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What you see & what you get
ArtsWatch Weekly: Photographic tales of Black Portland; picturing Pride; symphony's new chief; more.
$1.1 million for poets laureate
ArtsWatch Weekly: Oregon laureate has projects for the money. Plus: Classical Up Close, theater, egg art, more.
Vanport Mosaic’s flood of memories
ArtsWatch Weekly: A festival to remember, theater heats up, All Classical leaps forward, Chachalu steps up.
The arts moment: back, or ahead?
ArtsWatch Weekly: We're emerging, but into what? The culture, and the arts world, consider the possibilities.
Ready or not, live shows on the way
ArtsWatch Weekly: As Oregon begins to open up, live performances get ready to join the crowd, indoors & out.
Stage moms storm the gates
ArtsWatch Weekly: Storm Large and 3 Leg Torso make a movie, Chamber Music NW goes live, the Joy of words.
Oscars, books, and strange things
ArtsWatch Weekly: Oscars, Oregon Book Awards, operatic triumph, strange tales and a stranger firing.
Derek Chauvin, George Floyd & the art of crisis
ArtsWatch Weekly: Portland Oscar nod; Dawson Carr's big day; dance dive; laureate speaks; big BRAVO.
The eyes have it: Art of the camera
ArtsWatch Weekly: Photography gets (beyond) real, art museum reshuffles, Ashland's indie film fest.
The race is on. Ready for live events?
ArtsWatch Weekly: Ready or not, things are opening. Plus Lillian Pitt & Friends, opera breaks out, poetry time.
In praise of Ramona & ‘Lonesome Dove’
ArtsWatch Weekly: Remembering Beverly Cleary, Larry McMurtry, and composer Stephen Scott; revolutions & the way things change.
On belonging: The art of remembering
ArtsWatch Weekly: Amid a time of violence in America, art that remembers its roots and looks beyond.
Dramatic? It’s like an opera out there
ArtsWatch Weekly: Where's Frida; how to (maybe) reopen; farewell to Ross McKeen; puppets, comics, and more.
One year after: Waking up to the slow thaw
ArtsWatch Weekly: A year into shutdown, signs of revival: Stimulus aid for the arts, museums reopening, a theater with an audience of 1 to 5.
Women on the move: These are the days, again
ArtsWatch Weekly: History moves into the forefront, a new series on Indigenous resilience, film fest time.
Rebuilding a State of the Arts
ArtsWatch Weekly: All around Oregon, the cultural Covid freeze of 2020 begins to thaw. Will it continue?
No news like good news
ArtsWatch Weekly: I Am MORE, Broadway Rose's 'Story of My Life,' PDX Jazz Fest, art around Oregon.
Making music, symphonic & Black
ArtsWatch Weekly: Oregon Symphony picks a new leader; we begin a Black-music column; finale for Fertile Ground.
Strike up the virtual festival band
ArtsWatch Weekly: Fertile Ground marches on, film fest updates, Hal Holbrook on jackasses & politics.
Fertile, Grounded, Virtual & Here
ArtsWatch Weekly: Portland's festival of new performance goes online, finding the people in the picture, more.
