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
#portlandartscene #artandaboutpdx #portlandartmuseum #gallery
'The Other Side of Yesterday,' Nan Curtis
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 5, 12-4pm
March 5 - May 6, 2026
Gallery hours: Mon - Sat 11am - 5pm (closed for Spring Break 3/23-3/28)
Nosh with Nan:
Wed 3/11 - 11am-2 pm
Wed 3/18, T 4/7, T 4/21, T 4/28, T 5/5 from 11am-1pm
- Topic driven conversations and light lunch with art food made by the
Clark College Culinary Program
Artist Talk: Tuesday, April 14th, 1pm, PUB 161
Closing Reception: Wednesday, May 6th 12-4pm
Artist Statement
"‘The Other Side of Yesterday’ is a sculptural landscape installation using rocks, waterfalls and moss to illuminate our desire for connection to our natural world as well as to each other. It focuses on tenderness through touch, participation and play to build meaning through our senses. I have been studying natural objects to better understand the material world as an emotional phenomenon, one that is not simply around our bodies but within them. One of the spaces I find the most hope in is the outside, in spaces like the woods, rivers and the mountains. These spaces illustrate the scale of our world and help us align our senses with our surroundings. This exhibition is about inspiration – breathing IN.
‘Mother Rock’ is the focal point of the show and she carries the weight of the world yet is soothing in color and texture. She is a representation of my mother in both my love and grief for her loss. ‘Flowing Water’ represents the freedom one is afforded when they allow loss to exist alongside love. ‘Barrier Moss’ is an object that is confined yet has the potential to grow beyond its own limitations. And ‘The Game of Elements’ is an interactive sculpture that asks one to consider their connection to the Elements – fire air, water and earth. While the game has no distinct outcome, it encourages you to imagine yourself among the natural world - acknowledging our connection to all things around us."
-- Nan Curtis
Featured
Mother Rock, 2026, Flocking, Styrofoam, spray paint, 4’ x 8’ x 4’
The Game of Elements, 2026, 6’ x 4’, Flocked rocks, vinyl
#portlandartscene #nancurtis #sculpture
The Sitka Center’s 2026 Workshop Season invites artists, makers,
writers, and nature‑curious learners of all backgrounds to immerse
themselves in creative practice on the Oregon Coast. With offerings
spanning painting, printmaking, woodworking, fiber arts, writing,
sculpture, book arts, and nature-based study, the program is designed to spark curiosity, deepen craft, and nurture a meaningful connection to place.
🍃 Open registration starts tomorrow March 5, 2026 at 9am PST🍃
A few standout offerings from the 2026 lineup include:
🖌️New Approaches to Encaustic Painting with Shannon Carlson — a deep dive into expressive wax-based painting.
🪵Mokuhanga: Japanese Water-Based Woodblock Printing with Yuji Hiratsuka
— a traditional technique taught by a master printmaker.
🌼Botanical Mosaic with Joanne Daschel — a nature-inspired mixed media experience.
💧Texture in Watercolor with Masa Paper with Rebecca Sentgeorge — exploring surface, translucency, and mark-making.
🤲🏼Handbuilding with Clay: Spirituality in Nature with Ruri — a
sculptural workshop rooted in natural forms.
🕊️The Beauty of Birding with Thomas Meinzen — a field-based introduction to avian observation.
🍄Fungi and Color: Forest Forage to Pigment with Julie Beeler —
transforming foraged materials into natural pigments.
🎨What Painting Is: A Masterclass with Jef Gunn — an intensive for
painters seeking depth and refinement.
2025: A Logbook Through Darkness, Tad Savinar
📍PDX Contemporary Art, 1881 NW Vaughn St., Portland
⏳Hours: Tues-Sat 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
🗓️ March 4-28, 2026
✨Opening reception: Saturday, March 7, 2026 - 3-5 pm
🎟️ Free to the public
“The act of looking at his work is fundamentally an act of unraveling and interpretation: parsing the images, shapes, and signs for meanings about the times we are living in today.” — John Weber
2025: A Logbook Through Darkness, a solo exhibition by Tad Savinar accompanied by hardbound book with essay by John Weber.
