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VizArts Monthly: Exploration

While November’s dark and cold may discourage leaving the house, there are plenty of art exhibits to entice you out and about.

Oregon Origins Project: Keeping Traditions Alive

At a Reed College gathering, tribal artists Beth’Ann Gipson, Jacy Sohappy, Acosia Red Elk, and Patricia Whereat Phillips bring traditional Indigenous artistry into the contemporary world.

City announces $4 million+ in arts grants

General operating grants from Portland’s new Office of Arts & Culture aid 80 organizations – and some smaller groups say the grants are going disproportionately to the city’s big companies.

Cruising the city for ghouls and ghosts

Come Halloween season, Portland yards and front steps become a sprawling gallery of things dead and undead. Photographer K.B. Dixon tours the neighborhoods to collect the evidence.

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s sculpted screams

Trick and treat: Once the sculptor to Vienna’s royal family, the 18th century artist’s life and work took a turn to the macabre. For this tortured yet talented soul, every day became Halloween.

Splish-splash: Giant pumpkins on the lake

At the West Coast Giant Pumpkin Regatta in Tualatin, the gargantuan gourds glide across the water like bloated kayaks as the crowd cheers onshore. Who says veggies can’t be fun?

Detail from Francisco Goya's "Aquelarre" (Witches' Sabbath), 1821-1823

PuzzleWatch: Goosebumps in the Arts

As Halloween creeps ever closer, get in the holiday spirit and treat yourself to this thrillingly tricky crossword puzzle.

Karl Marlantes, Deep River Storyteller

A conversation with the keynote speaker at this year’s Astoria Creative Writing Festival Oct. 18-20 about his novel set amid Finnish immigrants in Astoria and Southwest Washington.

Bobby Bermea: A theatrical ghost, rising

The Broken Planetarium gets ready to unleash “The Greenbrier Ghost.” And like most things ghostly, this fresh work of music, theater, and free expression plays by its own rules.

A new stage for telling Native stories

Director Jeanette Harrison’s new Native Theater Project, in an innovative partnership with Hillsboro’s Bag & Baggage Productions, debuts with Blossom Johnson’s “Diné Nishłį (I Am A Sacred Being) or, A Boarding School Play.”

Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine

PuzzleWatch: Smartistic Pairings

Tender and turbulent, often fruitful, sometimes frightful: this September crossword puzzle celebrates some of the most famous partnerships in the arts.

Young, creative, and doing it themselves

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.

Cat With Nine Still Lives

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.

William Earl Ray & ‘God’s Favorite’

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.

Standing-room only crowds eagerly anticipated live performances as part of The Art Of Drag exhibition's community programming; seen here at the Drag Art Soirée on July 12, 2024.

‘The Art of Drag’ in Salem

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.

For Labor Day, the art of work

As the labor movement faces new challenges, a look at art that reveals the highs and lows of work and its significance in life.

September DanceWatch: The pace speeds up

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.

Arf! Celebrating the dog day of August

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.

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