It is that time of year. Blue skies abound, flowers and trees are blooming, birds are singing. Along with the flora and fauna coming to life after the dormant winter, so is the real estate market. Buyers are out in full force, searching for their dream homes. Meanwhile, sellers are eagerly awaiting offers. As has […]
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Capturing the Essence of Healing Reins
Artists come together to show support for therapy horses
Inspiration can come to artists in many ways. For local painter, Kelly Thiel, learning about Healing Reins Therapeutic Riding Center and participating in their Diamonds and Dust fundraiser for the last two years kicked up a bit of magic and inspiration that she’s now putting into her art. She’s also welcoming other artists to join […]
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Low Risk, High Reward Art Classes
Try out your creativity Watercolor Wednesdays with Sagebrushers Art SocietyKnow Jo(e): Painting
with Coffee Workshop
Recently, I directed a stage performance of The Vagina Monologues. We had a cast of almost 30 women, approximately half of whom had never in their lives set foot on stage to perform. Brave. The process reminded me how risky it feels for some people to create art. I forget, as I create art every […]
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Jacob Norris: Painting in the Wild
It’s a testament to a community when an artist wants to stay settled in the place they began. For Jacob Norris, his painting began when he was a student at Mountain View High School and he studied with Ken Roth. That relationship proved influential for Norris, who apprenticed with Roth for several years after high […]
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Alternative Ways to Give the Gift of Art
A great alternative to giving a gift is giving an experience—a way to make time for family and friends and to do something fun. One offering that can incorporate groups of friends and family: a painting class with Karen Eland. This is not a typical painting class, however. Eland only paints with either coffee or beer—and […]
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Burning Down the Room
A conversation with Louie Van Patten
Louie Van Patten’s pop culture work captures the very thoughts found in his subject’s eyes and his self-portraits, nudes and figures have a way of relying on the baggage the viewer brings to the pieces. Van Patten initially worked with artist Cara Thayer for years until eventually striking out on his own, creating work equally […]
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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 8/12-8/19
Mary Medrano explores man vs. nature through art
A week ago, Mary Medrano opened her first solo exhibition in Central Oregon at the Rotunda Gallery in the Barber Library on the COCC campus. The exhibit is called Feathered Tales, featuring a series of 30 mixed-media paintings that Medrano created during the past six months. Finding inspiration in the natural world, Medrano uses painting […]
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Move Over Pedal Pub
Can I have some merlot with that watercolor?
Art & Wine, Oh My! offers a simple concept: people getting together to paint and have some drinks. “It’s all about creating community and getting to know one another,” says owner Kaie Stoops. The mobile paint-and-sip business opened last year, and hosts both public events (open to the community three to four nights per week) […]
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Serial Vandal Defaces National Parks with Acrylic Paintings
We like to imagine that “outdoor recreator” and “nature lover” are mutually inclusive terms. Unfortunately, some people are not so humbled by nature that they feel inspired to treat the wilderness with respect. That, and/or their parents failed to teach them manners. (Examples: Those Boy Scouts who tipped over an ancient rock formation, people who get […]