CANNON BEACH – The Cannon Beach History Center hosts a lecture by Don Osborne on “Arts in Cannon Beach: History and Practice.” The free, public program takes place at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 13.

Osborne has been producing his art in studios on the Oregon Coast since 1978. He completed his undergraduate work in art at Central Washington University in 1964, and did graduate work in art, psychology, management and group process work at the University of Washington, Central Washington University and the Northwest Regional Education Labs. He has been an art instructor for Tillamook Community College and helped found the Manzanita Creative Arts Council. He has exhibited locally, regionally and nationally, and has work in private and corporate collections in Germany, Ireland, Spain and throughout the Northwest, Canada and the United States. He has been an Artist in the Schools for the Oregon Arts Commission and has juried exhibits in the Northwest. His “guerilla art” placemats are in the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum and the Guggenheim in New York, the Chicago Art Institute, the Miami Museum of Art and the Tate Modern in London.

Osborne and his pseudonyms also produce commerical “collector” posters and other graphics for local community festivals and nonprofit group fundraisers. To view his work, visit www.osbornestudio.com. Osborne says it is important to him that all know he is not Native American, but is drawn to the honesty, respectfulness, humor and irony of indigenous peoples’ approach to art and truth. The images he makes are his “gifts” to viewers. He works in various media, and often combines them with the themes and styles he continues to develop and explore.

The Cannon Beach History Center is located at the corner of Spruce and Sunset streets. For more information, call (503) 436-9301.