Events

Throughlines embraces wonder and curiosity, bringing together artworks from across the Museum’s collections to explore the range of artistic innovation. From diverse geographies, cultures, and time periods, artists have consistently created images, objects, and experiences that ask us to consider ourselves and the world from different perspectives. Visitors will encounter playful groupings that reveal how artists...

Discover Exquisite Creatures Revealed, a new and expanded showcase of work from artist and naturalist Christopher Marley. His intricate artworks feature rare organisms from around the world — including a 10-foot Japanese Spider Crab, a striking Amazonian stingray, and a never-before-preserved leafy seadragon from Australia — in stunning displays like you’ve never seen before. Oregon-based...

Curated by Sima Familant, Breathing. Room opens October 18 and showcases renowned artist Ranjani Shettar’s first exhibition in Portland. Her monumental installation Morning Song — crafted from lacquered wood by Indian artisans — explores the balance between industrialization and nature. The exhibit invites viewers to pause and reflect on space and stillness. It also features works by Jeff Elrod, Naotaka Hiro,...

Psychedelic Rock Posters and Fashion of the 1960s reveals the passion and creativity of the era through the iconic rock posters of San Francisco and beyond. The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco was an incubator for ideas, expression, social thought, and, above all, music. Young people from across the nation gathered there to explore alternative ways...

An exhibition immersing viewers in the world of Godhead, an interactive webcomic that proposes an Afrofuturist vision of the United States in the nineteenth century. The narrative centers on a girl genius named Walnut enslaved in a historical United States where slavery is still legal. The story follows Walnut as she develops an unlikely friendship with...

Taken From Their Families explores the lesser-known history of Angel Island and its role in the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. The former immigration center was used to process prisoners of war and Nikkei community leaders living on the West Coast and Hawai’i. The exhibition presents the stories of 24 individuals who...

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU is pleased to present Just Playin’ Around, featuring the work of Derrick Adams, Calvin Chen, Jeremy Okai Davis, Latoya Lovely, Jillian Mayer, Takashi Murakami, Jeremy Rotsztain, Heidi Schwegler, Joshua Sin, Matthew Earl Williams, and Erwin Wurm. All events are free to the public. Play and humor have...

The exhibition explores the work of three artists representing three generations of one family: Holocaust survivor Allice Lok Cahana (1929 – 2017), her oldest son, Ronnie Cahana (born 1953), a major stroke survivor, and his daughter, Kitra Cahana (born 1987), a filmmaker and photographer. Alice Lok Cahana grew up in Sarvar, Hungary. She survived four different...

Alberta Street Gallery's February show is a Local Photographers Group Show — photographs by Chenoa Kacheta, Cory Cliffe And Carol Isaak. In the windows will be Love Works — Artwork by David Friedman and Jewelry By Leslie McMillan Opening Reception January 30, 6-9 p.m.

Tender to the Touch, A solo exhibition by Kim Smith Claudel, suggests a time of softening, a time to be tender and also a time of feeling tender — sore, sensitive, bruised; and yet, still strong and resilient. This exhibition is a collection of recent works: tenuous sculptures on the verge of collapse, large ethereal paintings stretched...

This February, Waterstone Gallery is pleased to present Unconventional Wisdom: The Work of North Pole Studio for the annual invitational show. This year's group show is a collection of works by Adam Richards, Adolph Bastendorff, Davis Wohlford, Deanna Wiessenhaus, Doug Wing, James Enos, Nathan Ueno, and Tyla Parsons of North Pole Studio. Waterstone is thrilled to...