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Arts & Entertainment

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.