Picnic, by Lisa Onstad
📍Hoffman Center for the Arts (Manzanita)
🗓️March 5–28, 2026
✨Opening reception: March 7, 3-5 pm
Travel strongly influences Lisa’s work. While traveling, she often feels as if she is on one long, glorious picnic, sampling everything at the buffet: ripe strawberries, vivid emotions, layered histories, and life in all its beautiful and ruinous glory. Being in new places heightens her senses, and those feelings follow her back to the studio.
Lisa’s new work, Picnic, is a response to the rich and sometimes overwhelming emotion and visual stimuli she experiences while traveling. Lisa uses familiar patterns in her mixed-media paintings to organize and bring order, allowing her to fully inhabit these moments. In Picnic, Lisa invites viewers to approach each day as a kind of picnic, an opportunity to pause, savor, and enjoy the present moment.
Based in Portland, Oregon, Lisa Onstad is an abstract painter who explores shifting connections to self, place, and others, balancing intention with chance and structure with spontaneity, always seeking surprise in the outcome.
Lisa has worked as an art therapist, managed a letterpress print shop, and taught painting and book arts workshops in Oregon and California. She studied art at Lewis & Clark College, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the Oregon College of Art and Craft. Her work is held in public and private collections in the U.S. and abroad.
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #contemporarypainting #hoffmanartcenter #artbythebeach
Keepsakes by Kiko Bordeos and Alexis Gallo
📍RSA Projects Gallery, 1327 SE Division St
✨Opening reception: First Friday April 3rd, 2026 from 5-8 PM
🎟️Free to the public!
Keepsakes is a collection of work by Kiko Bordeos and Alexis Gallo that capture and preserve moments in time. Through the use of grids and vibrant colors the canvas acts as a record and container for experiences and emotions, making the intangible, tangible. These process based arrangements allow for play and spontaneity that create a dialogue of past and present self that is reflective, energetic, and immediate.
#portlandartscene #artandaboutpdx #risograph #printedmatter #artopening
Notch for the Heart, by Ben Skiba
📍Carnation Contemporary, 8371 N Interstate Ave #3
⏳Hours: Sat-Sun 12-5 p.m.
🗓️ April 3 - 26, 2026
✨Opening reception: Friday, April 3, 5–8 PM
🎟️ Free to the public
Building upon a connection to clay’s continuous teachings, Notch for the Heart is Skiba’s first show of ceramic works since 2018. Glazed wall sculptures merge with carved wooden limbs while others are connected and wrapped in bandages of colorful tape. The same carved hands that shaped and supported the ceramics through their process extend from the wall in a split gesture of offering and withholding. On the floor, a knotted snake-form and an inverted jar point towards both a career of exploring the ceramic line and the human capacity for love, pain, curiosity & fear.
Handbound, on a bench for reading, is a one-of-one copy of “Notch for the Heart”, Skiba’s first collection of poems intermixed with excerpts from texts by Annie Dillard, Jack Whitten, Jasper Johns and a few others. Alongside the sculptural works are paintings in house paint, oil, grease pencil and pastel. These paintings join their sculptural kin to form a group of objects functioning as “The things and the people. / The signal and its noise.” (Peter Gizzi, Findspot Unknown from ‘Fierce Elegy’, 2023)
Ben Skiba was raised in the St. Croix Valley of Wisconsin and received his BFA from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He lives and works out of his home studio in Portland, Oregon, working primarily with clay, paint, tape, canvas and paper. Also a poet, his studio centers around the connective tissue between his writing and a growing cast of shapes & forms that both need and provide support. In 2023, he started HIDE & SEEK, an open home gallery project focused on curatorial projects that extend from his studio work. Friday lunch gatherings occur weekly at his home/studio/gallery.
