“There’s a lot this country needs to explore, and understand, and comprehend about itself. Transformation–that’s what ‘Revolution’ is about.”
How have dancers and choreographers negotiated the pandemic? Jamuna Chiarini tells her particular story.
After a quiet year, the Nehalem theater company is back with a play in which all the characters are canine.
April marks National Poetry Month – along with eight of the most exciting ways for you to celebrate.
Lindsay Costello’s round-up of shows to see virtually, in Portland, and around the state in April.
Art institutions have embraced the call for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Jennifer Rabin probes the shortcomings of the approach and offers an alternative.
Beverly Cleary reminded America that adventurous children weren’t transgressive—they were fun! Especially on Klickitat Street.
Composer Stephen Scott created singular music — and a unique instrument to play it.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Amid a time of violence in America, art that remembers its roots and looks beyond.
Streamers: Marc Mohan goes to the movies from home and finds an F-load of features, plus some movie news.
How poet Joni Renee Whitworth transformed the pandemic experience into an experimental short film.
Luiza Lukova interviews the artist and educator about claiming space, engaging students, and creating “social forms.”
As things fall apart, Keith Rosson’s collection “Folk Tales for Trauma Surgeons” asks readers to hold out hope.
The Hoff Online program celebrates Manzanita Day with a talk by Ketzel Levine.
Relocating a WWII jail cell to the Japanese American Museum of Oregon honors a civil rights hero.
Stage & Studio: Dmae Roberts talks with artist and curator Wong about challenging stereotypes and anti-Asian racism.
The pandemic thaw continues, with a lecture by Trystan Reese, music, visual art, and a camillia fest.
Joe Kye’s new single “The Way Out” brings dance, Zoom, and social justice together to address the border crisis.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Where’s Frida; how to (maybe) reopen; farewell to Ross McKeen; puppets, comics, and more.
Actor Keith Mascoll digs into the issue of childhood sexual abuse in “Triggered Life,” from Portland Playhouse.
McKeen, who helped lead Oregon Children’s Theatre to national prominence, dies of pancreatic cancer.
Portland writer Kathleen Lane and her smart new novel for middle schoolers turn the table on anxiety and spark creativity.
The music fest, which lost its 20th season last year to the pandemic, plans to start again in ’21 – if restrictions are eased in time.
A narrative art exhibit at the Chehalem Cultural Center tells stories that “provide insight into the human condition.”
Museums and art galleries are just beginning to awake. Portland’s museum of street art has been thriving all along.
A Portland comics artist takes on a monster project: a 200-page anthology with 18 artists in 6 countries.
Dance workshops aid houseless women, children and nonbinary people at the Rose Haven shelter.
Put together a composer with a post-Halloween idea, a passel of puppets, and the Portland Columbia Symphony. Add YouTube and instruments. Voila!
Shannon M. Lieberman contemplates the complex and intertwined animal relationships featured in works by April Coppini, Chase, Mullen, and Chris Austin.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A year into shutdown, signs of revival: Stimulus aid for the arts, museums reopening, a theater with an audience of 1 to 5.
Matthew Neil Andrews on the joy of following Machado Mijiga, plus Joe Henderson, Bobby McFerrin, Freddie Hubbard & more.
Fresh picks from the virtual Portland International Film Fest; classic rediscoveries worth seeking out.
The Hallie Ford Museum of Art exhibits 70 pieces produced by Northwest artists during the New Deal.
Lincoln City students blend art with technology to create self-portraits during a year of virtual learning.
Shaking the Tree’s new multimedia installation offers the electricity of in-person theater in a safe viewing experience.
Dmae Roberts moves her essential performance podcast to ArtsWatch. Up first: Costumer deluxe Wanda Walden.
A group of collectors burned a Banksy print to increase the value of its digital version. Jennifer Rabin sorts it out.
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School Museum of Contemporary Art has faced a difficult year, but it has adapted to the pandemic and kept its students engaged.
Last month’s all-virtual festival receives rave reviews, and we tell you which films took home the honors.
What does what is kept say about attention and care in a period of isolation? Lindsay Costello reviews the artists’ exhibition “Winnowing” at Well Well Projects.
ArtsWatch Weekly: History moves into the forefront, a new series on Indigenous resilience, film fest time.
Theater goes to the movies: “See Me,” from Artist Rep’s DNA: Oxygen group, is premiering at the Film Festival.
New and local on Bandcamp: Lizzy “Cardioid” Ellison and George “Theoretical Planets” Colligan, Mo Troper’s audacious Beatles covers, epic from The Decemberists’ vault. Plus, fee free Friday!
When Greg Archuleta realized the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde didn’t have any cultural education classes, he created them himself.
The winner of the Soapstone Bread and Roses Award brings out a fresh look at the history of women’s suffrage.
Marc Mohan picks a handful of favorites from this year’s 44th annual festival, much of which is online.
Steph Littlebird introduces Oregon ArtsWatch’s new series “Indigenous Resilience in Oregon.”
Lindsay Costello’s monthly round-up of what to see in March everywhere from new backyard spaces to established galleries.
Old Portland, new Portland, any way you like Portland: Charles Rose lends an ear to the music of March.
Though we long for the Olden Times, when dancers occupied the same rooms we did, we’re still counting our blessings: 1) Spring awaits; 2) Dance online.
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