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.
January 19, 2020Brett Campbell
Metropolitan Youth Symphony leader: In a troubled world, schools need to teach the empathy of the arts.
January 18, 2020Lori Tobias
The Clatsop CC teacher loves Astoria’s grittiness, but sees gentrification putting the squeeze on her students.
January 17, 2020David Bates
The CALYX editor says "men would benefit a lot from reading female-centered narratives."
January 16, 2020Bobby Bermea
For almost four decades the leaders of PassinArt have forged a strong path for Black theater in Portland.
January 15, 2020Laurel Reed Pavic
A promising curator makes her mark. Her job disappears. She rolls up her sleeves and makes her mark again.
January 14, 2020David Bates
Leaders of Newberg's Chehalem Cultural Center look forward to more performing arts and a new culinary center.
January 13, 2020David Bates
The Southern Oregon artist and activist creates art “rooted in Indigenous aesthetics and abstract formalism.”
January 12, 2020David Bates
Rogue Valley Symphony leader: music education in the schools is the key to getting people into concert halls.
January 11, 2020Steph Littlebird
"There is this level of resistance coming from formerly colonized people ... I feel something bubbling under the surface."
January 10, 2020Brett Campbell
New leaders take the renamed Five Oaks Museum deeper into the arts and the diversity of culture around it.
January 9, 2020David Bates
As her career soars, a Eugene playwright says "access is the foundation for a vibrant arts scene."
January 8, 2020TJ Acena
The Power & Magic of an indie comics universe that tells tales of adventure in a nonbinary culture of color.
January 7, 2020David Bates
The director of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art praises Salem's thriving arts and culture community.
January 6, 2020Brett Campbell
Wobbly duo see a dangerous world: "Hate based crime directed against people with disabilities has gone up."
January 5, 2020David Bates
A leading Oregon theater artist says extending equity to all groups is a way forward for everyone.
January 4, 2020Martha Daghlian
At Ori Gallery: "We often joke about how we would love to not be the only Queer, Black-run art space in town."
January 3, 2020David Bates
Leaders of an art center in La Grande say funding cuts could have been dire, but the community stepped up.
January 2, 2020Angela Allen
The Oregon percussionist, composer, and conductor for more than 40 years thinks about thorny issues ahead.
January 1, 2020Lori Tobias
A Newport dance teacher's "small" goals: keep kids motivated to dance, give low-income kids a place to go.