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Spring Arts Preview – Visual Arts
Share via: Setting Sail: The Story of Sea Cloud Feb. 15 to June 15 Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens Using documents, photographs, models, paintings and decorative art objects, “Setting Sail” tells the story of Sea Cloud, commissioned in 1930 by General Foods heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and her husband, E. F. Hutton. Christened Hussar V,…
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CFAC, Rock Springs URA invite artists to annual Artists and Makers Market
ROCK SPRINGS — The Community Fine Arts Center and Rock Springs Main Street/Urban Renewal Agency will host the 2025 Artists and Makers Market at Bunning Hall from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 22. Artists and makers are invited to apply by March 7. Applications submitted after this date will be considered based…
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“Embracing the Syncopation: A Visual Exploration,” through February 21
Exhibit: Through Friday, February 21 Reception and Artist Talk: Wednesday, February 19, 4 – 6 p.m. Black Hawk College ArtSpace Gallery, Building 4, 6600 34th Avenue, Moline IL A Galesburg-based talent who has been active in photography for more than half a century, Rich Ankeney brings his latest exhibition to Moline’s Black Hawk College in…
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Salamanca STEAM electives class experiences and explore Optical Art
SALAMANCA — Inspired by a family trip to the Buffalo AKG Art Museum’s Electric Op Art exhibit, STEAM teacher Stacey Clayson introduced her Seneca Intermediate School elective classes to the art form — and how they could use technology to create these visual pieces. Op Art is a style of visual art that uses patterns,…
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Salamanca STEAM electives class experiences and explore Optical Art
SALAMANCA — Inspired by a family trip to the Buffalo AKG Art Museum’s Electric Op Art exhibit, STEAM teacher Stacey Clayson introduced her Seneca Intermediate School elective classes to the art form — and how they could use technology to create these visual pieces. Op Art is a style of visual art that uses patterns,…
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Lunar Love
Whether you’re starry-eyed in love or just looking for a celestial adventure, prepare for a Valentine’s Day journey that’s light-years beyond usual hearts and roses. Sokaris Studio and the 124 Street & Area Business Association are giving the day an interstellar twist with To The Moon and Back — an immersive and interactive art experience. According…
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Lunar Love
Whether you’re starry-eyed in love or just looking for a celestial adventure, prepare for a Valentine’s Day journey that’s light-years beyond usual hearts and roses. Sokaris Studio and the 124 Street & Area Business Association are giving the day an interstellar twist with To The Moon and Back — an immersive and interactive art experience. According…
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Obituary: Artist and longtime Stillwater prison teacher William Murray, 76, transformed pain into painting
If William Murray created a painting he wasn’t happy with, he wouldn’t disregard it and start over on a fresh canvas, as some artists might. Instead, his wife, Angie Murray, said, he would keep reworking the same piece; amending it, rethinking it, turning day into night, pushing it until he thought it stood on its…
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Review: Shar Coulson’s “Night Sight” at the Museum of Surgical Science
Shar Coulson, installation view of “Night Sight: Illuminating the Mind’s Eye Through Darkness,” 2025, at International Museum of Surgical Science/Photo: Susan Aurinko Artist Shar Coulson understands the healing power of art firsthand. When she was diagnosed with endocarditis in 2021 Coulson underwent emergency open-heart surgery that likely saved her life. During the first month and…
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Portraits by Jeremy Okai Davis add new faces to Oregon history
Installation view of ReEnvisioned: Contemporary Portraits of Our Black Ancestors in the A.M. Bush Gallery at Salem Art Association, 2025. Photo credit: Mario Gallucci, image courtesy of Salem Art Association After a three-year process, the complete set of ten portraits of Black Oregon ancestors by Jeremy Okai Davis is on view at the A.M. Bush…