Jesse Malmed https://jessemalmed.net/, formerly Poetland, now living in the Midwest, brings shorts followed by karaoke.
It's https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/jun-8-2026/ at the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
Monday, June 08, 2026
Saturday, June 06, 2026
June 7 Weird Things for Imaginary People
Modular on the Spot is an international movement of outdoor modular synth performances. The Portland instance is organized by the Portland Synth Library.
This evening Nolan Ashley, Weird Things for Imaginary People, Blippoo Boys, Quemal, Musique Mystique, and Casual Decay perform.
At Overlook Park, 6PM Free
This evening Nolan Ashley, Weird Things for Imaginary People, Blippoo Boys, Quemal, Musique Mystique, and Casual Decay perform.
At Overlook Park, 6PM Free
June 7 Coasting
Nucleus has assumed the Portland crown of mass individual multiple shows.
It began in Portland in 2001 with Charm Bracelet, organized by Brad Adkins and Chris Buckingham. It continued with Chris Haberman and Jason Brown in a variety of spaces, including the Pioneer Place Mall, home to the ill-fated WeWork.
Tonight it is the 11th Aniversary Salut!, original art on drink coasters. Mass multiple shows are the zeitgeit for today, individual artworks, small, easy to move, and not necessary to have expensive framing.
Each artwork is $80. Cash/card and carry. A line will form, pre-the doors. They estimate the line will be down by 2:30 or 3. All sales final.
The 283 artists, each contributing several individual works for a total of more than 1000 are drawn from the global Nucleus stable: A.C. Esguerra, A.M.Sartor, Aaron Piland, Aaron Robert Baker, Adam Stoner, Adriana Lozano, Alex Cabal, Alex Gold, Alina Chau, Allie Yacina, Allison May Kiphuth, Alvaro Escobar-Fuentes, Amber Aki Huang, Amber Feng, Amy Earles, Andi Soto, Andrea Kang, Andrea Lauren, Andrea Sipl, Andrés Guzmán, Andrew Brandou, Andrew Ghrist, Angela Ramones, Anuj Shrestha, Ariel Lee, Art of Yayu, ArtCyll, Athena Parella, Authan Chen, Aya K, Bags43, Bao Pham, Ben McEntee, Benz and Chang, Beverly Arce, Bird Cvlt, Blake Jones, brayniac, Brian Holderman, Brian Serway, Brianna Miller, Brooks Shane Salzwedel, Bryce Wymer, Burrito Breath, Caleb Sinchok, Camila Rosa, Candie Bolton, Carolina Lebar, Cassandra Kim, Chad Keith, Chelsea Beck, Chelsea Blecha, Christian Leon Guerrero, Christina Hu, Chrystal Sea, Claire Merchlinsky, Cleonique Hilsaca, Cody Jimenez, Cris James, Cristina Bencina, Crystal Dawn Chaffee, D. Jeffrey, Dan McCarthy, Dani Pendergast, Danni Shinya Luo, David DePasquale, Denis Dalesio, Diego Penuela, Dustin Myers, Dusty Ray, Dylan Jones, Edlyn Capulong, Edward Cao, Elesq, Eli McMullen, Ellen Surrey, Em Randall, Emil Konishi, Erick Martinez Art, Erika Kosmatka, Erikas Chesonis, Felicia Chiao, Floriane Marchix, Frank Gonzales, Fred Lynch, fulltimefish, Gabby Zapata, Gemma Correll, Gina M. Contreras, Grace Poole, Graham Franciose, Gretchen Lewis, Grey Chen, Guno Park, Gustavo Rimada, Hannah Bess Ross, Hannah Tjia, Heather Lee Birdsong, Helen Mask, Helice Wen, Hermann Mejia, Hollie Mengert, Hom Sweet Hom, ileanadraws, ipaintbirbs, Iryna Khymych, Isa Beniston, Jack T. Cole, Jackie Brown, Jaclyn Alderete, James Lipnickas, James Thistlethwaite, Jamie Wells, Jamiel Law, Janice Chu, Jeannie L Paske, Jeff McMillan, Jen Tong, Jenia Chernysh, Jenna Gibson, Jennifer Xiao, Jess Phoenix, Jessica Hess, Jiayue Li, Jill DeHaan, JObe, Joe, Joe Vaux, John Rego, JP Neang, Julia Lundman, Julia Peng, Julian Callos, Julie Hang, Juliet Schreckinger, Juliette Toma, Juno Valentine, Justine Prebich, Kamryn Tulare, Karen Kuo, Karly Jade Catto, kAt Philbin, KATBING, Katie Mai, Kelley Sutphin, Kelli Flitton, Kelly Louise Judd, Kelly Yamagishi, Kelsey Buzzell, Kenard Pak, Kerilynn Wilson, Kevin Earl Taylor, Kevin Gribbin, Kim Slate, Kim Thai Nguyen, Kit Curry, Kodi Bujard, Krissta Passanante, Krista Perry, Kristen Eisenbraun, Kristen Solecki, Kristin Bell, Kyle Fewell, Lana Crooks, Laura Catherwood, Lea Barozzi, Leah Artwick, Lemonikate, Lena Fridman, Leo Matsuda, Lettie Jane Rennekamp, Lianne Pflug, Lily Qian, Lily Seika Jones, Lisa Congdon, Lizzy Gass, Madeline Brice, Maggie Chiang, Mariel Rodriguez, Marika Paz, Marisa Aragón Ware, Marisa Avila Sayler, Mark Hoffmann, Marlowe (Odd Rabbits), Maryanna Pecayo Hollomon, Matt Midgley, Matt Schu, Matthew Aceves, Matthew Crumpton, Maya Ruiz, McMonster, Meadow & Fawn, megguran, Melissa Lakey, Melly Trochez, Michael Camarra, Michael Marsicano, Michael Powers Tarantelli, Michael York Gilreath, MightySHORT, Mike Howat, Miranda Tacchia, Mitch Miller, Molly Mendoza, Momo Gordon, Mónico Chávez, Monique Aimee, Nadia Rausa, NAKI, Nana Williams, Naoshi, Nasir Young, Nat Erickson, Nathan Mckee, Nia Musiba, Nicole Xu, Nicomi Nix Turner, Niemo, Nikolas Ilic, Niky Motekallem, Nozomi Uchida, Orlie K., Paper Puffin, Parakid, Patara, Patrick Mathews, Po Yan Leung, Preemoreno, Quathryn, Rachel Silva, Raf Spielman, Rain Szeto, Raymond Argumedo, Rowan Kingsbury, Ryan Harris, Sally Deng, Sam Guay, Samantha Mash, Scion Illustration, Scott Mills, Sean Chao, Sean Keeton, Sean Mahan, Shannon Knight, Shawn Hebrank, Shelly Swann / Fairywulf, ShinYeon Moon, Shoko Ishida, skullbashhero, Sophia Kiuchi, Sophie Margolin, Spectral Gardens, Stephanie Buer, Steve Martinez, Stevie Lewis, Stevie Shao, Sylvia Ji, Tara Booth, Taryn Knight, Tegan Bellitta, thanksxu, Tiffany Wei, Tim Furey, tintist, TMRWLND, Tora Kozic, Trashkitty, Tyler Bingham, Valeriya Volkova, Veronica Steiner, Victor Bizar Gómez, Victoria Gedvillas, Victoria Orolfo, Victoria V Nunley, Vin Ganapathy, Vivian Le, VR Rivera, Xavier Ortiz, Xiao Hua Yang, Yakapin Studio, Yohey Horishita, Zachary Oldenkamp, and Zoe Persico.
The 11th Aniversary of Salut! https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/salut-11-coaster-show at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 1PM-4 Free
It began in Portland in 2001 with Charm Bracelet, organized by Brad Adkins and Chris Buckingham. It continued with Chris Haberman and Jason Brown in a variety of spaces, including the Pioneer Place Mall, home to the ill-fated WeWork.
Tonight it is the 11th Aniversary Salut!, original art on drink coasters. Mass multiple shows are the zeitgeit for today, individual artworks, small, easy to move, and not necessary to have expensive framing.
Each artwork is $80. Cash/card and carry. A line will form, pre-the doors. They estimate the line will be down by 2:30 or 3. All sales final.
The 283 artists, each contributing several individual works for a total of more than 1000 are drawn from the global Nucleus stable: A.C. Esguerra, A.M.Sartor, Aaron Piland, Aaron Robert Baker, Adam Stoner, Adriana Lozano, Alex Cabal, Alex Gold, Alina Chau, Allie Yacina, Allison May Kiphuth, Alvaro Escobar-Fuentes, Amber Aki Huang, Amber Feng, Amy Earles, Andi Soto, Andrea Kang, Andrea Lauren, Andrea Sipl, Andrés Guzmán, Andrew Brandou, Andrew Ghrist, Angela Ramones, Anuj Shrestha, Ariel Lee, Art of Yayu, ArtCyll, Athena Parella, Authan Chen, Aya K, Bags43, Bao Pham, Ben McEntee, Benz and Chang, Beverly Arce, Bird Cvlt, Blake Jones, brayniac, Brian Holderman, Brian Serway, Brianna Miller, Brooks Shane Salzwedel, Bryce Wymer, Burrito Breath, Caleb Sinchok, Camila Rosa, Candie Bolton, Carolina Lebar, Cassandra Kim, Chad Keith, Chelsea Beck, Chelsea Blecha, Christian Leon Guerrero, Christina Hu, Chrystal Sea, Claire Merchlinsky, Cleonique Hilsaca, Cody Jimenez, Cris James, Cristina Bencina, Crystal Dawn Chaffee, D. Jeffrey, Dan McCarthy, Dani Pendergast, Danni Shinya Luo, David DePasquale, Denis Dalesio, Diego Penuela, Dustin Myers, Dusty Ray, Dylan Jones, Edlyn Capulong, Edward Cao, Elesq, Eli McMullen, Ellen Surrey, Em Randall, Emil Konishi, Erick Martinez Art, Erika Kosmatka, Erikas Chesonis, Felicia Chiao, Floriane Marchix, Frank Gonzales, Fred Lynch, fulltimefish, Gabby Zapata, Gemma Correll, Gina M. Contreras, Grace Poole, Graham Franciose, Gretchen Lewis, Grey Chen, Guno Park, Gustavo Rimada, Hannah Bess Ross, Hannah Tjia, Heather Lee Birdsong, Helen Mask, Helice Wen, Hermann Mejia, Hollie Mengert, Hom Sweet Hom, ileanadraws, ipaintbirbs, Iryna Khymych, Isa Beniston, Jack T. Cole, Jackie Brown, Jaclyn Alderete, James Lipnickas, James Thistlethwaite, Jamie Wells, Jamiel Law, Janice Chu, Jeannie L Paske, Jeff McMillan, Jen Tong, Jenia Chernysh, Jenna Gibson, Jennifer Xiao, Jess Phoenix, Jessica Hess, Jiayue Li, Jill DeHaan, JObe, Joe, Joe Vaux, John Rego, JP Neang, Julia Lundman, Julia Peng, Julian Callos, Julie Hang, Juliet Schreckinger, Juliette Toma, Juno Valentine, Justine Prebich, Kamryn Tulare, Karen Kuo, Karly Jade Catto, kAt Philbin, KATBING, Katie Mai, Kelley Sutphin, Kelli Flitton, Kelly Louise Judd, Kelly Yamagishi, Kelsey Buzzell, Kenard Pak, Kerilynn Wilson, Kevin Earl Taylor, Kevin Gribbin, Kim Slate, Kim Thai Nguyen, Kit Curry, Kodi Bujard, Krissta Passanante, Krista Perry, Kristen Eisenbraun, Kristen Solecki, Kristin Bell, Kyle Fewell, Lana Crooks, Laura Catherwood, Lea Barozzi, Leah Artwick, Lemonikate, Lena Fridman, Leo Matsuda, Lettie Jane Rennekamp, Lianne Pflug, Lily Qian, Lily Seika Jones, Lisa Congdon, Lizzy Gass, Madeline Brice, Maggie Chiang, Mariel Rodriguez, Marika Paz, Marisa Aragón Ware, Marisa Avila Sayler, Mark Hoffmann, Marlowe (Odd Rabbits), Maryanna Pecayo Hollomon, Matt Midgley, Matt Schu, Matthew Aceves, Matthew Crumpton, Maya Ruiz, McMonster, Meadow & Fawn, megguran, Melissa Lakey, Melly Trochez, Michael Camarra, Michael Marsicano, Michael Powers Tarantelli, Michael York Gilreath, MightySHORT, Mike Howat, Miranda Tacchia, Mitch Miller, Molly Mendoza, Momo Gordon, Mónico Chávez, Monique Aimee, Nadia Rausa, NAKI, Nana Williams, Naoshi, Nasir Young, Nat Erickson, Nathan Mckee, Nia Musiba, Nicole Xu, Nicomi Nix Turner, Niemo, Nikolas Ilic, Niky Motekallem, Nozomi Uchida, Orlie K., Paper Puffin, Parakid, Patara, Patrick Mathews, Po Yan Leung, Preemoreno, Quathryn, Rachel Silva, Raf Spielman, Rain Szeto, Raymond Argumedo, Rowan Kingsbury, Ryan Harris, Sally Deng, Sam Guay, Samantha Mash, Scion Illustration, Scott Mills, Sean Chao, Sean Keeton, Sean Mahan, Shannon Knight, Shawn Hebrank, Shelly Swann / Fairywulf, ShinYeon Moon, Shoko Ishida, skullbashhero, Sophia Kiuchi, Sophie Margolin, Spectral Gardens, Stephanie Buer, Steve Martinez, Stevie Lewis, Stevie Shao, Sylvia Ji, Tara Booth, Taryn Knight, Tegan Bellitta, thanksxu, Tiffany Wei, Tim Furey, tintist, TMRWLND, Tora Kozic, Trashkitty, Tyler Bingham, Valeriya Volkova, Veronica Steiner, Victor Bizar Gómez, Victoria Gedvillas, Victoria Orolfo, Victoria V Nunley, Vin Ganapathy, Vivian Le, VR Rivera, Xavier Ortiz, Xiao Hua Yang, Yakapin Studio, Yohey Horishita, Zachary Oldenkamp, and Zoe Persico.
The 11th Aniversary of Salut! https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/salut-11-coaster-show at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 1PM-4 Free
June 6 Dolphins and Movies
The movie, poetry, and music worlds are too big for me to list. Just occasionally. A local movie project fundraiser includes some interesting artists.
The project is The Impeccable Art of Never-Ending Wellness.
Sage Fisher as A Niad combines harp, electronics, field recordings and voice. Sarah Sarah Turner Turner is nee one half of the Mobile Projection Project. She premieres video Angel Ware.exe Wet Content, continuing her Lilly-dolphin theme onto angels. That is showing at the Marfa Open at Venice Biennale too. Modern dancer Laura Cannon and Prolab Dance move with video accompaniment in piece Cloud Time.
Production designer Erin Esilka, and the director of the project seeking fundings this benefits, Devin Jane Febbroriello, have interactive art installations on their wellness theme.
Art party at Desert Island Studios 1316 SE 12th 7PM-10 $15
The project is The Impeccable Art of Never-Ending Wellness.
Sage Fisher as A Niad combines harp, electronics, field recordings and voice. Sarah Sarah Turner Turner is nee one half of the Mobile Projection Project. She premieres video Angel Ware.exe Wet Content, continuing her Lilly-dolphin theme onto angels. That is showing at the Marfa Open at Venice Biennale too. Modern dancer Laura Cannon and Prolab Dance move with video accompaniment in piece Cloud Time.
Production designer Erin Esilka, and the director of the project seeking fundings this benefits, Devin Jane Febbroriello, have interactive art installations on their wellness theme.
Art party at Desert Island Studios 1316 SE 12th 7PM-10 $15
June 6 Northside Art Openings+
Oregon Contemporary and False Front continue.
For your +1 Portland Contemporary Art continues its Saturday openings. Ellen George opens small minimal works Seeds Petals Stones.
"The shapes are familiar, but resist categorization—things we collect, hold in reverence, and know well that have quiet, hidden power, like seeds, petals, and stones."
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
For your +2 RSA Projects celebrates one year with a group show.
