Niki Price Executive director, Lincoln City Cultural Center What are you reading? Just finished “The Lonely Ones” by Håkan Nesser, and toggling between “Sapiens” by Yuval Noah Harari and “Cold Colder Coldest” by G. Davies Jandrey. Jandrey is an old family friend who lives in Tucson, Ariz., where I spent my early childhood. Reading her mysteries makes me feel closer to her and to the desert. What are you watching? “Slow Horses,” “Ted Lasso,” “DI Ray” and, if I’m being honest, I can’t resist “Call the Midwife.” What are you listening to? Right now, I’m deep in the playlist from this year’s Sisters Folk Festival, one of my favorite annual volunteer gigs. I’m high on Glitterfox, Tropa Magica and the Balla Kouyaté/Mike Block Band. As for podcasts, I’m daily with “The Daily,” but I also follow “The Evergreen,” “OPB Politics Now” and “Oregon On the Record,” as well as “Double R Show,” which is a Lincoln City news podcast hosted by Roger Robertson. What is your must-have gadget? The AirTag on my keys! What are your hobbies/ interests? My husband, Dave, and I both love tending our little property in the heart of Lincoln City. We’ve got a few chickens, a wall of raspberries and all the easy stuff: rhodies, azaleas and fuchsias; we’re expanding into dahlias. I also run two or three times a week and am sometimes training for a half-marathon. What was your childhood or earliest ambition? Musical theater actress. Where is your favorite place to vacation? By the lake, just about anywhere. What is your biggest extravagance? Traveling with my grown kids. What motivates you to come to work? The community we’ve built at the Cultural Center — the awesome staff and board, all the artists and musicians, the market vendors, the kids who toddle down the hall to pick up an art kit. Those people inspire me every day. Who is your professional role model? Kimberly Howard Wade, the executive director of Caldera. What ambitions do you still have? My goal is to see the Cultural Center continue to grow and expand, providing more opportunities for artists to live and work in Lincoln City, with more places for them to exhibit and perform. My dream is a big, walkable arts district filled with shops and studios, work-live spaces, residency cottages, rotating outdoor public art, and other creative attractions, just a block from the beach. ⁄Downtime⁄ LIVE WORK PLAY JASON E. KAPLAN 68
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