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A selective guide to art events and exhibitions in Portland, Oregon, US with occasional musings, related and not.

Saturday, March 07, 2026

March 8 Public Nature

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Public Nature is a performance series, a few times a year, sign up for their announcments or follow their socials. Each event is a collabora...

March 8 Feminist Art Talk

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The Oregon Alliance for the National Museum of Women in the Arts - https://nmwa.org/ - has Dr. Alberto McKelligan-Hernandez presenting talk ...

March 7 Northside Art Openings+

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The Schnitzer collection is a vast archive of mostly multiples. They assemble vast shows from that. What's Not to Love is primarily port...

March 7 - 2027 Never Sorry

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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...
Friday, March 06, 2026

March 6 Eastside Art Openings

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All the Eastside events are at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials which list many shows and their times.

March 6 Beam Me Up

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Emily Wise brings paintings Meet Me at the Mothership, winning the copywriting award. "This collection expands Wise’s exploration int...

March 6 - 8 Raw Vegan

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Reed Arts Week is curated by students. It brings individual artist works, from campus, and from the world; and art talks. Having a budget al...
Thursday, March 05, 2026

March 5 Westside Art Openings+

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Illy2, Industry One, Fine Art Fruit, Augen, Froelick, and Adams and Ollman continue. Artist and PNCA faculty member Tom Prochaska, 1945-2...
Wednesday, March 04, 2026

March 4 Stillize

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Harlan Silverman presents Music for Stillness. Harlan Silverman is a cellist, shakuhachi flute, percussion musician in Portland. Think amb...
Saturday, February 28, 2026

March 1 Grand Style Folk Art

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Copalito is a show of vintage folk art from Oaxaca. Manuel Jiménez Ramírez (1919 - 2005) originated alebrijes, wood-carved animals painted w...

February 28 Floral Disco Anime

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Disco Diablo curates an open listening session. “An intentional sonic invocation where Afro-Latin rhythms and jazz dissolve the boundaries o...

February 26 - 27 The Black Man in the Cosmos

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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...
Thursday, February 26, 2026

February 26 Bugs of Winter

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You never know what is up Last Thursday on Alberta. Emily Furr has paintings of bugs, Kevin Gleason of landscapes, Morgan Bak quilted pai...
Monday, February 23, 2026

February 23 On the Road

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Ty Jacob presents movie The Foreground, a 65 minute runtime roadtrip. "Following the deterioration of a struggling film project, its...
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Rob
Rob lives in Portland, Oregon, the center of the known universe. Little known but true facts of my life include a few following. Worked in a virology research lab with a freezer full of bad things and incubators full of worse, at age 15. Swam a class five rapid in a river full of crocodiles. Been almost kidnapped in the former Soviet Union. Ensured free and fair elections in a couple spots in Africa. Translated ancient texts of Chinese philosophy. Having been within 2 blocks of a car bomb explosion, which is definitely not recommended. Done research on quantum tunneling in the vicinity of absolute zero, -459 degrees F, serious cold. Conceived and designed a unique 2d content addressable memory. Designed and built a 500 square foot solar greenhouse for a community food center using 90% recycled-sustainable materials. I am pretty much an optimist, except when I'm being realistic. I see a lot of art, know what I like and act on it. Portland is a great place for artists now and my recommendations represent my personal opinion of the best. Sometimes recommendations also include great events to meet other artists, as well as other obscure cultural, political and plain strange events.
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