At Riso Studio Arts and RSA Projects gallery https://pdx.risostudioarts.com/ and https://rsa-projects.com/ 1327 SE Division Noon-6 Free
For your +3 Inner Portland is not the only place for art galleries. Toolbox Gallery is a gallery focused on artist tradespeople and art about tradespeople, very WPA. Take The Sky Home With You is a show by plumber Blue Crow Vargas. At Toolbox Art https://www.toolboxart.org/ 2029 SE Jefferson St Milwaukie, OR Noon-4 Free
For your +4 many Westside galleries have their Saturday echo openings.
For your +5, Westside, The Schnitzer collection is a vast archive of mostly multiples. They assemble vast shows from that. What's Not to Love is primarily portraits, local, national, and international. They have a large show of David Hockney at the Portland Art Museum too.
At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://jordanschnitzer.org/exhibitions/whats-not-to-love 3033 NW Yeon Noon-6 Free
Full Disclosure is a show by PSU photography students at Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5:30PM-8 Free
Terrior is a show by Torey Akers, all the way from Brooklyn, and Jaydra Johnson from Portland.
They "interrogate desire in material terms, using want, rather than need, to unearth the buried histories of non-normative intimacy. Their work reinterprets classic expressions of longing such as the nude, Victorian lover’s eyes, and stained glass."
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Between Times and Between Us is a group show by Davis Bashungwa, Nan Curtis, Jess Farrell, Joyln Fry, Diane Jacobs, Carter Kawena Kohler, Marne Lucas, Casper Mayberry, Trude Parkinson, and Gabby Serverson. It is curated by Georgina Ruff, who has a discussion with the artists June 28, 2PM-4.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Gallery Hours are curated by Passenger Seat Records.
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-passenger-seat-records at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
For your +1 Portland Contemporary Art continues its Saturday openings. Ellen George opens small minimal works Seeds Petals Stones.
"The shapes are familiar, but resist categorization—things we collect, hold in reverence, and know well that have quiet, hidden power, like seeds, petals, and stones."
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
For your +2 RSA Projects celebrates one year with a group show.
At Riso Studio Arts and RSA Projects gallery https://pdx.risostudioarts.com/ and https://rsa-projects.com/ 1327 SE Division Noon-6 Free
For your +3 Inner Portland is not the only place for art galleries. Toolbox Gallery is a gallery focused on artist tradespeople and art about tradespeople, very WPA. Take The Sky Home With You is a show by plumber Blue Crow Vargas. At Toolbox Art https://www.toolboxart.org/ 2029 SE Jefferson St Milwaukie, OR Noon-4 Free
For your +4 many Westside galleries have their Saturday echo openings.
For your +5, Westside, The Schnitzer collection is a vast archive of mostly multiples. They assemble vast shows from that. What's Not to Love is primarily portraits, local, national, and international. They have a large show of David Hockney at the Portland Art Museum too.
At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://jordanschnitzer.org/exhibitions/whats-not-to-love 3033 NW Yeon Noon-6 Free
Full Disclosure is a show by PSU photography students at Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5:30PM-8 Free
Terrior is a show by Torey Akers, all the way from Brooklyn, and Jaydra Johnson from Portland.
They "interrogate desire in material terms, using want, rather than need, to unearth the buried histories of non-normative intimacy. Their work reinterprets classic expressions of longing such as the nude, Victorian lover’s eyes, and stained glass."
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Between Times and Between Us is a group show by Davis Bashungwa, Nan Curtis, Jess Farrell, Joyln Fry, Diane Jacobs, Carter Kawena Kohler, Marne Lucas, Casper Mayberry, Trude Parkinson, and Gabby Serverson. It is curated by Georgina Ruff, who has a discussion with the artists June 28, 2PM-4.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Gallery Hours are curated by Passenger Seat Records.
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-passenger-seat-records at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Friday, June 05, 2026
June 5 Purple Trans Ellipses Light
Ellipses is an evolving group show by Colleen Billing, Faith Icecold, Zora Moniz, Joan Nelson, Kate Newby, Ido Radon, and Karolina Szwed. It is a collaboration with Romance Gallery in Pittsburgh.
"Like ellipses, which denote omissions, pauses in speech, trailing thoughts, or suspense—or an ellipse (singular), mathematically defined as the set of points where the sum of distances to two fixed points is constant—the project builds from fragmentation and extension, accumulating slowly through focus, repetition, variation, and revelation."
At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of four members of the New Art Dealers Alliance newartdealers.org/members, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 5PM-7 Free
The Reser Performing Arts Center in Beaverton has an art gallery. Congruencies | Trans:form(ed) is a visual arts show situating the trans experience in the larger context of change. The link has a much more eloquent explanation. Artists are Jasper Bolen, LB Buchan, B Gunn, Tabitha Nikolai, Daren Todd, Celvie Schultz, and Alanna Zheng. The link has all the events around the show for its run. For the opening, there is an open mic performance at 6:30
Https://thereser.org/gallery/congruencies-transformed/ at the The Reser - Patricia Reser Center for the Arts www.thereser.org 12625 SW Crescent Street, Beaverton "go by train" Map 6PM-9 Free
Light, Wonder, & Design is a talk about light as a medium in art and space. Speakers are John Junior Kim https://johnjuniorkim.com/, artist working with light, Alex Hughes of design-craft store Shop Storied Obkects, and Juliyen Davis, curator and writer. Laura Hughes, now UO would be a nice addition.
At Chess Club Art https://chessclub.art/ 435 NW 6th 6PM Free
Purple Door opens Muscle Beach by Anna Rogers. They are painted woodcuts on the theme of Southern California beach culture. Pattern and Place by Mandy Arroyo continues.
At the Purple Door https://www.thepurpledoorpdx.com/ 3557 SE Division 6PM-9 Free
One Grand has a book drop. Of course it is Eastside art opening night on the first Friday socials.
"Like ellipses, which denote omissions, pauses in speech, trailing thoughts, or suspense—or an ellipse (singular), mathematically defined as the set of points where the sum of distances to two fixed points is constant—the project builds from fragmentation and extension, accumulating slowly through focus, repetition, variation, and revelation."
At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of four members of the New Art Dealers Alliance newartdealers.org/members, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 5PM-7 Free
The Reser Performing Arts Center in Beaverton has an art gallery. Congruencies | Trans:form(ed) is a visual arts show situating the trans experience in the larger context of change. The link has a much more eloquent explanation. Artists are Jasper Bolen, LB Buchan, B Gunn, Tabitha Nikolai, Daren Todd, Celvie Schultz, and Alanna Zheng. The link has all the events around the show for its run. For the opening, there is an open mic performance at 6:30
Https://thereser.org/gallery/congruencies-transformed/ at the The Reser - Patricia Reser Center for the Arts www.thereser.org 12625 SW Crescent Street, Beaverton "go by train" Map 6PM-9 Free
Light, Wonder, & Design is a talk about light as a medium in art and space. Speakers are John Junior Kim https://johnjuniorkim.com/, artist working with light, Alex Hughes of design-craft store Shop Storied Obkects, and Juliyen Davis, curator and writer. Laura Hughes, now UO would be a nice addition.
At Chess Club Art https://chessclub.art/ 435 NW 6th 6PM Free
Purple Door opens Muscle Beach by Anna Rogers. They are painted woodcuts on the theme of Southern California beach culture. Pattern and Place by Mandy Arroyo continues.
At the Purple Door https://www.thepurpledoorpdx.com/ 3557 SE Division 6PM-9 Free
One Grand has a book drop. Of course it is Eastside art opening night on the first Friday socials.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
June 4 Westside Art Openings+
Several galleries are tagging on the World Cup with sports-themed shows.
Augen, Stelo, Laura Vincent Design, Lucky Girl, and Fans Only continue. Fans Only has a closing party.
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum free all day. https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-may2026/ at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 10AM-7 Free
For your +2 in Northeast. 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
Mathew Picton https://matthewpicton.com brings A Deeper Picture, two and a half dimension cut paper collages. Willy Heeks has abstract paintings in show Intervals.
Https://www.elizabethleach.com/exhibitions/256-sense-of-place-group-exhibition/overview/ at Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Froelick has V Maldonado with Running Lessons: Drawings from Strava, paintings inspired by the running app Strava. https://www.strava.com/maps/global-heatmap?sport=All&style=dark&terrain=false&labels=true&poi=true&cPhotos=true&3d=false&gColor=blue&gOpacity=100#8.35/45.5335/-122.6501 Rebecca Boraz has For the Taking, prints and ceramics
At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Trent Davis Bailey has landscape photographs The North Fork inspired by his family history in Colorado. Jay Wolke has Big Boat, Little Pond also landscapes.
The Nine Gallery has Everything Makes Me Unconscious, paintings by Portland-based PNCA-minted Yuyang Zhang https://yuyangzhang.art.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Don Grey and Roberta Aylward have abstract paintings, In Conversation.
At Writers' Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Black Matter is the eighth instance of a group show by black artists. Eddie Reed and Mae Al-Jiboori have energetic abstracts in show I Am.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Tom Fawkes has landscape paintings and Kim Osgood has Tender Tales of Remembering, nature and still life paintings.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Greg Wilbur has sculptures, Ball and guest artists Kristin Shiga, Peter Reich, & Zak Pearson.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Inheritors of Movement is an immigration-themed show.
Https://theblackgallerypdx.com/inheritors-of-movement at The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
Over Land and Sea: A Global Study of Football Fandom is a show of photographs including Will Robson Scott, Stuart Roy Clarke and Zak Waters. Chess Club is doing a related pop-up.
Opening at IndustryOneGallery www.industry1.org 415 SW 10th 6PM Free
Trish Grantham has still life paintings with flowers, Flora Obscura.
At Fine Art Fruit https://www.fineartfruit.com 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 2PM-6 Free
Stephanie Brockway brings installation, words, and sculptures, Plight of the Pollinator. A Manageble Paradox, by Erin Robinson Grant also shows
At Imperfecta www.imperfecta.xyz 809 NW Flanders 6PM-9
PNCA Willamette has many visual shows tonight. One is Don’t Be Clever, Be True: Late Works by David Eckard (1964-2025) https://davideckardstudio.com/home.html continues.
At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
The Urban Art Network occupies 13th with all their booths of stuff.
Augen, Stelo, Laura Vincent Design, Lucky Girl, and Fans Only continue. Fans Only has a closing party.
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum free all day. https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-may2026/ at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 10AM-7 Free
For your +2 in Northeast. 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
Mathew Picton https://matthewpicton.com brings A Deeper Picture, two and a half dimension cut paper collages. Willy Heeks has abstract paintings in show Intervals.
Https://www.elizabethleach.com/exhibitions/256-sense-of-place-group-exhibition/overview/ at Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Froelick has V Maldonado with Running Lessons: Drawings from Strava, paintings inspired by the running app Strava. https://www.strava.com/maps/global-heatmap?sport=All&style=dark&terrain=false&labels=true&poi=true&cPhotos=true&3d=false&gColor=blue&gOpacity=100#8.35/45.5335/-122.6501 Rebecca Boraz has For the Taking, prints and ceramics
At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Trent Davis Bailey has landscape photographs The North Fork inspired by his family history in Colorado. Jay Wolke has Big Boat, Little Pond also landscapes.
The Nine Gallery has Everything Makes Me Unconscious, paintings by Portland-based PNCA-minted Yuyang Zhang https://yuyangzhang.art.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Don Grey and Roberta Aylward have abstract paintings, In Conversation.
At Writers' Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Black Matter is the eighth instance of a group show by black artists. Eddie Reed and Mae Al-Jiboori have energetic abstracts in show I Am.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Tom Fawkes has landscape paintings and Kim Osgood has Tender Tales of Remembering, nature and still life paintings.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Greg Wilbur has sculptures, Ball and guest artists Kristin Shiga, Peter Reich, & Zak Pearson.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Inheritors of Movement is an immigration-themed show.
Https://theblackgallerypdx.com/inheritors-of-movement at The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
Over Land and Sea: A Global Study of Football Fandom is a show of photographs including Will Robson Scott, Stuart Roy Clarke and Zak Waters. Chess Club is doing a related pop-up.
Opening at IndustryOneGallery www.industry1.org 415 SW 10th 6PM Free
Trish Grantham has still life paintings with flowers, Flora Obscura.
At Fine Art Fruit https://www.fineartfruit.com 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 2PM-6 Free
Stephanie Brockway brings installation, words, and sculptures, Plight of the Pollinator. A Manageble Paradox, by Erin Robinson Grant also shows
At Imperfecta www.imperfecta.xyz 809 NW Flanders 6PM-9
PNCA Willamette has many visual shows tonight. One is Don’t Be Clever, Be True: Late Works by David Eckard (1964-2025) https://davideckardstudio.com/home.html continues.
At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
The Urban Art Network occupies 13th with all their booths of stuff.
June 4 - 7 Assembly Required
Assembly is the annual event in the Portland community of the Social Practice Art program at PSU. The artists are Lou Blumberg, Simeen Anjum, Clara Harlow, Nina Vichayapai, Adela Cardona Puerta, Gwen Hoeffgen, Dom Toliver, Sarah Luu, Peery Sloan, Sarah Blesener, Haruka Ostley, Rose Lewis, Alex Deets, Midori Yamanaka, Laura Glazer, Dr. Kiara Hill, and Lisa Jarrett. You can find all the events at https://psusocialpractice.org/assemblyconference/ Free
Monday, June 01, 2026
June 1 - August 31 Get Bikey
Not art but a beautiful Portland phenomenon. Bike summer begins.
Portland bikey has many historical vectors including alleycats, continuing, but at its prime when we had physical messengers on fixies, Zoobombing, a 2 week Minibike Summer in 2003, and Minibike Winter, 2004. Minibike Winter, with travelers to Portland to engage, corresponded with the Light Bar organized by Mykle Hanson, https://msl.mykle.com/category/inventions/, social practice artist before that was invented at his home on Killingsworth in the month of February. The Light Bar led to the Winter Light Festival. Originally Minibike Summer, Pedalpaloosa expanded to the entire Summer.
It's open source. Anyone can organize a ride and seeing the website, anyone can join. Some are costumed and many have themes. The naked bike rides are part of it too.
Bike summer https://www.shift2bikes.org/bike-summer-calendar/ Free
Portland bikey has many historical vectors including alleycats, continuing, but at its prime when we had physical messengers on fixies, Zoobombing, a 2 week Minibike Summer in 2003, and Minibike Winter, 2004. Minibike Winter, with travelers to Portland to engage, corresponded with the Light Bar organized by Mykle Hanson, https://msl.mykle.com/category/inventions/, social practice artist before that was invented at his home on Killingsworth in the month of February. The Light Bar led to the Winter Light Festival. Originally Minibike Summer, Pedalpaloosa expanded to the entire Summer.
It's open source. Anyone can organize a ride and seeing the website, anyone can join. Some are costumed and many have themes. The naked bike rides are part of it too.
Bike summer https://www.shift2bikes.org/bike-summer-calendar/ Free
Friday, May 29, 2026
May 30 Still Life Inferno Film Perceptions
Still, Life is a group show of still life images, the sale of which benefits the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition.
Artists are Allie Yacina, Amy Bay, Amy Rowan, Bobby Adams, Chandler Subra, Chris Lael Larson, Cole Lyons, Dan Tran, Delia Perez, Gillian Mullane, Jade Novarino, Jason Reicher, Jason Sturgill, Jess Ackerman, Joni Young, Mariah Barnaby-Norris, Naomi Likayi, Nia Musuba, Nicole Stafford, Nishat Akhtar, Shannon Steed and Zab Shavrick.
At A Sometimes Gallery https://asometimesgallery.com/ 3601 SE Division 4PM-8 Free
Boards of Canada has dropped Inferno. You can hear that and a survey of historic work by selector Brandon Herrell of Earth\Studies.
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/boards-of-canada-gallery-hours-takeover at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Supporting the current show, Late Night Legal Formalities, shorts from first films by Chantal Akerman, David Cronenberg, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Joanna Hogg, Todd Solondz, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Lars von Trier will show. Instant film school. Detail at https://freight.cargo.site/m/K2958386077595594404964794807684/2026-juvenalia-announcement.pdf
You can join at the venue, or connect in on your own. Email the gallery for the Zoom.
