The exhibition explores the history of police violence and imaginative visions of the future Calavera Copter has teeth. The paper helicopter hanging from the rafters, casts a long shadow across a blue wall some 10 feet wide where three impressionist water ...
20 Mar 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
Casey Neill and the Norway Rats’ new album, ‘Sending up Flares’ embraces collectivity, community and love Billy Bragg was a veteran of both protest music and actual protests when he released “Workers Playtime” in 1988… an album of love songs fueled by a p ...
6 Mar 2024 - Jason Cohen
How PHAME creates room for Portlanders with intellectual and developmental disabilities to produce, challenge and advance their art The audience responded with a resounding standing ovation when Aaron Hobson sang “Psycho Killer" at the Tomorrow Theat ...
6 Dec 2023 - Ellen Clarke
Opinion | Poetry on the environments of the unhoused and displaced Grab a copy of Orion, a national magazine of nature and culture, this month to read five Street Roots poets — Bronwyn Carver, Daniel Cox, Randy Humphreys, George McCarthy and Michone Nettl ...
20 Sep 2023 - Kaia Sand
Portland's renowned Milagro Theatre seeks to uplift Latino culture and heritage through theater “Hope, Courage & Resilience” is the theme as Teatro Milagro, or Milagro Theatre, heads into its monumental 40th season, kicking off nine months of pro ...
20 Sep 2023 - Ellen Clarke
The storied Albina institution transferred to new ownership Sept. 1. New owners hope to push the arts space to new heights. A heat wave did not keep the smiles from people’s faces as they gathered at the Albina Arts Center in Northeast Portland to embra ...
6 Sep 2023 - Ellen Clarke
Local shows aim to create cost-inclusive spaces and embrace queer youth of all backgrounds to build community “The music industry is dead, and this is what’s real,” Dylan Widick, lead singer and bassist for local pop-punk band Edd Party, said. He was refe ...
9 Aug 2023 - Miles Silvey
New exhibit, ‘My Father’s Father’s Sister’ focuses on Shimkhin, a 19th-century Two-Spirit Atfalati Kalapuya healer When looking at your own history, who looks back? It could be someone just like you. A new exhibit at the Chachalu Cultural Museum in Grand ...
14 Jun 2023 - Melanie Henshaw
Local Indigenous curator showcases the enduring existence of Native communities through contemporary art Although contemporary Indigenous communities are vibrant and diverse, many think of Native Americans in the past tense. A local Indigenous curator rem ...
29 Mar 2023 - Melanie Henshaw
Grand Ronde photographer M. Earl Williams explores the creation of community M. Earl Williams grew up with his family on the Grand Ronde Reservation and started his artistic career as an adventurous skateboarding teen with a camera. Now, with several art ...
22 Feb 2023 - Melanie Henshaw