirty years after his death, a resilient Shoalwater Bay tribal artist has an exhibit in Astoria side by side with young tribal artists inspired by his example.

Next spring’s opening will make Corvallis a destination for world-class arts performances, exhibits, and education.

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.

In the historic Willamette Valley town made famous by the movie “Stand by Me,” a volunteer-run gallery provides a year-round showcase for members, as well as classes and workshops for children and adults.

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.

The Turkish-born professor populates his politically charged work with images of Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, Allen Ginsberg and Gollum.

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.

The Nov. 4 festival lineup includes Viet Thanh Nguyen, Michael Lewis, Roz Chast, Gregory Gourdet, Mitchell S. Jackson, Luis Alberto Urrea, Alice Winn, Jonathan Lethem, Patrick deWitt, Lydia Kiesling, and so much more.

Friends have started a GoFundMe account to help the Newport business owner hurt while taking banners down for the November fundraising auction.

In the latest installment in the 'Gender Deconstruction' series, Hannah Krafcik talks with Oregon Coast resident Daphne Sprinkle about transfeminine identity and community embrace.

"Quarterback Princess," a 1983 TV movie that kicked off two future Academy Award winners’ careers, is also a McMinnville (or rather, “Minnville”) time capsule.

Based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, the audience favorite opens the 2023/2024 season, accompanied by Orchestra Next playing a live score.

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.

Four days at the Bend Film Festival yield a bounty of gripping documentaries, local gems, and highly anticipated indie releases.

Pieces in a show highlighting the Salem museum's permanent collection range from a Yangshao ceramic pot and an 18th-century print by Piranesi to work by Oregon artists Arvie Smith, Lucinda Parker, Henk Pander, and George Johanson.

The gallery opened in 1979. Georgina Ruff speaks with owner Élan Chardin about the decision to close and the current state of the Ashland arts community.

Madeline Sayet's play, at the festival in Ashland through Oct. 15, strives to reconcile whether an Indigenous person can love the most famous writer produced by a colonial power.

Warm up with M.R. O'Connor on the science of wildfires, poetry readings, and Halloween story time.

What began as a way for student athletes to de-stress has grown to serve people dealing with trying situations, from caregivers to the seriously ill.

The center, with The Refindery shop and Repair Cafe, has a mission of helping people “step away from the garbage.”

Decades of battle over a pristine old-growth forest climaxed with the devastating 2020 Beachie Creek fire. But new growth is happening – and photographers are documenting a rebirth.

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.

Tickets for opening night Oct. 20 go on sale Monday and are expected to sell out fast, say organizers of the event held at the High Desert Museum.

Access and opportunity are at the heart of the mission of Pendleton Center for the Arts. The mission is especially fitting given that the center's brick-and-mortar location was originally a Carnegie library.

From the annual Art Harvest Studio Tour to metal and fiber arts exhibits, a double handful of autumn gallery and studio shows to catch in Yamhill wine country.

The McMinnville plumber taught himself to paint by watching YouTube tutorials during the pandemic. This fall, he's teaching classes at Back Door Studio.

As the festival winds up, a pair of concerts at Archery Summit and Sokol Blosser wineries create a tasty blend of new and old sounds.

The Tualatin resident will be joined next month by 12-year-old poet Thomas Fitzgerald in a reading benefiting HORSES on the Ranch in Prineville.

“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.

Thanks to the efforts of local artists, the popular annual festival will welcome art lovers once again.

In Corvallis, the traditional summer Bard in the Quad opens outdoors with Shakespeare's sharp-witted "Much Ado About Nothing" – and a slightly altered location.

This cultural hub in Pendleton, Oregon celebrates the past, present, and future of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. It is also one of the state's five Oregon Trail Interpretative centers.

A memoir by Richard Etulain, Oregon historian of the West, spins a yarn about growing up on a Basque sheep ranch in eastern Washington.

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.

New faces in key places, final chapter for the lamented Book-It Rep, a little Jeeves and Wilde, and some Wagner at the opera keep the summer unsettled but hopping.

The warhorse-at-a-winery production featured students from the festival’s Young Artists Showcase–and a last minute replacement.

“The Skin of Our Teeth” opens next week at the 94-year-old community theater, which is adding new voices to its repertoire.

Readings in August include the authors of books about a 2,500-mile bike ride, Portland's Forest Park, and comedian Ernie Kovacs.

"Rent," "Romeo and Juliet," "Twelfth Night" and "The Three Musketeers" provide distinctive takes on classical and contemporary theater.

The Oregon wine country music festival's Young Artists program is helping young opera singers get a leg up on their careers.

An illuminating exhibit on the life of Black pioneer Letitia Carson helps the Corvallis Museum broaden its perspective on the history of Oregon and Benton County.

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.

New leadership and a show of diverse work by women artists in the Gorge suggest a transformation of ideas at the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center.

The grant from The Ford Family Foundation of Roseburg is believed to be the largest single private foundation award in city history.

The weekend event also includes free, self-guided tours of the work of 70 artists in 28 locations along the Central Oregon Coast.

The Portland-based ensemble performs Philip Glass’ science-fiction music drama under the Spruce Goose as the finale to its season exploring the human mind.

For decades, Gary Harvey built fences and secretly made art in Wasco County. A first-ever showing of his work is also an art center's fresh start.

A neighborhood print studio highlights the social aspect of printmaking and provides members 24-hour access to a variety of presses, some more than 100 years old.

Since 1986, the all-volunteer gallery has worked to exchange ideas and opportunities for artists in all mediums and cultures.

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.

Two Southern Oregon painters with distinctively indefinable styles find rejuvenation and inspiration in a post-pandemic respite.

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 venerable Ashland festival’s effort to save the 2023 season follows years of wildfires, pandemic shutdowns, and staff turnover. Plus, openings, closings, and this weekend's shows.

For 73 years, the gallery and studio space has offered amateurs and professionals a place to show their work and to share skills and support.

The diverse production fuses the work of four renowned choreographers, including a world premiere by EB’s resident choreographer Suzanne Haag

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.