portland or us now

October 22 Portland to Dakar

2026-10-21T19:35:49.672-07:00

Senegal lives on the Atlantic Ocean in Africa. Dakar is its Westernmost point. Portland is connected to Dakar by art exchanges. Many may remember Worksound's Modou Dieng.

BLACK MATTER DAKAR launches to give the exchange a durable base extending into the future.

Artists Tammy Jo Wilson, Michael Stevenson, Emma Colburn, and Bukekile Dube set the foundation for:

A Portland -Dakar artist residency.

Travel to the Dakar Biennale for artists, curators, and supporters.

Programs for Portland youth to learn about Senagal.

At Studio 516, 516 NW 14th 5:30-7:30 Free

October 17 Freshwater Caldera Revelar Testament Midnight Language Museum

2026-10-17T10:03:57.058-07:00

Camp Caldera was the project and passion of the late Dan Wieden. They have public open houses sometimes. This one is a Fall festival. At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 11AM – 4PM Free

Gabi Villaseñor https://www.gabivillasenor.com/ is a Portland multiartist. They have a show of sculpture and painting. There is an eloquent show note in the link. In the Project Room, A Mother's Discourse: Reading Room by Francesca Capone closes tomorrow.

It's https://www.nationale.us/gabi-villasenor-we-found-a-freshwater-spring-while-you-were-sleeping-2026 at Nationale www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 2PM-4 Free

Leah Lavelle https://www.leahlavelle.com/ has paintings.

At Fine Art Fruit https://www.fineartfruit.com 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 3PM-6 Free

Georgina Reskala https://www.ginareskala.com/ opens photographs Soñé Que Revelabas.

"Last year I had a dream. We were at my grandparents’ house and my late sister was standing there, looking at me. I carefully approached her and she whispered to me: “Soñé que revelabas”. I woke up trying to make sense of that sentence.

Revelar in Spanish is both to manifest or make public something that was a secret or unknown, and the chemical process in photography by which a latent image becomes visible.

She was my oldest sister, my best friend and confidant and had a gift to make me feel like things were going to work out. I wrote the sentence on a piece of paper and put it up on my studio wall. I saw it every day, and kept trying to figure out what she meant. As the days and the months went by, I realised that I am still trying to make sense of her loss. Loss not only as a consequence of death but loss in the quotidian. Loss of language, interactions, moments, and memories that become fainter as a result of distance and time. Leaving one’s home, family, and language and starting another life in a different country carries a weight that becomes most apparent during difficult times. I started looking through family pictures (my family and other families), using them as probes, copying them, changing them, creating new ones. I attached my own memories onto film.

This body of work is a personal account of the process of translation, not just in language, but of sounds, inflections, the stories, the memories, the dreams, and ultimately the way I see. The feeling of being unmoored. The estrangement that comes with the inability to fully translate from one language to the other. How does one communicate without full authority? How to experience in one’s language and express the memory in a different, foreign language. It is a reflection of ongoing investigations on translating my experiences from my native by language to my adopted one, back and forth in order to reconcile being in two different worlds with different structures; an attempt to create a personal visual language that can encompass both. A way to reveal myself."

At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free

Bethany Rowland has paintings Testament https://bethanyrowland.com/testament-2026 and Nicholas Stelter has kiln-iired glass vessels. There is an artist talk November 21 at 11AM.

At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 4PM-6 Free

Hi Books is one of many well curated art bookstores in Portland. They present their collection of the late 1960s-early 1970s queer San Francisco: Midnight Movies: Notes from the Psychedelic Cinematic Underground. There will be programs theroughout the exhibition. It's a unique archive. It is at The Old Fashiled 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 4PM-7 Free

We like Ditch Projects. It is a Eugene artist-run gallery with many members around the U of O contemporary art department. They cross fertilize with Portland minimal conceptual opportunities.

Modern Language Association is a show in collaboration with Gene's Dispensery https://www.genesdispensary.ca/ in LA. Artists are Matthew Dickman, Marcus Fischer, Noah Greene, Ido Radon, Morgan Ritter, and Justin Cole Smith. There will be a performance/reading at 7.

