BEND // OLD MILL artHouse LTA 113 NW Minnesota Ave. instagram.com/arthouse.lta Come celebrate Valentine’s Day a week early at Bend’s newest gallery with a bold and immersive First Friday event: 808s & artBreaks, a Valentine’s Day First Friday experience of music, art and emotion, from 5-9pm. Local artist and artHouse LTA founder, Gabriel van Eikeren…
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Fearless Color Takes Flight
(Gabriel LTA. Photo by Jeff Spry) Gabriel LTA Reimagines Bend’s Art Scene Conjuring up rich vivid imagery, Bend artist Gabriel van Eikeren, AKA Gabriel LTA (Like The Angel), is fearless when it comes to creating imaginative paintings of surreal essences. A longtime resident of Bend, van Eikeren’s new artHouse LTA gallery on NW Minnesota just…
Everyone Gets in Free This Saturday
(Photo by Todd Cary) Mid Oregon Free Family Saturdays Everyone gets in free this Saturday! It’s that time of year again! Free Family Saturdays returns to the High Desert Museum on Saturday, January 31. Everyone, and we mean everyone, gets in free! For more than two decades, Free Family Saturdays have been a mainstay of…
Diné Elder Lupita McClanahan from the Navajo Nation will Speak at The Museum at Warm Springs on February 3
(Lupita McClanahan | Photo courtesy Lupita McClanahan) The Museum at Warm Springs (2189 Highway 26 in Warm Springs) will present a lecture by Diné (Navajo) elder Lupita McClanahan from the Navajo Nation on Tuesday, February 3, from 4-6pm. The Museum will host a reception to meet Lupita from 4-4:30pm. The reception and lecture are free…
The Museum at Warm Springs Announces 2025 Accomplishments
(The Museum at Warm Springs lobby | Photo courtesy of The Museum at Warm Springs) Designed and built to Smithsonian Institution standards in 1993, The Museum at Warm Springs is a very special place of cultural and historical importance to the Warm Springs people. “We are grateful to everyone who has visited our Museum and…
Paint & the Power of Storytelling ~ Celebrated Artist K.C. Snider
(Grazing into Spring by KC Snider // K.C. Snider) In a home studio in Redmond, surrounded by the high desert’s craggy beauty, K.C. Snider brings stories to life. A prominent Western artist, illustrator, and teacher, Snider’s art has focused mainly on capturing the rugged splendor and untamed spirit of the American West. “I’ve always been…
Updates from Scalehouse
(Photo courtesy of Scalehouse) Opening January 9: Be Right Back Join us on Friday, January 9 from 5-7pm for a private opening of Be Right Back! Be Right Back offers a pause, a space to discover respite and reprieve, to provide a place where we go when we put up a note saying, “Be right…
Winter Events Sneak Peek
(Nothing says “Happy New Year” like an otter with a snow mustache | Photo by Museum staff) Upcoming Events Get Ready to Experience a Treasure Trove of Excitement in 2026 Happy New Year! January and February are packed with good fun, learning opportunities and new exhibitions at the Museum. Read on to see what’s coming…
Reserve Your Spot: Creative Arts Courses Are Open
(Photo courtesy of COCC) Drawing, Painting, Sketching and Journaling Charcoal Foundations: Beginning Charcoal Drawing (Bend) Drawing: Abstract Simplified (Redmond) Drawing: Beginning Simplified (Redmond) Drawing: One-Point Perspective (Bend) Drawing: Two-Point Perspective (Bend) Feathered Forms: Sketching Birds (Bend) Figure Drawing Open Lab (Bend) Nature Journaling: Essential Techniques (Bend) Painting with Impact: Acrylics with David Kinker (Bend) Sketching:…
A Refresh of Art in Sunriver Galleries
(Where the Sky Bleeds Pink and the Wolves Run Wild by Gracie, sixth grade) We welcome everyone to what we hope is a prosperous 2026. Last year was an exciting year with the growth of many of the galleries in Sunriver, and the addition of the gallery space at the Public Safety Building. With the…