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The award from the National Endowment for the Humanites will help the Bend museum revitalize its permanent collection dedicated to Indigenous peoples of the region.
The Portland artist’s paintings are steeped in American pop-cultural images and deal satirically with race relations. Plus: Hannah Krafcik’s “Gender Deconstruction”; Portland arts tax due.
As Portland’s sprawling 10-day festival of new performance prepares to hit the stage running, the creators of half a dozen fresh shows talk about what they’re doing and why.
Other winners during Monday’s Literary Arts event included Waka T. Brown for young adult literature and poet Daniela Naomi Molnar.
Our Creative Future, which is shaping the Portland metro area’s public approach to arts policies, will have a Virtual Town Meeting April 9. And the City of Portland shifts its cultural lineup.
The gift, which continues the Schnitzer family’s longtime support of Portland State University, will help fund a new home for the School of Art, support PSU’s Schnitzer Art Museum, and provide outdoor art and other enhancements on campus.
News & Notes: Portland’s biggest theater company is one of three nationally to win $1 million grants from the Mellon Foundation. Plus: Center Stage’s new season; new faces at the Oregon Arts Commission and Oregon Cultural Trust.
The Oregon Community Foundation and James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation invest $20 million each to boost cultural groups, adding to $11.8 million pledged by the state Legislature.
A $300 million gift of more than 200 artworks jump-starts the Seattle University Museum of Art. Plus: Maryhill Museum season begins, Asian American writers, Andrew Proctor returns, jazz at Milagro, Billie Holiday tribute night.
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.
Sure, there will still be books, but get ready for big changes in the libraries emerging from 2020’s $387 million bond.
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.
As Central Library reopens in downtown Portland, The Library Foundation takes on new leadership. Plus: A new leader for the Parks Foundation; talking Nevelson and Neel at PNCA.
The 65-year-old Grants Pass library has not kept pace with the city’s growth; funds from the Cow Creek Band and a bill before the Legislature would help pay to replace it.
Portland’s festival of new works is back after taking a year off; the Bellevue Arts Museum faces a “dire financial crisis”; the Eugene paper is back in print following an embezzlement.
The choral ensemble starts their semester-long residency at Linfield University in McMinnville. The recently shuttered jazz club has changed management and is making plans to reopen.
As greater Portland’s arts and cultural system continues a slow structural evolution, a gathering at PSU hears information but not yet the shape of a completed plan.
Shut out in the 2023 legislative session after a Senate walkout stalled action, Oregon arts advocates and legislators are pushing in ’24 for some major state funding.
The stop-motion animation master, who won an Oscar for “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” was revered in Portland’s vibrant animation community.
The mobile venue is a South By Southwest finalist; the former Oregon Symphony conductor’s CIM saga continues.
The Portland-based national cultural organization chooses Shyla Spicer to carry its multiple programs forward as its new president and CEO.
Storm damage shuts down the Beaverton arts center’s galleries for repairs; The Judy reopens after its own storm damage; and All Classical’s biggest-ever grant, from the Murdock Trust, helps its move to new downtown Portland headquarters.
Winners in seven categories will be announced April 8 during a ceremony in Portland. In addition, Ellen Waterston of Bend will be recognized for her contributions to the state’s literary scene.
OBF has announced Jos van Veldhoven and Craig Hella Johnson as the festival’s new artistic partners.
The opera will sell the Hampton Center and look for a new home; the symphony and its musicians agree on a new three-year contract.
The Eugene paper, which had laid off its entire staff in a financial emergency, is making progress, and the Dell’Arte theater school is bouncing back. Triangle’s Off-Broadway show extends; artist grants announced.
The paper, whose journalism includes vital arts and cultural coverage, is fighting a financial crisis allegedly caused by embezzlement, and is turning to the public for help.
Recent moves and kudos about 45th Parallel Universe, Third Angle New Music, Friends of Chamber Music, Cappella Romana, Tomas Cotik, and other figures in Oregon classical and jazz music.
The state’s innovative tax credit system allows you to double the impact of your donations to nonprofit cultural groups – but you must act by Dec. 31.
Webb’s colleagues remember him as a passionate and creative supporter of the arts.
The Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts will provide science, technology, engineering, and math students the opportunity to receive a unique understanding of the world through the arts.
Akiho’s “Sculptures” and Spalding’s collaboration with Fred Hersch received multiple nominations, Tham has been selected for an international conductor competition, and Cotik has unveiled a prototype of his new interdisciplinary media project.
As the giving season moves into high gear, the state’s innovative tax credit system allows you to double the impact of your donations to nonprofit cultural groups.
Next spring’s opening will make Corvallis a destination for world-class arts performances, exhibits, and education.
A series of public meetings about arts funding after the breakup with RACC provides a lens into the still-forming City Arts Program plans – including slashed overhead costs.
Financial difficulties for the 1905, which has just gone out of business, raise larger questions about the history and future of jazz in Portland.
Rebekah Sobel will join the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education in January, moving from the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
A national study reports that the arts rang up an $829 million impact in Oregon in 2022, boosting the economy and creating many jobs. Plus: Oregon is looking for its next poet laureate.
The county follows the City of Portland’s lead in defunding the regional arts granting group – and RACC, in turn, makes plans to continue its services.
Banyas was known nationally for her visionary work in metal arts and enameling: In 2022 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the national Enamelist Society.
The embattled regional arts funding agency cuts its ties with leader Carol Tatch amid a continuing dispute with the City of Portland, The Oregonian reports.
The Nov. 4 festival lineup includes Viet Thanh Nguyen, Michael Lewis, Roz Chast, Gregory Gourdet, Mitchell S. Jackson, Luis Alberto Urrea, Alice Winn, Jonathan Lethem, Patrick deWitt, Lydia Kiesling, and so much more.
Friends have started a GoFundMe account to help the Newport business owner hurt while taking banners down for the November fundraising auction.
The company, beset by financial problems in the midst of a major construction project and a suspended season, parts ways with Jeanette Harrison, its artistic director of only a year.
the 1905, Damien Geter, Carlos Kalmar.
The noted school for physical theater announces an emergency fund drive to keep its doors open. Plus: new Oregon Arts Commission grants, Dan Ryan’s quartet of city Art Talks.
Hull, who taught at Willamette University for 40 years, also curated many exhibitions and wrote brilliantly about many leading Northwest artists.
The newly renovated theater on SE Division Street opens its doors to the public November 3 with a live appearance by David Byrne.
The arts and culture funding group, in the midst of a fierce battle over funding with the City of Portland, puts Executive Director Carol Tatch on paid leave pending investigation of unspecified issues.
The Portland artist and co-founder of the Antler & Talon galleries was a rising star in the arts community. She will be remembered for her unflagging support for artists, her local community, and the environment.
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