Originally published in Cascade Business News October 3, 2011 by Pamela Hulse Andrews CEO/Founder Oregon’s Cultural Trust was established by law in 1999 with funding mechanisms approved in 2001 in large part due to the dedicated commitment of our former State Treasurer  beloved Central Oregonian, Ben Westlund. Ben believed, as we do, that art culture…

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To see personal photos from Burning Man: click here. Imagine 50,000 people coming to the playa, a remote, desolate desert of nothing but sun a dry lake bed of cracked dusty earth building a temporary city, sharing everything from food water to wine, music trailer parts, building exquisite works of arts, taking part in various…

Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls. ~ John Hart (Edgar-Award winning author of three New York Times bestsellers, The King of Lies, Down River The Last Child). Local photographer extraordinaire, Carol Sternkopf, remarked the other night at an exhibit of her…