The High Desert Museum has selected 69 works of art by 53 artists for this year’s Art in the West exhibition and silent auction. “The exhibition celebrates the people, landscapes, history and wildlife of the West and portrays the rugged splendor of our storied and evocative region,” said Andries Fourie, the Museum’s curator of art…

Each August since 2008 the welcoming banks of the Deschutes River in the Old Mill District in Bend come alive for one of the premier fine art shows in the country: Art in the High Desert (AHD). In its short ten years Art in the High Desert has been nationally recognized year after year accumulating…

Buffalo Horn Gallery 167 West Sister Park Dr., 541-549-9378 Featuring the work of Ted Lettkeman, Alix and Gary Lynn-Roberts, western oil painter. Canyon Creek Pottery 310 North Cedar St., 541-390-2449, www.canyoncreekpotteryllc.com Fine handmade pottery by Kenneth G. Merrill made in Sisters. Cha For The Finest Gallery 183 East Hood Ave. www.chaforthefinest.com, 541-549-1140 4th Friday Art…

Natural solitude, big sky country, a lifetime spent more outdoors than indoors and the calming sense that living remote and being self-reliant brings—these are things few of us deeply know and understand today. There are places unburdened by towns, unbound by paved roads, where the greatest influence remains the weather and seasons. The Oregon Outback,…

Lee Barker will share an array of amazing metal, wood and found object sculptures. While tapping into the spirit of using what’s nearby, Lee puts together components that had a prior life, seeking to honor those creators on the way to realizing something new, engagingly greater than the sum of the parts. Lee’s inspiration comes…

The Sunriver Resort Lodge Betty Gray Gallery continues the quarterly art exhibition series with Spring in the High Desert. The exhibit features artwork by Ann Bullwinkel, Barb Gonzalez and William (Bill) Logan thru June 2. Spring in the High Desert includes Bullwinkel’s oil on canvas paintings featuring Central Oregon landscapes. The current work depicts the…

Alleda Real Estate 25 NW Minnesota Ave, Suite 1. www.alledarealestate.com Featuring Jerry Dame, fine artist. www.jerrydame.com Art in the Atrium, Franklin Crossing, 550 NW Franklin St. Sondra Holtzman’s Seasons of the Earth — the exhibit of original rust prints of found objects. Holtzman, an aficionada of discarded gadgets discovered in deserted places, often visits ghost…