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Bets Cole gives viewers a taste of Oregon’s wonders in her High Desert to High Tides art exhibition featured at Umpqua Community College Art Gallery.

Last summer, artist Erik Sandgren stood at a vantage point on Crater Lake, overlooking Umpqua National Forest as swaths of old growth trees, fields and familiar hiking trails went up in flames. He’d spent the last week on a painting trip with his wife, painter Kathryn Cotnoir, along the Umpqua River, capturing his native Oregon landscape in sketches and acrylics. Now he watched as many of the sacred scenes he’d painted were reduced to char. Throughout his more than 50-year career, Sandgren ...

Matts Picks: Track Town Swings Online Jazz Dance Party; Emerald Art Centers Women of Uganda Register-Guard Floating into February on a misty cloud, Eugene-Springfield’s arts and culture scene brings a number of streaming and live exhibitions and performances to soak up that creative urge. For a full listing of goings-ons, visit registerguard.com/events. Online Jazz Dance Party, Track Town Swing Track Town Swing brings the grooves back to Eugene this Thursday with a virtual dance party. Wit...