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.

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.

The Newport artist (and former mayor) finds her new show's inspiration along the tidal flats of Yaquina Bay Road.

To celebrate one of the world's rare biospheric reserves, scientists, artists, and the public will gather on the Oregon beach to talk, learn, and create images in the sand.

Adams tells a Columbia River Maritime Museum audience of her adventures on the seas, including storms, loneliness, and (maybe) cannibals.

July heats up with a revisionist anthology reconsidering "Sex and the Single Girl" and a panel discussion of Oregon author Ursula K. Le Guin.

On July 9, poets will read their work around town, and the event culminates with a July 31 reading by Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani.

Marilyn Milne and Linda Kirk have written a journalistic memoir about the 1960s battle that followed changes in the local dairy industry.

The museum, a thriving cultural hub on the Oregon coast, is more than ever asking its audience to consider how the past shapes the future.

The artist's "Museo du Profundo Mundo" at the Newport Visual Arts Center reimagines the curiosities and collections of natural history museums.

The mural, created with the help of the Oregon Coast Children’s Theatre & Center for the Arts, offers a positive message about coming together after the pandemic.

An unrepentant (and successful) outsider talks from his Oregon coast home about indie movies, American imperialism, and the pleasures of a good beer and a good dog.

Yes, it's a great beach town – and part of that is its cultural life. K.B. Dixon brings home the photographic proof.

The pandemic turns a theater project by Dell'Arte International and the Wiyot Tribe into an online effort by four filmmaking teams.

Broadway Books throws a party, a traveling bookstore stops in Portland, and writers Karl Marlantes, Shawn Levy, Emily St. John Mandel, and Peter Rock talk books.

An instrument cannot truly be owned, the luthier says: “You are its custodian, for as long as you keep it, or for as long as you live,” but the instrument belongs to history.

Lloyd and Myrtle Hoffman, who offered classes and opened their home to friends and strangers, left as their legacy a gathering place for art lovers.

The retired college professor says her Irish chambermaid hero appeared to her on a road trip.

This year’s Soapstone Bread and Roses Award recipient discusses hosting successful reading series and life on the Oregon Coast.

This month brings a feminist book club, a look back at the Rajneeshees, plenty of author readings, and Oregon Book Award finalists

Two potters have turned an abandoned middle school into a center for art classes serving adults and Reedsport School District students.

The Nehalem artist says her work reflects what it feels like to be a woman, not what it looks like.

The Feb. 19-21 show will include quilters from around the world competing for $2,000 in prize money.

Students are using non-recyclable debris to create a tidal-rock sculpture that will grace the new Lincoln City Cultural Center Plaza.