October 22 Dream Method Sandwich Wallflower

Ditch Projects is back from Summer break with music by Methods Body, electronics and drums. At Ditch Projects https://ditchprojects.com/ 303 S. 5th Ave #165, Springfield OR Map 7PM Donations for performers encouraged


Wallflower is a show of fashion and art in the form of paintings, fiber based wall sculptures and wearable art by Anna Joyce and Holly Stalder. 6:30-9, At A Sometimes Gallery 687 N Tillamook 6;30PM-9 Free


Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen give a talk on their work and show Sandwiches for Every Meal. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 10:30AM Free


One Grand closes their show, Dream Girl. 5PM-10

October 15-16 Waveform Inversion Song

Control Voltage has a pre-event demo for Elektron synths all the way from Sweden. They make box synths, no physical patching, with Teenage Engineering pricing, and in black rather than white panels and knobs. They have their own samples for sale ecosystem to. They are demonstrating their Song Mode. At Control Voltage https://www.controlvoltage.net 3742 NE Mississippi. 3PM Free


Inversion is a synth performance. Performers are Tim Held (SEA) of the Podular Modcast, Racia (SEA) of Further Records, Camino Acid (PDX) of Pyramid Xmissions, with DJ Trust Anchor, and visuals by Brother vs Robot. Inversion at Black Swan upstairs Saturday 727 SE Grand 8PM-late %10


Waveform is a synth equipment demo. So all the knob twiddlers and patch pluggers should be there! There is more on the schedule https://www.waveformpdx.com/schedule of workshops and talks. Waveform https://www.waveformpdx.com/ Sunday at the Evergreen upstairs 618 SE Alder 10AM-5PM $10

October 15 Painted Hummingbird Egg

Fisk is a design agency with a graphic bent. They guest multiartist-designer Chris Burnett from LA who has a compatible bright style in his Colibri project https://chrisbur.net/. At Fisk Projects 3613 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. 5PM-10 Free


Silent films had live accompanying music. Portland's Fin de Cinema series has revived it with some choice titles. The 4th Wall cafe brings their take tonight.

Mamoru Oshii's films are art, from anime titles to live action like Avalon 2001. Angel's Egg unfolds a story almost without dialog in the ruin of a classical city. Our protagonist has almost waist-length hair that is a character in itself. Angel's Egg was drawn by noted artist Yoshitake Amano. Angel Egg, 1985, was followed by films leading to Ghost in The Shell.

Musicians Pigeon Milk provide a hypnofunk space synth score for Angel's Egg live. At 4th Wall PDX https://www.the4thwallpdx.com/ 1445 SE Hawthorne 7PM $5


Joan McGuire https://joanmcguire.com/painting/ opens Painted Drawings. She works in bright abstracts, biomorphic, and landscapes. At the Red-e Cafe 1006 North Killingsworth 7PM-9 Free The Mobile Projection Unit provides visuals and Crystal Quartez sounds at the Mt Tabor Park caldera. 8:30PM Free


There are memorials today for Julie Mancini and Dave Busacker.

October 14 Music

Free Music, The Viperman, DJ Carb play music. Not free though.

At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 8PM-10 $5-15

October 8 Assembling Land Youth

Lyndon Barrois Jr teaches at CMU. He was known to noted local curator Yaelle S. Amir, nee Newspace; she curated this show. Barrois works in mixed media assemblage and collage.

At Melanie Flood Projects, one of 3 Portland galleries in the New Art Dealers Alliance www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 Early 11AM-1 Free


Ivan McClellan is an artist and editorial photographer in Portland. https://eightsecs.com/about-us/ (expired security certificate) Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe https://www.robertsprojectsla.com/artists/otis-kwame-kye-quaicoe is a figure painter born in Ghana and living in Portland. They have collaborated on a joint show, Inheritance, commissioned by the Lumber Room. The Lumber Room is one of Portland's serious collectons, and their events are a social melange, recommended. At The Lumber Room http://lumberroom.com/exhibitions/2022/quaicoe-mclellan 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map  4PM-7 Free

Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen open “Sandwiches for Every Meal.” Their minimal work is always thought inspiring. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM - 5 Free


1122 has Emily Pacheco’s Youth Booth, an interactive costume experience, and continues photography by Kate Malone Kimmich. At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 4PM-6 Free

October 8, 9, 15, 16 Open Source

Portland Open Studios is a yearly event. Artists self-select, apply, are curated, are included in a guide and then open their studios. It is an opportunity to see what a working artist studio looks like, straightened up for guests. It is smaller than pre-Covid.

Portland Open Studios portlandopenstudios.com. Throughout town. 10AM-5 Free

October 7 Ray Vibes

Tonight's special event is the Mobile Projection Unit with Moss Wand by the river. Highly recommended. Bring a flashlight, blanket, and warmies. Leave no trace. The show will take about one hour. Mobile Projection Unit with Moss Wand at Kelly Point Park, N Kelly Point Park Rd. 8:30PM Free

October 7 Eastside Art Openings +

Portland has several poetry scenes. One is Anis Mojgani's The Piano Farm. This Oregon Poet Laureate reads his poems from the window of his apartment to a crowd in the street on blankets and lawnchairs. Poems out the Window at Sunset 3425 SE Yamhill 6:04PM Free


The usual First Friday locations are open as noted in their 1FPDX Facebook group.


Longtime illustrator Arnold Pander has a new body of work Anthesis, watercolor illustration of flowers. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free

October 6 Westside Art Openings

Westside art openings are reviving with parallel Saturday openings.


Yolanda del Amo all the way from NYC has Archipelago, pairwise portraits of distance and ennui. Julie Mihaly has Now, covid-era empty monochrome landscapes. Incarnations, Life in Cloth is a group show at Nine Gallery. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-7 Free




Froelich continues Benny Fountain and Landscapes. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis 5PM-8 Early Closing Free


Blackfish has a show of new coop member artists. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 420 NW 9th 6PM-9 Free


In the Zone, Serena Barton are wax mediym abstracts and Jo Grisham shows too. At 114 Gallery www.gallery114pdx.com 1100 NW Glisan 6PM-9 Free


Waterstone has Wild Abandoned, impressionist landscaped by Shannon Carlson. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Early Closing Free


Leach is mid-cycle, but were open last First Thursday, so they may be again with Mathew Picton and Jeremy Okai Davis.

At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7 Early Closing Free

October 5 Pray

Computer Age Recordings, all the way from NYC, Terror Apart, Ceremonial Abyss, and Cosmic Surveillance perfrom at Portland's covert temple of experimental music.

It is live aand in person or on Twitch/xchurch. Live, masks encouraged. At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 7PM-10 $15

October 1 Invisible Lines Flash

Along These Lines is an exhibition Julia Bradshaw, Ron Linn, and John Whitten. Their photography, painting, and drawing are themed on landscape.

At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free


Carnation Contemporary has Raphael Arar and Renee Couture with Invisible Labor, 2d and 3d. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8



Marico Fayre and Hunter Sunrise are creative partners and partners too. Fayre's photos Ourselves, a Resurrection document their projects and are a book And Then the Flash. Both drop tonight.

At the Small Talk Collective Strange Paradise Gallery www.smalltalkcollective.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free


Oregon Contemporary continues Willie Little, In My Own Little Corner and People Will Go Take Their Bags and Their Wheelchairs and Go Shopping featuring Doug Wing and Elmeater Mortonby Elmeater Morton and Doug Wing. They close tomorrow. Demian DinéYazhí has a courtyard installation We Don’t Want a President.

At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free

September 24 Fox Spirits

Performances and films by Midori Hirose, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, Julie Perini, Allie Hankins, and Eva Knowles are tonight. At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street 7PM Free

September 24 Xenocore and Soft-tribalism

Holding is doing something unusual hosting a design show. It is complicated to explain, probably better to read about it on their site and socials. Maybe something something https://sourcingjournal.com/denim/denim-trends/fashion-cores-staples-trends-cottagecore-normcore-gorpcore-edited-trendalytics-337148/. At Holding Contemporary www.holdingcontemporary.com 916 NW Flanders 6PM-8 early close Free

September 17 Sand Mile Letters

The earth is made of rock. The rock is made of elements birthed by the Big Bang a long time ago. Each element is different but the same elemental particles. But they have different weight and color. And for a long time, the weather powered by the sun has been breaking down the rock. Big pieces break, then smaller, then they wash down the streams, rounding. They break into sand, then further into the tiny particles making clay.

Kate Malone Kimmich photographs the beach. The sand sifts by weight arranged by water in different colors. She captures the patterns along with other beach elements.

Her show is Tidal Breaths: Wakonda Beach in Winter.

