If taking a break from the snowy outdoors sparks your interest, the following local arts events are creative alternatives to binge-watching Netflix or filling up the pages of your adult coloring book. Grab dance shoes, knitting needles or bits of that creative project you’ve been working on and bring them to Open Studio Nights at […]
The workhouse
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Making local habits a priority
Taped to the register at Bend’s Workhouse in the Old Ironworks Art District is an old tea bag tag that says “Together we can do what we can never do alone.” Owner Cari Dolyniuk told me that this little nugget of wisdom sums up the way that she and the other three shop owners at […]
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An Old Building, New Idea
Workhouse celebrates third anniversary
If the US Census—instead of counting things like household income and marital status— had a matrix for features such as collaboration, artistic production, and creativity, then the Ironworks Art District would be a hotspot on Bend’s city map. Constructed in 1912 to support the then-booming timber industry of turn-of-the-century Bend, the Old Ironworks is a […]
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Picks 2/25-3/4
thursday 26 Back from the Dead BLUEBRASS—No one plays by the rules anymore. But that’s fine. As a result, we come across a new musical portmanteau at least once a week. This week’s winner: blue-brass, a fusion of bluegrass and brass band. Think Tom Waits meets Louis Armstrong, with the lyrical sensibilities of Johnny Cash. […]
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4 Non Blondes
LUMIN Art Studio adds color to Tumalo
No GPS necessary to find LUMIN Art Studios. It’s nestled into the only distinctly non-rural-looking brick building on Fourth Street in Tumalo (the street numbers only go up to Eight). It’s next to Tumalo Coffeehouse. If you see the fire station, you’re close. Hit the elementary school, and you’ve gone too far. While artist collective […]
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Top Five Books of 2013
Also, Bend’s top celebrities and local art installations
1. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt: The one common denominator for almost every thinking-person’s “best literature of 2013” list, Tartt’s third novel, a beautiful and epic story about tragedy (the teenage protagonist loses his mom in a bombing at an art museum) masquerading as redemption—or vice versa. 2. The Circle, Dave Eggers: His ninth book is […]