In a Landscape expands horizons
Brett Campbell
July 5, 2023
Pianist Hunter Noack’s wandering combination of classical music and natural beauty is reaching new audiences in new places.
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Pianist Hunter Noack’s wandering combination of classical music and natural beauty is reaching new audiences in new places.
After a four-day feast of music and partying, the 2023 Waterfront Blues Festival winds up with a bang of Fourth of July fireworks over the river.
The blues festival, a downtown summer highlight since 1988, lays down its groove through July Fourth. Photographer Joe Cantrell captures Saturday’s opening-day action.
Artists respond to violence against women, the pandemic, climate change, and other threats to Indigenous communities in a powerful exhibit at the Center for Native Arts & Cultures.
“Out There Jazz Suite” transmutes Hillsboro sculptures into a recording, a multimedia concert, and a community collaboration.
The museum names Amy Behrens, executive director of a Southern California cultural center and botanical gardens, to lead it into the future.
Portland Center Stage Actor Treasure Lunan and Associate Artistic Director Chip Miller discuss gender in theater.
As Portland Art Museum decommissions Whitsell Auditorium, PAM CUT looks across the river for a new home.
The Salem Art Association opens the Waldo Bogle Gallery in the Bush House and unveils the two latest paintings in Jeremy Okai Davis’s portrait series. The house’s original owner and namesake would not be pleased.
New leadership and a show of diverse work by women artists in the Gorge suggest a transformation of ideas at the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center.
From Verdi’s operas to the films of Orson Welles, Shakespeare’s plays have left an indelible mark on generations of artists. But how much do you really know about the Bard and his admirers?
K.B. Dixon’s culltural-portrait series continues with illustrator Kate Bingaman-Burt, artist Dan Gluibizzi, writers Cecily Wong and Aaron Galbreath, and Oregon Ballet Theatre’s Dani Rowe.
Portland’s Nikki Sandoval finds national success while centering Oregon’s Black children and families in her performances.
The pandemic gave the 53-year-old coastal center opportunities to “look at things in fresh ways,” including youth programs, residencies, and Indigenous fellowships.
Photographer Joe Cantrell discovers the beauties of the universal in the patterns of very small things.
The weekend event also includes free, self-guided tours of the work of 70 artists in 28 locations along the Central Oregon Coast.
As “Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio” opens at the Portland Art Museum, co-director Mark Gustafson and animation chief Brian Hansen talk about the making of the Oscar-winning movie.
After a four-month construction shutdown, the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education reopens with new shows, a new gallery, and a celebratory street fair.
Tom Stoppard’s Tony-nominated family tale “Leopoldstadt” steps deftly through trauma and time and the toll of the Holocaust.
As Portland strives to revive from the crises of the past three years, K.B. Dixon wraps up his five-part photographic series of scenes from the city that was and might be again.
Other readings this month feature Portland poet Carlos Reyes, Ken Jennings of “Jeopardy!” fame, and photographer Jamie Beck’s exploration of Provence.
Remembering an artistic life well and truly lived: The Northwest artist died in October of 2022; his memorial service is June 11 at the World Forestry Center.
Ruth Ross and others carry on a centuries-old tradition of depicting the realities and reflections of cancer and other diseases in their art.
In the latest installment of ArtsWatch’s Gender Deconstruction series, game designer and self-described “science communicator” Olive Marion Gabriel Joseph Wick Perry talks passion projects, day jobs, and making it all work.
Retiring Portland Institute for Contemporary Art executive director Victoria Frey and her successor, Reuben Roqueñi, discuss the venerable avant-garde arts institution’s coming transformation.
In a new podcast, Dmae Lo Roberts talks with two key figures in the festival remembering the Vanport Flood of 1948 and its continuing cultural effect.
The eighth annual Vanport Mosaic Festival, remembering the flood and its legacy, begins. Also: Schnitzer Hall gets too hot to handle; Carlos Kalmar is investigated.
A neighborhood print studio highlights the social aspect of printmaking and provides members 24-hour access to a variety of presses, some more than 100 years old.
Eugene Ballet enlists an array of artists to bring a beloved underwater fairytale to life.
The Newbery-winning author and illustrator of “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon” talks in a podcast about creating tales for kids who don’t see themselves in most books.
Remembrance of things not so very past: As Portland crawls back from the crises of the past three years, K.B. Dixon’s urban portraits capture the everyday beauty of the city that was.
A nonbinary child and their parent discuss identity formation, harmful stereotypes, and trans joy.
Portland’s ambitious, forward-looking classical music radio station is expanding its scope, creating space for live performances, and relocating to downtown Portland.
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month brings with it a wealth of cultural dance and music, joined by a rich array of performances from across Oregon’s dance community.
From Fez to Spain to Oregon, a “transcendent” evening of Moroccan and flamenco music at The Reser: A photo essay.
Nestled beside Forest Park, the former Salvation Army White Shield Center is set to become a whole new cultural campus, devoted to classes, lectures and artist residencies.
A day set aside for action on global environmental issues is also, on a smaller scale, a day to celebrate indie record shops.
A new book by the late, great New Yorker writer arrives as a series of collaged short essays. K.B. Dixon reviews it in the same spirit.
The noted historian traces the “great environmental awakening” of the mid-20th century for a Hatfield Lecture Series audience.
Landscape designer Crow Lauren and metalworker Carson Terry discuss their trades.
Along the San Fernando Valley’s “Mural Mile,” art and history intertwine to tell the tales of a place’s people and cultures.
Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of portraits of Oregon cultural leaders with parks activist Randy Gragg, playwright Lava Alapai, mixed-media artist Erik Geschke, writer Erica Berry, and choreographer/dancer Samuel Hobbs.
In 2012, I interviewed the Newport artist about two pieces commissioned by the Smithsonian. Earlier this month, I saw the installed poles for the first time.
Portland music ensemble’s unique education initiative celebrates its 25th anniversary with a concert on April 17 featuring new compositions by program alumni.
The venerable Ashland festival’s effort to save the 2023 season follows years of wildfires, pandemic shutdowns, and staff turnover. Plus, openings, closings, and this weekend’s shows.
In work gathered over 40 years, two sterling photographers aim their lenses at American assumptions and the realities of Black life.
The Oregon nonprofit organization’s event series “I Am An American Live” counters ignorance and fear with sounds and stories from Oregon immigrants.
“Our Creative Future,” a two-year, broad-based planning effort, seeks to set the tone for the growth and stability of the region’s arts culture over the next 10 years.
The Dutch-born painter, whose work was often rooted in his childhood memories of Nazi occupation, explored the dark reaches and possibilities of the human condition.
Yuri Possokhov’s “Firebird” and two other story-dances open the page on Oregon Ballet Theatre’s newest show. Plus: First look at OBT’s 2023-24 season.
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