A rushing side hill waterfall slowed to a silky white blur; a solitary white snag still hovering over an open meadow: this is the spirit of Michael Z. Taylor’s fine show of black and white photographs currently showing at the Don Dexter Gallery at 2233 Willamette, Suite B in Eugene.

I love how the gallery owners work so hard to show off their artists. This Friday, go up into the festive Gordon Alley and visit the Karin Clarke Gallery at the Gordon. Painter Heather Jacks is their featured artist, and you’ll fall into her wide skies, her endless vistas lush with the pale dove gray and peach tones of dawn.

Each Hamanishi image is like a serene snow globe you can fall into and watch time and your breath slow to perfection.

I find sometimes when I am feeling or thinking deeply that an art show within an art show will come out of hiding and speak to me and my concerns personally. It’s like my own secret gallery.

Please consider giving art this year as The Unexpected Gift. And please consider the many charms of seeking out the hidden pocket galleries wherever in Our Fair State that you travel.

This is Sandy Brown Jensen, and you’re listening to Viz City, KLCC’s arts review program. The days darken down into the celebration of two major autumn festivals: Halloween and The Day of the Dead. Both emerged from ancient traditions that say this is a time of year when the veil between the living and the dead thins, and souls of the dead can draw near to their loved ones in the living world. For a short while, time is a swinging door that goes both ways, and spirits can cross over and back.

Rain or shine, this is going to be a great weekend in Lincoln City because the famous Washed Ashore critters have landed inside and out of the Lincoln City Cultural Center.

This is Sandy Brown Jensen, and you’re listening to Viz City, KLCC’s arts review program. In case you haven’t noticed, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art…

This is Sandy Brown Jensen, and you’re listening to Viz City, KLCC’s arts review program. Today, I’d like to encourage us to open our eyes and pay special…

This is Sandy Brown Jensen, and you’re listening to Viz City, KLCC’s arts review program. Summer 2021 ends with a glorious explosion of color, emotion,…