Sáandlaanaay Kimberly Fulton Orozco https://saandlaanaay.art/ brings Generative Love, mixed media paper works. She is recipient ot the Native Arts and Culture LIFT award for early career artists and has her MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, 2025. One Grand has been doing excellent curation. This is an example. They appear to be advancing their collector base. They are now a member of PADA.
Generative Love https://onegrandgallery.com/Kimberly-Fulton-Orozco at One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
It is Last Thursday on Alberta and some of the galleries may be open.
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Monday, October 27, 2025
October 29 Home
Monear Shaer brings film Gaza is Our Home mixing 2021 footage with post-October 7. The film is online.
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM show 8 Free
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM show 8 Free
Thursday, October 23, 2025
October 25 Corresponding Glass
Mono Space has a listening session today. Bryston Wallace is your guide.
At Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 11AM-5PM Free (ring buzzer for entry)
Jade Novarino brings Mi Mano a Tu Mano. She has sampled years of personal correpondence across the world, collages and poems.
You can see it at the Old Fashioned Garage Gallery.
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 3PM-6 Free
PNCA Willamette opens their MFA studios for an early and mid-program readout. It's always fun to see artist studios, even when they have been cleaned up for visitors!
They request you get free tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-studios-at-the-glass-building-tickets-1758656000439
Open Studios at the Albina glass factory 2139 N Kerby. 5PM-8 Free
At Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 11AM-5PM Free (ring buzzer for entry)
Jade Novarino brings Mi Mano a Tu Mano. She has sampled years of personal correpondence across the world, collages and poems.
You can see it at the Old Fashioned Garage Gallery.
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 3PM-6 Free
PNCA Willamette opens their MFA studios for an early and mid-program readout. It's always fun to see artist studios, even when they have been cleaned up for visitors!
They request you get free tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-studios-at-the-glass-building-tickets-1758656000439
Open Studios at the Albina glass factory 2139 N Kerby. 5PM-8 Free
Saturday, October 18, 2025
October 20 Dig vs Pluck
Cambria Matlow has a long form movie, Why Dig When You Can Pluck?
"A filmmaker seeking inspiration for her next movie brings her volatile husband and defiant young son camping on the Oregon coast. When her competing desires to be a good mother and creative artist come to a head, she reaches a painful but powerful breakthrough."
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM show 8 Free
"A filmmaker seeking inspiration for her next movie brings her volatile husband and defiant young son camping on the Oregon coast. When her competing desires to be a good mother and creative artist come to a head, she reaches a painful but powerful breakthrough."
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM show 8 Free
October 18 - 24 Ai Weiwei Presents Cockroaches
Ai Weiwei is an artist focused on exposing human wrongs.
His father and grandfather were both favored and crushed by the Chinese government. Weiwei lived in poor conditions as a child for that. In 1981 in the first wave of Chinese international students, he came to New York City at age 24. He photographed Wigstock and police response to the early AIDS protests in New York. That experience sparked his art life of fighting injustice. 1989 and the Democracy Movement was yet to come.
Ai Weiwei exhibited photographs Dropping the Urn in Portland at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in 2010.
Later he really got in trouble. Privatization and corruption resulted in rapid building throughout China. The result was "tofu construction" with poor quality concrete and inadequate rebar. The Sichuan earthquake of 2008 caused them to crumble. Tofu construction killed about 90,000. The government never even counted them. Weiwei organized volunteers to go door to door to record the names, many were children. He later collected rebar from the buildings, straightened it, and displayed it alongside the names. As a result he was disappeared in 2011 by the Chinese government for 81 days.
A strong documentary by Alison Klayman in 2012, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, tells the artist's story to that point. Klayman generously visited the Portland Art Museum to screen the film. She subsequently made a fly on the wall documentary about Steve Bannon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TvFouKz6j0
Since, Weiwei has taken on many injustices, including the refugee migrations in Europe. Republican neocons, President Bush II, and John Bolton developed the idea of the Axis of Evil. Some were selected for war, including Iraq, Syria, and Libya. The list expands and contracts. Families naturally fled and flooded Europe. That changed, and continues to change governments. Irish artist Richard Mosse has also engaged the subject.