It is an endless story captured by a poem in the Tang Dynasty:

A wave of sand comes
Another pulls it back
One cycle dies
Another is born
Mutually stirring each other
Endlessly
It can teach the mountain and seas
To eventually be one

At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 5PM-8 Free


It is a bit far out for art geographically; the photography show by Larry Cwik, The Visitor, Walking 1000 Miles through Mexico, is in far Multnomah Village. He works in large prints of images gathered throughout Mexico. The opening this afternoon is quite the sprawling event. There is a new short film by Cwik, screened, a book released, for signing, and poetry read by Walt Curtis. Curtis remains active with https://kboo.fm/program/talking-earth, a poetry podcast over 45 years. The PCC North View Gallery is in that area, so you could link trips.

At Multnomah Arts Center www.multnomahartscenter.org 7688 SW Capitol Highway 1PM-3 Free


Learn but the letters forme(d) by heart, Then soon you’l gain this noble art, is a group show by Alex Anderson, Polly Apfelbaum, Katherine Bernhardt, Joy Feasley, Raque Ford, Peter Gallo, Jesse Harrod, Abe Lampert, Maia Ruth Lee, Mirco Marchelli, Ryan McLaughlin, Molly Metz, Jeffry Mitchell, Erin Jane Nelson, Borna Sammak, Patricia Treib with fraktur by Unknown Artist, Christian Bamberger, "Flying Angel" Artist, and "School of Weiss" Artist. It is an opportunity to see the gallery interests.

At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 1PM-4 Free

September 17 - 18 All the Zines are Belong to You

Portland is a paper-based town, maybe it's all the trees? We once had a huge paper-making factory in Oregon City marooned on a rock in the middle of the falls. There is still one in Washougal but no one likes the smell today.

Portland embraced the zine zeitgeist, DIY and open source, in the 1980s and 1990s. They were distributed from niches in book stores and music stores. They were passed by hand, friend to friend. The 1998 IPRC helped makers, rebirthed antique printing, and collected a zine library. Reading Frenzy was a zine Mecca.

As a result, zines never died in Portland. One of their continuous reanimators is the Portland Zine Symposium, since 2001. It is this weekend at PSU. The format is tables of zines with the actual maker. There is a different mix of zine creators each day.

Outlet PDX is a shop-gallery preserving a new antique printer, the mighty Risograph from Japan. It is an all in one master maker and offset printer with ink cartridges of many colors. Like multi-color woodblock printing, paper can be sent through with different image layers of different color. Outlet is helmed by illustrator Kate Bingaman-Burt. Saturday Outlet hosts a post Symposium meetup in their studio.

Pre-pandemic, both were creative community hive nodes, so check them now to see what's up. Many Portland art events are mask-y, so bring one.

Portland Zine Symposium https://www.portlandzinesymposium.org/ at Portland State University Smith Ballroom 1825 SW Broadway Saturday and Sunday 11AM-5 Free

Zine social at Outlet https://www.outletpdx.com/ 2500 NE Sandy Blvd E Saturday, September 17th from 6PM-9 Free, Registration Required https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zine-social-pzs-2022-afterparty-tickets-418382351877.

September 11 Knob Spot

Modular on the Spot resumes sound making. It is one of informal series of modular synth concerts outdoors en plein air.

Knob twisters include RHA Laws, James Staub, Kenny’s Login, Woke-Ass Messiah, Life Agent, Max Myriad, and Robert Downey Dangerfield.

At Rocky Butte Park, 6PM Free

September 10 - 11 At Last!

Portland's Deaf film Festival is Saturday and Sunday. It includes Portland's first annual art and craft show by deaf artists and makers on Sunday. There is also an evening social at another location. Saturday films from Noon to 2:30 are family-friendly. Sunday films are all documentaries. There are many breaks for socializing.

Here is the full rundown:

Saturday 12PM-8PM 12pm-1PM Festival Opening and Family Friendly Films 12-12:30 Intersectional Souls Project (30:00) 12:30-12:35 Mouth Language Device (4:57) 12:36-12:37 Solir The Alien (10:00) 12:38-12:48 The Gingerbread Witch (10:00) 12:49-1:06 Dimensions (17:00)

1:15-2:25 Changer A Handtelling (70:00)

2:45-3:30PM ADULT FILMS - SHORTS USA

2:45-2:50 A New man (music video) (4:45) 2:50-2:56 So It Goes (5:55) 2:57-3:03 REAL (5:00) 3:03-3:13 The Participant (9:35) 3:14-3:16 Bent (1:23) 3:16-3:31 Hamburger Airplane (16:09)

3:40-4:30pm ADULT SHORTS CONT’D

3:40-3: The Word Factory (18:00) 3:45-4:00 Elevated (15:00) 4:02-4:15 The Last Words (12:00)

4:45-5:10PM Adult Films - Asia

4:45-5:10 Let The Chips Fall (23:00)

5:30-6:55PM Adult Films- Shorts Europe and Eastern Europe

5:30-5:37 Scotland Forgive Me (6:14) 5:37-5:43 Assassin (5:05) 5:45-5:52 Duplicitous (5:32) 5:53-5:57 Breaking Point (4:01)

6:15-6:20 Guilty Conscience (4:28) 6:20-6:26 Faith (6:20) 6:27-7PM House (30:00)

Sunday 12pm-8pm

Documentaries

12PM- 12:40PM With Capital D (37:20)

1PM-2:20PM Glittering Hands (80:00)

2:40-3:15PM Deaf Kilmarnock (34:18)

3:25-4:35PM The Time is Right for Us (70:00)

5PM-5:20 Between Two Worlds (17:53) 5:20-5:26 Mister Michel (16:00)

5:45-7:45 Tazza Superstar (116mins)

Artists and makers include:

Cymaspace, Brad James Thornberry, painting; Fred Gravatt, painting; Aimee, painting; Thorne Davis tarot card reading; Lesli Holderby, crafts; Kali Doubletree, painting; Hannah Wheatcroft, paintings; Lennox Zer Art, painting, Heather Anderson, crafts, and with information, Open Hand Health and Bridges Oregon.

At the Holiday Inn 8439 NE Columbia Holiday Inn Noon-7 Free

Saturday night from 8pm to close we are collaborating with POP for a special night of social at HI-TOP, located on 5015 NE Fremont Free

September 10 - October 15 Cairn Nan Interviews

Nan Curtis https://www.nancurtis.com/ is one of Portland's arch conceptualists. After her MFA she taught at PNCA influencing a generation. She has a show, Cairnapopia, at Sator Projects now. As part if the show Curtis talks 2PM over coffee and donuts with some Portland guests. Guests are 9/10 - Grace Kook-Anderson, 9/17 - Kristan Kennedy, 9/24 - Mack McFarland, 10/1 - Ashley Gifford, 10/8 - Tiff Harker, and 10/15 - MK Guth.

At Sator Prokects https://www.satorprojects.com/ 1709 SE 3rd. Open Thursday - Sunday 12PM-5 Free

September 10 Unknown Riff

Dreams of Unknown Islands by Sasha Wortzel opens in the Cooley. At noon, the artist speaks in the Reed Chapel, thence there is a reception in the gallery 1PM-3. Her films show at the Hollywood Theater Sunday at 2. At the Cooley Gallery Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Free


Tanner Lind Riff has a show and there is a reception for it this afternoon. At www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 4PM-6 Free

September 9 Robin Faun Dream

The intrepid Jennifer Robin is a longtime Portland writer via New York. Sean Croghan is a longtime Portland musician and painter. Croghan accompanies Robin reading from her latest book, You Only Bend Once with a Spoonful of Mercury. She is a fierce observer of people from her travels and a good spoken word reader, you can find many videos of her online. I'm really looking forward to the musical collaboration, perhaps akin to the famous Steve Fisk work with Steven Jesse Bernstein. Bernstein is more a poet and much darker than Robin. But music and spoken word collaborations are always welcome. The bookstore has revved up its readings in its small space with limited seating. Recommended.

At Mother Foucault https://www.motherfoucaultsbookshop.com/ 523 SE Morrison 7PM, doors 6


Miranda Zimmerman is Faunwood. It is kawaii illustration of flora and fauna. She has her own direct channels, and illustrations exclusinve to Nucleus. The Nucleus show includes mostly 3D. Her show there opens today. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free


Sa’rah Melinda Sabino opens Dream Girl, graphic work themed on her heritage. At One Grand 1001 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free

September 7 Delicious Psychedelic Landscapes

Oregon is on the front edge of plants as an aid for professional psychiatric treatment. If you can't wait, Adam Sorensen is well known for his psychedelic landscapes. He opens a new show of them, Water Color, with a reception today.

"Drawing from a wealth of influences, including references to the Hudson River School painters of the American West, the Romanticism of Caspar David Friedrich, animation aesthetics, and the ukiyo-e traditions of Japanese woodcuts, Adam Sorensen’s paintings are deeply tied to the reality of the landscape, but are imbued with enough imagination to make them otherworldly.

Mottled prismatic skies, misty waterfalls, and chromatic vistas mingle with emptiness and desolation. These uninhibited landscapes allude to places that have come before us or to those that will come after us. The paintings become a lens in which to view our ever changing, yet continuously sublime natural world."

