“I love paintings that are big enough you feel like you can walk into them. They fill up your whole vision,” says Bill Hoppe, professor of fine arts at Central Oregon Community College, whose past and current work will be on full display at At Liberty in July. The exhibition includes prints, drawings and large-scale […]
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Juniper Tree Invasion Redmond Art Reveal
Over the past few years, leaders in Redmond have been building up their city with an influx of art in public spaces. Earlier this year, the city made a call to artists for their “Juniper Tree Invasion” asking artists to create a piece that showcases the unique nature of juniper trees. This Thursday, pieces from […]
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Color class at Bend Art & Bend Burlesque
Marie Thibeault – Unleashing Color Los Angeles-based artist, Marie Thibeault, will be holding a three-day workshop on color. Seems simple enough, but color is one of those vital and essential aspects of art that can either go terribly wrong or be so right that it changes how the inside of your mouth feels when looking […]
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Marie Teilhard: Exploring life through exploring self
Marie Teilhard uses self-portraiture to explore her various experiences and personal observations from everyday life. Her Instagram feed is a sort of “visual journal,” allowing her to explore the various topics of the moment in a way that she can see around them and through them and eventually understand them. Through modeling relationships with local […]
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New Gallery space
Awesome local art found on Instagram
One of the upsides of our ever-growing town is that all our little nooks and crannies are being filled with various delights. A new little nook has just filled up, featuring a collective of artists regularly showing their work. Karen Ruane Studio and Collective is now open in a space just above Great Harvest on […]
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Art Roundup
Last call to print on the walls This may be your last chance to print on the walls and not get in trouble. Bend Art Center’s recent show, “Zamenhof’s Trials: Prints and Prinstillations,” by Sukha Worob, soon comes to a close. Worob created a series of rollers in to which he carved designs and images, […]
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Student Exhibitions at OSU and COCC
The showcasing of one’s work is a right of passage for an artist, vital in an artist’s growth and development. Student exhibitions are popping up all over town this month—a great opportunity to see new voices emerging in the community. OSU-Cascades will showcase two Bachelors of Fine Arts students’ work this month on the 2nd […]
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Moms Love Art
Plus, concert at Les Schwab, Bend Arts and Culture Tour with Bend Tour Company and small prints
Remember when you were a kid and for Mother’s Day you’d make a Georgia O’Keefe-inspired flower painting? Or maybe you’d cover your hands in paint, smack ’em down on a piece of paper with a poem, give it to mom and call it good? Mom loved that. She loved your art. Your mom still loves […]
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Happy Campers
One man show by Bill Cravis at COCC
In his upcoming show, Bill Cravis explores the current predicaments of the world in two new large-scale pieces, on display at Central Oregon Community College’s Pence Pinckney Gallery throughout the month of May. One piece is in the form of ceramics; one in the form of video installed in a large-box that, well— you just […]
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The Last Last Saturday
The Workhouse ends its monthly gathering after April’s event
All good things come to an end: The Beatles, love letters… and now, Last Saturdays at The Workhouse. While The Workhouse, an artist’s studio and retail space, is not going anywhere, its regular monthly event—which provided a place for local musicians and artists to connect and share their work—will take place for the last time […]