First Thursday also includes the Saturday following in the afternoon. Urban Art Network occupies 13th with all their booths of stuff.
Illy2 & Adams and Ollman continue.
For your +1 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 +2 the Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.
Pippa Arend https://www.pippaarend.com/ is known as the founder of P:ear. She has moved on, leaving it in good hands. Tonight she shows her art in show Primordial Sounds. Included are paintings on goat vellum with pigments made from the wishbones of birds eaten for dinner, ground with linsead oil, and yards of cord made from urban grasses.
Tuvan Throat Singer Soriah performs at 5:30 and 6:30.
Guest artists Zhanna Tsytsyn from Siberia and Leah Kohlenberg show their work.
At the artist's residency Studio 239 NW 13th 5:30PM-8:30 Free
Fans Only shows its residents along with the PSU Photography Collective. It's an artist residency in an office building with First Thursday readouts. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-7 Free
Mariette Pathy Allen has a 50 year retrospective of imaging the trans world in the US and internationally. Jesse Enger brings I want to See How Things Play Out playful and ironic queer portraits.
Ellen Greorge brings her small sculptures, The Heart Catches The Hand, to the Nine inside Blue Sky. At the Nine Gallery https://www.blueskygallery.org/nine-gallery
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Stelo brings a grand project of many events inspired by Oregon's geologic history, Oregon Origins Project. The art part opens at Stelo tonight with visual work by Michael Boonstra, Claire Burbridge, Christine Bourdette, Juniper Harrower, James Lavadour, Daniela Naomi Molnar, Sidony O'Neal, Sara Siestreem, Amanda Triplett, and Leah Wilson.
There are musical events, talks and soup on the way to the show closing July 12. You can find it all on the Stelo web and socials.
At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th Avenue 5PM-8 Free
Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, born in Ghana, has a show, A Place I Call Home. He is here now, bringing a noted US and international CV. Related, look up Ghana Think Tank ironic and relevant.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
BlackOut is a group show curated by Donovan Scribes themed on the 2020 death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter in Portland.
At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-7 Free
PDX Contemporary opens Art for a New Consciousness by Christan Abusaid from Bogotá.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 5PM-7 Free
Pat Boas brings Scripts, abstract paintings inspired by language. Jinie Park brings Exotic Animal, mixed-media paintings. Both are color for Summer
At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Boo Johnson brings paintings, The Boat Show. They are paintings of sailboats on calm water. At Fine Art Fruit https://fine-art-fruit.square.site/ 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 6PM-8
David Levinthal brings An American Portrait, large format Polaroids of maquette figures; along with prints by the late Royal Nebeker.
The Opening reception is Saturday, 1:30. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Lauren Mantecón, nee Portland, now Santa Fe, brings abstract paintings Flash of Beauty. Along with Terrell James bringing Stanzas. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Portland Arts Collective has a group show of their artists. At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Katherine T Jacobs presents Swimming Without Limbs. At After | Time Collective Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 6PM-9 Free
Ozymandias are granite sculptures by Benjamin Mefford. Glimpses is a group show of mobile device photos. Justin Auld has Quantum Works.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Writers Block brings Dynamic Stillness by Nancy Larson & Edward Running. Musical stylings by the Lincoln High jazz combo.
At Writers Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
This Must Be the Place is a show by artist friends Nancy Wilkins and Martha Pfanschmidt. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Chess Club is doing a pop up at Frances May. Drop in at Frances May 521 SW 10th 6PM-9 Free
