K.B. Dixon’s cultural-portrait series continues with a “special edition” featuring trailblazing women artists Lucinda Parker, Judy Cooke, Phyllis Yes, Sherrie Wolf, and Laura Ross-Paul.
“The view never stays the same for long; never for a moment, actually”: Dan Powell’s book of photos captures moments from an ever-changing landscape in the dry stretches of the West.
K.D. Dixon roams the streets of Portland with his camera in search of the odd, the eerie, the hair-raising, the ghoulish, the spectral, and the skeletal. Saints preserve us, he finds them.
The Sempoashochitl Festival, in honor and celebration of Día de los Muertos and the glories of the marigold, brings a whirl of traditional dance, art, music and remembrance.
Steeped in the history of good and evil, these nightmare figures of protection and malevolence come out on Halloween. They’re also K.B. Dixon’s office mates.
K.B. Dixon’s cultural-portrait series continues with visual artist Marie Watt, classical percussionist Niel DePonte, dancer & choreographer Oluyinka Akinjiola, poet & storyteller Brian S. Ellis, and actor & Portland Revels leader Lauren Bloom Hanover.
Decades of battle over a pristine old-growth forest climaxed with the devastating 2020 Beachie Creek fire. But new growth is happening – and photographers are documenting a rebirth.
From Portland’s museums and galleries to the Guggenheim and Whitney to Amsterdam, Australia, Berlin and beyond, Angela Allen focuses her camera on people interacting with art.
Book review: K.B. Dixon on the celebrity portraits by a “poor working-class clod from nowhere (who) grows up to be a famous London photographer hobnobbing with cinematic royalty.”
On a balmy July evening on a Beaverton farm, The Concerts at the Barn kicked off their summer season. For audience and musicians alike, the sights and sounds were delicious.
K.B. Dixon’s cultural-portrait series continues with All Classical’s Suzanne Nance, poet Carlos Reyes, playwright Andrea Stolowitz, visual artist James Minden, and flautist Amelia Lukas.
Life is a cabaret: Poison Waters and a bevy of drag stars dress up, feel their Pride, light the lights, and put on a show.
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 skeleton celebrants of Mysti Krewe of Nimbus bring a sweet New Orleans flavor to Portland’s annual outdoor bash of the blues.
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.
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.
Photographer Joe Cantrell discovers the beauties of the universal in the patterns of very small things.
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.
Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center hosts the traveling exhibition “The Curious World of Seaweed,” which explores the importance of seaweed and kelp to ocean health.
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.
Who needs a giant concert hall to make the music zing? Classical Up Close brings great music to a small and happy audience in the cozy confines of a Tigard church.
From Fez to Spain to Oregon, a “transcendent” evening of Moroccan and flamenco music at The Reser: A photo essay.
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.
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 work gathered over 40 years, two sterling photographers aim their lenses at American assumptions and the realities of Black life.
For 73 years, the gallery and studio space has offered amateurs and professionals a place to show their work and to share skills and support.
The once and future city? K.B. Dixon’s series of urban portraits reminds us of what Portland felt like in the not-too-distant past.
Got something to say? In the not too distant past, Portland was a town where you could put it in writing, and take it to the street.
As the city struggles to regain its footing, K.B. Dixon’s series of urban portraits reminds us of what Portland felt like in the not-too-distant past.
Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of portraits with singer & actor Susannah Mars, violinist Tomás Cotik, Native arts leader Lulani Arquette, sculptor Ben Buswell, and multidisciplinary artist Fuchsia Lin.
For decades Jim Kingwell and friends have been firing up the 2,400-degree furnace at Icefire Glassworks in Cannon Beach and transforming nature.
“A Conversation with the World” on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene features Graham’s portraits and interviews with individuals from around the world.
Has the city lost its way? In the first of a series of urban portraits, K.B. Dixon reminds us of what Portland felt like in the not-too-distant past.
Composer Sara Graef says her piece strives to express gratitude for the spirit of the 400-acre space, “what was decimated and what has been given back.”
Open Air Museum, Part 3: Still hesitant about entering a museum or gallery? Welcome to this statuesque exhibition-about-town.
David McCarthy’s book of photographs portrays a city gritting it out through tough times. Plus, a new book celebrating Portland photographers.
As Studio Abioto’s African-diaspora “Red Thread: Green Earth” closes with a vibrant performance at the Reser Center, show and space seem made for each other.
The gallery’s painting and photography show “Inheritance” spotlights agricultural workers in Ghana and Black farmers in America.
As Portland Baroque Orchestra and the choir Cappella Romana bring Handel’s “Messiah” to vivid life, photographer Joe Cantrell captures the energy and beauty of it all.
Photographer K.B. Dixon considers the art of portraiture in photographer Wilson’s bold new book of images of famous writers.
Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of portraits with theater leader Josh Hecht, art school dean Jen Cole, opera singer Hannah Penn, novelist Tony Ardizzone, and film prop and effects artist Christina Kortum.
The Corvallis photographer used a folding field camera from the early 1900s to take the 25 images on exhibit at Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center.
A show at Newberg’s Chehalem Cultural Center focuses on Mexican artisans, many in trades on the cusp of vanishing.
Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of portraits with musicians Marv and Rindy Ross, artist David Eckard, actor Maureen Porter, and writer Todd Schultz.
A deep visit with the expanded garden and with the Japan Institute’s first artist in residence, Japanese glass artist Rui Sasaki.
The Portland photographer says she is interested in the “lived history of Black place,” the legacy of Black artists in Oregon who came before.
Photographer Joe Cantrell roams the plazas and parks and barns of town and country, discovering a feast of music and dance.
“The first thing I am looking for in a portrait is beauty”: K.B. Dixon talks about the intricate dance of subject and photographer.
OSU’s touring Art About Agriculture exhibit, now at Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center, explores the ways we grow and eat our food.
Maryhill Museum of Art finishes its sweeping Columbia Gorge fiber-arts project with a grand party on the museum grounds.
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