Tad Savinar considers himself a reporter and his work is frequently a reflection of the cultural moment. 2025: A Logbook Through Darkness responds to recent or anticipated losses and our social and political conditions.
This body of work, completed during the year 2025, serves as a documentation of the days as they unfolded. Rather than focusing on specific events, the works aim to capture the general feelings of apprehension and unease that the year held. The new digital prints use found photography and illustration which Savinar then manipulates with geometric forms and imagery. The work is layered, sometimes censoring or redacting information and other times highlighting unsettling details. The obfuscation urges careful looking and critical thinking about the cultural currents of our time. Savinar does not preach but rather engages his viewers through irony and disquiet.
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #pdxcontemporary #tadsavinar
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
Death|s|trip, Terri Warpinski
📍Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave. @blueskygallerypdx
🗓️ March 5-28, 2026
✨Opening reception: First Thursday, March 5 from 5-8 PM
🗣️In-Person Artist Talk: Sat, Mar 7 at 2 PM
⏳Hours: Wed-Sat, 12-5 p.m.
🎟️ Free to the public
Terri Warpinski’s Death|s|trip restores memories to sites across present-day Berlin where victims of the Berlin Wall lost their lives. Each photograph captures a contemporary site directly linked to an individual who died attempting to flee oppression between 1961 and 1989. With stories based on written narratives and archival research, these layered images commemorate courage and loss while resonating with ongoing global struggles for freedom, and safe passage.
#artandaboutpdx #blueskygallerypdx #contemporaryphotography #berlinwall
Valparaíso, Éléonore Simon
📍Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave. @blueskygallerypdx
🗓️ March 5 - 28, 2026
✨Opening reception: First Thursday, March 5 from 5-8 PM
🗣️In-Person Artist Talk: Sat, Mar 28 at 2 PM
⏳Hours: Wed-Sat, 12-5 p.m.
🎟️ Free to the public
In Valparaíso, Éléonore Simon captures the Chilean seaport city suspended between return and departure in stark black and white. Drawing on her lived experience, Simon blurs the boundary between reality and imagination, transforming the city’s shifting horizons and improbable architecture into meditations on memory and introspection.
#artandaboutpdx #eleonoresimon #valparaiso #photography
Don’t miss this evening of art, performance, bites, and celebration. @oregoncontemporary and @thirdanglenewmusic 𝙜𝙖𝙡𝙖 / 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙮 / 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜
🌟TICKETS ON SALE 🗓️ March 7 🕗️ 7–10 pm🌟
This is one of our favorite events for purchasing art! 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
Mapping Familiar Territories, Charting New Paths
📍 Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU, 1855 SW Broadway
🗓️ January 20 to April 25, 2026
✨Opening reception Thursday, January 29, 5 - 7pm
⏳ Hours: Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. & Thurs 11 a.m. -7 p.m.
🆓 to the public
Featured Artists: Michael Boonstra, Enrique Chagoya, Epiphany Couch, Karen Hampton, Colin Ives, Brenda Mallory, Nathalie Miebach, Tatiana Parcero, Rick Silva, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Clarissa Tossin
For millennia, maps have been essential tools for understanding and navigating the world. They help us define boundaries, reveal relationships, and envision possibilities. Through their creation and use, they transform space into place, shaping political, cultural, and social understandings of the world around us. This exhibition brings together the work of twelve artists who reinterpret and expand mapping practices to explore questions of place, identity, and power. Through diverse media and distinct approaches, they use the language of mapmaking to uncover personal histories, unearth collective narratives, and address pressing social and environmental concerns.
Mapping Familiar Territories, Charting New Paths is curated by Alexandra Terry, Head of Curatorial Affairs & Curator of Contemporary Art at the New Mexico Museum of Art. This exhibition is supported by the Ford Family Foundation, the Jackson Foundation, the Richard and Helen Phillips Charitable Fund, and the JSMA Exhibition Circle.
✨Featured image: Clarissa Tossin, Future Geography: Tarantula Nebula, 2024.
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #pdxart #jsmaatpsu
