Steph Littlebird: ‘Am I honoring those who have come before me?’
Steph Littlebird
March 3, 2021
Steph Littlebird introduces Oregon ArtsWatch’s new series “Indigenous Resilience in Oregon.”
Steph Littlebird introduces Oregon ArtsWatch’s new series “Indigenous Resilience in Oregon.”
Dmae Lo Roberts talks in her newest podcast with ArtsWatch’s Bob Hicks, Steph Littlebird, Brett Campbell, and Amy Leona Havin about the highs, lows, and landmarks of the cultural year.
Indigenous Resilience: Steph Littlebird dives into cultural resources management with David Harrelson.
Steph Littlebird interviews Lori Trephibio, the Stage Manager of the Oregon Symphony, as part of ArtsWatch’s series “Indigenous Resilience in Oregon”
Steph Littlebird talks with Anthony Hudson (aka Carla Rossi) about making art, representation, and Indigenous identity.
Steph Littlebird’s series “Indigenous Resilience in Oregon” continues with a feature on the Chachalu Museum and Cultural Center.
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.
As we head into July, art offerings around Oregon offer opportunities to slow down and contemplate memories, ancestors, and landscapes (among other things). Raylee Heiden rounds up some strong options.
A Multnomah Arts Center exhibit of work by Black Northwest artists delves into the past to create a celebration of Black creativity in the present.
The Salem Art Association opens the Waldo Bogle Gallery in the Bush House and unveils the two latest paintings in Jeremy Okai Davis’s portrait series. The house’s original owner and namesake would not be pleased.
Check the shelves: It’s Independent Bookstore Day. Also: Indigenous arts fellowships, take the arts survey, “The Judy” opens its doors.
Don’t miss Lindsay Costello’s gathering of February’s most enticing art exhibitions and events. There’s augmented reality, calligraphy, and monsters.
The opening of the Reser Center in Beaverton and the cautious return to post-pandemic “normal” top a vigorous year of arts events in Oregon.
Crow’s Shadow Institute of Arts combines forces with the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem to ensure “art world” access for Indigenous creatives.
Natural history museums are not known for their authentic or accurate representations of Indigenous communities. The High Desert Museum in Bend is committed to changing this.
The Museum at Warm Springs is confronting a number of challenges but director Elizabeth Woody is full of ideas, strategies, and solutions.
Looking back on a year of disruptions, passions, politics, cultural shifts, bright ideas, and fresh starts in Oregon arts.
From children’s writer Beverly Cleary to jazz star Carlton Jackson to actor Philip Cuomo and more, we say farewell to artists who died in 2021.
In a year of sharp contrasts, visual art in Oregon bounced between the stark and the hopeful, with plenty of surprises along the way.
From dance on film at the start of the year to a flurry of Nutcrackers at the end, the ups and downs of Oregon’s Covid-tinged dance year.
Amid a year of cultural clashes over who belongs, artists in Oregon thought big, told untold stories, and spread the creative net wide.
Looking back at the authors we lost and the bookish events that cheered us this year.
Inside an “immersive art” extravaganza. Plus: Philip Cuomo and other deaths in the family, Indigenous culture and the future, talking with Willy Vlautin, what’s up in December.
A new month stirs up a storm of cultural activity, from a big book fest to galleries to stage, screen, and sound.
ArtsWatch Weekly: As Covid concerns grow again, the arts world moves half-speed ahead. But it IS moving.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A festival to remember, theater heats up, All Classical leaps forward, Chachalu steps up.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Oscars, Oregon Book Awards, operatic triumph, strange tales and a stranger firing.
ArtsWatch Weekly: History moves into the forefront, a new series on Indigenous resilience, film fest time.
When Greg Archuleta realized the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde didn’t have any cultural education classes, he created them himself.
Following up on Portland Art Museum’s $10 million Rothko Pavilion gift; a fond farewell to Vision 2020.
New leaders take the renamed Five Oaks Museum deeper into the arts and the diversity of culture around it.
Vision 2020, new/old Five Oaks Museum, Second Winter music, blood sweat & fears onstage, storm of the (last) century.
Washington County Museum branches out under a new name, Five Oaks Museum, and a broader cultural umbrella.
“This IS Kalapuyan Land” at the newly renamed Five Oaks Museum makes an emphatic case for a reclaimed history.
It’s year-end donation time. Help us keep the arts clock ticking. Also: Whole lotta holiday shows goin’ on.
Grand Ronde tribes’ Greg Archuleta links past and future in Maryhill’s Columbia Gorge print project.
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