Mike Jacobson, outreach coordinator at CraterWorks MakerSpace in Central Point, explains safety features of a table saw in the CraterWorks wood shop. The space hosts students during school hours and CraterWorks members evenings and weekends.
By Chrissy Ewald of the Daily Courier
CENTRAL POINT — A former ironworks in Central Point is once again humming with activity in its new life as a “makerspace.”
Mike Jacobson, outreach coordinator and woodshop captain for CraterWorks MakerSpace, described the nearly 20,000-square-foot facility as a “Disneyland” of creative opportunity.
Another tournament. Another win for Carson Krauss.
The Grants Pass senior won his fourth boys’ golf tournament in a row and his fifth of the season on Monday, firing a 4-under 68 to take medalist honors at the Medford Invitational at Centennial Golf Course.
The Cavemen also had their top performance of the season, easily winning the team title with just 294 total strokes.
The public is invited to an election forum Wednesday featuring candidates running for a seat on the Josephine County Board of Commissioners.
The forum will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the council chambers at Grants Pass City Hall, 101 N.W. A St.
Invited to the forum are all eight candidates running for Position 2 on the Board of Commissioners. The position is currently held by Gary Richardson, an appointee who chose not to seek the seat.
"Suprématisme," a 1970 color lithograph on paper by French artist Nadia Khodasevich Léger, is part of new exhibit of abstract art celebrating the influence of the 1930 artists' group Cercle et Carre on artists around the world. The exhibit, which opens with a reception on Thursday at the Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, runs through Aug. 8.
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An exhibition of abstract art honoring the legacy of an influential but short-lived artistic group founded in Paris in 1929, opens next week at the Schneider Museum of Art.
That art group, Cercle et Carré — which translates as Circle and Square — included famous artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and Fernand Leger. The international group of more than 80 artists advanced ideas concerning structure, construction and meaningful abstraction.
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