What is the Design Arts Apprenticeship Program? The Design Arts Apprenticeship offers Lane County middle and high school students apprenticeship opportunities in graphic, digital, and physical design. How Does It Work? Students pair with a professional designer, working alongside their mentor to understand the profession, explore specific ways to approach design, and begin creating on their own. [...]
Teaching Artist Alex Ever This summer, Lane Arts Council, in partnership with Willamette Riverkeeper, Willamette Resources and Education Network (WREN), and multiple local partners, brought teaching artist Alex Ever to day camps and summer school classrooms throughout Eugene, Springfield, and Fern Ridge to teach students about clean water, environmental advocacy, and natural dyes. Their work has [...]
We invite you to join us for our fourth Arts & Culture Roundtable addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion in our Lane County arts community Finding Our Why MONDAY, AUGUST 16TH, 5-7PM Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work can feel overwhelming at times. Where do we begin? What can we shift in our work as artists or organizational leaders? [...]
Thanks to funding support by the Western Lane Community Foundation and additional support from the Florence Elks Club and Driftwood Shores, Lane Arts Council was able to bring muralist and teaching artist Jessilyn Brinkerhoff to Siuslaw Middle School to add a large scale mural to a previously empty gymnasium wall and a student-painted mural in the entry hallway leading to [...]
Lane Arts Council recently collaborated with the Friendly Area Neighbors (FAN) Equity Action Team and Boys & Girls Club of the Emerald Valley to paint the third and final mural at Dr. Edwin Coleman Jr. Center in Westmoreland Park. The Dr. Edwin Coleman Jr. Center Mural Project is a project of the FAN Equity Action Team, which formed in [...]
Lane Arts Council's Creative Link is back in action! After an abrupt and unplanned hiatus due to the COVID-19 crisis, two educators from Prairie Mountain School in the Bethel School District have reinstated our Creative Link program in their virtual classrooms. These educators are now using our dynamic arts curriculum to support the distance-learning experience for their students. [...]
As Oregon's public health restrictions are gradually lifted, a number of galleries and arts businesses have now opened their doors again. To reduce crowding and allow for safe social distancing, we are expanding the ArtWalk experience to a full week! Come downtown to enjoy Eugene's art scene and support local artists during First Friday ArtWeek, July 3-10. Find more [...]