One of the biggest fears in the performing arts world in recent years has been about demographics. Look around the audience for a classical music concert at the Hult Center, and you see a lot of gr…
Cassy Steuerwald’s art installation was titled “We Tried Throwing Them a Dinner Party.” It consisted of a small dining table with a pink tablecloth and place settings for University of Oregon Presi…
When Greenhill Humane Society needed to find homes for a dozen feral cats and kittens that had been removed from a colony at the J.H. Baxter toxic industrial cleanup site in west Eugene last summer…
The first thing to know about Mike Pease’s art is how incredibly precise his process is for producing it. Pease creates his careful landscapes, rendered with photographic precision in colored…
Fall is on its way, and change is in the air in Eugene’s performing arts world. Just in the past year or two Eugene Symphony, Oregon Mozart Players, Eugene Opera and Very Little Theatre have all na…
Following an unprecedented delay, on August 15 Gov. Tina Kotek named Bend poet, non-fiction writer and writing instructor Ellen Waterston to be Oregon’s 11th poet laureate, filling a position that …
One night in late 2016, Booker Bartow — best known in those days, if at all, as a skateboard videographer and hip-hop DJ performing as “Nomadic” — was skateboarding down a hill near his home in the…
One of the least known — but most influential — photographers ever to work in Oregon is the late Terry Toedtemeier. Trained as a scientist — he earned a bachelor’s degree in earth sciences at Orego…
In 1974, the late Jan Zach, an internationally known sculptor teaching at the University of Oregon, pulled off a big idea. Gathering $145,000 in grant money (nearly $1.2 million in today’s little d…
Having been banished to artistic obsolescence for the past few decades, black and white photography is enjoying a renaissance in the art world, from the new Netflix series Ripley, shot entirely in …
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival seems to have been under a terrible curse since 2011, when a structural beam supporting the Angus Bowmer Theatre mysteriously snapped one night, closing the 600-seat…