Young artists will create a wide diversity of forms using hand-building techniques. Class includes clay, glazes and firing. Preregistration is required.
Help us celebrate excellence in Art Education with this special exhibit honoring former Enterprise, Oregon High School Art Teacher Gary Wishart, and his brother Enterprise, Oregon K-8th art teacher Larry Wishart, and their former students! Opening Reception: May 27th 6-9pm!
Learn a few different cording techniques with Kolle Kahl Riggs, including thigh rolling and hand-twisting. Ages 12 and up.
Lower Snake River Dams - will be an evening presentation on May 18 at 7pm, doors open at 6:30pm.
A fun night for adults of abstract painting and sipping wine. A monthly event held on the third Wednesday of every month.
Preregistration Required.
Mike is an author-illustrator of fiction and nonfiction graphic novels, including the Star Scouts series for First Second. He has also illustrated a middle grade novel. In addition to making comics, Mike has created several pieces of public art for his hometown of Portland, Oregon.
If you are a former student of Enterprise High School Art Teacher Gary Wishart (1976-2002)? and/or Gary’s brother, Larry Wishart, who taught elementary and junior high art, we want you! Submit current or recent artwork for consideration for the “Wishart” exhibit at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture, May 27th-July 22nd, 2023.
The Josephy Center for Arts and Culture is thrilled to announce the return of Missoula Children’s Theatre to Wallowa County with the production of The Emperor’s New Clothes, adapted by Jim Caron and Matt Loehrke and Music and Lyrics by Jim Caron, Michael McGill, Greg Boris and Amy Ellis. Two performances in Wallowa! Tickets available online here.
This year we will have special new musical element to the Youth Arts Festival. Admission is FREE but donations are appreciated.
Our annual Youth Arts Exhibit features work from Wallowa County students Kindergarten through 12th grade.
All School Age Wallowa County Youth Are Invited To Apply. Artwork will be judged in the following categories: K-1st; 2nd-3rd; 4th-6th; Junior High; High School. Each participant will receive1st, 2nd, or 3rd Place Ribbon. People’s Choice, Judge’s Choice and Director’s Choice will receive special recognition. All Artwork must be received by 5pm April 18th!
Nils Christoffersen and Nels Gabbert, the new "tag-team" at Wallowa Resources addressing workforce housing, will be the presenters at a special, Tuesday, March 28 Brown Bag at the Josephy Center.
On Thursday night, March 23, at 7:00 p.m., Sean Cassidy will be at the Josephy Center to show a film on the life and career of Alvin Josephy.
Join us for a conversation with Molly Gloss author of Fishtrap Read's Jump-Off Creek, and her good friend, writer Bette Husted, All Coyote's Children. They will discuss writing, women writing, and women in the West.
The basics of how to get the AED off the wall and onto a patient. Two hours. A training with […]
Auburn’s current work is pulled from the fluidity of the nature she surrounds herself with, and she is constantly striving to push the boundaries and dimensions of fluid acrylics and mixed media.
We invite you to join us for an infomal gathering and story telling inspired by the artwork at the Women's Exhibit, or by life events. Each storyteller will have 4 minutes. All people and genders are welcome to participate, snacks and hot drinks provided! Sponcered by Soroptimists of Wallowa County
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In this class for 8-12 year olds, students focus on drawing & painting using a variety of mediums.
A great fun learning experience for 5-7 year olds, teaching them the basics of drawing and painting.
Young artists will create a wide diversity of forms using hand-building techniques. Class includes clay, glazes and firing. Preregistration is required.
Come enjoy live music by Calico Bones! Light food will be provided, and drinks will be available for purchase. We will be joined by this year’s curator is Auburn Isaak of La Grande Oregon.
Learn wood carving from Wallowa County's premiere wood carver, Steve Arment. Preregistration Required.
Learn the fundamentals of solarplate etching and the intaglio process. Both beginners and practiced printmakers are invited to join us for this fun educational workshop free of hazardous grounds, acids or solvents. Preregistration Required.
