You have to evoke the feeling: How composing freed Nancy Ives
Bennett Campbell Ferguson
January 24, 2022
The acclaimed Portland composer and cellist discusses her creative renaissance
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The acclaimed Portland composer and cellist discusses her creative renaissance
The native Portland choreographer returned to his home town as the pandemic hit. He’s emerged with a fresh vision and three new works at A-WOL.
After a year-and-a-half pandemic shutdown, the community gathering place welcomes the public back with two days of bluegrass and Americana.
Change in the air: Comings, goings, honors, and landmarks on Oregon’s music scene.
Beth Harper to retire from The Actors Conservatory after 37 years; Portland Open Studios hires its first executive director; Arts Commission announces new grants.
Like Cézanne’s and Wayne Thiebaud’s, Wolf’s sensory paintings seduce the ordinary by upending our assumptions about reality.
In search of an avatar dragon and a very real snow leopard. Plus: Martin Luther King Jr. tributes, Coen Brothers & more.
Dixon’s portraits of Oregon writers have been published on ArtsWatch; Thompson’s “Tide Charts: Ebb and Flow” includes his final works before he died in 2019.
Virtual readings, author conversations, a workshop for beating writer’s block, and a Merry Prankster book release fill the new year’s calendar.
And in Salem, the Hallie Ford Museum showcases Northwest photography, as well as Arvie Smith’s paintings exploring race and identity.
Emily Marsh discusses her madcap adventures in the cult movie spoof show, which will be live in Eugene on Jan. 3 and Portland on Jan. 4.
From dance on film at the start of the year to a flurry of Nutcrackers at the end, the ups and downs of Oregon’s Covid-tinged dance year.
