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Art in the Pearl gathers in the Park Blocks

A Labor Day weekend fixture in downtown Portland since 1997, the free festival offers booths for more than 100 artists, plus food, music, demonstrations, and hands-on activities.

DramaWatch: The (1921) future is now

As the fall theater season rolls out and the big dogs get ready to bark, the revival of a century-old sci-fi play about humans and human-like robots imagines an unnerving new world.

September DanceWatch: The pace speeds up

Oregon dance meets fall with a flourish of events, from BodyVox’s open floor night to TBA Fest, dance from India, world premieres, the Portland Dance Film Festival and more.

SKN Dance Festival: A feast of Indian performance

The festival at New Expressive Works was a profoundly satisfying sensory feast of symphonic sound, stunning visuals, superb dancing, and thought-provoking intellectual stimuli.

Arf! Celebrating the dog day of August

Time out for canines: August 26 is National Dog Day, and Portland pawses to pay homage to its own. K.B. Dixon and his camera scour the city to seek out our best friends in action.

Open Space serves a tasty ‘Summer Soup’

The Portland dance company and its sister troupe LED Boise stir up a kettle of contemporary dance, spicing the broth with a fog machine, a splash of milk, street dance, gender play and more.

Install view of Michelle Ross's Never an Even Folding at Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 2024. Image courtesy of Elizabeth Leach Gallery

Michelle Ross at Elizabeth Leach Gallery

“Never an Even Folding” features twelve paintings that confirm the painter’s deep knowledge of her medium and engagement with the Modernist tradition.

The Cultural Landscape: Part 16

Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of cultural profiles with portraits of choreographer Jessica Wallenfels, visual artist Ryan Pierce, poet and book editor Valerie Witte, actor/director Isaac Lamb, and choral leader Katherine Fitzgibbon.

Nia Musiba at One Grand Gallery pictured in her exhibition Unseasonably Warm, photo credit: Aaron Wessling / Portland Art Documentation

Nia Musiba’s spirals of expression

The artist’s second solo show at One Grand Gallery, “Unseasonably Warm,” features an identifiable lexicon of shapes. The story that unfolds in the works manages to be both intensely personal and universal.

Bill Plympton’s animated imagination

From Estacada to the Oscars, the irreverent independent filmmaker has been a father of animated invention. Now he’s back in Portland to show his newest, a cowboy film called “Slide.”

Satiric artist and ad man Jim Riswold dies at 66

Riswold, known for his groundbreaking work at the ad firm Weiden+Kennedy, also made his mark as a visual artist creating sharply pointed and often deeply comic satiric works deflating notorious autocratic strong men.

A time of art, cuisine & making hay

Chef Naomi Pomeroy’s recent death brings to mind a quirky group art show in 2000 that elevated her career as well as the artists’ – and set a tone for a culturally emerging city.

Jessica Wallenfels: Hatching new works

Stage & Studio: In her new podcast, Dmae Lo Roberts talks with director & choreographer Wallenfels about The Hatchery, a project to develop storytelling based in movement and music.

Remembering Gary Ferrington

The frequent ArtsWatch contributor, who has died at 83, was also a quiet, generous advocate for Oregon arts and a role model for continuing creativity to the very end.

The new Burnside Bridge: Options and choices

How best to replace Portland’s busy east-west span? Bridge designer Keith Brownlie of Britain’s BEAM Architects parses the best choice from a sextet of arches and cable-stays. Now the bridge committee has selected an inverted “Y” cable stay design.

PDX airport’s $2 billion reinvention takes flight

The designers of the Portland airport’s new terminal, opening Aug. 14, create an environmentally friendly, technologically innovative space that feels like a “first walk in an Oregon forest.”

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