Sara Krajewski, the Portland Art Museum contemporary curator will interview Sorenson at 6.

At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 5:30PM - 7 Free Masks and RSVP required info@pdxcontemporaryart.com

September 3 Smart Nirvana Paradise

Well Well Projects has Smart Objects and Flattened Images. It is "51 predominately lens-based artists from different parts of the country, who all, in varying degrees, reflect on the overlapping of the artificial and the real within this hyper-digital age. These works either create a sense of confusion as they move from one reality or plane to another and/or bring to mind the fading distinction between our physical and corporeal experiences and our digital, cerebral ones." So bring your magic glasses! ⁠

Artists are: Jen Bacon, Kris Blackmore, Heather Boyd, Tyler Brumfield, Thomas Bugarin, Lesley Bunch, Sarah Cabbell, Teresa Christiansen, Brita d'Agostino, Myra Day, Brian Doody, Travis Flack, Pete Fleming, Melanie Flood, Kristina Gerig, Cynthia Greig, Tom Grill, Ash Hagerstrand, Megan Hansen, Tarja Harney, Robert Harrington, Stephanie Hatch, Ben Herbert, Justine Highsmith, Rebecca Horne, Melinda Hurst Frye, Colin Kippen, Jacob Lahah, Yi Hsuan Lai, Christopher Larson, Haley Lauw, Amanda Lee, James Long, Lisa Maione, Philippe Mazaud, Forrest McGarvey, Harold McNaron, Muscle Memory, Michael Meyer, Nicholas Moler-Gallardo, Todd Molinari, Clare Parry, Kim Smith Claudel, William Mark Sommer, Dain Susman, Jennifer Trail, Danielle Troy, Kelda Van Patten, Jose Velazco, Marilyn Waligore, Chloe Wilwerding, and Yuyang Zhang.

At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free



Carnation Contemporary has Jeremy Le Grand and Matt Bennett Laurents with Nirvanamatopoeia. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8



Strange Paradise Gallery continues its group show Collective Rage themed on the SCOTUS Roe v Wade nullification. It is a benefit art sale for abortion funds too!

At the Small Talk Collective Strange Paradise Gallery www.smalltalkcollective.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free


Oregon Contemporary opens by Elmeater Morton and Doug Wing. Willie Little continues.

At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
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September 3 Foxes Have Two Front Gloves

Foxgloves is new work by Midori Hirose and Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson. Many people know Hirose's work, so we are interested in the paring. Strongly Recommended.


At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today 2PM-5 Free

September 3 Pearl

Pearl galleries are open, and there is a show of independent artists in tents for the weekend Pearl Art Festival.


The continuing show to see is at Stello Arts. Gather has Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger as part of their residency program. The show is up until November 25 and strongly recommended. At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 Northwest 8th Avenue 2PM-5


Blue Sky has made a curatorial relationship with EnFoco in New York. They find and launch emerging POC artists. They do a show a year for Blue Sky. Nene Sin Patria (Our mother's hands became our homes) is by Amarise Carreras and Nā́rī - Threads of Identity is by Spandita Malik. The artists speak today between noon and 3. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th Noon-5 Free



Pamela Green has Observation and Reflection, finely detailed landscape and tree drawings. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 1:30PM-4 Free

September 2 Eastside Art Openings +

All of the usual FB 1FPDX spots will be happening.


ADX is back, tonight with a skate deck art show. Artist reception from 4PM-5:30, IGTV from 6PM-7, live music from 7PM-8:30ish Free


Nia Musiba's graphic paintings have their closing show tonight with a zine. At One Garnd Gallery 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free


Way out North, there is a Glass Blower open house. It's at The Pickle Factory 866 N Columbia, entrance off Albina into the fenced lot. 7PM-9 Free

September 1 Westside Art Openings +

Westside art openings are reviving slightly, though others focus on Friday and Saturday openings.


Mathew Picton https://matthewpicton.com/ opens The opens Age of Kali, Age of Belief. They are detailed mixed media works remixing "historical, religious, and spiritual symbology intertwined with newspaper headlines." This follows his human-built city pattern work. I'm an fan of his early work including the candy sprinkles and mud crack works. His subsequent city works offer more touchpoints. He has engaged Leach and the noted Carl Solway Gallery.

Jeremy Okai Davis http://work.jeremyokaidavis.com/ presents A Good Sport, acrylic portraits of black Americans in sports and academia, in a watercolor style. He was featured by Stumptown: http://stumptowncreative.com/episode-27-jeremy-okai-davis. His representational work reaches many touchpoints in culture.

At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7 Early Closing Free


Benny Fountain has drawings - Landscapes: Palouse and Provence. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis 5PM-8 Early Closing Free


Don Bailey and Sue Tower have paintings, with Stephan Soihl, kinetic sculptures. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 420 NW 9th 6PM-9 Free


The map is not the territory: The man is not the face are portraits by Mark Danley. At 114 Gallery www.gallery114pdx.com 1100 NW Glisan 6PM-9 Free


Waterstone has Provocation/Amendment by Micah Kassell. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 4PM-7 Early Closing Free

August 27 Chrysalis

Laura Berger has Chrysalis, impressionist schematic figure paintings.

At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 5PM-8 Free

August 25 Second Last Thursday

Many of the actual art galleries will be open tonight on Alberta. Free

August 20 - September 25 Sound aux Art?

AuxArt, helmed by Phillip Krohn of Bear Deluxe fame, and PNCA sound professor Seth Nehil is back with a public sculpture sound installation. Sometimes it just runs for free on its days and hours. There are other times with liee musicians which are ticketed events. Their website explains it all. Go by train!

AuxArt https://www.auxart.net/totheriver at the Zeidel Yards Saturday and Sunday 3PM-7 Free - $25

August 19 Zymoglyphic Muse(um)

The Zymoglyphic Museum is a Portland treasure of small museums. They are also among treasures of artist residencies. Resident artists Sam David, Eileen McGarvey, Nicole Quarles, Pamela Hadley and Terra Fenderson present their projects in show Muse II.

At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 5PM-8 Free

August 14 Mod Spot

Modular on the Spot resumes sound making. It is one of informal series of modular synth concerts outdoors en plein air.

Knobies include Casual Decay, https://tinyurl.com/CasualDecay; Musique Mystique, https://tinyurl.com/MusiqueMystique; Sean Hølt, https://tinyurl.com/SeanHolt; Molly Miner, https://tinyurl.com/MollyMiner; Station, https://tinyurl.com/Staysh; and Francisco Botello, https://tinyurl.com/FranciscoBotello.

At Rocky Butte Park, 6PM Free

August 13 Witch Robot Pickle

Control Voltage celebrates 10 years of musical waves with a performance by Synth Witch and Brother vs Robot. At Control Voltage www.controlvoltage.net 3742 NE Mississippi. All ages. 3PM-6 Free


The Pickle Factory is a multi-space with artists and makers. Today they put some of their artwork up to see. At the Pickle Factory 900 N Columbia Blvd. Noon-6 Free

August 12 Illustrating

Felicia Chiao has Solo, illistrations. At Nucleus Portland nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free

August 6 Saturday

I don't play with dark and I am not interested in dark. I never had a goth stage. I've experienced enough dark in real life. None the less, the dark kids Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven play their dark way tonight. The show is Devouring: a Night Carnival of Hunger. You can look up the details on their socials. SE 2nd and Madison. 8PM $20


The Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta megaplex in Kenton has their First Saturday confab. They close early at 8.

Oregon Contempraray has two shows, Willie Little and group show Motherhood.

At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free



Where the Future Can Meet is a show by Marcelo Fontana + Katherine Spinella, www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8



There is so much I want to tell you is a show by Alyson Provax. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free

August 5 Push Street Flamenco Seen

Wahington Park's lonely stage by the Rose Garden springs back to life for several days. Tonight Flamenco launches it. Espacio Flamenco has curated Fiesta Flamenca. Bring a picnic! At the Washington Park Amphitheater 6PM-8 Free


Pushdot Studio is a calibrated printing studio for photographers. They have a 20 year retrospective tonight. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free


Eastside first Friday has a street fair around 2nd and Madison. The scattered events are listed on the 1FPDX Facebook.


UO architecture students decamp in Portland for a show Seen/Scene of their speculative works with social justice in mind. Talk at 6. At 3450 N Williams Ave Ste 101, 6PM-midnight Free

August 4 Westside Art Openings

Bill Will, usually seen at the Nine Gallery, has a show of coin-operated sculptures, Arcade. Along with Under the Flag, US flag-theme paintings by Julian V.L. Gaines. Recommended. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5:30PM-7 Free


Blackfish Gallery has a Land Art show, en gallery, and on land by the Columbia Slough. The work is by Blackfish artist coop members and local tribe artists.

The "Sight Land," outdoor installations may be seen by buses running from the gallery August 13th, 20th, and 27th at 10AM, 11:30, 1:30PM & 3. There are events throughout the month on the Blackfish website.

