Loving Kitsch
An exhibit explores the aesthetic of Lane County’s ordinary past

The Lane County History Museum is celebrating poor taste. The Culture of Kitsch, curator Faith Kreskey says, is meant to be a lighthearted look at … Continue reading
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The Lane County History Museum is celebrating poor taste. The Culture of Kitsch, curator Faith Kreskey says, is meant to be a lighthearted look at … Continue reading
Roger Shimomura’s life story is, mostly, all-American. Born in Seattle in 1939, he studied art at the University of Washington, joined ROTC and then the … Continue reading
Upon meeting Lidoña Wagner I am presented with a guide to her book Seed of Imagination: An Ancestral Creative Journey. The guide is one printed … Continue reading
It’s nice to discover, at long last, that Eugene’s Wayne L. Morse Federal Courthouse is officially un-American. Who hasn’t suspected this all along? When the … Continue reading
Claire Burbridge is moved by small things. Her drawings in Claire Burbridge: Pathways to the Invisible at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art are of … Continue reading
When Marjorie Taylor made her first piece of vegan taxidermy she wasn’t sure what she’d done. “I didn’t know if I was making art or … Continue reading
Members of the art collective the New Zone Gallery get a guaranteed “Featured Artist” show once a year and a “Spotlight” show afterward. The relatively … Continue reading
Eugene artist and photographer Sarah Grew recently spent two weeks aboard a research vessel off the Oregon coast creating cyanotypes of plankton. The unusual science/art … Continue reading
This month President Donald Trump broke records — his own records — for tweeting. He tweeted and re-tweeted more than a hundred times in one … Continue reading
The life of photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis might serve as a cautionary tale. After teaching himself the basics of the photography trade, Curtis spent years … Continue reading