At Ditch Projects https://ditchprojects.com/ 303 S. 5th Ave #165, Springfield OR Map 5PM-7 Free

MOSMA https://www.mosmapdx.org/ and the Crow Collective https://www.crowcollectivepdx.com/ have pop-up exhibit of behind the scenes artists in Portland stop-motion animation.

At ADX - Art Design Xchange adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map 6PM-9

The Portland Zine Symposium comes to the PSU Smith Center Ballroom 11AM-5PM and Sunday too. Requesting masks. Free

October 16 - 18 Art Nature

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Sitka https://sitkacenter.org is an artist residency. They provide art and science workshops to coastal Title 1 schools too.

Oregon Contemporary hosts Sitka's selection of nature-inspired artists for 3 days of daytime shows. Some of the artists will be at Oregon Contemporary their open hours, 11AM - 5PM, to chat.

The artists are James Alby, Orlando Almanza, Ruth Armitage, Dylan Beck, Julie Beeler, Andrea Benson, Emily Bixler, Joanna Bloom, Michael Boonstra, Anette Brackett, David Brandt, Claire Burbridge, Iván Carmona, Yoonhee Choi, Victoria Christen, Susan Circone, Scott Conary, Lisa Conway, April Coppini, Epiphany Couch, Anne F. Crumpacker, Anna Daedalus, Laurie Danial, Rae Davis, Laura Domek, Sadie DuBois, Lisa Marie Ellis, Quintin Faria, Jennifer Foran, Ebenezer Galluzzo, Scott Gellatly, Patricia Giraud, Stirling Gorsuch, Kimberly Granquist, Jef Gunn, Susan Harrington, Dave Haslett, Misael Hernandez, Jennifer Hill, Yuji Hiratsuka, Jane Hoberg, Hsin-Yi Huang, Junko Ijima, Kevin Jessequel, Sarah Jones, Susan Jones, Marilyn Joyce, Eileen Kathryn, Heidi Keith, Anya Keyes, Justin L'Amie, Chris Lasley/Larson, Elizabeth Laskey, JiMin Lee, Kelli MacConnell, Brenda Mallory, Ruby Maly, Patty Maly, Kristen Miller, Sara Moen, Hide Morin, Michelle Muldrow, Felicia Murray, Kim Murton, Jesse Narens, Loren Nelson, Holly Osborne, James Page, Roger Peet, JD Perkin, Hilary Pfeifer, Bryan Potter, Julie Rall, Kearney Rathbun, Barbara Beers, Dale Reets, Georgina Reskala, Mary Stanchfield Roberts, Bethany Rowland, Amy Ruedinger, Ruri, Monica Setziol-Phillips, Natalie Souza, Dirk Staschke, Melanie Stevens, Travis Stewart, Angelita Surmon, Takahiro Suzuki, Carolyn Sweeney, Pearlyn Tan, Jemin London Tinsel, Randall David Tipton, Deborah Unger, Judy Vogland, Olga Volchkova, Mike Vos, Nanette Wallace, Erika Warhus, Marie Watt, Kirk Weller, Jennifer Williams, Cathie Joy Young, and Wesley Younie.

https://sitkacenter.org/sitka-art-invitational has links to the artists, the meet the artist schedule, and an early afternoon music schedule each day.

At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 11AM - 5PM Free

October 13 Build It and They Will Come

2026-10-12T21:40:35.085-07:00
The PSU art department has been a nomad. They have a new building of their own now. They have an opening and party. https://www.pdx.edu/events/art-building-grand-opening-celebration 1981 SW Broadway 5PM-8 Free

October 10 Soul Ragas Costume Time

2026-10-09T12:03:04.139-07:00
Rebecca Shippee https://www.rebeccashippee.net/ brings a large painting installation inspired by the Helen's Costume gallery itself.

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

Ruby Webb https://www.fruitfulinterpretationoftime.com/about brings Clock Party to 1122 as part of Portland art textile month. It's 24 clock-themed garments you can try on.

