K.B. Dixon’s cultural-portrait series continues with black & white images of novelist Lydia Kiesling, actor Charles Grant, multidisciplinary artist Emily Ginsburg, photographer Thibault Roland, and writer/editor Margaret Malone.
K.B. Dixon takes a camera tour through the McMinnville museum, from the Spruce Goose to the world’s fastest jet to replicas of the Spirit of St. Louis and Apollo Lunar Rover & more.
K.B. Dixon’s cultural-portrait series continues with black & white images of jazz drummer Ron Steen, multimedia artist Pamela Chipman, musical-theater leader Sharon Maroney, filmmaker Jim Blashfield, and author and environmentalist Allison Cobb.
It was a year of building booms, an Off-Broadway triumph, a financial flop in the Legislature, a great cultural-funding divorce, AI everywhere, and a good number of artistic happy surprises.
Photographer K.B. Dixon takes a tour of Portland’s neighborhoods and discovers an impromptu people’s garden of inflatable statues celebrating the holiday season.
K.B. Dixon’s cultural-portrait series continues with a “special edition” featuring trailblazing women artists Lucinda Parker, Judy Cooke, Phyllis Yes, Sherrie Wolf, and Laura Ross-Paul.
Steeped in the history of good and evil, these nightmare figures of protection and malevolence come out on Halloween. They’re also K.B. Dixon’s office mates.
K.B. Dixon’s cultural-portrait series continues with visual artist Marie Watt, classical percussionist Niel DePonte, dancer & choreographer Oluyinka Akinjiola, poet & storyteller Brian S. Ellis, and actor & Portland Revels leader Lauren Bloom Hanover.
K.B. Dixon’s culltural-portrait series continues with illustrator Kate Bingaman-Burt, artist Dan Gluibizzi, writers Cecily Wong and Aaron Galbreath, and Oregon Ballet Theatre’s Dani Rowe.
As Portland strives to revive from the crises of the past three years, K.B. Dixon wraps up his five-part photographic series of scenes from the city that was and might be again.
Remembrance of things not so very past: As Portland crawls back from the crises of the past three years, K.B. Dixon’s urban portraits capture the everyday beauty of the city that was.
A new book by the late, great New Yorker writer arrives as a series of collaged short essays. K.B. Dixon reviews it in the same spirit.
Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of portraits of Oregon cultural leaders with parks activist Randy Gragg, playwright Lava Alapai, mixed-media artist Erik Geschke, writer Erica Berry, and choreographer/dancer Samuel Hobbs.
The once and future city? K.B. Dixon’s series of urban portraits reminds us of what Portland felt like in the not-too-distant past.
Got something to say? In the not too distant past, Portland was a town where you could put it in writing, and take it to the street.
As the city struggles to regain its footing, K.B. Dixon’s series of urban portraits reminds us of what Portland felt like in the not-too-distant past.
Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of portraits with singer & actor Susannah Mars, violinist Tomás Cotik, Native arts leader Lulani Arquette, sculptor Ben Buswell, and multidisciplinary artist Fuchsia Lin.
Has the city lost its way? In the first of a series of urban portraits, K.B. Dixon reminds us of what Portland felt like in the not-too-distant past.
Open Air Museum, Part 3: Still hesitant about entering a museum or gallery? Welcome to this statuesque exhibition-about-town.
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.
From the glories of Movie Madness to a flock of festivals to the tale of Will Vinton’s lost dreams, it was a very good film year in Oregon.
Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of portraits with theater leader Josh Hecht, art school dean Jen Cole, opera singer Hannah Penn, novelist Tony Ardizzone, and film prop and effects artist Christina Kortum.
Photographer K.B. Dixon haunts the neighborhoods to discover what Halloween artists have wrought. See what he scares up.
Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of portraits with musicians Marv and Rindy Ross, artist David Eckard, actor Maureen Porter, and writer Todd Schultz.
“The first thing I am looking for in a portrait is beauty”: K.B. Dixon talks about the intricate dance of subject and photographer.
K.B. Dixon’s series of portraits continues with the Oregon Symphony’s Scott Showalter, Renegade Opera’s Madeline Ross, theater leader Michael Mendelson, poet Genevieve DeGuzman, and roots music legend Lloyd Jones.
After a two-year Covid layoff, the big LGBTQ+ celebration is returning to Waterfront Park. Photographer K.B. Dixon shows us what we’ve been missing.
Ready or not, here it comes. After two years in the Covid desert, Portland’s Rose Festival roars back. Let the Bacchanalia begin.
Yes, it’s a great beach town – and part of that is its cultural life. K.B. Dixon brings home the photographic proof.
K.B. Dixon continues his series with five fresh photographic portraits of people who help define the shape of Portland’s culture.
As the nation celebrates the art of language, K.B. Dixon photographs ten leading Oregon poets.
By a popular restaurant on the way to the Oregon Coast, an open-air logging museum offers the strange and ghostly beauty of ruination. A photo essay by K.B. Dixon.
Photo essay: Portland’s iconic video store and memorabilia museum has kept the film lights flickering through the pandemic.
K.B. Dixon continues his photo series with portraits of ten more people who help define the shape of Portland’s culture.
Dixon’s portraits of Oregon writers have been published on ArtsWatch; Thompson’s “Tide Charts: Ebb and Flow” includes his final works before he died in 2019.
In a year of sharp contrasts, visual art in Oregon bounced between the stark and the hopeful, with plenty of surprises along the way.
Celebrating artists in Oregon whose visions stood out and helped define and rethink a precarious year.
Beyond the haunts, here come “Tosca” & other sounds, book fests, movies & nostalgia, more.
K.B. Dixon begins a new series with photographic portraits of eleven people who help define the shape of Portland’s culture.
ArtsWatch Weekly: As Covid ebbs and flows, arts & culture find fresh form – and Oregon stories arrive in a rush.
On Street Photography Day, Portland photographer K.B. Dixon celebrates the art of capturing the moment.
ArtsWatch Weekly: The ballet company reshuffles its season, dropping three Nicolo Fonte pieces.
In his continuing series of portraits of Oregon artists, photographer K.B. Dixon profiles 11 outstanding writers.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A musical trip in a funhouse mirror, talking about “Lorelei,” creative laureates & more.
As the world begins to waken, K.B. Dixon and his camera rediscover the pleasures of an arts & crafts fair.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Chamber Music Northwest enters the concert hall, shakeup at OBT, summer of soul.
From the symphony to baroque to jazz to Celtic to opera to a legendary luthier, an Oregon all-star team.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Photographic tales of Black Portland; picturing Pride; symphony’s new chief; more.
As this year’s Pride Festival and Parade go (mostly) virtual, we take a pictorial stroll down memory lane.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A festival to remember, theater heats up, All Classical leaps forward, Chachalu steps up.
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