In speaking about the work of an artist, painter Georgia O’Keefe once said, “Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.” O’Keefe was a talented painter of oversized flowers and New Mexico landscapes who, at the ripe age of 86, took up pottery […]
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Art Watch 4/29-5/6
Master printmaker Patricia Clark
One of Bend’s most celebrated artists, master printmaker and Atelier 6000 (A6) founder Patricia Clark, celebrates her 80th birthday this year. Her impressive works, which reflect a fascination with the natural world that spans six decades, will be on display at two galleries during First Friday and throughout the month of May. Her exhibit “Marks” […]
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Bouyant and Bubbly
Our Artist of the Month Tracie Broughton paints underwater (well, not literally)
In the six years that Portland artist Tracie Broughton has been a fine art painter, the prolific painter has embarked on ambitious projects with a distinctive style suggesting a much longer career. Broughton is a graphic designer by trade whose murals and lifelike canvases evoke a joyful liveliness in both form and substance. The photographic […]
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Art Watch 4/22-4/29
When people ask me if I make art, I pretty much always answer, “No.” If someone describes me as “creative,” I will usually scrunch up my nose and make a self-deprecating comment. I do like to spend time creating things that are visually and or intellectually beautiful—shadow boxes or short stories or terrariums—but I decided […]
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Art Watch 4/15-4/22
These days everyone is a photographer. If you have a cellphone, chances are you are carrying around a gallery of selfies, animal portraits, and food still lifes in your pocket. My nine-year old can snap a picture, slap on an insta-filter, and upload it to an online portfolio in less time than it takes me […]
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More Than Pulling Rabbits Out of Hats
Carrell and French bring magic to TEDxBend, literally
Tickets to TEDxBend 2015 sold out in just seven hours this year. If I was looking for a ticket, I would turn to two of the presenters for help—Saturday’s lineup includes a super young and talented magician duo who might know a thing or two about making things appear out of thin air. Hayden French […]
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Women Writers Continue to Be Overlooked by Literary World
For any writer, getting your work published is only the first step down the long and arduous path to literary acclaim. Book reviews and literary journals are essential in the lit establishment as they provide legitimacy for the most valued writers in our culture. Besides determining and broadcasting the work of authors deemed most worthy […]
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Art Watch 4/8-4/15
In case you didn’t already know, upcycling is quite a thing right now. Theoretically, artists have been creatively reusing objects and turning them into art for decades—Marcel Duchamp and the Dadists were doing it when they created their “ready-made” art in the early 1900s, and Robert Rauschenberg was incorporating trash into his mid-century collages way […]
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Another Generation, Same Issues
Redmond High examines parallels with The Laramie Project
When Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, tortured, and bound to a fence post outside of Laramie, Wyoming, on a freezing night in October 1998, today’s teenagers were either yet unborn or still in diapers. The 21-year-old’s death and the trial that followed attracted worldwide media interest and emboldened the nation to fight bigotry and hatred. Nearly […]
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Inside the Mind of an “Emerging Artist”
One of First Friday’s biggest draws, for me, is the opportunity to engage with the artists whose works hang in our local galleries and shops. I’m especially excited to meet some of the talented young high schoolers whose art is on display this month at Red Chair Gallery’s “Emerging Artists” show. For one, their work […]