Be sure to mark your calendar for Saturday, September 18, noon to 4 p.m. The first ever Arts Alive! event will be held at the Public Service Center Plaza in downtown Vancouver. The afternoon will include live performances from Columba Dance, Journey Theater, Magenta Theater, Ne Plus Ultra Jass Orchestra, Traveling Day Society, Vancouver Ballet [...]
Vancouver Ballet Folklorico (VBF), Fourth Plain Forward, and Artstra have collaborated to launch a new program, Espacio de Arte en el Parque, spearheaded by Anna Cruz, Artstra board member and founder of VBF. The program is also a natural extension of Artstra's Creative Relief Clark County. Cruz's idea was inspired by fond memories of her [...]
Jurors Steven L. Grafe, Leith Gaines, and Judith Schlicting have selected the following artists for participation in this fall's Clark County Open Studios Tour: Stefanie Adams, Sharon Agnor, Michelle Allen, Christian Barrios, Robert Bickel, Stephanie Burton, Anne Cavanaugh, Kathleen Cosgrove, Robin Damore, India de Landa, Erin Dengerink, James DeRosso, Kathleen Duncan, Adrienne Eliades, Ann Fleming, [...]
A hybrid approach — with COVID safety in mind The Clark County Open Studios Tour is back on the calendar for this November 6–7. The tour will return after a year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This fall will mark the eighth year of the free, self-guided tour of local artists’ studios. “What’s new [...]
All artists currently living in Clark County and who participated in the Clark County Open Studios Tour in any of the past seven years are eligible to apply for $500 in relief due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. PLEASE NOTE: The application period for COVID relief ended August 15, 2020. * Note that [...]
The weekend of November 2-3, 50 local artists will open their doors to the public as part of a free, self-guided tour of artists’ studios in Clark County. Artists will share how, why, and where their art is created. The tour provides a rare opportunity for the public to visit artists and artisans in their [...]
Jurors Bonnie Meltzer, Donna Guardino, and Eleanor Erskine have selected 50 artists for this fall's Clark County Open Studios Tour. Each year, new artists apply to join the tour so the mix of artists continually changes. See the complete list of artists and samples of their work. Learn more about the Clark County Open Studios [...]
Artstra takes "Creative Relief" to Larch Corrections Center. Last year when board member Karin Chase took on Artstra’s “Creative Relief Clark County” program, she could not have anticipated where her passion to help others through art would take her. Creative Relief began in 2012 as a way to provide donated arts supplies during the cold [...]
As any artist knows, there's incredible satisfaction in actually creating physical objects with your own hands. This is the real attraction of the studio -- not just for the artist but everyone who encounters an artist in their place of work. Yet now we live in a world where an artist's livelihood, career, or business [...]
Early in August we partnered with The Historic Trust by providing Make Art! workshops for the Trust's innovative "Common Ground" week of history, art, music, dance, and literary events. Billed as a "gathering for curious people," Common Ground was the perfect opportunity to invite the community to join in art workshops involving a variety of [...]