Rural Art Center

Building Community Through the Arts

Welcome to the Rural Art Center!

The Rural Art Center is a 501c(3) non-profit organization with the mission of building community through participation and presentation of the arts in Lorane and Crow, Oregon. The goal of the Rural Art Center is to provide a home for arts programs where community individuals across generations have the opportunity to realize and express their creative potential. Programs for performance and education include, but are not limited to, the areas of music, theater, dance, literary and visual arts.

  • Handwork & Hooking
    Thanks to grangers Patrick, Lexie and Connie for heating up the Crow Grange ahead of our arrival on this frosty afternoon! We went from 3 in our handwork community to 6, so we are doubling our participants! We will meet again the 3rd Friday of January, the 17th at 3PM. We had a variety of… Read more: Handwork & Hooking
  • What Does it Mean to Hook?
    What should we call ourselves? The Lorane Hookers? In 2015, coming on 10 years ago, a group of Rural Art Center folks decided to get educated on rug hooking so we could bring the art back to share in Lorane. We took lessons to get started, built some frames, ordered backing and hooks, and started… Read more: What Does it Mean to Hook?
  • Technical Difficulties
    How to have a silent movie without trying…

“Building Community Through the Arts”