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Celebrating Art and Community: High Street Gallery Grand Opening on KXCR’s Community Conversations

The Central Oregon Coast is abuzz with excitement as the High Street Gallery prepares for its grand opening, a significant event that promises to celebrate the intersection of art, community, and agriculture. To highlight this momentous occasion, KXCR 90.7 FM will be hosting a special segment of “Community Conversations,” giving listeners an exclusive preview of the gallery’s inaugural event. Tune In to KXCR’s “Community Conversations” Hosted by the ever-engaging Melissa Jones, “Community Conversations” will air

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Oregon Coast School of Art offers art and community in tiny Gardiner

FEBRUARY 19, 2022 | DANITA CAHILL On a hike along the Oregon Coast, Emily Free Wilson and her husband, Matt Wilson, looked up a hillside scattered with houses and saw the old Gardiner middle school. The school, built in the 1950s north of Reedsport, was abandoned, spacious, and perfect – for its location and its rows of windows looking out over the Umpqua River. Artists would love it, they thought. Matt first noticed the building.

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