PNCA Design Lecture Series with Marisa Bohlmann
📍 511 Northwest Broadway first-floor Mediatheque
🗓️ Dec 3 from 6:30-8 pm
⏳ Hours: 6:30 to 8 pm
🆓 to the public - RSVP on Eventbrite
The PNCA Design Lecture Series welcomes Marisa Bohlmann for a workshop exploring the connections between personal and professional practice. The PNCA Design Lecture Series welcomes a broad range of creatives who are breaking expectations of what design can be and do in the world.
Bohlmann will explore the threads between who you are and the work you create. Through guided prompts, you’ll design tarot-inspired cards that reflect your values, desires, and creative voice — creating a personal artifact to inspire your practice and help you attract the kinds of projects and people you desire across your life.
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Don’t Shoot PDX Urges Community Members to Connect and Organize Through Art and Archives
“Social change takes community,” says Teressa Raiford, founder and executive director of Don’t Shoot Portland. “Each year the community art build allows us to create space for ideas, voices and imaginations while supporting and promoting vital mutual aid work.”
Painting by local artist Simran 🐸
Ceramics by Jordan McDonald at Spartan Shop — beautifully crafted, conscious restraint and thoughtful formations. Featuring vases, sculptures and tables. Highlights from the opening reception Nov 13 ✨
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryceramics #jordanmcdonald @jordanmcdonaldstudio @spartanshop
Meet us at the NEW @portlandartmuseum 💫
Opening to the public Nov 20! Opening weekend will have free days from Nov 20-23, reserve your ticket to see the PAM’s transformation and experience their collection in person all over again and in a new and refreshing way.
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Elegy, by Stephen Hayes at Elizabeth Leach. Now until Nov 29.
Surrounded by Tanner Lind’s vivid, colorful abstract paintings, a conversation unfolded in his studio. The discussion naturally began around his practice—what he was currently making or had made recently.
Flipping through the art books in his studio. The conversation then shifted to the importance of art history and the necessity for artists to recognize the origins of their work, how it intersects with historical or contemporary dialogue, and how they develop their unique approach.
We had an extensive discussion about the artists Tanner admires and how that influences his practice—if and when it does—as well as movements and “classes” of artists creating work around the same time, with sometimes similar, overlapping, or differing approaches. This led to candid thoughts around paint and paintings.
🎨 Artwork @tannerlind_studio
🔏🎞️ Intro + film photos by @ashxgifford
Read more online 🌀 artandaboutpdx.com/blog/mini-interview-tanner-lind
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Join artist Cara Levine at Pacific Northwest College of Art for an artist lecture on her work and practice.
November 10 | 6-7:30pm | PNCA (511 NW Broadway)| Free with RSVP to PNCA
Ahead of her exhibition, Without End: Recent Work on Grief (Nov 9, 2025—May 31, 2026) and its themes of loss, memory, and healing.
Day and Night, Kristen Miller at PDX Contemporary Art, up until November 29, 2025 ✨✨
Ralph Pugay: ShangriLIEF at Adams and Ollman 🌟
This show is not to be missed Portland! This solo exhibition by Pugay covers the walls of the gallery in drawings and site specific wall paintings. So many people showed up for the opening last night to celebrate ❤️🔥 (tbh can’t believe we captured video without the crowd!!) up until Dec 20 — go! 🎨
Brave Atlas Open Studio
📍 EASTBANK COMMERCE CENTER 1001 SE WATER AVENUE #240
🗓️ Nov 16 2025✨Opening reception 1-6 pm
⏳ Hours: 1-6 pm
🆓 to the public
Founded in 2022 by Rebecca Boraz, Brave Atlas is a printmaking studio located at the East Bank Commerce Center. Please join us for an open studio highlighting the work of our 6 studio members: Rebecca Boraz, Emily Bixler, Chris Harmon, Daniel Jasa, Alison Lutz, Meg Morton and Olive Ritson. Art by all of our members will be on display, snacks will be provided. Several businesses in the building will be hosting open studio events as well.
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Planning, by Raphael Arar
📍 Carnation Contemporary, 8371 N Interstate Ave #3, Portland
🗓️ Nov 1 – 30 2025
⏳ Hours: Sat-Sun 12-5 p.m.
