Coos Art Museum

With so many places to look at art on the Oregon coast, there is only one art museum. Located in downtown Coos Bay in the heart of Oregon’s South Coast, the museum is a leader in the exhibition of local art and art education. The museum’s collections reflect our region’s rich culture and explore the visual world through color and medium.

Exhibitions and education offerings change frequently throughout the year. Come by when you can to see a show or take a class before it is gone!

Now on view…

Multiplicity

Multiplicity begins with a simple idea: one image can become many. Through printmaking, a single matrix gives rise to an edition of related works, each carrying subtle variations in color, pressure, texture, and presence.

Featuring prints created by Native artists in collaboration with master printers at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, the exhibition explores repetition as possibility. Each impression belongs to a larger whole while remaining distinct, much like memory and tradition are carried forward in many forms.

This Good Land, James Lavadour

Where They Laid Down Yellow Blankets, Wendy Red Star

Little Big Plateau Series (Monotype E.V.), Phillip Cash Cash

Together, these works challenge the idea that there is only one story, one history, or one way of seeing. Multiplicity considers how voices, places, and experiences can share a source without becoming the same, revealing difference as a source of creativity and strength.

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