Autumn Breon https://www.autumnbreon.com, all the way from LA, brings Maroon Portals. It is her Afro-futurism in art form. Optimism is needed now.
And there will be an artist talk Saturday, 4PM, RSVP link on their website. At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders artist talk Saturday, 4PM RSVP link on their website.
Brian Eno originated the term ambient music, now a tree with many branches. Today is perfect to settle into some listening.
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-the-music-of-brian-eno at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
Yumiko Yoshioka, based in Japan and Germany performs butoh, 100 Lights of Solitude. She came from Ariadone-Carlotta Ikeda, and before Akaji Maro-Dairakudakan.
At New Expressive Works Studio 810 SE Belmont. Tickets https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=342996. 8PM $25
Saturday, August 08, 2026
Friday, August 07, 2026
August 7 Growth and Time
Nucleus has a 10 year aniversery show. You may recognize the artists, Aaron Nagel, Bega EV, Benjamin Björklund, Betty Jiang, Bill Barminski, Bill Mayer, Branden Milbreit, Brett Amory, Dan Boldrini, Creature Creature, Danielle Estefanara, Dusky Boy, Eileen Clavel, Elly Smallwood, El Macuina, Erik Mark Sandberg, Esao Andrews, Felicia Chiao, Heikki Leis, Janine Shiota, Janice Sung, John Brophy, Julian Callos, Kewon Falgas, Kim Byung, Kirk Demb, Kiriako Iatridis, Klaus Kraemer, Kriss Muns, Kyler Martz, Lisk Feng, Luba Laura, Lonnie Menendez & Rosa Menendez, Lou Webb James, Malcolm T. Liepke, Mari, Matt Dangler, Michael Alvarez (Talento?), Mincho Gana, Mona Walls, Morten Memborg, Motohiro Hayakawa, Muzo Ozars, Nexus Photos, Rodney Matthews, Sam Brano, Sarah Joncas, Shoko Ishida, Steve Giger, Sydneylund-Arturo, Tera Bando, Timothy Lamb, Teagan White, Wissam Shawkat, Yosuke, We are out of office, and Wee Genseman.
It is https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/10-year-anniversary-show at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
Quinha Faria https://quinhafaria.com brings Cambium.
"Working between wood, masking paper, and organic and synthetic materials to carve, paint, and weave these pieces, the material distinctions between surface and support begin to collapse. Cambium, the exhibition’s title, refers to the thin living layer of undifferentiated cells in vascular plants where new growth is generated. “Undifferentiated” is the operative word here—it means the cells have not yet specialized, they retain the capacity for multiple possibilities.
Faria is interested in cambium as a hidden generative structure. The cambium is a place of potential, of response and formation. The recurring use of adjacent panels or paired planes in these new paintings reflect the artists interest in relationship rather than division. The two surfaces are distinct entities, they do not resolve into a single unified object. They remain separate while influencing one another. Boundaries and edges are porous sites of communication, contact/touch, exchange, negotiation, differentiation. Carved works such as “Osmosis” or “Event” share these qualities as alternating layers of rust and shellac or acrylic, rayon, and adhesive compound (respectively) build upon one another atop the birch substrate.
As in trees, some cells in the cambium layer maintain themselves, while others become xylem (wood) or phloem (inner bark). They exist between states of stability and emergence, suggesting that what appears stable or complete is always being shaped by invisible processes underneath. This also connects to the artists ongoing interest in the support as an active participant in forming what we perceive. Large-scale sculptures constructed of masking paper further inform this thinking by recasting a utilitarian material into organic forms. The focused “Support Studies 1-5” of the same medium explore different stages of the intricate, additive and reductive processes. A barrier typically meant to simply protect a surface here becomes all-inclusive: shape, support, and surface. Compositional balance is reached quietly through these networks of exchange and feedback between Faria, the works, and their environment. A piece is finished when it has a sort of unnameable quality, when Faria senses it has a life, a complexity, and some kind of equilibrium to it that can speak for itself."
