The Oregon Historical Society's annual Mark O. Hatfield Distinguished Historians Forum provides broad insights and perspectives on United States history, bringing together the nation’s top scholars and writers ... >>

The Rotterdam-based Amina Figarova Sextet returns to Portland following their hit performance at the 2007 Portland Jazz Festival. Figarova, who grew up in Baku, Azerbaijan listening to her parents' jazz ... >>

You’re invited to join Steve Amen, executive producer of Oregon Field Guide, for a celebration of friends and community. Steve will present scenes from the best of Oregon Field ... >>

Londoner Claude Bourbon returns to Hillsboro's Walters Cultural Arts Center to create new landscapes with a combination of classical, jazz, Eastern, Spanish and American Folk guitar. >>

You’re invited to join Steve Amen, executive producer of Oregon Field Guide, for a celebration of friends and community. Steve will present scenes from the best of Oregon Field ... >>

The Northwest's newest German culture club, Zeitgeist Northwest, hosts the Teutonic arrival of Spring at a free festival at Oaks Park. Kids arts and craft workshops, live music by ... >>

With the 2012 Presidential election looming, this year's theme is 'Pug Nation: A Better Pug for a Better America!' This annual event is the largest gathering of pugs in ... >>

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 ... >>

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 ... >>

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 ... >>

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 ... >>

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 ... >>

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. >>

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 ... >>

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 ... >>

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 ... >>

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 ... >>

This juried exhibition presents recent paintings by artists residing in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington.

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Both tall tale and thrilling historical fiction, The Storm in the Barn — with original music by Portland band Black Prairie — captures the spare, muted, ethereal mood of the award-winning graphic ... >>

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 ... >>

Portland artist Brin Levinson will be part of the Graeter Gallery's Tridacna showing (Tridacna is one of the world's largest clams). Levinson works with acrylic and oils on ... >>

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 ... >>

L.A. playwright Luis Alfaro takes the Sophoclean tragedy, Oedipus Rex, out of ancient Greece and into the teeming streets of East L.A. to examine the rise of a ... >>

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 ... >>

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 ... >>

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. >>

This Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play comes to Hood River's Columbia Center for the Arts for a two-weekend stand. Set in New York City just before the Second Vatican ... >>

Eugene's Lord Leebrick Theatre Company breathes life into Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning dark comedy about family conflict. A near-death event forces a married couple to retreat back to ... >>

In tribute to Cappella Romana's 20th Anniversary, scholars and composers who have made invaluable contributions to the international success of the ensemble will offer both ancient and modern musical ... >>

It's all about the Blues, from its roots in African chants to Johnny Lee Hooker belting out Hoochie-Coochie Man in smokey Chicago clubs. Classics like Fever,  Walkin’ After Midnight ... >>

The Brothers Grimm tale takes on a 21st Century cloak as the seven dwarves trade in their hi-hos for hip-hop, doo-wop and rock and roll. >>

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, accompanied by OMSI 3-D multi-media, presents Gustav Holst's The Planets. Holst's seven-movement orchestral suite dedicates one movement to each planet in our solar system ... >>

Portland's award-winning NW Dance Project gears up for a trip to London for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad with two weekends of performances at their Mississippi St. Performance Center. Artistic ... >>

Oregon Society of Artists members and non-members are invited to submit two works (any medium - no photography or sculpture) for this juried show. Artists' Reception: Sunday June 10,  1 p ... >>