Nataki Garrett took on her new role as Oregon Shakespeare Festival's artistic director in 2019. Within months the coronavirus shuttered all of her theatres for more than a year. Now the Festival is reopening, and Garrett is excited to announce a full season of shows for 2022.

Jesus Torralba has been painting since he was a child, when friends introduced him to the art of graffiti. Today his colorful commissioned murals can be seen throughout Portland, each capped with his “Heysus” signature. Torralba’s designs draw on his indigenous roots in Oaxaca, and on his love of cartoons, creating a distinctive style.

Amelia Bjesse-Puffin was tired of the oppression she was seeing in the world of skating. So, two years ago she launched Smash the Skatriarchy, a submission-focused zine that aims to lower barriers to skating. For her latest issue, she met up with Indigenous roller derby stars for a day of skating, interviews and photos sessions. These Indigenous skaters are working to decolonize the world of derby — a mission that Bjesse-Puffin wants to elevate in her zine.

Portland singer Jimmie Herrod made the top 10 on "America's Got Talent" – and millions of new fans watched him do it.

Jim Fitzgerald's passion for the forest runs deep, and like the trees that he photographs, his archival prints will be with us for generations.

Over a long career of both artmaking and teaching, Judy Hoiness has traveled through the creative worlds of representation, improvisation and imagination. In a series entitled "The Great Basin: What is and what might have been," Hoiness reimagines the lives of Oregon's past inhabitants.

Ashland painter Tom Hausken explores time and place in his exacting abstract paintings. His work often features 20 or more layers of paint, some sections almost completely buried. But by scraping and carving into the paint, Hausken allows viewers to look back in time, glimpsing his process and decisions.

Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe moved to Portland from Ghana in 2017. His years of rigorous study and disciplined studio practice have recently paid off: Last year he landed a high-profile solo show at Roberts Projects in Los Angeles.

Ashland, Oregon artist Claire Burbridge's work has been shown at galleries in San Francisco, London and Ashland. Last year she was featured in a solo show at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene.

An associate professor of art at Portland State University, Lisa Jarrett makes socially engaged work within the African Diaspora. In her studio-based practice, she creates objects often related to and about the Black fem experience in relation to beauty and hair care.