#portlandartscene #artandaboutpdx #ceramics sculpture @benskiba @hideandseekgallery @carnationcontemporary
A little recap of @souwesterarts events that were held in the woods🌲
Megan Chin #deeplistening #landart installation
📖Taylor Wallau a collection of artist hand prints displayed in and amongst the forest grounds
#souwesterartsweek #artatthebeach #timebasedart souwester
A little recap of @souwesterarts events that were held at the beach 🌊
🐚Haley Lauw ~ collaborative pewter sand-casting
Lucien Spect & Frances Why of Collective Dot Dot Dot ~ performance
#souwesterartsweek #artatthebeach #timebasedart #souwester
Day 1, Friday events at @souwesterarts week
🏕️ Arriving at @souwester lodge
✨ @ilwacoartworks showcase with #rakufiring
A moment for @pdxjazz fest last night at @revolutionhall featuring Jeff Parker IVtet + SML 🎶✨ absolutely incredible @jeffparkersounds @sml.band
#artandjazz #portlandjazz #jazzfestival #artandculture
Even before the artists arrive, you can feel the Sou’wester leaning toward possibility, anticipating Arts Week, with public events taking place March 13-15. This year’s theme, The Space Between, feels less like a concept and more like a truth. Creativity doesn’t happen on command; it's in the pause and the moments we almost overlook. Sou’wester Arts knows this. Read more on the blog... artandaboutpdx.com/blog/the-space-between-souwester-arts-week-2026
#portlandartscene #artcommunity #artistresidency
Thinking Through Mud: Arrangements of Clay + Ikebana
Co-curated by Morgan Ritter & Jeffry Mitchell @raisin_consciousness @jeffrymitchell
🏺Featuring work by James Alby, Lisa Conway, Marjorie Dial, Nick Norman, Ben Killen Rosenberg, Ben Skiba and ahuva s. zaslavsky with Renka 蓮華) Ikebana @alby_there4u @lisaconwayceramics @marjoriedial @nicknow99 @flipbunny @benskiba @ahuvasz
📍Artspace, 380 A Avenue in Lake Oswego @artscounciloflakeoswego
🌟Opening reception February 20, 5:30-7:30 pm
🗓️February 20-April 10, 2026
⏳Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m
The artists in this group exhibition are all united by a shared way of thinking through their hands and arriving at unexpected, visceral work. ✋🏽🪨🍃
Ripe with aliveness, the artworks evoke the earth itself, the streets layered upon the mud, and the overall residue of life carried across these surfaces. Within their craft, skill is not performed. Instead, the work demonstrates care and curiosity for the process of making. Clay’s ubiquity underscores its democratic potential: a material that is not scarce, yet capable of extraordinary meaning and transformation.
Mostly hand-built ceramic sculptures participate in a visual conversation with ikebana about control and surprise. Portland-based Renka (蓮華) Ikebana, led by Amy RM Stahl, follows the unconstrained ethos of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana. Founded in 1927 by Sofu Teshigahara, Sogetsu believes that anyone can arrange anywhere, with any material. Relying on assemblages of unlikely materials and forms, the sculptures all exist between becoming and collapse.
1. James Alby, Downtown Under The Fremont, Ceramic, 2025
2. Ben Killen Rosenberg, Plus Dachshund, Acrylics on wood, Ceramic tiles mounted on wood, 2025
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryceramics
@helenscostume ✨ STICKY w. Katherine Aungier, Pat Boas, Agatha Jaquiss, Rebecca Shippee
OUTER VOICE ALL-TIME ✨A SHOWCASE OF LIVE & SCREENED TIME-BASED ART✨
Date: Sunday, March 15, 2026
Time: 5:00pm
PICA annex @picapdx (15 NE Hancock St. Portland, OR)
An exciting evening of live and screened time-based art by Outer Voice 2024, 2025, and 2026; the current and past alliance cohorts! The program will consist of a variety of short contemporary art works in video, music, audio, dance, performance art, and more.
Featuring: Claire Barrera, Julia Calabrese, Martha Daghlian, Roland Dahwen, Erin Boberg Doughton, Marcus Fischer, Adia Gibbs, Anne Greenwood, Bridgette Hickey, Leslie Hickey, KT Kusmaul, Emma Lutz-Higgins, Sarah Rushford, Ash Stone, Carolyn Supinka, Ariella Tai, and Qi You
@tlalcihuatlx
@hot_and_cold_food
@seahorsesunited
@rolanddahwen
@erinboberg
@marcusfischer
@amgartworks
@apricotfool
@from_my_heartfloooow
@hoarfrostpress
@bodyhomefatdancepdx
@emmgemmzz
@sarahrushfordart
@yourfavoriteashhole
@queenofcalcium
@ariellatai
@qi_you__
#portlandartscene #timebasedart
A teeny tiny recap from last night at @oregoncontemporary @thirdanglenewmusic gala/happening/party ✨✨✨ so much incredible art covering the walls this clip barely does it justice.
Check out the 50/50 sale to browse, admire and covet.
The 1st annual Portland Small Press & Art Book fair is happening tomorrow at PNCA! 📍NW Broadway, Portland, OR 97210
📌Free & open to the public
🎈RSVP on Eventbrite - link in @ccac_pnca bio
Check out a print-forward celebration of independent publishing. You can expect: risograph books, zines, small-edition art books, and experimental printed matter and more! Do not miss this and the upcoming workshops!
