A relaxing Sunday afternoon visiting @p_a_r_t_l_y browsing their books, art, ceramics by @martinathornhill and focused collection of apothecary goods + @musiqueplastique selection of tapes and records.
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Rug Farm by Ricky Bearghost 🪢
📍Elbow Room 318 SE Main St Suite 125 Portland OR 97214
🗓️ Date: August 17 -October 3, 2025
✨Opening reception: Sunday August 17, 2025 from 3-6pm
⏳ Hours: Fridays from 2-5pm
Elbow Room invites you to join us for Rug Farm, the first (and long overdue) solo exhibition for studio artist Ricky Bearghost. Over the past decades, Ricky has become well known for making vibrant, expressive weavings strung with rainbow pony beads and found and scrounged materials. Working on the loom, Ricky commands the cohesive power of warp and weft, drawing color, texture, juxtaposition, language, and chance encounters into unique gravitational fields. Recently, Ricky has been expanding his textile practice by hand stitching woven panels into colossal garments, and hand-carving wooden furniture with woven chair seats. Ricky is an enthusiastic participant during weekly summer outings to Elbow Room’s community farm plot , often being the first to get down in the dirt pulling weeds and planting. His excitement for garden projects can spill over into his work back at the studio with names of seasonal produce frequently cropping up in his characteristically text-heavy drawings and his foodie collages, each page a veritable feast.
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Portland Lesbian Choir Community Concert at 📍Oregon Jewish Museum
🗓️ August 21 from 7 - 8:30 p.m
✨ Doors open for seating at 6:30pm. The concert will begin at 7:00 and run for approximately 75 minutes, including a 10-minute intermission.
members of the Portland Lesbian Choir bring to life the sounds of this grassroots feminist movement — from Tracy Chapman to Bob Dylan, Melissa Etheridge, and Elton John — music that once galvanized political resistance and forged community across Oregon. This program is presented as part of Outliers and Outlaws.
In conjunction with their show, Outliers and Outlaws showcases the vibrant history of Eugene’s lesbian community from the 1960s through the 1990s. This groundbreaking project, developed through the Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project and shared with many as a museum exhibition, digital exhibition, digital archive, and full-length documentary film, captures the stories of 83 women who were instrumental in shaping the city’s social and political landscape.
The exhibition highlights an extraordinary period when Eugene was known as a “lesbian mecca,” creating a unique community that challenged traditional societal norms. At OJMCHE, visitors can dive into the history of the Jewish-Lesbian “Balabustas” community, including memories from the 1992 Freedom Seder organized around the opposition to the antigay Oregon ballot measure 9, which was eventually rejected by voters.
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Still thinking about our visit to @minimartcitypark with @colleenrjcbratton work on view both inside the gallery and outside on the mural space 🐚🌿✨🦪💧🪶🪵
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Mesmerizing #joepark at @elizabethleachgallery 🤩 seen during #firstthursdaypdx
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Everything (we think) you need to know about the Portland art scene this Summer is highlighted in our Newsletter.
✨Must-See✨ art exhibitions and events, recent adventures, collaborations and what we’re looking at and what’s on our radar 📡
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Let us know in the comments what exhibitions you already saw or want to see in #Portland #Seattle this month! Also feel free to send news /questions / comments / gossip / collaboration requests to us at hello@artandaboutpdx.com 💌#artandaboutpdx #criticspick #artblog #portlandartscene
MaryAnn Puls, Relating to Nature at Laura Vincent Design & Gallery from August 7 - 28. Opening Reception First Thursday, August 7, 5-8 p.m. A Dialogue with MaryAnn Puls, August 16, 11 a.m.
VOIR- | VER- Grizzly Grizzly
📍after/time collective, 735 SW 9th #110, Portland
⏳Hours: Tues & Thurs, 6-8 p.m. + Sat, 12-5 p.m.
🗓️ August 7-30, 2025
🎟️ Free to the public
✨Opening Reception: First Thursday, August 7, 2025 6-9 pm
the fruit of a continent-wide collaboration between after / time and Philadelphia-based artist-run gallery Grizzly Grizzly. This exhibition marks the continuing exchange of a relationship between two artist collectives at opposite ends of the United States. Located in Philadelphia, PA and Portland, OR, Grizzly Grizzly and after / time join in a shared exploration of perception and reality, despite the geographical and cultural distances between the artists. Grizzly Grizzly is one of the longest-running artist-run galleries in Philadelphia. Composed of working artists, educators from universities and art schools in the Philadelphia region, Grizzly Grizzly is known for its non-hierarchical and unsystematic approach to curation and exhibition, with an emphasis on creating the conditions for the vision and voice of the artist to be held up.
This exhibition was based on years of friendship and shared interests between members of the two galleries. As artist collectives, both after / time and Grizzly Grizzly felt this year was an opportune time to create a gallery and curatorial exchange as a way to mutually enrich each collective’s respective communities and to foster a culture of continuing dialogue and discourse as a framework for supporting each other’s practices as they and all artists try to navigate through our global polycrisis.
