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A new stage for telling Native stories

Director Jeanette Harrison’s new Native Theater Project, in an innovative partnership with Hillsboro’s Bag & Baggage Productions, debuts with Blossom Johnson’s “Diné Nishłį (I Am A Sacred Being) or, A Boarding School Play.”

Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine

PuzzleWatch: Smartistic Pairings

Tender and turbulent, often fruitful, sometimes frightful: this September crossword puzzle celebrates some of the most famous partnerships in the arts.

participants in front of a green screen and laptop at Inside Outside World at PNCA

TBA Review: Videotones’ ‘Outside Inside World’

This constellation of music/video art and related events is co-presented by PICA and PNCA for the Time-Based Art Festival. The exhibition at PNCA incorporates collaborative authorship and explores ideas of making and unmaking.

Young, creative, and doing it themselves

Four Portland women in their 20s talk about how they’ve built their own creative businesses, from a popular card game to size-inclusive clothing to beadwork to online comedy.

Curtains up on Seattle’s new theater season

As the city’s vaunted theater scene navigates some major shifts, a lively fall lineup ranges from a ribald political farce to a trip to the Taj Mahal, the NW premiere of 2024’s Pulitzer-winning play, a “Jubilee,” a “Funny Girl” and more.

Cat With Nine Still Lives

Photographer K.B. Dixon poses a wooden English cat, “rescued” from The Shambles in York, in a multiple lifetimes’ worth of catlike poses. Cat fanciers might find all of them familiar.

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VizArts Monthly: Belonging and community

Summer is going out with a confusing bang: The last two weeks of August were cool and rainy but September is starting with a heat wave! Fortunately the gallery scene is heating up, too.

William Earl Ray & ‘God’s Favorite’

The veteran actor and director talks with Dmae Lo Roberts on her newest Stage & Studio podcast about race in the theater, his fondness for Neil Simon, and the Simon comedy he’s directing for PassinArt.

Russo Lee Gallery looks to recovery

An adjacent restaurant fire Aug. 5 poured smoke and soot into the blue-chip gallery, coating everything. Now restorers are beginning to clean 1,500 artworks, and the gallery hopes to reopen in December or January.

Standing-room only crowds eagerly anticipated live performances as part of The Art Of Drag exhibition's community programming; seen here at the Drag Art Soirée on July 12, 2024.

‘The Art of Drag’ in Salem

Curated by Jessica Rehfield-Griffith in consultation with RiRi Calienté of the House of Calienté, the show aimed to “demystify drag.” It offered the community much more.

For Labor Day, the art of work

As the labor movement faces new challenges, a look at art that reveals the highs and lows of work and its significance in life.

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.

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