This article features the third brightly painted traffic signal box along Siskiyou Boulevard, beautified by a just-graduated SOU art student during November 2024. You will learn about the artist, her artwork and what she learned in the process of painting. The work, by artist Sidney Reha, is titled “Hands and Faces.”
Four artists were asked if they could define at what line artificial intelligence could compromise human creativity. As they passed a microphone between each other, their conversation challenged the concept of a soul. The deep existential dive came on the first night of the Approaching AI Summit, the second year of an artificial intelligence (AI) summit in Ashland.
Ashland artist Rachel Hallett Ralston will host a gallery party Saturday, March 15, at Langford Gallery in Phoenix. Ralston will address the group in a talk on the creative process she has experienced in her work and showcase a variety of different art works on exhibit.
It’s in the name: Cultural and economic revitalization of Ashland is at the heart of a three-year program proposed by a new nonprofit organization — the Ashland Cultural & Economic Alliance. Co-founders Matt Hoffman, Jim Fredericks and Lloyd Matthew Haines hosted a launch event attended by about 70 business, cultural and civic leaders Saturday evening in Meese Hall at Southern Oregon University to announce the formation of ACEA.
Adele Hiles, with the assistance of volunteer Linda Purdom, began her community involvement by going to the Children’s World Montessori School to get handprints from about 35 of the school’s children, plus some teachers and parent volunteers.
Peter Finkle: Have you noticed the three recently painted traffic boxes? They are bold, brightly painted traffic signal boxes along Siskiyou Boulevard. This article is the first of three that will introduce you to the artists and the artwork.
BLM officials are accepting applications for the summer artist-in-residence program. Selected artists receive a one- to two-week residency surrounded by the landscapes at Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument during the month of June.
To get into the holiday spirit, wait for the sun to go down, and take a drive around town to enjoy the many elaborate decorated homes and businesses. We found a lot of nice displays on our drive and you may find even more.
High winds and pouring rain didn’t keep hundreds of Ashland High School students, family, teachers, and friends from attending the 33rd Winter Fine Arts Festival at AHS Friday night.
Rogue Valley craft lovers will be a happy lot this holiday season with all the artisan fairs and shows on tap. The events begin in November and continue until just before Christmas. Area crafters will offer everything from beautifully carved wooden pieces and clay pottery to unique handmade treasures perfect for gift-giving.
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Ask Strider: A worried older brother asks our advice columnist’s advice. And a dog’s guardian wants to know if there is any hope getting their hat-hating dog to calm down. As always, Strider tries to give words that help!
After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
It’s complicated.
Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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