Arts notes: Jewish Museum to open
Bob Hicks
July 31, 2020
Plus: Governor’s Arts Awards; what isn’t playing at the Roxy (but is coming via Portland theater companies).
Plus: Governor’s Arts Awards; what isn’t playing at the Roxy (but is coming via Portland theater companies).
August is a busy dance month, with festivals galore. It just happens to be online – which has its advantages.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Black Lives Matter and where artists stand: “We are in a marathon, not a sprint.”
Carrie Lewis, CEO of the Oregon Coast Aquarium, says the Newport attraction awaits the governor’s OK to reopen.
Chehalem Cultural Center showcases work by the late Michael Gibbons, Kerri Evonuk, and Sara Siestreem.
Amid difficult times, the Portland opera singer Onry raises his voice for inclusion.
Joe Cantrell and his camera pierce time and geology to discover secrets of the shape of things.
Ten portraits by K.B. Dixon of Oregon artists who are helping to define what Portland and the state look like.
ArtsWatch Weekly: The theater of politics comes to town, and the city’s center stage.
Recent recordings by Cappella Romana, the Broken Consort, Portland State University Chamber Choir and The Industry showcase Oregon choral and vocal music
Local dance companies and choreographers are adapting to the new normal with determination and creativity, though everyone’s anxious about the future.
An “incredible world of beauty right out your front door”: Michael Gibbons, 76, was a legend along the Yaquina River.
Yale Union and the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation announce the transfer of the SE 10th building to the NACF and the dissolution of Yale Union.
With studio dance classes on hold for the pandemic, dance teachers and their students have begun to adapt to the new reality: Zoom dance classes. It’s working.
A compilation of cat videos assembled by a Pittsburgh movie house owner seeks to help indie film palaces nationwide—including Oregon.
ArtsWatch Weekly: An emergency lifeline to Oregon’s cultural sector staves off disaster. But the problem’s still urgent.
This month’s Virtual Supper Club supports pianist Michael Allen Harrison’s program to bring music lessons to Oregon students.
Engaging Instagram accounts by Oregon artists who seek to make the everyday better and more hopeful.
Catherine Rickbone of the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts says pandemic cutbacks make this a good time to retire.
The state’s cultural sector gets a much-need lift as part of a $200 million Covid-19 economic lifeline.
The last class of OCAC’s MFA in Craft program has a show – in person- at Upfor Gallery for one week in July. Briana Miller reviews.
“Aberdeen,” Matt Sheehy’s musical memoir of grief and rebirth, is livestreaming this weekend.
Cascadia Composers’ In Good Hands expands students’ horizons and brings music to the next generations.
ArtsWatch Weekly: The doors reopen. Plus: Black & white in America, follow the money, is the “new normal” old?
The Oregon artist helped create Toledo’s arts colony, and has a show at Newberg’s Chehalem Cultural Center.
Wondering why “Black Lives Matter” matters? The answer’s baked into the nation’s racial attitudes.
Profile Theatre’s audio play follows a globe-trotting pangolin as it spreads viral-like havoc across nine scenes.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Amid twin crises, arts and social awareness mix and meld and come together.
Oregon festivals spread the music online and in other virus-resistant forms. Brett Campbell counts the ways.
The Newport Symphony Orchestra has to forgo its July Fourth concert, but an encore broadcast keeps the spirit alive.
Minus the big crowds and the riverside, the Blues Festival rethinks itself – and the beat goes on.
Shannon M. Lieberman’s ongoing series on Oregon artists on Instagram focuses on photographers Saman Haaji, Joseph Blake, and Mariah Harris.
Kids in Newport’s Online Summer Drama Club will learn all about theater — and put on a play — via computer.
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