October 27 Love

Amy Bay brings paintings The Book of Love.

Amy Bay with https://www.nationale.us/amy-bay-the-book-of-love-2024 at Nationale www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map Recommended 1PM-3 Free

October 26 Mushroom Fire Sometimes

Toadstools is Helen's Costume's four year anniversary show. Toadstools features work by DL Alvarez, Erica Eyres, Noah Greene, Midori Hirose, Johanna Jackson, Chris Johanson, Lena Lutz, Elmeater Morton, Ralph Pugay, Stephanie Simek, Jackie Stewart, Shelley Turley, including sound art. Costumes as you like.

At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street 2PM-5 Free


Lucy Cotter https://www.lucycotter.org/ is an international writer, curator, and artist working in Portland. She has been updating her book Reclaiming Artistic Research. She speaks on that today in Artistic Research In A World On Fire. RSVP at https://www.steloarts.org/stelo-events/event-two. 412 NW 8th Avenue 2PM-4 Free


A Sometimes Gallery has limited hours, opening and closing, though they do show up at local print fairs. Their show closing is today. They are selling their vinyl cover show at $100, cash and carry.

At A Sometimes Gallery https://asometimesgallery.com/ 3601 SE Division Noon-4 Free

October 22 Public Nature

Pubic Nature is a roaming itinerant movement/word/music performance. It homes to the Portland Art Collective tonight. In this, they bring Dee Bustos, Jules Tillinghast, and Allie Hankins. Hankins, known for moement, brings sound.

Pubic Nature at the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 120 SW Harvey Milk Door 7:30PM show 8 $10

October 18 Breathing Room

The Lobby at Ellen Browning opens Breathing Room.

The artists are Jeff Elrod, Naotaka Hiro, Kwangho Lee, Kwon Young-Woo, Ranjani Shettar, and Tsai Yun-Ju.

Breathing Room https://ellenbrowningbuilding.com/exhibition/breathing-room/ at The Lobby at Ellen Browning https://ellenbrowningbuilding.com/the-lobby/ 2871 SE Division Street. 6PM-8 Free

October 15 Vote One Family

Today is the last day to register to vote in Oregon. It is also the opening of a large group show, Vote or Suck, in association with Rock the Vote, at 4Oceans1Family.

This art show with political themes gathers artists: Brad Adkins, Facundo Arganaraz, Graham Barey, Alexander Barrett, Jeben Berg, Josh Berger, Catherine Borg, James Boulton, breedingcastle, Steve Brown, Benji Brucker, Tom Cheevers, Bruce Conkle, Nate Corrado, Niko Courtelis, Alberto Cuadros, Francesco Igory Deiana, Cali DeWitt, Kieron Dwyer, Shepard Fairey, Leo Fitzpatrick, Mark Flood, Melanie Flood, Bert Franklin, Hank Willis Thomas (For Freedoms), Tonky, Beth Fujiura, Eric Gibbons, Jim Goldberg, Casey Gray, Matthew Clifford Green, Henry Gunderson, Charles Hall, Casey Hall, Justin Hays, Stephen Hendee, Jed Heuer, Midori Hirose, Will Holmes, Justin Hoover, Charlie Salas-Humara, Ryan Humphrey, Tristan Kwame Irving, Johanna Jackson, Jordan Jackson, Chris Johanson, David Henry Nobody Jr, KATSU, Josh Kermiet, Josh Kobrin, Liz Miller Kovacs, Tony Labat, Chris Lael Larson, Nick Lee, Jennifer Locke, Nate Lowman, Marne Lucas, Chris Lux, Mads Lynnerup, Rick Maderis, Mieke Marple, Eric Mast, Alicia McCarthy, Alyx McClain, Andrew McClintock, Danielle McCoy, Barry McGee, Jordan McRae, Jason Middlebrook, Todd Norsten, Mitsu Okubo, Guy Overfelt, Mike Paré, Ralph Pugay, Rey Ramirez, Scott Reeder, Joan Reidy, Nick Rhodes, Jim Riswold, Timothy Scahill, Kenny Schachter, Lucien Smith, Chris Sollars, Andrea Sonnenberg, Heather Sparks, Amy Stafford, Nick Stokes, Taravat Talepasand, Jeff Teicher, Shelley Turley, Ben Venom, Sebo Walker, Zach Wallenfang, Shannon Wheeler, Wendy White, Ian Williams, Kevin Ronin Wright, Aaron Young, Oliver Yue, Peter Yue, and Michael Zheng.