Since the revolution, China seems to have a desire for manifest destiny. Sound familiar? That included Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and soon Taiwan. Filmmaker Deborah Stratman captured the story of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang in film Kings of the Sky. Weiwei brings the story of Hong Kong democracy protests in film Cockroach.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/18/cockroach-review-ai-weiwei-hong-kong-protests-pro-democracy-activists
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/cockroach/488037419?autoplay=1 Trailer
Weiwei is making stream free for a few days. Click through at https://arte.bio/ai-weiwei/b/34Bh1L2.
His autobiography 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir in 2021 is a fascinating read, and he has a new book On Censorship coming in January.
In my opinion, the United States should have encouraged Hong Kong immigration to the US, but this was 2020. Ditto Taiwan in the near future, but this is 2025.
His father and grandfather were both favored and crushed by the Chinese government. Weiwei lived in poor conditions as a child for that. In 1981 in the first wave of Chinese international students, he came to New York City at age 24. He photographed Wigstock and police response to the early AIDS protests in New York. That experience sparked his art life of fighting injustice. 1989 and the Democracy Movement was yet to come.
Ai Weiwei exhibited photographs Dropping the Urn in Portland at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in 2010.
Later he really got in trouble. Privatization and corruption resulted in rapid building throughout China. The result was "tofu construction" with poor quality concrete and inadequate rebar. The Sichuan earthquake of 2008 caused them to crumble. Tofu construction killed about 90,000. The government never even counted them. Weiwei organized volunteers to go door to door to record the names, many were children. He later collected rebar from the buildings, straightened it, and displayed it alongside the names. As a result he was disappeared in 2011 by the Chinese government for 81 days.
A strong documentary by Alison Klayman in 2012, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, tells the artist's story to that point. Klayman generously visited the Portland Art Museum to screen the film. She subsequently made a fly on the wall documentary about Steve Bannon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TvFouKz6j0
Since, Weiwei has taken on many injustices, including the refugee migrations in Europe. Republican neocons, President Bush II, and John Bolton developed the idea of the Axis of Evil. Some were selected for war, including Iraq, Syria, and Libya. The list expands and contracts. Families naturally fled and flooded Europe. That changed, and continues to change governments. Irish artist Richard Mosse has also engaged the subject.
Since the revolution, China seems to have a desire for manifest destiny. Sound familiar? That included Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and soon Taiwan. Filmmaker Deborah Stratman captured the story of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang in film Kings of the Sky. Weiwei brings the story of Hong Kong democracy protests in film Cockroach.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/18/cockroach-review-ai-weiwei-hong-kong-protests-pro-democracy-activists
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/cockroach/488037419?autoplay=1 Trailer
Weiwei is making stream free for a few days. Click through at https://arte.bio/ai-weiwei/b/34Bh1L2.
His autobiography 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir in 2021 is a fascinating read, and he has a new book On Censorship coming in January.
In my opinion, the United States should have encouraged Hong Kong immigration to the US, but this was 2020. Ditto Taiwan in the near future, but this is 2025.
Sunday, October 12, 2025
October 12 Rain Abstraction
Tonight, for your viewing pleasure, is a program of abstract movies. Arianna Gazca and Matthew Nash abstract from nature. Brent Coughenour completes the program this evening with live video. Live video is an artform, seen at monthly Live in the Depths, ocasional program Volt Divers, and one of the branches of the Portland Synth Library if you would like to DIY.
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM show 8 Free
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM show 8 Free
Saturday, October 11, 2025
October 11 Count Winged Womb Fields
Emily Counts https://emilycounts.com, with an early show at Duplex here, is now in Tacoma. Today she opens Tender Echoes, impressionistic figurative work in bright ceramics. Laura Camila Medina https://lauracamilamedina.com/, all the way from Cleveland, Ohio has Ceremony for the Winged. She was born in Columbia, BFA at PNCA, and MFA from Yale. She occupies the Project space with an installation and shows sculptures, painting, and video.