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Promise Me Everything, mixed media work by Randall Slaughter (with an accompanying sideshow of cardboard collage by his partner, Cheryl Andrey)
📍Happy Anyway Gallery + Shop, 3125 SE Belmont Street
🗓️ August 8 - October 6. Opening reception, August 9, 4-7 p.m.
✨ Opening reception will be on Saturday, August 9 from 4pm-7pm, free to the public. Both artists will be on hand offering custom, hand-lettered ephemera to visitors during the event.
Cleveland artists, Randall Slaughter and Cheryl Andrey will be in Portland to open their concurrent shows at Happy Anyway Gallery + Shop on SE Belmont Street. Slaughter’s show, PROMISE ME EVERYTHING, will hang in the main gallery and feature his colorful and energetic mixed media work. Andrey will be showing a small collection of her cosmic-themed cardboard assemblages in what the gallery calls a “sideshow”.
@randallslaughter @cardboardsea @wearehappyanyway
A Space becomes an Entry, by Barbara Strigel
📍Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., Portland
⏳Hours: Wed-Sat, 12-5 p.m.
🗓️ Aug 7 - 30, 2025
✨Opening reception, First Thu, Aug 7, 5 - 9 PM
🎙️In-Person Artist Talk: Sat, Aug 9 at 2 PM
🎟️ Free to the public
For over a decade, Barbara Strigel has explored how we perceive urban space through photography and collage. Her project A Space becomes an Entry blends visual fragments to evoke imagined cities and construction zones. Inspired by architecture, street life, and personal memory, Strigel’s layered images interpret rather than document cities as spaces of movement and connection.
Barbara Strigel (American/Canadian, b.1957, she/her) is a photographer, collage artist and bookmaker based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She studied photography and printmaking at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and spent over twenty years teaching photography, pottery, and graphic design at a public high school.
Strigel works in digital collage, layering fragments of her street photography with drawings, torn paper, and printmaking experiments. She is interested in architecture and how we perceive the built environment. Strigel’s work draws a visual and conceptual thread between modernist abstraction and the everyday urban landscape.
Her work has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, and Australia, and is held in public and private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Otis College of Art and Design; and Baylor University. She has been interviewed by Lenscratch, Contemporary Collage Magazine, Boooooooom, Medium, and Gallery Photographs in Tokyo.
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A collection of recent special moments 💫 #artandaboutpdx
Oregon City Festival of the Arts Returns for a Free Weekend of Art, Music & Community 🎨🎶🎪
📍 End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive & Visitor Information Center
📅 August 9-10, 2025 | 9 AM – 4 PM
💲 FREE and open to the public
🌐Follow @ocfota for updates and sneak peeks!
The beloved Oregon City Festival of the Arts (OCFOTA) returns for its annual celebration of creativity on August 9-10, 2025 at the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. This free, family-friendly festival brings together artists, performers, and the local community for an inspiring weekend of arts and culture.
Presented by the Three Rivers Artist Guild, the festival will feature over 60 local and regional artists offering a wide array of fine art, handcrafted goods, and unique creations. Attendees can browse and purchase artwork ranging from painting and ceramics to jewelry, woodworking, photography, fiber arts, and glasswork.
In addition to the juried artist spaces, visitors can enjoy:
🎶 Live music performances from talented local musicians
🍴 Delicious offerings from food truck vendors
👧 Kids’ art projects
The Oregon City Festival of the Arts is about more than art — it’s about community connection, creativity, and supporting local artists. We invite everyone to come out, explore, and be inspired.
At home in ourselves
📍HIDE & SEEK, 2638 N Interstate Ave, B, Portland, OR
✨Opening Reception (& scavenger hunt!): Saturday, August 16, 3-6pm
🫧 All ages (always) welcome!
Maxim Seisler and Nicole Seisler will be showing two separate bodies of ceramic and clay sculpture alongside some collaborative pieces of theirs (of which is an ongoing 13 year project!)
Maxim Seisler (NY) and Nicole Seisler (OR) have had their hands in clay together every time they’ve visited one another since Maxim was born. Their relationship as aunt/nephew, teacher/student, student/teacher, friend/friend is truly inspiring.
🌿Terrain: a land art experience 🌿
🗓️August 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, and 24, 2025
📍Building 5 (2516 NW 29th Avenue, Portland, OR)
⏱️Timed-entry each day from 11am until 5pm
Terrain artists were prompted by the dynamic history of what lies around and beneath Building 5. This site used to be home of Guild’s Lake and wetlands connecting Forest Park and the Willamette River.
August 15
Opening day performances throughout the day by Daniela Naomi Molnar, Santigie Fofana-Dura and Sapata Fofana-Dura, as well as Intisar Abioto and Midnite Abioto.
Artist talks with Erinn Kathryn, Daniela Naomi Molnar, and Beth Wilson at 4pm.
August 16, 4pm
Artist talk with Santigie Fofana-Dura and Sapata Fofana-Dura
August 17, 4pm
Artist talks with Rose Covert and Amanda Triplett
August 23, 4pm
Artist talks with Lauren Carrera and Jocelyn Rice
August 24, 3:30pm
Artist talks with Midnite Abioto and Philip A. Robinson, Jr.
