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 […]
Armature
Making local habits a priority
Taped to the register at Bendโs Workhouse in the Old Ironworks Art District is an old tea bag tag that says โTogether we can do what we can never do alone.โ Owner Cari Dolyniuk told me that this little nugget of wisdom sums up the way that she and the other three shop owners at […]
Isles jams ever so slightly
If you haven’t already read Bri Brey’s bit on the re-emergence of Armature, a local gallery and event space at 50 N.E. Scott St., you probably should. Regardless, though, there’s more than just art to catch at the space’s reopening at 6:30 pm. Saturday. There’re bands, too. Isles, a Bend quartet, is one of the […]