"My love for time and clocks has run deep for around eight years. Recently I’ve been making more and more clock garments, and the idea of having a clock/time party began. Every year for the past five years, I make a garment collection in the springtime and bring it to Montana in the early summer. I take photos all around my grandmother’s property wearing the collection, and afterward I make a lookbook/zine of sorts with all the images.

This year I made 12 clock garments from scrap fabrics and garments I found at thrift stores and estate sales, and took pictures with my grandma while we wore them. My lookbook this year “time with grandma d and me,” will be placed around 1122 Gallery for your looking and purchasing pleasure."

At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 1PM-5 Free

This Saturday the Mono Space listening session explores elegant soul music. In the day, Motown, Brunswick, Chess, and Atlantic sweetened tracks with orchestral instrument arrangements of strings and brass. This is that. Some discs they will be playing are: The Delfonics - The Sound of Sexy Soul, Minnie Riperton - Love Lives Forever, The Three Sounds - Soul Symphony, Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul, The Emotions - Flowers, and Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul.

Elegant Soul https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-elegant-soul at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free

Vinay Desai, Santoor, Jai Gandhi, flute, and Vikas Yendluri, tabla perform Indian classical music. Presented by Kalakendra. https://kalakendra.org/etn/pankaj-mishra-sarangi/

At the First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th 7PM Adults $35 Children (3-12 yrs) $15, Students with ID) $20

October 9 Garden

2026-10-08T17:14:49.513-07:00
The Black Gallery continues with We Built You a Garden, film photography by residents of SEI's Strong Empowerment Village housing project.

At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5:30PM-8 Free

MSHR is playing at Holocene and there is a modern dance performance at Building5.

October 4 Ambient

2026-10-04T14:23:16.627-07:00
Bardo is hosting ambient monthly. 5PM-8

October 3 Northside Art Openings+

2026-10-02T13:47:49.563-07:00
For your +1, Tomoya Matsuzaki⁣⁣ debuts in the US. https://adamsandollman.com/Tomoya-Matsuzaki ⁣

At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of four members of the New Art Dealers Alliance newartdealers.org/members, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 3PM-5 Free

For your +2, the Lumber Room is on break from art shows. They are doing an event honoring their interior redesigner, Osmose. Where I End…You Begin — Osmose: A Survey of Design (2007–2026) surveys interiors and built environments by designer Andee Hess and studio, Osmose.

At The Lumber Room https://lumberroom.com/ 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 5PM-8 Free

Pepper Pepper is a Portland multiartist, including organizing drag caberets with PICA. Listening Exercises are a series of drawings inspired by their performances.

At Souvenir Gallery https://souvenirartspdx.org/ 1233 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free

Claire Elliott brings Tending to Wild, inspired by plants and gardening.

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

Kim Smith Claudel https://www.kimsmithclaudel.com/gloves, an artist working in 2 & 3D, brings Yard Work, which "examines the absurdity and care of maintaining one's landscape, and the tension between being kept and being desired."

At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free

Oregon Contemporary continues its Amy Ruhl and North Pole Studios/Elbow Room Converge45 shows through Sunday.

Franklin Foto has the latest review of Portland protests by photographer Ryan Dundon. It's https://www.truthinphotography.org/protest-city-2026.html They publish limited edition phtoto books.

At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5PM-8 Free

October 2 Eastside Art Openings

2026-10-02T11:23:00.780-07:00
First Friday gallery openings are listed on the socials.

Gina Matarazzo https://www.ginamatarazzo.com/ has all the cute plant and animal illustrations.

It is https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/gina-matarazzo-solo at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free

October 2 - 4 Moving Movies

2026-10-01T21:23:38.219-07:00
Most people in the world dance. Dance is a many branch tree. One branch is modern and contemorary dance performed on stage. The Portland Dance Film Festival is the movie version. Dance is documented straight through by rules. Much more engaging, the Portland Dance Film Festival wants stories told with dance allbeit abstract. I have seen several years of what they do and recommend it. It would be good for dance students. The Portland Dance Film Festival https://portlanddancefilmfest.com at The Portland Art Museum Tomorrow Theater 3530 SE Division 7PM each day, add 4PM Sunday for a talk. $15

October 1 Westside Art Openings

2026-09-29T08:42:44.694-07:00
October is Portland Textile Month in galleries. It's https://textilex.org/. There is a kick off event at Skylab.