Our annual exhibit, celebrating Women's History Month in the US, comes back to Josephy for March and April!
Bring your design ideas to the table and learn the basic techniques for block printing using a soft, easy to cut rubbery medium, in this all inclusive three hour workshop.
We invite you to join us for a monthly Interdisciplinary Art Talk, open to artists of all disciplines, beginners to seasoned artists. We will be meeting every first Wednesday of the month, 5:30 to 7:00 PM. Topics of discussions are varied and in a professional atmosphere of respect and friendship.
Join Rodd Ambroson for an eight week group exploration of the human figure with live models.
Must be at least 18 years. Pre-registration is required.
Get your tickets to the fest here!
The closing reception will include a performance by Bart Bugwig, and a short film about the Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center project Hello Neighbor.
A fun night for adults of abstract painting and sipping wine, every 3rd Wednesday of the month.
A talk about AEDs and Heart Attacks in the News, by Dick Burch
This handbuilding class for teens will give them the foundation to create in clay successfully. Class includes clay, glazes and firing. Preregistration is required.
JCAC is excited to bring back our annual Women's Art Exhibit for 2023. The theme for Women's History Month 2023 is "Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories ." We invite artists to submit artwork to our call - it can follow this theme or can be open to artists work that want to be apart of the Women's Art Show without be constricted to a theme.
Please join us to celebrate the opening of Timber Culture! With a presentation by Gwendolyn Trice Founder and Executive Director of Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center.
We are excited to announce that Josephy Center will be hosting Timber Culture a traveling exhibit and exploration into cultural heritage in the Pacific Northwest. The exhibit depicts the lives of loggers and their families drawn together from different cultures during the great migration, presenting an inclusive look at Oregon's multicultural logging communities.
A dramatic reading by Rich Wandschneider, originally written by Dylan Thomas, with Seth Kinzie improvising on piano! Streamed live at […]
After two years of presenting their holiday concert as an online event, the Wallowa Valley Music Alliance is pleased to again be celebrating the holiday season with a variety of holiday music on Sunday afternoon, December 18th at Josephy Center for Arts and Culture. $10 Donation.
We invite you to read the attached short stories and then join us at noon on Tuesday, December 13th, at the Josephy Center to talk about these short pieces--and others you love. We can look at and talk about the Little Art Works as well.
Create a collage using a plethora of techniques and materials with Wallowa county's very own triple threat—Janis Carper.
Great gift giving idea- just in time for the holidays, or keep for yourself!
This closing reception is a special shopping day. We will provide refreshments, kids activities, and additional sales on books and art supplies, all proceeds will go to support Youth Art Programming.
The authors of Eminent Oregonians: Three Who Matter will be hosting a virtual author event via Zoom at noon on Tuesday, November 22.
An awesome chess workshop for beginners w. Clem Falbo.
Ages 7 on up and FREE!
All artwork is small in size less than 10 inches in any direction and priced under $200!
The Josephy Center is proud to announce our winter fundraiser that supports our Youth Arts Program.
Join us November 10th at noon for a discussion of "The Forest Lover" by Susan Vreeland. The story of Emily Carr's troubled career as an artist is a long and sometimes tedious journey.. National acclaim waited until Emily was in her 50s, waited while she overcame being just a good "woman artist," waited until Native themes were ok in polite Canadian society.
Allen Pinkham on Plateau drums and drumming, in a zoom format.
This is a fun and easy-to-learn technique that puts an artsy looseness to even the simplest of line drawings. Beginners and high school students are welcome.
CALL TO ARTISTS...LITTLE WORKS...The Josephy Center is proud to announce our winter fundraiser that supports our YOUTH ARTS PROGRAM (scholarships, Missoula Children's Theater, the Youth Art Festival, Internships, Alternative Education art classes, etc).
Learn from local legend Steve Arment the basics of relief woodcarving. Bring your ideas and designs if you have them!
Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to learn from story telling master beader and Choctaw Tribe member Roger Amerman how to construct a Buckskin Tobacco Bag-coupled with partial accessory contour beadwork and special pony bead brick edge beadwork using traditional methods.