It's https://onegrandgallery.com/Quinha-Faria at One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
It is https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/10-year-anniversary-show at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
Quinha Faria https://quinhafaria.com brings Cambium.
"Working between wood, masking paper, and organic and synthetic materials to carve, paint, and weave these pieces, the material distinctions between surface and support begin to collapse. Cambium, the exhibition’s title, refers to the thin living layer of undifferentiated cells in vascular plants where new growth is generated. “Undifferentiated” is the operative word here—it means the cells have not yet specialized, they retain the capacity for multiple possibilities.
Faria is interested in cambium as a hidden generative structure. The cambium is a place of potential, of response and formation. The recurring use of adjacent panels or paired planes in these new paintings reflect the artists interest in relationship rather than division. The two surfaces are distinct entities, they do not resolve into a single unified object. They remain separate while influencing one another. Boundaries and edges are porous sites of communication, contact/touch, exchange, negotiation, differentiation. Carved works such as “Osmosis” or “Event” share these qualities as alternating layers of rust and shellac or acrylic, rayon, and adhesive compound (respectively) build upon one another atop the birch substrate.
As in trees, some cells in the cambium layer maintain themselves, while others become xylem (wood) or phloem (inner bark). They exist between states of stability and emergence, suggesting that what appears stable or complete is always being shaped by invisible processes underneath. This also connects to the artists ongoing interest in the support as an active participant in forming what we perceive. Large-scale sculptures constructed of masking paper further inform this thinking by recasting a utilitarian material into organic forms. The focused “Support Studies 1-5” of the same medium explore different stages of the intricate, additive and reductive processes. A barrier typically meant to simply protect a surface here becomes all-inclusive: shape, support, and surface. Compositional balance is reached quietly through these networks of exchange and feedback between Faria, the works, and their environment. A piece is finished when it has a sort of unnameable quality, when Faria senses it has a life, a complexity, and some kind of equilibrium to it that can speak for itself."
It's https://onegrandgallery.com/Quinha-Faria at One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, August 06, 2026
August 6 Westside Art Openings+
August is when New York is hot, and when Europeans take their long vacations. So many galleries continue shows. Leach, PDX Contemporary, Russo Lee, Adams and Ollman, Augen, Froelick, Stelo,
and Lucky Girl continue.
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum is free all day. They have good air filtering and controlled climate! https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-july2026/ at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 10AM-7 The Tomorrow Theater has movie Seeds of Peace, also free, at 7:30PM https://tomorrowtheater.org/movies/seeds-of-peace/ It's sold out. 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
In Smoke Summer, again, due to humen created carbon emissions, who can say no to a block party? The big ad agency in their contribution to PDX Sneaker Week is doing it. They are closing the block of 13th. DJs, vendors, family-friendly. A hydrant party would be fun.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free - RSVP at https://partiful.com/e/TspZXjG67qw0MK3pTSFd
Autumn Breon https://www.autumnbreon.com, all the way from LA, brings Maroon Portals. It is her Afro-futurism in art form. Optimism is needed now.
And there will be an artist talk Saturday, 4PM, RSVP link on their website. At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free and artist talk Saturday, 4PM RSVP link on their website.
Mark Maio https://www.markmaio.com brings Against the Grain from that series. Dawn Surratt https://dawnsurratt.com creates collages and sculptures often involving vintage materials in Real But Not True.
Christine Clark shows Shape of Wonder in the Nine Gallery.
"Shape of Wonder embraces the poetic possibilities of biomorphic form. Rather than representing nature, these sculptures inhabit its sensibility—one rooted in intuition, ambiguity, and transformation. Within this openness lies a quiet romanticism: the belief that beauty emerges not from certainty, but from mystery; not from perfection, but from the irregular and the living. These forms ask to be encountered deliberately and with humor, allowing emotion to precede judgement. Existing between geology and biology, abstraction and memory, they are less about what they are than about what they allow us to feel."The Nine Gallery
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Laura Mora Osorio, all the way from Bogotá, has A mild Case of Several Things. It is her first international solo show. Think bright and colorful sculptures and paintings. Some have the feeling of a polychrome indoor climbing wall.