At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map Noon-3 Free
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois, born in 1911, who passed at age 98 is paired with Isabelle Albuquerque born in 1981, in a show, The Wandering Womb, at the Lumber Room. Both were inspired by the female body. Albuquerque makes sculpture and performance today. With her trajectory, it is unusual for her work to be seen in Portland so it is a good chance to see it and an inspired curatorial combination.
Albuquerque is giving a free talk Monday at 6PM at PNCA and live streamed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAgJ_foHMVU.
At The Lumber Room https://lumberroom.com/exhibitions/565/568 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 4PM-7 Free
Heather Watkins is a Portland sculptor, often incorporating fiber. She brings that in show Visual Fields and adds prints.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5
1122 brings their spooky show The Spook Easy. It is art, snacks, drinks, and conversation, family-friendly too.
It repeats Friday 10/24 and Thurs 10/30.
At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 7PM-10 Free
At Nationale
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois, born in 1911, who passed at age 98 is paired with Isabelle Albuquerque born in 1981, in a show, The Wandering Womb, at the Lumber Room. Both were inspired by the female body. Albuquerque makes sculpture and performance today. With her trajectory, it is unusual for her work to be seen in Portland so it is a good chance to see it and an inspired curatorial combination.
Albuquerque is giving a free talk Monday at 6PM at PNCA and live streamed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAgJ_foHMVU.
At The Lumber Room https://lumberroom.com/exhibitions/565/568 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 4PM-7 Free
Heather Watkins is a Portland sculptor, often incorporating fiber. She brings that in show Visual Fields and adds prints.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5
1122 brings their spooky show The Spook Easy. It is art, snacks, drinks, and conversation, family-friendly too.
It repeats Friday 10/24 and Thurs 10/30.
At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 7PM-10 Free
Saturday, October 04, 2025
October 5 Ears to the Ground
Anis Mojgani https://www.thepianofarm.com/about is a poet. He is the current Experimental Art Research Forest - EAR Forest https://college.lclark.edu/departments/art/ear-forest/ artist in residence. He reads out the results today.
At EAR Forest installation at Lewis and Clark College https://college.lclark.edu/departments/art/ear-forest/directions/ (and parking) 615 S Palatine Hill 3:30PM Free
At EAR Forest installation at Lewis and Clark College https://college.lclark.edu/departments/art/ear-forest/directions/ (and parking) 615 S Palatine Hill 3:30PM Free
Friday, October 03, 2025
October 4 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.
It benefits local artists to be curated into shows with noted outside-Portland artists. Jeff Jahn did this in early shows, for instance, including Cao Fe. Curators, just ask. Ditto, collections.
Artists are Katherine Ace, Derrick Adams, Chul-Hyun Ahn, Robert Arneson, Richard Avedon, John Baldessari, Rick Bartow, Mel Bochner, Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth Catlett, Judy Chicago, Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, Jeffrey Gibson, Jenny Holzer, Malia Jensen, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, Jeff Koons, Karen LaMonte, James Lavadour, Roy Lichtenstein, Hung Liu, Robert Longo, Elizabeth Malaska, Marilyn Minter, Bruce Nauman, Alice Neel, Julian Opie, Anton Perich, Sally Haley, Keith Haring, LaToya Hobbs, Elizabeth Peyton, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Wendy Red Star, Ed Ruscha, Alison Saar, Tschabalala Self, Amy Sherald, Shahzia Sikander, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, Swoon, Storm Tharp, Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas, Andy Warhol, Carrie Mae Weems, and Charles Wilbert White.
At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon Noon-6 Free
Rachel Hayden from Cincinnati, where artist space is still affordable, brings surreal x exotica style paintings extracting bugs and plants.
https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/rachel-hayden at Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Epiphany Couch brings In the Name of Progress. The artist talk is November 16th.
