The trans queer poet and educator runs awQward Talent, which teaches the freedom to just ‘be’ On the lower level of Seattle’s Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, J Mase III stands in front of a small group of people eager to learn about artist sustain ...
23 Aug 2019 - Lisa Edge
The enigmatic artist and filmmaker has curated a series of events at an English gallery aptly called HOME David Lynch is such an enigma he’s become an adjective. The Urban Dictionary defines “Lynchian” as a “balance between the macabre and the mundane” an ...
26 Jul 2019 - Steven MacKenzie
A British Columbia artist creates environmentally friendly pieces that decompose in nature In a lush corner of a West Coast rainforest, a nursery stump is covered in moss, a small huckleberry bush and the face of a contemplative woman. This is the work of ...
5 Jul 2019 - Michelle Gamage
‘Night Dogs’ exposes racial and economic disparity in 1970s Portland The scene is Portland, Ore. A largely African-American community has been laid-off, bulldozed and forgotten, its neighborhoods awash in poverty and drugs. The police, even according to o ...
28 Jun 2019 - Jason Cohen
The self-confessed bad feminist and writer talks about trauma, triumph and teenage soaps By Roxane Gay, as told to Anastasia Safioleas Roxane Gay is the author of the books “Ayiti,” “An Untamed State,” the New York Times bestselling column "Bad Femin ...
5 Apr 2019 - Anastasia Safioleas
Writer and TV host Samin Nosrat talks to Street Roots about how she makes cooking accessible to everyone Interviewing Samin Nosrat, even on the phone, is a lot like watching her Netflix show. You can feel her passion and enthusiasm – for life, for food, f ...
8 Mar 2019 - Jason Cohen
The Portland exhibit and performance series includes literary readings from Street Roots vendors David Slader and Owen Carey don’t have a spot of ink between them, but tattoos are the central theme of their co-exhibition at Gallery 114 in the Pearl Distri ...
1 Mar 2019 - Emily Green
Yayoi Kusama, the artist behind the eye-popping, mind-bending, perspective-shifting mirror rooms, is as extraordinary as her art Known for her immersive installations and her bulbous, black-spotted pumpkin sculptures, Yayoi Kusama is one of the world’s mo ...
1 Feb 2019 - Keva York
Years after he died homeless, a treasure trove of his work will finally be seen at Street Roots Sometime around 2012, an elderly homeless man sleeping on a bench in Portland’s downtown park blocks rolled off and hit his head. He was taken to Oregon Health ...
25 Jan 2019 - Helen Hill
Book review | “Joe Gould’s Teeth” by Jill Lepore Who is Joe Gould? He has been dead since 1957 but he keeps popping up. There was a time, during World War II, that his name had become known to many, thanks to a splendid profile about the unkempt little ma ...
30 Nov 2018 - Joe Martin