Come join us for free food, drinks, music, dancing and kids art activities. For ten years, The Josephy Center for […]
The impact of violence on our world, on our communities, and on ourselves, has tangled roots that run deep— detangling those roots through self-expression is, for many, a path toward healing and reclamation.
Kristy Athens and Janis Carper discuss the art of multi-media collage: their techniques, and their approaches and goals for their work.
The Sewn Board Binding is one of the most versatile structures in book arts, lending itself to everything from artist's books to self-published chap books to blank journals. This class combines the fundamentals that inform sound construction with the satisfaction of finishing a fun, ready-to-enjoy book
Kathleen Bennett, who has worked in the healthcare field and then in health insurance in Wallowa County for over 20 years, will be our Brown Bag presenter on Tuesday, October 11.
Nunofelting or wet felting is a unique process of combining super fine merino wool roving with an open weave natural fabric, like silk, to create a new lightweight, flexible and drape able fabric.
Wallowa Lake 55x55 is the culmination of a three-year journey, by artist Joan Gilbert, exploring Wallowa Lake while experimenting with mediums, styles and techniques.
A three-year journey exploring Wallowa Lake while exploring mediums, techniques and styles, by local artist Joan Gilbert.
We're hiring a new intern! Come join our team.
Join us for this wonderful Brown Bag on Tuesday, September 27 at noon. Rich will interview Ellen Morris Bishop and Rita Ehrler who recently released Stories of Wallowa Lake - A History of the Lake and Its Communities.
For this year’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Safe Harbors has teamed up with the Josephy Center and local artist Pam Beach to offer painting classes as a space for participants to explore how violence or abuse has impacted their lives.
Seth Kinzie will talk about his travels through Ethiopia, Somalia, and Malawi, and Joan Gilbert and Kasiah Sword will do live "peace mapping" painting throughout the event. Don't miss it!
We continue to show the remaining pieces of the festival through the end of the month. This exhibit is not […]
Come enjoy a fabulous opening ceremony for the 40th annual Wallowa Valley Festival of the Arts, in beautiful Joseph, Oregon!
Join our festival in September for our 40th anniversary event!
Janet and Keith Graham will be here on September 13 from 10am-12pm to teach a workshop on ADVANCED DIRECTIVES. The workshop is free, but donations are welcome.
Spend an hour with Rich every Thursday at 1pm where Rich talks about Nez Perce history and culture for an hour. Guests are welcome to share and ask questions. The event is free but donations are always welcome.
Library director, Rich Wandschneider, leads a Nez Perce history, culture and art discussion on Thursday, Sept. 8 at 1pm. It's […]
Join us for a two-day abstract painting workshop with Cheryl North Coughlan. Students will get 2 30x 30 canvases to cover with paint. No experience necessary.
National Geographic Photo Camp Oregon is a photography learning experience, led by National Geographic Explorers and photographers Sara Hylton and Tailyr Irvine. This event showcases local youth photography from the camp.
National Geographic Photo Camp Oregon is a photography learning experience, led by National Geographic Explorers and photographers Sara Hylton and Tailyr Irvine, focusing on the Wallowa Valley.
Author David H. Wilson will be at the Josephy Center to discuss his new—and highly acclaimed—book, Northern Paiutes of the Malheur: High Desert Reckoning in Oregon Country.
Come take a brief stroll through the ages to modern use of metals and stones in jewelry. From amulets and talismans for expressing status and beauty, to the creation of one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces.
On Tuesday, August 9, at noon, a Ranger from The Nez Perce National Historical Park will speak at the Josephy Center. The Park is unique in that its sites are not all connected, and not even all "owned" by the Park Service. Some of them, iincluding the Old Joseph Grave Site at Wallowa Lake, the Joseph Canyon Overlook, and the Dug Bar crossing site on the Snake River, are in Wallowa County.