⏳Open⌛️
🗓️Thursday 3/5 & Friday 3/6 from 5-8pm
🗓️Saturday 3/7 from 11am-3pm
🌟Public Programming will include🌟
🗣️Friday 3/6 at 6 PM - Artist Lecture with photographer and art book maker Martha Naranjo Sandoval @martha_mydear
📓Saturday 3/7 at 12 PM - Zine Workshop led by Martha Naranjo Sandoval (RSVP required)
📘Saturday 3/7 at 3 PM - Small Press Publishing in an Interconnected World moderated by Secret Room Press
🎪Saturday 3/7 at 4 PM - Community Gathering
🪄The following independent publishers will have tables: @containercorp, @colorfantasy.biz, @michi.press, @seltzerpress, @ankh.inkh.studios, @justseeds, @hopeamico, @_pocketpress_, @berm.world, @frvnk_photo, @Nightedlife , @Cowpokepress, @maralane, @nateorton.art , @iprc_pdx, @whatnowpress, @hibookspdx, @lurchzine, @secretroompress, @outletpdx, @wishcandy, @ansklaven, @matarileediciones, @passages_bookshop, @everythingissomuch @buckmanjournal, @pnca_creativewriting @mild_sevens_ @PortlandDesignHistory, @pncaphotography @pncazineclub, and PNCA community tables!
#portlandartscene #smallprint #risograph #publishers
TONIGHT! 🗓️ March 7 🕗️ 7:00–10:00pm 🥂 Raise a glass 𝘢𝘯𝘥 a paddle at @oregoncontemporary and @thirdanglenewmusic 𝙜𝙖𝙡𝙖 / 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙮 / 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜
Don’t miss this evening of art, performance, bites, and celebration.
This is one of our favorite events to purchase art at! You can support the arts in our beloved city in a real and tangible way! Walk away with artwork and schmooze! Perfect for young and established collectors— don’t miss your chance to show up!
Hosted by the one-and-only Pepper Pepper, featuring performances by Methods Body, Machado Mijiga, and Daniel Reyes Llinás. @thepepperpepper @methodsbody @machadomijiga danielreyesllinas_ @mertibadgeco
Drinks served by Merit Badge, and celebrate with our community in a space designed for connection, creativity, and joy.
Plus 50/50 Art Sale will be on view, and available for purchase, with 50% of all proceeds going directly to the artists. Participating artists lineup dropping soon! Keep an eye out for that!
#artgala #portlandartscene #celebrate #buyart
Memory Palace, Marsha Mack
📍Paragon Arts Gallery, 815 N. Killingsworth St., Portland
🗓️ Date: March 6 - April 11, 2026
✨ Opening reception: Friday, March 6 from, 5-8 pm
⏳ Hours: Wed-Fri 12-7 pm , Sat 12-5 pm
🎟️The gallery and all events are free and open to the public
🍬Candy Tasting Workshops:
🍭Friday, March 6 from, 5-8 pm & 🍭Saturday, April 4th, 2026, from 12-3 pm
Drawing parallels between mixed-race identity and formative memories in Asian grocery stores, Marsha Mack’s Memory Palace is a solo exhibition of ceramic sculpture, installation, and imported candies. Imagined as a surreal retail environment where aisles hold handbuilt ceramics and found object alongside the artist’s favorite childhood candies, Mack creates mixed-media snapshots capturing moments and ideas tracing back to the formation of her Vietnamese American biracial identity - one that is sentimental, at times problematic, and actively evolving. Arranged in altar-like tableaus on commercial gondola shelving, memory and fantasy blend, revealing an underlying logic where the potential for curiosity, delight, and personal mythology is present throughout.
Memory Palace was made possible through support from RACC and the Office of Arts & Culture. @regionalarts #portlandartscene #candy #ceramics #artandaboutpdx #paragonart
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Picnic, by Lisa Onstad
Hoffman Center for the Arts (Manzanita), March 5–28, 2026
Opening reception: March 7, 3-5 pm
Travel strongly influences Lisa’s work. While traveling, she often feels as if she is on one long, glorious picnic, sampling everything at the buffet: ripe strawberries, vivid emotions, layered histories, and life in all its beautiful and ruinous glory. Being in new places heightens her senses, and those feelings follow her back to the studio.
Lisa’s new work, Picnic, is a response to the rich and sometimes overwhelming emotion and visual stimuli she experiences while traveling. Lisa uses familiar patterns in her mixed-media paintings to organize and bring order, allowing her to fully inhabit these moments.
In Picnic, Lisa invites viewers to approach each day as a kind of picnic, an opportunity to pause, savor, and enjoy the present moment.
Based in Portland, Oregon, Lisa Onstad is an abstract painter who explores shifting connections to self, place, and others, balancing intention with chance and structure with spontaneity, always seeking surprise in the outcome.
Lisa has worked as an art therapist, managed a letterpress print shop, and taught painting and book arts workshops in Oregon and California. She studied art at Lewis & Clark College, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the Oregon College of Art and Craft. Her work is held in public and private collections in the U.S. and abroad.
Loud and Clear, a group show of 5X5 work by over 130 artists, a self-portrait group show co-curated by Chelsea Stephen & Zachary Rau, at The Purple Door Gallery, Feb 20 - March 22.
Will Brown, Layered Environment @willbrown.art
False Front @frontfalse
Feb 22 - March 15
Open Saturdays and Sundays 12 - 3pm and also by appointment.
IF, Kristan Kennedy, Sister Corita Kent, and Hilda Morris
Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Feb 21 –May 17