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 7PM-9 Free
MOSMA https://www.mosmapdx.org/ is Portland's Museum of Stop Motion Animation. They show stop action movies, are a community for animators, and they bring new animators into the art. They do showings in their small HQ, at the Hollywood Theater, and today, at ADX. Today they show shorts and behind the production material from United Kingdom, Germany and Canada by Renee Zhan, Evan DeRushie, Veronica Solomon, Sam Gainsborough, and Christopher Kezelos, with discussion by Brian Capati, MOSMA, Alexei Ku, curator, and Suzanne Twining, animator.
At ADX - Art Design Xchange adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map Tickets: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/mosma-independent-screening 4PM $10
A Page of Madness is a silent Japanese horror film set in a mental asylum made in 1929. The plot is sad and intense. You can look it up.
It was created by avant-garde artist filmmakers of the time, Shinkankakuha - School of New Perceptions.
It will be scored live tonight by Rachel Blumberg as Soft Rumble, the first half. Quasi will score the second.
At Dekum Street Theater https://www.dekumstreettheater.com 814 NE Dekum 7PM-10 $28
Artists are Allie Yacina, Amy Bay, Amy Rowan, Bobby Adams, Chandler Subra, Chris Lael Larson, Cole Lyons, Dan Tran, Delia Perez, Gillian Mullane, Jade Novarino, Jason Reicher, Jason Sturgill, Jess Ackerman, Joni Young, Mariah Barnaby-Norris, Naomi Likayi, Nia Musuba, Nicole Stafford, Nishat Akhtar, Shannon Steed and Zab Shavrick.
At A Sometimes Gallery https://asometimesgallery.com/ 3601 SE Division 4PM-8 Free
Boards of Canada has dropped Inferno. You can hear that and a survey of historic work by selector Brandon Herrell of Earth\Studies.
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/boards-of-canada-gallery-hours-takeover at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Supporting the current show, Late Night Legal Formalities, shorts from first films by Chantal Akerman, David Cronenberg, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Joanna Hogg, Todd Solondz, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Lars von Trier will show. Instant film school. Detail at https://freight.cargo.site/m/K2958386077595594404964794807684/2026-juvenalia-announcement.pdf
You can join at the venue, or connect in on your own. Email the gallery for the Zoom.
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 7PM-9 Free
MOSMA https://www.mosmapdx.org/ is Portland's Museum of Stop Motion Animation. They show stop action movies, are a community for animators, and they bring new animators into the art. They do showings in their small HQ, at the Hollywood Theater, and today, at ADX. Today they show shorts and behind the production material from United Kingdom, Germany and Canada by Renee Zhan, Evan DeRushie, Veronica Solomon, Sam Gainsborough, and Christopher Kezelos, with discussion by Brian Capati, MOSMA, Alexei Ku, curator, and Suzanne Twining, animator.
At ADX - Art Design Xchange adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map Tickets: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/mosma-independent-screening 4PM $10
A Page of Madness is a silent Japanese horror film set in a mental asylum made in 1929. The plot is sad and intense. You can look it up.
It was created by avant-garde artist filmmakers of the time, Shinkankakuha - School of New Perceptions.
It will be scored live tonight by Rachel Blumberg as Soft Rumble, the first half. Quasi will score the second.
At Dekum Street Theater https://www.dekumstreettheater.com 814 NE Dekum 7PM-10 $28
Thursday, May 28, 2026
May 30 - 31 Works
The Unkles family is one of Portland unsung art patrons. They rent space for artist studios. They parlayed the family business into buying warehouses. In the 1990s warehouses were plentiful and inexpensive. But city regulation, and the lust by tech for warehouse offices, ended that. The Unkles family maintains the tradition, only raising the rent when the studio changes artist.
Today is a rare opportunity to look inside one, the NW Marine Art Works. For these events, the artists usually straighten their studios. And, for this one, guest artists will bring work from the Seed Building, River Studios, the Boathouse, and Carton Services deemed not suited for large events by the City. They have also invited artists and crafters from outside the Unkles family studios.
The big list of some of the participating artists, food, drink, and music is https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/summer26.
Don't miss Dale's choose your own adventure, it is not often open in the Winter studios. Of course you are encouraged to buy art direct and experience the narratives of each artist. It's family friendly with live music, food and drink. There is more parking in the Powells parking lot to the North on 29th and the studios are on the 15 TriMet.
Open studios at NW Marine Art Works 2516 NW 29th. 11AM-5PM Free
Today is a rare opportunity to look inside one, the NW Marine Art Works. For these events, the artists usually straighten their studios. And, for this one, guest artists will bring work from the Seed Building, River Studios, the Boathouse, and Carton Services deemed not suited for large events by the City. They have also invited artists and crafters from outside the Unkles family studios.
The big list of some of the participating artists, food, drink, and music is https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/summer26.
Don't miss Dale's choose your own adventure, it is not often open in the Winter studios. Of course you are encouraged to buy art direct and experience the narratives of each artist. It's family friendly with live music, food and drink. There is more parking in the Powells parking lot to the North on 29th and the studios are on the 15 TriMet.
Open studios at NW Marine Art Works 2516 NW 29th. 11AM-5PM Free
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
May 28 Forest is Alive, Magic is Afoot
Field Studies (Symbiosis) by Fernanda D’Agostino, Lisa DeGrace, and Laura Kathrein opens today. Field Studies is an immersive multiscreen installation interpreting research on plant consciousness in forests through art.
From D’Agostino: "For the last year composer Lisa DeGrace, choreographer Laura Kathrein and I have engaged in a series of 'Field Studies' focused on the Boreal Forest and the emerging science of plant consciousness and communication. Along the way we’ve had retreats in the forests of Vermont, collaborated with microscopists and ecologists, and explored embodiment with the brilliant performance artists Lisa Kusanagi and Jaleesa Johnston who, along with Laura, submerged their human ways of knowing temporarily to imagine other ways of sensing the world. Like my last project 'Mar, Mar, e Mar,' this work is deeply rooted in the notion of symbiosis, which scientists now recognize as an essential foundation of life on Earth. Our year of research has resulted in the synthesis of our three practices into a performance/installation 'Field Studies;Symbiosis.'
I’ll be traveling to Venice, Italy where single channel versions of Field Studies will be shown at four exhibitions organized by United Media Artists in parallel with the Venice Biennale . If you are in Venice for the opening of the Biennale, come through! I’ll be there May 4-11."
At at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th 5PM-8 Free
From D’Agostino: "For the last year composer Lisa DeGrace, choreographer Laura Kathrein and I have engaged in a series of 'Field Studies' focused on the Boreal Forest and the emerging science of plant consciousness and communication. Along the way we’ve had retreats in the forests of Vermont, collaborated with microscopists and ecologists, and explored embodiment with the brilliant performance artists Lisa Kusanagi and Jaleesa Johnston who, along with Laura, submerged their human ways of knowing temporarily to imagine other ways of sensing the world. Like my last project 'Mar, Mar, e Mar,' this work is deeply rooted in the notion of symbiosis, which scientists now recognize as an essential foundation of life on Earth. Our year of research has resulted in the synthesis of our three practices into a performance/installation 'Field Studies;Symbiosis.'
I’ll be traveling to Venice, Italy where single channel versions of Field Studies will be shown at four exhibitions organized by United Media Artists in parallel with the Venice Biennale . If you are in Venice for the opening of the Biennale, come through! I’ll be there May 4-11."
At at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th 5PM-8 Free
Saturday, May 23, 2026
May 24 Outer Minimal
Terry Riley was born in 1935. He is famous for In C, 1964, a landmark in minimalism. I had that in vinyl when I had vinyl. Continuing his musical evolution, he studied classical Indian music with Pandit Pran Nath, 1918-1996. In Portland, Michael Sterling, Lewis & Clark instructor, studied with Terry Riley and guested performances and workshops by Riley here. That included at the humble Portland Parks and Rec Community Music Center in SE Portland in 2003. https://arthurmag.com/2021/10/16/their-masters-voice-the-impact-of-pandit-pran-nath-on-western-minimalists-by-peter-lavezzoli-arthur-2006/#more-20434
Hear https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/deep-dive-on-the-music-of-terry-riley-with-scott-frank at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 1PM $36.50
Outer Voice is a time-based art cohort. The cohort works together at least weekly for 9 months developing their invividual work.
This is the final readout by group 3. They present their work live, as movies, and as sound recordings.
Group 3 artists are Martha Daghlian, Adia Gibbs, Anne Greenwood, Emma Lutz-Higgins, Carolyn Supinka, and Ariella Tai, with co-directors Roland Dahwen, Sarah Rushford, and Ash Stone. Guests include Hannah Krafcik, Emily Jones, Todd Umhoefer, Tom Manzanarez, and Melinda Kowalska.
Outer Voice https://www.outervoicepdx.com/events/outer-voice-real-time at Dekum Street Theater https://www.dekumstreettheater.com 814 NE Dekum 5PM Free
Hear https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/deep-dive-on-the-music-of-terry-riley-with-scott-frank at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 1PM $36.50
Outer Voice is a time-based art cohort. The cohort works together at least weekly for 9 months developing their invividual work.
This is the final readout by group 3. They present their work live, as movies, and as sound recordings.
Group 3 artists are Martha Daghlian, Adia Gibbs, Anne Greenwood, Emma Lutz-Higgins, Carolyn Supinka, and Ariella Tai, with co-directors Roland Dahwen, Sarah Rushford, and Ash Stone. Guests include Hannah Krafcik, Emily Jones, Todd Umhoefer, Tom Manzanarez, and Melinda Kowalska.
Outer Voice https://www.outervoicepdx.com/events/outer-voice-real-time at Dekum Street Theater https://www.dekumstreettheater.com 814 NE Dekum 5PM Free
May 23 Ambient Nature
Mono Space has its free, come and go listening session. This afternoon Batom brings world ambient.
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-batom at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Public Nature is an improv collaboration between a mover, a writer, and a sound artist, curated by Daniele Ross. Today is Sophia Ahmad, performance, Thick In The Throat Honey, text, and Warm Canopy, sound.
It is at a private residence you can join by looking up Public Nature and messaging them for an invitation, then RSVP to participate.
At Public Nature 7PM $5-15, all to the artists.
There is an artist talk at Leach. 11AM Free
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-batom at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Public Nature is an improv collaboration between a mover, a writer, and a sound artist, curated by Daniele Ross. Today is Sophia Ahmad, performance, Thick In The Throat Honey, text, and Warm Canopy, sound.
It is at a private residence you can join by looking up Public Nature and messaging them for an invitation, then RSVP to participate.
At Public Nature 7PM $5-15, all to the artists.
There is an artist talk at Leach. 11AM Free
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
May 20 Glean
In Portland, the Oregon Metro is responsible for solid waste. And here, as in many other cities, artists mine the waste stream to make art.
This year's GLEAN artists are Martha Daghlian, Hyun Jung Jung, Ebenezer Galluzzo, Lalo Perez, and Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr. Their show of the result opens this evening.
GLEAN artists www.gleanportland.com at 1325 SE 10th 5PM-8 Free
This year's GLEAN artists are Martha Daghlian, Hyun Jung Jung, Ebenezer Galluzzo, Lalo Perez, and Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr. Their show of the result opens this evening.
GLEAN artists www.gleanportland.com at 1325 SE 10th 5PM-8 Free
Saturday, May 16, 2026
May 17 Radiance
Laraaji, accompanied by Arji OceAnanda, performs this evening with projection mapping.
Day of Radiance https://www.ambient.church/events/recLcjWpB3MRzjzXYat the First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th. 7:15PM door, show 8 $40-65
Day of Radiance https://www.ambient.church/events/recLcjWpB3MRzjzXYat the First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th. 7:15PM door, show 8 $40-65
May 16 Brotherhood Haunt Today
Mono Space has its free, come and go listening session. This afternoon Backyardmango, Sergio Lopez, brings selections from a lifelong collection of Mexican music.
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-backyardmango. Noon-5 Free
The Merkaba Brotherhood is a local duo focusing electrionic and acoustic improv on ambient for their ticketed evening event.
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/album-listening-session-presented-by-merkaba-brotherhood at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 7PM $36.50
Jesse Kamerzell brings Between Today and Tomorrow, schematic landscape paintings of buildings with no windows from a dream recurring since childhood.
At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 2PM-4 Free
Laura Jean Foster https://laurajeanfoster.com gives You’re Better as a Haunt.
At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 6PM-9 Free
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-backyardmango. Noon-5 Free
The Merkaba Brotherhood is a local duo focusing electrionic and acoustic improv on ambient for their ticketed evening event.
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/album-listening-session-presented-by-merkaba-brotherhood at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 7PM $36.50
Jesse Kamerzell brings Between Today and Tomorrow, schematic landscape paintings of buildings with no windows from a dream recurring since childhood.
At Nationale
Laura Jean Foster https://laurajeanfoster.com gives You’re Better as a Haunt.
At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 6PM-9 Free
Friday, May 15, 2026
May 16-17 Rare Plant Research+
Rare Plant Research is a plant nursery which sells rare plants on the Internet. They are open just one weekend a year to the public for plant sales. They are open this weekend. It really is a special place. You can visit Rare Plant Research www.rareplantresearch.com
11900 S Criteser Rd, Oregon City. Do not park on Criteser road, park in their field. 11PM-4 Free
The keep Oregon wierd spirit is alive at the McMinnville UFO Festival Thursday - Saturday. Saturday is the parade and the city is filled with free performances. It is great for all ages. More https://ufofest.com.
11900 S Criteser Rd, Oregon City. Do not park on Criteser road, park in their field. 11PM-4 Free
The keep Oregon wierd spirit is alive at the McMinnville UFO Festival Thursday - Saturday. Saturday is the parade and the city is filled with free performances. It is great for all ages. More https://ufofest.com.
May 15 For your Friday
The Menucha Art Center https://www.menucha.org/ in Corbett has artist retreats and workshops. Some of the artists who have participated over the years show work.
At the Arts Council of Lake Oswego https://artscouncillo.org/artspace 380 A Avenue, Suite A, Lake Oswego 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Godeleine de Rosamel brings Late Bloomers, ceramics.
At Stephanie Chefas Gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
Lukas Kubeja has Diaries, paintings and drawings based on photographs. It occupies downstairs and upstairs.
At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
At the Arts Council of Lake Oswego https://artscouncillo.org/artspace 380 A Avenue, Suite A, Lake Oswego 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Godeleine de Rosamel brings Late Bloomers, ceramics.
At Stephanie Chefas Gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
Lukas Kubeja has Diaries, paintings and drawings based on photographs. It occupies downstairs and upstairs.
At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
May 14 Society Failure Thesis
Todd Molinari brings show Failure Studies.
At After/Time Collective https://www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 5PM-8 Free
The PSU MFA thesis show occupies the PSU Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Afterparty at Fans-Only. At the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University https://www.pdx.edu/museum-of-art/ 1855 SW Broadway 5PM-7 Free
At After/Time Collective https://www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 5PM-8 Free
The PSU MFA thesis show occupies the PSU Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Afterparty at Fans-Only. At the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University https://www.pdx.edu/museum-of-art/ 1855 SW Broadway 5PM-7 Free
Society likes a good talk. For this, the artist Gareth James conferences in. You can join at the venue, or connect in on your own. Email the gallery for the Zoom.
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 7PM-9 Free
May 13-16 Butoh Here Now
Butoh is a contemporay dance form birthed in Japan in 1959. Some know it, to others it is liminal from media blips. Ultimately is an improvised somatic performance, liminal in that respect. It is a beautiful and challenging niche in culture. Butoh has NW concentrations in Seattle, BC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boulder, Chicago, New York, Mexico, more. That includes Portland organized by Carl Annala.
If you like, the movie Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis gives a history.
Portland's most famous butoh performer, Mizu, has ridden off into the sunset with her love. With that, Portland has a continuing butoh festival and workshops throughout the year.
This year visiting artists are Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh, Julie Becton Gillum, Minja Mertanen, Vanessa Skantze, Iván Espinosa and Co, Ash Pillar, Arlo King, Amapola, Salty Xi Jie Ng, Olga Kravtsova, Monel Chang, and Didi (Freddi) Wyss.
For movers, Minja Mertanen, Vanessa Skantze, Julie Becton Gillum and Joan Laage/Kogut teach workshops. The workshops are a bargain.
Last year, the festival was graciously hosted by Portland Art Collective. Now it occupies the New Expressive Works studio.
The Northwest Butoh Festival in Portland. https://northwestbutohfestival.crd.co/ https://newexpressiveworks.org/nwbutohfestival2026 at New Expressive Works Studio 810 SE Belmont.
