Camas-Washougal logo tag

Arts & Entertainment

August 1, 2024
James Cook performs at the 2023 Washougal Songcraft Festival. (Contributed photos courtesy of Washougal Songcraft Festival)

Second annual Washougal Songcraft Festival returning bigger than before

The 2024 Washougal Songcraft Festival (WSF) will feature more concerts, more performers and more venues than it did in 2023, its inaugural year. Some of that growth is by design and some of it is happening as the result of some unexpected news delivered by the owner of one of the 2023 festival’s host venues.

July 5, 2024
Artwork by Camas high school students is displayed inside the Second Story Gallery, located on the second floor of the Camas Public Library, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. The gallery will host artwork by Camas high school students through July and art by Camas middle school students during the month of August. (Photos by Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Camas’ Second Story Gallery to spotlight local student artists this summer

When the Second Story Gallery inside Camas’ public library revived its monthly exhibitions in July 2022, following a more than two-year closure during the COVID-19 pandemic, the gallery focused on local student artists with a two-month “Stepping Out” art show featuring Camas and Hayes Freedom high school artists.

June 27, 2024
The Columbia River Arts and Cultural Foundation hopes to construct a performing arts center on the Washougal waterfront, featuring an auditorium with between 300 and 500 seats. (Contributed photo courtesy of Columbia River Arts and Cultural Foundation)

Groups adjusts vision for performing arts center

Columbia River Arts and Cultural Foundation (CRACF) leaders recently learned that their vision of including a 1,200-seat auditorium as part of the performing arts center they hope to construct on the Washougal waterfront is probably a bad idea.

May 9, 2024
Adret Artist Collective members, from left to right, Regina Westmoreland, Judi Clark, Ellen Nordgren and Elizabeth Dye talk about their art at the Collective’s shared studio space in Washougal on May 2, 2024. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Local artist group mourns, regroups after unexpected loss

The Adret Collective, composed of several East Clark County artists who work in shared studio space in rural Washougal, reached a crossroads in August 2023, after one of the group’s founders, Angela Swanson, died unexpectedly at the age of 54, following heart surgery complications.