CAM hosts
Donna Wright
retrospective
COOS BAY — A retrospective of Coos Bay artist
and art teacher Donna Wright will be featured at Coos
Art Museum. The exhibition, which will be held in
the Museum’s Uno E. Richter Atrium Gallery, runs
from July 9 through Oct. 1.
Wright, who has a 40-year career as an artist and art
teacher, has exhibited widely in California and more
recently along Oregon’s south coast, where she now
resides.
Largely self-taught, she approaches her works with
a great deal of freedom and experimentation.
“Donna Wright pours her paint onto her paper and
lets the image, along with her intuition, lead the way,”
Wright says. “Spontaneity and intuition are the tools I
use to create. My work begins abstractly. I let the
medium flow for a short time, as I decide whether to
stop or to continue painting to one of several levels —
semi-abstract to realism.”
Coos Art Museum has been a cultural focal point of
Oregon’s scenic Southern Coast since 1966. It occu-
pies an historic 1936 Art Deco US Federal Building in
downtown Coos Bay.
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“Mist Over Mountains” watercolor by Donna Wright
The museum offers a wide range of arts activities
including exhibitions, art classes, and lectures.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through
Friday, and 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday.
Museum admission is $5 general, $2 for students,
veterans and seniors, and free to museum members
and active duty military through the Blue Star
Museum Program.
Oregon Oldtime Fiddlers to play Liberty Theatre receives
July 16 in Winchester Bay
grant for new restrooms
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Oregon Oldtime Fiddlers Association, District 5
WINCHESTER BAY — The Oregon
Oldtime Fiddlers Association, District 5,
will be making music Saturday, July 16,
at the Winchester Bay Community Center
in Winchester Bay.
Music starts at 1 p.m. and ends at 4
p.m., often there is an acoustic circle jam.
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The event is free and the public is invited
to dance or just listen.
The Oldtime Fiddlers is a non-profit
organization whose mission is to play,
promote and perpetuate old time music.
For more information, call 541-347-
4561.
C ENTRAL • A r ts & En t er ta in m e nt • J U LY 2 0 1 6
NORTH BEND — The Liberty
Theatre, home of Little Theatre on the
Bay, has received a $5,000 grant from
the Bay Area Hospital Community
Foundation to assist in Phase II of their
restoration project, building ADA com-
pliant restrooms on the lobby level of the
theatre.
These restrooms will allow our
patrons unimpeded access to restrooms,
without having to navigate stairs.
The Liberty Theatre is an historic, 92-
year-old building, a cornerstone of
downtown North Bend. It was recently
painted with advice from George
Kramer, a noted theatre preservationist
in the state of Oregon, and who worked
on the Egyptian.
Bay Area Hospital (BAH) is commit-
ted to the mission of “Improving the
Health of Our Community Every Day.”
To further that effort, BAH Community
Foundation grants are awarded annually
to local non-profit organizations that
share that desire to improve the overall
health and well-being of our community.
For more information or to donate to
the theatre restoration, email costumem-
anager@thelibertytheatre.org or send
donations to Little Theatre on the Bay,
P.O. Box 404, North Bend, OR 97459.
Little Theatre on the Bay is a
501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
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