Workshops Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 6PM-10, 10AM-2, and 10AM-2 respectively. Prices in links.
Performances Thursday, Friday, Saturday. 8PM Indiviual tickets $25, $20, senior/artist/student $15. All performance ticket $60.
If you like, the movie Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis gives a history.
Portland's most famous butoh performer, Mizu, has ridden off into the sunset with her love. With that, Portland has a continuing butoh festival and workshops throughout the year.
This year visiting artists are Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh, Julie Becton Gillum, Minja Mertanen, Vanessa Skantze, Iván Espinosa and Co, Ash Pillar, Arlo King, Amapola, Salty Xi Jie Ng, Olga Kravtsova, Monel Chang, and Didi (Freddi) Wyss.
For movers, Minja Mertanen, Vanessa Skantze, Julie Becton Gillum and Joan Laage/Kogut teach workshops. The workshops are a bargain.
Last year, the festival was graciously hosted by Portland Art Collective. Now it occupies the New Expressive Works studio.
The Northwest Butoh Festival in Portland. https://northwestbutohfestival.crd.co/ https://newexpressiveworks.org/nwbutohfestival2026 at New Expressive Works Studio 810 SE Belmont.
Workshops Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 6PM-10, 10AM-2, and 10AM-2 respectively. Prices in links.
Performances Thursday, Friday, Saturday. 8PM Indiviual tickets $25, $20, senior/artist/student $15. All performance ticket $60.
May 13 Praise Science
Laurie Anderson is a great American story teller from the downtown tribe. She was in the Giorno poetry scene. In the early 1980s she got a deal with Warner to release album-length art projects. Big Science was the first in 1982. You can hear it this evening in a listening session on vinyl.
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/big-science-presented-by-laura-cannon at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 7PM $36.50
The South Sound Experimental Film Festival are kindred to Portland filmmaking in Tacoma. We send things there ane they send to us. Tonigh they send Blue Jaye Corvidae-Schulte, Avian de Keizer, Miglė Križinauskaitė, Sitong Lu, Caroline Tuohey, Michael McCurdy, and Nikita Baranov with program Praise Kink.
It's https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/apr-26-2026/ at the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/big-science-presented-by-laura-cannon at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 7PM $36.50
The South Sound Experimental Film Festival are kindred to Portland filmmaking in Tacoma. We send things there ane they send to us. Tonigh they send Blue Jaye Corvidae-Schulte, Avian de Keizer, Miglė Križinauskaitė, Sitong Lu, Caroline Tuohey, Michael McCurdy, and Nikita Baranov with program Praise Kink.
It's https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/apr-26-2026/ at the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
Saturday, May 09, 2026
May 17 Ending Once Portlander Thrives
Laurie Anderson continues to perform. She is known for her writing and spoken word performances, singing, and electronic instruments. Miranda July is a performer familiar to many. I promoted her to PICA, successfully. Marina Abramović, with a work in Venice, now is known for psychological and physical risks in performance. The three, Anderson, Abramović, and July have a show together in Copenhagen now. https://www.nbt.dk/en/shows/in-the-presence-of-others/
The show ends May 17.
May 9 Ghostly Delight
Ghostly International is this afternoon's selector for social listening.
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-featuring-ghostly-international at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Lindsay Kretchun brings Objects of Delight, painting, textiles, and sculpture.
At Fine Art Fruit https://www.fineartfruit.com 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 3PM-6 Free
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-featuring-ghostly-international at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Lindsay Kretchun brings Objects of Delight, painting, textiles, and sculpture.
At Fine Art Fruit https://www.fineartfruit.com 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 3PM-6 Free
Friday, May 08, 2026
May 8 Somewhere Soft and Quiet
Miranda Zimmerman, Faunwood https://www.faunwood.com/, is a schooled scientific illustrator in Eugene. But the training does not get in the way of her art. Her work is very inexpensive and comes in multiples, pins, and books which she will sign at 6.
https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/faunwood-solo http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/faunwood-solo http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
Wednesday, May 06, 2026
May 7 Westside Art Openings+
Writers' Block, and Adams and Ollman continue.
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum free all day. https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-may2026/ at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 10AM-7 Free
For your +2 in Northeast. 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
For your +3 Venice. The Venice Biennale is open.
Notable is Florentina Holzinger, representing Austria with an installation and performance. She has been performing intense opera-like events in Europe you can find.
The Russian Pavilion is a problem. Russia was not invited in 2024 after invading Ukraine. They are back in 2026, but their show is press only. Nonetheless people are not happy about Russia and their pavilion is attracting artist protests, including Pussy Riot. The Pussy Riot story is worth looking up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxl52-1LW_k
Mark R Smith https://markrsmithstudio.com/ brings Desert or Ocean, inspired by habitation, climate change and migration. Derek Franklin https://www.derekfranklin.net/ brings Poet's Lips, abstract paintings in light hues and sculptures with inspiration from Kierkegaard.
Https://www.elizabethleach.com/exhibitions/256-sense-of-place-group-exhibition/overview/ at Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
The Contrast Gallery shares The Horizon Enterprise Building with The Downbeat and a black creative business incubator. They bring Based, a large group show including Abigail Fraser, Abigail Tjaden, Apoorva Bhandari, Chelsea J. Ferguson, Cheng Lee, Christian Orellana Bauer, Cody Austin, Daniel Soriano-Valencia, Deangelo Raines, Eric Wixon, Jasper York, Jeffrey Tan, Kayla Rojas, Korina Keaton, Kyle Thompson, Mae Al-Jiboori, Melissa Alvarez Baliton, Naomi Likayi, Nova Warren, Olivia Sanchez, Stephanie Pozuelos, Tylor Rogers, Victoria Chavez, Wura Ogunsanya, Yathzi Turcot, Yuyang Zhang, and Zachary Del Carpine.
RSVP required at https://partiful.com/e/m2yGtKCtPPtN5BRFtJY4.
At the Contrast Gallery 433 NW 4th 6:30PM-9 Free
Fisk is programming the W+K gallery. Soft Connections is the new show of painting, drawing, and ceramics by Kentaro Okawara, Nia Misiba, and Marsha Mack.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free
Froelick has its second unplanned retrospective exhibit. This one is from painter Kevin Kadar (1955-2025). The show New Landscapes and Seascapes includes work inspired by his visit to the Bandiagara Escarpment, Mali. Unfortunately it is not safe to travel there today due to the Azawad independence movement, Islamic rebels, Russian corruption, a military coup, and the exit of the French and the US. The attraction of Mali to conflict is gold, diamonds, as well as aliminum and iron ore.
At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
No Unsacred Places is a show of colorist landscape oils by Jef Gunn.
At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Blue Sky has its fourth 50th anniversary exhibition spanning October 2005 and October 2015. New work from select artists is paired with work of the time.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Fans Only shows its residents and guests with a focus on PSU students.
At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free
Photographer Jim Lommasson continues his What I Carry project, an anthropology study of what travelers, migrants, and displaced individuals carry with them. This one is with local homeless individuals. It is presented alongside work of the Street Roots photography club.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
The Mashiko Ceramics and Arts Association from Japan has sent works paired with local artists with families from the greater Pacific basin in show Many Bridges. Gallery 2 is a show by member artists Kanetaka Ikeda and Ruri.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Michael Spafford (1935-2022) has a retrospective of paintings, The Origin. Edge of Beauty and Survival are paintings by Margot Voorhies Thompson.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Resilience Is Our Nature are oil paintings by Susan Harrington. The landscapes and botanicals are inspired by climate change.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
From Turab to Noor is a show by 10 local muslum women.
At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
Frol-ic-some is group show, along with Kelli Cooper in show From the Dark Side of Whimsy. At Imperfecta www.imperfecta.xyz 809 NW Flanders 6PM-9
James Florschutz has Sounds of Memory and Robin Kerr has With the Windows Wide Open.
At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
PNCA Willamette has many visual shows tonight. One is Don’t Be Clever, Be True: Late Works by David Eckard (1964-2025) https://davideckardstudio.com/home.html .
At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
The Urban Art Network occupies 13th with all their booths of stuff.
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum free all day. https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-may2026/ at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 10AM-7 Free
For your +2 in Northeast. 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
For your +3 Venice. The Venice Biennale is open.
Notable is Florentina Holzinger, representing Austria with an installation and performance. She has been performing intense opera-like events in Europe you can find.
The Russian Pavilion is a problem. Russia was not invited in 2024 after invading Ukraine. They are back in 2026, but their show is press only. Nonetheless people are not happy about Russia and their pavilion is attracting artist protests, including Pussy Riot. The Pussy Riot story is worth looking up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxl52-1LW_k
Mark R Smith https://markrsmithstudio.com/ brings Desert or Ocean, inspired by habitation, climate change and migration. Derek Franklin https://www.derekfranklin.net/ brings Poet's Lips, abstract paintings in light hues and sculptures with inspiration from Kierkegaard.
Https://www.elizabethleach.com/exhibitions/256-sense-of-place-group-exhibition/overview/ at Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
The Contrast Gallery shares The Horizon Enterprise Building with The Downbeat and a black creative business incubator. They bring Based, a large group show including Abigail Fraser, Abigail Tjaden, Apoorva Bhandari, Chelsea J. Ferguson, Cheng Lee, Christian Orellana Bauer, Cody Austin, Daniel Soriano-Valencia, Deangelo Raines, Eric Wixon, Jasper York, Jeffrey Tan, Kayla Rojas, Korina Keaton, Kyle Thompson, Mae Al-Jiboori, Melissa Alvarez Baliton, Naomi Likayi, Nova Warren, Olivia Sanchez, Stephanie Pozuelos, Tylor Rogers, Victoria Chavez, Wura Ogunsanya, Yathzi Turcot, Yuyang Zhang, and Zachary Del Carpine.
RSVP required at https://partiful.com/e/m2yGtKCtPPtN5BRFtJY4.
At the Contrast Gallery 433 NW 4th 6:30PM-9 Free
Fisk is programming the W+K gallery. Soft Connections is the new show of painting, drawing, and ceramics by Kentaro Okawara, Nia Misiba, and Marsha Mack.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free
Froelick has its second unplanned retrospective exhibit. This one is from painter Kevin Kadar (1955-2025). The show New Landscapes and Seascapes includes work inspired by his visit to the Bandiagara Escarpment, Mali. Unfortunately it is not safe to travel there today due to the Azawad independence movement, Islamic rebels, Russian corruption, a military coup, and the exit of the French and the US. The attraction of Mali to conflict is gold, diamonds, as well as aliminum and iron ore.
At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
No Unsacred Places is a show of colorist landscape oils by Jef Gunn.
At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Blue Sky has its fourth 50th anniversary exhibition spanning October 2005 and October 2015. New work from select artists is paired with work of the time.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Fans Only shows its residents and guests with a focus on PSU students.
At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free
Photographer Jim Lommasson continues his What I Carry project, an anthropology study of what travelers, migrants, and displaced individuals carry with them. This one is with local homeless individuals. It is presented alongside work of the Street Roots photography club.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
The Mashiko Ceramics and Arts Association from Japan has sent works paired with local artists with families from the greater Pacific basin in show Many Bridges. Gallery 2 is a show by member artists Kanetaka Ikeda and Ruri.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Michael Spafford (1935-2022) has a retrospective of paintings, The Origin. Edge of Beauty and Survival are paintings by Margot Voorhies Thompson.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Resilience Is Our Nature are oil paintings by Susan Harrington. The landscapes and botanicals are inspired by climate change.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
From Turab to Noor is a show by 10 local muslum women.
At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
Frol-ic-some is group show, along with Kelli Cooper in show From the Dark Side of Whimsy. At Imperfecta www.imperfecta.xyz 809 NW Flanders 6PM-9
James Florschutz has Sounds of Memory and Robin Kerr has With the Windows Wide Open.
At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
PNCA Willamette has many visual shows tonight. One is Don’t Be Clever, Be True: Late Works by David Eckard (1964-2025) https://davideckardstudio.com/home.html .
At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
The Urban Art Network occupies 13th with all their booths of stuff.
Saturday, May 02, 2026
May 2 Northside Art Openings+
Oregon Contemporary and False Front continue.
Usually in our listings we issue forward pointers for future associated events with the first or main event. So day of may not be relisted. Rare exceptions.
For your +1 Linda Hutchins speaks and previews a short film about her dream project.
She keeps a pad and writing implement bedside. Awaking from a dream, without opening eyes, she writes her dream. The show is a collection of 50 of those dream notes.
At The Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th Open 10:30AM, talk 11-noon, open until 5 Free
For your +2, Westside, Jenene Nagy brings her elegant minimal work.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
For your +3, Westside, The Schnitzer collection is a vast archive of mostly multiples. They assemble vast shows from that. What's Not to Love is primarily portraits, local, national, and international. They have a large show of David Hockney at the Portland Art Museum too.
At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://jordanschnitzer.org/exhibitions/whats-not-to-love 3033 NW Yeon Noon-6 Free
Blue Moon Camera staff bring a show of their work. At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5:30PM-8 Free
Most Nearly Perfect Ham by Kelda Van Patten https://keldavanpatten.com/ is a show of collage.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Allan Pichardo and Alyssa Pichardo beam down Soul of the Hyperreal, a surreal video game.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Gallery Hours are curated by Anaya.
In "Arrivals, Anaya will explore the music of Asian and Asian-American artists, bands, and producers. Spanning many genres, including jazz, lofi, soul, hip-hop, and r&b - with some side trips related to Anaya’s heritage and upbringing."
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-adrian-anaya at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Usually in our listings we issue forward pointers for future associated events with the first or main event. So day of may not be relisted. Rare exceptions.
For your +1 Linda Hutchins speaks and previews a short film about her dream project.
She keeps a pad and writing implement bedside. Awaking from a dream, without opening eyes, she writes her dream. The show is a collection of 50 of those dream notes.
At The Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th Open 10:30AM, talk 11-noon, open until 5 Free
For your +2, Westside, Jenene Nagy brings her elegant minimal work.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
For your +3, Westside, The Schnitzer collection is a vast archive of mostly multiples. They assemble vast shows from that. What's Not to Love is primarily portraits, local, national, and international. They have a large show of David Hockney at the Portland Art Museum too.
At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://jordanschnitzer.org/exhibitions/whats-not-to-love 3033 NW Yeon Noon-6 Free
Blue Moon Camera staff bring a show of their work. At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5:30PM-8 Free
Most Nearly Perfect Ham by Kelda Van Patten https://keldavanpatten.com/ is a show of collage.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Allan Pichardo and Alyssa Pichardo beam down Soul of the Hyperreal, a surreal video game.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Gallery Hours are curated by Anaya.
In "Arrivals, Anaya will explore the music of Asian and Asian-American artists, bands, and producers. Spanning many genres, including jazz, lofi, soul, hip-hop, and r&b - with some side trips related to Anaya’s heritage and upbringing."
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-adrian-anaya at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Thursday, April 30, 2026
May 1 First Initial
In unusual opening schedule Ryan McLaughlin brings paintings Saentis Bindle II and Nao Kikuchi brings sculptures Spur.
At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of four members of the New Art Dealers Alliance newartdealers.org/members, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 5PM-7 Free
Zachary Rau and Chris Sazaki bring PDX<>LAX.
Opening at the Purple Door https://www.thepurpledoorpdx.com/ 3557 SE Division 6PM-9 Free
Initial is a Portland arts writing project. Issue 2 drops tonight. Issue 2 writers are Joy Ulienne Alice, Gus Cannon, Martha Daghlian, Justin Duyao, Leslie Hickey, Midori Hirose, Jaydra Johnson, Brandi Kruse, Bennett Reeves, Ryan-Ashley Anderson, Ben Skiba, and Samantha Yun Wall.
At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 7PM-10 Free
Of course it is Eastside art opening night on the first Friday socials.
At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of four members of the New Art Dealers Alliance newartdealers.org/members, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 5PM-7 Free
Zachary Rau and Chris Sazaki bring PDX<>LAX.
Opening at the Purple Door https://www.thepurpledoorpdx.com/ 3557 SE Division 6PM-9 Free
Initial is a Portland arts writing project. Issue 2 drops tonight. Issue 2 writers are Joy Ulienne Alice, Gus Cannon, Martha Daghlian, Justin Duyao, Leslie Hickey, Midori Hirose, Jaydra Johnson, Brandi Kruse, Bennett Reeves, Ryan-Ashley Anderson, Ben Skiba, and Samantha Yun Wall.
