Visual Arts Events
WEDNESDAY, JULY 25
Behind the Scenes Basket Tour
Tamastslikt Collections Curator Randall Melton takes visitors behind the scenes into the vaults to show baskets woven in the traditional Plateau manner that are not on display in the exhibit. >>
ONGOING EVENTS
Transport: Works by Henk Pander and Esther Podemski
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 ... >>
Photo Albums at Pittock Mansion
In the 1860s, long before the days of Picassa and Flickr, artisans spent hours crafting album covers for the new technology of photography. The Pittock Mansion celebrates these works with ... >>
Portland Art Museum: Mark Rothko
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 ... >>
John Frame at Portland Art Museum
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 ... >>
Black Impact: African Americans in the West
Take in this gripping, multi-sensory exhibit of how African Americans helped settle the old American West. Event sponsored by Oregon Northwest Black Pioneers, Oregon African American Museum, and the Maxville ... >>
Poetry and Politics of the Maya
Pendelton's Tamástslikt Cultural Institute is showing Penn University's extensive collection of 1300 year-old Mayan pottery. The exihibit's title, 'Painted Metaphors,' suggests political and historical realities shown ... >>
Emerge 2012: Kiln Glass Show
Portland's Bullseye Gallery will be the epicenter for kiln glass artists as they vie for a spot on a traveling show that will take winners to San Francisco and ... >>
Bullseye Gallery: Emerge 2012
At the Bullseye Gallery you can see the work of finalists from the Bullseye Glass Company’s kiln-glass competition. Emerge 2012 showcases the juried work of students and early-career artists. >>
The Photography of Marian Wood Kolisch
Marian Wood Kolisch picked up the craft of photography at the age of 52 and, after studying with Ansel Adams, became one of Oregon's premier photo documentarians. Known for ... >>
Kilnformed Glass at Bullseye Gallery
The Bullseye Gallery's 'Evolve: Past Award Winners – Emerge 2002 - 2010' exhibition features the newest works from past winners of their international kilnformed glass competition. Over the past decade, more ... >>
Finger Licking Good: Art About Food
It's a subject near and dear to everyone's heart so the Art Center in Corvallis is giving "food" its just dessert. Everything from a hard-boiled egg to a ... >>
Questioning Functionality 3
The Questioning Functionality series supports conceptual art coming from the intersection of craft and fine art. Hillsboro's father and daughter art duo, Marinus Wolf and Linnie Brown, show a ... >>
Cannon Beach Gallery: Books as Art
Come to the beach to take in the region's best in letterpress, silkscreen, collage, box making and digital drawing. A new feature is the 'altered book segment' in which ... >>
The Great Nautical Show
This open show, on the same river which inspired many of the works, is a collaboration of the Oregon Society of Artists and the Oregon Maritime Museum. Artists' reception - Sunday ... >>
Visions of the Orient
During their visits to Japan in the late 19th and early 20th century, four trained American painters were transformed into woodblock virtuosos and brought their craft home. Eugene's Jordan ... >>
Portraits: Greg Wilbur and Deborah DeWit
Greg Wilbur is a master in the ancient and time-consuming craft of raised metalwork while Art Beat alum Deborah DeWit's works reflect her recent migration to the Oregon Coast. >>
Joey Lavadour: Weaving
Walla Walla Tribal Elder Joey Lavadour exhibits his mastery of the ancient art of "twining-weaving." Lavadour works with Pendleton woolen mills wool and hemp twine to produce stunning traditional and ... >>
Charles M. Russell: Master of Western Art
Charles M. Russell grew up in St. Louis and moved to Montana on his 16th birthday to begin a career as the American West's first homegrown non-native artist. This ... >>
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