In memoriam: Michael Griggs, Andrew Harris, Cai Emmons, Guy Swanson
January 30, 2023
Oregon loses compelling voices in theater, comedy, fiction, and photography. An appreciation of four who made a difference.
Oregon loses compelling voices in theater, comedy, fiction, and photography. An appreciation of four who made a difference.
In the Portland writer’s new novel “Painting Through the Dark,” a young Irish artist fights for liberation in California.
The art museum begins construction on a new loading dock, precursor to the long-awaited Rothko Pavilion expansion.
The Portland artist’s newest show mixes monsters, memory, and traumatic cultural events into a vivid dystopian vision.
David McCarthy’s book of photographs portrays a city gritting it out through tough times. Plus, a new book celebrating Portland photographers.
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.
Remembering the many Oregon arts and cultural figures who died in 2022, from music to dance to stage to screen to literary figures and more.
Around Oregon, a fresh crop of arts leaders move into top spots. In part, it’s a generational shift.
Oregon’s unique Cultural Tax Credit can double your donation to arts and cultural groups. Deadline for this year’s gifts is Dec. 31.
From 3 Leg Torso to Anonymous Theatre to Portland Revels and a Dickens of a lineup, it’s a holiday sort of season onstage.
Imago’s magical menagerie of costumed critters returns to the stage. Plus Dickens and C.S. Lewis and even Neil Simon.
British harpsichordist and early-music champion Julian Perkins will succeed violinist Monica Huggett as artistic director of Portland Baroque Orchestra.
Susannah Mars at Wilf’s, a little Batucada samba, Imago’s “ZooZoo” menagerie, M&F “Santaland” nostalgia at the history museum.
Holiday shows dominate December’s theater calendar, with good cheer and comedy and a few dark edges to keep you on your toes.
The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation’s new anthology of work by 13 prominent Native writers is a celebration and a provocation – and it’s free.
The Portland developer was a longtime trustee of the Portland Art Museum and a key figure in transforming the North Park Blocks into a gallery and museum district.
Suddenly it’s time for theatrical good cheer, from Tiny Tim to a Wonderful Life to a PDX musical – plus Corrib’s foray into an intense virtual future.
Creating a bigger table for a more sustaining and convivial feast.
Jazz and world music composer Cherry and contemporary classical composer Svoboda left their marks in Portland and around the world.
Two big gifts aid the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and five Portland groups; new faces at the Miller Foundation and the Oregon Arts Commission; a leadership incubator wants you.
Oregon Ballet Theatre picks veteran arts administrator Shane Jewell. Also: Good reviews for Katherine Dunn’s novel “Toad”; a 92nd birthday bash for Darcelle.
Immigrant stories in “I Am an American Live”; Chinatown Museum; a trip to Paris Photo; a farewell to Gwyneth Gamble Booth, Native American Arts & Salmon Festival.
Plus: Blackfish Gallery’s big moving sale, remembering cartoonists Sempé and Booth, what’s next for Portland’s elk fountain and statue.
A well-loved painter, printmaker and teacher whose career spanned more than 70 years, Johanson kept creating art deep into his 90s.
The Sitka Art Invitational shifts to Oregon Contemporary. New art at City Hall celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day. Vandals trash an Indigenous coffee shop and its art.
From Portland to Ashland to Philomath to Washington, Yamhill and Clark counties, artists open their studios for free tours.
A PSU choir’s link to Leonard Cohen’s most famous song; a Covid cancellation; Afro-Topia Pop-Up; remembering Hilary Mantel & Louise Fletcher; Corey Brunish & “The Music Man.”
Xuan Cheng, principal dancer for Oregon Ballet Theatre, is the new principal dancer and ballet mistress for Hong Kong Ballet. She’ll split the next year between Hong Kong and Oregon.
Art for Labor Day, remembering writer Barbara Ehrenreich and actor Gary Brickner-Schulz, Profile Theatre’s post-theft helping hands, a final week for the biennial.
At Historic Alberta House, 60 of the master maskmaker’s artist friends explore hidden and revealed identities – and Fuemmeler unmasks a change of his own.
Plus: PSU museum serves an artistic feast, trouble by the San Francisco Bay, special delivery in Corvallis.
Rounding up the news from celebrations of life to a theater’s stolen computers to free Beethoven in Washington Park.
The author of “The Satanic Verses,” living under a death threat since 1989, is stabbed onstage in western New York. Grievously injured, he remains a profile in courage.
The Oregon Community Foundation’s grants to arts and cultural projects range from $17,000 to $100,000 in Portland, Warm Springs, Phoenix, and Eugene.
August is festival season in the Pacific Northwest. Two to watch for: Portland Homowo & Twins Festival, Washougal Art Festival.
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.
Artists Brenda Mallory, Arvie Smith, and John Houck are named to this year’s fellowships, which come with a $35,000 award.
A surge in cases causes cancellations and postponements of events. Plus: The NEA looks at artists in the workplace; summer concerts in a barn; at museums, free is a very good price.
From the father of modern Ukraine literature to the missing statues in Portland’s Park Blocks, a battle brews over history and the stories we tell.
Matthew Dennison’s paintings explore the divide between the natural and human worlds, and NW Children’s Theater finds a home smack in the center of the Cultural District.
Carley, 72, was a guiding force for the Portland Black theater company for 40 years and a deeply admired figure in the city’s arts and nonprofit worlds.
The musical theater company opens a $3.4 million expansion; Lake Oswego welcomes a weekend arts festival and an Ed Carpenter sculpture.
The Portland and New York producer wins his fourth Tony Award, for the revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical “Company.”
The artist’s “Museo du Profundo Mundo” at the Newport Visual Arts Center reimagines the curiosities and collections of natural history museums.
The pieces from the museum’s Rasmussen Collection of Native American Art, taken from their Alaska homes in the 1930s, are given back.
On the art of storytelling and the lure of the violent in the telling of the human tale; on book-banning and the glories and bravery of libraries.
The Salem artist’s exhibit “Water-Ice-Sky, Antarctica” at the Hallie Ford Museum blends science and art in a land of extremes.
Rounding up the unusual suspects, from a beloved artist’s auction to the Britt Festival, a big museum acquisition, a hoot of a concert, a rare poetic collaboration, and contemporary Jewish art.
Portland’s annual festival of new works, which reinvented itself during the pandemic, will take a “strategic hiatus” in 2023 to reinvent again.
The widely loved Foote, who retired to Mexico after years of helping Oregon Children’s Theatre rise to national prominence, was 69.
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