Events

In this special, two-day exhibition, Ikebana International celebrates the chrysanthemum. Ikebana International first celebrated Kiku Matsuri, the Chrysanthemum festival, at Portland Japanese Garden in 1983. Local Ikebana artists from various schools or styles will create arrangements featuring chrysanthemums, known as kiku in Japanese. Kiku Matsuri, or Choyo no Sekku, observed in Japan on September 9, is...

NAYA’s Annual Neerchokikoo Powwow celebrates Native American history, culture, and cultural arts. Since 2010, the powwow has welcomed the community to gather to celebrate culture through dance, music, art and food. The Powwow also honors partners, volunteers and donors whose contributions to NAYA’s work have enhanced the lives of our youth, families and elders over...

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...

Tyrannosaurs – Meet the Family brings the latest tyrannosaur discoveries to life, overturning preconceptions about these ferocious predators. The exhibition explores the most feared and revered of all dinosaurs in new and different ways.   The exhibition’s real and replica specimens are spectacular in scale and form and reveal some of the most significant discoveries...

The Portland Chinatown Museum presents BONG WAI CHEN: Reframing Tradition, a retrospective on the art and life of Portland Chinatown artist Bong Wai Chen (1911-1968), who influenced generations of Oregon artists and the practice of calligraphy in the U.S. This exhibition is the third of a series of retrospectives organized by Portland Chinatown Museum and...

From the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned European art collection, French Moderns: Monet to Matisse showcases approximately 60 works of art considered to be modernist masterpieces. Focusing on France as the artistic center of international modernism from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, the paintings, drawings, and sculptures on display range widely in scale, subject matter, and style. Impressionism, symbolism, fauvism,...

World Forestry Center presents Tree People, an exhibition by Finnish photographers Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo. This exhibition braids forest mythology with an almost forgotten treasure trove of customs and beliefs, portraying the sacred connection between people and trees in Finnish folk culture. A journey through time and place, Tree People is underpinned by forest-based myths and lore...

Thanks to the generosity of the Kirkland family of Los Angeles, visitors to the Portland Art Museum will be able to enjoy fourteen art treasures from the collection of the Kirkland family, many of which have not been publicly displayed for decades. The works span nearly a century, from the monumental 1887 canvas of Jamaica...

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU is pleased to present Color Outside the Lines from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, featuring the work of 18 contemporary artists who have used color to question institutions, beliefs, and expectations. All events are free to the public. A debate in art...

Wings in Wood and Photos: A Feathered Affair From eagles to sandhill cranes this show, featuring gorgeous photography by Gary Grossman and Heather Kolbo’s exquisite wood art, celebrates the beauty of Northwest avian friends.  a flower, a shell, a water tower: North Pole Studio Group Show. Visit this exhibition by self-taught Portland artists who work at North...

Chim: Between Devastation and Resurrection presents the work of distinguished photojournalist Dawid Szymin (Chim”) born in Warsaw in 1911. Chim published under the name David Seymour. His keen observations of 20th-century European politics, social life, and culture documented the beginnings of the antifascist struggle to the rebuilding of countries ravaged by the war. With Henri...

Leonora Carrington (1917 – 2011) explores themes of metamorphosis, magic, and biblical allegory. She populates her compositions with hybrid creatures; human figures fused with mythical and imagined beasts suggest a confrontation between the material world and the world of dreams. Among the early European surrealists, Carrington is a pioneer in her century-spanning explorations of the...

Comprised of 26 poems made over five years, In the Frail is a dialogue, an invitation, and a collection of embodied verse. Crafted from the 1944 Persons and Places by philosopher George Santayana, these poems are composed not solely in the mind but channeled through a body: trimming and gluing selected syllables and phrases into new combinations-a tactile construction...

Froelick Gallery is proud to present two outstanding solo exhibitions by Orlando Almanza and Jake Scharbach  ORLANDO ALMANZA | "Gente de Río" JAKE SCHARBACH | "Treachery of Images" Exhibition Special Dates: Preview: Wed. Sept 4, 5:30 p.m. Join an intimate interview by India Lovejoy, host of Tinted Connections, as she and artist Orlando Almanza discuss the inspirations...

In Present Space, a solo exhibition of new work by Kim Smith Claudel is both a meditation on and a (failing) attempt to capture the ephemeral complexity of being a spirit in a physical world. With dancing shadows, paintings that are not objects, and sculptures in decay, In Present Space embraces the un-holdable and fleeting...