Vision 2020: Dañel Malán
Bennett Campbell Ferguson
January 20, 2020
Teatro Milagro’s leader talks about bilingual arts and the joys and perils of taking the show on the road.
Twenty interviews over 20 days in 2020 explore the state of culture in Oregon and a vision for the future.
Teatro Milagro’s leader talks about bilingual arts and the joys and perils of taking the show on the road.
Metropolitan Youth Symphony leader: In a troubled world, schools need to teach the empathy of the arts.
The Clatsop CC teacher loves Astoria’s grittiness, but sees gentrification putting the squeeze on her students.
The CALYX editor says “men would benefit a lot from reading female-centered narratives.”
For almost four decades the leaders of PassinArt have forged a strong path for Black theater in Portland.
A promising curator makes her mark. Her job disappears. She rolls up her sleeves and makes her mark again.
Leaders of Newberg’s Chehalem Cultural Center look forward to more performing arts and a new culinary center.
The Southern Oregon artist and activist creates art “rooted in Indigenous aesthetics and abstract formalism.”
Rogue Valley Symphony leader: music education in the schools is the key to getting people into concert halls.
“There is this level of resistance coming from formerly colonized people … I feel something bubbling under the surface.”
New leaders take the renamed Five Oaks Museum deeper into the arts and the diversity of culture around it.
As her career soars, a Eugene playwright says “access is the foundation for a vibrant arts scene.”
The Power & Magic of an indie comics universe that tells tales of adventure in a nonbinary culture of color.
The director of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art praises Salem’s thriving arts and culture community.
Wobbly duo see a dangerous world: “Hate based crime directed against people with disabilities has gone up.”
A leading Oregon theater artist says extending equity to all groups is a way forward for everyone.
At Ori Gallery: “We often joke about how we would love to not be the only Queer, Black-run art space in town.”
Leaders of an art center in La Grande say funding cuts could have been dire, but the community stepped up.
The Oregon percussionist, composer, and conductor for more than 40 years thinks about thorny issues ahead.
A Newport dance teacher’s “small” goals: keep kids motivated to dance, give low-income kids a place to go.
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