Smoke on the water
Lori Tobias
September 30, 2020
Photographer Benjie King captures haunting images of Newport in the orange glow cast by wildfires.
Photographer Benjie King captures haunting images of Newport in the orange glow cast by wildfires.
Yamhill County calendar: A “season like no other” on campus, plus a watercolor show and film festival preview.
ArtsWatch Weekly: E.M. Lewis’s Antarctic tale “Magellanica” takes to the airwaves; $25 million+ for arts relief.
“Mayday 1971” by Lawrence Roberts gives us a window on a massive protest of the past. That’s useful in our own protest-drenched time.
Three crucial Portland film festivals figure out how to keep the images streaming during the pandemic.
Our series on artist spaces, which began before the pandemic, continues as artists try to figure out where to make art as resources dry up and Covid-19 continues.
Artists Natalie Niblack and Ann Chadwick Reid explore climate change in a Chehalem Cultural Center show.
Sue Taylor reviews Rose Dickson’s exhibition “Giantess” on view at Melanie Flood Projects through September 27th.
A pandemic, a wildfire – while the hits keep coming, the Lincoln City Cultural Center responds online.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Portland art school and Salem university join forces; curl up and read; deaths in the family.
Kent Ford, a founder of the city’s Black Panther Party, links past and future on walking tours of the Albina District.
Director Patrick Walsh is bringing a filmed production of a Greek tragedy to prisons across Oregon.
Museum veteran Faith Kreskey is leading the Lincoln County Historical Society into the future.
Trees in Trouble. Pop-up posters. Farewell, Tim Stapleton. Maryhill opens. Women in film. TBA, Street Roots, more.
As fires consume vast swaths of the Northwest, Mathews’ book “Trees in Trouble” moves to the front burner.
Chehalem Cultural Center and Converge 45 respond to a year of crisis with a show of contemporary posters.
Marc Mohan looks at the alt.film world in which women directed movies, and chimes in on Charlie Kaufman’s newest.
A musical tale with mules, trolls, a bumblebee, a dog, a cat, a composer, a writer, and a little imagination.
A music-ed program that aids teachers globally is helping schools cope with the pandemic’s challenges.
Shining a light on rose gardens Oregon musicians are tending; listening to Kenji Bunch on behalf of the City of Roses.
Art for Labor Day: Jacob Lawrence and working art, for and about working people.
The well-loved Portland designer, writer, visual artist, and actor dies from the effects of ALS.
ArtsWatch Weekly: In a pandemic era first, Triangle opens a show indoors. Plus: Art in the Pearl, virtually.
Venice VR Expanded brings virtual reality to the Portland Art Museum. Two ArtsWatch writers tried it out.
Robert Ham scours the pages of music distributor Bandcamp for local artists and finds rock lifers, dynamic compilations, and urgent hip-hop.
In difficult times, two workshop instructors say, writing restores a sense of possibility.
On the opposite of “the dead.” Living music, the “quick,” the good stuff: paying living performers, promoting living composers, responding to living audiences.
DanceWatch discovers that dancers are dancing. Still. They’re not likely to stop. We have the calendar to prove it!
A Hallie Ford Museum show features pioneering Oregon modernist Clifford Gleason, who blazed his own path.
Portland’s innovative photographic arts center Blue Sky Gallery rides out the pandemic.
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