At Nationale
Of course it is Eastside art opening night on the first Friday socials.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
April 29 Music from India
Lewis and Clark College has a classical Indian music program. They have an end of semester class performance tonight. Https://college.lclark.edu/fine-arts/calendar/event/370291-indian-music-ensemble-performance in Evans Auditorium at Lewis and Clark College 615 S Palatine Hill Road Map 7PM Free
Friday, April 24, 2026
April 26 Rain Sun Flower Shrine
Lowell pairs artists Shino Takeda and Mohamed Omar for show Rain Sun Flower.
The aesthetic language of Japanese ceramics is deep and wide. I think it would take a lifetime to begin to understand. Growing up, artist Takeda http://shinotakeda.com/home was dipped in it by collector parents. Now in Brooklyn, she brings her response by juxtaposing color in organic patterns on small handbuilts.
I am not sure if Portlander Mohamed Omar was part of Project Grow. But his story is related.
Project Grow was created by artist Natasha Wheat. I would say it was partially inspired by the philosophy of R D Laing.
It was Portland's most beautiful Social Practice artwork. I put Project Grow in the branch of 'socially conscious social practice art.' I would like to see more.
Art is a language of individuals, always evolving and branching. We give bundles of branches names by convenience and habit. One branch is outsider art. It has a longer history in Europe; in the US it came into the gallery system as a reaction of the excesses of 1980s New York.
Project Grow ran alongside Oakland's Creative Growth and similar. Today Portland has Elbow Room, North Pole Studio, PHAME, cotravelers J Pepin, and more projects that never went to art school.
Omar brings paintings from his work at Elbow Room https://www.elbowroompdx.org/. He is a musician too, with tapes available at the gallery.
Add, Hospitality House in SF has an overlapping community of artists. Portland participates with similar projects P:ear and Dana Lynn Louis' Gather:Make:Shelter.
At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 3PM-5 Free
Shrine 13 is a Portland creative releasing project in film, print, and with events. It is Jessica Daugherty and Brad Hamers. One project is archiving the life work of Beryl Sokoloff and Crista Grauer, life partner artists in New York.
They show some tonight in program The Galatea Effect, Or How to Live Forever: The Films, and Love, of Beryl Sokoloff and Crista Grauer. It is eloquently explained on their link.
It's https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/apr-26-2026/ at the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
The aesthetic language of Japanese ceramics is deep and wide. I think it would take a lifetime to begin to understand. Growing up, artist Takeda http://shinotakeda.com/home was dipped in it by collector parents. Now in Brooklyn, she brings her response by juxtaposing color in organic patterns on small handbuilts.
I am not sure if Portlander Mohamed Omar was part of Project Grow. But his story is related.
Project Grow was created by artist Natasha Wheat. I would say it was partially inspired by the philosophy of R D Laing.
It was Portland's most beautiful Social Practice artwork. I put Project Grow in the branch of 'socially conscious social practice art.' I would like to see more.
Art is a language of individuals, always evolving and branching. We give bundles of branches names by convenience and habit. One branch is outsider art. It has a longer history in Europe; in the US it came into the gallery system as a reaction of the excesses of 1980s New York.
Project Grow ran alongside Oakland's Creative Growth and similar. Today Portland has Elbow Room, North Pole Studio, PHAME, cotravelers J Pepin, and more projects that never went to art school.
Omar brings paintings from his work at Elbow Room https://www.elbowroompdx.org/. He is a musician too, with tapes available at the gallery.
Add, Hospitality House in SF has an overlapping community of artists. Portland participates with similar projects P:ear and Dana Lynn Louis' Gather:Make:Shelter.
At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 3PM-5 Free
Shrine 13 is a Portland creative releasing project in film, print, and with events. It is Jessica Daugherty and Brad Hamers. One project is archiving the life work of Beryl Sokoloff and Crista Grauer, life partner artists in New York.
They show some tonight in program The Galatea Effect, Or How to Live Forever: The Films, and Love, of Beryl Sokoloff and Crista Grauer. It is eloquently explained on their link.
It's https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/apr-26-2026/ at the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
April 25 Intimate Music Self
Kimberly Gronquist forms Intimate Monads, organic ceramic sculptures.
They win the copywriting award for the month. "A word like monad risks sounding grandiose until you stand in front of one of Gronquist’s sculptures and feel the term settle. Borrowed from Leibnizian symbolic logic, it names the smallest indivisible unit of being, a self-contained world. In this way Gronquist’s works conduct a small cosmos pressed into clay. Each object existing solitary, self-possessed, while simultaneously conversing quietly across the gallery, forming a loose ecology of presences.
Originating in touch the clay bears evidence of fingers, gravity, pressure, and air forming a material history of the gestures that shaped it. These deliberate and discovered arrangements that seem grown rather than constructed. The process reveals almost like a form of thinking, or an embodied cognition in which ideas are not depicted but coaxed out of matter.
The shifting scale and intimacy of the sculptures keep them close to the body. Each one holds a small interior drama of time: a vessel formed slowly through attention, then fixed by fire. Psychologist Laura L. Carstensen’s notion of “time horizons”—the way human perception of time shapes our priorities, hovers in the background. These ceramics feel oddly liberated from time even as they record it.
Gronquist describes the work as an investigation into the porous boundary between inner consciousness and the world that forms it. The idea sounds philosophical, but the sculptures communicate it plainly. Their surfaces look weathered by encounter. They materially imply that identity like clay is made through the contact of touch, environment, attention, and relationships.
There is also a quiet defiance running through the exhibition. The work honors sovereign interiority over the social demand to appear legible or productive. They embrace beauty, excess, and vulnerability with a seriousness, as Gronquist leans into those qualities despite the history of them being dismissed as indulgent. What could be read as softness becomes strength; what looks fragile reveals a stubborn independence to exist among the chaos.
One line lingers as a fitting epigraph for the show: “We are two abysses—a well staring up at the sky.” The phrase captures the mood of these objects. Each sculpture seems to look inward and outward at once, holding a private depth while opening toward something larger, formed, sustained, and continually remade through our encounters with the world and with one another."
At at SE Cooper Contemprary, with family-friendly openings, https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th Map 1PM-4 Free
Patricia Wolf is an accomplished musician, promoter, patch developer and composer. Her branch is electronic field recording ambient. She has hosted showings at Mono Space of movie Hrafnamynd https://vimeo.com/828149745, an abstract documentary she scored.
This afternoon she is the selector for a listening session.
"Maurice Ravel to Ryuichi Sakamoto, Hildegard Westerkamp to Roméo Poirier, Mel Bonis to Elizabeth Maconchy."
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-patricia-wolf at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
How am I not myself? is a curated selection of 30 self portraits.
At Well on Earth 115 NE Lawrence Ste 111 5PM-9 Free
Volunteer-operated Kalakendra presents classical Indian music concerts. It is a pleasure to experience them. Tonight Ganesh-Kumaresh plays carnatic violin with Patri Satish Kumar, mridangam, and Trichy Krishnaswamy, ghatam, in an instrumental program.
At the First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park. 7PM $35, youth age 3-12 $15, students with ID $20
They win the copywriting award for the month. "A word like monad risks sounding grandiose until you stand in front of one of Gronquist’s sculptures and feel the term settle. Borrowed from Leibnizian symbolic logic, it names the smallest indivisible unit of being, a self-contained world. In this way Gronquist’s works conduct a small cosmos pressed into clay. Each object existing solitary, self-possessed, while simultaneously conversing quietly across the gallery, forming a loose ecology of presences.
Originating in touch the clay bears evidence of fingers, gravity, pressure, and air forming a material history of the gestures that shaped it. These deliberate and discovered arrangements that seem grown rather than constructed. The process reveals almost like a form of thinking, or an embodied cognition in which ideas are not depicted but coaxed out of matter.
The shifting scale and intimacy of the sculptures keep them close to the body. Each one holds a small interior drama of time: a vessel formed slowly through attention, then fixed by fire. Psychologist Laura L. Carstensen’s notion of “time horizons”—the way human perception of time shapes our priorities, hovers in the background. These ceramics feel oddly liberated from time even as they record it.
Gronquist describes the work as an investigation into the porous boundary between inner consciousness and the world that forms it. The idea sounds philosophical, but the sculptures communicate it plainly. Their surfaces look weathered by encounter. They materially imply that identity like clay is made through the contact of touch, environment, attention, and relationships.
There is also a quiet defiance running through the exhibition. The work honors sovereign interiority over the social demand to appear legible or productive. They embrace beauty, excess, and vulnerability with a seriousness, as Gronquist leans into those qualities despite the history of them being dismissed as indulgent. What could be read as softness becomes strength; what looks fragile reveals a stubborn independence to exist among the chaos.
One line lingers as a fitting epigraph for the show: “We are two abysses—a well staring up at the sky.” The phrase captures the mood of these objects. Each sculpture seems to look inward and outward at once, holding a private depth while opening toward something larger, formed, sustained, and continually remade through our encounters with the world and with one another."
At at SE Cooper Contemprary, with family-friendly openings, https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th Map 1PM-4 Free
Patricia Wolf is an accomplished musician, promoter, patch developer and composer. Her branch is electronic field recording ambient. She has hosted showings at Mono Space of movie Hrafnamynd https://vimeo.com/828149745, an abstract documentary she scored.
This afternoon she is the selector for a listening session.
"Maurice Ravel to Ryuichi Sakamoto, Hildegard Westerkamp to Roméo Poirier, Mel Bonis to Elizabeth Maconchy."
https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-patricia-wolf at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
How am I not myself? is a curated selection of 30 self portraits.
At Well on Earth 115 NE Lawrence Ste 111 5PM-9 Free
Volunteer-operated Kalakendra presents classical Indian music concerts. It is a pleasure to experience them. Tonight Ganesh-Kumaresh plays carnatic violin with Patri Satish Kumar, mridangam, and Trichy Krishnaswamy, ghatam, in an instrumental program.
At the First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park. 7PM $35, youth age 3-12 $15, students with ID $20
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
April 24 Poem Gamelan
The Indonesian archipelago is larger than the US West to East and about 3/4 extent South to North. It is 4th in world population after the US, ethnically diverse. Diverse in music, too. One branch is gamelan music. That has more branches.
The gamelan is a collection of percussion instruments up to about 50 instrument types. They range from small instruments with the ring of bells to large gongs with a shimmer sustain, drums, and add strings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQNxGnQ1Wns
Today, with an afternoon free you can hear the Lewis and Clark College gamelan class readout, free. The L&C art department thesis show is up in the Hoffman too.
Javanese Gamelan Ensemble https://www.lclark.edu/calendars/events/event/388092-javanese-gamelan-ensemble in Evans Music Center’s World Music Room (room 036) 2PM Free
The sea of poetry readings ebbs and flows. I'm not that deep in that world, but Im sensing it flowing. One itinerant project is Poems at Sunset out a Window. They received an opportunity to expand and tonight do Poems out of a Print Shop. At the IPRC 318 SE Main. Readings 7:25PM, 7:45, 8:10 Free
The gamelan is a collection of percussion instruments up to about 50 instrument types. They range from small instruments with the ring of bells to large gongs with a shimmer sustain, drums, and add strings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQNxGnQ1Wns
Today, with an afternoon free you can hear the Lewis and Clark College gamelan class readout, free. The L&C art department thesis show is up in the Hoffman too.
Javanese Gamelan Ensemble https://www.lclark.edu/calendars/events/event/388092-javanese-gamelan-ensemble in Evans Music Center’s World Music Room (room 036) 2PM Free
The sea of poetry readings ebbs and flows. I'm not that deep in that world, but Im sensing it flowing. One itinerant project is Poems at Sunset out a Window. They received an opportunity to expand and tonight do Poems out of a Print Shop. At the IPRC 318 SE Main. Readings 7:25PM, 7:45, 8:10 Free
Saturday, April 18, 2026
April 18 Fuck Thesis Moss Formailities
Gareth James and David Joselit bring Late Night Legal Formalities. Society has a strong interest in word-based art.
"2026 marks the 20th anniversary of Late Night Legal Formalities, originally produced for the Elizabeth Dee Gallery in New York. LNLF was devised by James as a way of negotiating Dee’s request for him to join her commercial gallery. Prior to his first exhibition, Dee agreed to hire an art historian or critic to attend every exhibition during 2005 and to write an essay, for a fee of $1 a word, over which the gallery would have no editorial control, and which James would subsequently present in the September exhibition of the following year as his first exhibition. David Joselit lobbed a strikingly candid response back to James who incorporated it into the work on view."
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 7PM-9 Free
The thesis show season commences.
PNCA Visual Studies and Print Media launch theirs tonight. Two locations.
At at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th 5PM-8 Free
At NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th 5PM-8 Free
One Grand Gallery has several audiences. They are a member of PADA. They have also opened their attic to events. Tonight is the Fuck ICE show benefitting the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition. The upstairs shows are very popular social art, DJ, and beer events.
At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
Noa Ver, one half of electronic duo Sea Moss, curates an afternoon listening session. Sea Moss is an aggressive sound electronic duo, the opposite of Moss Wand.
At Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
"2026 marks the 20th anniversary of Late Night Legal Formalities, originally produced for the Elizabeth Dee Gallery in New York. LNLF was devised by James as a way of negotiating Dee’s request for him to join her commercial gallery. Prior to his first exhibition, Dee agreed to hire an art historian or critic to attend every exhibition during 2005 and to write an essay, for a fee of $1 a word, over which the gallery would have no editorial control, and which James would subsequently present in the September exhibition of the following year as his first exhibition. David Joselit lobbed a strikingly candid response back to James who incorporated it into the work on view."
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 7PM-9 Free
The thesis show season commences.
PNCA Visual Studies and Print Media launch theirs tonight. Two locations.
At at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th 5PM-8 Free
At NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th 5PM-8 Free
One Grand Gallery has several audiences. They are a member of PADA. They have also opened their attic to events. Tonight is the Fuck ICE show benefitting the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition. The upstairs shows are very popular social art, DJ, and beer events.
At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
Noa Ver, one half of electronic duo Sea Moss, curates an afternoon listening session. Sea Moss is an aggressive sound electronic duo, the opposite of Moss Wand.
At Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Thursday, April 16, 2026
April 16 Neptune Frost
Our nighttime weather is trying to tell the plants not yet.
Atelier Yafe hosts a showing of Neptune Frost, a dystopian Afrofuturism musical involving hackers. It was filmed in Rwanda and released in 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acfBNIXovww
Included in the evening is a discussion of Portland mapping in the service of community placemaking.
This month is the 32nd aniversery of the Rwandan Genocide, still playing out today in warlord control of mining in Eastern Congo, with factions funded by Rwanda. The Portland Rwandan community has events.
At Atelier Yaffe https://www.atelieryaffe.com/ 111 NE Martin Luther King Blvd, enter on Couch 6:30-9 Free
Atelier Yafe hosts a showing of Neptune Frost, a dystopian Afrofuturism musical involving hackers. It was filmed in Rwanda and released in 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acfBNIXovww
Included in the evening is a discussion of Portland mapping in the service of community placemaking.
This month is the 32nd aniversery of the Rwandan Genocide, still playing out today in warlord control of mining in Eastern Congo, with factions funded by Rwanda. The Portland Rwandan community has events.
At Atelier Yaffe https://www.atelieryaffe.com/ 111 NE Martin Luther King Blvd, enter on Couch 6:30-9 Free
Saturday, April 11, 2026
April 11 Small Animals
Lily Seika Jones https://www.lilyseikajones.com/ brings narrative illustrations of creatures.
https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/jones2026 http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/jones2026 http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Friday, April 10, 2026
April 11- 12 Peddling Synths
The Synth and Pedal show is back with an admission price this year. It's https://synthandpedalexpo.com/portland-synth-pedal-expo/. 819 SE Taylor $5-20
Thursday, April 09, 2026
April 10 Distance
I am the distance is paintings by Colorado-based artists, Marius Lehene + Aitor Lajarin-Encin.
At After/Time Collective https://www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 5PM-8 Free
At After/Time Collective https://www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 5PM-8 Free
Monday, April 06, 2026
April 5 - 2026-2027 Never Sorry
Ai Weiwei is an artist we follow. His autobiography 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows tells some of his story. He was born in 1957. Because of his father's politics, he lived in poor conditions. After he was part of an art opening generation in Beijing, which then quickly closed. Then he lived in New York City between 1981 - 1993. He was a street photographer in NYC, including the Tompkins Square Park police riot and AIDS protests. Since his New York experience, politics and (the lack of) justice has run through his work.