At After/Time Collective https://www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 5PM-8 Free
Amy Turnbull has paintings Portraits of Perception, Hannah Theiss has layered paintings Invite the Cloud, and Michael Knutson has paintings from 1974 graduate school.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
The Alchemy of Shape is a group show including Tom Cramer, Rachael Allen, Daniel Fagereng, Robert Bolman, Rosalena Winkler, and others.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Women: A Concept is a show by painter Kyra Watkins & photographer Jordan Souza.
At Writers' Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Mark Dunst has paintings, Some Assembly Required. The artist statement is fun. https://lvdesignandgallery.com/exhibitions/117-mark-dunst-some-assembly-required/overview/
At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
Inches Above focuses on life, death and the space in between with Meg Allan, Divya Anantharaman, Dan Barry, Landis Blair, Double Parlour, Penney Bidwell, Dan Bunn, Rosśa Crean, Giulia Ferla, Paul Garcia, Sydni Indman, Wynter Jones, Aunia Kahn, LittleSwimminMachine, Jon Macnair, Karen Newman, Paine Proffitt, Marc Sirinsky, and Renée Tay. Along with Tapestry of Soul are encaustic paintings and sculpture by Sandra Alderman.
At Imperfecta Gallery www.imperfecta.xyz 809 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free
Complicated Relationships is a show by Roberta Lampert and Anne Dosskey.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
The Urban Art Network's stuff and things sale on 13th is canceled.
For your +1, The Portland Art Museum is free all day. They have good air filtering and controlled climate! https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-july2026/ at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 10AM-7 The Tomorrow Theater has movie Seeds of Peace, also free, at 7:30PM https://tomorrowtheater.org/movies/seeds-of-peace/ It's sold out. 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
In Smoke Summer, again, due to humen created carbon emissions, who can say no to a block party? The big ad agency in their contribution to PDX Sneaker Week is doing it. They are closing the block of 13th. DJs, vendors, family-friendly. A hydrant party would be fun.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free - RSVP at https://partiful.com/e/TspZXjG67qw0MK3pTSFd
Autumn Breon https://www.autumnbreon.com, all the way from LA, brings Maroon Portals. It is her Afro-futurism in art form. Optimism is needed now.
And there will be an artist talk Saturday, 4PM, RSVP link on their website. At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free and artist talk Saturday, 4PM RSVP link on their website.
Mark Maio https://www.markmaio.com brings Against the Grain from that series. Dawn Surratt https://dawnsurratt.com creates collages and sculptures often involving vintage materials in Real But Not True.
Christine Clark shows Shape of Wonder in the Nine Gallery.
"Shape of Wonder embraces the poetic possibilities of biomorphic form. Rather than representing nature, these sculptures inhabit its sensibility—one rooted in intuition, ambiguity, and transformation. Within this openness lies a quiet romanticism: the belief that beauty emerges not from certainty, but from mystery; not from perfection, but from the irregular and the living. These forms ask to be encountered deliberately and with humor, allowing emotion to precede judgement. Existing between geology and biology, abstraction and memory, they are less about what they are than about what they allow us to feel."The Nine Gallery
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Laura Mora Osorio, all the way from Bogotá, has A mild Case of Several Things. It is her first international solo show. Think bright and colorful sculptures and paintings. Some have the feeling of a polychrome indoor climbing wall.
At After/Time Collective https://www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 5PM-8 Free
Amy Turnbull has paintings Portraits of Perception, Hannah Theiss has layered paintings Invite the Cloud, and Michael Knutson has paintings from 1974 graduate school.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
The Alchemy of Shape is a group show including Tom Cramer, Rachael Allen, Daniel Fagereng, Robert Bolman, Rosalena Winkler, and others.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Women: A Concept is a show by painter Kyra Watkins & photographer Jordan Souza.
