Clark County Employees not only serve our county, they also contribute to the creative and cultural community of Southwest Washington. Come visit the Rebecca Anstine Sixth Floor Gallery to visit an exhibition of photography, painting, fiber art, and mixed media on display through the end of January 2023. Participating artists include Angelina Kotchetova, Leigh Radford, [...]
The Clark County Open Studios Tour is back on the calendar for this fall, Saturday and Sunday, November 5-6. Now in its ninth year, the free self-guided tour continues to build connections as local artists open their studio doors to inquisitive visitors from near and far. Open Studios is an annual juried art event designed [...]
Clark County artists invite the public into their creative sanctuaries Artists across Clark County are deep in preparation for the 9th annual Open Studios tour, set for November 5 and 6. The popular self-guided tour explores the work and workspaces of 50 juried artists from the community, representing a varied selection of illustrators, painters, sculptors, [...]
The 2022 Sitka Art Invitational takes place October 14-16, 2022 and will be at a new venue this year, Oregon Contemporary, a non-profit organization and exhibit space in North Portland's Kenton neighborhood. The Art Invitational Exhibition + Sale brings together 100 nature-inspired Northwest artists and showcases 300 pieces of art including sculpture, paintings, ceramics, fiber [...]
Arts Alive! celebrated second year presenting local arts organizations Saturday, September 17 brought creative types from across Clark County together for the second annual Arts Alive! festival at the Public Service Plaza in downtown Vancouver. The event, produced through the collaboration of Artstra, the Clark County Arts Commission, the Columbia Arts Network, and the Southwest [...]
Printed guidebooks will be available at this fall's Open Studios Tour. Beginning in October they can be picked up for free at our sponsor locations including Art at the Cave and Aurora Gallery in downtown Vancouver, Vancouver Art Space at Vancouver Mall, and the Attic Gallery in Camas. Learn more
The Clark County Arts Commission cordially invites you to an exhibit of art works by local artists Kelly Neidig and Steven Stoltenberg on display at the Rebecca Anstine Gallery through July 31, 2022. Art has been missing in the Anstine Gallery for two years as we all dealt with the pandemic. These paintings were chosen as a [...]
This year's jurors, Michele Hanlon, Tom Anderson, and Nancy Morrow, have selected 50 artists for the ninth annual Clark County Open Studios Tour. See examples of the artists' work on the Artstra website. The selected 2022 Open Studios artists are Jungmoo Ahn, Sharon Agnor, Claire Bandfield, Valerie Blessley, Richard Britschgi, Stephanie Burton, Ann Cavanaugh, Kathleen Cosgrove, Robin Damore, Wendy Davis, [...]
After a one-year pause, the popular self-guided tour of artists’ studios returns the first weekend in November. In its eighth year, Clark County Open Studios Tour celebrates the creativity of local artists and artisans as they open their doors to the public. Art lovers, treasure seekers, holiday shoppers, and the art-curious will get a rare [...]
Please join us at Esther Short Park on October 30 from 5 to 8 p.m. for a Day of the Dead ancestral celebration when we remember and honor our departed. Día de Muertos is truly a celebration of life and this year it is also a time of healing after two difficult years of the [...]