In 2010, The late Portland Museum of Contemporary Craft brought a traveling show Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn (Ceramic Works, 5000 BCE – 2010 CE). Weiwei's father had been an antiques dealer and the son has used antiques and Chinese history as a visual, emotional, and conceptual carrier in many of his works.
Of about 10,000 New York City images, 227 were shown at the Asia Society and published as a book in 2011 around the time of his release from being disappeared in China for 81 days. https://gailpellettproductions.com/ai-weiwei-new-york-1983-1993/
In 2012, the Portland Art Museum brought Allison Klayman's documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. She is an excellent person and filmmaker to watch. That includes her The Brink on Steve Bannon. I recommend any Weiwei documentary and his own vidio projects. Never Sorry is around but may be hard to find free with English subtitles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBWCqFHjqIw
In 2015, the Portland Art Museum brought Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold. Weiwei has created several interpretations of this reprise of famous sculptures stolen from China in 1860. https://archive.orartswatch.org/ai-weiwei-interprets-the-zodiac-for-you/ https://www.pdxmonthly.com/arts-and-culture/2015/05/bring-us-the-heads-of-ai-weiwei-may-2015
Lately Weiwei has focused his lens on refugees of wars of choice in the Middle East. He has also been in Ukraine.
The Seattle Art Museum brought a large retrospective in 2025.
Now opens Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads (2010) in bronze at the Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park. It's up for a while and the Olympic Sculpture Park is always free. Ai WeiWei https://www.seattleartmuseum.org/whats-on/exhibitions/ai-weiwei-circle-of-animals-zodiac-heads at the Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park 2901 Western Avenue Map Free
In 2010, The late Portland Museum of Contemporary Craft brought a traveling show Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn (Ceramic Works, 5000 BCE – 2010 CE). Weiwei's father had been an antiques dealer and the son has used antiques and Chinese history as a visual, emotional, and conceptual carrier in many of his works.
Of about 10,000 New York City images, 227 were shown at the Asia Society and published as a book in 2011 around the time of his release from being disappeared in China for 81 days. https://gailpellettproductions.com/ai-weiwei-new-york-1983-1993/
In 2012, the Portland Art Museum brought Allison Klayman's documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. She is an excellent person and filmmaker to watch. That includes her The Brink on Steve Bannon. I recommend any Weiwei documentary and his own vidio projects. Never Sorry is around but may be hard to find free with English subtitles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBWCqFHjqIw
In 2015, the Portland Art Museum brought Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold. Weiwei has created several interpretations of this reprise of famous sculptures stolen from China in 1860. https://archive.orartswatch.org/ai-weiwei-interprets-the-zodiac-for-you/ https://www.pdxmonthly.com/arts-and-culture/2015/05/bring-us-the-heads-of-ai-weiwei-may-2015
Lately Weiwei has focused his lens on refugees of wars of choice in the Middle East. He has also been in Ukraine.
The Seattle Art Museum brought a large retrospective in 2025.
Now opens Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads (2010) in bronze at the Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park. It's up for a while and the Olympic Sculpture Park is always free. Ai WeiWei https://www.seattleartmuseum.org/whats-on/exhibitions/ai-weiwei-circle-of-animals-zodiac-heads at the Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park 2901 Western Avenue Map Free
Saturday, April 04, 2026
April 4 Northside Openings+
Today some winged feet would be useful with many happenings.
False Front continues. The Westside galleries are open 11-noon to 5 for echo openings.
For your +1, Westside, The Schnitzer collection is a vast archive of mostly multiples. They assemble vast shows from that. What's Not to Love is primarily portraits, local, national, and international. They have a large show of David Hockney at the Portland Art Museum too.
At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://jordanschnitzer.org/exhibitions/whats-not-to-love 3033 NW Yeon Noon-6 Free
For your +2, Westside, Nathan William Lambdin makes polychrome geometric wood sculptures.They are two and a half dimension intended for walls.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
Umico Niwa https://www.umiconiwa.com brings her framed journal drawings. Her theme is her trans journey in show titled The disappearance of my testicles, and other such mysteries regarding motherhood. More including her bio is https://ily2online.com/exhibitions/umico. Good addition to the gallery.
At I Love You 2 - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 1PM-3 Free
Oregon Contemporary opens their biennial. Artists are Sahar al-Sawaf, Raphael Arar, Wayne Bund, Francesca Capone, Hand2Mouth Theatre, Kerr Cirilo, DeepTime Collective: Amanda Leigh Evans and Tia Kramer, Demian DinéYazhi’, James Enos, Tannaz Farsi, Marcelo Fontana, Ebony Frison, The Black Gallery & Don't Shoot PDX: Taishona Carpenter and Teressa Raiford, Bean Gilsdorf, Stephen Hayes, Jaleesa Johnston, Joe Kye, Ambrin Ling, Katherine Longstreth, Todd McGrain, Mako Miyamoto, Anis Mojgani, Gabby Severson, Stephen Slappe, Ash Stone, and Taravat Talepasand.
At 6, Fifty Clocks Made To Strike Together is a performance by DeepTime Collective, Amanda Leigh Evans and Tia Kramer. Followed by a talk by the curator, TK Smith. The performance requires earplugs which will be available.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Nationale shows Oh Deeear Mee by Amy Bay.
"Many of the paintings begin with simple flower-like shapes that gather within crowded fields. Bay draws loosely from historical decorative sources—particularly French domino papers and early English wallpapers—but treats patterns as flexible rather than fixed. The compositions move between ornamentation, landscape, and abstraction, while suggesting social arrangements that take on a sense of companionship."
At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 2PM-4 Free
A new photography gallery and darkroom, Franklin Foto, opens Maydays by Steve Rockoff, imaged on the streets in Dublin County, May 2024 and 2025. At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5PM-8 Free
Garth Amundson and Pierre Gour bring Born Remembering, geometric collage. They are faculty at WWU in Bellingham.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Ben Skiba brings ceramic sculpture Notch for the Heart. It opened yesterday and may be open tonight.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
False Front continues. The Westside galleries are open 11-noon to 5 for echo openings.
For your +1, Westside, The Schnitzer collection is a vast archive of mostly multiples. They assemble vast shows from that. What's Not to Love is primarily portraits, local, national, and international. They have a large show of David Hockney at the Portland Art Museum too.
At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://jordanschnitzer.org/exhibitions/whats-not-to-love 3033 NW Yeon Noon-6 Free
For your +2, Westside, Nathan William Lambdin makes polychrome geometric wood sculptures.They are two and a half dimension intended for walls.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
Umico Niwa https://www.umiconiwa.com brings her framed journal drawings. Her theme is her trans journey in show titled The disappearance of my testicles, and other such mysteries regarding motherhood. More including her bio is https://ily2online.com/exhibitions/umico. Good addition to the gallery.
At I Love You 2 - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 1PM-3 Free
Oregon Contemporary opens their biennial. Artists are Sahar al-Sawaf, Raphael Arar, Wayne Bund, Francesca Capone, Hand2Mouth Theatre, Kerr Cirilo, DeepTime Collective: Amanda Leigh Evans and Tia Kramer, Demian DinéYazhi’, James Enos, Tannaz Farsi, Marcelo Fontana, Ebony Frison, The Black Gallery & Don't Shoot PDX: Taishona Carpenter and Teressa Raiford, Bean Gilsdorf, Stephen Hayes, Jaleesa Johnston, Joe Kye, Ambrin Ling, Katherine Longstreth, Todd McGrain, Mako Miyamoto, Anis Mojgani, Gabby Severson, Stephen Slappe, Ash Stone, and Taravat Talepasand.
At 6, Fifty Clocks Made To Strike Together is a performance by DeepTime Collective, Amanda Leigh Evans and Tia Kramer. Followed by a talk by the curator, TK Smith. The performance requires earplugs which will be available.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Nationale shows Oh Deeear Mee by Amy Bay.
"Many of the paintings begin with simple flower-like shapes that gather within crowded fields. Bay draws loosely from historical decorative sources—particularly French domino papers and early English wallpapers—but treats patterns as flexible rather than fixed. The compositions move between ornamentation, landscape, and abstraction, while suggesting social arrangements that take on a sense of companionship."
At Nationale
A new photography gallery and darkroom, Franklin Foto, opens Maydays by Steve Rockoff, imaged on the streets in Dublin County, May 2024 and 2025. At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5PM-8 Free
Garth Amundson and Pierre Gour bring Born Remembering, geometric collage. They are faculty at WWU in Bellingham.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Ben Skiba brings ceramic sculpture Notch for the Heart. It opened yesterday and may be open tonight.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Friday, April 03, 2026
April 3 Eastside Art Openings
Jason Hill and Françoise Weeks bring photographic portraists, the Living Frame. The art is in the props and backdrops. Those include artist-made picture frames held by the models, and artist-made props, both from botanical artist Françoise Weeks. https://www.francoiseweeks.com/ Art and editorial photographer Jason Hill stretches out on the art side with this project. https://jasonhillphoto.com/ One of the models is Portlnd Musicial Esperanza Spalding.
At Souvenir Gallery https://souvenirartspdx.org/ 1233 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free
New Riso shop and gallery, Riso Studio Arts, brings Kiko Bordeos https://kikobordeos.com/ and Alexis Gallo https://alexisgallo.com/ all the way from Brooklyn for show Keepsakes. They are bright abstracts.
At Riso Studio Arts https://pdx.risostudioarts.com/ 1327 SE Division 5PM-8 Free
Zhanna Tsytsyn https://www.zhannatsytsyn.com/ brings Where Roots Refuse Borders. Her work is colorful schemantic painting. Born in Siberia and growing up in Siberia and the Georgia, the republic/now country, some of her work is inspired by Siberian shamans. She now resides in Vancouver, Washington,
At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
All the Eastside events are at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials which list many shows and their times.
At Souvenir Gallery https://souvenirartspdx.org/ 1233 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free
New Riso shop and gallery, Riso Studio Arts, brings Kiko Bordeos https://kikobordeos.com/ and Alexis Gallo https://alexisgallo.com/ all the way from Brooklyn for show Keepsakes. They are bright abstracts.
At Riso Studio Arts https://pdx.risostudioarts.com/ 1327 SE Division 5PM-8 Free
Zhanna Tsytsyn https://www.zhannatsytsyn.com/ brings Where Roots Refuse Borders. Her work is colorful schemantic painting. Born in Siberia and growing up in Siberia and the Georgia, the republic/now country, some of her work is inspired by Siberian shamans. She now resides in Vancouver, Washington,
At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
All the Eastside events are at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials which list many shows and their times.
Wednesday, April 01, 2026
April 2 Westside Art Openings
Leach, Writers' Block, The Black Gallery, Laura Vincent Design, and Adams and Ollman continue.
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum free all day. There is a talk about Mark Rothko at 10:30AM which you get tickets for as part of the free admission. https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-april2026/ at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 10AM-7 Free
For your +2 in Northeast. 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
For your +3, anytime. Is the news getting you down? Try a break with Slow TV, a broad genre with many stories. https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2026-03-12/slow-tv-jackie-shadow-eagles-nature-livestream-big-bear
Boiler Room, Steelhead, and Just Enough is a retrospective show by the late Tom Prochaska. Recommended.
At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Frank Stella (1936–2024) was known for his minimalist works, and he also produced colorful maximalist paintings and even sculptures. He was a champion of artist rights represented in french law as Droit de Suite, which never caught on in US intellectual property law. He was an avid racquet player and performed in Reuschenberg's Open Score with otehr creatives in the 1966 E.A.T. project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlZFYnnnn7U. This show is of prints spanning both bodies of work.
At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Blue Sky has 50 photographers from the Critical Mass program, and one solo from it, Elliot Ross.
Dream: ... Dream: ... Another dream: … are handwritten records of 50 dreams by Linda Hutchins.
"Irregular script and scribbled redactions blur the distinction between writing and drawing, continuing the artist’s long-running investigation of the formal and metaphorical potential of line as a visual element."
There will be an artist talk Saturday May 2, 11AM
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Fans Only shows its residents and guests.
At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free
Painters Joel Briggs bring In St. John’s Shadow, Natasha Ramras brings Totem 2, and Faith Emerson brings Meyer.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Jana Demartini has landscapes Dancing With Trees, Pomegranate Doyle has Circe, Circle, Circus, Justin Auld has Address Label Mandalas,
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Gabe Fernandez has photorealistic interior and exterior landscape paintings.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Quiet is a show of impresionistic mixed-media encaustic landscape paintings by Erika James.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
PNCA Willamette has many visual shows tonight. They are hosting a printed matter show too. And they are recruting California Collage of the Arts refugees on the occasion of its closure.
At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum free all day. There is a talk about Mark Rothko at 10:30AM which you get tickets for as part of the free admission. https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-april2026/ at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 10AM-7 Free
For your +2 in Northeast. 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
For your +3, anytime. Is the news getting you down? Try a break with Slow TV, a broad genre with many stories. https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2026-03-12/slow-tv-jackie-shadow-eagles-nature-livestream-big-bear
Boiler Room, Steelhead, and Just Enough is a retrospective show by the late Tom Prochaska. Recommended.
At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Frank Stella (1936–2024) was known for his minimalist works, and he also produced colorful maximalist paintings and even sculptures. He was a champion of artist rights represented in french law as Droit de Suite, which never caught on in US intellectual property law. He was an avid racquet player and performed in Reuschenberg's Open Score with otehr creatives in the 1966 E.A.T. project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlZFYnnnn7U. This show is of prints spanning both bodies of work.
At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Blue Sky has 50 photographers from the Critical Mass program, and one solo from it, Elliot Ross.
Dream: ... Dream: ... Another dream: … are handwritten records of 50 dreams by Linda Hutchins.
"Irregular script and scribbled redactions blur the distinction between writing and drawing, continuing the artist’s long-running investigation of the formal and metaphorical potential of line as a visual element."
There will be an artist talk Saturday May 2, 11AM
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Fans Only shows its residents and guests.
At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free
Painters Joel Briggs bring In St. John’s Shadow, Natasha Ramras brings Totem 2, and Faith Emerson brings Meyer.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Jana Demartini has landscapes Dancing With Trees, Pomegranate Doyle has Circe, Circle, Circus, Justin Auld has Address Label Mandalas,
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Gabe Fernandez has photorealistic interior and exterior landscape paintings.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Quiet is a show of impresionistic mixed-media encaustic landscape paintings by Erika James.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
PNCA Willamette has many visual shows tonight. They are hosting a printed matter show too. And they are recruting California Collage of the Arts refugees on the occasion of its closure.
At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
Monday, March 30, 2026
April 1 Rewind / Repeat
Nam June Paik (1932-2006) is a pioneer video artist I've mentioned. Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV is a nice documentary telling his story.
Paik is noted as one of the artists and creatives anticipating the Internet. Others would be Marshall McLuhan, with the Global Village, and Gene Youngblood, author of Expanded Cinema and Mass Media, the Future of Desire.
An early gallery supporter was the Carl Solway Gallery https://solwaygallery.com/ in little Cincinnati, Ohio, and big New York, New York. Both Carl Solway and Nam June Paik are deceased. There was some sort of irresolvable dispute between the estate of the gallery and the estate of the artist.
Meanwhile Korea has become an art and culture hub.
Steps in Gagosian.
Nam June Paik: Rewind / Repeat opens today in Seoul. Supported by the estate, it shows significant works in the artist's home town. It follows the closing of https://www.artsinohio.com/event/76721-nam-june-paik-in-cincinnati-a-history hosted by the local university.
Nam June Paik: Rewind / Repeat https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2026/nam-june-paik-rewind-repeat/ (including links in Korean) at APMA Cabinet, 1/F Amorepacific Headquarters, 100 Hangang-daero, Yongsan-gu, Seoul Map 5PM-7 Free
Paik is noted as one of the artists and creatives anticipating the Internet. Others would be Marshall McLuhan, with the Global Village, and Gene Youngblood, author of Expanded Cinema and Mass Media, the Future of Desire.
An early gallery supporter was the Carl Solway Gallery https://solwaygallery.com/ in little Cincinnati, Ohio, and big New York, New York. Both Carl Solway and Nam June Paik are deceased. There was some sort of irresolvable dispute between the estate of the gallery and the estate of the artist.