At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 420 NW 9h 6PM-9 Free


Ruth Ross has Red Scare, a personal meditation on her family in the McCarthy era. Along with mixed media wall pieces I made Harpies Furies Mercies by Diane Kendall. At coop Gallery 114 https://www.gallery114pdx.com/current-exhibition.html 6PM-9 Free


Lori Rhodes has The Greater Good, schematic abstracts. Annie Meyer has landscape monotypes. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free


Dualities are minimalist mixed material sculptures by Stephen Adams and Robert Elon. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 4PM-7 Free


The Tuck Lung space in old town is a temporary gallery. They have a print show themed on Comfort Food to benefit Blanchet House. You can see the works online too. https://www.bhontheledge.com/gallery-show-2022 Ar 140 NW 4th 5PM-8 Free


The Leach Gallery continues their current show. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-8 Free


V Moldanado has large abstract expressionist paintings and Ritzuko Ozeki has prints. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free

July 30 Marine Mermaid Gold Zappa

The Unkles family is one of Portland unsung art patrons for renting space for artist studios.

Today is a rare opportunity to look inside one, the NW Marine Art Works. For these events, the artists usually straighten their studios. And, for this one, guest artists will bring work from the Seed Building, River Studios and Carton services deemed not suited for large events by the City. Of course you are encouraged to buy art direct and experience the narratives of each artist. It's family friendly with live music, food and drink. Open studios at NW Marine Art Works 2516 NW 29th. 11AM--8 Free


Una the Mermaid presents the Portlandia Mermaid Parade. It starts at Noon at Poet's Beach and travels along the waterfront to the Japanese memporial in Waterfront Park. Mermaids are very intelligent and they like to be close to the water, especially on heated days! Family friendly. Mermaid Parade https://www.portlandiamermaidparade.com/ Noon Free


Holding Contemporary closes Fool’s Gold Jodie Cavalier. It is their first post-Covid reception. At Holding Contemporary www.holdingcontemporary.com 916 NW Flanders 5PM-7 Free


Almost 45 years ago, Portlander Ike Willis performed with the Frank Zappa band. Zappa was known for his expermiental rock compositions with a Dada irreverence and absurdity in lyrics. Zappa's music and videos are easily found for an idea. The Stinkfoot Orchestra, with Ike Willis, a fifteen-piece rock orchestra, perfoms a collection of Zappa tunes tonight. At Alberta Rose Theater www.albertarosetheatre.com 3000 NE Alberta Review their Covid policy pre-live ticketing Doors 8, show 9 $25

July 28 Last Thursday Art Openings sans Festival

Tonight the Last Thursday street festival closure is postponed because of heat.

That will return August 25 and September 29.

However many of the galleries will be open.

July 28 - August 6 Glass Shadows

Dance is like a sail boat. It is moved by muscles and momentum, like the wind moves sails. The boat's keel is like the root of the stage for feet. But what if you could fly? That is the motovation and magic of aerial dance.

Aerial dance came to Portland when the Oregon Ballet commissioned Robert Davidson to make a work on Portland dancers. It was a lyrical performance.

Davidson was a longtime student of the seminal Joan Skinner at the Universiy of Washington in Seattle. That OBT cohort birthed many projects and performances, and some of those dancers continue to collaborate with Body Vox.

I'm not a dancer but I have many friends who are. After one performance I asked my friend how they could perch 50 feet in the air on a ring, and not zone out in pleasure and simply fall off. They said the pain of the stainless steel ring supporting their body focused things.

Several aerial dance performers located to Portland since and have started their own companies. One is A-WOL Dance, aerial without limits. They have done a good job building a community, http://www.awoldance.org

They bring their annual performance in the trees at night to the Mary Young Park in West Linn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUaUB7fupfw It is A-WOL Glass Shadows https://www.eventbrite.com/o/a-wol-dance-collective-268371542 at Mary Young Park 7:30PM $70

July 23-24 Whose Xhurch? Our Xhurch!

The Xhurch is back though it never left in spirit. To celebrate 12 years of bringing experiental music and art, they welcome voyagers back for music, art and poetry. The poster at xchurch.net lists the artists each afternoon to evening. In the age of Omichron, it streams too at Twitch.tv/Xhurch. Strongly recommended.

At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 4PM-10

July 23 Painting Bright Summer

Painter Lindsey Cuenca Walker https://lindseycuencawalker.com/Late-Bloomer has bulbous bright canvases edging between abstaact and impressionistic. She is PNCA BFA minted in 2017. Painter Laura Berger https://www.lauraberger.com/, from Chicago has flat schematic portraits.

At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 5PM-8 Free

July 18 Ear Musics

The Lumber Room art gallery continues guestsing Laraaji to Portland. This one is more performance of music. 6PM park by Cherry Sprout Produce. Free.

July 17 Musics to Your Bodies

The Lumber Room art gallery guests Laraaji to Portland for a sound and laughter healing. It is 2PM at Peninsula Park. Eyemasks suggested. Free

July 16 Contours Fore Curly Hot Metal Bingo

Marc Handelman https://www.marchandelman.com/ all the way from Brooklyn brings show Discovery of a Flower / Contours of a Pond to Portland. The show is paintings and video animations.

The artist statement takes on some big questions along the lines of Walter Prescott Webb's The Great Frontier, mutated since beyond recognition in the social media world.

'Nature has long been a political and ideological medium in the construction of identity: of who and what belongs, what is native or invasive, and who and what is deemed natural or deviant in the violent grammar and hierarchies of social and political life. Since the early 2000’s, Handelman’s practice has explored the entanglements of politics and nature in the vestiges of the dissolved genre of American Landscape. Discovery of a Flower / Contours of a Pond continues to examine these themes during a period in which language, imagery, and tropes of ecological thinking are increasingly appropriated and warped by white nationalists, alt-right ecology, and eco-fascism. Within them are proposals of ethno-states, visions of biological “stewardship” of racial purity, the naturalization of heteronormativity, and the weaponized rhetoric against immigrants, foreigners, and racial others.

In 2020, a propaganda print from a white supremacist hate group was posted in Handelman’s neighborhood of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. This 5”X4'' print contained an appropriation of an 1855 romantic survey expedition landscape painting by John Mix Stanley captioned by the phrase from the U.S. constitution: “TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY.” These prints were part of a broader national propaganda campaign by the same organization drawing on the ideology of Manifest Destiny. They include a poster mapping the Louisiana Purchase, the re-annexation of Texas, and the Pacific Northwest among the expanded territories of the U.S., stamped with the phrase “NOT STOLEN, CONQUERED.”'

I read the artist as an historical anthropologist with a refined graphic art sensibility. It will be interesting to see how miscible those ingredients are in the work.

At at SE Cooper Contemprary https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th 2PM-5 Free


Fore x four is a dual to the previous show, The Quick by Brackens and Williams, at the Lumber Room. It is abstractly themed on the image of the strength of a table supported by four legs.

This group show is drawn from the Miller Meigs collection including Etel Adnan, Leonor Antunes, Christo, Nona Faustine, Lonnie Holley, Roni Horn, Luchita Hurtado, Simone Leigh, Dave McKenzie, Ana Mendieta, K.R.M. Mooney, Frida Orupabo, Gordon Parks, Deborah Roberts, Pipilotti Rist, and Bill Traylor. Wow.

Tonight the gallery brings Laraaji, an ambient musician from Philadelphia in the sound healing vein for a live performance. See tomorrow for a master class with Laraaji. Strongly recommended.

At The Lumber Room http://www.lumberroom.com/exhibitions/2022/fore-x-four 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map  Masks required 5PM-7 Free

Christian Rogers and Shohei Takasaki bring paintings Curly Hair / Hot Metal. They are bright in a good way. There is a more eloquent explanation of the show and the artists on the Nationale website. Curly Hair / Hot Metal https://www.nationale.us/christian-rogers-shohei-takasaki-2022 at www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 5PM-7 Free Masks required 5PM-7 Free



Artists are, always be selling, and galleries too. So why not make it fun? Well Well Projects hosts an artist talk by Andrea Alonge on her current show Ain’t No Dark ‘Til Something Shines. There will be much socializing, and there will be bingo! The prizes are artworks by Ben Buswell, Jeremy Le Grand, Hyun Jung Jung, Sarah Mirk, Nathanael Moss, Alyson Provax, Harper Quinn, Anthony Roberto, Morgan Rosskopf, Katherine Spinella, Jessie Rose Vala, Kelda Van Patten, John Whitten and more. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map  5PM starts, 5:30 artist talk, 6:30-9 bingo-pay to play, otherwise Free

July 16 Dig It

The Kam Wah Chung General Store and museum is unique in the world. Learn and visit.

