March 3, 2021Steph Littlebird
Steph Littlebird introduces Oregon ArtsWatch's new series "Indigenous Resilience in Oregon."
December 28, 2021Dmae Lo Roberts
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.
November 29, 2021Steph Littlebird
Indigenous Resilience: Steph Littlebird dives into cultural resources management with David Harrelson.
November 2, 2021Steph Littlebird
Steph Littlebird interviews Lori Trephibio, the Stage Manager of the Oregon Symphony, as part of ArtsWatch's series "Indigenous Resilience in Oregon"
August 2, 2021Steph Littlebird
Steph Littlebird talks with Anthony Hudson (aka Carla Rossi) about making art, representation, and Indigenous identity.
May 25, 2021Steph Littlebird
Steph Littlebird's series "Indigenous Resilience in Oregon" continues with a feature on the Chachalu Museum and Cultural Center.
November 16, 2025Judith Altruda
Prompted by a U.S. stamp of his ancestor Chief Standing Bear, Cliff Taylor’s "Indigenous Visions" exhibit brings together Native artists and writers from across the Pacific Northwest.
November 8, 2025Ariella-Sophie Sternberg
At an open house and marketplace at the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde's museum, artists weave a story that carries traditional skills and values into the modern world.
September 25, 2025Jim Redden
City Parks, which includes three heavily used arts centers, is banking on passage of a new levy to keep its operations going. But despite popular support, a stressed city budget and some opposition could upset its plans.
September 6, 2025Friderike Heuer
Discovering the pioneer pleasures of Thompson's Mills, Oregon's newest State Heritage Site, and the loss of a deeper Indigenous history in the closure of Five Oaks Museum.
August 31, 2025Jamuna Chiarini
From the Time-Based Art Festival to Griot, flamenco, classic dance of India, the legendary Deborah Hay, the Portland Dance Film Fest, Grand Kyiv Ballet's "Swan Lake" and much more, the fall dance season gets off with a bang.
August 25, 2025Bob Hicks
As federal arts and cultural money dries up, the annual grants from the Oregon Community Foundation allow 14 artists and groups to create their dream projects.
April 22, 2025Beth Sorensen
An exhibit, curated by Anthony Hudson and Felix Furby, explores Indigenous history, identity, and cultural revitalization through the work of nine multidisciplinary artists, including Jeffrey Gibson and Geo Soctomah Neptune.
September 3, 2024Sloane McNulty
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.
June 30, 2024Raylee Heiden
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.
August 4, 2023Bob Hicks
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.
June 20, 2023Laurel Reed Pavic
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.
April 29, 2023Bob Hicks
Check the shelves: It's Independent Bookstore Day. Also: Indigenous arts fellowships, take the arts survey, "The Judy" opens its doors.
February 2, 2023Lindsay Costello
Don't miss Lindsay Costello's gathering of February's most enticing art exhibitions and events. There's augmented reality, calligraphy, and monsters.
January 1, 2023Bob Hicks
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.
February 22, 2022Steph Littlebird
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.
February 8, 2022Steph Littlebird
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.
February 2, 2022Steph Littlebird
The Museum at Warm Springs is confronting a number of challenges but director Elizabeth Woody is full of ideas, strategies, and solutions.
January 1, 2022Bob Hicks
Looking back on a year of disruptions, passions, politics, cultural shifts, bright ideas, and fresh starts in Oregon arts.
December 31, 2021Bob Hicks
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.
December 30, 2021Bob Hicks
In a year of sharp contrasts, visual art in Oregon bounced between the stark and the hopeful, with plenty of surprises along the way.
December 30, 2021Jamuna Chiarini
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.
December 29, 2021Bob Hicks
Amid a year of cultural clashes over who belongs, artists in Oregon thought big, told untold stories, and spread the creative net wide.
December 28, 2021Amy Leona Havin
Looking back at the authors we lost and the bookish events that cheered us this year.
December 2, 2021Bob Hicks
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.
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