At Writers' Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Mark Dunst has paintings, Some Assembly Required. The artist statement is fun. https://lvdesignandgallery.com/exhibitions/117-mark-dunst-some-assembly-required/overview/
At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
Inches Above focuses on life, death and the space in between with Meg Allan, Divya Anantharaman, Dan Barry, Landis Blair, Double Parlour, Penney Bidwell, Dan Bunn, Rosśa Crean, Giulia Ferla, Paul Garcia, Sydni Indman, Wynter Jones, Aunia Kahn, LittleSwimminMachine, Jon Macnair, Karen Newman, Paine Proffitt, Marc Sirinsky, and Renée Tay. Along with Tapestry of Soul are encaustic paintings and sculpture by Sandra Alderman.
At Imperfecta Gallery www.imperfecta.xyz 809 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free
Complicated Relationships is a show by Roberta Lampert and Anne Dosskey.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
The Urban Art Network's stuff and things sale on 13th is canceled.
August 6 Wandering & Wondering
The Daipan Butoh Collective in Seattle present their annual outdoor, Wandering & Wondering, in the Japanese Garden in Washington Park, Seattle.
It is https://www.seattlejapanesegarden.org/events-calendar/2026/8/6/wandering-and-wondering at the Japanese Garden in the Washington Park Arboretum 1075 Lake Washington Blvd. East, Seattle. The Seattle Japanese Gardens is free on First Thursdays. Map 3:30PM-6:30 Free
It is https://www.seattlejapanesegarden.org/events-calendar/2026/8/6/wandering-and-wondering at the Japanese Garden in the Washington Park Arboretum 1075 Lake Washington Blvd. East, Seattle. The Seattle Japanese Gardens is free on First Thursdays. Map 3:30PM-6:30 Free
Tuesday, August 04, 2026
August 4 - 5 Miss Misery
Elliott Smith's song Miss Misery was used in Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting and in the best original song category, performed at the 70th Academy Awards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzGLTz_kJ0U. He passed 5 years later, age 34.
Larry Crane is a low-fi recording engineer and publisher of Tape-op originally with a DIY focus. He recorded some now famous people in his home studio. Then he busted out Jackpot Recording with his friend Elliot Smith who was a drywaller. They recorded together and Crane manages Smith's archive. So for a rare treat, 2 nights, Crane plays Smith and talks about their work together.
It is https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/the-music-of-elliot-smith-presented-by-larry-crane at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 7PM $36 Sold Out
Larry Crane is a low-fi recording engineer and publisher of Tape-op originally with a DIY focus. He recorded some now famous people in his home studio. Then he busted out Jackpot Recording with his friend Elliot Smith who was a drywaller. They recorded together and Crane manages Smith's archive. So for a rare treat, 2 nights, Crane plays Smith and talks about their work together.
It is https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/the-music-of-elliot-smith-presented-by-larry-crane at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 7PM $36 Sold Out
Friday, July 31, 2026
August 3 Story of Pixels
At age 15 Sadie Benning revieved the gift of a camera from her father James Benning, a noted experimental filmmaker.
With the Fisher Price PXL-2000, the Pixelvision, she made movies about her queer experience. The 1989 camera records lo-fi black and white video on audio cassettes.
Benning was acknowledged at a young age my the movie and art world. Later she founded Le Tigre.
Many artist movies are archived by the Video Data Bank. vdb.org. They are connected to SAIC and are having financial problems. Tonight the Hollywood Theater shows a program of Benning's movies. Get those videos circulating!
The program covers 1989 to 1998 with Living Inside (5 mins, 1989), If Every Girl Had a Diary (8 mins, 1990), Me and Rubyfruit (5 mins, 1990), Jollies (11 mins, 1990), A New Year (6 mins, 1990), A Place Called Lovely (14 mins, 1991), It Wasn’t Love (20 mins, 1992), Girl Power (15 mins, 1992), German Song (5 mins, 1995), The Judy Spots (5 mins, 1995), and Flat Is Beautiful (50 mins, 1998.)