Closing performance by Alice Christine Walker at 4:30pm.
🎟️Tickets are on a sliding scale and proceeds will be split among the participating artists. Your generosity is greatly appreciated.🎟️
ℹ️1. Work-in-progress courtesy of Philip A. Robinson, Jr. (2025) 2. Work-in-progress courtesy of Jocelyn Rice (2025)
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Somos Animales Poéticos, by Cristina Velásquez
📍Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., Portland
⏳Hours: Wed-Sat, 12-5 p.m.
🗓️ Aug 7 - 30, 2025
✨Opening reception, First Thu, Aug 7, 5 - 9 PM
🎙️In-Person Artist Talk: Sat, Aug 9 at 3:30 PM
🎟️ Free to the public
In Somos Animales Poéticos, Cristina Velásquez weaves collage and text into shifting constellations of memory and identity. Embracing hybridity and speculation, she explores how experience is archived and reimagined through intertwining reality and fiction. With fluid forms and fragmented narratives, her work opens space for new ways of seeing, being, and inhabiting body and resistance.
Cristina Velásquez (b.1985, Colombian, she/her) is an artist and publisher based between Austin and Bogotá. She received an MFA from the Bard College–International Center of Photography program in New York City in 2017. Velásquez’s work has been exhibited at the Musée de l’Elysée, the ICP Museum, ArtBo, MoMA PS1, the Houston Center for Photography, among others, and is held in both private and public collections.
Her photobooks have been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Research Institute, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, ICP, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and George Washington University, among others.
Recent awards and residencies include the Yaddo Residency (2025), the Dust Collective Prize (2025), Latitude AIR (2023), ReGeneration4 at the Musée de l’Elysée (2020), Light Work (2019), the Carol Crow Fellowship (2019), and the Kris Graves Projects LOST II Book Prize (2019).
Velásquez is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of New Poetics Publishing, an independent press that collaborates with emerging artists on contemporary and experimental approaches to photography in the book form. She is also the art director at Paisajes Coloniales. Velásquez is represented by Assembly Gallery.
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@cristinavelasquezstudio
Summer Group Show
📍PDX Contemporary Art, 1881 NW Vaughn St., Portland
⏳Hours: Tues-Sat 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
🗓️ Date: July 2 - August 23, 2025
✨Opening reception: August 2, 2025 from 3 - 5 p.m.
🎟️ Free to the public
PDX CONTEMPORARY ART annual summer group show 🌼 (this exhibition always has new discoveries for collectors!)
Featuring work by represented and invited artists: Christian Abusaid, Nick Blosser, Iván Carmona, Heloise De Mil, Marjorie Dial, Bean Finneran, Ellen George, Johannes Girardoni, Shanti Grandhi, Victoria Haven, Justin L’Amie, Yamamoto Masao, D.E. May, Kristen Miller, Jeffry Mitchell, Jenene Nagy, Joe Rudko, Tad Savinar, Susan Seubert, Adam Sorensen, Barbara Stafford, Storm Tharp, Nell Warren, Heather Watkins, and Marie Watt.
ℹ️Featured work: 1. Nell Warren, 2. Marjorie Dial, 3. Marie Watt
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Holly Osborne, Garden Party & Benny Fountain, Consolation: Paintings from The Hill
📍Froelick Gallery
🗓️ July 23 - September 13, 2025
✨First Thursday Reception, August 7, 5-8 p.m.
🗣️Exhibition Talk, Saturday, August 9, 11 a.m.
Osborne is a modern painter who responds to life by constantly painting both representational and abstract compositions.
Fountain's recent paintings address his fascination with the structure of painted compositions and the elemental forms of his regional landscape.
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Midsummer Night’s Dream Machine | Presented by Gather:Make:Shelter, SoundsTruck NW, and the Oregon Symphony
📍 PSU South Park Blocks (between SW Mill and SW Market)
🗓️ August 14, 2025 from 5-8 p.m.
🌟Free to the public
This vibrant evening transforms public space into a living, breathing canvas—where wearable art, live music, and spoken word converge in a powerful celebration. Midsummer Night’s Dream Machine honors the creative voices and lived experiences of artists from Gather:Make:Shelter (GMS)—a collective of individuals experiencing houselessness and poverty—and invites the community to witness and participate in a public expression of resilience, healing, and shared imagination.
At the heart of the event is a live runway presentation featuring original wearable art crafted by GMS artists. The runway will be brought to life with a mix of live and recorded music, featuring musicians from the Oregon Symphony, performing on SoundsTruck NW’s innovative mobile stage. Many pieces reflect a creative exchange between GMS artists, Oregon Symphony musicians, and the SoundsTruck NW team, with music and design thoughtfully developed in dialogue to honor and uplift each other’s work.
Bring a picnic, a blanket or chairs, and join friends and neighbors for a magical summer evening under the trees. Midsummer Night’s Dream Machine is more than a performance—it is a heartbeat of shared imagination, belonging, connection, and collective joy.
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