Connecting our Arts Community…to You!
Southern Oregon is a garden of unique and diverse creative talent. From distinguished fine artists to outsiders, our area is home to award winners and promising new talent in a vast range of disciplines and host to a spectacular array of yearly theater, music, food and wine festivals. As our continuing trend of excellence and achievement grows, so do our collaborations; increasingly multifaceted, many events frame the primary work on display with a well-rounded presentation including music, wine tasting from local artisan wineries and gourmet catering using locally grown and made cheeses, chocolates and organic foods, all produced by award-winning artists in their own fields.
It is our goal to provide a comprehensive directory that will be a convenient hub for the promotion of local and regional artists, a collaboration reference for galleries, venues and event planners and a travel planning resource for visitors coming to enjoy the rich palette of Southern Oregon arts & culture. Further, it is our hope that this resource will both unify the broad spectrum of our arts community and convey a compelling sense of the vibrant arts scene in Southern Oregon which encourages visitors to sample our nationally and internationally acclaimed artistic and cultural offerings.
For more information on what’s happening now in the Southern Oregon arts scene, calls to artists and art classes and workshops, subscribe to Art Matters!. Facebook users can like SOAR’s facebook page to receive links to Art Matters! posts in their news feed. Twitter users can follow SOAR @SOARtists. If you have resources you value and feel should be represented on the site or have questions, comments or suggestions, we welcome your feedback (soar
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This site was created and maintained by Hannah West of Hannah West Design, LLC in Jacksonville, Oregon, and launched on January 1, 2010. Though usually referred to as “we”, it’s really a one-woman show. Born of my concern for the ability of artists in our area to continue creating under the pressures that have arisen in the last few years, the total of the modest fees we ask for listings in our directories (so artists can afford them!) falls far short of the time, research and love I put into the site and its blog every day. Below are a few ways you may be able to help support this endeavor.
Download and print our flyers to help spread the word to artists and the public:
Promo Flyer – Artists
Southern Oregon businesses who share demographics with the arts and culture community are welcome to inquire about advertising on the main site and/or the Art Matters! blog. Email the editor (soarsoartistscom) for information.
Consider a contribution! Your gift will help support our efforts to promote the art community of Southern Oregon online and to advocate for the arts. Mail a donation in the amount of your choice to: Hannah West Design, LLC, PO Box 914, Jacksonville, Oregon 97530, or send a secure donation via PayPal:
Note: Contributions and gifts to the Southern Oregon Artists Resource are not tax deductible.
Support an artist by purchasing a $25.00 PayPal gift certificate to sponsor their new listing or next renewal:
Art Matters! content is brought to you by syndicating the blogs written by listed members and aggregating news and announcements from state and national arts advocacy groups and news sources, as well as custom posts written by the editor. Some of these posts involve research and travel in addition to the time it takes to write and assemble them. We want to dispel the myth that “Art is a Luxury” by informing residents and visitors of the many ways art makes our community the wonderful place it is, write artist profiles and interviews and cover art events live, but this can be a challenge with a limited budget.If you would like to sponsor a post, please contact the editor (soarsoartistscom) to learn more. We’re sure there’s a topic you’d be happy to throw your weight behind, and we’ll give you or your business a prominent presence in the post. SOAR and Art Matters! are visited regularly by 1500+ people from the Rogue Valley and around the world with another 1000 discovering us for the first time each month – it’s a great strategy for advertising internationally while supporting the arts locally! Learn More! (soarsoartistscom)