The early movies of Sadie Benning https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/the-films-of-sadie-benning/ at the Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy 7:30PM $12
With the Fisher Price PXL-2000, the Pixelvision, she made movies about her queer experience. The 1989 camera records lo-fi black and white video on audio cassettes.
Benning was acknowledged at a young age my the movie and art world. Later she founded Le Tigre.
Many artist movies are archived by the Video Data Bank. vdb.org. They are connected to SAIC and are having financial problems. Tonight the Hollywood Theater shows a program of Benning's movies. Get those videos circulating!
The program covers 1989 to 1998 with Living Inside (5 mins, 1989), If Every Girl Had a Diary (8 mins, 1990), Me and Rubyfruit (5 mins, 1990), Jollies (11 mins, 1990), A New Year (6 mins, 1990), A Place Called Lovely (14 mins, 1991), It Wasn’t Love (20 mins, 1992), Girl Power (15 mins, 1992), German Song (5 mins, 1995), The Judy Spots (5 mins, 1995), and Flat Is Beautiful (50 mins, 1998.)
The early movies of Sadie Benning https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/the-films-of-sadie-benning/ at the Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy 7:30PM $12
August 2 Electronics in Nature
Modular on the Spot is an international network of outdoor synth concerts. Here it is sponsored by the Portland Synth Library.
This month brings Stuart Frederich-Smith, Demodex, Production Unit Xero, Matthew Rempes, Ivan Jan, and Hemadaxis.
At Cathedral Park 6PM-9 Free
This month brings Stuart Frederich-Smith, Demodex, Production Unit Xero, Matthew Rempes, Ivan Jan, and Hemadaxis.
At Cathedral Park 6PM-9 Free
August 1 Northside Art Openings+
Omari Jazz curates a listening session.
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-omari-jazz-1 at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
The Emergent Field of Becoming is an installation by Jessie Rose Vala on the themes of "climate change, industry-made chemicals, mytho-historical migration narratives, and pop-esoteric imagery."
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Sewing Seeds is a show of mixed media worls by Alexandria Saleem, Amirra Malak, Ara Manoogian, Bint Bandora, Jenna Saadeh, ‘Rah Sabino, Rodia Banaei, Sarah Farahat, and Zeinab Saab.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Oregon Contemporary is on break until the end of August. Then opens Converge45.
Franklin Foto 5-8 celebrates their second anniversery.
At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5PM-8 Free
That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-curated-by-omari-jazz-1 at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free
The Emergent Field of Becoming is an installation by Jessie Rose Vala on the themes of "climate change, industry-made chemicals, mytho-historical migration narratives, and pop-esoteric imagery."
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Sewing Seeds is a show of mixed media worls by Alexandria Saleem, Amirra Malak, Ara Manoogian, Bint Bandora, Jenna Saadeh, ‘Rah Sabino, Rodia Banaei, Sarah Farahat, and Zeinab Saab.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Oregon Contemporary is on break until the end of August. Then opens Converge45.
Franklin Foto 5-8 celebrates their second anniversery.
At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5PM-8 Free
July 31 Space - A Meditation
The Archive as a Mirror is a show and a library by Matthew Damato. He shows his work and a collection of printed matter by Ambulatory Archives.
At Riso Studio Arts https://pdx.risostudioarts.com/ 1327 SE Division 5PM-8 Free
An essential resource for Portland artists is studio space. The Unkeles family rents several buildings with the impossible beauty that the rent is stable until the artist moves.
Moviemaker David Poulshock shows documentary Space - A Meditation On The Meaning Of Art in an Unkeles building.
"It was supposed to be a simple documentary about a Portland landlord Ken Unkeles' quest to convert the run-down NW Marine Iron Works complex into a thriving art space. But when eccentric artist, Tim Stapleton who is diagnosed with ALS, moves into one of the new studios - on his own quest to paint until his dying breath - everything changes."
