Moving Towards an Arts and Culture Center in Oregon City

By Cathy Rowe, TRAG Co-Vice-President

There has recently been some movement towards getting an Arts and Culture Center in Oregon City. A small group of arts and community leaders has come up with a business and financing plan to work towards making this dream a reality.

The property that the group is currently hoping to secure is the Eastham School. This plan is in the very beginning exploratory stages, but has a lot of promise.

If for some reason the Eastham school location is not optimal or possible, the majority of this plan could be easily adapted to an alternative location.

This is all very exciting, but please keep in mind that a project like this usually takes 3-5 years in the best circumstances. Thank you everyone for your optimism and patience.

Documents

Oregon City Cultural Art Center Business Plan
Preliminary Business Plan for Oregon City Community Cultural Arts Center

The State of Public Art in Oregon City

By Cathy Rowe, TRAG Co-Vice-President

Cathy Rowe will be giving a presentation about the current state of Oregon City’s Public Art Collection to the Oregon City Arts Commission on Thursday, February 15 at the Oregon City City Hall at 7 pm. Cathy will be discussing the murals, sculptures, and other public art items at the meeting.

This is a public meeting that is open to everyone. Public comments should be submitted before the start of the meeting.

If you would like to attend via Zoom please contact Ann Griffin (agriffin@orcity.org) for zoom link information.

The meeting will also be broadcast live on the City’s You Tube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/@CityofOregonCity/streams).

Donations Requested for Library Fundraiser

By Lynda Orzen, TRAG Co-President

The Friends of the Oregon City Public Library and the Library Foundation are hosting a fundraising event for the Oregon City Library. We are requesting donations of artwork with a value of $50 or more for a raffle. Donations are due by November 17. The funding raised will enable the Oregon City Library to enter their “Next Chapter”.

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Learn About Spiders and the Wonderous Webs they Weave!

Have you ever wondered how spider webs can be so stretchy yet incredibly strong, or how spiders keep from getting stuck in their own webs? Learn all about these fascinating creatures and their seemingly magical webs during this fun workshop!

After a short presentation we will decorate cards for Halloween. We will use a Spirotot to create our webs, and then will add cute spiders made from pom poms. There will be all kinds of colorful paper, glitter and crayons to make your card as colorful as you wish!

Cost: $40

Date and time: 4-5pm Wednesday October 25

This class is for ages 6 and up We will have 12 seats available, and adults are welcome to join their children.

TRAG Artists in the Fall Oil Medium Juried Show at the Oregon Society of Artists

Sue Thomas and Yelena Shabrova were accepted into the Oregon Society of Artists’ Fall Oil Medium Juried Show.

Sue has 2 oil paintings on panels there: “Red Rose and White” and “Red, White and Blue”. Sue previously won Best of Show at the same event 2 years ago. For these paintings Sue tried a new technique for her – palette knife with lots of white over color layers.

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Willamette Falls Studios Grand Open House

Please join us for Willamette Falls Studios Grand Open House party September 23! We’re celebrating our fabulous new music studio and readiness of all things media at WFS. Help us make this a real community event by showing off the amazing range of talented community craftsmen and artists.

WFS believes art is the heart of every thriving community. We’re looking for local artisans of all kinds interested in participating during the 3-hour afternoon event. We want to fill our large parking lot with a multitudinous of venders of arts and crafts, food, with talent and energy like yours.

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Summer workshop series with Heather Andrews

Are you looking for something fun and interesting to do this summer? Join us for our science/art series which will be held at the Art-O-Maddic Gallery in Canby!

We will start the series off on Wednesday July 26th at 5pm with a class on composting where we will learn all about the science behind converting table scraps into healthy soil. We will then get to make edible “compost cakes” and decorate pretty containers for holding scraps destined for the compost pile.

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