‘A Democracy of Multiples’: Linfield University displays political works by Mullowney Printing
The show, running through Nov. 22, is a tribute to the power of ink on paper and how that power has functioned as a political tool — and still can.
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The show, running through Nov. 22, is a tribute to the power of ink on paper and how that power has functioned as a political tool — and still can.
While November’s dark and cold may discourage leaving the house, there are plenty of art exhibits to entice you out and about.
DramaWatch: Early November shows a range from comics and camp to E.M. Lewis’s heartfelt first two-hander, plus a sprinkling of holiday fare.
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.
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.
The editor of “Atlas Obscura: Wild Life,” discusses the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, biodiversity, and a bug that lives on the open ocean.
The author of the “Miss Peregrine” series of books about peculiar children will discuss “The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry,” his first foray into Sunderworld.
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.
The Washington Post reporter refuses to be discouraged. “Undoing bias is hard,” he says. “These kinds of reforms take years and years and years.”
In which a music journalist and Akiho devotee returns to live music after an extended absence.
The two-time Oregon Book Award winner says she initially drew inspiration from her three sons. Seeing them coming of age was “almost like a revisiting of that time when I learned to love books.”
A busy month also features Māori dance, traditional and hip-hop Nutcrackers, a Jefferson Dancers extravaganza, Bridge City Dance, the return of Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and a double bill of “Firebird” and “Petrushka.”
Amanda Bullock, the festival’s lead curator, explains how featured books are chosen, and festival volunteers talk about the fun of being “in the real mix of it.”
More than 100 writers and interviewers will talk about books — fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, graphic novels, and books for children and young readers — during the Nov. 2 festival.
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.
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?
As the critical November election approaches, City Hall candidates weigh in on how they would approach vital arts issues and policies.
As Halloween creeps ever closer, get in the holiday spirit and treat yourself to this thrillingly tricky crossword puzzle.
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.
Review: The ballet company’s season opener, first produced in New Zealand in 2019, digs deep into the story’s long history, complete with demon rabbits and a delicious little cottage.
An air of mystery, intrigue, and languid sensuality runs through the 14 linked essays by the celebrated Portland writer.
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.
Vanport Mosaic’s week-long journey beginning Sept. 28 into the sturdy multi-ethnic roots of Old Town is part of a national Cultural Week of Action on Race and Democracy.
Nothing comes from nothing; a historical look at the art of the “steal”: The court’s Warhol decision and the myth of the original.
Dmae Lo Roberts talks in her new podcast with artists Chisao Hata and Roberta Wong about “memory activism” and Old Town’s deep Chinese, Japanese, and other cultural and ethnic roots.
A summer project adds seven works of art to a downtown alley between Davis and Evans streets.
The Hillsboro theater’s dynamic artistic director brings an inclusive vision that embraces new work, community engagement, educational initiatives — and maybe a new campus.
Online bidding starts Monday for work by two dozen artists, including a Lee Kersh ukulele, culminating in a Sept. 28 event in Newport.
The city’s downtown uses arts to boost economy and livability – but work remains to be done, arts advocates say.
The historian and author of “Democracy Awakening” kicks off the new Mark O. Hatfield lecture series, tracing the nation’s current ideological split to reactions against FDR’s re-election in 1936.
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.”
Executive director Andrew Proctor leads the way through a new Central Eastside office, bookstore, café, and event space scheduled to open in November.
Tender and turbulent, often fruitful, sometimes frightful: this September crossword puzzle celebrates some of the most famous partnerships in the arts.
The author, musician, actor, as well as artist, has been sketching since he was inspired by “Terry and the Pirates” as a child.
Returning to the towns and forest devastated in 2020’s wildfires, writer and photographer Dee Moore discovers new growth, rebuilt communities, and continuing evidence of the disaster.
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.
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