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‘Leaving the Fold’ Is a Group Art Show About Exiting Cults and High-Demand Religions
The show features the work of 22 artists, a handful of whom asked to remain anonymous.
Anti-Trump Table Setting Fares Poorly at the Oregon State Fair
The tablescape features a green table runner for Reflecting Pool algae and a menu with cyclospora lettuce.
Group Art Event ‘The Dog Days Show’ Is Back and Here to Party
The events feel more like a 20-something’s house party than a gallery opening by design.
In Year 10, Converge 45 Sets a New Course
The citywide arts triennial takes over Portland this weekend, and it looks a lot different this time around.
Bird Watching: Laika’s Artist Series of Giant ‘Wildwood’ Birds Takes the City
In the style of its ‘Coraline’ cats, a fundraiser for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, the Portland animation studio released a murder of crow statues.
Artist Nick Norman’s Automotive Talismans at Lowell
On living dinosaurs, aka cars, and the art of manifesting a creative-seeming life.
On the Heels of Its Renovation, Portland Art Museum Hires a New Director
Michael J. Anderson will come here from Oklahoma City. We had some questions, only a few of which were nosy.
First Thursday Street Fair Canceled Due to Poor Air Quality
The indoor gallery portion will continue as planned.
Ronny Quevedo’s Basketball Court for the Ages
The artist’s interactive Portland installation ‘scrimmage’ takes an anthropological angle on the art of sports.
Artists Facing Housing Insecurity Gather Around ‘Outsider Art’
At Carnation Contemporary, a show from the Gather:Make:Shelter collective reclaims the othering label.
Portland’s Best Bike-Powered Farmers Market Potter
Heath DeWallace of Fishbone Pottery peddles pint-sized ceramics every weekend in St. Johns.
Life’s Biggest Questions Await at the Art Gallery Above Mother Foucault’s Bookshop
Instead of a theme, SOCIETY’s summer group show actually has something to say.