The University of Southern Oregon has an archeology department. They are exploring the John Day and Canyonville area for artifacts of the Chinese community of the 1800s. https://news.sou.edu/2020/04/soula-wins-oregon-heritage-excellence-award-chinese-immigrant-research/

This afternoon they invite you to see and learn about the dig. Here is more information on today's program https://www.bluemountaineagle.com/news/public-archaeological-dig-slated-for-july-16-at-kam-wah-chung/article_04f09fd6-f7fe-11ec-bbcd-4743ff680920.html

Reservations to tour the General Store are extremely limited, so get yours ASAP if they are available.

At the Kam Wah Chung State Historical site https://stateparks.oregon.gov/index.cfm?do=park.profile&parkId=5 100 Ing-Hay Way, John Day, OR Free

July 15 Slow Moving Mangrove

The Rubis Discolor Project https://rubusdiscolorproject.com/ continues the fine tradition of galleries in homes and visiting artist residencies in Portland. In this case, the resident artist is Rujuta Rao https://www.rujutarao.com/ with Rhizophora. It is a social practice piece with a complicated narrative about mangrove trees which are cool. You can visit the opening tonight, masked, and find out more. At the Rubis Discolor Project https://rubusdiscolorproject.com/, address and social practice appointments for Dispersal in their Tumblr 6PM-8 Free


Slow Moving Disasters are collages of found and weathered metal by Emily Pratt https://www.emilyjpratt.com/. They are themed in an abstract way on our natural man-made disaters. At the Red-e Cafe 1006 North Killingsworth 7PM-9 Free

July 10 - August 29 CETI - The Search for Creative Life

PNCA's Make+Think+Code moved over to PSU in CETI. Their Enchanted Technology Summer Festival 2022 is now.

The festival is arranged by institutes: Enchanted Objects, July 18 - 29; Interactive Murals, physical and digital, August 1 - 12; Augmented/XR Storytelling, August 11 - 19; and Interactive Installations August 17 - 23. There are also opportunities in Machine Learning/AI, for art, sound, visuals, and pattern recognition; Interactive Data Visualisations and Stories; Generative Design; and Emerging Technology and Society: Implications and Futures.

You can grok it at https://ceti.institute/

July 9 Westside Art Openings+

Chris Lael Larson is a multiartist: painter, photographer, sculptor, interventionist and musician. In painting, he works abstracts in bright primary colors. I met him at this year's Sou'wester art residency. He is doing a pop up today and dropping a new music recording.

Second light drop https://www.chrislaellarson.com/second-light-album-release-art-show at Half Court Studio 2500 NE Sandy Blvd. Suite F 3PM-7 Free


Blue Sky and the Nines move their first Thursday opening to Saturday day today. Nines has Bean Gilsdorf https://www.beangilsdorf.com/ with Some Women, Baconesque deconstructed photocollage portraits.

Double Life, 20 Years, by Kelli Connell is a deep fake play in a conceptualist vein. One model has been composited into staged domestic scenes.

Jennifer Georgesc has the Mother Series, an exhibition of photographs by Jennifer Georgescu


At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th Noon-5 Free

July 7 - August 18 Every Corner is Alive

PNCA-Willamette has several programs producing graduates. One is their Low Residency MFA in Visual Studies. They have the following events and many of their viewing spaces are open.

The artists are Stashia Cabral, Élan Chardin, Laura Jean Foster, Amy Gibson, Ondrea Levey, Kelly Marshall, Lynn Ruth Stephens, Devon Pardue, Jenny Wilde, and Ahuva S. Zaslavsky get solo shows changing every week over the period.

July 3–9th in PNCA’s CCAC: Half Life, Kelly Marshall Reception: Thursday, July 7th, 6:00–8:00 PM Thesis defense: Friday, July 8th, 2:00 PM

July 13–19th in PNCA’s CCAC: Under The Net, Amy Gibson Reception: Thursday, July 14th, 6:00–8:00 PM Thesis defense: July 15th, 2:00 PM

July 23–29th in PNCA’s Design Corridor, Gallery 157, and CCAC: Sangre de Fresa, Ondrea Levey roams a Golem, Ahuva S. Zaslavsky Reception: Thursday, July 28th, 6:00–8:00 PM Thesis defense: July 29th, 2:00 PM

August 2–8th in PNCA’s Design Corridor, Mediatheque, Gallery 157, and CCAC: This Room Has to do with the Measurement of Time, Élan Chardin tear down., Laura Jean Foster The Brevity within Temporal Asymmetry, Devon Pardue Reception: Thursday, August 4th, 6:00–8:00 PM Thesis defense: August 5th, 1:00 PM

August 12–18th in PNCA’s Mediatheque, Gallery 157, and CCAC: CONSPIRATIONS, lynn ruth stephens A Patch in the Fabric of Knowing, Jenny Wilde Licking Toads and Puking Diamonds: A Fairy Tale, Discomposed, Stashia Cabral Reception: Thursday, August 11th, 6:00–8:00 PM Thesis defenses: Friday, August 12th, 1:00 PM

It's all free!

July 7 Pioneer Square Seattle First Thursday

First Thursday of the month evening gallery opernings started in Seattle and spread to Portland where it died. Waterstone is doing it. Blackfish appears to have shifted to virtual with their recent art school grads show.

Complementing the Pioneer Square gallery openings tonight, the Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts, a fancier and more vibrant version of the Portland Everett lofts hosts a performance.

DAIPANbutoh dancers Sheri Brown, Dhyana Garcia-Snyder, Kaoru Okumura, and Robyn Bjornson; musicians Scott Adams, Ken Jacobson, Kai Strandskov, Julie Baldridge, and Demetri Albright; and live visual artists Barry Connolly and Noa Piper, perform an improvisational relay score celebrating the return of live arts and summer! Stay for as long or as little as you deem fit as you stroll through the re-awakened original First Thursday Art Walk of Pioneer Square.

At Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts 115 Prefontaine Pl. S, Seattle. 6PM-8 Free

July 2 Echo Sky

If you are up in Seattle you can see a free performance. Joan Laage/Kogut, Katrina Wolfe, Michael Shannon, David Stanford & Joey Largent perform butoh, a unique modern dance form from Japan. From NW 20, enter the park, walk across the bridge and down to the beach. At Richmond Beach Saltwater Park, https://www.google.com/maps/place/Richmond+Beach,+Shoreline,+WA+98177/@47.7702956,-122.5118816,16z, Seattle. 2PM Free

June 26 Velvet Goldmine

Todd Haynes' first film in film school was Superstar. It tells the sad story of musican Karen Carpenter starving herself to death with stop action BarbieTM dolls. He has gone far beyond over years. Velvet Goldmine is his exploration of a character similar to musician David Bowie. It is fun and has a fun soundtrack. It screens tonight with a Q&A by the director.

Velvet Goldmine (35mm) https://hollywoodtheatre.org/tickets/18435/ at Hollywood Theater 7:30PM unfortunately Sold Out

June 25 Flamenco+Ukraine

It is weird and sad that war continues to be a thing. We have so many areas of social evolution as a species to devote psychic and material energy to. Climate and equality are top of mind.

So it is offensive, unnecessary, and sad we have a war in Ukraine.

Portland performers family for a benefit to relieve the impact of destruction.

The World is with Ukraine: An International Show of Support brings performers to make donations to the Ukrainian.Foundation you can look up.

Performers are Kevin Burke, Irish fiddler; Inna Kovtun, Kyiv folk music; Espacio Flamenco, O.B. Addy, Obo's legacy - Ghanian Music; Michelle Alany and the Mystics; Andrea Algieri, singer/songwriter from Italy; Jet Black Pearl, Dutch accordion; Andre Temkin, from Chervona; and Darka Dusty & the Borshch Beatniks.

At Alberta Rose Theater www.albertarosetheatre.com 3000 NE Alberta Review their Covid policy pre-live ticketing 7PM $20 livestream, $30 on up live

June 25 Bananas Are Potassium

Portland has a rich history of very good galleries in garages, Car Hole, Appendix, Cherry & Lucic, and more. They are like New York City's appartment galleries. Helen's Costume, and SE Cooper are today.

Helen's Costume opens Bananas with Ralph Pugay, Rainen Knecht, Keith Boadwee, Shelley Turley, and Dan Attoe. The curator-principal has a good network and the shows and openings are intimate and recommended.

At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today 2PM-5 Free

June 25-August 31+ Afro Futurism

Afro Futurism evolved by independent vectors before it was studied and named. There are two shows in Seattle in that world.

Sun Ra is an epic Afro Futurist, his stage performance costumes, band living situation, and his beautiful film, Space Is the Place, in 1972, capture it. It was real for him. There is a new installation at the Met, Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room. Afro Futurism is found across art, music, literature, movies, architecture, fashion, and more. It is great for children to young adults, and adult interests.

A recent example is the film Black Panther. The costume designer for that, Ruth E Carter https://www.ruthecarter.com/, has a show of her work at the Muuseum of Pop Culture. It runs until at least December 31, there is not yet a firm end date.

The Museum of Museums has Hollaback to the Future: Afrofuturist Dimensions, a group show of 20 artists. It runs to August 31.

