Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WALLA WALLA—Two world-class poets are coming to southeastern Washington for readings in June. Dennis Held of Spokane, Wash., and Stephen Thomas from Stuttgart, Germany, will read at venues in Walla Walla on June 16 and Waitsburg on June 17. Both readings will begin at 7:00 p.m. Dennis Held is the author of three acclaimed books of poetry, most recently “Not Me, Exactly” from Charles Potts’ Hand to Mouth Press. In 2022, terrain.org awarded the poet a Pushcart Prize for his essay “What I’ll Miss.” A former editor of literary journals, inc...
WAITSBURG-Royal Block will host the 'Hansen House Couture Collection' fashion show featuring Waitsburg farming matriarch Geraine Hansen's collection of 45 global and local fashions from the 60s and 70s. The show is a celebration of her glamorous style and to her 100th birthday. Cheryl Hansen, has curated a runway show from her mother's well appointed closet. She asked friends, family, and community members to participate as models, bringing these mid-century styles to life. In the 1970s,...
WAITSBURG-Waitsburg artist Kimi Bruzas will exhibit her work at Waitsburg Art Garden (WAG) on Saturday, May 13, from noon to 5 p.m. The show of her intricate collages is a perfect way to celebrate World Collage Day. Her medium is the artist's collection of vintage and contemporary illustration, photography, and advertising. Her style is recognizable from a block away, but the fun is in the details, and viewers need to get up close to enjoy the humor hidden in the images. She and her sister,...
WAITSBURG-The Royal Block welcomes oral historian, Randy Lewis, to share legends associated with the Columbia Plateau Cultural Area at the Royal Block in Waitsburg on April 1, 2023, at 6:00 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public (21+). Lewis, or K'ayaxan in his native tongue, will also provide a screening and an insightful exposition of "A Winter's Tale," a student film produced by Amelia Yokel Egbert in association with Icicle Creek Center for the Arts. A Q&A will follow the film,...
WALLA WALLA-God, dressed in a floral power suit, returns to skewer everything from the platypus to Pocahontas in an hilarious sequel 2,000 years in the making! Fans across North America fell in love with the original show, and this sequel has become even more popular! (PS: There is no need to have seen the original "God is a Scottish Drag Queen" show to enjoy "part 2.") Comedian Mike Delamont previously performed at Gesa Power House Theatre in 2018 with "God is a Scottish Drag Queen," New...
WAITSBURG—Flamenco guitarist Gustavo Alonso López will perform at the Royal Block in Waitsburg on Saturday, February 25. López recently moved to Walla Walla from Austin, Texas, and quickly found a home where he could continue his musical journey. He was born and grew up in Twin Falls, Idaho and received degrees in architecture and has worked in Texas and Washington as a registered architect. Music has been in his life since he was a child. Through his mother’s interests, he had access to recor...
WAITSBURG-A local musician, educator, instrument builder, photographer, and seeker of knowledge has combined camera obscura technology with digital convenience. Carrie Hendrix took a break from building musical instruments to make a camera obscura to aid her drawing. Using information from "The Birth of Photography" by Brian Coe, she learned how to construct her first camera obscura. Using her strengths in problem-solving and craftsmanship, she created the portable optical device using a lens...
WAITSBURG-When Elizabeth Jagelski, or Mrs. Jagelski as her students call her, took on the K-12 Music Specialist position at Waitsburg School District two years ago, she had a very large to-do ahead of her. She was asked to build a music program from the ground up during a pandemic. With 20 years of teaching experience, directing and acting in community theater, and being musically gifted, there wasn't a better fit for the job. Jagelski mentioned that after working in Walla Walla for several...
This November, our community has enjoyed live performances of the musical "The Sound of Music" at Dayton's Liberty Theater. If you know who Julie Andrews is, then you probably know the story of the Van Trapp Family from the movie "The Sound of Music." Maria, the impetuous postulate-nun-turned-nanny, won over the heart of the strict, ex-naval captain widower and his seven talented children. The actual Van Trapp family was more human and complicated than their screen and stage counterparts. It...
Waitsburg-Kellie Rose is a young, talented musician who has taken a break from Seattle to work on new music in Waitsburg. She will be at The Royal Block Saturday, November 19, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., sharing music from her current project. KR has a voice that can slide into a blues song, make a James Taylor cover new, and expose the emotion in her songs. A young artist, her thirtieth birthday is coming up next month, and her life experiences give resonance to her songwriting. Her father's work...
. WAITSBURG-Artist Dez'Mon Omega Fair described his new installation in Waitsburg as "bright and inspired, an immersive draped and piled display of the artist's newest work: large wall-size drop clothes depict orbs on orbs on orbs, organs of reproduction and gestation, the eyes of indecipherable Earth and alien creatures, planets form and eggs dissolve." Much of the artwork was created over two months in the large auditorium of The Liberty Theater in Walla Walla. Fair created an organic and symb...
WAITSBURG-Every Saturday from 10am to 3 pm, local artists are bringing their work to exhibit. This last weekend featured Helen Ortins-Boland Lorna Barth Sharon Kaufman-Osborn Greg Tate Bill Rogers The shows are curated by WAG and hosted by the participating artists. WAG is located in the little green Quonset hut across from Ten Ton Coffee and The Royal Block in Waitsburg....