🆓 to the public
In Planning, Raphael Arar extends his research-based art practice into the terrain of collective decision-making. The exhibition moves between earnest proposals and playful provocations, between technical schemas and poetic operations. Each piece navigates the design challenges of organizing ourselves differently, treating economic coordination as both practical problem and aesthetic proposition. The works assemble fragments of other possibilities, leaving open the question of what economic democratic planning might look like.
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Maybe Together We Can Get Somewhere, by Andrea Alonge
📍 Well Well Projects, 8371 N Interstate Ave. #1, Portland
🗓️ Nov 1 – 30, 2025
⏳ Hours: Sat-Sun 12-5 p.m.
🆓 to the public
Maybe Together We Can Get Somewhere honors the moment of connection, the distant glimpse of the other, the fluid exchange between. In a time where we drift further and farther apart, yet are more connected than ever before, these works visualize the immaterial ties that bind, despite the human condition of perpetual isolation- in the mind, in the physical world, in the digital space, through history to those who came before. This show contains two elements of work- one situated in the interrelation of body, mind, time, space, and one exploring the artist’s individual and self-contained experience of her direct environment, grounded in the present moment. Opening on All Soul’s Day, the day when the veils between worlds thin, this work pays homage to all of us as spirits in the material world- maybe together we can get somewhere.
#artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland #pdx #portland #portlandoregon #pnw #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #pdxartgalleries #discoverart #artblog #artplatform #arthappenings #artgallery
Neural-Lithic Harvests exhibition by Hannah Newman
📍North View Gallery, 12000 SW 49th, Portland, Oregon
🗓️ Nov 1 – Dec 13, 2025
⏳ Hours: Mon - Fri 8- 4 pm, some Saturdays 12-4 pm
🆓 to the public
In a world where machines become more like humans, and humans become more like machines, what does it mean to be alive? From self-help and romantic chatbots, content generation, productivity boosters, population surveillance and more, artificial intelligence has entangled itself in every corner of life. While AI offers new pathways into the future, it also poses risks to human agency, authorship, privacy, and equity, and accelerates climate change through its growing energy demands.
In Neural-Lithic Harvests, the evolving relationship between humans, nature, and artificial intelligence takes root in a shifting terrain of sculpture, paintings, poetry, and sound. Drawing on metaphors from ecology and agriculture, the exhibition asks: what fruit will we harvest from our relationship with AI and just who is the farmer, and who is being farmed?
Throughout the exhibition, AI-generated imagery and hand-built sculptures co-exist, probing the tension between human agency and machine creation. Anchoring the exhibition, a soundscape composed from human-written texts loops through the space, narrated by an AI voice that lends its own inflections to the words. Sculptures and paintings incorporate silicon rocks, wires, circuit boards, and surveillance cameras intermingled with organic materials, blurring the boundary between digital and natural, living and non-living, while grounding the work in the material realities of connected technologies.
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Uncertainty surrounds the holding of things, curated by Bella Feinstein and Olivia Miller
📍 after/time collective, 735 SW 9th #110, Portland
🗓️ Nov 14 – Dec 21, 2025
✨Opening reception Friday, November 14, 2025 6-9 pm
⏳ Hours: Tues & Thurs, 6-8 p.m. + Sat, 12-5 p.m
🆓 to the public
Set against a backdrop of ecological instability and cultural unrest, Uncertainty surrounds the holding of things, inviting viewers to consider the lives of objects—the ways they persist, transform, and resist being fixed within constructs of time, narrative, or value.
Here, objects are not passive or inert, but active participants capable of movement, resistance, and change.
In escaping expectations, these works open a space for reflection on the material conditions that shape our world, and the ways in which objects continue to act upon it, and us.
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #emergingartists #curators #pdx #pdxart
Lands Recalled and Echoed, by Scott Gellatly
📍 Laura Vincent Design & Gallery, 824 NW Davis St. Portland, OR
🗓️ Nov 6 – 20, 2025
✨Opening reception First Thursday 5-8 PM
⏳ Hours: Tues-Sat, 11 a.m. - 5:30 p.m
🆓 to the public
This new body of work features a compelling series of abstracted landscape paintings, inspired by the many places and terrains that have shaped Gellatly throughout his life as an artist. Moving beyond the literal representation of an exact place, this exhibition captures the emotional resonance and existential presence of these diverse environments.
Drawing inspiration from small wildlife areas and wetlands, the paintings serve as visual meditations on the interactions of shape, color, and gesture — reflecting a deep connection to nature’s refuge, rejuvenation, and dynamic energy.
