Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of cultural profiles with portraits of theater director Brian Weaver, writer & filmmaker Perrin Kerns, writer & editor Rajesh K. Reddy, visual artist Jo Hamilton, and architectural preservationist William (Bill) Hawkins III.
February 2, 2025Laura Grimes
If the court system is a foundation for a civil society, it seems fitting to explore the building blocks and high-rise vistas of a city while serving as a juror.
January 26, 2025Hailey Cook
The exhibit, which opens Jan. 27, spotlights “the held and felt and experienced stories of our neighbors” through live performances, discussion, and photography.
January 6, 2025K.B. Dixon
Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of cultural profiles with portraits of poet and memoirist Judith Barrington, theater leader Harrison Butler, painter Phyllis Trowbridge, jazz musician Ryan Meagher, and Literary Arts leader Amanda Bullock.
December 4, 2024Joe Cantrell
The pianist and Fear No Music executive director performed Caroline Shaw's "Gustave le Grey" at FNM's recent "Sounds Like Home" concert.
November 27, 2024Dee Moore
The Portland photographer's vibrant portraits of Oregon Black "superheroes" fill two galleries at Salem's Bush Barn Art Center and Bush Barn Museum and a third at Portland Center Stage.
October 30, 2024K.B. Dixon
Come Halloween season, Portland yards and front steps become a sprawling gallery of things dead and undead. Photographer K.B. Dixon tours the neighborhoods to collect the evidence.
October 27, 2024Brian Libby
Mike Vos discusses the journeys and breakthroughs leading to his new photography book, "Somewhere in Another Place."
October 25, 2024K.B. Dixon
Trick and treat: Once the sculptor to Vienna's royal family, the 18th century artist's life and work took a turn to the macabre. For this tortured yet talented soul, every day became Halloween.
October 23, 2024Joe Cantrell
At the West Coast Giant Pumpkin Regatta in Tualatin, the gargantuan gourds glide across the water like bloated kayaks as the crowd cheers onshore. Who says veggies can't be fun?
October 18, 2024Dee Moore
Salem artist Randall Tosh's dreamlike photographs, springing from a memorable boyhood encounter in the woods, pierce the veil between the known and the unknown.
October 14, 2024K.B. Dixon
Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of cultural profiles with portraits of animator & filmmaker Rose Bond, painter Chris Russell, composer Judy A. Rose, Mother Foucault’s Bookshop founder Craig Florence, and writer & editor Rachel King.
September 14, 2024Dee Moore
Returning to the towns and forest devastated in 2020's wildfires, writer and photographer Dee Moore discovers new growth, rebuilt communities, and continuing evidence of the disaster.
September 5, 2024K.B. Dixon
Photographer K.B. Dixon poses a wooden English cat, "rescued" from The Shambles in York, in a multiple lifetimes' worth of catlike poses. Cat fanciers might find all of them familiar.
August 27, 2024Erin Jimerson
A job layoff inspired the Albany man to get back to photography. He found a subject in his daughter's childhood.
August 26, 2024K.B. Dixon
Time out for canines: August 26 is National Dog Day, and Portland pawses to pay homage to its own. K.B. Dixon and his camera scour the city to seek out our best friends in action.
August 23, 2024K.B. Dixon
Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of cultural profiles with portraits of choreographer Jessica Wallenfels, visual artist Ryan Pierce, poet and book editor Valerie Witte, actor/director Isaac Lamb, and choral leader Katherine Fitzgibbon.
August 5, 2024Gabriel Lucich
"There is joy in these pictures": An exhibition at The Reser in Beaverton highlights the brilliant, humanistic war zone photos of a journalist killed by tank fire in Lebanon in 2023.
July 20, 2024K.B. Dixon
How to make an image that rises above the ordinary? It's simple – and complicated, K.B. Dixon declares.
July 19, 2024Friderike Heuer
Finnish photographers Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo create a stellar thicket of visual and environmental images on view at Portland's World Forestry Center.
July 9, 2024Joe Cantrell
Portland's four-day blues bash at Tom McCall Waterfront Park beats the heat -- and photographer Joe Cantrell catches the sights and sounds and free-flowing joy of it all.
July 6, 2024Joe Cantrell
On the opening day of the Waterfront Blues Festival, photographer Joe Cantrell captures the sights and sounds from the stages to the crowd to the fireworks.
July 6, 2024Friderike Heuer
Exhibits of a major Surrealist artist getting her due and a photographer known for his images of children amid war give rise to a host of cultural connections.
June 29, 2024K.B. Dixon
All right, much more than a snap. Photography is history and documentation, truth and illusion, high art and a creative tool for everyone. Celebrate its day on June 29.
June 24, 2024K.B. Dixon
K.B. Dixon and his camera take in the wetness and the glory of Sunday's splashy race, a Rose Festival favorite since 1973.
June 19, 2024K.B. Dixon
Half-hidden behind trees in an 1880s Sellwood former grocery building, the museum is one of the few in the nation dedicated to preserving the art, history, and pleasures of all things puppetry.
June 14, 2024K.B. Dixon
Eyesore or art? Landmark or blight? Photographer K.B. Dixon gets up close with the paintings and graffiti scrawls on an abandoned building that Portland's City Council has voted to foreclose on.
June 13, 2024Brett Campbell
During Pride Month, Oregon's fifth largest city celebrates openness and diversity amid recognition that the quest to overcome fear and repression is far from over.
June 7, 2024Friderike Heuer
For four days, the Portland garden joins others around the world in the artist and peace activist's almost 30-year project of creating and adorning Wish Trees in pursuit of peace.
May 29, 2024K.B. Dixon
Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of cultural profiles with portraits of visual artist Chris Chandler, Miller Foundation leader Carrie Hoops, Caldera leader Kimberly Howard Wade, and writers Evan Morgan Williams and Steven L. Moore.