At Souvenir Gallery https://souvenirartspdx.org/ 1233 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free
Kim Smith Claudel https://www.kimsmithclaudel.com/ has Paper Prototype, paper and paint.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Anna Fidler, Michael E. Stephen, and John Whitten bring ₍^. .^₎⟆ & /|\ ^._.^ /|\. Perfect for the season.
"For as long as humans have gazed into the dark, there have been cats and bats staring back. From divine guardians to ominous omens, these otherworldly creatures have captivated the human imagination for centuries.
The cat: collaborator of witches, its flashing, changeable eyes glinting with nocturnal mischief.
The bat: a messenger of the underworld, a velvet-winged omen overhead.
[The show] summon[s] the humor, tenderness, and strangeness of these animals. Part séance, part pet portrait, part garage-sale coven, this exhibition conjures a shared love of magic(k) and mystery through drawing, painting, installation and assemblage."
Fidler has been exploring iconic mysticism for a few years, so we are excited to see this.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Oregon Contemporary continues. Their guest curator announces the 2026 biennial artists. The artists are Sahar al-Sawaf (Hillsboro, OR), Raphael Arar (Portland, OR), Wayne Bund (Portland, OR), Francesca Capone (Portland, OR), Michael Cavazos + Hand 2 Mouth Theater (Portland, OR), Kerr Cirilo (Brooklyn, NY), Deep Time Collective: Amanda Leigh Evans and Tia Kramer (Walla Walla, WA), Demian DinéYazhi’ (Portland, OR), James Enos (Portland, OR), Tannaz Farsi (Eugene, OR), Marcelo Fontana (Portland, OR), Ebony Frison (Portland, OR), The Black Gallery & Don't Shoot PDX: Taishona Carpenter and Teressa Raiford (Portland, OR), Bean Gilsdorf (Portland, OR), Stephen Hayes (Portland, OR), Jaleesa Johnston (Washougal, WA), Joe Kye (Portland, OR), Ambrin Ling (Salem, OR), Katherine Longstreth (Portland, OR), Todd McGrain (Portland, OR), Mako Miyamoto (Portland, OR), Anis Mojgani (Portland, OR), Gabby Severson (San Francisco, CA), Stephen Slappe (Portland, OR), Ash Stone (Portland, OR), and Taravat Talepasand (Hillsboro, OR).
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Angel O'Brian has a show at Franklin Foto. Good Wood has nice events and one is a closing tomorrow. Glam Jam is a big celebration of Grass Hut and friends with a suggested $2 donation in the Lloyd Mall. The Greek Festival is this weekend too.
It benefits local artists to be curated into shows with noted outside-Portland artists. Jeff Jahn did this in early shows, for instance, including Cao Fe. Curators, just ask. Ditto, collections.
Artists are Katherine Ace, Derrick Adams, Chul-Hyun Ahn, Robert Arneson, Richard Avedon, John Baldessari, Rick Bartow, Mel Bochner, Louise Bourgeois, Elizabeth Catlett, Judy Chicago, Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, Jeffrey Gibson, Jenny Holzer, Malia Jensen, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, Jeff Koons, Karen LaMonte, James Lavadour, Roy Lichtenstein, Hung Liu, Robert Longo, Elizabeth Malaska, Marilyn Minter, Bruce Nauman, Alice Neel, Julian Opie, Anton Perich, Sally Haley, Keith Haring, LaToya Hobbs, Elizabeth Peyton, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Wendy Red Star, Ed Ruscha, Alison Saar, Tschabalala Self, Amy Sherald, Shahzia Sikander, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, Swoon, Storm Tharp, Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas, Andy Warhol, Carrie Mae Weems, and Charles Wilbert White.
At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon Noon-6 Free
Rachel Hayden from Cincinnati, where artist space is still affordable, brings surreal x exotica style paintings extracting bugs and plants.
https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/rachel-hayden at Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Epiphany Couch brings In the Name of Progress. The artist talk is November 16th.
