Cascades Academy’s summer program, Camp CREATE, will be offering seven weeks of summer camp for rising kindergarten-5th grade students. Half-day and full-day options are available each week on the school’s 39-acre campus located near Tumalo State Park. Camp CREATE stands for Creatively Redefining Education through Adventurous Teachable Experiences and focuses on programming based in STEM,…
((L): Tariqa Waters | Photo courtesy of Tariqa Waters (R): Anthony White | Photo by James Harnois) The 2020 Neddy Cornish Awards have been awarded to Tariqa Waters and Anthony White. Our deepest congratulations to Waters (Open Medium) and White (Painting), each of whom will receive an increased award — this year only — of…
(Spray art students gather in front of the old Spray General Store. Artist Relief recipient Joni Kabana will use her award to support transforming the store into a community art center | Photo by Rosie Day) “Before I even opened the email, I exhaled a sigh of relief,” said Eryk Donovan of Portland, one of…
(This piece by Summit High School’s Emma Harris was one of several by Bend-La Pine Schools’ student-artists that earned Gold Key honors from the Scholastic Arts Awards) 12 Students Earn Gold Key Awards Student artists in Bend-La Pine Schools were recently recognized by the Central Oregon Scholastic Art Awards program for their artwork, taking home…
(Photo | Courtesy of PLAYA) Do you crave time to focus on your photography, writing, research, painting? Are you looking for the time and space in a supportive environment free of distraction from daily life in order to tackle a creative or scientific project? Are you in need of a change of new scenery to…
(Plenary (2020 Theme Award Winner) by David Mensing, The Sun Followers (2020 Americana Folk Award) by Dorothy Holmes Mohler, Stepping Into Light (2020 Award of Merit) by Susie Zeitner and Wendy Birnbaum) | ALL photos by Curtiss Abbott) The virtual My Own Two Hands (MOTH) Holding Hope art auction and fundraiser is right around the…
(Cosmic Microscapes | Photo courtesy of High Desert Museum) What do ancient pieces of cooled magma from the Moon and Mars have in common with samples from an eruption of Oregon’s Lava Butte only 7,000 years ago? Examined under a microscope, lava rocks from Earth, Moon, Mars and asteroids have striking similarities —not to mention…
(Daniela Repas | Photo courtesy of Scalehouse Collaborative for the Arts) DATE February 25, 6-7pm Virtual Zoom Event Reservations are required and a Zoom link will be sent in a confirmation email. $10 suggested donation. DANIELA REPAS The Still Line of a Movement captures the progression of Daniela Repas’ art practice through multiplicity of mediums….
(Celadon bowl and Plague Doctors by Helen Bommarito) Late in 2020, potter Helen Bommarito was seeking an idea for a ceramic Christmas tree ornament that would represent the year. She hit upon the perfect one: the Plague Doctor. During the plagues of the Middle Ages and earlier, plague doctors were hired by towns to care…
(Hold Fast by Rebecca Sentgeorge) Rebecca Reed Sentgeorge, a Redmond mixed media visual artist, was invited to give a presentation, titled From Inspiration To Process, on February 1 to the members of the Corvallis Art Guild. Due to COVID-19 the presentation for their members was made over Zoom. Rebecca’s presentation focused on where creative ideas…