Space at NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th Tickets https://www.eventbrite.com/e/space-a-meditation-on-the-meaning-of-art-tickets-1991575168942 7PM-10 $15
At Riso Studio Arts https://pdx.risostudioarts.com/ 1327 SE Division 5PM-8 Free
An essential resource for Portland artists is studio space. The Unkeles family rents several buildings with the impossible beauty that the rent is stable until the artist moves.
Moviemaker David Poulshock shows documentary Space - A Meditation On The Meaning Of Art in an Unkeles building.
"It was supposed to be a simple documentary about a Portland landlord Ken Unkeles' quest to convert the run-down NW Marine Iron Works complex into a thriving art space. But when eccentric artist, Tim Stapleton who is diagnosed with ALS, moves into one of the new studios - on his own quest to paint until his dying breath - everything changes."
Space at NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th Tickets https://www.eventbrite.com/e/space-a-meditation-on-the-meaning-of-art-tickets-1991575168942 7PM-10 $15
July 31 - August 2 Salish
The Salish Sea Butoh Festival makes a home in Port Townsend. This year has performances by movers who studied with Hijikata and Ohno. Earlier in the week they had workshops.
Performers are Emiko Agatsuma, Tokyo/Nagano, Iván-Daniel Espinosa & Company, Chicago/Seattle/Los Angeles, Yumiko Yoshioka, Berlin, Mōe Yamamoto & Kei Shirasaka of Kanazawa Butoh-Kan, Kanazawa, Akira Kasai of Tenshi-Kan, Tokyo, Joan Laage Kogut Butoh, Seattle, Mitsutake Kasai, Tokyo, and Kota Yamazaki & Mina Nishimura, New York/Tokyo.
The Salish Sea Butoh Festival at Fort Worden Park American Legion Hall, 209 Monroe St, Port Townsend. https://www.salishseabutoh.com/2026-performances Tickets https://givebutter.com/salishseabutoh2026 8PM $25 each night
Performers are Emiko Agatsuma, Tokyo/Nagano, Iván-Daniel Espinosa & Company, Chicago/Seattle/Los Angeles, Yumiko Yoshioka, Berlin, Mōe Yamamoto & Kei Shirasaka of Kanazawa Butoh-Kan, Kanazawa, Akira Kasai of Tenshi-Kan, Tokyo, Joan Laage Kogut Butoh, Seattle, Mitsutake Kasai, Tokyo, and Kota Yamazaki & Mina Nishimura, New York/Tokyo.
The Salish Sea Butoh Festival at Fort Worden Park American Legion Hall, 209 Monroe St, Port Townsend. https://www.salishseabutoh.com/2026-performances Tickets https://givebutter.com/salishseabutoh2026 8PM $25 each night
Sunday, July 26, 2026
July 26 Realistic Idle Wondering
The Daipan Butoh Collective in Seattle present their annual outdoor, Wandering & Wondering, in Seattle's Kubota Gardens.
Kubota is the original family home and nursery of Fujitaro Kubota. https://kubotagarden.org/fujitaroremembered.html It is now a city park and free. If you are in Portland, the Portland Japanese Garden curator has been advising them and his rock work is identifiable by sytle.
Parking can be fierce, so share those rides. Secure valuables in vehicles out of sight.
Daipan Butoh presents Wandering and Wondering https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/ https://www.kubotagarden.org/event-details/wandering-wondering-a-butoh-performance 55th Avenue South, Seattle, WA Map Noon-4 Free
Realistic Moment is a Summer music series. They have concerts at the Leach Botanical Garden. The gardens need money or they will close. Consider becoming a member, then visit often. This afternoon is a benefit concert.
Cosmic Tones Research Trio, Foote & Dickow, Patricia Wolf, Pete Swanson and Ilyas Ahmed, and Carly Barton perform.
Experience it on the tree bridge with blankets, chairs, a picnic.
Realistic Moment at Leach Botanical Garden 6704 SE 122nd 4:30PM-8:30 $30 Sold Out
Old Fashioned Garage Gallery guests Elbow Room artists for a sale.
It is a residence. They don't want their address published. Look them up and follow the directions to message them for the address, or go with a friend already going, or later message them for an appointment.
