An art exhibit featuring the paintings of Robert Perillat, who was one of America’s major contemporary artists, is on display at The Portal art gallery at 88 North Main St. in downtown Ashland. Perillat died in 1991 after four decades of producing hundreds of works.
Brick-and-mortar meets virtual reality at Ashland’s First Friday Art Walk Aug. 2 when the Art Authority Museum holds a pop-up event from 3 to 8 p.m. in the former Hanson Howard Gallery location at 89 Oak St. Ashland-based AAM will be displaying its archival fine art reproductions on most walls of the gallery.
The Gambrel Gallery on East Main Street in Ashland closed in late June after Jackson County found it in violation of land use regulations. The gallery, which was housed in a large, red barn at 1980 E. Main St., and operated by Emily Santiago and Chris Leishman of Ashland, opened in 2022 to showcase art in an unconventional space and create more community around art and with local artists.
Volunteers gathered Sunday morning in Railroad Park to make repairs to the Say Their Names memorial T-shirts along the fence by the park. it was the third or fourth Sunday in a row volunteers came to the park to slowly recreate the memorial for its fifth iteration.
Ashland’s Street Division installed a colorful thermoplastic artwork piece titled “Walking Upstream.” The work was designed by Glory Salinas Nylander and chosen by the Public Arts Advisory Committee and funded by the Ashland Beautification Initiative.
Interdisciplinary artist Beca Blake will engage in performance art in the street-front window of a downtown gallery from 5 to 7 p.m. this Saturday, assembling textile art at The Gallery at Ashland Independent Film Festival in a work she calls “Origins: Intersecting.”
A new art gallery that has risen from the ashes of the burned-out Malmgren Garage in downtown Talent celebrates with a grand opening Friday, June 28. The building fell victim to the 2020 Almeda Fire and, after four years of permits and construction, was finally ready for a tenant.
Schneider Museum of Art’s summer exhibition, “PACING: Photographs by Dru Donovan, Melanie Flood, and Tarrah Krajnak,” features photographs by three contemporary Oregon artists. The show curator says the act of “pacing” involves moving forward in a measured, rhythmic manner, where each step is taken in consideration of the one before it. She chose three mid-career female-photographers to express that idea.
The artist behind a Black art installation planned for Ashland Creek Park hopes the piece will, once erected, serve as a cultural anchor of belonging for the Black community in Ashland and the surrounding Rogue Valley, while welcoming those from all races and ethnic backgrounds.
Peter Finkle: I enjoy finding “hidden” art throughout Ashland. One of the most dramatic and beautiful “hidden” artworks — an entire mosaic courtyard — was just completed in the summer of 2023. You will find it at The Palm, the Siskiyou Boulevard motel with an iconic palm tree sign. Here is the story of this mosaic art masterpiece.
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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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