At the Museum of Pop Culture of the late Paul Allen https://www.mopop.org/ 325 5th Avenue N Seattle. $18.50-$33

At the Museum of Museums https://www.museumofmuseums.com/ Tickets https://www.strangertickets.com/110788380/mom-tickets 900 Boylston Ave, Seattle. $10-20

June 24 Invisible Moon

Emily Jung Miller Has 1000 Moons, mixed media sculptures, and Sandra Honda, Mei-Ling Lee, & Jefferson Goolsby have Invisibilia made from personal historical materials.

This new venue is right on the TriMet MAX train line.

Two artists https://thereser.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/upcoming_exhibit_17x11_R2.pdf at the The Reser - Patricia Reser Center for the Arts www.thereser.org 12625 SW Crescent Street, Beaverton Map 6PM-8 Free

June 18 Perform Rain People

Lonnie Holley and Adee Roberson make a show closing day performance. At The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map  Masks required 2PM Free

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⁠Betsy Walton has flat style paintings opening, and in their second gallery, painter Lindsey Cuenca Walker. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 5PM-8 Free


People is a show of paintings and drawings by Zachary Schomburg. At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 5PM-8 Free

June 10 Masks are for Breathing

Pace Taylor https://www.pacetaylor.com/ is a digital illustrator represented by Nationale. The show has a much more articulate explanation than I can paraphrase. These works are saturated pastels. Breathe When You Need To https://www.nationale.us/pace-taylor-breathe-when-you-need-to-2022 at www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 5PM-7 Free

June 6 Place-based

Francis Alÿs francisalys.com is Belgian architect turned artist operating in Mexico City.

"Alÿs travels the world to shoot his films, using his camera as a way to observe, investigate, and document human behaviour to understand the culture and patterns by which people live. Alÿs’ often merges the poetic with the political and is known for his performative actions, installations, video works, paintings, and drawings that focus on issues ranging from the politics of borders to traditional children’s games. Walking, as a political act is an essential aspect of Alÿs’ works, as are the concise gestures or banal actions that can be read as signs of global, political conditions or geopolitical processes. Francis Alÿs is currently representing Belgium at the 59th Venice Biennale."

Zena Zezza brings some of his films to Portland.

It is in a warehouse downtown. It is not entirely mobility accessible on all floors, contact the organizers if you need that. Zena Zezza zenazezza.org at 1857 Hallock McMillan building. It is the red door on SW Oak by SW Naito Parkway. Opening 5PM-8 Free

June 5 Traveling Tuvan Vampires

Soriah is a Portland Tuvan throat singer. Tonight he accompanies vampires in the flesh. Early start segues to Sinferno, dancers with actual fire.

"The Vampires are taking over Dante's! For one night only, experience a grand revival of the Théâtre des Vampires from Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire -- itself an homage to infamous Parisian horror cabaret The Grand Guignol. Indulge in a mind-bending spectacle of blood, sex, fire, and ritual -- an exotic blend of cirque and soul, showcasing the hypnotic shamanic vocals of Soriah, a veteran of Anne Rice's New Orleans Vampire Ball. Come witness the dark and decadent underworld where nightmares become dreams and vampires rule!"

Meow! www.ticketweb.com/event/the-traveling-vampire-show-followed-dantes-tickets/12040185 at Dantes. 7PM $25

June 4 Above Below Earth Sea Orion

The Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta megaplex in Kenton has their First Saturday confab. They close early at 8.

Rick Silva's video installation, Peaking, continues. Pattern/Parameter by Peter Gronquist, Daniel Peabody and Joan Truckenbrod closes.

At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free



As Above, So Below by Maria Lux and Kyle Adam Kalev Peets is at Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8



// This little spot of Earth \\ //\\ that with the Sea //\\// Embraced is \\ by Jessie Rose Vala is at Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free



Orion by Doug Lowell is at the Small Talk Collective Strange Paradise Gallery www.smalltalkcollective.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free

June 4 Westside Art Openings+

For your +one, Sidony O'Neal is a minimalist conceptual sculptor, performer, and writer. She had a solo show at Fourteen30, a solo show Portland's Pataphysical Society, a solo show at at Seattle’s artist-run Veronica, and a group show at the Sculpture Center in NY. Now she has a new solo show, Enchiridion: Aisle, Spline, Resort. It opens today at noon to 4, then it's open regular hours. Masks required. At 15 NE Hancock Free


Several of the NW galleries are experimenting with Saturday, in their regular hours. New shows are below, A&O is worth a visit for their continuing show.


George Johanson has Animalia - An Homage to Our Fellow Endangered Passengers, Linocuts & Drawings and Riffs on Chauvet Cave (circa 35,000 BC), monotypes At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 1:30PM-4 Free


The late sculptor Lee Kelly has show Yucatán Revisited. He visited there many times. These are his last sculptures and drawings. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 10:30AM-5PM Free


El Césped del Otro Lado (The Grass on The Other Side) by Luis Manuel Diaz explores the experiences of early generation immigrants to the US.

Naturalists the Long Now by Ian van Coller was imaged traveling with climate scientists gathering ancient ice samples for study.

Christine Clark has Pendulant at the Nine Gallery.

At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free


Fuller Rosen is relocating to Philly with this last show in Portland. Arielle Zamora has geometric paintings built in a complex series of layers. Molly Alloy makes sculptures incorporating natural material like driftwood and leather. At Fuller Rosen Gallery www.fullerrosen.com 1928 NW Lovejoy Map 6PM-8 Free


For Ruth Armitage has nine abstract paintings, along with the fork of nine artists who inspired her, with their works hung adjacent. Those are Skip Lawrence, Katherine Chang-Liu, Carla O’Connor, Donna Zagotta, Sara Swink, Randall David Tipton, Judy Morris, Linda Rothchild-Ollis, and James Kirk. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 1PM-4 Free

June 3 Eastside Art Openings

Hipbone Art Studio has been a consistent life drawing space and community. They are having a rare show from that communiy and the artwork of some of their models, Megen Fuller, Breanna Huggins, Noah Stein and Krista Zimmerman. At Hipbone Studio https://www.hipboneartstudio.com/ 1847 E Burnside 5PM-8 Free


Natalie Jenks, https://www.nataliejenks.com/ has photographs Domestic Dreamscapes of the Mundane and Sensual Under the Watchful Eye of a Broken Clock. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free



Renata Cassiano Alvarez has Siempre Voy a Volver. Opening Reception at Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free


Sidestreet Arts brings Path Of Fire: East Creek Anagama. Mud is cheap, and comes from the clay store. Glazes are just more refined mud. But firing is expensive. So it makes sense for artists to collaborate and share kiln space to fuse mud for millennia. Jessica Komaromy, Maya Elin O’Neal, Anneliese Keifer, Aubrey Sloan, Lori Allen, Lilly Williams, Erin Cooper, and Carrie Gibbs share space in a wood kiln at East Creek Art in Willamina. It's carbon neutral! You can see the work at https://sidestreet-arts-llc.square.site/may-2022-feathers-fins-and-fur-group-show-1. At Sidestreet Arts https://www.sidestreetarts.com/ 140 SE 28th 5PM-7 Early close Free


Splendorporium, the children's art school and gallery has show themed Abracadabra. At http://www.splendorporium.net/ 3421 SE 21st. 7PM-9 Free


There is a Pride Month-themed show at Radius 2324 SE Belmont 5PM-8 Free


The 211 space opens its studios and the street for artists. At 211 SE Madison 6PM-9:30 Free


Earth Space PDX is a yoga studio that shows art. So thir shows vibe that. Arise Rawk and Rachel Rusenko have graphic visionary art tonight. DJ, tea, and tarrot readings too. At Earth Space PDX 4135 SE Gladstone 6PM-10


Jailbreak Studios has their last show with illustrations by Jonnathan Hanisits and other queer artists. At Jailbreak Studios 910 SE Taylor 5PM-8 Free

June 3 Faux Apparition in Real Life

ADX is back, and concert poster art shows are back, and even concerts are back. ADX founder Kelley Roy has been promoting local artists virtually in the ARTV program with curator-artist Rachael Allen. Tonight is an in-person show of faux concert posters for imaginary and improbable concert lineups.


It is a branch of fictive art covered in the new book “Sting in the Tale: Art, Hoax, and Provocation," by Antoinette LaFarge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3UK5TZDqBM.


Hip hop artist Bird Bennett, singer-songwriter Stellah The Artist, and metal outfit Kill Abyss perform. It's also the 11th anniversary of ADX and their traditional anniversary party to meet artists and makers and see some of the studios. ADX has been back for in person events and now they are returning to First Friday evening openings with an urban art, lowbrow, and illustration interest, well executed.


Arty party https://artdesignxchange.com/artv at adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map 2PM-7 Free

June 2 Art/Lab Ground

From the Ground Up by artists https://colabpdx.org/artlab/#artists Michelle Alany, Justin Carroll, Rebecca Clarren, Jennifer Gwirtz, Amy Leona Havin, Daniela Molnar, Jessica Rehfield, Sonya Sanford, Leila Wice, and Ahuva Zaslavsky opens tonight.


