Yes, there is some. Check out the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, where you can see five plays in a summer weekend; the Oregon Bach Festival in July in Eugene, bringing German Bach choral interpreter Helmuth Rilling to the city’s Hult Center; and check out the Portland Art Museum year round for a variety of contemporary and historical exhibits.
Check out some of the state’s other museums. One of the best is the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem.
Oregon has a lot of artists, whose work can be seen in galleries in Portland and Eugene. And there are lots of books and movies about the state.
A little known fact is that poet Richard Brautigan grew up in Eugene.
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Oregon’s had some good films shot here. “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” for example, used the old Oregon State Hospital to play an old state hospital.
Then there’s those other films…
Check out Ron Cowan’s look at the state of Oregon filmmaking in the Statesman-Journal.
“Over the course of Amanda Snyder’s long career during the early- and mid-20th century, the noted Oregon painter channeled a variety of stylistic currents. For example, colorful, impressionistic scenes imbued with darker, more abstract qualities can be found in her work….”