Meanwhile Korea has become an art and culture hub.
Steps in Gagosian.
Nam June Paik: Rewind / Repeat opens today in Seoul. Supported by the estate, it shows significant works in the artist's home town. It follows the closing of https://www.artsinohio.com/event/76721-nam-june-paik-in-cincinnati-a-history hosted by the local university.
Nam June Paik: Rewind / Repeat https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2026/nam-june-paik-rewind-repeat/ (including links in Korean) at APMA Cabinet, 1/F Amorepacific Headquarters, 100 Hangang-daero, Yongsan-gu, Seoul Map 5PM-7 Free
Sunday, March 22, 2026
March 23 Pray 4
Film Diary NYC is a film series of short personal documentaries happening this week. The Boathouse Microcinema is a satellite site tuning in for a fragment for free. Entitled Go to the Mountains and Pray 4. Makers are from China, France, Iran, and the United States.
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
Saturday, March 21, 2026
March 21 Weathered Collage Listening
RSA Projects gallery opens collage work by Hannah Fischer.
At Riso Studio Arts and RSA Projects gallery https://pdx.risostudioarts.com/ and https://rsa-projects.com/ 1327 SE Division Noon-2 Free
Noah Greene https://noahgreene.com/ has Slow Leaver, paintings aged in weather.
At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 3PM-6 Free
The young listeners of Mono Space curate an afternoon listening session.
At Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
At Riso Studio Arts and RSA Projects gallery https://pdx.risostudioarts.com/ and https://rsa-projects.com/ 1327 SE Division Noon-2 Free
Noah Greene https://noahgreene.com/ has Slow Leaver, paintings aged in weather.
At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 3PM-6 Free
The young listeners of Mono Space curate an afternoon listening session.
At Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Monday, March 16, 2026
March 16 Actual Country
Continuing their music + movies, the Boathouse brings Glenda Drew and Jesse Drew with their documentary Open Country. They are actual professors at UC Davis. Along with the showing is an actual music band Fronjentress actually playing.
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
Add MOSMA has a film at the Hollywood, a vintage live + animation inspired by Jules Verne.
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
Add MOSMA has a film at the Hollywood, a vintage live + animation inspired by Jules Verne.
Friday, March 13, 2026
March 14 Jazz Pie for All
Omari Jazz curates an afternoon listening session.
At Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Window into Solitary is a show of photos by Loris Waselchuk, Brian Branch-Price, Brian Frank, and Deborah Espinosa and the stories of 17 individuals from prison in collaboration with book Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement by Christopher Blackwell, Deborah Zalesne, Kwaneta Harris, and Terry Kupers.
The criminal justice system has had many documentarians and writers. Here is one talk on the topic. https://creativemornings.com/talks/pete-brook/1
Show https://theblackgallerypdx.com/window-into-solitary at The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free RSVP by https://www.eventbrite.com/e/window-into-solitary-at-the-black-gallery-pdx-tickets-1982247113477
Joseph Jones brings pop culture themed paintings. The gallery has borrowed video Infinity Kisses - The Movie (2008) from Carol Schneemann. It would be in the era of cat videos on the Internet. The gallery borrowed it from Electronic Arts Intermix, an artist video library, which runs alongside the SAIC Video Data Bank which is in trouble.
At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of four members of the New Art Dealers Alliance newartdealers.org/members, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 3PM-5 Free
At Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Window into Solitary is a show of photos by Loris Waselchuk, Brian Branch-Price, Brian Frank, and Deborah Espinosa and the stories of 17 individuals from prison in collaboration with book Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement by Christopher Blackwell, Deborah Zalesne, Kwaneta Harris, and Terry Kupers.
The criminal justice system has had many documentarians and writers. Here is one talk on the topic. https://creativemornings.com/talks/pete-brook/1
Show https://theblackgallerypdx.com/window-into-solitary at The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free RSVP by https://www.eventbrite.com/e/window-into-solitary-at-the-black-gallery-pdx-tickets-1982247113477
Joseph Jones brings pop culture themed paintings. The gallery has borrowed video Infinity Kisses - The Movie (2008) from Carol Schneemann. It would be in the era of cat videos on the Internet. The gallery borrowed it from Electronic Arts Intermix, an artist video library, which runs alongside the SAIC Video Data Bank which is in trouble.
At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of four members of the New Art Dealers Alliance newartdealers.org/members, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 3PM-5 Free
Thursday, March 12, 2026
March 13 Everything Happened Club
Everything I Am Has Already Happened is a show of paintings by Samara Andre, artist in residence.
At PPSTMM 323 NE Wygant #203. 6PM-8 Free
Mizna Wada https://miznaw.com/ all the way from Japan brings Kowaii Club 666.
Creepy cute https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/wada2026 at Nucleus House Gallery https://www.nucleusportland.com/ 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
At PPSTMM 323 NE Wygant #203. 6PM-8 Free
Mizna Wada https://miznaw.com/ all the way from Japan brings Kowaii Club 666.
Creepy cute https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/wada2026 at Nucleus House Gallery https://www.nucleusportland.com/ 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
March 13 More Colors than the Eye Can See
Jeffrey Gibson represented the United States in the Venice Bienniale 2024 with support by the Portland Art Museum. https://www.jeffreygibsonvenice2024.org/ Kathleen Ash-Milbyn, now Native Art Curator at Portland Art Museum, gave Gibson his first show in 2005 when she was in New York. Since Venice, he has created learning resources for young artists. https://www.jeffreygibsonvenice2024.org/k-12-education-resources
The speaks this evening at the Museum on his journey.
Saturday is a free program for educators K through college.
More Colors than the Eye Can See at the Portland Art Museum https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/more-colors-than-the-eye-can-see-a-conversation-with-jeffrey-gibson/ in the Kridel Ballroom of the Mark (Masonic Temple) Building. Tickets https://11099a.blackbaudhosting.com/11099a/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=a5f359aa-a99f-41ff-b1f3-3e4895e49e93 5:30PM Museum admission $27.50 or Free for members
The speaks this evening at the Museum on his journey.
Saturday is a free program for educators K through college.
More Colors than the Eye Can See at the Portland Art Museum https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/more-colors-than-the-eye-can-see-a-conversation-with-jeffrey-gibson/ in the Kridel Ballroom of the Mark (Masonic Temple) Building. Tickets https://11099a.blackbaudhosting.com/11099a/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=a5f359aa-a99f-41ff-b1f3-3e4895e49e93 5:30PM Museum admission $27.50 or Free for members
March 13-15 The Space Between Waves
Sou'Wester Lodge is a vintage trailer hotel. In Seaview, Washington, they are on the fault line and wipeout by tsunamis from the Really Big One https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one. Friends of mine survived the 2004 tsunami in Asia, many did not. Friends provided relief Tohoku 3-11.
A long time ago, friends created Spaceness at Sou'wester, a week for artists to make work themed on aliens and the paranormal. The last six years a new curtorial team has moved from that theme.
The Sou'wester Lodge art weekend has expanded to support an art space in Ilwaco, a very low budget hamlet in the Southern Long Beach penninsula by the bridge.
The artists work for a week at a minimal hotel fee. They guest you me and everyone we know to experience the work and meet the artists. It is family friendly. Some events are children's workshops.
This year's artists are profiled at https://souwesterlodge.com/souwester-arts-week-2026-artists-art-collectives/. They are Ana Anu, José Lobo, Anna Rogers, Logan Britt, Ashaaung Helmstetter, Babes in Canyon, Beni Erms, Clare Lilliston, V Hoy, Collective Dot Dot Dot, David Worthington, Dinah J, Earworm, Elizabeth Byrd, Emily June Newton, Emily Poprocks, Erin Aquarian, Kathryn Vision, False Hemlock, Future Prairie, Gabriel Jax, Haley Lauw, Haute After Dark, Jay Nuñez, Emily Cronan, Jessica Keaveny, Jodi Sandford, Valter Gosti, Lane Bestold, Laura Hoppenjans, Liz Talley, Luz Blumenfeld, Malia Peoples, Marcus Estes, Megan Chin, Mother of Cups Pottery, Doll Specimen, Oscar Hasseries, Trey Nava, Morgan Rice, Charlie Wilcox, Mychelle Moritz, Rachel Blumberg, Raven Black, Rubbish Goods, Salvarez, Shelby Natasha, Sonic Switchyard, Taylor Wallau, and Line Time.
Sou'Wester Art Weekend https://souwesterlodge.com/artsweek2026/. March 13th at Ilwaco Artworks 109 1st Ave N, Ilwaco, March 14th at The Sou’wester 3728 J Place, Seaview, and the Historic Chinook School for a dance party, March 15th at Wave Preschool | 1306 39th Pl, Seaview. Free
The Wild Coast Film Festival is happening in Astora too. It has films, tours, walks, and a virtual stream of the films is available.
The Wild Coast Film Festival https://www.wildcoastfilm.org at the Columbian Theater in Astoria. See the link for times and prices.
A long time ago, friends created Spaceness at Sou'wester, a week for artists to make work themed on aliens and the paranormal. The last six years a new curtorial team has moved from that theme.
The Sou'wester Lodge art weekend has expanded to support an art space in Ilwaco, a very low budget hamlet in the Southern Long Beach penninsula by the bridge.
The artists work for a week at a minimal hotel fee. They guest you me and everyone we know to experience the work and meet the artists. It is family friendly. Some events are children's workshops.
This year's artists are profiled at https://souwesterlodge.com/souwester-arts-week-2026-artists-art-collectives/. They are Ana Anu, José Lobo, Anna Rogers, Logan Britt, Ashaaung Helmstetter, Babes in Canyon, Beni Erms, Clare Lilliston, V Hoy, Collective Dot Dot Dot, David Worthington, Dinah J, Earworm, Elizabeth Byrd, Emily June Newton, Emily Poprocks, Erin Aquarian, Kathryn Vision, False Hemlock, Future Prairie, Gabriel Jax, Haley Lauw, Haute After Dark, Jay Nuñez, Emily Cronan, Jessica Keaveny, Jodi Sandford, Valter Gosti, Lane Bestold, Laura Hoppenjans, Liz Talley, Luz Blumenfeld, Malia Peoples, Marcus Estes, Megan Chin, Mother of Cups Pottery, Doll Specimen, Oscar Hasseries, Trey Nava, Morgan Rice, Charlie Wilcox, Mychelle Moritz, Rachel Blumberg, Raven Black, Rubbish Goods, Salvarez, Shelby Natasha, Sonic Switchyard, Taylor Wallau, and Line Time.
Sou'Wester Art Weekend https://souwesterlodge.com/artsweek2026/. March 13th at Ilwaco Artworks 109 1st Ave N, Ilwaco, March 14th at The Sou’wester 3728 J Place, Seaview, and the Historic Chinook School for a dance party, March 15th at Wave Preschool | 1306 39th Pl, Seaview. Free
The Wild Coast Film Festival is happening in Astora too. It has films, tours, walks, and a virtual stream of the films is available.
The Wild Coast Film Festival https://www.wildcoastfilm.org at the Columbian Theater in Astoria. See the link for times and prices.
Saturday, March 07, 2026
March 8 Public Nature
Public Nature is a performance series, a few times a year, sign up for their announcments or follow their socials. Each event is a collaboration between a mover, a writer, and a sound artist, working together for the first time, one time. High risk, high reward.
Tonight artists are Chris Ashby (text), Gregory Flores (sound), and Claire Barrera (movement).
This one occupies multispace Fumi. It is a small space, so a good idea to arrive when the doors open.
Public Nature at Fumi 4007 N Mississippi Doors 4:30PM show 5 $5-15, all to the artists.
Tonight artists are Chris Ashby (text), Gregory Flores (sound), and Claire Barrera (movement).
This one occupies multispace Fumi. It is a small space, so a good idea to arrive when the doors open.
Public Nature at Fumi 4007 N Mississippi Doors 4:30PM show 5 $5-15, all to the artists.
March 8 Feminist Art Talk
The Oregon Alliance for the National Museum of Women in the Arts - https://nmwa.org/ - has Dr. Alberto McKelligan-Hernandez presenting talk Mónica Mayer: Past and Present Examples of Feminist Art in Mexico and Beyond.
Mayer was born in 1954. https://hammer.ucla.edu/radical-women/artists/monica-mayer
"Dr. McKelligan-Hernandez will analyze the innovative ways in which this iconic feminist artist/activist challenged social and artistic norms to reimagine women's roles in her home country of Mexico and other geographic contexts. This lecture will highlight Mayer's key contributions in the establishment of Polvo de Gallina Negra (Black Hen Powder), the first feminist art collective established in Mexico in 1983, as well as the individual social projects she developed in Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Portland, OR."
Talk at PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 2PM-4 Free
Mayer was born in 1954. https://hammer.ucla.edu/radical-women/artists/monica-mayer
"Dr. McKelligan-Hernandez will analyze the innovative ways in which this iconic feminist artist/activist challenged social and artistic norms to reimagine women's roles in her home country of Mexico and other geographic contexts. This lecture will highlight Mayer's key contributions in the establishment of Polvo de Gallina Negra (Black Hen Powder), the first feminist art collective established in Mexico in 1983, as well as the individual social projects she developed in Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Portland, OR."
Talk at PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 2PM-4 Free
March 7 Northside Art Openings+
The Schnitzer collection is a vast archive of mostly multiples. They assemble vast shows from that. What's Not to Love is primarily portraits, local, national, and international.
At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon Noon-6 Free
2025 - A Logbook Through Darkness is Tad Savinar's diary in small works. https://pdxcontemporaryart.com/2025-logbook-through-darkness. Savinar is a thinker active in many fields.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
Oregon Contemporary has their big fundraiser tonight which is ticketed.
LB Buchan, Erin Hiser, and Bear Medina bring collaboration Affinity. It is very complicated, you can read the description on the gallery website or just see it.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
A Land That Remembers is a two person show with Erinn Kathryn and M. Earl Williams. We are of the land not living in a machine. The gallery website explains better.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Jason Mowry https://www.jasonmowryart.com/ is a fantasy illustrator in Columbus, Ohio.
Katie Gamb https://www.katiegamb.com also occupies a similar strange fantasy world.
At Nucleus gallery https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/chiao2026 http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Welcome Home by Jodhi Mather-Pike is a portrait of Slab City, California. Hoovervilles which followed the last gilded age. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/slab-city-california
At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5PM-8 Free 6-9
Jonathan Canady https://jonathancanady.com has show Carry On. All proceeds benefit the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition.
At Souvenir Gallery https://souvenirartspdx.org/ 1233 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free
At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon Noon-6 Free
2025 - A Logbook Through Darkness is Tad Savinar's diary in small works. https://pdxcontemporaryart.com/2025-logbook-through-darkness. Savinar is a thinker active in many fields.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
Oregon Contemporary has their big fundraiser tonight which is ticketed.
LB Buchan, Erin Hiser, and Bear Medina bring collaboration Affinity. It is very complicated, you can read the description on the gallery website or just see it.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
A Land That Remembers is a two person show with Erinn Kathryn and M. Earl Williams. We are of the land not living in a machine. The gallery website explains better.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Jason Mowry https://www.jasonmowryart.com/ is a fantasy illustrator in Columbus, Ohio.
Katie Gamb https://www.katiegamb.com also occupies a similar strange fantasy world.
At Nucleus gallery https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/chiao2026 http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Welcome Home by Jodhi Mather-Pike is a portrait of Slab City, California. Hoovervilles which followed the last gilded age. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/slab-city-california
At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5PM-8 Free 6-9
Jonathan Canady https://jonathancanady.com has show Carry On. All proceeds benefit the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition.
At Souvenir Gallery https://souvenirartspdx.org/ 1233 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free
Friday, March 06, 2026
March 6 Eastside Art Openings
All the Eastside events are at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials which list many shows and their times.
March 6 Beam Me Up
Emily Wise brings paintings Meet Me at the Mothership, winning the copywriting award.
"This collection expands Wise’s exploration into femininity, relational intimacy, and the symbolic dimensions of the natural world. Prompted in part by a recent trip to Utah, where vast desert terrains and geologic formations foregrounded questions of origin, endurance, and scale, Wise uses landscape as both subject and metaphor for maternal presence.
