Songs from the Congo
Friderike Heuer
February 13, 2024
Looking at “Black Artists of Oregon” and “Africa Fashion” at the Portland Art Museum.
Looking at “Black Artists of Oregon” and “Africa Fashion” at the Portland Art Museum.
At the Portland Art Museum, a shining show of fashion from Africa, an energetic celebration of Black artists that feels like the start of a much bigger picture – and a third show, “Throughlines,” that mixes and matches from the museum collections.
Converge 45 brings a suite of compelling shows to Portland-area art spaces and there is plenty to see around the state as well. Jason N. Le has the intel on September’s art events.
Warmer weather is here – at least for now! Celebrate by heading out to take in some art at any of these enticing offerings.
The Portland writer, hip hop organizer, and activist discusses life as a Black Muslim in Oregon, the foundation of We Out Here Magazine, and monthly hip hop showcase The Thesis.
As Studio Abioto’s African-diaspora “Red Thread: Green Earth” closes with a vibrant performance at the Reser Center, show and space seem made for each other.
Victoria Anne Reis and manuel arturo abreu’s first exhibition of their year-long curatorial residency continues the work of their “homeschool” educational project.
The Beaverton arts center’s new gallery show from Studio Abioto, a family of talented Black women artists, traces a thread back to the land.
The Portland photographer says she is interested in the “lived history of Black place,” the legacy of Black artists in Oregon who came before.
From housing crises to race in Portland, the Mosaic’s seventh annual festival remembering the Vanport Flood of 1948 brings the past into the present.
Stage & Studio podcast: Dmae Roberts talks with the artistically versatile Abioto about Black culture and her many projects.
It’s TBA time! Amy Leona Havin checks out the literary side of PICA’s festival and other book events.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Photography gets (beyond) real, art museum reshuffles, Ashland’s indie film fest.
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School Museum of Contemporary Art has faced a difficult year, but it has adapted to the pandemic and kept its students engaged.
Businesses boarded up against Covid and protests. Artists saw blank canvases. A look at very public art projects.
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