Vision 2020

Twenty interviews over 20 days in 2020 explore the state of culture in Oregon and a vision for the future.

Vision 2020: Dañel Malán

Teatro Milagro's leader talks about bilingual arts and the joys and perils of taking the show on the road.

Vision 2020: Raúl Gómez

Metropolitan Youth Symphony leader: In a troubled world, schools need to teach the empathy of the arts.

Vision 2020: Kristin Shauck

The Clatsop CC teacher loves Astoria’s grittiness, but sees gentrification putting the squeeze on her students.

Vision 2020: Brenna Crotty

The CALYX editor says "men would benefit a lot from reading female-centered narratives."

Vision 2020: Connie Carley and Jerry Foster

For almost four decades the leaders of PassinArt have forged a strong path for Black theater in Portland.

Vision 2020: Yaelle Amir

A promising curator makes her mark. Her job disappears. She rolls up her sleeves and makes her mark again.

Vision 2020: Sean Andries and Carissa Burkett

Leaders of Newberg's Chehalem Cultural Center look forward to more performing arts and a new culinary center.

Vision 2020: Ka’ila Farrell-Smith

The Southern Oregon artist and activist creates art “rooted in Indigenous aesthetics and abstract formalism.”

Vision 2020: Martin Majkut

Rogue Valley Symphony leader: music education in the schools is the key to getting people into concert halls.

Vision 2020: Ella Ray

"There is this level of resistance coming from formerly colonized people ... I feel something bubbling under the surface."

Vision 2020: Molly Alloy, Nathanael Andreini

New leaders take the renamed Five Oaks Museum deeper into the arts and the diversity of culture around it.

Vision 2020: Rachael Carnes

As her career soars, a Eugene playwright says "access is the foundation for a vibrant arts scene."

Vision 2020: Joamette Gil

The Power & Magic of an indie comics universe that tells tales of adventure in a nonbinary culture of color.

Vision 2020: John Olbrantz

The director of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art praises Salem's thriving arts and culture community.

Vision 2020: Yulia Arakelyan and Erik Ferguson

Wobbly duo see a dangerous world: "Hate based crime directed against people with disabilities has gone up."

Vision 2020: Christopher Acebo

A leading Oregon theater artist says extending equity to all groups is a way forward for everyone.

Vision 2020: Maya Vivas and Leila Haile

At Ori Gallery: "We often joke about how we would love to not be the only Queer, Black-run art space in town."

Vision 2020: Darcy Dolge, Sarah West, and Nancy Knowles

Leaders of an art center in La Grande say funding cuts could have been dire, but the community stepped up.

Vision 2020: Niel DePonte

The Oregon percussionist, composer, and conductor for more than 40 years thinks about thorny issues ahead.

Vision 2020: Rachel Barreras-Kleemann

A Newport dance teacher's "small" goals: keep kids motivated to dance, give low-income kids a place to go.