The 2024 session improves on a dismal ’23 session for the arts, with allocations for several large organizations, less for smaller ones, and an unwelcome surprise for the High Desert Museum.
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The new center, whose name means “butterfly,” seeks to create a “microscopic utopia” for artists who are often dispossessed.
Recent productions “North” and Red Door Project’s “The Evolve Experience” highlight the Beaverton arts center’s socially responsive programming.
This year’s festival of “Black American Music” featured hot touring artists and returning Oregonians alongside up-and-coming new locals.
MYS performed world premieres of music by Nancy Ives and Charles Martin alongside Beethoven and Lalo.
“Las Vegas Ikebana” celebrates five decades of friendship between Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi. On view are individual works, collaborations, and ephemera that reveal the richness of their creative intertwining.
At Art in the Cave in Vancouver, Ruth Ross and other artists stitch and weave tales that open up many questions.
Octavio Solis’s contemporary spin on “Don Quixote” reimagines the wise man/mad man hero in a tale that tumbles brightly and searingly across the Mexican/Texan border.
Recent productions “North” and Red Door Project’s “The Evolve Experience” highlight the Beaverton arts center’s socially responsive programming.
Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian star in a stylish neo-noir, plus the feature film debut of writer-director-star Julio Torres of HBO’s “Los Espookys.”
Plus: “Accidental Texan,” “Cabrini,” and “Kung Fu Panda 4.”
Presented at the 2024 Portland Jazz Festival, SKC’s latest world premiere promised to transcend artistic boundaries with innovations that take dance and sound in a new dimension, though delivered a more puzzling traditional concert dance experience.
The performance space by the railroad tracks in North Portland and the Butoh-inspired company Water in the Desert whisper their farewell to the Portland scene.
The Portland theater company’s Youth Devising Residency program teaches young people stage skills and more. The show they created, “What Brings You Here?,” is at PSU March 7-9.
Bobby Bermea: Promising writer and recent high school grad Evan McCreary gets a weekend of readings at IFCC with talent and a little help from his older friends.
Entries are open for May’s “Rising from the Trashes” event, which includes an art gallery, fashion show, and storytelling – all spotlighting trash.
Sure, there will still be books, but get ready for big changes in the libraries emerging from 2020’s $387 million bond.
The installation by Christina Harkness and Shanna Smith Suttner opens March 22 at the Willamette Heritage Center in Salem, before returning to Lincoln City in August.
The installation by Christina Harkness and Shanna Smith Suttner opens March 22 at the Willamette Heritage Center in Salem, before returning to Lincoln City in August.
The Dutch-born American artist’s retrospective at the Salem museum showcases neon not as a gaudy symbol of advertising but as a key element of art for art’s sake.
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Hannah Krafcik explores the gender nonconforming and trans experience in a series of essays.
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