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KLAMATH FALLS — Four years ago Ka’ila Ferrell-Smith came “home” to a place where she had never lived. “This is my home now,” she says of living at Modoc Point, the community along Upper Klamath Lake w...

What’s in a name? The usually reliable book “Oregon Geographic Names” reports Telephone Flat, located in the Fremont-Winema National Forest between Klamath Falls and Chiloquin, “is named because an ...

The Klamath Basin provides a cautionary tale for Oregon about the need to plan more intentionally and sustainably with its shrinking water supply.

Klamath tribal member Ka’ila Farrell-Smith is one of four contemporary Indigenous artists featured in the new show MESH at the Portland Art Museum. Her works in the exhibition are a part of a series of 27 paintings called Land Back, named after the contemporary movement advocating for Indigenous sovereignty.

The sun is setting earlier, you're back to taking a vitamin D supplement, and the Portland Oregon White Stag Sign is donning its festive red nose. The clean slate of the New Year is around the corner. This season, many noteworthy visual art exhibitions and memorable creative maker events spotlight our dynamic art community before we embrace the end of 2021. Art is happening all across the city in multiple sites, including galleries, museums, and...

Three Oregon artists were named 2021 Hallie Ford Fellows this week, culled from some 198 applicants, and working across disciplines from installations to paintings to film. Portlanders Rainen Knecht and rubén garcía marrufo, and Ka’ila Farrell-Smith from Modoc Point were all announced by the Ford Family Foundation as winners of the $35,000 fellowships. The fellowship was started after Ford Family Foundation co-founder Hallie Ford’s death in 2007. Each of these Oregon based artis...

A Critical Conversation exhibit uses art to impel consideration in Eugene-Springfield A synonym for propaganda is "information." Another synonym for propaganda is "disinformation." It’s all in how people process this data. “Because propaganda tends to illustrate a viewpoint, it evokes emotions and some type of reaction,” filmmaker Gregory S. Black said. ”Thats what draws me to create: the ability to get emotions or get people connected.” Toward this end, Black co-organized “A Cri...