(Silly Dog Art Glass 6c9 tray by Cheryl Chapman) Makin’ It Local is honored to feature three artist receptions and a handful of artful events during the upcoming Sisters Oregon Quilters Affair week. Quilters Affair is the educational arm of the Stitchin’ Post and is held annually the week before the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show….
From the Inside Volume II This collection of capstone projects from the Arts, Media and Technology students at OSU-Cascades exhibit a diverse range of interests that together attempt to engage with questions of identity, subjectivity, technology and the ways we both perceive our position in the world and perceive others around us. Whether the threshold…
(Mama are you a mate for life beaver? 30″ x 20″ acrylic on canvas, 2025, by Don Olsen) Central Oregon Community College’s (COCC) summer art exhibition, showing from July 8 to August 28 at the Bend campus’s Barber Library, is a collection of nearly 50 landscape paintings by Oregon artist Don Olsen titled Rain Shadows….
(Photo by Rob Kerr) Tickets are now available for the High Desert Museum’s signature fundraiser, High Desert Rendezvous — one of the longest-running galas in Central Oregon. Rendezvous returns for its 36th year on Saturday, August 23 from 5-9pm. “We are excited to come together with our friends and supporters during what is always an…
(Photos courtesy of Scalehouse) Art is Work: Professional Development Workshops for Artists Art is Work Summer Workshop Series, led by Nancy Floyd, offers professional development opportunities for Artists and is dedicated to enhancing the skills, knowledge, and professional practices of adult arts learners in the dynamic landscape of contemporary arts education. Summer Workshop Series Art is…
(Photo courtesy of Museum at Warm Springs) The Museum at Warm Springs will open its major 2025 exhibition, Saddle Up: Ranchers and Rodeo Life of The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, on Thursday, June 26, 2025. It will be on view through Saturday, September 27, 2025. The exhibition coincides with the Warm Springs Tribes’ 56th…
(Left) Crooked River (Right) The View from Post Meadows by Pamela Beaverson) Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge, a five-hour drive from Bend, offers magnificent vistas of rugged terrain and a chance to glimpse its graceful pronghorn antelopes. Encompassing more than 420 square miles of desert steppe and low craggy mountains, it was established by Teddy…
(Photo courtesy of Prairie City Fiber Fest) The Prairie City Fiber Fest is looking for fiber vendors, workshop students, and shoppers to descend upon this small eastern Oregon town over the July 26-27 weekend. Since 2019 this event has welcomed an amazing variety of fiber vendors from all over the northwest and beyond to share…
(Sunriver Art Fair shoppers in The Village. Photo courtesy of Sunriver Women’s Club) The 15th Sunriver Art Fair returns to the scenic Village at Sunriver August 8-10, with over 80 artists bringing original, juried art to Central Oregon. Open from 9am to 5pm on Friday and Saturday, and 9am to 3pm on Sunday, this “Village…
Each summer on the first Saturday in August, over 100 brightly colored quilts go on display in The Village at Sunriver. The 37th Sunriver Quilt Show and Sale on Saturday, August 2, is presented by the members of the Mountain Meadow Quilters (MMQ). MMQ consists of approximately 80 quilters who meet twice a month to…