Illy2, The Black Gallery, Adams and Ollman, Fine Art Fruit, Stelo, After / Time Gallery, Laura Vincent, Froelick, and The Writers' Block continue.

For your +1, The Portland Art Museum free all day. At the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 10AM-7 Free

For your +2 in Northeast. 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 +3 all around town, ADX has collaborated with galleries and spaces for a month long ADX Fest. Many of the events are workshops. Details https://www.adxfest.com/

Chris Chandler has Expression of Structure, graphic works in the Constructivist vein. MK Guth, Elizabeth Hohimer, Ellen Lesperance, Mary Ann Peters, Vo Vo, and Anna Von Mertens have contemporary textile works.

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

Bootsy Holler has Contaminated: Invisible Fallout, photographs and mixed media themed on radioactive contamination of the Hanford Site in Washington from the Manhattan Project. https://bootsyholler.com/PORTFOLIOS/Contaminated/2

From Photolucida, Lucy Bohnsack has This Work They Call Love, https://www.lucybohnsack.art/work/this-work-they-call-love It is themed on motherhood.

In the Nine Ronna Neuenschwander brings Pandora’s Amphora. Is Amphora self-plural? These works represent things released by Pandora. Currently topical.

At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free

Russo Lee has a sprawling 40 year retrospective with artists James Allen, Jay Backstrand, Marlene Bauer, Heather Lee Birdsong, Michael Brophy, Louis Bunce, Sean Cain, G. Lewis Clevenger, Robert Colescott, Michael Dailey, Laura Domela, Ka’ila Farrell-Smith, Judith Poxson Fawkes, Tom Fawkes, Gabe Fernandez, Julian V.L. Gaines, Dan Gluibizzi, Gregory Grenon, Sally Haley, James Lee Hansen, Roll Hardy, Manuel Izquierdo, Lisa Jarrett, Jackie K. Johnson, Fay Jones, Mary Josephson, Mel Katz, Connie Kiener, Michihiro Kosuge, Willie Little, Betty Merken, Michael Paul Miller, Carl Morris, David Curt Morris, Hilda Morris, Richard Notkin, Whitney E. Nye, Stephen O’Donnell, Kim Osgood, Lucinda Parker, J.D. Perkin, Jack Portland, René Rickabaugh, Chris Russell, Michele Russo, Michael C. Spafford, Dirk Staschke, Eric Stotik, Whiting Tennis, Margot Voorhies Thompson, Samantha Yun Wall, Gina Wilson, Sherrie Wolf, and Ko Kirk Yamahira.

At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free

Kindra Crick brings Nocturnal Worlds. https://waterstonegallery.com/show/waterstone-gallery-kindra-crick-nocturnal-worlds#works "Combining neuroscience and art, Crick’s exhibition explores deep sleep, dreams, and insomnia. Crick transforms a year’s worth of personal brainwave recordings and sleep journals into paintings, prints and installations. The work pairs data with subjective experience to map the mind’s elusive inner landscapes." Several artists work in EEGs, such as Jane Antoni's Slumber.

At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free

Kanetaka Ikeda has Cosmic Trees, Stephan Soihl, In Memoriam, Paula Bullwinkel, S’wonderful S’marvelous, and Christopher Shotola-Hardt, Stanzas.

All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free

FISK gallery and agency is now programing the frontdownspace of the big ad agency. Heaven Must Be Near is Momo Gordon and Erasto Reyes-Silva, drawing and sculpture.

At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free

Heather Harlow https://heatherharlow.com/art/ has colorful abstracts in complex Venn diagram form. At 734 NW 14th 5PM-8 Free

Eva Lake brings collage, We Had Faces.

At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free

Fans Only shows its residents and guests.

