Join us on Wednesday, November 16, for an evening at the museum with Walla Walla-based artist Keiko Hara. Hara’s work is the subject of a mini-survey exhibition, Keiko Hara: Four Decades of Paintings and Prints, chronicling her unwavering commitment to painting and her unique form of Japanese woodblock printmaking over a 40-year period. This event also celebrates Hara’s first full-scale museum publication by the same name, offered by the WSU Press and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU. Books…

Television news investigative reporter and author Jeff Burnside and Bainbridge Island legend Bill Marler will be at Eagle Harbor Book Co. on March 2, 2023 to discuss Jeff's book, co-authored with Gordon W. Davis, Cashup Davis: The Inspiring Life of a Secret Mentor. Among the first white settlers on the Palouse, British immigrant Cashup Davis and his family opened an immensely popular stagecoach stop. When he insists on building an opulent hotel atop one of eastern Washington’s highest sites, it…

The Cascade County Historical Society welcomes the author of a new book, Montana Modernists: Shifting Perspectives on Western Art, Dr. Michele Corriel, who will give a presentation on twentieth-century postwar Montana art. Examining the emergence of an avant-garde movement in the state, Dr. Corriel profiles the pioneers of this movement: Jessie Wilber, Frances Senska, Bill Stockton, Isabelle Johnson, Robert DeWeese, and Gennie DeWeese. Together, these artists implemented an aesthetic philosophy and a modern understanding of form, color, and abstraction that…

Meet Helen Lingscheit Heavirland, as she reads from her new book, Surviving the Sand, about farming with her family during the Columbia Basin Project's early years. Like many others, the Lingscheit’s lives are full of arduous work and incredibly tough times, but also love and laughter. Growing up, Helen Lingscheit Heavirland listened—utterly captivated—as her father read stories aloud. The characters his expressive voice brought to life transported her to imagined adventures and helped motivate her to overcome her shyness and…

Former world-class high diver and 2-time winner of the Portland marathon’s hand cycle division, Tom Haig, will celebrate the release of his new book, "Global Nomad: My Travels Through Diving, Tragedy, and Rebirth," on March 18, 2023, at PEAK Sports, 207 NW 2nd Street in Corvallis, Oregon, starting at 6:30 p.m. In 1996, Haig crashed headfirst into a truck and suddenly found himself living a very different life from a wheelchair. His recovery—mentally, physically, and emotionally—was excruciating. “I’d been in…