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 859.0 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 973.0 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 984.0 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 927.0 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 848.0 Confluence: A weekend of festivity in Reedsport
Confluence 2009, Reedsport s festival of music and wine, seafood and crafts, begins this evening with a gala Wine Taster s Dinner. Events coordinator Joe Mirvis is confident that his 70 tickets will be entirely sold and participants will be thrilled ...
4.3K - Feb. 13, 2009; scored 885.0 Jazz festival puts on a promising preview
This place filled up faster than a cat can climb a tree! It was only 7:15 p.m., but the multipurpose room at the former Charleston Elementary School was close to capacity. Board members from Southcoast Dixieland Clambake Inc. eyed the few empty chair...
4.8K - Jan. 30, 2009; scored 942.0 Dance school promotes healthy snacks
Artists are at work at Pacific School of Dance in Coos Bay. A tiny violinist applies fingers to strings, and begins to make music. A painter sketches out ideas for next spring s recital scenery. Instructors slip into empty studios between classes, wo...
4.6K - Jan. 16, 2009; scored 958.0 Inventive artists excite in STiTCH exhibit
Fabrics and fibers are the media of the moment, as Coos Art Museum devotes three galleries to a compendium of art quilts and creative stitchery. Cold-blooded visitors be warned: art quilts are not the items to grab when temperatures plummet. That s t...
4.9K - Jan. 2, 2009; scored 1000.0 Art is necessary ” so how about a bailout?
Prices are up, supplies are down, daylight dwindles and it s cold outside. Time to get positive: let s talk about art. Down in Los Angeles, supporters of the Museum of Contemporary Art devised a plan for saving their institution from financial ruin....
4.4K - Dec. 19, 2008; scored 968.0 Gallery co-op thrives at mall location
Fully enclosed shopping centers have been popular for centuries. Istanbul s Grand Bazaar, with its more than three thousand shops, encompasses 61 streets sheltered by roofs and domes, ten wells, four fountains and two mosques. Here in Coos County we ...
4.7K - Dec. 5, 2008; scored 921.0 We the viewers: Museum Biennial offers 323 reasons to vote for people's choice
The museum s ballot is a tiny little thing. Just two inches wide, it offers no arguments in favor and none in opposition; projected financial impacts are nonexistent. The ballot for the Coos Art Museum 2008 Biennial Exhibition asks one simple questio...
4.7K - Nov. 17, 2008; scored 854.0 NB artist's boat paintings, sculptures at Slough
No, wait a minute, in his watercolor Shore Acres, Hitch captures the glow of filtered sunlight on pink rhododendrons. Hang on, something s still missing here. Hitch, popular North Bend artist, constructs one-of-a-kind frames for problematic paintin...
4.3K - Nov. 17, 2008; scored 958.0 NB artist s boat paintings, sculptures at Slough
No, wait a minute, in his watercolor Shore Acres, Hitch captures the glow of filtered sunlight on pink rhododendrons. Hang on, something s still missing here. Hitch, popular North Bend artist, constructs one-of-a-kind frames for problematic paintin...
4.3K - Nov. 14, 2008; scored 958.0 We the viewers: Museum Biennial offers 323 reasons to vote for people s choice
The museum s ballot is a tiny little thing. Just two inches wide, it offers no arguments in favor and none in opposition; projected financial impacts are nonexistent. The ballot for the Coos Art Museum 2008 Biennial Exhibition asks one simple questio...
4.7K - Nov. 14, 2008; scored 854.0 Audition process educational for local dancers
On Sunday, instructors from Eugene Ballet Company arrive in Coos Bay to put scores of young dancers through their paces. They ll judge the height of a leap, the grace of a turn, and they may ask those who would be Baby Mice to raise their arms high w...
4.4K - Nov. 14, 2008; scored 895.0 | 
