June 19, 2025Laurel Reed Pavic
The gallery show at Stelo Arts is part of the sixth installment of the 'Oregon Origins Project'. The exhibition features works by ten artists inspired by ten geological events that shaped the Oregon landscape.
August 8, 2022Friderike Heuer
Maryhill Museum of Art finishes its sweeping Columbia Gorge fiber-arts project with a grand party on the museum grounds.
August 4, 2022Bob Hicks
Maryhill Museum's "Exquisite Gorge II" throws a party. Who is and isn't getting ahead in the ballet world. Geezer Gallery gets a new home. A Portland artist's child faces a health crisis.
July 25, 2022Friderike Heuer
For Maryhill Museum's Columbia Gorge project, fiber artist Bonnie Meltzer explores electricity and its effect on the river and the land.
July 18, 2022Friderike Heuer
Columbia Gorge fiber artist Chloë Hight leads a biological exploration of the river system and the plants that thrive there, giving art and life.
July 11, 2022Friderike Heuer
In her section of Maryhill Museum's collaborative Columbia River art project, Carolyn Hazel Drake explores a world of transitions.
June 29, 2022Friderike Heuer
In praise of the hands and minds behind a massive museum yarn-bombing, and the parade of poppies that bring light and remembrance.
June 20, 2022Friderike Heuer
Fabric artist Amanda Triplett and her team learn the science of the Columbia River Basin and transform it into the language of art.
June 13, 2022Friderike Heuer
Married artists Tammy Jo Wilson and Owen Premore bring a collaboration of diverse approaches to Maryhill Museum's Columbia River art project.
May 14, 2022Friderike Heuer
Fiber artist Lynn Deal stitches history, culture, and social issues into her section of Maryhill Museum's Columbia River craft art project.
April 12, 2022Friderike Heuer
Artist Ophir El-Boher and Desert Fiber Art interweave ideas of consumption, extraction, fashion, and refashioning.
April 4, 2022Friderike Heuer
Artist Xander Griffith, part of Maryhill Museum's collaborative Columbia River project, makes deeply dotted works in felt that create worlds of color and texture.
March 23, 2022Friderike Heuer
From Oaxaca to Oregon, Laura and Francisco Bautista continue a tradition of weaving that has endured for more than 2,000 years.
February 28, 2022Friderike Heuer
Part 2: Friderike Heuer visits Kristy Kún, whose fantastic felt forms suggest something mythological.
November 10, 2021Friderike Heuer
The bellwether: In Maryhill Museum's second collaborative art project along a 220-mile stretch of the Columbia River – this one by fiber artists – sheep and their wool lead the way.
March 4, 2021Steph Littlebird
When Greg Archuleta realized the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde didn't have any cultural education classes, he created them himself.
July 24, 2025Lorin Wilkerson
Reflecting on a decade-plus of friendship with the early music specialist on the occasion of Yamaya’s move to Utrecht.
May 6, 2025Linda Ferguson
Plus: More openings and continuing shows; Native Theater Project awards; a look ahead as theaters begin to announce their 2025-26 seasons.
March 19, 2025Daryl Browne
From Bach Cantata Choirs “kinda-sorta Lenten concert” and Couperin’s “Ténèbrae” with In Mulieribus to Portland Gay Men’s Chorus in collaboration with Portland Lesbian Choir and Bridging Voices.
February 18, 2025Linda Ferguson
With a multitude of shows opening in the next few weeks, the artistic teams read like a who’s who of Portland theater favorites. Plus: Other openings, including a bold new adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.”
February 7, 2025Angela Allen
The Oregon composer’s new chamber piece “Copper Variations” was featured in a concert of contemporary classical music alongside works by Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and Daniel Wohl.
May 30, 2024Jamuna Chiarini
As summer approaches, Oregon's dance scene brings a broad array of statements and styles to the party.
April 17, 2024Bob Hicks
At the clifftop museum overlooking the Columbia Gorge, two new exhibitions follow the river's flow for 300 miles to create art of the land, water, and Northwest cultures.
December 26, 2023
From the Rothko Pavilion to Converge 45 to the Hallie Ford's 25th anniversary and much more, a look at some of the highlights of Oregon's year in the worlds of museums and visual art.
October 17, 2023Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander
The beloved Willamette University professor often reminded students 'the work of the art historian is never done.' Mentee and friend Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander reflects on Hull's life and lasting legacy.
July 10, 2023Bobby Bermea
Bobby Bermea talks with the Portland rising star of stage and song about her musical passion and her new album, "Happy Girl."
March 11, 2023Bob Hicks
New leadership is coming to the Columbia Gorge museum. Plus: Send in the Clowns Without Borders; an –Ism book launch; Central Library takes a break; last call at the Portland Art Museum; cultural caucus grows.
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.
October 11, 2022Friderike Heuer
An exhibit of the Japanese American artist's sculptures is strategically placed amid the garden. Do they fit into this reflective space? Decisively, yes.
October 4, 2022Lindsay Costello
October means falling leaves and the return of Portland TextileX Month. Lindsay Costello's VizArts Monthly has October's art to see and events to attend.
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