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Oregon Arts Commission Awards Career Opportunity Grants to 10 Oregon Artists

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The Oregon Arts Commission announces 10 awards totaling $13,623 in the competitive Career Opportunity grant program. These awards provide support to individual artists who seek to take advantage of important opportunities to advance their careers through the development of artistic, business or professional skills. These may include exhibits in national and international venues, participation in conferences or workshops to expand their knowledge base.

Christine D'Arcy, the Arts Commission's executive director, observes "This investment in Oregon's artists helps stimulate creative activity throughout the state, and it's important to maintaining artists' creative small businesses. Many of the projects funded in this round will promote the work of Oregon artists around the world."

Salem Peace Mural Moves Ahead

Murals would beautify the downtown and instill community pride, Salem's City Council noted.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Salem's desire to reestablish its image based on its name derivation from the word for Peace came a few steps closer to reality this week with the unveiling of a project to create a mosaic mural for peace in its busy downtown area.

The selected site in the north side of the Ike Box coffeehouse, once a mortunary, but since converted into a youth venue for music and socialization.

Making Salem a Mecca of Murals

Let us not go around in civic circles, ending up in the same place. Murals provide momentum, and it's high time to climb aboard.

(SALEM, Ore.) - What art thy future plans, Salem? Do consider a proliferation of Public Art as the perfect vehicle to help upgrade the city's image throughout the Far West... and nationwide.

My various travels have met up with public confusion of what Salem, OR is all about. Far too often we get mistakenly taken for Salem, Mass. But we are not that same Witch Territory, although we may have a few goblins of our own.

Cirque du Soleil - KOOZA

Cirque du Soleil not only knows on how to put on a show, but they know how to treat their audiences.

(SALEM, Ore.) - During times of stress I don’t dream of chucking it all and moving to a desert island. I dream of chucking it all and joining the circus.

Not just any circus. Cirque du Soleil — Circus of the Sun. If you haven't seen it you’re missing out on the best show on Earth.

Salem Carousel`s `Lady Camoolot` Adopted by Rickreall Dairy

The ornamental Carousel landmark ‘moooved’ down to Salem sometime in 2004.

(SALEM, Ore.) - An adoption – of sorts – took place in in Salem, Oregon Friday.

One of the Carousel’s artworks, Lady Camoolot, a fine bejeweled bovine, was transported via truck and trailer, from Salem’s Riverfront Carousel, out to live at the Rickreall Dairy.

Early Modern Theories of the Imagination and the Work of Art

An explanation of what was at stake for artists like Leonardo, Michelangelo, Albrecht Dürer and Jacques de Gheyn II in the creation of fictive realities such as dragons and chimera.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Distinguished art historian Claudia Swan will deliver the Hogue-Sponenburgh Art Lecture Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Ford Hall, Room 122, at Willamette University.

Swan‘s topic is “Conceptions, Chimeras, Counterfeits: Early Modern Theories of the Imagination and the Work of Art.”

2010 Mid-Valley Video Festival Call for Entries Deadline Approaching

Mid-Valley Video Festival is organized to educate, promote and network filmmakers and has exhibited more than 400 local, national and international films.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The 7th Mid-Valley Video Festival call for entries continues until Friday, January 8th, 2010. Anyone can submit their film under the categories of narrative fiction/nonfiction, documentary, music video, animation or everything else.

Entries will be professionally judged on creative and technical merits and prizes will be awarded for the best film in each category. All accepted entries will be shown at the festival.

Garbage, The Revolution Starts At Home

A feature documentary about how the family household has become one of the most ferocious environmental predators of our time.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Concerned for the future of his new baby boy Sebastian, writer director Andrew Nisker takes an average urban family, the McDonalds, and asks them to keep every scrap of garbage that they create for three months.

He then takes them on a journey to find out where it all goes and what it’s doing to the world.

Theater Plays Key Role in Conveying Stereotypes

Does Broadway breed stereotypes? Great for library forum!‏

(SALEM, Ore.) - Now that I'm facilitating the "Theatre Meets Theology" series at Salem's UU Church, we are discovering that perhaps inadventantly and under the radar, Broadway plays do convey ethnic -- and sexist - stereotypes. Some may lend itself to mention at future adult ed sessions throughout our fair land, to wit:

ENGLAND -- In My Fair Lady, Prof. Higgins is not only dismissive of poor people but very manipulative over Eliza in his efforts to "improve" her diction...

The Rat Pack is Back...in Eugene!

Get to the Hult this weekend, because Broadway is being escorted in by the Rat Pack.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - A spirited tribute to the Rat Pack is part of the Broadway in Eugene 2009-2010 Season, coming to The Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Friday and Saturday evenings, October 16-17, 2009.

The Rat Pack Is Back recreates one of the famous "Summit At The Sands" hotel shows when the swingin', ring-a-ding group known as the "Rat Pack" was creating hipster legend with a free-wheeling, no-holds-barred nightclub act starring Vegas' four favorite sons: Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin and Joey Bishop.