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One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Outfit

Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show turns five
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The rules are simple for Bend’s Rubbish Renewed Fashion Show, a trash-to-treasure design contest and benefit for Rimrock Expeditionary Alternative Learning Middle School (REALMS): use garbage. Using repurposed materials, students, alongside amateur and professional designers, are asked to create runway quality outfits in the style of “Project Runway’s” unconventional materials challenges. Entries are labeled Trash-fashion […]

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Meet the Artist

Megan McGuinness’ playful world of whimsy . . .with cowboys!
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The creatures that Megan McGuinness features in her art live in a very different world. One where miniature plastic cowboys ride cardboard plates of nachos out to sea. Where anthropomorphized cacti keep pet cats. Where plants smoke other plants. Where the bump under your bed might just be a friendly kitty with a runny nose. […]

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Maria Fernanda Bay’s whimsical portraiture
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It’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but Maria Fernanda Bay‘s portrait photography could be a novel. Specializing in beauty shots, maternity photos, and family and cooperate portraits, Fernanda, a recent Bend transplant from Boston, is a master of reading people and conveying their essence through photography. She has shot internationally, opened […]

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Meet the Artist

Tim Jones’ dreamy, Tolkien-inspired illustration
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An imaginative illustrator and 3D artist, deeply inspired by fantasy, Tim Jones received a BFA in Illustration from the New Hampshire Institute of Art and immediately packed up his bags and moved to Bend with the hopes of becoming a part of a developing art scene. Some of his signature characters are robotic cyborgs and […]

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Caroline Cornell’s organic, well-traveled compositions
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Bend-based painter Caroline Cornell grew up in big sky country—Eureka, Montana, to be exact, a secluded town of a few thousand on the edge of the Canadian border, with a name that is an apt sentiment to her artistic inspiration. Combining nature, distinctly stylized landscapes, Dali-esque contorted trees, muted colors and a slight obsession with […]

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The Girl Talk of Arts Apps

JUJU, the mash-up, collaborative, multi-media game
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If you loved making cut-and-paste collages in elementary school, you’ll love JUJU, one of Bend’s most promising new tech startups. JUJU is an art-based messaging app that provides a library of licensed art pieces for users to combine and design into unique hodgepodges. When the Source spoke with Julia Junkin, one of the founders of […]

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Meet the Artist

Bettina McEntyre’s personified—wait, what is that?
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Portland artist Bettina McEntyre makes use of a cocktail of imagination and pattern to create eye-catching creatures in her drawing and painting. Never quite human but always expressive, and never fully recognizable as a non-blob species of animal, her characters are all at once uncomfortable and hilarious, a vision of a world that exists only […]

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Metal as Hell

COMAG exhibit opens at The Oxford
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On Aug. 2 and 3, the Central Oregon Metal Arts Guild (COMAG) is having its 13th annual show at the Oxford Hotel and it is going to melt your face—if your face is made of metal. Metal working is ancient and can be traced all the way back to 8700 BCE with the discovery of […]

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With Armature Wide Open

Local arts studio reopens with new diversified purpose
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Author, novelist, playwright and poet James Baldwin summed up the solidarity of the artistic lifestyle saying, “The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.” Yes, the vision of the artist can be a lonely one. The solipsistic painter […]

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For Art's Sake

Marshall High School rents student work
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In an epic WTF failure of the modern education system, only one-third of Oregon public schools provide coursework in the visual arts. This in spite of compelling evidence that arts education increases academic performance, motivation and social and critical thinking skills—skills like self-expression, creativity and patience, which are particularly significant for nontraditional students, like those […]

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