Art show opening tonight, then open Saturday and Sunday 10/19-20, Noon-6. At 4Oceans1Family, https://www.4oceans1family.com/ 140 NW 4th 6PM-9 Free

October 11 Do Not Look Into the Phone

Magic Mirror Magic Mirror HELP! Get Me Out of Here - a multimedia art show on the mythology of the cell phone and the wrath of the gods is a project filling the Virtua Gallery by EGOR, Mia Misyuk, Kelly Madden, and Mystery Glass. Music by MarkovSoroka (of Tchornobog), 5:3PM0-6:30, live Q&A/artist talk at 6:30PM.

Important instructions. Enter mall parking off NE Halsey and park by Barnes and Noble. At 7 the mall closes so we need to stay in Virtua after 7. No wandering the mall after 7.

At Virtua Gallery nee Xhurch in the in Lloyd Center Mall. They are on the mid level next to now-closed Animal. Plant. Mineral. The mall locks the doors at 7PM, so get inside before the doors are locked. 5PM-8 Free

October 11 - 12 Monument Art and Culture

Monuments are slow culture. Outdoors the changing weather takes its toll on their gravity. Media is fast culture. Values can change quickly. Fast culture can war on slow culture. That resulted in taking down some monuments, new ones appearing, and a discussion of what we want for monuments. https://www.portland.gov/arts/monuments/whats-happening-citys-monuments

This 2 day ticketed and free symposium organized by Converge 45 and hosted by PCC Cascade is part of that process.

You can read about the program on the ticketing page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/portland-monuments-project-symposium-tickets-923012805147 Sales end soon. The free steaming links are in the Eventbrite.

Public monuments discussion at PCC Cascade 705 N Killingsworth 9:30AM-5PM Free

October 10-20 NYC Butoh Festival

If you are in New York, the New York Butoh Institute Festival brings performances and workshops.

Vangeline is the main force. She was born in France and brings studies of neuroscience and performance. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56c7ed02f8baf3ae17d0dd7c/t/66aac9ecdcdad83cb2956266/1722468846141/%E2%80%98You+Think%2C+So+You+Can+Dance_%E2%80%99+Science+Is+on+It.+-+The+New+York+Times%281%29.pdf She maintains an active performance schedule, including Seattle sometimes.

Vangeline has been collaborating with Akihito Ichihara. Ichihara performed for many years with Sankai Juku, and is continuing with them after the founder passed. Ichihara also has his own unit of young dancers, ELF. Vangeline and Ichihara perform Man Woman together October 12.

The festival this year has a theme honoring Latin American women in butoh, with Natalia Cuéllar from Chile, and Eugenia Vargas from Mexico who perform October 10 and 11.

Natalia Cuellar and Eugenia Vargas, perform October 10 and 11 at 8pm.

Akihito Ichihara/ ELF and Vangeline Theater perform October 12 at 7:30pm.

Workshops are detailed at https://www.vangeline.com/enroll-here.

Ticket links, video excerpts, and details are at https://www.vangeline.com/.

Performances at Triskelion Arts, 106 Calyer Street, Brooklyn, New York $24.23-$27.38

October 7 Ancient Oak

There is a famous story about oak beams as told by Gregory Bateson, onetime married to Margart Mead https://longnow.org/ideas/humans-and-trees-in-long-term-partnership/. And Portland has many famous stories about the Oak Street Lofts.

The Portland Oak Street Lofts were a creative incubator. Maybe still. It was a cheap place to live and work creative people love. The Urban Honking crowd had some. It was under inspection by the City because it was not allowed to live. One of the City inspectors was called out for stalking a resident. After that, the Lofts recieved advance notice on inspections to roll up the futons.

Artists Carson Ellis, Midori Hirose, and May Burruell were there in the moment. Same time as the Alphabet Dress show. Tonight they reminesce.

Chat in the context of https://www.nationale.us/carson-ellis-one-week-in-january-2024 at Nationale www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 7PM Free

October 5 Northside Art Openings+

Albina is one of Portland's oldest neighborhoods and was an independent city at one time. It's been thoroughly destroyed by highways, railroads and access to the river blocked by large industrial facilities and ruins. It's polluted too. There are a few old buildings in the neighborhood for a sense of what was: the old Widmer building, Beam and Anchor, some buildings on Russell, the old Ripe Family Dinner building, and some are artist work spaces. The North Coast Seed Building is one, a complex of artist studios in Albina. They are rarely open to the public; the artists bring their work to the Marine Art Works events.

