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An exhibition of recent original artwork by members of ALT, a Central Oregon artist’s group, will go on display at the Rotunda Gallery, Barber Library, on the Central Oregon Community College campus beginning Tuesday, April 1, 2008. The exhibition, entitled “Beneath the Surface”, will be ongoing through May 8, 2008.  An opening reception with the contributing artists will be held in the Rotunda lobby from 4:00-6:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 3, 2008. 

The exhibition will feature new artwork by members Pam Jersey Bird, Judy Hoiness, Barbara Hudin, Michael Kelly, Justyn Livingston, Ingrid Lustig, Amy Royce, and Ron Schultz.  The contemporary paintings and mixed media works on display reflect each member’s unique and personal working methods and philosophies, as well as incorporating the ALT groups’ stated objective and mandate: to probe personal, material, and artistic boundaries.

The thirteenth Word Café at the Barber Library will feature Brad Hills’ Innovation Theatre Works’ performance of “Yellow Cake”, a short story by former Bend resident Josh Beddingfield. Brad Hills will direct the short play, which stars Vicki Pennock and Rod Dahl.  The short story performance will be followed by a reading by local author and poet Suzanne Burns, at which point the mic will be turned over to COCC faculty, students and others for an open mic session. Waterston asks open mic participants to limit their reading to three minutes.

The date for the Faculty Art Show Reception (see announcement below) has changed to February 6th, 4:00 to 6:00 pm.  The reception is open to the public.

Come and join us to learn more about this distinguished Oregon Poet.  Kit Stafford, daughter of William Stafford, will present the opening remarks at a Word Café honoring the late national poet laureate. The event will begin with a reception at 7 p.m. followed by a program at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 24, at the Barber Library at Central Oregon Community College. Ellen Waterston, COCC’s scholar-in-residence this year, is hosting the event. This Word Café will be devoted to readings of Stafford’s poems.  Refreshments will be served during the event.

Find out more at the COCC website www.cocc.edu Calendar of Events.

Rick Steber, acclaimed Western author and personality, will launch a new Author Afternoon series at the Des Chutes Historical Museum on Saturday, December 15 at 1:00. Author Afternoons, made possible through a generous grant from the Oregon Council for the Humanities, will run from December 2007 through November 2008 featuring authors discussing their love of writing. The series is open and free to the public.

Rick Steber is an award-winning author with thirty titles under his belt and more than a million books in print. He is a keen observer of the changing American West and articulates these changes in prose as invigorating, creative, sharp and deadly as a chunk of obsidian. His latest novel, Forty Candles on a Cowboy Cake, continues in that tradition, casting a spotlight on the ongoing conflict in Central and Eastern Oregon between making a living from the land and population explosion and development.

For more information, please visit the Des Chutes Historical Museum website at www.deschuteshistory.org or call 389-1813.

Oregon State University-Cascades Campus Art Students will open their Fall 2007 Show at the Rotunda Gallery in the Barber Library (COCC) on December 6th.

There is going to be a reception for the opening of the art show on December 6,  4-6 pm.  Light hors d’oeuvres will be served. The public is welcome.

The show will remain up until January 27th, 2008.

Come and participate in the Grand Slam Season opener on Thursday, November 29, 7:00 to 8:30 pm, Barber Library, Library Reading Room (2nd floor)

Readers will include winners and contestants of Bend’s Slam Contest. Ellen Waterston will welcome guests and outline her plans as scholar-in-residence. Readings will be followed by an open mike/open genre.

Light refreshments will be served. For More Information Contact 541.383.7564

Members of the Artists Local 101 are hosting a reception for their “Altared Stations/Altared Books” exhibit from 4 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 1, at the Rotunda Gallery in the Robert L. Barber Library on the Central Oregon Community College campus.

Artists with work in the show include Mark Bernahl, Pat Canaday , Rachel Fox, Tricia Harding, Cheri Lee Helfenstein, Judy Hoiness, Lloyd McMullen, Don Olsen, Mark Pynes, and Amy Royce.

Artists Local 101 is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to promoting alternative and contemporary art in Central Oregon. The event provides a venue for artists to pay homage to the spirits that provide personal inspiration.

The artists’ reception will include “Discovered Poetry” by Mieke Cornwell and dance performances by the White Elephant Project accompanied by Kake Huck and Magic Circle Dance Theater. Dancers in Magic Circle include Joann Miller-Watts, Amanda Blockley, Jan McClure-McDonald, Pam Talley, Kimberly Lear.