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The poet, painter, and writer, whose novel “Mala Noche” was turned into a film by Gus Van Sant, was a fixture of Portland’s poetry-reciting club scene in the 1970s and ’80s.
Amid the move to a new headquarters and other staff changes, the nonprofit – home of the Portland Book Festival and Oregon Book Awards – will be led by an interim director this fall.
The Cascadia Composers founder leaves a legacy in music and more.
Financial problems stemming in part from the pandemic, an expensive construction project, lack of expected state funding and a national slump in theater attendance force a drastic step.
Ownership of the longtime Black arts center is transferred, and PassinArt Theatre will become a major decision-maker.
Plus: Washougal Art and Music Festival, PassinArt’s festival of multicultural play readings and films.
Time for Three, Anne Akiko Meyers, and Orli Shaham headline the newly-minted festival in downtown Vancouver.
Portland Art Museum and curator Kathleen Ash-Milby play key roles in spotlighting the first solo Indigenous artist at the U.S. Pavilion in the international art showcase’s 129-year history.
The former Artists Rep artistic leader is the new artistic director of Seattle’s much larger flagship theater, and JAW keeps faith with the theatrical tradition of the new.
The passing of Cascadia founder David Bernstein, and other leadership transitions.
The City of Portland tells the Regional Arts & Culture Council it’s going to go it alone on arts policy and funding – and it’s taking its money with it.
Erin Grant is named the Portland Art Museum’s assistant curator of Native American art; the revered Indigenous artist Pitt has an “evening” with friends and followers at Fort Vancouver.
Keller Auditorium, which is susceptible to earthquake damage, must be upgraded — or maybe replaced. Also: The elk is finally close to a return, but Abe and Teddy still wait while the city talks.
The troubled festival calls on a favored prince to be its new artistic director. Plus: A new Josie Seid play, 76 trombones in Eugene, last call for gothic cabaret, and more.
As Oregon lawmakers stumble through a long Senate walkout and then rush to finish business, a cultural sector still hurting from Covid shutdowns loses on several fronts.
The Music Critics Association of North America chooses ArtsWatch writers Angela Allen as secretary and James Bash as treasurer.
The museum names Amy Behrens, executive director of a Southern California cultural center and botanical gardens, to lead it into the future.
This year’s five-week festival, commencing this weekend, highlights the relationship between two art forms.
As Portland Art Museum decommissions Whitsell Auditorium, PAM CUT looks across the river for a new home.
Plus: Award recipients Jacqueline Stewart and Jon Raymond talk with Marc Mohan about film history, creativity, and their current and upcoming projects.
The longtime Portland theater figure and Broadway producer wins again, this time for the musical revival of “Parade.”
A celebration of the theater leader’s life is June 19; Oregon immigrant stories move to Hillsboro; small grants help bring 16 Latino art projects to life.
Also: Japanese American Museum’s new leader, springtime for taxes (and donations), sprucing up the libraries.
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.
Finding beauty in the movement of the possible; visiting the art museum amid construction; a costuming apprenticeship; a Buttigieg in the house.
The artistic director of the embattled Oregon Shakespeare Festival departs as the company is in the midst of an emergency fund drive to keep its season going.
Portland’s ambitious, forward-looking classical music radio station is expanding its scope, creating space for live performances, and relocating to downtown Portland.
Check the shelves: It’s Independent Bookstore Day. Also: Indigenous arts fellowships, take the arts survey, “The Judy” opens its doors.
An Oregon music legend passes, leaders of the state’s two top orchestras move on, and other news in Oregon music.
Long-delayed remodel is moving ahead at the home of Portland’s second-biggest theater company. Doors are expected to open for audiences in 10 months.
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.
A week before opening night, the Ashland festival puts out a plea for $2.5 million to “save our season.”
“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.
Dawn Babb Prochovnic receives the Walt Morey Young Readers Literary Legacy Award, and Gary Miranda the Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award, during the Literary Arts event.
The world’s oldest performing drag queen, who has died at 92, spent decades helping Portland smile, open up a little, and just grow up.
The Dalles Art Center is racing to raise enough money to keep its doors open. (So far, so good.) And in nearby Hood River, another arts center is out to reinvent itself.
Beware, dancemaker Katherine Longstreth argues. Big Data wants to mine your creativity for profit, with no credit or compensation to you.
New leadership is coming to the Columbia Gorge museum. Plus: Send in the Clowns Without Borders; an –Ism book launch; Central Library takes a break; last call at the Portland Art Museum; cultural caucus grows.
The Portland artist and activist is the winner of this year’s Bonnie Bronson Visual Arts Fellowship. Also: a master painter and calligrapher at the Portland Chinatown Museum.
Remembering Chapman, the legendary Portland theater costume designer, and Holden, who was a cofounder of CoHo Theatre.
Snow? Yes, that event might be canceled. A new future for a troubled public square. Converge 45 names ’23 artists. Mattaliano on the operatic life.
As several cultural measures seek passage, for the first time Oregon’s Legislature has a caucus to push for cultural funding in the state budget. Also, for nonprofits: statewide conversations with funders.
Choreographer Danielle Rowe is named Oregon Ballet Theatre’s new artistic director; interim leader Peter Franc stays as artistic consultant.
New funding program benefits Portland new music organizations, and other news in Oregon music
Oregon loses compelling voices in theater, comedy, fiction, and photography. An appreciation of four who made a difference.
The art museum begins construction on a new loading dock, precursor to the long-awaited Rothko Pavilion expansion.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, beset by pandemic and environmental troubles, slashes leadership and other jobs – and Artistic Director Nataki Garrett adds more duties.
The opening of the Reser Center in Beaverton and the cautious return to post-pandemic “normal” top a vigorous year of arts events in Oregon.
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