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Satpreet Kahlon & Kristan Kennedy on "an imagined place (here and now)”
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Satpreet Kahlon & Kristan Kennedy on "an imagined place (here and now)”
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Ruby Webb
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Letter from the Editor: Goodbye for now, Lumber Room
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What’s Happening @ARTANDABOUTPDX

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View fullsize 🌿 Tending to Wild — Claire Elliott 📍@wellwellprojects 🗓️October 3 – November 1, 2026 ✨Opening reception: Saturday, October 3, 5–8 PM Through painting and sculpture, Claire Elliott explores our relationship to plant life —
View fullsize Yard Work, by Kim Smith Claudel 📍Carnation Contemporary 🗓️ October 03 — November 01, 2026 ✨Opening reception: Saturday, October 03, 5–8 PM In Smith Claudel’s third solo exhibition with Carnation Contemporary, the yard is both sym
View fullsize SIGNAL / NOISE by Dan Gay 📍 imperfecta gallery (809 NW Flanders St, Portland, OR 97209) 🗓 Dates: October 1–31, 2026 🎉 Opening Reception: October 1, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM 🕒 Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Close
View fullsize pdx art besties, we need to talk 🗣️ if you’re tired of finding out about the exhibit AFTER it closed... that’s literally why our newsletter exists 🌀 ✨ what you get ✨ → gallery + exhibition picks before everyone else → first
View fullsize “What We (Be)Hold” ✨ open call show at Artspace 46 artists, 50+ works, one big question: what are we holding onto? Juried by Kendra Roberts (Blackfish Gallery), featuring work from Leah Nadeau, Peter Gomena, Marne Lucas, Anna Kaufman, Di
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View fullsize “It’s hard to stop rebels that time travel” by Raymond Thompson Jr. Raymond Thompson Jr.’s project uses personal photographs, archival fragments, and historic ephemera to recover stories of enslaved people, maroons, and runaw
View fullsize Leaving the Fold 🕊️ Art from the Journey Out of High-Control Systems A community art exhibit about the experience of leaving religious and secular high-control belief systems. Through visual art, writing, and music, artists explore questioning, los
View fullsize Nava: Fragments of the Inner Voice” at @toolboxgallery Three artists, three mediums, one exploration of voice and memory — Afsaneh Dehestani’s Persian calligraphy, Ehsan Malek’s ceramics, and Hamoon Mahmoodi’s photograp
View fullsize Every Summer They Disappear at 4pm — new work from Fabian Lavater at The Purple Door 🌊 Opening reception Friday, September 18, 6–9pm. Free and open to the public. Lavater’s exhibition is a meditation on stillness in a culture tha
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View fullsize @picapdx TBA:26 @itsclaytonlee performance 🥊 The Goldberg Variations 🥊 #tba26 #picapdx #claytonlee
View fullsize jenn lamb, intertidal communion 📍 @aftertimegallery ✨ Opening reception Saturday, September 12, from 5-8pm 🗓️ September 12 – October 3, 2026 Created during a period of simultaneous enmeshment in life and death, Intertidal Communion proffers
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View fullsize File under “when in New York” — the exquisite @frickcollection ⛲️ (No photos allowed in the gallery rooms!) Then walk down the street for a perfect glass of wine or an amaro spritz with olives and sugary seasoned marcona almonds an