Join us for an evening of painting and sipping wine with Josephy instructor and local artist Tori Suto. Class includes art supplies, canvas and wine.
Ages 21 and up only.
Learn the fundamentals of handbuilding with ceramic instructor Pamela Beach.
Clay, glazes and firing included!
After reviewing why an Advanced Directive is so necessary and how it is used, this experienced duo (Janet Graham, MA retired Family Counselor, and Dr. Keith Graham, retired Internist) will review the three parts of the AD pamphlet and answer questions.
Explore this year's theme of Flowers with Pam and Mary!
Well, after two years of isolation and unprecedented challenges, we are looking ahead with anticipation and excitement - as this is certainly a time to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Wallowa Valley Festival of Arts! We are looking forward to seeing YOU, our ever-growing family of artists, and enjoy your company in beautiful Joseph, Oregon, next September 10-18, 2022.
Raffle: Purchase tickets for a chance to win one of two items.
Roger Amerman- beaded bag, or Dallas Dick- Framed Indian Relay Race Photo.
What is a wild landscape? One thing that makes Eastern Oregon so special is untouched and undeveloped landscapes. The Wild Landscape exhibit will celebrate Imnaha's diverse and wild lands.
Seth Kinzie, of Joseph, will talk about his Rotary Peace Fellowship in Africa. He is working on an African Peacemaking Database, which explores traditional peace practices on the continent in partnership with the African Union over the next 10 years.
Debra Magpie Earling is a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, and author of […]
Sip wine and paint a still life on canvas with guidance from local artist and Josephy's own Tori Suto. Class includes art supplies, canvas and wine.
Ages 21 and up only.
Rich Wandschneider will talk about the Nez Perce in the Wallowa Country. A short history of how the Nez Perce […]
She knows this territory from years of work in hospital administration and in the insurance business. Come with your questions!
Explore this year's theme of Flowers with Pam and Mary!
Join us for an artist guided tour of “Heartwood Manor” on display at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture now through July 25th. Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the brilliant and eccentric mind of Steve Arment.
Learn the basics of adding color to metal through enameling. Enameling uses finely ground glass which is fused to the metal using a heat source such as a torch or kiln. In class we will be using small torches.
Due in part to the Covid Pandemic, suicide rates across the country have surged over the past three years. Wallowa County is not immune to this national problem, and the Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness is the focal point for dealing with suicide locally. Center Director Chantay Jett and the Center’s clinical director, Mollie Cudmore, will address the issue.
Needle Felting is the process of using barbed needles to turn wool fibers into a more condensed material. The needles are pushed repeatedly through the fibers locking them together. In this class you will learn the basics of needle felting and will create a small spring time animal figure to take home.
Fancy dress encouraged. An exhibition by Steve Arment & Anna Vogel.
Featuring Steve Arment and Anna Vogel;
“step through a portal into Heartwood House”
Catherine Matthias author of The Word Gobblers - a handbook for parents (and teachers) working with children who struggle to read, will be here with Joan Gilbert the illustrator to read The Word Gobblers and answer questions during the Youth Arts Festival.
This exciting annual event features a wonderful display of artwork, lots of awards ribbons, hands-on activities, and musical performances by area youths.
An introduction to Nez Perce and other Sahaptin languages. How close are they? What do they share or what makes them different? Accepted linguistic spellings and pronunciations. Common greetings and place names, especially names of places in Oregon and Idaho. Family names--how are they passed down and carried on? Next steps for those who want to really learn the language.
In conjunction with Josephy’s “Native Sport” exhibit in place for the month of April in our gallery. From journalist Abe Streep, the story of coming of age on a reservation in the American West and a team uniting a community.
Join us Sunday, April 10, 2022 at 3pm for a reception at The Josephy Center to celebrate much of “Beautiful Games,” with updates from regional reservations and current contests that bring “Native Sport” and athletes to Eastern Oregon and the Wallowa's today.
"An Invitation to the Lighter Side;" Artworks from women exploring humor and the joys that keep us going through challenging times. The exhibit opens February 26 - March 28, 2022.