Jean Wells started the show in 1975 with a handful of quilts hung outside her Stitchin' Post quilt shop. This year's show, July 12, is expected to draw more than 10,000 visitors.
July 6, 2025Lori Tobias
Children’s Repertory of Oregon Workshops — C.R.O.W. — offers low-cost classes in dance, musical theater, and performance — not to mention The Tutu Dads.
March 30, 2025Ester Barkai
The nonprofit Materials Exchange Center for Community Arts, which offers workshops and provides free supplies to teachers, is a cross between a garage sale and an arts-and-crafts thrift shop.
February 24, 2025David Bates
The festival provides access to independent storytellers and voices from around the world in categories that include environmental, Native American, animation, local filmmakers, horror, and documentary.
February 16, 2025Amy Wang
The Portland writer’s first two picture books – “A Stone Is a Story” and “One Day This Tree Will Fall” – are both in the running for the Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children’s Literature.
February 12, 2025Lori Tobias
Based in a school designed by A.E. Doyle, the 30-year-old NCRD is home to concerts, lectures, an art gallery, and soon, a new $16.4 million aquatics center.
February 7, 2025Marc Mohan
The nonprofit center serves a 10-county swath of the state with exhibitions, classes, and annual events, often engaging with the past in ways that speak to the present.
January 22, 2025Lori Tobias
The Jan. 24-25 festival aims to raise awareness about challenges facing the ocean while fostering hope in viewers.
December 17, 2024Linda Ferguson
Imago Theatre’s co-artistic directors Carol Triffle and Jerry Mouawad, who have been creating anthropomorphic animals since 1979, have hatched a charming new trio of baby birds for this year’s production.
December 16, 2024Jean Zondervan
This season’s presentation offers audiences one more opportunity to experience the magic touches that retiring artistic director Pimble brings to the beloved ballet.
December 14, 2024Brett Campbell
The venue formerly known as The Old Church Concert Hall reimagines and expands its mission to provide greater support to its home community.
December 6, 2024James Bash
The Portland composer, bassoonist, puppeteer, and voiceover artist’s award-winning ‘Meet the Planets’ series is an ingenious blend of music and science.
December 4, 2024Dmae Lo Roberts
In her newest podcast, Dmae Lo Roberts talks with the youth company's longtime leader about its bold move downtown, solving puzzles, and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."
December 2, 2024David Bates
The company’s first show to be staged in both cities, “G.I. Holiday Jukebox,” opens Dec. 5.
November 17, 2024Lori Tobias
Since April 2023, the Liberty Theatre’s low-cost program has brought theater, dance – and self-confidence – to North Coast kids.
November 7, 2024Lincoln Chronicle
Full-day passes sold out by summer's end, but individual tickets remain for some concerts, and free events are scattered throughout the weekend.
November 3, 2024Amy Wang
Crowds attending Saturday's celebration of reading listened to author panels, shopped in a book fair, and watched illustrators draw chimeric animals from children's prompts.
October 29, 2024Amy Wang
The two-time Oregon Book Award winner says she initially drew inspiration from her three sons. Seeing them coming of age was “almost like a revisiting of that time when I learned to love books.”
September 26, 2024David Bates
This month’s opening of the 250-seat theater makes the Newberg cultural hub one of the largest in the state, as well as an example of the “everything-for-everyone” center that thrives in smaller Oregon cities.
September 20, 2024Brett Campbell
The city’s downtown uses arts to boost economy and livability – but work remains to be done, arts advocates say.
September 16, 2024Lori Tobias
The 26-by-62-foot work along U.S. 101 brings to 10 the murals designed to bring artwork to life in rural locations around the state.
September 8, 2024Amy Wang
The mural tells the story of the community that has grown up around the Northeast Portland center run by the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization.
August 26, 2024Lori Tobias
Saturday’s anniversary party will include fun ranging from horticultural-themed bingo to magnet poetry, from life drawing to historical presentations.
June 25, 2024Lori Tobias
The museum’s plans to nearly double in size will increase exhibits and add classroom space to serve maritime enthusiasts, children, and researchers alike.
June 3, 2024Marc Mohan
A new, 13,000-square-foot building will celebrate Oregon's cinematic legacy, leaving the current site to focus on 'The Goonies.' The city will mark the 39th anniversary of the film's release with Goonies Day on June 7.
May 14, 2024Lori Tobias
More than 90,000 votes helped the nonprofit gain funds to restore the long-neglected building, where the majestic ballroom now hosts classes ranging from ballet to Zumba.
March 11, 2024Lori Tobias
The installation by Christina Harkness and Shanna Smith Suttner opens March 22 at the Willamette Heritage Center in Salem, before returning to Lincoln City in August.
Entries are open for May’s “Rising from the Trashes” event, which includes an art gallery, fashion show, and storytelling – all spotlighting trash.
March 1, 2024Carolyn Lamberson
The traveling exhibition, created by the Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center, reminds viewers of the multiracial history of Oregon’s timber towns.
February 26, 2024Lori Tobias
The quirky museum includes what may be the largest glass fishing float collection in the Northwest and an exhibit about a 1930s celebration of redheads.
