| By Rogue Gallery & Art Center, 91 contributed posts About the author: The Rogue Gallery & Art Center is the Rogue Valley’s premier non-profit community art center, founded in 1960 to promote and support the arts in the Rogue Valley. The Gallery offers local artists an opportunity to display their work, and because of its non-profit status can display a wide range of artistic styles and mediums not seen in commercial galleries. Aspiring artists, both children and adults, take classes from local artists and are exposed to a wide variety of artistic mediums. Our mission is to promote and provide for the study, development, exhibition, and appreciation of art. Our vision: Ignite the Mind, Stir the Soul, Open the Heart…Boldly Create! Learn more with web links and contact info in RGAC's listing at SOAR.  Ignite the Mind, Stir the Soul, Open the Heart- Boldly Create! The Rogue Gallery & Art Center is offering a variety of inspirational art classes & workshops for adults this summer! For youth ages 4-7, 7-12 and 13-17, please check out our summer art camps. Please visit our website: www.roguegallery.org for detailed class descriptions and to register. For more information, please call (541)772-8118, email rgaceducationroguegalleryorg (rgaceducationroguegalleryorg) emobascript(‘%72%67%61%63%65%64%75%63%61%74%69%6F%6E%40%72%6F%67%75%65%67%61%6C%6C%65%72%79%2E%6F%72%67′,’<span class=”emoba-em”>rgaceducation<img src=”http://blogs.soartists.com/ArtMatters/wp-content/plugins/emoba-email-obfuscator-advanced/at-glyph.gif” alt=”at” class=”emoba-glyph” />roguegallery<img src=”http://blogs.soartists.com/ArtMatters/wp-content/plugins/emoba-email-obfuscator-advanced/dot-glyph.gif” alt=”dot” class=”emoba-glyph” />org</span>’,'emoba-5319′,”,”,’0′); or stop by 40 South Bartlett Street in Medford, OR. Adult Summer Art Opportunities at RGAC: May 19, 12-3pm: Ikebana: The Art of Japanese Flower Arrangement- Barbara Longhurst June 15-16, 5-8pm & 9am-12pm: Paste Paper Art Bookmaking- Denise Kester June 23-24, 10am-4pm: Encaustic: Experiment in Layers & Creativity- Cathy Valentine July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, Sundays, 1-5pm: Oil Painting Basics- Roni Marsh July 6, 1-5pm: Basketry: Continue reading Summer Art Classes for Adults and Summer Art Camps for Youth at Rogue Gallery & Art Center! By Randy Cohen, 4 contributed posts About the author: Randy Cohen writes for ARTSblog, published by Americans for the Arts. Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2010, Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. Americans for the Arts is dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. View all syndicated posts from Americans for the Arts blogs under the "Art World News" tab in the top menu. This post is one in a series highlighting the Local Arts Index (LAI) by Americans for the Arts. The LAI provides a set of measures to help understand the breadth, depth, and character of the cultural life of a community. It provides county-level data about arts participation, funding, fiscal health, competitiveness, and more. Check out [...] Continue reading Local Arts Index: NEA & State Arts Agency Grants in Your County By Art Works, 253 contributed posts About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts May 4, 2012 By Sunil Iyengar, Director, NEA Office of Research and Analysis Afternoon Coffee by flickr user psd I’ve wandered into many a coffee shop where the slogan was “Good things happen over coffee,” or some variation of the theme. But take away caffeine, conversation, and service with or without a smile, and what’s [...] Continue reading Taking Note: Lifting the Lid on New Growth Theory and its Application to Cultural Policy By Chris Dwyer, 1 contributed posts About the author: I was impressed that so many posts during the Blog Salon have tackled the challenge of assessing the impact of public art—a particularly challenging area for building indicators of impact. Several years ago I heard Richard Florida describe public art in terms of community image when making a point about vital cities, i.e. those that [...] Continue reading Thinking About the Impact of Public Art By Art Works, 253 contributed posts About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts May 4, 2012 by Whitney Dail Shilpa Gupta’s Singing Cloud —the result of her collaboration with Harvard psychologist and neuroscientist Mahzarin Banaji—is an example of an ArtScience project that was exhibited at Le Laboratoire (in winter 2009). Programs with ArtScience themes—exploring universal ideas, discoveries, innovations, and current topics—can promote greater understanding of humanity and cultural [...] Continue reading Moving ArtScience into the Mainstream By Art Works, 253 contributed posts About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts by Andrea Grover, Lead Author, New Art/Science Affinities, Curator, Intimate Science, Curator of Programs, Parrish Art Museum For four months in the fall of 2010, I worked at a cozy desk in the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as a curatorial research fellow, hosted jointly by the Miller Gallery and the STUDIO. [...] Continue reading New Art/Science Affinities By Art Works, 253 contributed posts About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts 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 [...] Continue reading Art Works Podcast: Jonah Lehrer By Art Works, 253 contributed posts About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts  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. [...] Continue reading Art & Inquiry at the Exploratorium By Raymond Tymas-Jones, 1 contributed posts About the author: National Arts Advocacy Day is significant because it grants us an opportunity to gather as a community to reflect on the role of contemporary artists in the 21st century. No matter what the chosen art form, the passion to do art and to be art is born out of an insatiable yearning to make beauty, [...] Continue reading “I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist.” By Art Works, 253 contributed posts About the author: Art Works is the official blog of the National Endowment for the Arts  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 [...] Continue reading Making Science Intimate: Translating and Integrating the Arts and Humanities with Biology and Medicine |  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)    Ashland artist Pegi Smith sells her art on Yessy.com - View her Yessy gallery hereNow thru April 30: 
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