At Souvenir Gallery https://souvenirartspdx.org/ 1233 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free
Kim Smith Claudel https://www.kimsmithclaudel.com/ has Paper Prototype, paper and paint.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Anna Fidler, Michael E. Stephen, and John Whitten bring ₍^. .^₎⟆ & /|\ ^._.^ /|\. Perfect for the season.
"For as long as humans have gazed into the dark, there have been cats and bats staring back. From divine guardians to ominous omens, these otherworldly creatures have captivated the human imagination for centuries.
The cat: collaborator of witches, its flashing, changeable eyes glinting with nocturnal mischief.
The bat: a messenger of the underworld, a velvet-winged omen overhead.
[The show] summon[s] the humor, tenderness, and strangeness of these animals. Part séance, part pet portrait, part garage-sale coven, this exhibition conjures a shared love of magic(k) and mystery through drawing, painting, installation and assemblage."
Fidler has been exploring iconic mysticism for a few years, so we are excited to see this.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Oregon Contemporary continues. Their guest curator announces the 2026 biennial artists. The artists are Sahar al-Sawaf (Hillsboro, OR), Raphael Arar (Portland, OR), Wayne Bund (Portland, OR), Francesca Capone (Portland, OR), Michael Cavazos + Hand 2 Mouth Theater (Portland, OR), Kerr Cirilo (Brooklyn, NY), Deep Time Collective: Amanda Leigh Evans and Tia Kramer (Walla Walla, WA), Demian DinéYazhi’ (Portland, OR), James Enos (Portland, OR), Tannaz Farsi (Eugene, OR), Marcelo Fontana (Portland, OR), Ebony Frison (Portland, OR), The Black Gallery & Don't Shoot PDX: Taishona Carpenter and Teressa Raiford (Portland, OR), Bean Gilsdorf (Portland, OR), Stephen Hayes (Portland, OR), Jaleesa Johnston (Washougal, WA), Joe Kye (Portland, OR), Ambrin Ling (Salem, OR), Katherine Longstreth (Portland, OR), Todd McGrain (Portland, OR), Mako Miyamoto (Portland, OR), Anis Mojgani (Portland, OR), Gabby Severson (San Francisco, CA), Stephen Slappe (Portland, OR), Ash Stone (Portland, OR), and Taravat Talepasand (Hillsboro, OR).
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Angel O'Brian has a show at Franklin Foto. Good Wood has nice events and one is a closing tomorrow. Glam Jam is a big celebration of Grass Hut and friends with a suggested $2 donation in the Lloyd Mall. The Greek Festival is this weekend too.
October 3 Eastside Art Openings
PPSTMM has Lynn Yarne with Roast Duck is an Atonal Love Song. It's all explained on their Insta.
At PPSTMM 323 NE Wygant #203. 6PM-8 Free
David Le Goon a tattoo artist all the way from Australia makes illustrations on themes of queerness and the Asian experience. Brad Hoseley schooled in Portland and now in Brooklyn, New York has surreal illustrations on the themes of sexuality, normality, and the everyday. At Nucleus House Gallery https://www.nucleusportland.com/ 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
New Riso shop and gallery, Riso Studio Arts, brings Robyn A Frank https://robynafrank.com/ who has tamed the machine into making fades between colors. Since each drum is one color, that is not easy. At Riso Studio Arts https://pdx.risostudioarts.com/ 1327 SE Division 6PM-9 Free
All the Eastside events are at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials which list many shows and their times.
