May 3, 2012 By Josephine Reed Jonah Lehrer. Photo by Nina Subin This week’s podcast is a conversation with Jonah Lehrer, who wrote Imagine: How Creativity Works, a book that has gotten people talking and thinking. Creativity and innovation are getting a lot of play these days. Everyone seems to agree these are the engines [...]
 |  visit us on facebook Upcoming May 13th Mother’s Day May 18 – 20th Ashland Merchants Sidewalk Sale. Loose prints, posters and small framed photos up to 50% off plus ready-made mat kits, frames and glass in popular sizes on sale. June Photography showcase featuring work by: Sean Bagshaw, Peter Stanley, Ann-Britt Malden, David Lorenz Winston and Zach Ehlert. July New paintings by Robert Beckmann. August Transitions: paintings by Robert Beckmann and Clifford Wilton. September New paintings by Clifford Wilton. May 2012 Continental Divide: Borderlands Wildlife, People and the Wall. Sponsored by the Sierra Club Borderlands Team Join us for a special opening reception this Friday from 5 – 8 pm featuring complimentary wine from Roxy Ann Winery and appetizers from Buttercloud Bakery. Continental Divide is an exhibit of 30 large canvas photo prints that depict the land, wildlife and people of the borderlands of the United States and  by Marina McDougall, Director, Center for Art & Inquiry White Light © The Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu Physicist and educator Frank Oppenheimer founded the Exploratorium in 1969 as a museum of art, science, and human perception. A hybrid between a laboratory and a public museum, the Exploratorium’s roots lie in an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the world. [...]  by Roger Malina, Distinguished Professor of Art and Technology and Professor of Physics, University of Texas, Dallas and Directeur de Recherche au CNRS, Aix Marseille Universite Making Science Intimate Earworm (node) by Deborah Aschheim, 2008, speakers, LED’s, plastic, copper tubing. This sound sculpture translates the musicians’ improvisation on the word “node,”(which brings up associations of [...] April 30, 2012 by Bill O’Brien, Senior Advisor for Program Innovation “Signals,” a collaboration between Casey Reas and Ben Fry, depicts an image where each graphical cluster represents signals between networked proteins in a cancer cell as they change over time. “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious—the fundamental emotion which stands [...] Continue reading The Imagine Engine! or Art and Science—a True Story  April 27, 2012 By Adam Kampe Jimmy Owens, center, and his band perform The Monk Project at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola inside Jazz at Lincoln Center. Image by Frank Stewart I’ll never forget the moment I met Jimmy Owens in the back of Dizzy’s Club a few months ago. The man who often dons a hat [...] Continue reading NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Owens on Thelonious Monk April 26, 2012 By Josephine Reed Delfeayo Marsalis. Photo courtesy of the musician Meet Delfeayo Marsalis, one of the top trombonists and producers working in jazz today, and the third son in the acclaimed Marsalis family. (And for you trivia lovers, the Marsalis family has received the one and only group NEA Jazz Masters Award.) [...] April 26, 2012 By Josephine Reed Delfeayo Marsalis. Photo courtesy of the musician Meet Delfeayo Marsalis, one of the top trombonists and producers working in jazz today, and the third son in the acclaimed Marsalis family. (And for you trivia lovers, the Marsalis family has received the one and only group NEA Jazz Masters Award.) [...]  April 26, 2012 by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City Photo by NEA staff People of all backgrounds engage with words and rhymes on a daily basis, from famous poets and spoken word artists to Broadway lyricists and rap sensations. In schools, poetry allows students to explore the diversity and power of language. [...]  For a second day in a row, the director of a contemporary art museum in a small Italian town near Naples has burned a painting to protest a shortage of funds. Continue reading Italy: Funds-short Museum Burns Art In Protest |        DISCLOSURE: SOAR/Art Matters! has affiliate relationships with the providers of great products and services below. If you make a purchase from one of the sites below, it helps defray the cost of promoting Southern Oregon Artists, so please use our links!  Utrecht's online discounts have been updated, though the graphics remain the same. The link above saves 40% off your highest priced item (coupon code AP1), the one below gets you 15% off any order of $100 or more AND Free Shipping! (coupon code AP3) 
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