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b'This week, the vacation comes to you! We\'ve got excellent road trips to some of the most beautiful and inspiring parts of Oregon and the creators who work there. Pack up, grab a bag of sunflower seeds \\u2014 we\'re hitting the road.

Veterans Chase Rock \'n\' Roll Ceramics And Granite Peaks at the LH Project

There are a lot of reasons to visit Joseph, Oregon, beginning with the spectacular Wallowa Mountains. But for ceramic artists, there\\u2019s one very specific reason: a residency program that some have called the Shangri-la of ceramics. It was started by Jakob Ha\\xdflacher and his wife, the internationally renowned sculptor Chris Antemann, in 2000. Ha\\xdflacher named it after his family\'s cattle brand, the LH Project, and now they invite ceramic artists from around the world to make art there. One group comes back every summer: veterans, who crank the stereo and let the beer flow more freely than the glaze.

Wallowa County Writer\'s First Book Recounts True Love Found Around A Campfire in Hells Canyon - 10:57

Pamela Royes debut book, "Temperance Creek: A Memoir," explores her early adult years in Northeastern Oregon in the Wallowa Mountains. That\'s where she met her future husband, Skip Royes, a Vietnam war veteran, while backpacking. He asked her to join him, and her lyrical writing sensibility brings to life what it was like sheep herding in Hells Canyon for four years, living off the land with a man who went from a stranger on the trail to her husband for forty years.

Disjecta\'s \'Portland2016\' Biennial Creates The Ultimate Art Road Trip - 20:07

The mother of all summertime art road trips is here. In thirteen cities, artwork will be on view this summer representing Oregon\\u2019s contemporary art scene for Disjecta\\u2019s biennial show "Portland2016." Curator Michelle Grabner, who curated the 2014 Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, spent last fall and winter getting to know Oregon artists through a mind-bending 107 studio visits. We joined Grabner at several stages in her process, from studio visits to artists installing their work in an abandoned hotel in Astoria.

New Capacity Building Initiative Helps Arts Organizations Think Big - 36:20

It\\u2019s really tough for arts organizations to think big when they\\u2019re so married to a regular cycle of ticket sales, grants, and courting donors. We recently sat down with Steve Moore, executive director of the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, to talk about a recently completed initiative to help arts organizations like Disjecta do bigger and better projects. It\'s called Capacity Building, and the endgame is to get those arts organizations into more long-term, sustainable planning.

Skyscrapers In Portland: The Sky\'s The Limit? - 39:54

Portland is growing up. Fast. More than 60 buildings over 100-feet tall are in the pipeline, along with a few towering higher than 200 feet. Downtown\\u2019s largest property owner, the Goodman family, recently made a highly speculative proposal for four new towers that could rise as high as 460 feet. Our architecture and urban design columnist-in-residence, Randy Gragg, talked with the architects of three of the most prominent new buildings: Park Avenue West, the Cosmopolitan, and Indigo @ twelve|west. We have drone videos of the buildings, along with an extended interview with Randy and the architects, here.

Exploring Color, Space And Memory Through \'The Color Of Memory\' - 49:55

The memories you make this summer \\u2014 at the beach, with friends \\u2014 will be full of light and color.But how will those colors stay with you down the road? Will they stay bright, or fade like beach towels left a little too long in the sun? There\\u2019s a show now on view called \\u201cThe Color of Memory\\u201d at Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art in Northwest Portland, running through Aug. 27, that explores issues of memory through the work of 16 West Coast artists, who emphasize or deny color in their work.'