In celebration of Black History Month, White Bird Dance brings a one-night performance of 'Griot New York', the crowning masterpiece of Tony-Award winning choreographer, Garth Fagan. The Fagan Dance troupe ... >>

Soup for the Soul brings together Portland's top chefs in a soup-off to benefit Transition Projects, a non-profit making it easier for the homeless to transition back into housing ... >>

Award-winning Quebec architecture professor, Gilles Saucier will speak at the PSU Architecture Department's 'Firsts' series. Saucier, who has won numerous international prizes, including the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada ... >>

As part of their lecture series, Portland Arts & Lectures presents journalist and Academy Award-nominee Sebastian Junger. Known for his intimate looks at dramatic and sometimes terrifying events, he has reported ... >>

Portland comic book author Natalie Nourigat releases her first book, Between Gears, a biographical tale of everything college - including the Jell-O shots! >>

Young Pianists: Concerts for a Cause gives a concert to benefit Doernbecher Children's Hospital. The benefit concert is organized by students and will feature many talented young musicians. Cost ... >>

Perlman returns to the Oregon Symphony to dazzle the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall with Mendelssohn's violin concerto. Also on the program are works from Brahms and Schubert. >>

Henry Greely, JD, “Law, ethics, humanity and the brain: How do they get along?” OPB is pleased to support OHSU’s Brain Awareness Lecture Series. Mark your calendars and save ... >>

Bullseye Gallery presents a group exhibition that surveys the current landscape of painting with glass, featuring Michael Janis, Kari Minnick, Martha Pfanschmidt, Ted Sawyer, Abi Spring and Jeff Wallin. Opening ... >>

These fractured landscapes are part of Underwood's series of hamlet-scapes or city-scapes which are done on-site because she needs to know how human visual perception differs from commonly held ... >>

Don't miss a showing of Art Museum School Alumnus Manuel Izquierdo's early prints and drawings that put him on the path to the forefront of Oregon sculpture. This ... >>

The Oregon Jewish Museum presents 'Transport,' a retrospective of life during World War II detailed through the brushes of Dutchman Henk Pander and Polish immigrant Esther Podemski. The artists tell ... >>

Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center is pleased to present Peter Halley as the final exhibiting artist in Jenene Nagy's 2011-2012 Curator-in-Residence season. Halley will create a site-specific installation at Disjecta ... >>

The exhibit features selected items from over 14 different heritage and cultural organizations in Marion, Polk and Yamhill counties. Participating organizations include Antique Powerland Museum Association, Aurora Colony Historical Society ... >>

Depression-Era photographer Dorothea Lange's works are on exhibit at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. Lange is widely credited as being one of the key figures in ... >>

Bigger is not always better, but the Froelick Gallery is going to make an argument with their Large Inventory Show in the Pearl. Oversized pieces are the flavor of the ... >>

Portland Center Stage tackles The Bard's witty take on Celtic kings and ancient mystery. Tales of jealousy and deception are told though the eyes of a piano player who ... >>

OPB is pleased to support Multnomah County Library’s 2012 Everybody Reads program, made possible by the Library Foundation. Join the conversation by reading this year’s selection, The Girl ... >>

This free exhibit documents 200 years of contributions from African Americans in settling Marion and Polk Counties. Not only did Black pioneers struggle with the dangers of the Oregon Trail ... >>

One of the Portland art scene's hidden jewels, the 12x16 gallery in Sellwood, features new artists monthly. The February show features abstract painters Carol Basch and Luke Dolkas >>

As part of the Portland Japanese Garden’s Healing Garden theme for 2012, during the cold month of February, its Pavilion will be open from 12– 3 p.m. each ... >>

Portland's Augen Gallery will feature the works of David Hockney, a leader in mid-twentieth century British cubism. Hockney combines photography with etchings and lithography to create portraits from England ... >>

This year's group show at the High Desert Gallery features some of Central Oregon's finest artists exhibiting a wide range of materials and styles. First Friday reception February ... >>

The gallery that began in the attic of Diana Faville's home in 1973 has now become an institution in the Portland art scene. Tommer Gonser's oils and Tamara ... >>

The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts presents David Rochkind & Jamey Stillings. Rochkind has been documenting the Mexican drug war and Stallings shows a two-year retrospective of the Mike O ... >>

Since 1992 this juried show features the best young artists from Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Recent additions include digital and 3-D art. >>

The 65-year-old Yaquina Art Association holds its annual Member Show at the Runyon Gallery in Newport. Each artist is invited to show one fine art piece in many mediums including ... >>

Two years ago, Cannon Beach artist Liz Cohn began sending out playing cards to more than 150 artists from all over the world. The response is an eclectic collection of ... >>

Willamette University's Hallie Ford Museum of Art will show Portland mixed media artist Marie Watt's 'Lodge' in the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery. The exposition will feature pieces from the ... >>

Art Beat Alum Mel Katz is exhibiting new work at the Laura Russo Gallery. Attend the artist talk this Saturday February 11th at 11:00 am to hear Katz talk ... >>

Puerto Rican playwrite José Rivera (Motorcycle Diaries) takes the audience with him as his family moves from the warm comfoting environs of his native land to the harsh realities of ... >>

The 35th edition of the Portland International Film Festival presents 93 feature-length films and 46 shorts originating from more than thirty countries. Opening night kicks off with Ewan McGregor in ... >>

Festival runs February 9–25. Drawing an audience of over 35,000, the Portland International Film Festival (PIFF) is the biggest film event in Oregon. Audiences can enjoy more than ... >>

The 2012 US Bank Portland Jazz Festival presented by Alaska Airlines will be held February 17 - 26 at venues throughout Portland. KMHD is proud to sponsor the ninth annual festival ... >>

The Mettawee River Theatre Company brings the ancient Iroquois creation story to life through narration, action, poetry, and music. >>

Long before Bosom Buddies and Will and Grace, Shakespeare took on a cross-dressing, gender bending comedy in Twelfth Night. Laugh with the Portland Actors Conservatory as they give life to ... >>

Russian-born Marcus Rothkowitz emmigrated to Portland in 1913 at the age of ten and, after taking classes at the Portland Art Museum and graduating from Lincoln High, he went on ... >>

Five years have gone into this multi-medium production that still has many more steps to go before completion. Frame combines art, sculpture, poetry and music into a piece that he ... >>

This biographical look at Oregonian artist Mark Rothko takes us through his first forray into the 1950's New York art scene. Rothko takes on a large commission for artwork ... >>

The Brahm's Requiem was orginally performed in 1868 and its brightness and vitality have brought it all the way to the Rogue Valley nearly 150 years later. Featured along ... >>

More than 100 artists will be on display in the inner Southeast. Galleries between Powell and Hawthorne from SE 9th to SE 41st will be open with artists on hand ... >>

Lorraine Hansberry's classic 'A Raisin in the Sun' tells the story of a black family moving out of the Chicago ghetto into an all-white neighborhood just after World War ... >>

Pulitzer Prize winning playwrite David Mamet brings this courtroom tale of bitter race divisions to the Artists Reperatory Theatre. Deep questions of racial inequality in the justice system underly this ... >>

Anyone from four years-old to fourth grade is invited to explore the hidden green spaces and back alleys of the Oregon Zoo. Track animals, learn bird calls and take home ... >>

It's hard to imagine subjects like drug abuse and a mother's mental illness coming together to create a story of inspiration and hope, but that's the goal ... >>