At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free

Imperfecta has paintings by Dan Gay, Signal / Noise.

At Imperfecta Gallery www.imperfecta.xyz 809 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free

PNCA Willamette may have visual shows tonight.

At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free

The Urban Art Network has all their stuff and things sale on 13th.

September 25 Fall Joy

2026-09-24T10:12:06.943-07:00
Portland painter Shelley Turley drops a book of her works, Pocket Joy: Meditations on Friendship and Love.

At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today. 5PM-8 Free

September 24 Last Thursday on Alberta

2026-09-24T10:05:57.612-07:00
Antler and Talon shows 20 artists in their Susannah Kelly Art Award curatorial project in show themed The Ribbon, "focused on rebirth, renewal and the circle of life." Along with several other gallery artists.

At Antler & Talon Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2714 NE Alberta 6PM-9 Free

Blind Insect continues. Not sure what Flight64 is up to.

September 21 Tells All

2026-09-20T10:25:41.024-07:00
The Boathouse Microcinema begins its Fall season with movie Famous Agoraphobic Woman Tells All! https://vimeo.com/789495262.

It's https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/jun-8-2026/ at the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 6:30 movie 7 Free

September 19 Wild Man Sign Post

2026-09-19T15:23:08.800-07:00
Congress Yard is one of Portland's back yard, garage, and home galleries. They host a new project, a home for sale sign with artist content. Beth Wooten is the first artist curated by Bruce Conkle.

At Congress Yard Projects easily found. 3PM Free

September 18 Mercurial Nocturnes Disappear

2026-09-18T17:33:53.705-07:00
Den Lam https://bydanlam.com/ brings her blobs in show Mercurial. They show along with paintings by Bobby Adams. At Stephanie Chefas gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free

Hazel Miller has Nocturnes, animal illustrations and sculptures. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 5PM-9 Free

Every Summer They Disappear at 4pm by Fabian Lavater https://lavaterart.com/ are schematic land and seascapes. At the Purple Door https://www.thepurpledoorpdx.com/ 3557 SE Division 6PM-9 Free

September 13 Fine Showers

2026-09-13T05:30:00.189-07:00
The Venerable Showers of Beauty Gamalan are performing on the Sunday Parkways route downtown. They may be performing in or near Lincoln Hall at PSU as per their socials. At https://www.portland.gov/sunday-parkways/downtown-event-2026#toc-entertainment-programming 11AM-3 Free

Kelli Rad https://bio.site/kellirad brings her portraits.

At Fine Art Fruit https://www.fineartfruit.com 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 2PM-5 Free

September 12 Zymoglyphic Bouyancy, Canyon Communication, Tomato Time

2026-09-12T08:34:46.723-07:00
We don't usually list artist talks as individual events, there are many. We sometimes note them in the opening listing as a forward pointer. But since we were traveling for the opening we will note that the Zymoglyphic residency show has open hours this afternoon and a talk. The artists in cohort VI are Harper Lethin, Sakura Azzopardi, Alice Langlois, Phoebe Mol & Anthony Clementi, Kate Stock, Patty Burns, Amber Wolf, Wren Van Deusen, and Nonlocal Variable.

At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison Noon-3, Talk 1 Free

All the way out on the left edge of land in Astoria, encaustic painter Elise Wagner has turned to the subject of the sea. Finding Bouyancy is the result. There will be an artist talk September 19, 2PM too.

It is https://imogengallery.com/september-2026-exhibition/elise-wagner/1 at Imogen Gallery https://imogengallery.com/ 240 11th Street, Astoria, OR 5PM-8 Free

Sometimes entropy is overcome by a concentration of people in a place and time who produce unexpectedly beautiful things or world-changing by their creative or intellectual interaction. Black Mountain College is an example I relate often. Portland 90s-00s? Laurel Canyon, on the cusp between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s, was that for romances, singer songwriters, and musicians. https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/02/laurel-canyon-music-scene

Selector Nichole D'Aimato provides a peek at it.

