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
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@seahorsesunited
@rolanddahwen
@erinboberg
@marcusfischer
@amgartworks
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@from_my_heartfloooow
@hoarfrostpress
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#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
The Thread from Your Head is Connected to the Sun, Anna Fidler
One Wall Gallery (Eugene)
March 3-29, 2026
Open every day 10-7, Sunday 12-6
Free and open to the public
Work exploring the spiritual, the surreal and the feminine rooted in memory, mark making and intuitive mark making.
@annafidlerart
@one.wall.gallery
Group exhibition featuring Alexandra Boyden, Jen Crowe, Mark Dunst, Scott Gellatly, Marilyn Joyce, Clive Knights, Scotty Peek, Erika Warhus, Kirk Weller. Laura Vincent Design & Gallery
March 5 - 28, 2026.
Opening Reception: First Thursday, March 5, 5-8 pm.
Beneath the Bark, Kevin Jesequel
📍 Waterstone Gallery @waterstonegallery
🗓️March 4–29.
✨Opening reception: March 5, 5-8 p.m.
🗣️Artist Talk: March 15, 11 am
Woodturner Kevin Jesequel’s first exhibition at the gallery. Jesequel creates sensual vessels that allow the wood to be the star. Revealing what lies beneath the bark, his hollow form pieces explore line as volume and the emotion of a curve. Jesequel’s mastery of his craft elevates our everyday contact with wood into a more intimate and sensory experience.
Kevin Jesequel is a woodturner living in Tigard, Oregon. After the passing of his mother in 2020, Jesequel became interested in hollow forms with the intention of creating an urn—an experience that evolved into a focused artistic practice. He is now recognized as one of today’s leading hollow form artists.
#waterstonegallery #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #hollowformwood #woodturning #pearldistrictartwalk
Wesley James Exhibit
📍River Art Gallery
🗓️March 5-31, 2026
✨Opening reception: First Thursday, March 5, free pizza buffet, 5:30- 6:30 pm
Wesley James is a Portland-based multidisciplinary artist working across media and creative industries. Wesley's bold, vibrant compositions speak to the subconscious, feeding curiosity in maker and viewer alike. Wildly energetic in both appearance and attitude, the decisive quality of his work is automatic; unwaveringly honest in content and form. From acrylic on canvas to crayon on cardboard, a commitment to intuition, experimentation, and just plain fun takes the lead.
The River Art Gallery is proud to announce its opening inside River, Pool & Sports Bar, located at 19 NW 5th Ave., Portland, OR. River Art Gallery will host a First Thursday celebration each month, spotlighting a new featured artist. These monthly events are designed to bring the community together through art, conversation, and culture. Each First Thursday opening will include a complimentary pizza buffet, welcoming neighbors, art lovers, and curious visitors alike.
#portlandartscene #newgallery #artandaboutpdx #wesleyjames
2026 MFA Print Media/Post-Bacc Open Studios
Thursday, March 5, 5pm - 8pm
511 NW Broadway
Free + Open to the public
Look "behind the curtain" at the artistic practices and creative projects of our graduate students!
Every year PNCA’s graduate students invite the public into their studios and exhibition spaces for an evening filled with art, design and dialogue.
PNCA's annual MFA Open Studios is an opportunity to come together with fellow artists, educators and community members to get a behind-the-scenes view of what PNCA’s emerging artists and designers have been working on. This event will feature work from current students in the MFA Print Media and Post-Baccalaureate program and will span a wide variety of media, forms, and concepts. It will be an engaging evening of art, design, and community!
Finding Figurative: The Human Form at the 📍Rental Sales Gallery at the Portland Art Museum 1237 SW 10th Ave
🗓️March 6 - April 4, 2026
✨Opening reception: Friday, March 6, from 4-7 pm.
Featuring pieces by: Paula Bullwinkel, Brian Cameron, Jennifer Gillia Cutshall, Richard Cutshall, Helday de la Cruz, Scott Erwert, William Hernandez, Stacy Lovejoy, Karen Wippich, Mitch Wolfsehr, Haelyn Y, and Michelle Yamamoto.
Cover image: Nobody's Baby CG - Heldáy de la Cruz @siguele.cabron
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