At PPSTMM 323 NE Wygant #203. 6PM-8 Free
David Le Goon a tattoo artist all the way from Australia makes illustrations on themes of queerness and the Asian experience. Brad Hoseley schooled in Portland and now in Brooklyn, New York has surreal illustrations on the themes of sexuality, normality, and the everyday. At Nucleus House Gallery https://www.nucleusportland.com/ 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
New Riso shop and gallery, Riso Studio Arts, brings Robyn A Frank https://robynafrank.com/ who has tamed the machine into making fades between colors. Since each drum is one color, that is not easy. At Riso Studio Arts https://pdx.risostudioarts.com/ 1327 SE Division 6PM-9 Free
All the Eastside events are at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials which list many shows and their times.
October 3-24 Designing Portland
October 3-24 is Portland Design Month, 3 weeks with events. More at https://www.aigapdx.org/portland-design-month-2025.
Thursday, October 02, 2025
October 2 Westside Art Openings+
October is Portland Textile Month so some galleries have shows on that theme.
The Urban Art Network occupies 13th with all their booths of stuff.
Illy2, Adams and Ollman, Elizabeth Leach, Stelo, PDX Contemporary and Froelick 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.
Law and culture are sticky wickets. The Dakota Access Pipeline met culture in people camping and demonstrating against it.
(Long)
Humans are thought by science to have emerged about 200-300 thousand years ago in Africa.
They migrated to fill the earth, arriving in North America about 20 thousand years ago. They came to the Dakotas about 13 thousand years ago.
It is thought that the Vikings came to North America about a thousand years ago. Columbus came in about 1492, about 500 years ago with a proclamation in Spanish that any who did not convert to Christianity could be justifiably killed.
English settlers to the Eastern US brought law. It was based on the Magna Carta and English common law, then the US Constitution about 238 years ago.
The native Cherokees developed a written language and written law insnpired by the settlers. Their existance was outlawed by the state, then Native soveignity was upheld in the Supreme Court case Worchester vs Georgia.
President Andrew Jackson, Indian fighter, was reported to say, "the supreme court has made their decision, let them enforce it," the decision, about 190 years ago. Then he proceeded to remove the native peoples in the Trail of Tears.
The 10th Amendment to the US Constitution reserves law to the states unless by act of Congress.
Congressional energy acts moved policy to the federal government. Water law is largely state by state. Natural gas pipelines have much federal authority, ironically because of natural gas deregulation from the late 1970s into the 1980s. Oil pipelines are on their own with the states along with electricty transmission lines.
Meanwhile there is legislation and case law on the rights of tribes. I always respect the great native poet and musician John Trudell. I think 1974 Boldt over reached. And I believe tribes, whose interests will be destroyed by climate change, are faulty opposing clean energy, for example, opposing the Goldendale storage project. Indian strategy needs the next generation.
The Standing Rock protest for the Dakota Access Pipeline has many points of law and commen sense culture any can research. It is the subject of this art show.
In that context, Tonita Cervantes https://www.cervantesnomad.photography brings photography show of the Standing Rock protest in show entitled Black Snake Killaz.
At the Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-7 Free
Pippa Arend, Leah Kohlenberg, Maude May bring Hallowed. At 239 NW 13th. Attendant for entry. 5:30PM-8:30 Free
Blue Sky 1975 - 1985 is a rtrospective show. If you look at photographer resumes, many had early show at Blue Sky. All prints in the show are available for $200. Over 100 Blue Sky members also show.In the Nine, Maria TD Inocencio has Reflecting Pool.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Russo Lee brings J D Perkin sculptures and painting by Michael Brophy.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Ruri & Satoko Motouji bring Destruction, Rejuvenation, Harmony. Kanetaka Ikeda brings Rhythm of Nature. Philip Stork brings Reflections.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Pamela Chipman, Kim Lakin, and Malu Londoño bring Woven Conversations a textile show.
At Writers Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Dan Tran brings Calendars in collaboration with disability artist at North Pole Gallery.
At After | Time Collective Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 6PM-9 Free
Augen has a group show of their gallery artists.