They are the first resident artists of Art/Lab at the East Side Jewish Commons, a coworking and event space.


Ground Up at the East Side Jewish Commons https://ejcpdx.org/events-1/2022/6/2/from-the-ground-up-an-evening-of-ancient-texts-contemporary-art-and-evolving-jewish-identity RSVP requested at https://colabpdx.org/artlab/. 2420 NE Sandy Blvd 6:30PM-9 Free

June 2 Westside Art Openings

Few Westside galleries have reopened for First Thursday evenings. Artist coops Blackfish and 114 seem to be open. Russo Lee and Waterstone are back on schedule. The curated street art and crafts show on NW 13th around Irving is more of a street party than ever, not contemporary art https://urbanartnetwork.org/.


The most important show tonight is from the next generation at the Russo Lee Gallery. Samantha Wall has Beyond Bloodlines, large ink drawings that use whitespace more than her previous work. Lisa Jarrett has Heart Condition. You can preview the shows at https://www.russoleegallery.com/exhibitions/samantha-wall5 and https://www.russoleegallery.com/exhibitions/lisa-jarrett2. Highly recommended. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5PM-8 Free



Photographer Ian Van Coller all the way from South Africa speaks about his climate photography projects tonight. RSVP and proof of vaccination required. Talks are produced out to YouTube for later viewing. https://www.blueskygallery.org/programs-events/2022/6/2/artist-talk-ian-van-coller at Blue Sky Gallery 6PM Free


PNCA has their MFA thesis show reception. https://events.pnca.edu/e/3106 At three locations: 412 NW 8th Ave, 925 NW Flanders and 1231 NW Hoyt (Entrance on 13th) 5PM-7 Free



The Laura Vincent Gallery has abstract landscape printings by Scott Gellatley with Point of Departure. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free


It's easier for you to see whatever is transpiring at the Everett Lofts than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map 6PM-10 Free

June 2 Outside the Frame in 360 Degrees

Outside the Frame and Open Signal have collaborated with youth who have been homeless to make a series of short 360 degree films on their life experience. They usually would be seen with VR glasses, tonight they are presented in the OMSI Planetarium.


From the organizers, the pieces are:

"Masks, the most turbulent piece, reveals what living with schizophrenia really feels like and the humble dreams of the protagonist—to have a place to live and a caring roommate. Filmmaker Colefire says: 'To give more of an understanding of psychosis because a lot of the time it’s very invalidated, and I think it will help people understand what the other side of it is like.'

Hibiscus explores challenges of contemporary Black life. 'Black trauma is not just the experience of racism but manifests as a constant state of vigilance and the internal dilemma of whether or not to bring more Black children into the world,' says Hibiscus filmmaker Rhone. 'Our Black children are guaranteed the same racial stress and trauma that continues to be neglected and trivialized by White America.'

In One of My Names is Bash, a Black queer woman provides a 360-degree view of her first apartment. The work portrays Bash’s emotions tied to the space, seen through her own eyes, as transcends homelessness."


It is a unique project and future opportunities to see it are unknown.


Films https://tickets.omsi.edu/events/a886537a-ea0d-81b9-c4d7-d443fad1bf3a at OMSI 6:15PM and 7 with reception Sliding scale admission + $5 parking, advance tickets recommended

June 2 - September 23 Judy Chicago on Paper

Judy Chicago https://www.judychicago.com/ and video https://www.cbsnews.com/news/artist-judy-chicago-on-making-a-name-for-herself/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h is an artist working across media and still working at age 83. She was a key participant in feminist art emerging on the cusp between the late 1960's and the early 1970's along with the second wave feminist social movement. This show, Turning Inward, was curated by Bruce Guenther from the Jordan Schnitzer collection of multiples. It is a good view of her work since art school at UCLA. There is not a public opening, but there are events in June and July connected to the show. Judy Chicago at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocost Education https://www.ojmche.org/events/turning-inward-judy-chicago/ 724 NW Davis Wednesday-Sunday: 11AM-4PM $8

June 2 - September 24 Black Portlanders

Black Domain is a show of photographs by Intisar Abioto. It is part of her Black Portlanders Project https://theblackportlanders.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R717XcEQl0 which pairs portraits with interviews. It has been covered by the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/arts/design/black-artists-portland.html and accepted into the National Register of Historic Places.


Also showing is Northeast Voices, interviews recorded at Dean’s Beauty Salon and Barber Shop. Here is an excerpt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrbFhRl2EJI.


The show https://visitahc.org/current-exhibits/ is at the Architectural Heritage Center 701 SE Grand open Thursday-Saturday 11AM-5PM admission by donation

May 26 Epilogue

PSU opens it BFA & MFA thesis show live and in person. Then they have artist talks.


Artists are: Vika Ayers, Madeleine Beer, Rebecca Copper, Sage Corradini, Nate Doogan, Mo Geiger, Robert Groff, Danny-Olivia Hanson, Johanna Houska, Hailey H., Jessica Joner, Tony Kane, Kylee Kaihūlalilali Iku Kubojiri, Shelbie Loomis, Kaitlyn Lundelius, Justin Maxon, Keenan Mccune, Renee Ollison, Luz Orellana, Alisyn Smith, Ni Made Maya Sutriasa, Laura Swingen, Tenzin Tardiff, Raja Timihiri, Sims Vincent, Maggie Wang, and Illia Yakovenko.


Opening Thursday May 26. Talks by BFA students: Tuesday & Thursday, May 24, 26, 31 & June 2, 2PM-5 On view May 24 - June 11, 2022


PSU Thesis Showcase https://www.pdx.edu/museum-of-art/events/epilogue-2022-mfabfa-showcase


At the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University https://www.pdx.edu/museum-of-art/ 1855 SW Broadway 5PM-7 Free

May 26 - May 30 Seed

The CETI Institute https://ceti.institute evolved out of PNCA's Make+Think+Code. The City of Portland is reactivating downtown and the neighborhood with free events. One node is Pioneer Square. https://www.thesquarepdx.org/our-events/ and https://www.thesquarepdx.org/dome/


With Seed, Nanda D’agostino, Scott Garner, Scott Nieradka have a Spring and rejuvenation project there. Inside the dome, in the evening, there will be video artwork projections. Outside around in the day are plant installations hooked by an augmented reality app you put on your phone or tablet.


Seed https://ceti.institute/events/2022/seed/ on Pioneer Courthouse Square Map 10AM-10PM Free

May 21 Unfamiliar

Unfamiliar Thresholds by Padma Rajendran opens at SE Cooper Contemprary https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th 1PM-4 Free

May 14 Relief

Jessica Jackson Hutchins opens No Relief. No more information is needed. ⁠At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of three members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 1PM-4 Free

May 13 Strawberry Fishbowl Get Down

Emily Wise, MoBak, Cayl Austin, and Jeff Pfeil open their new show this evening. The Fishbowl Gallery often shows bright colorful works, perfect for grey skies. Sometines the adjacent galleries and shops are open these nights.


At Fishbowl Gallery http://www.fishbowlgallerypdx.com 3450 North Williams Map 6PM-10 Free



Are you up for a sureal happy movie tonight? Strawberry Mansion imagines a future world in which dreams are taxed, advertising enters dreams, and time is fluid. It had a limited distribution in Portland, I believe it's on Jeff's streaming network, and it shows tonight at the NW Film Center/CUT. It's cute AF in a good way, the production design is amazing, and it is the perfect date night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpPsvOSc1Gk Strongly recommended. Movie https://pamcut.org/screenings-experiences/whitsell-auditorium/strawberry-mansion/ at the Portland Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium 6:30PM $12



The Soul Night monthly, dancable 50's and 60's black music on vinyl, with DJ Cooky Parker, returns to the Spare Room tonight, just sayin'

May 13 City of Blue

Sari Carel https://www.saricarel.com/ started her art life in Israel at Bezalel, then an MFA from Hunter in 2001; now she is based in Brooklyn. She has been doing well traveling residencies, including Portland's C3: in 2019.


She has a new work, opening this afternoon, The Sun is a Mouth of Blue, cyanotypes with gouache. It is related to her City of Trees residency in New York. Cyanotypes are a chemical-based imaging process exposed by UV-A, freely available from the sun.


Her large scale installation works are modernist, inspired by, or in, nature. She works in video and drawing too. She is up to date on social practice works. Her work is visually beautiful, and it brings layers of ideas. That is apropos her interview with the late Dave Hickey, a proponent of beauty as an ingredient in contemporary art, but not the only ingredient. http://www.laalamedapress.com/davehickey.html His writing on beauty in art is easily searchable.


We hope she develops a connection to the Lumber Room and makes public artwork here.


