New leadership is coming to the Columbia Gorge museum. Plus: Send in the Clowns Without Borders; an –Ism book launch; Central Library takes a break; last call at the Portland Art Museum; cultural caucus grows.
The opening of the Reser Center in Beaverton and the cautious return to post-pandemic “normal” top a vigorous year of arts events in Oregon.
October means falling leaves and the return of Portland TextileX Month. Lindsay Costello’s VizArts Monthly has October’s art to see and events to attend.
Maryhill Museum of Art finishes its sweeping Columbia Gorge fiber-arts project with a grand party on the museum grounds.
Columbia Gorge fiber artist Chloë Hight leads a biological exploration of the river system and the plants that thrive there, giving art and life.
In praise of the hands and minds behind a massive museum yarn-bombing, and the parade of poppies that bring light and remembrance.
Fabric artist Amanda Triplett and her team learn the science of the Columbia River Basin and transform it into the language of art.
Fiber artist Lynn Deal stitches history, culture, and social issues into her section of Maryhill Museum’s Columbia River craft art project.
Artist Xander Griffith, part of Maryhill Museum’s collaborative Columbia River project, makes deeply dotted works in felt that create worlds of color and texture.
Part 2: Friderike Heuer visits Kristy Kún, whose fantastic felt forms suggest something mythological.
In a year of sharp contrasts, visual art in Oregon bounced between the stark and the hopeful, with plenty of surprises along the way.
Theatrical barbecue, skeleton piano, down on the sheep farm, Troubles in Belfast, schools & Congress, bustle of books, a galaxy far far away.
The bellwether: In Maryhill Museum’s second collaborative art project along a 220-mile stretch of the Columbia River – this one by fiber artists – sheep and their wool lead the way.
A look back at the ups and downs and curious side trips of the year in Oregon culture.
An invitation to be a part of ArtsWatch, plus what’s new with centenarians Lenny and Merce.
It all came together under the sun: Maryhill Museum’s audacious, 66-foot long print went to press via steam roller.
As Columbia Gorge print day approaches, artist and veteran Drew Cameron talks about art and war.
As the print date for Maryhill Museum’s Columbia River project approaches, its artists think about the mix of maps and territory.
Printmaker Molly Gaston Johnson follows Lewis & Clark’s westward path to make her mark on theColumbia River project.
Grand Ronde tribes’ Greg Archuleta links past and future in Maryhill’s Columbia Gorge print project.
In Maryhill’s Year of the Print, an exhibit of contemporary printmaking cuts from urban realism to the rhythms of the natural world.
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRIDERIKE HEUER “Alchemy – noun : a power or process that changes or transforms something in a mysterious or impressive way.” (Merriam-Webster) * THE ENGLISH WORD ALCHEMY has its historical roots in the Greek term chēmeia (the Arabic article al was added later when the word
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRIDERIKE HEUER “The bees build in the crevicesOf loosening masonry, and thereThe mother birds bring grubs and flies.My wall is loosening; honey-bees,Come build in the empty house of the stare.” W.B. Yeats wrote these words in the sixth section of
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRIDERIKE HEUER How does an artist decide which questions to raise and which, if any, answers to provide? How does an educator reach an audience and communicate innovative ideas hoping to stir up responses that foster curiosity and
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRIDERIKE HEUER HOW DO YOU TELL A STORY that is not necessarily your own? How do you draw a landscape that did not always belong to you? How do you document reality without appropriating someone else’s history? These
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRIDERIKE HEUER I have on previous occasions written on this or that aspect of Maryhill Museum of Art in Washington, which I like to visit as often as I can. An eclectic collection of paintings, fashion, artifacts of some Eastern
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