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Painter Ann Ruttan

Successful landscape painter Ann Ruttan usually focuses on Oregon scenery, but a lecture about Lewis and Clark inspired her to go farther afield. She traveled the Lewis and Clark Trail, seeking out locations mentioned in their journals, and created field paintings and photographs to bring back and turn into large finished canvasses. Some are painted from life, and others required her imagination to be portrayed as the first explorers saw them.

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Singer Cindy Lou Banks

Award winning musician and songwriter Cindy Lou Banks has opened for dozens of national acts while also touring professionally throughout the Northwest. Cindy gained local and regional attention as the lead singer and songwriter of the alt-country band No Way Home. Now she's forging ahead as a solo artist with a more personal sound.

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'Zines

If just one person is the writer, editor, publisher, printer and distributor, it's a zine. Art Beat meets some people who put their sweat and their hearts into very personal publishing.

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