Light on Glass, Memory in Print: Two New Exhibits Open November 6^th at Newport Visual Arts Center

Newport, Oregon: As the days grow shorter, Oregon Coast Council for the Arts (OCCA) invites the community in from the cold with two new exhibits opening Friday, November 6th at Newport Visual Arts Center (the VAC): Roots and Refractions, a luminous collection of fused glass by Martha Keane / Whirleybird Glassworks, and Architecture, Memory, and History, a printmaking exhibit by Julia Goos. Both exhibits will be on display through January 2nd, 2027. Admission is free.

Martha Keane spent years as a professional arborist learning to see the natural world closely: the architecture of a tree, the way a forest shifts through the seasons, the quiet details most people walk past. That attentiveness now shapes her fused glass, which draws on Oregon’s forests and coastlines. Fused glass, she says, “moves and changes throughout the day,” much…