The new art event at the Wenaha Art Gallery features sculptures and paintings by Nancy Gresham. The artist from White Bird, Idaho, works in various traditional and non-traditional mediums. In this exhibit, Gresham features her work in polymer clay and on painted rocks. Gresham discovered polymer clay ten years ago when she discovered a block of the material she had in her studio for a long time. She decided she needed to give it away or use it up. Always up for a challenge, she began...
The Plaza hosted the pop-up exhibit of local artist Kimi Bruzes, whose work has been seen at Art Squared, Guady Gals, and on posters for Waitsburg events....
WAITSBURG-Violinists Tim Christie and Maria Sampen brought music to The Royal Block and American 35 in two pop-up performances on Tuesday evening. Christie is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival (WWCMF). The unexpected and beautiful performances were appetizers for the main show later in the evening. This year The Plaza Theater was host to the Ivalas Quartet who performed Tuesday night....
WALLA WALLA, WA -- Eight Walla Walla valley artists are celebrating friendship in a gallery show at CAVU Cellars during the month of June. Featured artists include Barbara Bates, Brenda Bernards, Janaki Howard, Tiffany Jenes, Shannon Kimball, Marilee Schiff, Betty Simcock, and Bobbi Walker. An artists' reception will be held Friday, June 3 from 5-7 pm. CAVU is located at 175 E. Aeronca Avenue across from the Walla Walla Regional Airport. Light refreshments will be provided and beverages will be...
The new Art Event at Wenaha Gallery features the woodturning art of Louis Toweill, an artist from Yakima. Toweill makes hardwood bowls in sycamore, maple, walnut, and other fine hardwoods. He began woodturning seriously in 2000 and creates bowls, platters, vases, pens, and other items. This show includes some of his most recent work in 'basket illusion' woodturning. These are wood-turned bowls that, while on the lathe, are grooved with horizontal grooves that wrap around the piece. After taking...
DAYTON-The latest Art Event at Wenaha Gallery is a tribute to the late co-owner of the gallery, Ed Harri. His wife Pat continues to as sole owner of the Dayton gallery. Harri grew up in Dayton and saw a much different Dayton than we see today. One of these differences was Pool's car dealership, located at the corner of Front and Main Streets. Ed would stop at Pool's to look at cars and talk to the dealers on his way to and from school. All his life, he found going to car dealerships relaxing....
Recently I was introduced to a local police chief who is also a classically trained musician. Doug Boedigheimer is the Police Chief in Milton Freewater, Oregon. He makes the trip out to Orchard Street Studio in Waitsburg to bring his guitars to be set up by my brother-in-law, Joe Patrick. He also comes to talk music. "The first guitar I brought him I had for 31 years, I didn't know about setups and guitar care. I was a music teacher, so this thing has been drug through everything. He turned...
WAITSBURG-Grab a glass of wine at the Royal Block and join local author Charles Potts for a benefit book reading on February 17, 2022. The Walla Walla based, award-winning author will share his newest book, The Fifth Convulsion: The Structure of American History and his 1993 book, How the South Finally Won the Civil War. He has been writing and publishing since he was a teenager. Potts said that during his youth, he was reading and writing all of the time, and at one point, was living in his...
DAYTON-Reily draws strongly upon her heritage as a Pawnee, an indigenous group of Native America that lived in the area around what is now Oklahoma. Each piece of work represents intense research into the meaning and symbolism of the image, not only for the Pawnee people but for numerous indigenous peoples of what is now called the United States. Reily has been beading for more than 40 years, and she describes the process as one requiring patience, a good eye, perseverance, and time. She notes...
Children and adults of Waitsburg can enjoy the magic of shadow play, a type of theatrical entertainment performed with flat handmade puppets, thanks to the Carnegie Picture Lab of Walla Walla. Shadow puppet kits have been provided to the Weller Library at no cost and residents can pick them up during regular library hours. There is a limited number of kits and families are encouraged to come by. Shadow play originated in central and southeast Asia thousands of years ago and has been a...
DAYTON-The Wenaha Gallery's newest Art Event features the vintage Victorian images of Keith Harrop, a North Idaho artist who has always been fascinated by the Edwardian and Victorian ages of England (he is originally from Stoke-on-Trent, England). From childhood, Harrop has created unique characters in a world of his imagination, and the members of what he calls his Anicurio Collection are no exception.He starts with vintage reference photos and replaces the human model with an animal. A swan,...
I've never considered myself an artist of any caliber, nor have I considered venturing into that world. I have been surrounded by accomplished artists since I started working at The Times and Ten Ton Coffee, and I have to admit- they have managed to pique my interest. While drawing or painting is still not my thing, I have had some luck with a camera. I do not consider myself a photographer quite yet, as I still have lots to learn, but I have learned a few lessons that carry over into my everyda...
WALLA WALLA-While art has been a big part of her life, ceramics holds a special place in Jess Portas' heart. Opening her art studio on the edge of Downtown Walla Walla, she has combined a passion for art with her love for community Growing up, she helped her mother with slip casting, a ceramics and pottery technique that is especially useful for shapes not made on a wheel. Portas said she took a pottery class in college, which piqued her interest in the art form, but life does what it does...