“In these recent paintings, I cultivate the power of color to elevate the experiential and emotional qualities of nature rather than the descriptive qualities of specific landscapes. I believe in color’s ability to convey emotion and energy, thus inviting viewers to engage with the work via their own identity and personal history.”
This marks Scott Gellatly’s sixth solo exhibition at LAURA VINCENT DESIGN & GALLERY, reaffirming his vital and evolving voice in contemporary landscape painting. The gallery is pleased to continue its long-standing collaboration with Scott and to showcase his deeply introspective and visually captivating work.
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At @gallery114 this November 🍂
🕰️Passing Time, Sally Finch and Phil Harris (South gallery)
🗣️Artist talk with Sally & Phil, Nov 8, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.
☄️Collective, by Donald Dahlke (North gallery)
🗓️Nov 6-29, 2025
✨First Thursday Opening, Nov 6, 5 -8 p .m .
⌛️Hours: Thursday-Sunday 12-5
🎟️Free and open the the public
#artandaboutpdx #gallery114 #portlandartscene #pdxart #pdx #portland #artinportland #pdxgalleries #artgallery #artblog #discoverart #pnw
Between Certainties, by Ruth Armitage
📍 Waterstone Gallery, 124 NW 9th Ave., PDX OR
🗓️ Nov 5 – 30, 2025
✨Opening reception Thursday, November 6, 5-8 pm
🗣️ Artist Talk: Sunday, November 16, 11:00 am
⏳ Hours: Wed-Sat 11 a.m. -5:30 p.m., Sun 11-4 pm
🆓 to the public
A solo exhibition by Ruth Armitage. Her new abstract works explore the tension between stability and change in a world of uncertainty. Drawing inspiration from life, language, and current events, Armitage translates emotion into layered, symbolic compositions using acrylics and oil with cold wax.
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First Thursday at PNCA- Nov 6 from 5-8 p.m.,
Pacific Northwest College of Art, 511 Northwest Broadway
Featuring:
⭐️Opening for Cameron Granger SLAY THE GOBLIN!!!
⭐️511 Open Studios BFA and MFA programs
⭐️Argyle Art of Sparkling Label Design Event
⭐️Design Corridor: Paper Son’s Passage - VR Interactive Experience - Ran Sheng
⭐️Mediatheque:Animation by Laura Camila Medina and PNCA students.
⭐️Holt Project Space: i feel like i’ve lost something tonight. - Lyz Rowe
⭐️Commons Gallery: Big Camera Show - Curated by Sarah Meadows, riel sturchio, & Thalassa Raasch
⭐️Ed Cauduro and Dane Nelson Collection ⭐️Studies Lab: Someone Once Told Me the Grass is Much Greener - Diego Morales-Portillo
⭐️157 Gallery: Matter Matter/s - Mallary Wilson
⭐️B10 Gallery: digital sea - Jacob Hogan
⭐️Design Corridor: Paper Son’s Passage - VR Interactive Experience - Ran Sheng
Day and Night, by Kristen Miller
📍PDX Contemporary Art, 1881 NW Vaughn St., PDX OR
🗓️ Nov 5 -Nov 29, 2025
✨Opening reception Saturday, Nov 8, 3-5 pm
⏳ Hours: Tues-Sat 10 am - 6pm
🆓 to the public
We all experience the continuous cycle of light and shadow within each day. Through choice of materials and technique, Kristen Miller documents this changing of light over hours, days, months, and seasons. Using transparent layers of organdy fabric, lustrous silk thread, and shiny glass beads, Miller creates meticulously sewn compositions which weave together ideas on light, repetition, and time.
Day and Night features two large-scale installation works alongside smaller, intimate wall works. Her intricate processes of stitching, folding, and beading accumulate into lines, patterns, and forms. The sheerness and weave of the fabric give the feeling that the works are both becoming and dissolving. The reflective glass beads are small, but weighty, incrementally building up to depict a tangible sense of the shifting of time. With each new day and new night a consistent pattern unfolds, but there is mystery in not knowing what the future holds—opening an opportunity to choose hope.
Miller’s work is in numerous collections including Fidelity Investments, The Swig Company, Kemijärvi Sculpture & Culture Foundation, Soho House Portland, and the Regional Arts & Culture Council’s Portable Works Collection, as well as a number of private collections.
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