In this series, Wise develops the concept of the “Mothership” as a multivalent figure: cosmological, terrestrial, and corporeal. The term operates simultaneously as mythic archetype and contemporary psychological inquiry, invoking ideas of provision, protection, and generative capacity. Through this framework, Wise interrogates what constitutes a maternal quality, not as biological determinism, but as an affective and spatial condition shaped by care, reciprocity, and interdependence."
Along with The Pollinators, an installation by Jessie Rose Vala.
At Stephanie Chefas Gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
Eric W Mast, Charlie Salas-Humara, Sean Purl Samoheyl have a show of abstaract paintings. Their copywritting wins too:
"Everyone has a tiny rectangle of two dimensional visual stimulus in their pocket these days, but it doesn’t seem to do much more than waste your time and fry your attention span, making you feel aggravated with its constant stream of bad news and reminders about what’s wrong with the world. So for these show we made small, calm, good news rectangles; hand made, meditative images with no reference to the “real world” and its dead end, gang warfare, partisan, corporate owned propaganda. These rectangles just sit around and you can give them as much or as little attention as you like, and they will never tell you what to think.
Abstraction is interesting to me because you have to create a new a new vocabulary of mark making and build something with that, but it allows room for spontaneity that you can’t always get with representational painting. It’s a bit like writing poetry with your own made up words. Or like scatting, in both sense of the word; singing wordless vocalizations and also smearing shit around on a canvas until it says something interesting.
Charlie and I were talking about doing a show together that focused on small abstract paintings, since we both usually do bigger pieces, and it would be an exercise to step out of our comfort zone. We thought Sean would be a good fit for this so we asked him to join us.
'These boys all had good GPAs in school and are now fulfilling an important market niche for abstract painting.' -The Chief Executive of Abstract Art"
At Musique Plastique 640 SE Stark 6PM-9 Free
Curator Pouvwa Nwa brings themselves and 8 artists in show Welcome Home. At Atelier Yaffe https://www.atelieryaffe.com/ 111 NE Martin Luther King Blvd, enter on Couch 7PM-10 Free
"This collection expands Wise’s exploration into femininity, relational intimacy, and the symbolic dimensions of the natural world. Prompted in part by a recent trip to Utah, where vast desert terrains and geologic formations foregrounded questions of origin, endurance, and scale, Wise uses landscape as both subject and metaphor for maternal presence.
In this series, Wise develops the concept of the “Mothership” as a multivalent figure: cosmological, terrestrial, and corporeal. The term operates simultaneously as mythic archetype and contemporary psychological inquiry, invoking ideas of provision, protection, and generative capacity. Through this framework, Wise interrogates what constitutes a maternal quality, not as biological determinism, but as an affective and spatial condition shaped by care, reciprocity, and interdependence."
Along with The Pollinators, an installation by Jessie Rose Vala.
At Stephanie Chefas Gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
Eric W Mast, Charlie Salas-Humara, Sean Purl Samoheyl have a show of abstaract paintings. Their copywritting wins too:
"Everyone has a tiny rectangle of two dimensional visual stimulus in their pocket these days, but it doesn’t seem to do much more than waste your time and fry your attention span, making you feel aggravated with its constant stream of bad news and reminders about what’s wrong with the world. So for these show we made small, calm, good news rectangles; hand made, meditative images with no reference to the “real world” and its dead end, gang warfare, partisan, corporate owned propaganda. These rectangles just sit around and you can give them as much or as little attention as you like, and they will never tell you what to think.
Abstraction is interesting to me because you have to create a new a new vocabulary of mark making and build something with that, but it allows room for spontaneity that you can’t always get with representational painting. It’s a bit like writing poetry with your own made up words. Or like scatting, in both sense of the word; singing wordless vocalizations and also smearing shit around on a canvas until it says something interesting.
Charlie and I were talking about doing a show together that focused on small abstract paintings, since we both usually do bigger pieces, and it would be an exercise to step out of our comfort zone. We thought Sean would be a good fit for this so we asked him to join us.
'These boys all had good GPAs in school and are now fulfilling an important market niche for abstract painting.' -The Chief Executive of Abstract Art"
At Musique Plastique 640 SE Stark 6PM-9 Free
Curator Pouvwa Nwa brings themselves and 8 artists in show Welcome Home. At Atelier Yaffe https://www.atelieryaffe.com/ 111 NE Martin Luther King Blvd, enter on Couch 7PM-10 Free
March 6 - 8 Raw Vegan
Reed Arts Week is curated by students. It brings individual artist works, from campus, and from the world; and art talks. Having a budget allows it to do above average. And always an opportunity to experience the new edge. Some of the events are on the Reed Events web https://events.reed.edu/event/reed-arts-weekend and some are on their socials Reed Arts Week http://www.reed.edu/raw/ at Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Free
Thursday, March 05, 2026
March 5 Westside Art Openings+
Illy2, Industry One, Fine Art Fruit, Augen, Froelick, and Adams and Ollman continue.
Artist and PNCA faculty member Tom Prochaska, 1945-2026, has passed. https://hfma.willamette.edu/exhibitions/library/2022-23/tom-prochaska.html
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum free all day. At the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 10AM-7 Free
For your +2 in Northeast. 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
The Lobby at the Ellen Browning was the showplace for a private collection of note. They are homeless now with their residency at a condo building expired. This month they are making use of the Writers' Block creative offices. It's up for 3 months with artists Brandon Ballengée, Deborah Roberts, Frica Baumm, Joe Brainard, Leonardo Drew, Lonnie Holley, Matt Connors, Ranjani Shettar, Robert Indiana, Ronny Quevedo, and Vik Muniz.
At Writers' Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
FISK gallery and agency is now programing the frontdownspace of the big ad agency. The bring show Exhaust, with Nishat Akhtar https://nishatakhtar.com/ and Bráulio Amado https://badbadbadbad.com/.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free
A Sense of Place is a show of 17 artists. The list is in the link.
Https://www.elizabethleach.com/exhibitions/256-sense-of-place-group-exhibition/overview/ at Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Terri Warpinski has Death|s|trip. The Berlin Wall divided the city 1961 to 1989. It was a brutal border https://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/en/victims/ and there are many documentaries. The artist contextualizes current Berlin landscapes with the stories of those killed at the Wall.
Éléonore Simon has Valparaíso, urban landscapes.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Fans Only shows its residents and guests.
At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free
For Artists of Color is a local show https://theblackgallerypdx.com/for-artists-of-color with a reception tonight.
At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
Portland Arts Collective brings Word, a show by 30 artists of art on the theme of words.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Christa Nye and Eddie Reed have paintings When Words Are Not Enough. Philip Stork has Abstract Journeys, works on paper. Mae Al-Jiboori has Presence Under Pressure, abstract figure paintings.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Laura Vincent Design has a group show with Alexandra Boyden, Jen Crowe, Mark Dunst, Scott Gellatly, Marilyn Joyce, Clive Knights, Scotty Peek, Erika Warhus, and Kirk Weller.
At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
Forgetting and Remembering are landscape paintings by Heather Lee Birdsong inspired by "grief, memory, climate anxiety, and displacement." Michael Dailey (1938–2009) has a survey of abstracts. He taught for many years in the University of Washington art department.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Beneath the Bark is Kevin Jesequel's hollow wood vessels. https://canvasrebel.com/meet-kevin-jesequel/
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
PNCA Willamette has many visual shows tonight. They are hosting a printed matter show too. And they are recruting California Collage of the Arts refugees on the occasion of its closure.
At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
Artist and PNCA faculty member Tom Prochaska, 1945-2026, has passed. https://hfma.willamette.edu/exhibitions/library/2022-23/tom-prochaska.html
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum free all day. At the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 10AM-7 Free
For your +2 in Northeast. 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
The Lobby at the Ellen Browning was the showplace for a private collection of note. They are homeless now with their residency at a condo building expired. This month they are making use of the Writers' Block creative offices. It's up for 3 months with artists Brandon Ballengée, Deborah Roberts, Frica Baumm, Joe Brainard, Leonardo Drew, Lonnie Holley, Matt Connors, Ranjani Shettar, Robert Indiana, Ronny Quevedo, and Vik Muniz.
At Writers' Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
FISK gallery and agency is now programing the frontdownspace of the big ad agency. The bring show Exhaust, with Nishat Akhtar https://nishatakhtar.com/ and Bráulio Amado https://badbadbadbad.com/.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free
A Sense of Place is a show of 17 artists. The list is in the link.
Https://www.elizabethleach.com/exhibitions/256-sense-of-place-group-exhibition/overview/ at Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Terri Warpinski has Death|s|trip. The Berlin Wall divided the city 1961 to 1989. It was a brutal border https://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/en/victims/ and there are many documentaries. The artist contextualizes current Berlin landscapes with the stories of those killed at the Wall.
Éléonore Simon has Valparaíso, urban landscapes.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Fans Only shows its residents and guests.
At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free
For Artists of Color is a local show https://theblackgallerypdx.com/for-artists-of-color with a reception tonight.
At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 6PM-9 Free
Portland Arts Collective brings Word, a show by 30 artists of art on the theme of words.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Christa Nye and Eddie Reed have paintings When Words Are Not Enough. Philip Stork has Abstract Journeys, works on paper. Mae Al-Jiboori has Presence Under Pressure, abstract figure paintings.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Laura Vincent Design has a group show with Alexandra Boyden, Jen Crowe, Mark Dunst, Scott Gellatly, Marilyn Joyce, Clive Knights, Scotty Peek, Erika Warhus, and Kirk Weller.
At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
Forgetting and Remembering are landscape paintings by Heather Lee Birdsong inspired by "grief, memory, climate anxiety, and displacement." Michael Dailey (1938–2009) has a survey of abstracts. He taught for many years in the University of Washington art department.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Beneath the Bark is Kevin Jesequel's hollow wood vessels. https://canvasrebel.com/meet-kevin-jesequel/
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
PNCA Willamette has many visual shows tonight. They are hosting a printed matter show too. And they are recruting California Collage of the Arts refugees on the occasion of its closure.
At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
Wednesday, March 04, 2026
March 4 Stillize
Harlan Silverman presents Music for Stillness.
Harlan Silverman is a cellist, shakuhachi flute, percussion musician in Portland. Think ambient. Tonight he presents a listening session of his recording Music for Stillness on the Mississippi Records imprint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T539_g6OcEg
Silverman is one of the Cosmic Earth Research Trio. You can catch them around town and they have a theme show on NTS Radio.
Music for Stillness https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/music-for-stillness-presented-by-harlan-silverman at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 7PM Tickets https://www.tickettailor.com/events/monospacestratafoundation/2075309 $20-35
Harlan Silverman is a cellist, shakuhachi flute, percussion musician in Portland. Think ambient. Tonight he presents a listening session of his recording Music for Stillness on the Mississippi Records imprint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T539_g6OcEg
Silverman is one of the Cosmic Earth Research Trio. You can catch them around town and they have a theme show on NTS Radio.
Music for Stillness https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/music-for-stillness-presented-by-harlan-silverman at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 7PM Tickets https://www.tickettailor.com/events/monospacestratafoundation/2075309 $20-35
Saturday, February 28, 2026
March 1 Grand Style Folk Art
Copalito is a show of vintage folk art from Oaxaca. Manuel Jiménez Ramírez (1919 - 2005) originated alebrijes, wood-carved animals painted with bright contrasting colors. Since they have been carved by many famiies.
Señor Ramírez story is worth a read, in the folklore of the region he was considered a nahual, a shaman who could shapeshift to animal and shares a soul with an animal guardian. https://en.artemarakame.com/Blogs/about-Oaxacan-alebrijes-2/biography-of-manuel-jimenez.
This show is simpler animal carvings in the alebrijes tradition. There is also a book on the art form, Animals of Oaxaca, by Shinji Iwamoto for sale in the shop.
"By the early 60s [Ramírez] had outgrown the gallery that first promoted his work, and they in turn were actively looking for wood carvers who could fulfill the demand for the style of work Jimenez had created. the four Santiago brothers, farmers by trade, also turned out to be brilliant and prolific. the illusive Zarate family began making work at this time, and the gifted carver Isidoro Cruz was hired by the government to teach the art form in the region and promote it in the rest of Mexico. By the 1970s, Jimenez's animalitos had taken on a life of their own, as the number of carvers continued to grow and the sons and daughters of the first wave of artists took up the craft."
At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 2PM-4 Free
Grand Style Orchestra will accompany a series of collaborative videos made by the Grand Style Remote Recording project during the pandemic. https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/mar-1-2026/
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
Señor Ramírez story is worth a read, in the folklore of the region he was considered a nahual, a shaman who could shapeshift to animal and shares a soul with an animal guardian. https://en.artemarakame.com/Blogs/about-Oaxacan-alebrijes-2/biography-of-manuel-jimenez.
This show is simpler animal carvings in the alebrijes tradition. There is also a book on the art form, Animals of Oaxaca, by Shinji Iwamoto for sale in the shop.
"By the early 60s [Ramírez] had outgrown the gallery that first promoted his work, and they in turn were actively looking for wood carvers who could fulfill the demand for the style of work Jimenez had created. the four Santiago brothers, farmers by trade, also turned out to be brilliant and prolific. the illusive Zarate family began making work at this time, and the gifted carver Isidoro Cruz was hired by the government to teach the art form in the region and promote it in the rest of Mexico. By the 1970s, Jimenez's animalitos had taken on a life of their own, as the number of carvers continued to grow and the sons and daughters of the first wave of artists took up the craft."
At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 2PM-4 Free
Grand Style Orchestra will accompany a series of collaborative videos made by the Grand Style Remote Recording project during the pandemic. https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/mar-1-2026/
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
February 28 Floral Disco Anime
Disco Diablo curates an open listening session. “An intentional sonic invocation where Afro-Latin rhythms and jazz dissolve the boundaries of time and space. Curated with care, each selection functions as a transmission, channeling ancestral frequencies, present-day consciousness, and future sonic worlds. The music moves beyond listening into ritual, carrying memory, resistance, and joy. This curation honors lineage, amplifies emerging voices, and preserves the encoded wisdom etched into every groove, offering a space for connection, discovery, and reverence for the sounds that continue to shape and carry culture."
At Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Floral Mart is a group show, sculpture, painting, clothing themed on flowers. Is it Spring yet?
At Fine Art Fruit https://www.fineartfruit.com 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 2PM-6 Free
Saturday morning cartoons. In show Black Anime Julian Adon Alexander, Obi Agwam, Thierno Bam, Jeron Braxton, Z Cher-Aime, Jordan Coelho, Chris Montell Dennis, Frank Dorrey, Lauryn Levette, Brice Maleo, Chibu Okere, OSEANWORLD, Podge, Rixy, and David Torres II bring a show of black artists influenced by animation.
Opening at IndustryOneGallery www.industry1.org 415 SW 10th 6PM Free
At Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Floral Mart is a group show, sculpture, painting, clothing themed on flowers. Is it Spring yet?
At Fine Art Fruit https://www.fineartfruit.com 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 2PM-6 Free
Saturday morning cartoons. In show Black Anime Julian Adon Alexander, Obi Agwam, Thierno Bam, Jeron Braxton, Z Cher-Aime, Jordan Coelho, Chris Montell Dennis, Frank Dorrey, Lauryn Levette, Brice Maleo, Chibu Okere, OSEANWORLD, Podge, Rixy, and David Torres II bring a show of black artists influenced by animation.
Opening at IndustryOneGallery www.industry1.org 415 SW 10th 6PM Free
February 26 - 27 The Black Man in the Cosmos
Sun Ra's movie Space is the Place is a classic of Afrofuturism worth the time. In that era he taught a class at UC Berkeley entutled The Black Man in the Cosmos. I would love to see the class materials for that. There is a new documentry too, Sun Ra: Do the Impossible by Christine Turner. See it when you can. Sun Ra's Arkestra plays two nights, each night a unique program. The Sun Ra Arkestra at the Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy 8PM Sold Out
Thursday, February 26, 2026
February 26 Bugs of Winter
You never know what is up Last Thursday on Alberta.
Emily Furr has paintings of bugs, Kevin Gleason of landscapes, Morgan Bak quilted paintings, and Em Randall has work too.
At Antler & Talon Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2714 NE Alberta 6PM-9 Free
Emily Furr has paintings of bugs, Kevin Gleason of landscapes, Morgan Bak quilted paintings, and Em Randall has work too.
At Antler & Talon Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2714 NE Alberta 6PM-9 Free
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