May 31-June 1 Marine Layer

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, fod, drink, and music is https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/summer25.

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. Open studios at NW Marine Art Works 2516 NW 29th. 10AM-4PM Free

May 30 Photo Society Lamp Store

Fans Only guests the PSU photography gaggle with Until We Find It for an opening tonight. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-7 Free


Society is the public space of a group of artist studios. They invited Lydia Rosenberg all the way from Pittsburgh to present Lamp Store, Grand Reopening. Maybe it echoes the famous Portland Table, Lamp, and Chair reimmagined by artists.

Lydia Rosenberg’s Lamp Store, Grand Reopening at https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 5PM-7 Free.

May 27 Midnight Variety Hour

Midnight Variety Hour is "an interdisciplinary performance collective existing somewhere between channels on cable access and the midnight hour that never ends." One of the collective is https://www.mindmarrow.com/bio. Tonight they screen some of their video projects.

At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM show 8 Free

May 23 Gayaki Ang

Most people will have some familiarity with Classical Indian Music. Full pieces and concerts take a little work to find. They are widely available on YouTube and streaming. Many musicians are from multigenerational musical dynasties; they began with ear training as infants, really the formation of the auditory cortex, then studying as small children. Like European classical music, or America's classical music, jazz, it has a vast encyclopedia of melody, rhythm, scales, and improvisation.

Kalakendra brings noted artists from India to Portland.

Tonight Ragini Shankar https://raginishankar.com/, violin, plays with Mukundrao Deo https://agakhanmuseum.org/bio/mukundraj-deo/, tabla. The program is Gayaki Ang style; the violin emulates Indian vocal music.

Ragini Shankar is grandaughter of violinist N. Rajam and daughter of Dr. Sangeeta Shankar whose two daughters continue that style as seen in this mother-daughters concert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AuyhKeMTQA. She has a degree in mechanical engineering.

Ragini Shankar https://kalakendra.org/etn/hindustani-violin-by-ragini-shankar/ performs at the First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th. 7PM $35 door, $30 advance, $20 students, $15 children 3-12 years

May 19 Windmills are Our Friends

Founding Boathousers were part of the filmmaker van tour tradition booking shows in college towns. Tonight the Boathouse guests traveling filmmaker Paul Smart screening his feature film, Don Barry: A Quixotic Exploration.

"The work places real-life 85-year-old experimental filmmaker Barry Gerson into the Quixote role, and filming him in Guanajuato, Mexico during its annual Cervantes festival and Day of the Dead celebrations."

At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM show 8 Free

May 17 Flying Quilt Postcards

Paper Quilts & Flying Dogs is a show by Annie Rose Macer & Raf Spielman.

At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 3PM-5 Free


Postcards from the Night is a show of ceramics by Ginny Sims all the way from Minneapolis.

At Nationale www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map Recommended 2PM-4 Free

May 16 Fathom Wood

Cat Ross https://www.sothseier.com/ brings Fathoms. Ross is a multiartist in VR, performance, sound, painting, and poetry.

The paintings and poems were inspired by studying David Hockney's pool series along with internships and residencies with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA. NOAA studies climate change and runs the Global Forecast System and other air, land, and sea computer models. Those are the basis of weather forecasts. It is being cut because science and truth is deemed dangerous.

At PPSTMM 323 NE Wygant #203. 6PM-8 Free


Artspace is the Lake Osewgo Arts Council gallery. They are ably curated now by Morgan Ritter. They are a bit far afield, so we don't likt their every show. Of course the Marylhurst Art Gym is deeply misssed too. Thet Have show Woodcore, contemporary work which sets itself apart from traditional craft. The artists are Megita Denton, Bobby Mercier, Leroy Setziol, Monica Setziol-Phillips, Julian Watts, Ben Young, and Adam Zeek.

At the Arts Council of Lake Oswego https://artscouncillo.org/artspace 380 A Avenue, Suite A, Lake Oswego 5:30PM-7:30 Free


Viktor Kobylianski opens paintings Hiddi. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free

May 15 Periphery Comes Home

The PSU BFA and MFA graduates read out tonight. Https://www.pdx.edu/art-design/events/2025-bfamfa-showcase has events throughout its run following tonight's opening.

At the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University https://www.pdx.edu/museum-of-art/ 1855 SW Broadway 5PM-7 Free

May 12 Old Portland

Tonight is vintage Portland found footage and cultural archeology by Bryan Boyce and the Stephen Slappe Dead Media Hour.

At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM show 8 Free