News notes: Hail & farewell; money for projects
Beth Harper to retire from The Actors Conservatory after 37 years; Portland Open Studios hires its first executive director; Arts Commission announces new grants.
Beth Harper to retire from The Actors Conservatory after 37 years; Portland Open Studios hires its first executive director; Arts Commission announces new grants.
Loughran, the dance company’s general manager for 20 years, died on Friday from cancer at age 58.
Dixon’s portraits of Oregon writers have been published on ArtsWatch; Thompson’s “Tide Charts: Ebb and Flow” includes his final works before he died in 2019.
Looking back on a year of disruptions, passions, politics, cultural shifts, bright ideas, and fresh starts in Oregon arts.
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.
In a year of sharp contrasts, visual art in Oregon bounced between the stark and the hopeful, with plenty of surprises along the way.
Amid a year of cultural clashes over who belongs, artists in Oregon thought big, told untold stories, and spread the creative net wide.
Celebrating artists in Oregon whose visions stood out and helped define and rethink a precarious year.
From Imogen Cunningham to the Brontë sisters to the new NEA chief and more, women take the holiday-season cultural spotlight.
Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson, from Arizona State University, is confirmed as the new leader of the National Endowment for the Arts.
At the airport, a cultural banner flies high. At the art museum, the Nabis put on a show. At the movies, remakes happen. In Ashland and Newport, art starts over.
More music than you can jingle a bell at. Sex farce at the movies, ghosts onstage, democracy in the galleries, dancing cupcakes & nutcrackers.
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.
Stephen Sondheim, who changed the face of Broadway, has died at 91; Esperanza Spalding and five other Oregon-linked artists score Grammy nominations.
As the holiday season begins, a time to remember, a time for thanks, a time for art and song.
A festival by and for Asian American/Pacific Islanders. Music for the holidays. Lighting the theatrical Fuse. 9,000 years of Oregon art. Wrapping up the Book Fest.
The jazz pianist and writer of such wry and well-loved songs as “My Attorney Bernie” and “I’m Hip” had lived in Portland since 1986.
The Portland painter’s historical revisions at Froelick Gallery upend the view of gender in Western art. Also at Froelick: Michael Schultheis’s explosions of paint.
Theatrical barbecue, skeleton piano, down on the sheep farm, Troubles in Belfast, schools & Congress, bustle of books, a galaxy far far away.
A new month stirs up a storm of cultural activity, from a big book fest to galleries to stage, screen, and sound.
Beyond the haunts, here come “Tosca” & other sounds, book fests, movies & nostalgia, more.
A redesign of the ArtsWatch site brings many more options to the home page. Plus a reawakening performance scene, contemporary Japanese prints, and more.
Longtime Portland sculptor Michihiro Kosuge, philanthropist and friend to artists Debi Coleman, and youth music leader Ian Mouser have died. In their productive lives they helped make Portland a better place.
Fall awakening: Suddenly Oregon’s cultural scene is bustling with art exhibits, theater, music, movies & dance.
What the world needs now is nostalgia, sweet nostalgia. A Neil Simon comedy rises to the task.
A record-setting round of awards will help fund projects by 140 cultural organizations across Oregon.
Wake up. Put on your game face. Ready or not, theater doors are open and a strange revival’s under way.
ArtsWatch Weekly: The doors swing open on live shows, PDX/NYC Tony connection, monthly guides & more.
A new collection of short stories finds loss, love, desperation and humor in the lives of people on the edge.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A building boom for the arts, cryptocurrency & art, Black operas, Latin film fest, aiding Yulia.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Whole lotta talent goin’ on; TBA takes the spotlight; license plates & movie picks & more.
Oregon unveils a new license plate with 127 cultural symbols and an interactive key to decode the design.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Remembering an extraordinary dance after 9/11; Beaverton rising; can’t stop the music.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Remembering an iconic Portland cultural figure and a TV star; Art in the Pearl & more.
ArtsWatch Weekly: As Covid ebbs and flows, arts & culture find fresh form – and Oregon stories arrive in a rush.
ArtsWatch Weekly: In praise of the beloved actor and teacher, dead at 67. Plus: Healing art, stage & screen, more.
ArtsWatch Weekly: The ballet company reshuffles its season, dropping three Nicolo Fonte pieces.
Friends of the beloved Portland arts figure, who died in March, will gather on Thursday at The Armory.
ArtsWatch Weekly: As Covid concerns grow again, the arts world moves half-speed ahead. But it IS moving.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A musical trip in a funhouse mirror, talking about “Lorelei,” creative laureates & more.
ArtsWatch Weekly: An enduring friendship; new opera leader; Ursula K. Le Guin’s stamp of approval; more.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Performances all over; a presidential son and the art market; a hoop star’s big art gift.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A dive into the state’s art history; farewell to Carlton Jackson; guts, glory & opera; more
ArtsWatch Weekly: Chamber Music Northwest enters the concert hall, shakeup at OBT, summer of soul.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Beating the heat, ‘Frida’ at last, Creative Laureate x 2, hip-hop dynamo & more.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Billionaires & struggling artists; the way we look at things; Metallica & the symphony.
A company of elite musicians closes its festival of outdoor concerts on a high note – and in the rain.
Pianist Cary Lewis has a “critical heart incident” in mid-concert, and undergoes emergency surgery.
As the festival enters the home stretch, the brasses come out to play and the tango music does an encore.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Photographic tales of Black Portland; picturing Pride; symphony’s new chief; more.
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