Today some of the artists in the building show their work. Salon D' Autonme at the North Coast Seed Building 2127 N. Albina 1PM-8 Free


Brett Stenson has paintings & Jordan Metcalf has sculptures. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-7 Free


Floating World Comics inside the Lloyd Mall bring friends to show paper and figures for Gamjam. 11AM-6


Jeremy Le Grand brings paintings, Yelling at the Sun. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map  5PM-8 Free


The Color of Where We Are Not are installations you can experience, probably better not opening night. The artist Pamela Hadley is a light artist. At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free


Oregon Contemporary continues Orbit, a show of video art. The last day is tomorrow.

At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Noon-8 Free

October 4 Film Pet Chess

Info at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials which list many shows and their times.


L’Atelier Yaffe has been doing a great job building a community. Their events are dancy, readings, social, and more. They have food and drink throughout the week. We try to bring their visual art events here. Developed x Film is a photography show.

The photographers are Luibelt Almeida, Nana Kwame Bampo, Chantal Gutierrez, Daizsa Jackson, Charity May, Karrick Robinson, Randiss Wonder, and Alisa Wilbon, from Portland, Chicago, and Accra. Sounds by OG Suggie.

At L’Atelier Yaffe https://www.atelieryaffe.com/ 111 NE MLK BLVD, Suite 104. Art 6PM-9 RSVP https://www.eventbrite.com/e/developed-opening-reception-tickets-1015826934707?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios Free


Lesley Barnes and Ross McAuley bring Pet Sounds. At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free


Chess Club Art is a new art book and periodical store, plus more. Tonight is their opening night. At Chess Club Art https://chessclub.art/ 435 NW 6th 6PM-9 Free

October 3 Westside Art Openings+

First Thursday also includes the Saturday following in the afternoon.


For your +1 you can experience Flamenco music with guitarist Brenna McDonald and guitarist/vocalist Yeshe Wingerd. A project of Espacio Flamenco, it repeats on first Thursdays. At Bar Botellón 606 NE Davis 7PM-9 Free


+2 The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.


+3 Portland Fashion in the 2000s is a survey by photographer and writer Marjorie Skinner. Seaplane was founded in 2000, now echoed in Fine Art Fruit. Many other independent vectors emerged between 2000 and 2010, including the Portland Garment Factory. The show includes photos, videos, interviews, and ensembles. Indie Y2K? At the PSU AB & MK Galleries 2000 SW 5th 5PM-8 Free


ILY2, The Black Gallery, Adams & Ollman, and Froelick continue.


Ann Hamilton is a late career artist known for minimalist elegant sculpture, installations, and interventions. I first came across her Accountings at the Henry in Seattle. Since, the artist has developed a relationship with the Leach Gallery and PICA. Now that brings us Figuring Luck, ceramic figures. Barbara Sternberger paintings continue.

At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free


Artist and activist Marne Lucas www.marnelucas.com occupies the Portland Arts Collective for a month with The Bardo Project. As a death doula, Lucas works with individuals in the last stage of life, including with their artist estates. Throughout the month there are workshops on the topic scheduled on the gallery website.

At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 120 SW Harvey Milk 6PM-9 Free


Fans Only debuts with Leisea Cooper, Joaquin Golez, Midori Hirose, Michelle Jackson, April Mirvis, Lillyanne Pham, Maryam Tahririha, Taravat Talepasand, Ashley Yang-Thompson and Yuyang Zhang. It's an artist residency in an office building with First Thursday readouts. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 6PM-9 Free


The En Foco Fellowship 2023 selectees show, Ryan Frigillana with Manong on the Philipines diaspora, and Ashley McLean with Seeking you in other bodies... on the male black zeitgeist. The late John Montague has Willamette Greenway images and videos of walks over years in the Nine Gallery.

At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free


Rostros Mágicos brings masks from the Spanish new world. "The mystical faces of Latin American ancestors and diablos speak about our pasts with honesty—or in lies that tell a truth even truer."

At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free


Picasso, Miro, Calder, prints accompanies a group Northwest Landscape painting show. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free


PNCA has Outside Inside World by Videotones, Working by Laura Wyckoff and Christy Wyckoff, Digi Grotesk, Bedroom, As Seen Through Threads, and Hyphen Zine.

At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free


Gracie Ellison has portraits of "portraits of surely-faced women." At Fine Art Fruit https://fine-art-fruit.square.site/ 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 5PM-7 Free


Orquidia Violeta brings Chalecos Protector, hand sewn protective vests. At After/Time Collective Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 6PM-9 Free


Native painter Don Bailey has Then. Now. Future.; Benjamin Mefford has stone sculptures, Elemental; and Myra Clark has mixed-media paintings, Love Notes from the End of the World. All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free


Ellen Goldschmidt has Donald the Daring children's book illustrations. At Writers Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free


Immortal Earth are stone sculptures by Dave Haslett. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free