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The 1859 novel by the journalist and women’s suffrage activist has its flaws but is valuable for its portrayal of the never-stop work of women who came across the Oregon Trail.
Four Portland women in their 20s talk about how they’ve built their own creative businesses, from a popular card game to size-inclusive clothing to beadwork to online comedy.
Margie Boulé takes the stage at triangle productions!, reprising her role as the legendary Texas Democrat in a play that offers abundant laughs, a sliver of hope, and a reminder to vote.
The mural tells the story of the community that has grown up around the Northeast Portland center run by the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization.
Drama, comedy, and music take center stage at Gallery Theater, Linfield University, Struts & Frets Theatre Company, Gather Repertory, and Pentacle Theatre.
Photographer K.B. Dixon poses a wooden English cat, “rescued” from The Shambles in York, in a multiple lifetimes’ worth of catlike poses. Cat fanciers might find all of them familiar.
The veteran actor and director talks with Dmae Lo Roberts on her newest Stage & Studio podcast about race in the theater, his fondness for Neil Simon, and the Simon comedy he’s directing for PassinArt.
Curated by Jessica Rehfield-Griffith in consultation with RiRi Calienté of the House of Calienté, the show aimed to “demystify drag.” It offered the community much more.
The experimental opera “Te Moana Meridian,” premiering at PICA’s TBA Fest, is also a push to decolonialize the Prime Meridian and shift it to international waters in the Pacific Ocean.
PICA’s TBA:24 festival, spreading across the city Sept. 5-22, boasts a busy lineup including Linda K. Johnson’s “PASTfuture,” presented in part by her ongoing “Mycelium Dreams” project.
As the labor movement faces new challenges, a look at art that reveals the highs and lows of work and its significance in life.
Oregon dance meets fall with a flourish of events, from BodyVox’s open floor night to TBA Fest, dance from India, world premieres, the Portland Dance Film Festival and more.
Oregon writer Scott Nadelson talks about “Trust Me,” his new “vignette novel,” which he calls “Frog and Toad for adults.”
A job layoff inspired the Albany man to get back to photography. He found a subject in his daughter’s childhood.
Saturday’s anniversary party will include fun ranging from horticultural-themed bingo to magnet poetry, from life drawing to historical presentations.
Time out for canines: August 26 is National Dog Day, and Portland pawses to pay homage to its own. K.B. Dixon and his camera scour the city to seek out our best friends in action.
Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of cultural profiles with portraits of choreographer Jessica Wallenfels, visual artist Ryan Pierce, poet and book editor Valerie Witte, actor/director Isaac Lamb, and choral leader Katherine Fitzgibbon.
Pomeroy was writer-in-residence at Marshall High School when it closed in 2011. “It was the last thing that community needed,” he says of the Southeast Portland neighborhood.
From Estacada to the Oscars, the irreverent independent filmmaker has been a father of animated invention. Now he’s back in Portland to show his newest, a cowboy film called “Slide.”
Brassworks Gallery’s “Carnival Fabulon” celebrates the late Portland writer’s great gothic novel with works by more than 50 artists, and her son Eli Dapolonia picks a few of his favorites.
Chef Naomi Pomeroy’s recent death brings to mind a quirky group art show in 2000 that elevated her career as well as the artists’ – and set a tone for a culturally emerging city.
ArtsWatch is proud to lay out the numbers for 2023-24, but it’s people who are at the heart of everything we do.
The designers of the Portland airport’s new terminal, opening Aug. 14, create an environmentally friendly, technologically innovative space that feels like a “first walk in an Oregon forest.”
“There is joy in these pictures”: An exhibition at The Reser in Beaverton highlights the brilliant, humanistic war zone photos of a journalist killed by tank fire in Lebanon in 2023.
With many new faces taking the helm, arts leaders make a case for why culture plays a significant role in the city’s economy.
Vlautin discusses the real-life inspiration behind the book, the beauty of disappearing into songs, and why unsuccessful musicians keep chasing their dreams.
A rural Oregon grocery store-cum-creative hub provides a source of freshly devised plays — and a showcase for a new way of creating them
How to make an image that rises above the ordinary? It’s simple – and complicated, K.B. Dixon declares.
Finnish photographers Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo create a stellar thicket of visual and environmental images on view at Portland’s World Forestry Center.
Celebrating International Listening Day, recalling the evocative soundscape of a pastoral Oregon childhood
With a population of more than 40,000 stretching from Forest Grove to Beaverton to Hillsboro to Clark County and beyond, greater Portland is a hub for native Hawaiian culture and arts.
Belluschi found a mentor in Anderson, an acclaimed artist who divides her time between Carrara, Italy, and Nehalem on the Oregon Coast. The two are among more than a dozen artists participating in the July 20 tour.
A summer arts celebration reflects the inclusive approach of its home, M&M Marketplace, and provides a welcoming environment for the city’s increasingly diverse communities.
The author of several books about the natural world will talk about her latest on Aug. 12 at Powell’s Books; on Aug. 24 she will lead a tree walk and talk at Hoyt Arboretum.
Richard Hertzberg’s book brings back the fervor and flavor of the political upheavals of a decade that divided the nation – and the handout leaflets that spread the word of cultural dissent.
The author will appear July 10 at Powell’s Books in Portland to read from and discuss her first novel.
An exhibit tells the extaordinary tale of businessman and civic leader Bill Naito, who lived through anti-Japanese fervor and made Portland a better city at a key time in its growth.
Exhibits of a major Surrealist artist getting her due and a photographer known for his images of children amid war give rise to a host of cultural connections.
As the deadline for public comment approaches, a stagehand at the 3,000-seat downtown performance hall argues that a vital voice has been largely left out of the conversation.
An eye-opening exhibition at Beaverton City Hall stops, looks, and listens to prisoners as they reflect on life before and after at 25-year intervals in their life sentences.
With the sun shining, Oregon’s dance scene skips happily into the great outdoors (and a few indoor performances, too).
As tight school budgets threaten to slash arts classes across Oregon, Rose Lifschutz and her students at the Portland school reveal the creative rewards of a healthy arts program.
The museum’s plans to nearly double in size will increase exhibits and add classroom space to serve maritime enthusiasts, children, and researchers alike.
K.B. Dixon and his camera take in the wetness and the glory of Sunday’s splashy race, a Rose Festival favorite since 1973.
Half-hidden behind trees in an 1880s Sellwood former grocery building, the museum is one of the few in the nation dedicated to preserving the art, history, and pleasures of all things puppetry.
In her new podcast Dmae Lo Roberts talks with four members of a busy Portland “theater family” about juggling schedules, “Matilda the Musical” and more.
Try your luck at this art-themed crossword puzzle that’s sure to leave a lasting impression.
In the exhibition “Ms. Molly’s Voice” at the Columbia Gorge Museum, a collection of family quilts reveals beauty, pain, remembrance, and secret signs along the Underground Railroad.
Eyesore or art? Landmark or blight? Photographer K.B. Dixon gets up close with the paintings and graffiti scrawls on an abandoned building that Portland’s City Council has voted to foreclose on.
On the occasion of the publication of his 12th book, the Portland poet discusses writing with joy, living in the moment, and poems as acts of service.
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