Art

For the latest installment of OPB’s "At Work With" series, we get to know Oregon tattoo artist Ruby Gore. She specializes in helping people cover up scars with tattoos, and taking a trauma-aware approach to tattooing.

The new solo play “Precipice” was conceived by actor and self-described “memory activist” Damaris Webb. We talk with her and playwright Chris Gonzales about this new work.

A pair of Portland tattooers are hoping to fill a gap in the market with a new tattoo convention that focuses on the artists themselves.

Alice Lok Cahana survived the Nazi Holocaust, moved to the US and became a successful painter. Her multi-dimensional work explores the trauma of her time at the camps and offers a glimpse of hope and survival, turning “ashes into rainbows.” Her son, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana, is a poet and his daughter Kitra Chana, is an acclaimed photographer. The new show at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education presents work by these three generations of artists, looking at the concept of immortality through art. Survival and Intimations of Immortality runs through May 25th at the OJMCHE in Portland.

Stephanie Craig is a seventh-generation basket weaver, artist and enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. She shares with us the inspiration and traditions at the heart of her new exhibit, "Hands of the Ancestors."

Over the last decade, several hundred Native American students and their families helped design, carve, and paint a series of totem poles for the Eugene 4J School District's NATIVES program. Five were installed outside Eugene schools, often with the burning of sage and traditional drumming.

"Chispa" and "Mall Town," both featured in the festival running from April 10–20, use the Lloyd Center shopping mall as their backdrop, but with very different goals.

April 30, 2025 will mark the 50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, and for Van Le and Allen Luong, it’s the perfect time to acknowledge an important moment for the Vietnamese community, and also looking forward to a brighter future.

Jeremey Peck, a longtime friend of Darcelle XV and a drag artist with 30 years performing, took ownership in February

Co-chair Rep. Rob Nosse joins us to share the progress the caucus has made since it began in 2023 — and what he sees as the biggest challenges and opportunities for the arts in Oregon in the current political moment.