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 ann 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
Wednesday, April 01, 2026
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.
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