Bend artist Julia Junkin’s design work has been featured in magazines such as Bon Apetite, Better Homes & Gardens and Brides, and objects bearing her art are sold across the USA at retailers including Sur la Table, Neiman Marcus and Crate & Barrel. But throughout June, Thump Coffee in downtown Bend will spotlight the paintings [...]

Throughout May, Thump Coffee in downtown Bend will exhibit “Push Tunisia,” a collection of recent skateboarding photos, art decks and other mixed media works from Tunisia, birthplace of the “Arab Spring” revolutions. Thump Coffee will be open late for First Friday Art Walk, May 4. “Push Tunisia” is a project of local non-profit collaborative theBedouins, [...]

Local artists Audrey Colker and her husband, Robert Johans, share the bill throughout April at Thump Coffee with an exhibition of Colker’s encaustic paintings and Johans’ multimedia works on display throughout April. Thump will stay open late for First Friday Art Walk, April 6. Colker says she approached these encaustic paintings as a process of [...]

During March, Thump Coffee in downtown Bend celebrates student artists from all walks of life. Home school, Bend High School, Marshall High School and Cascade Middle School students’ works of art will be exhibited throughout the month. “Have you always dreamed of writing your own book? Students at Cascade Middle School have written, illustrated and [...]

Throughout February, Thump Coffee in downtown Bend exhibits a collection of Great Basin photos shot by Bend-based professional photographer Zack Jones, whose clients include bicycle companies Trek and Burley, as well as several magazines. Thump will not be open late for First Friday Art Walk this month. “From sitting in my garden with a refreshing [...]

“Vision of Peace” throughout January. “Missing Peace” January 6 only.

Throughout December, Thump Coffee in downtown Bend showcases art created by children living at the Vima Lupwa Home in Luanshya, Zambia. Vima Lupwa, the locally-based nonprofit founded by Bend native Malerie Pratt, provides a loving foster home for a handful of the most needy among Zambia’s more than one million orphans. Writes Vima Lupwa boardmember [...]

Throughout November, Thump Coffee in downtown Bend will exhibit a selection of local photographer Jill Rosell’s “I Love Bend, OR” images. Thump Coffee also will stay open late for First Friday Art Walk, November 4. A natural light portrait photographer who primarily works with families, children, newborns, seniors and pets, Rosell launched an “I Love [...]

Plus, all evening Friday Traditional Cappuccino Happy Hour 1/2 off select coffee drinks.

We’re excited to extend into October the mixed media show and new works of artist, designer and activist Euijin Gray. Her show — entitled “being. small. simple. green.” — is derived from spending several months in the temperate rainforest of Tennessee, where it is much greener than her high desert home of Bend. Inspired by [...]

Artist, designer and activist Euijin Gray will exhibit a collection of mixed media works — entitled “being. small. simple. green.” — throughout September at Thump Coffee in downtown Bend. Thump Coffee also will be open late for First Friday Art Walk on September 2. According to Gray, her recent work is derived from spending several [...]

Local photographer Brian Bulemore returns to Thump Coffee throughout August with a collection of works entitled “Noun . . . Revisted.” The exhibit is a return to Bulemore’s long-running “Noun Project,” which he describes as “a series of images of people, places, and things in the context of urban landscapes, street portraiture, and object studies.” [...]

Throughout July, Thump Coffee in downtown Bend exhibits “Coffee or Tea,” fiber works by Journeys, a local group of artists who seek to express their passion for art through creating and sharing the love of quilts and fiber arts. Journeys fabric artists challenged themselves to push beyond the expected to interpret the theme “Coffee or [...]

Throughout June, Thump Coffee in downtown Bend will display “We Live Here, Too,” a portrait series of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community of Central Oregon and their friends, family and allies, created by artist Teafly Peterson in conjunction with Human Dignity Coalition. “The goal of this project is to show [...]

Mixed media works by Christopher Glenn Allison are the featured art exhibit throughout May at Thump Coffee in downtown Bend. Thump Coffee also will be open late for First Friday Art Walk, May 6. “I favor a creative process of mixed mediums with a strong intent to reuse discarded scraps of wood, found objects and [...]

Photography by Caitlin Ducsik is the featured art exhibit throughout April at Thump Coffee in downtown Bend. Thump Coffee also will be open late for First Friday Spring Art Hop, April 1. “In nature, I find inspiration and happiness,” says Ducsik. “Through my camera’s viewfinder I seek to capture life’s simple truths with the magic [...]

Original surrealist oil and acrylic paintings by Carol Connett are the March featured artworks at Thump Coffee in downtown Bend. “Enjoy a stroll through the colorful and imaginative landscapes of my subconscious,” invites Connett. Thump Coffee also will be open late for First Friday Art Walk, March 4. Connett describes her paintings as “representational renderings [...]

Local photographers Nate Crabtree and Chris Shunk present nature-inspired photography throughout February at Thump Coffee in downtown Bend. Born and raised here, Cornell University-trained archeologist Crabtree describes Central Oregon as “one of the most spectacular places to have spent a childhood.” Shunk coaches at Summit High School in Bend and graciously offered to exhibit his [...]

“Sent From My iPhone,” an exhibit of cell phone photography, or “iPhonography,” by Carlos A. Perez will be on exhibit throughout January at Thump Coffee in downtown Bend. The coffeehouse will also host an exclusive sneak preview of “Push” skateboard decks customized by dozens of local, regional and national artists. The skateboard artworks will be [...]

Fri. 12/3 Open Late for First Friday Art Walk; Fri. 12/10, 5-9pm Cross Culture: Bike + Art Love w/ Vanilla Bicycles, Cielo Bicycles & Pedro’s, Throughout December: A Celebration of the Bicycle featuring Paul Carew, Jo Lundberg, Byron Roe

KC Lockrem will exhibit mixed media works on paper throughout November. “I will be in a group show at the Aspen Art Museum in November, as well, exhibiting large oil color field paintings,” Lockrem explains. “In my mixed media work, I collaborate with materials that I create and with those materials that I collect to [...]

Tumalo artist Lisa Copenhagen Wachs returns to Thump Coffee this month with an exhibit of new oil paintings. The area’s surrounding abundance of wildlife and nature continue to inspire her artwork, which has been described as “Northwest Mystic” in style. “‘Moment, Place, and Interaction’ is the heart of my visceral and studied glimpses of surrounding [...]

Can skateboarding and street art become instruments of peace between Arab and Israeli youth? That’s the mission of Euijin and Nathan Gray, local artists and founders of a new nonprofit group, The Bedouins, which will exhibit “Yallah! Artivism for Peace” throughout September at Thump Coffee in downtown Bend. “‘Yallah! Artivism for Peace’ validates art as [...]

Two local artists share the bill during August at Thump Coffee in downtown Bend. Annie Johnston’s mosaic mandalas and Jason Darlings’ tattoo-inspired watercolor and ink drawings are on exhibit throughout the month. Thump Coffee will be open until 9pm for First Friday Art Walk, August 6. Johnston explains that mandalas are contemplative tools for moving [...]