CRAFT Bend is a local nonprofit that teaches kids the importance of art in everyday life. Recently, through a grant from the Environmental Center of Central Oregon and materials donated by Habitat ReStore, CRAFT Bend was able to bring art to life for Juniper Elementary fourth and fifth graders through a series of collaborative art […]
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Art Watch 3/30-4/6
First Friday Highlights for April 1
The first Friday of every month is always a good excuse to wander downtown into the early hours of the morning. If an excuse is something unnecessary then it’s a good opportunity to score thimbles of free booze and see some shops that aren’t on the usual go-see list. The Art Walk could absolutely have […]
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A Relationship with Nature
An interview with artist Lisa Marie Sipe
Lisa Marie Sipe’s work, whether it be in her encaustic wall work or acrylic paintings, captures the textures and layers found dormant in things easily taken for granted, ignored or forgotten. The fingerprints of nature compose the inspiration for the organic imagery found in her work, not just the nature seen outside in forests, rivers, […]
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Get Back to Work
The Workhouse thrives four years later
The Workhouse isn’t just part of Bend’s current artistic landscape, it is unequivocally part of Central Oregon’s history as well. The Workhouse is located in the machine shop of the early-20th century Bend Iron Works. In 1916 the Shevlin-Hixon and Brooks-Scanlon lumber mills opened, which seemed like the perfect opportunity for two young entrepreneurs from […]
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Art Watch 3/16-3/23
Caldera Open Studios
Caldera’s Artist Residency Program at Blue Lake will host an open house on Saturday, March 26, from 1 to 3 p.m. Artists in residence and the youth participating in the program will share their creative processes and creations with the community in a friendly, warm environment. The beautiful Caldera Arts Center in the foothills of […]
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Art Watch 3/9-3/16: The Strokes
Sheila Dunn’s Art Electrifies
Sheila Dunn’s work offers a compelling complexity with color and textures that capture her figures in a way that a photograph never could. She finds a sacred power in the feminine and haunting vulnerability in the masculine with a stunningly gritty geometry to her brushstrokes. Dunn’s paintings are primarily figures, but she captures something inherently […]
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Art Watch 2/17-2/24
Letters of Survival
On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. This order forced over 120,000 persons of Japanese descent, a majority of them American citizens, into internment camps for almost three years. The order was not officially rescinded until almost 30 years later. In 1979, Oregon was one of the first states to […]
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Art Watch 2/10-2/17
The Oregon WinterFest Fire Pit competition is heating up! Sculptors and metal workers from throughout Oregon have created more than 20 original structures to showcase the beauty and power of fire to light up the banks of the Deschutes River. “I went really big. I’m having so much fun,” says artist James Todd Rouse, who […]
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Hey, Tiny, Hey!
Small art show packs a big punch
In October, Bend is delivering a whole month of “cultural goodness,” as Angela Reid—writer, creative director, and the mind behind the Tiny Hey art project—calls it. The town will host the BendFilm Festival, Bend Venture Conference, Swivel Marketing Conference, Bend Design Conference, and more. Mix in the cyclocross events, the Zombie Run, and Halloween at […]
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Art Watch 5/6-5/13
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 […]