At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Mesmerizing Blues is a show of paintings of flowers by Claudia Hollister.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Daniel Menche is a well known Portland musician in the punk-noise genre. For visual art he brings Cymatic Landscapes to the gallery. They are photographs of particles excited by sound forming a loose geometric pattern. They would be kin to the work of deaf activist artist Myles De Bastion at Cymaspace. Christine Sun Kim is a noted artist in this space.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Fans Only shows its residents. It's an artist residency in an office building with First Thursday readouts. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free
PNCA Willamette has many visual shows and performances tonight.
At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
The Urban Art Network occupies 13th with all their booths of stuff.
Illy2, Adams and Ollman, Elizabeth Leach, Stelo, PDX Contemporary and Froelick 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.
Law and culture are sticky wickets. The Dakota Access Pipeline met culture in people camping and demonstrating against it.
(Long)
Humans are thought by science to have emerged about 200-300 thousand years ago in Africa.
They migrated to fill the earth, arriving in North America about 20 thousand years ago. They came to the Dakotas about 13 thousand years ago.
It is thought that the Vikings came to North America about a thousand years ago. Columbus came in about 1492, about 500 years ago with a proclamation in Spanish that any who did not convert to Christianity could be justifiably killed.
English settlers to the Eastern US brought law. It was based on the Magna Carta and English common law, then the US Constitution about 238 years ago.
The native Cherokees developed a written language and written law insnpired by the settlers. Their existance was outlawed by the state, then Native soveignity was upheld in the Supreme Court case Worchester vs Georgia.
President Andrew Jackson, Indian fighter, was reported to say, "the supreme court has made their decision, let them enforce it," the decision, about 190 years ago. Then he proceeded to remove the native peoples in the Trail of Tears.
The 10th Amendment to the US Constitution reserves law to the states unless by act of Congress.
Congressional energy acts moved policy to the federal government. Water law is largely state by state. Natural gas pipelines have much federal authority, ironically because of natural gas deregulation from the late 1970s into the 1980s. Oil pipelines are on their own with the states along with electricty transmission lines.
Meanwhile there is legislation and case law on the rights of tribes. I always respect the great native poet and musician John Trudell. I think 1974 Boldt over reached. And I believe tribes, whose interests will be destroyed by climate change, are faulty opposing clean energy, for example, opposing the Goldendale storage project. Indian strategy needs the next generation.
The Standing Rock protest for the Dakota Access Pipeline has many points of law and commen sense culture any can research. It is the subject of this art show.
In that context, Tonita Cervantes https://www.cervantesnomad.photography brings photography show of the Standing Rock protest in show entitled Black Snake Killaz.
At the Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-7 Free
Pippa Arend, Leah Kohlenberg, Maude May bring Hallowed. At 239 NW 13th. Attendant for entry. 5:30PM-8:30 Free
Blue Sky 1975 - 1985 is a rtrospective show. If you look at photographer resumes, many had early show at Blue Sky. All prints in the show are available for $200. Over 100 Blue Sky members also show.In the Nine, Maria TD Inocencio has Reflecting Pool.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Russo Lee brings J D Perkin sculptures and painting by Michael Brophy.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Ruri & Satoko Motouji bring Destruction, Rejuvenation, Harmony. Kanetaka Ikeda brings Rhythm of Nature. Philip Stork brings Reflections.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Pamela Chipman, Kim Lakin, and Malu Londoño bring Woven Conversations a textile show.
At Writers Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Dan Tran brings Calendars in collaboration with disability artist at North Pole Gallery.
At After | Time Collective Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 6PM-9 Free
Augen has a group show of their gallery artists.
At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Mesmerizing Blues is a show of paintings of flowers by Claudia Hollister.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Daniel Menche is a well known Portland musician in the punk-noise genre. For visual art he brings Cymatic Landscapes to the gallery. They are photographs of particles excited by sound forming a loose geometric pattern. They would be kin to the work of deaf activist artist Myles De Bastion at Cymaspace. Christine Sun Kim is a noted artist in this space.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Fans Only shows its residents. It's an artist residency in an office building with First Thursday readouts. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free
PNCA Willamette has many visual shows and performances tonight.
At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
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