News & Notes: It’s Open Studios time
Bob Hicks
October 5, 2022
From Portland to Ashland to Philomath to Washington, Yamhill and Clark counties, artists open their studios for free tours.
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From Portland to Ashland to Philomath to Washington, Yamhill and Clark counties, artists open their studios for free tours.
The showcase reels ’em in: About 100 regional, national, and international films from 1,600 submissions, available both in-person and virtually.
A PSU choir’s link to Leonard Cohen’s most famous song; a Covid cancellation; Afro-Topia Pop-Up; remembering Hilary Mantel & Louise Fletcher; Corey Brunish & “The Music Man.”
New artistic director Jeanette Harrison brings a commitment to a diversity of voices to Portland’s second largest theater company.
The Nov. 5 festival, presented by Literary Arts, is back to full in-person programming with 80 writers and presenters.
Xuan Cheng, principal dancer for Oregon Ballet Theatre, is the new principal dancer and ballet mistress for Hong Kong Ballet. She’ll split the next year between Hong Kong and Oregon.
Art for Labor Day, remembering writer Barbara Ehrenreich and actor Gary Brickner-Schulz, Profile Theatre’s post-theft helping hands, a final week for the biennial.
Plus: PSU museum serves an artistic feast, trouble by the San Francisco Bay, special delivery in Corvallis.
A consideration of Chamber Music Northwest’s five-week summer festival.
The old school bus, which brings art to kids along the central coast, gets a vibrant re-do and becomes a work of art itself.
Rounding up the news from celebrations of life to a theater’s stolen computers to free Beethoven in Washington Park.
The author of “The Satanic Verses,” living under a death threat since 1989, is stabbed onstage in western New York. Grievously injured, he remains a profile in courage.
The Oregon Community Foundation’s grants to arts and cultural projects range from $17,000 to $100,000 in Portland, Warm Springs, Phoenix, and Eugene.
Hopes for revival after a beloved neighborhood movie house burns; a crime movie pays off; small gems to stream from student filmmakers.
August is festival season in the Pacific Northwest. Two to watch for: Portland Homowo & Twins Festival, Washougal Art Festival.
Maryhill Museum’s “Exquisite Gorge II” throws a party. Who is and isn’t getting ahead in the ballet world. Geezer Gallery gets a new home. A Portland artist’s child faces a health crisis.
Street art abounds on the city’s walls – sometimes sanctioned, sometimes not. Is it time for Portland to join the “Free Walls” movement?
A journey through the Portland Art Museum’s fierce and piercing show of work by photographers of color about the city’s 2020 racial justice protests.
Artists Brenda Mallory, Arvie Smith, and John Houck are named to this year’s fellowships, which come with a $35,000 award.
… and as a bright and shiny Saturday fades into evening, food and art and crafts and celebrations of the many cultures of Washington County, too.
A surge in cases causes cancellations and postponements of events. Plus: The NEA looks at artists in the workplace; summer concerts in a barn; at museums, free is a very good price.
From the father of modern Ukraine literature to the missing statues in Portland’s Park Blocks, a battle brews over history and the stories we tell.
Matthew Dennison’s paintings explore the divide between the natural and human worlds, and NW Children’s Theater finds a home smack in the center of the Cultural District.
Carley, 72, was a guiding force for the Portland Black theater company for 40 years and a deeply admired figure in the city’s arts and nonprofit worlds.
The festival, which starts Thursday, includes musical chestnuts as well as concerts benefiting Ukrainian relief and “Ourland,” a modern, dystopian opera.
The musical theater company opens a $3.4 million expansion; Lake Oswego welcomes a weekend arts festival and an Ed Carpenter sculpture.
McMenamins 39th birthday beer is actually an IPA, but its
ingredients include a long swig of West Coast history.
The museum, a thriving cultural hub on the Oregon coast, is more than ever asking its audience to consider how the past shapes the future.
After a two-year Covid layoff, the big LGBTQ+ celebration is returning to Waterfront Park. Photographer K.B. Dixon shows us what we’ve been missing.
The Portland and New York producer wins his fourth Tony Award, for the revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical “Company.”
The versatile actor moves into the top seat at The Actors Conservatory. Plus: Wade McCollum’s return, openings, closings.
Listening back to Oregon’s return to live choral concerts.
Rounding up the unusual suspects, from a beloved artist’s auction to the Britt Festival, a big museum acquisition, a hoot of a concert, a rare poetic collaboration, and contemporary Jewish art.
Ready or not, here it comes. After two years in the Covid desert, Portland’s Rose Festival roars back. Let the Bacchanalia begin.
Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra hires the former Oregon Ballet Theatre leader as its executive director, and other comings and goings in Oregon music.
Portland’s annual festival of new works, which reinvented itself during the pandemic, will take a “strategic hiatus” in 2023 to reinvent again.
The widely loved Foote, who retired to Mexico after years of helping Oregon Children’s Theatre rise to national prominence, was 69.
Though the pandemic led to the demise of several wine-country arts groups, others are gearing up for summer.
Brunish gets his 12th nomination as a producer, for the Broadway revival of “Company.” Beaverton High grad Bean is honored for “Mr. Saturday Night.”
In the vocal ensemble, the composer of this weekend’s African American Requiem found the ideal partner to make a musical milestone.
What’s up with the film center’s relationship with the Portland Art Museum and its sharp but uncertain shift in direction? It’s complicated – and not everyone’s happy about that.
The unauthorized exhibition debuts in Portland and is slated for a multi-city run. Banksy’s relationship to the art is as murky as the role of the show’s organizers.
An interview with the classical guitarist about her upcoming Spanish-inflected concert and masterclass.
A month to focus on Asian American culture, Betty LaDuke in Grants Pass and Lillian Pitt in Newport, PassinArt and Center Stage party down, legislators join the Cultural Trust.
Jennifer Gwirtz’s new full-length dance, at Performance Works Northwest through May 1, explores feminist Jewish themes through a universal lens.
Drum ‘n’ bass gathering Juice celebrates its 17th anniversary at Holocene.
Cynthia Whitcomb is honored for her literary legacy during the ceremony marked by thanks and a sense of wonder at the weirdness of the past two years.
Former Portland Opera director discusses new company.
A big step toward a new home for the university’s School of Art + Design. “Merry Wives” sing out. In Salem, Putin on parade. Voices for Ukraine. A tribute to Lady Day. A memorial for Una Loughran. Wayne Brady in the house. Brunish takes on London.
Five women singer-songwriters sing out Sunday in a benefit concert for Ukraine, and 10 pianists put on a show to aid a children’s music program.
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