Laurel Canyon https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-laurel-canyon-curated-by-nicole-diamato at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free

Jen Lamb https://www.unurthwonder.com/ all the way from Vancouver, WA brings Intertidal Communication. They are swirly, in form and color, ceramics inspired by landscape.

It's https://www.aftertimegallery.com/intertidalcommunion at After/Time Gallery https://https://www.aftertimegallery.com/ 735 SW 9th Ave #110 5PM-8 Free

Brian Libby https://www.brianlibby.com/ has been Portland's architecture writer following the Randy Gragg era.

He has published a book of his selection of Portland places and stories arranged as walking tours, In Search of Portland. https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/blog/closer-look-at-%E2%80%9Cin-search-of-portland%E2%80%9D-with-brian-libby. It is a good companion to Laura O. Foster's books. The photos from the book are on the walls at a reception for Libby.

At the office of WDP Architecture https://www.weedmandesignpartners.com/ 1905 NW 23rd Place 4PM-6:30 Free

Heirloom Ceramics Studio, a shared studio like Radius, pops up with a one nighter.

At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 5:30PM-9 Free

Kiel Fletcher https://www.kielfletcher.com/ presents an installation Untitled (Time). Sound and visuals combine inspired by our NW Cascades landscapes. Opening and talk today, open tomorrow and hours on the Building 5 socials, performance on the 19th at 6.

At NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th 6PM Free.

The annual Tomato Fest is at Wellspent Market today.

August 28 - September 8 Holiday

2026-08-28T06:59:14.192-07:00
Portland OR Us Now is on vacation. The art continues, but not entries here. And on vacation we will be seeing a social practice art.

August 28 Zymoglyphic Culture

2026-08-25T21:15:25.479-07:00
The Zymoglyphic Museum has a residency. Their residents read out their work in show Museum as Muse VI. The artists are Harper Lethin, Sakura Azzopardim, Alice Langlois, Phoebe Mol & Anthony Clementi, Kate Stock, Patty Burns, Amber Wolf, Wren Van Deusen, and Nonlocal Variable. We like the museum and the show is always fun.

At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 6PM-9 Free

Gerald Clarke presents show Unceded Between the Lines. It is presented by Native Arts & Cultures. There are some fantastic projects coming to that building.

At the Native Arts & Cultures https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/ 800 SE 10th (old YU building with a waterfall in the basement) 5:30-8 Free

August 27-30+ Converge

2026-08-25T20:59:08.360-07:00
Converge45 does a big show every three years. It spans many venues, and programming continues in the Fall. It's too much to detail here. So just look it up at https://www.converge45.org.

August 25 Balistics

2026-08-25T20:55:58.448-07:00
Merideth Hillbrand opens show Balistics.

At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 6PM-8 Free

August 22 Summer Breeze

2026-08-22T10:20:23.750-07:00
SeasideFM - City Pop Songs is a local DJ specializing in Japanese City Pop and light Jazz. City Pop シティポップ is a highly produced Japanese easy listening Yacht Rock-like genre of the 1970s-1980s, the boom era. The production costs with live sweetening musicians in the time create a mine for samples today. SeasideFM brings their City Pop vinyl for a listening session today.

That's https://mono-space.org/blogs/events/gallery-hours-city-pop-curated-by-seaside-fm at Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. Noon-5 Free

August 16 Quadrophenia

2026-08-15T10:50:13.960-07:00
Modular On The Spot brings a mid-month four channel performance to their modular synthesizer electronic music series. Lewis Guignard,Zachary Egge, Amoja, Vyger, CRBN and Francisco Botello perform.

Pier Park 10325 N Lombard 6PM-9 Free

August 15 Radiance

2026-08-14T17:31:04.777-07:00
The show Cavity closes this afternoon. It is artists Jackie Stewart, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Cody Brant, Chanel Conklin and Lena Lutz. Don't miss performances by Chanel Conklin, 3:30, followed by Negative Flower (MSHR) and The Tenses, whose members are in the visual art show.

At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today. 3PM-6 Free

Portland musician Laura Viers performs free in tiny Music Millennium at 5.