Bend Visitor Center
-750 NW Lava Rd, Suite 160 (corner of Oregon Ave and Lava Rd)
July 2025, July 11th (First Friday)
Local Bend artist Bob Newhart (newhartist.com) has been selected as the Artist in Residence at
the Bend Visitor Center for July 2025.
Because 1st Friday falls on the 4th of July national holiday this year, the official First Friday Art
Walk for July is scheduled for Friday, July 11th from 5 to 8 PM.
In addition to being the featured artist at Bend Visitor Center, Newhart is launching the 1st Friday
Artwalk Detective Club. The Detective Club is meant to engage children and those that are
young at heart to discover and get into the Bend art scene by discovering paintings around Bend.
Each young Art Detective will receive a special sticker pamphlet (see following page: ART
DETECTIVE – Sticker Pamphlet Mock-up) to use as they collect artwork stickers at participating
Bend businesses.
There will be seven stickers to collect (all of paintings by Newhart). The paintings are entitled:
Village, The Dude, Cargo Faith, Cups, Invitation, It’s 2017 Charlie, and Mischief. There will also be
one extra sticker when the Artwork Detective meets Newhart.
Newhart says his approach to painting is entwined with the idea of painting music. He says
music, especially improvisational jazz, is probably the highest authority on how to live life.
Painting is a way to get close to that –– the silent brush in search of sound. “If I could
approximate – in art – the colors, notes, rhythms, tones, and textures that Mile Davis,
Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Brad Mehldau, (and today Torrey Newhart) put into sound,
then I would be very pleased.”
This story is based on submitted information and has not been verified by our news team.
This article appears in Source Weekly May 8, 2025.
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