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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.
During Pride Month, Oregon’s fifth largest city celebrates openness and diversity amid recognition that the quest to overcome fear and repression is far from over.
Artist Phyllis Yes’s paintings of a man doing housework in the buff, banned from a church gallery, find a new home – and after a half-century, her nude model comes clean.
For four days, the Portland garden joins others around the world in the artist and peace activist’s almost 30-year project of creating and adorning Wish Trees in pursuit of peace.
North Pole Studio’s mission is to “increase opportunities for artists with autism and intellectual / developmental disabilities to thrive as active members of the art community.” Hannah Krafcik explores what makes North Pole Studio tick.
The urban university intends to create a stronger sense of campus identity — and become a leader in revitalizing downtown Portland.
More than 70 glass Japanese fishing floats collected by the late James L. Watson will be sold to benefit the North Lincoln County Historical Museum.
Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of cultural profiles with portraits of visual artist Chris Chandler, Miller Foundation leader Carrie Hoops, Caldera leader Kimberly Howard Wade, and writers Evan Morgan Williams and Steven L. Moore.
Lava Alapai’s new comedy “Middletown Mall” features karaoke in the food court. Plus the folk-musical “The Spitfire Grill” and the story of Florence Ballard and The Supremes.
The four-gallery show opens June 1 and includes photography, videography, installation, painting, and basketry.
A heady program of dances and dance films created by women is a vibrant and successful beginning for what should become an annual event.
Three Oregon artists were selected for the 2024 Annual Smithsonian Craft Show, the country’s most prestigious juried show and sale of contemporary American craft.
The three Indigenous artists say family, tradition, and education are currents running throughout their work.
The ninth annual festival remembers the flood that wiped out the city of Vanport on Memorial Day 1948 and carries the vanished city’s history and vital cultural significance into the present.
The married pianists have enriched Portland’s jazz landscape since relocating here in 2011. Both have album-release shows at the 1905 in May, and their Driveway Jazz Series is coming up.
More than 90,000 votes helped the nonprofit gain funds to restore the long-neglected building, where the majestic ballroom now hosts classes ranging from ballet to Zumba.
The university’s revised design proposal for a Keller Auditorium replacement offers two venues in one: a Keller-sized 3,000-seat hall and a versatile 1,200-seat companion space.
A pair of “sister shows” at Elbow Room and ILY2 showcase a talented group of artists and the ingenuity of the close-knit community of the Portland art scene. The artists all work out of Elbow Room’s SE Portland studio and gallery.
Speaking on his new book “Founding Partisans” and the long history of a sharply divided American politics, the historian gives a spirited wrapup to this year’s Hatfield series.
Dmae Lo Roberts talks in her new podcast with the author of Milagro Theatre’s world-premiere “Borderline” about ghost stories, living on the border, cultural trauma and more.
The exhibition at the Oregon Historical Society features Horsfall’s meticulous illustrations of birds from the Pacific Coast. Horsfall was a member of the Oregon Audubon Society and inspired by the artistic endeavors of the organization’s namesake, John James Audubon.
Like fiction and nonfiction, photographic portraiture is divided into two approaches. Is one better than the other? How should a photographer (or a subject) choose? Must you choose?
In Oregon last year, “inappropriateness for children” maintained its top spot in book challenges. For the first time, it tied with another concern: that the book’s content was LGBTQ.
The Portland poet, actor and playwright, whose “From a Hole in the Ground” has just opened in a co-production from Corrib and Alberta House, is “interested in breaking the rules of reality.”
In Southern Oregon’s remote Applegate Valley, community organizers find that the love for a region can outweigh political, economic, and religious divisions.
The YouTube series examines the stories of minor – but consequential – characters through a progressive and feminist lens.
The classical group’s spring season of free pop-up and full-length shows gets out of the concert halls and into book stores, cafes, churches, and other places where people gather.
Celebrate a slightly belated April Fools’ Day with a fittingly foolish crossword puzzle.
The intimate solo shows “Smote This” and “Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender” dive compellingly into soulful matters – and they run at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival only into May.
Audience members get involved in a semi-improvisational show that sets the tone for the Ray Theater in Oregon State University’s new $75 million performing arts center.
“We might not be interested in war, but war will be interested in us”: An expansive Los Angeles exhibit on propaganda and art during World War I has parallels to the war-torn world of today.
How to decide what to see? There’s more than one way to approach the overwhelming bounty of Oregon’s annual celebration of new stage works.
The university swings open the doors of its new $75 million PRAx arts and performance hall and kicks off a creative space for students, artists, and the surrounding community.
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