Music, Arts & Culture

Permaculture and pirouettes part of the picture at Dancefarm coming up (June 10/11), at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Green Show and the next day in Takilma.

In 2016, a former Disney animator gave his followers a challenge: draw a mermaid every day for the month of May. Today, prompts motivate people to make pieces of mermaid art.

A new mural is underway that will show Oregon’s original Indigenous residents, the Kalapuya people, harvesting and using native plants.

The price was the highest ever at auction for an American artwork. The portrait was auctioned by Christie's in New York.

Two members of the Irish rock band U2 played a concert in a Kyiv subway station on Sunday, performing some of their classics and sharing the stage with Ukranian musicians.

From biographies of NPR's founding mothers to suburban mothers raising owl babies, here are 10 books about the joys and heartaches of parenthood and what it means to be a mom, in all its intricacies.

Some of you may have forgotten (and some might not even know) that the network created three radio dramas based on George Lucas' original three movies.

Oregon School for the Deaf senior Trayshun Holmes-Gournaris is only the second deaf student to win the state's Poetry Out Loud competition by performing three poems using American Sign Language. He will now represent Oregon at the national semi-final round.

The show , featuring the work of two local artists, is being held in a burned-out garage in Talent.

Coos Bay culinary instructor Chris Foltz and his student, Nick Graham, turn giant pieces of ice into detailed works of art.

Renowned Ashland-based photographer Christopher Briscoe is known for his stylistic portraits. Now, he’s in Ukraine, capturing the stories of people fleeing the war and talking to those who have come to help. JPR’s Erik Neumann spoke to Briscoe, in Poland at the time, about what he’s discovered while documenting this tragedy.

Kelly’s work shaped the Oregon art scene for more than six decades.