December 31, 2025
From novelist Todd Grimson to actor Denis Arndt, painter Isaka Shamsud-Din, gallerist Donna Guardino, jazz vocalist Nancy King, singer/songwriter Jack McMahon and more, remembering Oregon artists who died in 2025.
December 30, 2025
Major shifts in leadership at All Classical Radio, Portland Art Museum, the state's arts & cultural agencies, Eugene Ballet and many other groups made 2025 a year of realignment.
December 26, 2025
From the Portland Art Museum's $116 million reinvigoration to a bevy of innovative exhibitions, it's been a good art year in Oregon despite the Trump Administration's war on arts and culture.
November 26, 2025
As the holiday season kicks into high gear, musician and Ukrainian folklorist Inna Kovtun highlights a winter festival, and an arts & farm festival bridges the urban/rural gap.
August 24, 2025
In spite of city budget cuts to Parks & Recreation, a broad coalition of foundation, individual donors, and other sponsors allowed the free show to go on.
January 31, 2025
Stephen Bacon, who founded the respected Southern Oregon sales and repair shop in 1985, sells it to store manager Will Scharen – and the tradition continues.
December 31, 2024
From Oscar-winning animator Mark Gustafson to 100-year old dancer Sahomi Tachibana and 108-year-old collage artist Eunice Parsons, honoring those who made their mark in Oregon arts.
December 28, 2024
A baker's dozen stories highlight some of the best, brightest, most imaginative and thought-provoking work of the year on display by Northwest artists.
December 27, 2024
From OSU's new PRAx arts center to libraries both energized and threatened, Nehalem's Trash Bash Art Festival, a fresh start at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and much more, a look at the arts year around the state.
November 21, 2024
The dancers of Oregon International Ballet Academy, fresh from a tour of China and Japan, return to The Reser with their version of "The Nutcracker" Nov. 23 and 24.
January 15, 2024
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, take seven minutes to watch and hear the eloquence and artistry of the famous speech that helped re-set a nation's compass.
December 31, 2023
Katherine Ace, Yaki Bergman, Margaret Chapman, Walt Curtis, Darcelle, Cai Emmons, Michael Griggs, Donald Jenkins, Henk Pander and more: Oregon arts figures who died in 2023.
December 28, 2023
From coast to desert to hills and valleys and places in between, culture thrived in towns large and small around the state. Wherever people were, so was art.
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.
August 31, 2023
The city's plan to go its own way on arts funding and policy is "a huge mistake" that doesn't have to happen, the Regional Arts & Culture Council's Carol Tatch writes.
The city commissioner speaks out on charting Portland’s future: increasing investments in arts, culture, and music.
May 2, 2023
Actor Luisa Sermol and novelist Rene Denfeld sit down for a chat about drama, stories, sexism, making the invisible seen, and working together on the play "Myra's Story."
December 30, 2022
From Frida Kahlo to Banksy to Arvie Smith to Elizabeth Leach's 40 years to Michelangelo vs. the dinosaurs, a year of invigorating things to see.
December 29, 2022
From the glories of Movie Madness to a flock of festivals to the tale of Will Vinton's lost dreams, it was a very good film year in Oregon.
December 28, 2022
Oregon's theater scene took the year literally in stages, from Covid caution to something resembling (but not quite) full speed ahead.
From Putin's invasion of Ukraine to vaccine wars to street protests and racial reckonings, the art world responds to the world at large.
February 10, 2022
Students are using non-recyclable debris to create a tidal-rock sculpture that will grace the new Lincoln City Cultural Center Plaza.
December 13, 2021
The holiday tradition returns Dec. 17 and 18 after the theater company went dark for nearly two years due to COVID.
October 12, 2021
Niki Price of the Lincoln City Cultural Center is hiking the Coast to raise money for the center and awareness of public art.
August 21, 2021
On view at the JSMA in Eugene: Belkis Ayón's collagraphs explore the mythology of an all-male secret society that she could never join.
August 7, 2021
Once a flight attendant, Sora O'Doherty soars with her large-scale calligraphic performance art.
July 21, 2021
Priti Gandhi, who comes from Minnesota Opera, will be one of the few top woman artistic leaders in the opera world.
March 16, 2021
The music fest, which lost its 20th season last year to the pandemic, plans to start again in '21 – if restrictions are eased in time.
February 6, 2021
Veteran Portland actor Tobias Andersen remembers talking with Plummer about how to play Prospero.
January 28, 2021
Rian Dundon has been photographing Oregon protests since 2019. Blake Andrews gets the lowdown on his busy year.
