From construction projects at the Portland Art Museum and elsewhere to tight budgets and uncertainty about money to tales about Portland's Black music history and a puppet museum and a giant pumpkin regatta, Oregon's arts world presses ahead.
December 31, 2024
From Oscar-winning animator Mark Gustafson to 100-year old dancer Sahomi Tachibana and 108-year-old collage artist Eunice Parsons, honoring those who made their mark in Oregon arts.
December 30, 2024Linda Ferguson
Oregon theaters offered us an abundance of blissful, moving and mind-altering moments in 2024, and DramaWatch columnist and reviewer Linda Ferguson remembers her favorites.
December 30, 2024Jamuna Chiarini
From story ballets to contemporary experimental works by Oregon companies and visiting troupes, it's been a year filled with the power and excitement of choreographed movement.
December 29, 2024Marc Mohan
Marc Mohan shares his picks for this year's ten best films.
December 29, 2024Amy Leona Havin
A new home for Literary Arts, a new poet laureate, some major library remodels, an overflow of book festivals and a shelf full of new books by Oregon writers put a shine on the literary year.
December 28, 2024
A baker's dozen stories highlight some of the best, brightest, most imaginative and thought-provoking work of the year on display by Northwest artists.
December 27, 2024
From OSU's new PRAx arts center to libraries both energized and threatened, Nehalem's Trash Bash Art Festival, a fresh start at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and much more, a look at the arts year around the state.
December 26, 2024Matthew Neil Andrews
Following the theme of an intensely musical Oregon year, from parties to studios.
December 20, 2024Amy Leona Havin
Josephine Woolington, Waka T. Brown, Nora Ericson, and Daniela Molnar offer suggestions ranging from picture books, to poetry, to a monthly letter of romantic, erotic stories.