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Oregon Symphony's Community Music Partnership
In a program called the Community Music Partnership, the Portland-based Oregon Symphony adopts a rural community for a two-year "intensive" that includes sending musicians to work with kids in local schools, and performing concerts to bring the classics to the country.
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Stained Glass Artist Peter McGrain
Stained glass has been used in churches for centuries to tell stories in pictures. Peter McGrain is breathing new life into the Medieval art form by telling modern tales, featuring colorful characters and wild imagery. Art Beat visits his studio to learn about an original technique he calls "vitri fusallie".
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Potters Dave and Boni Deal
Dave and Boni Deal are masters in the art of raku, a form of pottery known for spectacular and sometimes, unpredictable results. Their work is a unique collaboration of talents, where Dave throws elegant pots and Boni finishes them with Northwest-inspired patterns of birds and plants against raku's typically bright and metallic sheen.
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