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.
Saturday, March 07, 2026
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
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
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
March 7 - 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. He was part of an art opening generation which quickly closed in Beijing. 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. Especially 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 bright 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 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. His Lego Water Lillies is up for about another week.
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 bright 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 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. His Lego Water Lillies is up for about another week.
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
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. There is programming all day in collaboration of the Cascade Festival of African Films which begins tomorrow in full. Https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-feb2026/ 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. There is programming all day in collaboration of the Cascade Festival of African Films which begins tomorrow in full. Https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/free-first-thursday-feb2026/ 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
Monday, February 23, 2026
February 23 On the Road
Ty Jacob presents movie The Foreground, a 65 minute runtime roadtrip.
"Following the deterioration of a struggling film project, its unmoored director, Ty, embarks on a trip to visit old acquaintances and get a change of scenery. Teetering between meditation and voyeurism, the film closely follows Ty as he explores the mundane moments between creative death and rebirth. Lingering shots of daily rituals interspersed with ever-changing scenery and companions create a dreamlike quality that bends time as well as genre. Dramatic, fantastical, stark, and experimental, director Ty Jacob’s premiere feature film is a worthy addition to the slow cinema canon exploring creativity’s endless cycle of heartbreak and repair."
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
"Following the deterioration of a struggling film project, its unmoored director, Ty, embarks on a trip to visit old acquaintances and get a change of scenery. Teetering between meditation and voyeurism, the film closely follows Ty as he explores the mundane moments between creative death and rebirth. Lingering shots of daily rituals interspersed with ever-changing scenery and companions create a dreamlike quality that bends time as well as genre. Dramatic, fantastical, stark, and experimental, director Ty Jacob’s premiere feature film is a worthy addition to the slow cinema canon exploring creativity’s endless cycle of heartbreak and repair."
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
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