Visual Arts Events

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25

Behind the Scenes Basket Tour

WHERE: Tamástslikt Cultural Institute, Pendleton
WHEN: July 25

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

WHERE: Oregon Jewish Museum, Portland
WHEN: Through May 20

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

WHERE: Pittock Mansion, Portland
WHEN: Through July 8

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

WHERE: Portland Art Museum, Portland
WHEN: February 18 - May 27

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

WHERE: Portland Art Museum, Portland
WHEN: February 18 through May 27

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

WHERE: High Desert Museum, Bend
WHEN: Through May 20

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

WHERE: Tamástslikt Cultural Institute, Pendleton
WHEN: March 1 - June 3, 2012

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

WHERE: Bullseye Gallery, Portland
WHEN: April 4 - June 23

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

WHERE: Bullseye Gallery, Portland
WHEN: April 4 - June 23, 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

WHERE: Oregon Historical Society, Portland
WHEN: Through September 1

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

WHERE: Bullseye Gallery, Portland
WHEN: Through June 23

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

WHERE: The Arts Center, Corvallis
WHEN: April 26 - May 26

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

WHERE: Walters Cultural Arts Center, Hillsboro
WHEN: May 1 -  June 6

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

WHERE: Cannon Beach Gallery, Cannon Beach
WHEN: May 4 - 30

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

WHERE: Oregon Maritime Museum, Portland
WHEN: May 6 - June 1

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

WHERE: Jorden Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene
WHEN: Through June 18, 2012

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

WHERE: Waterstone Gallery, Portland
WHEN: Through June 3

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

WHERE: Tamástslikt Cultural Institute, Pendleton
WHEN: June 15 - August 12, 2012

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

WHERE: Tamástslikt Cultural Institute, Pendleton
WHEN: August 24 - October 27, 2012

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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