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…

Maritime Art Exhibition 2026

The Maritime Art Exhibition 2026: Surge begins at the edge of motion, where water rises, wind gathers, and the coast feels the force of something arriving.

For the first time in its history, Coos Art Museum’s Annual Maritime Art Exhibition is shaped by a theme. Surge is the lift before the break, the pull beneath the surface, the sudden energy that moves through tide, weather, work, memory, and change.

Flying the Hull, Micaiah Hardison

Flight of Rays, Morgan Johnson

Cape Arago Rising Tide, Pat Snyder

Together, these works look beyond the sea as scenery. They hold the ocean as presence and power, as livelihood and inheritance, as a place where human life meets forces larger than itself. As the only art museum on the Oregon Coast, Coos Art Museum gathers these visions into a juried exhibition of maritime life in motion.

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