Bend’s Roundabout Art is a collection of over 20 pieces of public art on display throughout the city in the most at the center of Bend’s traffic circles. Learn more about these sculptures through Art in Public Places, the non-profit organization in Bend that provides art to various locations throughout the city. It is…
The High Desert Art League and Smith Rock State Park have come together to create an event celebrating the creativity of the human spirit and the spectacular beauty of Central Oregon’s Smith Rock. On June 22 the public and plein air artists of all kinds will experience the amazing scenery, geography and wildlife of Smith…
Millenials Are The Most Stressed-Out Generation, read the article’s headline. OMG, thought I! That’s terrible. I didn’t know that! As an intrepid journalist, I wanted to know exactly why that was the case. First though, I wanted to know what in the world a “millennial” was. Turns out that was the easy part….
Studio on 5th, a multi-media art studio, in connection with the Madras Aquatic Center Recreation Program (MAC) is sponsoring an “Exploring Various Art Media” Summer Children’s Program at their studio located directly across the street from Rio’s, 220 SW 5th St., Madras. Classes will include block printing, introduction to wood burning and mask making…
Times are tough right now, and I’ve been looking for ways to pick up a little extra cash. And that’s when it dawned on me. I’ve got this column to sell – maybe all I need is an infomercial! Scene One: Faded black and white, slightly blurred. An obese man in a torn bathrobe, sitting…
Two books by William Sullivan have inspired a show called Oregon Hikes Inspire Creative Expression at Art Adventure Gallery in Madras. The show will include quilts, photographs and paintings by Sullivan’s wife, Janell Sorensen. Opening reception will be April 4, 5:30-7pm. To celebrate Jefferson County’s 2013 Community Read Book selections by Sullivan, including Listening…
The year is 1961. Thanks to Joseph Heller, the term Catch-22 first enters the American lexicon, and becomes firmly embedded there. The entrapment of its circular logic was a thing of pure beauty. A character in the book – an Army airman during World War II – would be crazy if he continues flying any…
I don’t know if this was a good thing or a bad thing, but 2013 opened in rather dramatic fashion when a camera crew rolled up to our door shortly after the first of the year. Apparently one of the reality networks had been monitoring us, and my wife had been selected for the premier…
I slowly approached the temporary table that had been set up under the big RETURNS signs. There were lots of holiday traditions to be savored, but the after-Christmas gift return definitely wasn’t one of them. “Yes?” said the Evil Gift Return Lady. “Uh, hi. I’d like to return this item. It was a Christmas gift.”…
Ponderosa Pine Capital of the World exhibit anchors the new exhibit space in the expanded A. R. Bowman Memorial Museum. It includes The Woods and The Mill, two full size areas that highlight the workers, tools and history of the trade. Native American exhibit brings history of the people and land of Crook County….
