ArtsWatch Weekly: a squeeze, a shuffle, a Fertile sprawl
Bob Hicks
January 30, 2020
Space squeeze, RACC reshuffle, Fertile Ground fever, nudes & Federales: a busy week.
Space squeeze, RACC reshuffle, Fertile Ground fever, nudes & Federales: a busy week.
Fresh voices, surprising ideas emerge at Fertile Ground – and the theater week stays busy elsewhere, too.
An Astoria show celebrates a universal: “We all necessarily inhabit our own bodies.”
Normally we like to contain all our monthly previews in one tidy column. But since February starts this weekend, we’d like to tell you all about the first stretch of Februarial concerts now–and we’ll tell you about the rest of the month
Patrick Collier offers ways to understand David Eckard’s sculptures now on view at the North View Gallery
Portland’s festival of new works is a blur of hopeful creativity. Media night gives a hint of the pandemonium.
Broadway Rose’s “Up and Away” is an affectionate yet subversive musical superhero parody.
Regional Arts & Culture Council shifts its focus to fundraising, advocacy, outreach. One result: 15 layoffs, 15 new positions.
It’s Sunday night and I’m at New Expressive Works, watching a few minutes of tech rehearsal for the upcoming Listening to Silence, a dance performance co-created by NEW founder and executive director Subashini Ganesan and Yashaswini Raghuram, the assistant director of Odissi
As rapid development tightens the real estate market in Portland’s core, arts groups try to play the game.
A showcase of student dancers highlights the talent and promise of a new generation.
Following up on Portland Art Museum’s $10 million Rothko Pavilion gift; a fond farewell to Vision 2020.
Tonight, tonight, tonight! Your busy music editor has to miss a bunch of cool stuff tonight, dear reader: I’ll be schlepping gongs and playing reyong with Gamelan Wahyu Dari Langit, opening for Wet Fruit at Mississippi Studios. If you followed our adventures
A fundraiser auctions a Rick Bartow sketch and the 14th annual “Au Naturel” show opens in Astoria.
Longtime patron Arlene Schnitzer makes a major donation to help fund the Rothko Pavilion.
At a North Portland school, a music lover and BRAVO music students meet and learn in the circle of life.
Rachel Rosenfield Lafo considers the artist’s meditative fiber sculptures made from deconstructed canvases
Gallery shows on glass, Rogue River Wars, and tea service; a play reading; and a native son comes to town.
A visit to see Dorothy Goode’s joyful, merging, overlapping, playful paintings.
Metropolitan Youth Symphony director talks full STEAM ahead about the links among science, education, and the arts.
Teatro Milagro’s leader talks about bilingual arts and the joys and perils of taking the show on the road.
Metropolitan Youth Symphony leader: In a troubled world, schools need to teach the empathy of the arts.
Christopher Acebo stages Lynn Nottage’s timely look at labor for Profile. Plus, a burst of new shows.
The Clatsop CC teacher loves Astoria’s grittiness, but sees gentrification putting the squeeze on her students.
Arvie Smith: 2 Up and 2 Back at Disjecta and ‘The Absence of Myth’ at Upfor Gallery dazzle then invite deeper, darker reflections.
An interview with Ron Blessinger about new music, old music, and the effect of space on sound.
The CALYX editor says “men would benefit a lot from reading female-centered narratives.”
In Oregon this week, the arts go marching two by two (and sometimes to the beat of a different drummer).
For almost four decades the leaders of PassinArt have forged a strong path for Black theater in Portland.
In which we bid adieu to Neil Peart and comfort ourselves with winey classical marimba, saturnalian psalms, and an operatic sistah.
Dancemaker Linda Austin concludes her four-year experiment with the way we remember, forget, re-imagine and recreate art.
A promising curator makes her mark. Her job disappears. She rolls up her sleeves and makes her mark again.
The most critical element in gyotaku, says instructor Bruce Koike, is getting the eyes right.
A student show at The Gallery at Ten Oaks provides an encouraging view of arts education in Yamhill County.
At the Museum of the Oregon Territory, a “gutsy art of overcoming” creates an art show and an auction.
Leaders of Newberg’s Chehalem Cultural Center look forward to more performing arts and a new culinary center.
As the U.S. cracks down on “Dreamers,” the Oregon Historical Society digs deep into the stories of new Americans.
The Southern Oregon artist and activist creates art “rooted in Indigenous aesthetics and abstract formalism.”
Rogue Valley Symphony leader: music education in the schools is the key to getting people into concert halls.
“There is this level of resistance coming from formerly colonized people … I feel something bubbling under the surface.”
New leaders take the renamed Five Oaks Museum deeper into the arts and the diversity of culture around it.
Oregon has two winters as well as two summers. We’ve just wrapped up First Winter: the time when it hasn’t gotten too terribly cold and miserable, holiday cheer is in the air, and everybody’s all excited for the solstice and the new
Vision 2020, new/old Five Oaks Museum, Second Winter music, blood sweat & fears onstage, storm of the (last) century.
As her career soars, a Eugene playwright says “access is the foundation for a vibrant arts scene.”
The Power & Magic of an indie comics universe that tells tales of adventure in a nonbinary culture of color.
Washington County Museum branches out under a new name, Five Oaks Museum, and a broader cultural umbrella.
“This IS Kalapuyan Land” at the newly renamed Five Oaks Museum makes an emphatic case for a reclaimed history.
Book author John Dodge will speak in Cannon Beach about the 1962 Columbus Day Storm.
The director of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art praises Salem’s thriving arts and culture community.
Sue Taylor reviews Kerry Skarbakka’s recent exhibition at Northview Gallery, PCC Sylvania
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