As autumn approaches, art finds a way
David Bates
August 30, 2020
With autumn around the corner, arts and culture events are creeping back onto the Yamhill County calendar.
With autumn around the corner, arts and culture events are creeping back onto the Yamhill County calendar.
An online play based on a backstage novel about life, love, and revenge in the theater scratches an itch in Covid-19 time.
Painter Michael Orwick, whose work will be in an October show in Astoria, says his dyslexia helped him become an artist.
ArtsWatch Weekly: An expansive exhibit looks at the lives and issues along the great river.
Portland writer Sarah Mirk’s new illustrated book tells the tales of lives in limbo at the “War on Terror” prison.
Marc Mohan’s Streamers column considers the deeper recesses of your video options. This week that means a jazz classic and a trove of documentaries.
Forced to quickly shift from live to virtual performances, the festival finds surprising intimacy and success.
Last week we talked all about how everyone should be making albums right now, and hopefully you all nodded your heads and muttered, “hell yeah!”
ArtsWatch Weekly: Art of the protests, Instagrammatical, bringing in the urban crops.
Andrew D. Jankowski and Safiyah Maurice give an inside view of the visual art and culture components of the Black Lives Matter protests in Portland.
Oregon screenwriter Ashwini Prasad writes the book on telling true tales of the erased and marginalized.
Technology challenges an online drama club, but the tradeoff is lessons in creativity and self-reliance.
Composer DBR transforms a “racist” classical music world with Prince, hip-hop, Rosa Parks and Nina Simone.
The final installment of Shannon M. Lieberman’s series of Oregon-based artists to follow on Instagram
Photographer K.B. Dixon’s Still-Life in a Time of Sequestration, Part 3: An uncommon world of common shapes.
Taking a spin with some recordings fit for troubled times (plus a few albums we wish existed).
ArtsWatch Weekly: Hail David Shifrin, music virtual & live, news briefs, gallery sampler, public art, left turns.
The acclaimed piano duo brings a Portland twist — and adult beverages — to its multimedia extravaganza.
After 40 years, the clarinetist supreme retires from 40 years as artistic director of Chamber Music Northwest.
Composer Gabriela Lena Frank and Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival create an album in a wine cellar.
The work of more than 40 Yamhill County artists is displayed in Newberg.
Oregon Coast Aquarium partially reopens this week and other news from the art and animal worlds.
Concert hall? Who needs a concert hall? A classical combo rocks out in a Portland neighborhood.
Now Hear This is a monthly column that scours the pages of music distributor Bandcamp, looking for new work from local artists that would make fine additions to your digital library. This time around, that includes some vibrant hip-hop, contemporary classical vocal
With so many performances going online, our news roundup follows suit with video and audio from Oregon musicians for your home streaming enjoyment
ArtsWatch Weekly: Sharp virtual turn for Fertile Ground ’21, extraordinary ordinary tales, The Immigrant Story.
In a mutating media landscape, Portland’s Hollywood Theatre, NW Film Center and Clinton St. Theater are learning to adapt.
Renee Sills created Embodied Astrology to connect with herself, her clients and to make sense of the world.
Let’s talk about the part of the music industry most directly impacted by The Troubles: the shuttered venues where we no longer gather and share musical ecstasy. But let’s be honest…
The pandemic forced owners of Brumfield Gallery to pick between two locations; they chose their hometown.
A music festival known for blending sounds and wine pops the cork on its fifth vintage – this time, via streaming.
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