Oak Harbor Creative Arts Foundation

04/09/2026

This is an exciting show! The Wearable Art Runway Show featuring artists who make costumes out of recycled materials. Our own Cynthia Mason enters each year as well. Check out this recent post from the Harbor Senior Center Foundation featuring a few of the artists last year. If you want to go to either the Dinner and Show Fundraiser on May 16th or the Sunday Behind the Runway Show on Sunday ... Get your tickets!

http://wearableartohsc.auctria.events

04/04/2026

📣 : A group of five individual artists will be commissioned to create two-dimensional designs that will be printed on banners and displayed as part of a rotating banner art installation celebrating the White Center Ponds stormwater facility and greenspace.

📆Deadline to apply: Thursday, April 23, 2026
🌎 White Center Ponds are located just east of downtown White Center, Seattle
💵 Budget: $10,000 per artist for site-specific research and design development
👉🏽 Learn more: https://www.4culture.org/grants/white-center-ponds-banners/

ID: Artist Opportunity at White Center Ponds, text repeated in other languages. Image of forest and water in background.

4Culture

03/26/2026

Thanks Whidbey Community Foundation for the pat on the back! We are really excited about Oak Harbors future!

Incorporated in 2020, the Oak Harbor Creative Arts Foundation (OHCAF) was formed with a bold vision: to unify and uplift Whidbey Island’s vibrant but often fragmented arts scene—particularly in North Whidbey. What started as a group of passionate artists and advocates has grown into an emerging ...

03/26/2026

Let's play ball!

Celebrate the opening of baseball season with art!

“Talkin' Baseball” is a glass painting by Michael Dupille, a Seattle-based glass artist. The composition uses different colors of glass to create depth of space and suggest a crowd watching a baseball game. He creates his “glass paintings” using different colors of crushed glass called "frit" which he layers and fires in a hot kiln.

👉🏽View the artwork on My Public Art Portal: https://www.arts.wa.gov/collection/artwork/?id=10706

"Talkin' Baseball" (1999, glass) by Michael Dupille, located at Thunder Mountain Middle School, Enumclaw, Western WA.

ID: Black silhouettes of an adult and child in baseball caps with a filled stadium and field behind. A blue sky with clouds above, round as part of a ball. Speech bubbles come from the figures, but they hold the red stitching of baseballs instead of words.

03/18/2026

03/06/2026

Tickets are on sale for this fabulous show! It's a lot fun and support our Oak Harbor Seniors!

It's that time of the year ... for the most fun you will have at a fundraiser this year! Is that just our opinion? Nope! Our return guest told us that!

Every ticket fuels the Oak Harbor Senior Center Foundation.

Every dollar fights isolation. Every bid supports movement, meals, learning, and connection for the seniors who built this community. In uncertain economic times, we don’t step back.

1/2 of available tickets are sold, so get yours fast!

https://WearableArtOHSC.auctria.events

SPONSORED BY Oak Harbor Parks and Recreation, City of Oak Harbor, The Arts Commission, Serendipity Catering + Events, Kathy Phillips of Acorn Properties, Lexi Ochoa FORAGE, Chris' Bakery, Heartsong Homecare Co-op, Home Instead!

03/05/2026

Can't attend the Whidbey Island Arts Council Spring Gala Fundraising Dinner hosted by The Oystercatcher on March 12? Send a local artist instead. You can directly support a local artist by purchasing their ticket to attend the Gala! Because WIAC is a 501c(3) organization, a portion of the ticket is tax deductible!

www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/YCNVL53DWTZ4G

02/24/2026

02/13/2026

📣Calling all young artists! Applications for ICFF 2026 Art Showcase are officially OPEN! This year’s theme: “A Day at ICFF.”

Share your vision for a chance to have your artwork featured on the official ICFF 2027 poster.

🗓️ Apply by March 1, 2026
🏆 Prizes for the winning designs!
👉🏽 Learn more: https://childrensfest.tacawa.org/arts-showcase/

Let your imagination shine! 💛 Any questions? Reach out: [email protected]

ID: Graphic with contest information and ICFF logo. Grades Pre-K to12.

International Children's Friendship Festival

02/12/2026

Opportunity!!!!!

In accordance with state law (RCW 43.46.050), the search for a new Executive Director will be led by the ArtsWA Board of Commissioners in collaboration with key staff and stakeholders. Following a comprehensive recruitment process, the board will submit a list of three ranked finalists to Governor B...

01/29/2026

Oak Harbor deserves a space for music, theater, dance & art.

We’re collecting signatures to support a future Performing Arts Center right here in our community.

Scan the QR code on Slide 3 & help us reach 1,000 signatures!