Spin doctor
Silk means elegance, luxury, wealth. Silk is lustrous and resilient; it shimmers and it caresses. In the hands of fiber artist Liz Brende, silk is accessories and silk is art. Next month she will offer a class, Making Silk Paper, at Easy Lane Frames...
 4.0K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 1000.0 Weaving through time
Native American basketry represents a rich and unique traditional art. For centuries, tribal women integrated naturalistic and geometric designs into basket forms ranging from utilitarian to ceremonial. The Coos Bay region supports a wealth of natura...
5.0K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 1000.0 Culture collection
October is National Arts and Humanities month, hailed as a coast-to-coast collective celebration of culture. For the next four weeks there will be proclamations, poetry readings, performances and prizes and in Oregon, an expansive menu of cultural ...
4.8K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 1000.0 Hanging together
NORTH BEND Collaborate, communicate, and cooperate these elements are key to the success of live theater. Gather together any group of performers and without the Three C s, you ve got chaos. With art galleries, not so much. Often, it is the singu...
3.8K - Sep. 11, 2009; scored 1000.0 Bold to the bone
BANDON At first, stress fractures may be barely noticeable. Caused by the repetitive application of force, they are tiny cracks in the bone. Candace Kreitlow s textile artwork, Stress Fracture, juts from one wall of the petite foyer of the Southe...
3.8K - Aug. 28, 2009; scored 1000.0 Watercolor cruise
COOS BAY - Take a plunge into summer with a visit to the Coos Art Museum, where watery media celebrate the season. The 16th-annual Maritime Art Exhibit fills three main floor galleries with art that invokes illusory drafts of salty air, and the dista...
4.1K - Aug. 14, 2009; scored 1000.0 'Last hurrah': Octogenarian artist offers final exhibit in museum lobby
For the third time, the Bay Area Artists Association presents Liz Coke to the Coos Art Museum as their featured artist of the month. Throughout August, admission to Liz Coke s lobby exhibition is free. This is my last hurrah I won t do any more s...
3.8K - Jul. 31, 2009; scored 1000.0 Magnifico!
Bravo, bravo, magnifico! For 30 years, explosions of applause and shouted praise capped the orchestral performances of the Oregon Coast Music Festival. Bella musica , we cried, rising from our rented cushions in the acoustically revered Marshfield...
5.3K - Jul. 17, 2009; scored 1000.0 South Slough celebrates 35 years
CHARLESTON Remember summer birthday parties? Friendly people, fun games, yummy cake put these elements together next week and you ll have a South Slough birthday party: the 35th anniversary of our country s first estuarine reserve. South Slough N...
4.3K - Jul. 3, 2009; scored 1000.0 Like 'Billy Elliott,' CB boy goes against grain, takes dance
Connor Hammond is riding the wave, and I don t mean one of those Pacific rollers crashing on Bastendorff Beach. Hammond, 10, is studying ballet at Pacific School of Dance, at a time when boys who dance are getting a lot of attention. The Broadway pro...
4.8K - Jun. 19, 2009; scored 1000.0 New art center in Gold Beach completes first exhibit
GOLD BEACH Gold glistened from the lobby s dark interior. An array of paintings stared back at me from the wrong side of the double glass doors. Here was the fruit of the inaugural Goldrush Art Festival, a lavish spread of 147 works of art adorning...
4.3K - Jun. 5, 2009; scored 1000.0 Art center opens in Bandon
BANDON Tomorrow marks the launch day of Angela Haseltine Pozzi s newest endeavor, Art 101. Located 8 miles south of Bandon, the complex is a distillate of everything this lifelong artist has ever wanted to do. First, she has painted it purple a l...
4.5K - May. 22, 2009; scored 1000.0 Into the groove
The thrilling rumble of the Egyptian Theatre s Wurlitzer organ will be silent this Wednesday, while the rhythmic slide and glide of formation ballroom dancing rocks the venerable Coos Bay movie house. Southern Utah University s crack Ballroom Dance C...
4.6K - May. 15, 2009; scored 1000.0 Tribes display artifacts from 10,000 years ago at library
During the month of May at the Coos Bay Public Library, centuries of time can be traversed in mere meters. Between the lobby s glass display cases and the gallery walls of the main reading room, more than 10,000 years of art, culture and information ...
4.7K - May. 8, 2009; scored 1000.0 Enrich your mind in fruits of grants
As was recently reported in The World (April 18-19), the Coos County Cultural Coalition awarded 16 grants to individuals and groups who are actively involved in the pursuit of culture. And while it is true the Coalition handed out 16 checks, the part...
1.2K - Apr. 28, 2009; scored 99.0 Whimsical chairs: Local artists make peace-themed chairs as fundraiser for neighbors mediation group
Pull up a chair. Make yourself comfortable, and let s talk. Your rants have fizzled, your threats are ignored, you ve been backed into a corner and can t see your way clear. What might help now is a little arbitration and Neighbor to Neighbor Media...
5.1K - Apr. 24, 2009; scored 1000.0 Sage partnership: Bandon gallery links with port to bring art to community
Through the multipaned windows of Bandon s historic Port Building, the Coquille River sparkles like a promise. Light refracts off the water and spills into the second floor exhibit space of SAGE Gallery, an enterprise dedicated to the support of fine...
5.5K - Apr. 10, 2009; scored 1000.0 Experimental photography is artistic hobby for NB appraiser
Chris Fromme was born to the job of appraiser. From the month he was first licensed to drive in Oregon he has followed the work through vineyards and subdivisions, from the Applegate Valley to the Pacific coast. His dad was an appraiser. Fromme is ...
4.1K - Mar. 27, 2009; scored 1000.0 Ringing questions: Answer the call of Dead Man s Cell Phone at OSF
ASHLAND Somewhere, a cell phone trills. The stranger across from you answers it, and perhaps you inwardly cringe as you brace for a barrage of unsolicited personal information. It might be a tinny rendition of a classical symphony or a single, repe...
3.9K - Mar. 13, 2009; scored 1000.0 All hail Macbeth! Get thee to Ashland for better-than-ever OSF
ASHLAND The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is stronger than ever, offering 11 plays and 14 reasons to visit Ashland this year. The plays are the obvious draw: professional, Tony Award-winning performances with roots going back to Chautauqua, and aspir...
5.7K - Feb. 27, 2009; scored 1000.0 | 