Old Fashioned Garage Gallery opening show 10AM-3 Free
Ceramicist Nick Norman brings work themed on automobiles, in this case rough mugs with autos as a base in show Idler.
At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 3PM-5 Free
Kubota is the original family home and nursery of Fujitaro Kubota. https://kubotagarden.org/fujitaroremembered.html It is now a city park and free. If you are in Portland, the Portland Japanese Garden curator has been advising them and his rock work is identifiable by sytle.
Parking can be fierce, so share those rides. Secure valuables in vehicles out of sight.
Daipan Butoh presents Wandering and Wondering https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/ https://www.kubotagarden.org/event-details/wandering-wondering-a-butoh-performance 55th Avenue South, Seattle, WA Map Noon-4 Free
Realistic Moment is a Summer music series. They have concerts at the Leach Botanical Garden. The gardens need money or they will close. Consider becoming a member, then visit often. This afternoon is a benefit concert.
Cosmic Tones Research Trio, Foote & Dickow, Patricia Wolf, Pete Swanson and Ilyas Ahmed, and Carly Barton perform.
Experience it on the tree bridge with blankets, chairs, a picnic.
Realistic Moment at Leach Botanical Garden 6704 SE 122nd 4:30PM-8:30 $30 Sold Out
Old Fashioned Garage Gallery guests Elbow Room artists for a sale.
It is a residence. They don't want their address published. Look them up and follow the directions to message them for the address, or go with a friend already going, or later message them for an appointment.
Old Fashioned Garage Gallery opening show 10AM-3 Free
Ceramicist Nick Norman brings work themed on automobiles, in this case rough mugs with autos as a base in show Idler.
At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 3PM-5 Free
Saturday, July 25, 2026
July 25 Machine Garden
We are amidst a great discussion of artificial intelligence in the US. The discussion has not yet deeply engaged job loss and its tax subsidies for capital spending on robots. Artists are working with AI and others reject it.
Apropos, Hannah Newman brings her installation An Optimized Garden.
"In a world increasingly powered by artificial intelligences, An Optimized Garden expands the conversation into the open air. Transforming the backyard space of Gallery 1122 into a landscape teeming with digital and natural plant hybrids, the exhibition invites viewers to move through an environment where digital and organic systems collide and co-evolve.
As AI companies present AI as inevitable, the next stage of our human evolution, An Optimized Garden considers the ecological and human toll of a planet merged with AI. Throughout the exhibition, hand-built sculptures and paintings coexist with AI-generated imagery, combining natural and technological materials, including dried plant matter, silicon rocks, wires, circuit boards, and electronic debris. At the heart of the exhibition, an AI-generated voice narrates both the promises and the risks of AI’s entanglement with human and ecological systems.
Sprouting from the anxiety and unstable terrain of our contemporary moment, An Optimized Garden questions just what will take root from our new relationship with AI. Will the fruit of our gardens taste sweeter when everything is optimized?"
At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 6PM-9 Free
Apropos, Hannah Newman brings her installation An Optimized Garden.
"In a world increasingly powered by artificial intelligences, An Optimized Garden expands the conversation into the open air. Transforming the backyard space of Gallery 1122 into a landscape teeming with digital and natural plant hybrids, the exhibition invites viewers to move through an environment where digital and organic systems collide and co-evolve.
As AI companies present AI as inevitable, the next stage of our human evolution, An Optimized Garden considers the ecological and human toll of a planet merged with AI. Throughout the exhibition, hand-built sculptures and paintings coexist with AI-generated imagery, combining natural and technological materials, including dried plant matter, silicon rocks, wires, circuit boards, and electronic debris. At the heart of the exhibition, an AI-generated voice narrates both the promises and the risks of AI’s entanglement with human and ecological systems.
Sprouting from the anxiety and unstable terrain of our contemporary moment, An Optimized Garden questions just what will take root from our new relationship with AI. Will the fruit of our gardens taste sweeter when everything is optimized?"
At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 6PM-9 Free
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