At Melanie Flood Projects, one of 3 Portland galleries in the New Art Dealers Alliance www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 Early 4PM-6 Free

May 13-14 Aliens Have Landed

Oregon weird extends beyond Portland. It even extends to congress holding hearings https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/us/politics/ufo-sightings-house-hearing.html. I think the Senate Intelligence Committee is more intelligent than their counterparts in the House. The House Intelligence Committee Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation is having their hearing Tuesday. Maybe it is an expression of counterintelligence?


The annual UFO Festival lands in McMinville. The whole website is a wild read.


The Oregon UFO Festival in McMinnville Oregon https://ufofest.com/ 10:30 Friday - 11PM Saturday, with a UFO breakfast Sunday Free-$125 for an all parallel universe pass.

May 12 Main Character

The PSU Littman and White Galleries have a small budget and a rotating cast of student curators. That has sometimes produced some excellent shows. Nia Musiba, from the PSU graphic design department, has a show with bright colors, I'm the Main Character: Radical Dreaming and Art for the Masses. You can learn more about her at https://www.pdx.edu/arts/news/graphic-design-student-featured-opbs-oregon-art-beat.


At the Littmand and White Gallery https://www.littmanandwhite.com/white-gallery/ in Smith Union Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway. Map 5PM-7 Free

May 5-13 PNCA Thesis Zooms

PNCA is Zooming their MA/MFA thesis presentations. The schedule is: https://pnca.edu/academics/graduate/2022-grad-thesis-schedule. Free

May 8 The Crow's Shadow is Long

Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts https://crowsshadow.org is on today's diminished lands of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla. It was founded by James Lavadour, Walla Walla and Phillip Cash Cash, Cayuse & Nez Perce) It is a printmaking studio. Works printed there are in museums now.


Trinity brings a collection of works from Crow's Shadow artists.


The exhibit can be viewed any time the front office is open, Monday-Thursday, 10:00 am-3:00 pm, and Sundays 8:00 am-12:00 pm, May 8-July 3.


Crow's Shadow prints at Trinity Episcopal Church 147 NW 19th Free

May 7 Citizens Post- Heroes Saccharine Star Poem

Blue Sky and the Nines move their first Thursday opening to Saturday day today. Nines has minimalist sculptures by Jerry Mayer.


Ukranian photographer Alexander Chekmenev https://www.alexanderchekmenev.com/ has Citizens of Kyiv https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/18/magazine/ukraine-war-kyiv.html. He has a relationship with Blue Sky in his show https://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibitions/archives/2016/alexander-chekmenev?rq=Chekmenev. He is from the Donbass region and works in Kiev today.


There is a reception for that show May 21, 2PM-5. Your donations to the Ukranian Society of Beaverton for medical supplies and humanitarian relief allow you to select one 8.5 x11 for each $100 contributed. Collect early and often.


Blue Sky has Matthew Moore's Post-Socialist Landscapes.


Russian history has many defining points. The fall of the last czars and the socialist revolution. The rise of Hitler and his defeat left Russia with a Soviet Union. The vicissitudes of the Cold War, a world war of philosophy and ego by its respective parties. The denouement of Soviet Europe and the coda of Gorbechev's release of the union. The rise of the oligarch state. The invasion of Georgia, disputed patches, and now the war of Ukraine. The ultimate expression of Deng's soft power in China gaining control of Russia, adjacent to its own strange quest of Hong Kong and Taiwan, is the current chapter.


Blue Sky shows are planned far in advance. So it is pure accident that his photographic exploration of the post-Soviet countries lands now. They are photographs of abandonded, destroyed, and removed monuments to Soviet times. There is an excellent explanation of the project on his website. http://moorephotographs.com/post-socialist-landscapes.html.


The artist speaks at 1PM in the gallery today.


Shine Heroes, recommended, continues.


At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th Noon-5 Free



The Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta megaplex in Kenton has their First Saturday confab. They close early at 8.


At Oregon Contemporary Rick Silva's video installation, Peaking, opened about 2 weeks ago. Mediating Bodies by Marne Lucas, Josh Meier and Pepper Pepper, closes.

At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free



Leslie Vigeant has Little Star, small works at Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8



Ben Buswell and Petra Sairanen are reomatic partners and art collaborators. They have their collaboration, Two Poems, at Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free



Jennifer Timmer Trail has Saccharine. She is a Small Talk Collective cofounder of four female-identified photographers. At the Small Talk Collective Strange Paradise Gallery www.smalltalkcollective.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free

May 7 Print yur Day

Portland is a printmaking town. Much of that is the result of the tireless work of Gordon Gilkey who taught at PNCA. He was well known for recovering art stolen in WWII. From that he built a social network of artists, printmakers, and collectors, worldwide. Bob Koch established the next generation of that network with Augen Gallery. Jordan Schnitzer and his museums follow a philosophy of collecting multiples, many prints on paper, to eschew the astronomical price wars over rare originals.


Print Arts Northwest https://printartsnw.org is an association of printmakers supplementing Portland's several shared printmaking studios.


Print Day is a worldwide celebration of printmaking. Print Arts Northwest celebrates Print Day with indoor press printing, and a large exquisite corpse print project outdoors using a pavement roller, a steam roller, usually used to compact asphalt paving.


It is an experiential celebration, print sales benefit for Print Arts Northwest, and an arty party in the evening.


Print Day at Atelier Meridian https://www.ateliermeridian.com/ in River Studios 820 N River St, back of building, lower level. Masks & vax required indoors. Masks encouraged outdoors. 1PM-9 Free

May 7 Vocal House

Indian classical music has branches and roots. Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan is the 7th generation of a style of sitar modeled on vocals in rags. He is accompanied by Amit Kavthekar, a young tabla player, at age 37. They play together here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wttNmk8tEiY. Presented by Kalakendra https://www.kalakendra.org/events/shahid-parvez-khan/ at the First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park. 7PM $20-35

May 7 Paper Yarn a Go Go

Gallery Go Go is the show space and shop of the work-show space Jailbreak Studios, a collective. It is in a former clothing store in Pioneer Place Mall. They have Felicia Murray https://www.feliciajmurray.com/ with Art is Home, yarn-made bas-relief reminding flowers or coral, opening today, and a group show, Maximalist. That is amidst their gift items and small artworks by their stable of artists.


At Gallery Go Go 3rd floor Pioneer Place Mall 700 SW 5th Ave #3015 4PM-7 Free



A Sometimes Gallery has creative openings.


Susan Dwyer, Esther Ramirez, Alison Owen, India K, Mary Snow, Brandi kruse, Han Cao, Amy Rowan, and Arnold Drake present works on paper in the show Paper. It is at A Sometimes Gallery 687 North Tillamook Street, Suite C. In the back. 6PM-9 Free

May 6 Eastside Art Openings

The Eastside art openings are gathering energy.


Angry Florist presents paintings by multiartist Laura Viers. Mike Gamble provides musics. Viers at Angry Florist 401b NE 28th 5PM-9 Free


Peace & Harmony, a themed group show, is at Splendorporium http://www.splendorporium.net/ 3421 SE 21st 7PM-9 Free


Importer Cargo has an interest in local art. Sometimes they transform their freight elevator into a small gallery. Occupying it now are Patty Merrill and Claire Olberding, collage and mixed media. At Cargo 81 SE Yamhill 5PM-7 Free


https://orlyavineri.com/about Erika Rier has paintings and ceramics, Dream House. It is inspired by pandemic dreams of imaginary housing. At Lolo Pass 1616 E Burnside 6PM-8 Free


Sidestreet Arts has a group show Feathers, Fins, and Fur, by Daniel DeLeon, Melody Bush, Miss Cay, Sharon Comunale, Alison Grayson, Lisa Laser, Michelle Pappas, and Brett Superstar. At 140 SE 28th 5PM-7 Free


Rachel Mulder has Pleasure Vacui at Radius 2324 SE Belmont 6PM-9 Free


The 211 space opens its studios and shows Steve Dehlinger, Noah Alexander, and Isaac Stein. The Crow Show closes. At 211 SE Madison 6PM-9 Free


John Rigby shows. Amidst "ritual dance offerings with Jordan Sun, musical stylings with Calin Matei, rune readings with Emily Ra and a gongfu tea lounge with Russell Bohr." At Earthspace 4135 SE Gladstone 6PM-10 Free


Jailbreak Studios is having a Priced Out show. Fortunately they have a sparkly new gallery space Go Go in the Pioneer Place Mall. At Jailbreak Jailbreak Studios 910 SE Taylor 5PM-8

May 5 Westside Art Openings

Few Westside galleries have reopened for First Thursday evenings. Blue Sky has shifted receptions to Saturday. Leach and Froelick are on mid-month opening cycles. PNCA is seems to be going back to sleep, hopefully we will see some thesis shows.


Artist coops Blackfish and 114 seem to be open. Russo Lee and Waterstone are back on schedule. If they are open and you haven't seen the current show at Fuller Rosen it is important. The curated street art and crafts show on NW 13th around Irving has restarted under new management.


No idea on Everett Station