Post show recap! ☄️
Endless Repose, by Nicole Williford &
The Grafted Garnish of the Equinox Baby, by Paige Wright both at Chefas Projects
#artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland #contemporarypainting
Sue Ravitz Al Ravitz Recent textiles and paintings
📍One Wall Gallery
🗓️ October 3-November 29
⏳ Hours: Monday-Saturday 10-7 / Sunday 12-6
🎟️Free to the public
Sue and Al Ravitz are owners of 57W57 gallery in New York, and are showing their beautiful work in Portland!
@one.wall.gallery @sueravitztextiles #alravitz #artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene
At the opening of Jade Novarino’s show mi mano a tu mano at Old Fashioned Garage Gallery 🕊️✉️
✨TONIGHT ONLY✨Lifeline✨Directed by Alix Jo Ryan, DOP Hannah Clark, Score by Alexandra Burress
📍Cinema 21 ,616 NW 21st Ave, Portland, Oregon
⏳🗓️Monday Oct 27th @ 7:15-9pm
🎟️Tickets
The event will be a showcase of two projects, LIFELINE and TROJAN, TODAY made in collaboration between Alix Jo Ryan, Hannah Clark, and Alexandra Burress. Each piece studies relationship to place in Oregon through stories spanning time and shifts in circumstance. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers led by Portland writer Lola Milholland.
TROJAN, TODAY (10 minutes) is a short documentary shot on 16mm, observing the current state of Trojan Nuclear Park, coupled with memories of how it was once touted to the public.
LIFELINE (50 minutes) is the journey of a Newport woman as she finds independence and empowerment by taking ownership over the storytelling of a family tragedy, symbolically paired with the fishing tradition of splicing rope.
Both films were directed and produced by Alix Jo Ryan, filmed by Hannah Clark, with sound design and original scores by Alexandra Burress. Alexandra will perform a live set scoring the first screening: Trojan, Today.
@alixjoryan @__han__nah__ @alexandraburress
Packed house for @mississippistudios “A People’s History of North American Music” at @hollywoodtheatr last night. 🔥🎸🎶🌎 Featuring performances by Kornbread and Toody Cole!! And pre-show steel guitar by Barry Walker Jr. ✨✨✨
Still dreaming about our time during Meech Boakye (@ghostyboi) #bioplastics and #fermentation workshop that was a part of PNCA’s 2025 Symposium: Beyond Boundaries. 🌀🌿🌼💧🐚
The Foolish Parade of Existence - Album Release Party + Exhibition by Mike Firm (aka Miguel Rodriguez)
📍CORE PDX - Bar and Food Carts @ 3612 SE 82nd Ave, Portland
✨Opening reception: Saturday, Nov 1st from 7-9pm
🗓️ On view ⏳
Saturday, Nov 1st - Wednesday, Nov 5th
Sat: 11am-10pm
Sun: 11am-9pm
Mon/Tues/Wed: 11am-9pm
🎟️Free to the public
Join the official launch of, “The Foolish Parade of Existence.” This will be an album listening party that starts at 7pm on Saturday Nov 1st, followed by a Q&A, as well as a temporary exhibit of the accompanying song and album art. Each song + the album cover are unique collages designed by Mike Firm to represent the central themes of the album. These art pieces will be displayed as 20”x20” canvases, alongside purchasable digital prints, an album book, and stickers.
RSVP in @mikefirm bio ➡️5 random attendees that RSVP will get some goodies for free 🎁
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #albumrelease
✨RAINMAKER OREGON CRAFT MICROGRANTS 2026✨
Rainmaker Craft Initiative is an educational platform committed to creative inquiry founded on craft. Focused on advancing partnerships within the greater Portland community and nationally, RCI emphasizes material practice and community exchange. RCI is dedicated to fostering socially conscious, critically engaged makers across a spectrum of mediums, outcomes and aspirations. We have instituted a grant program to further this mission.
2026 Fellowships Timeline
⭐️Deadline for applications: November 3, 2025
⭐️Awardees Announced: December 19, 2025. Awards distributed January 2026.
⭐️Projects must be completed and final reports received by September 30, 2026.
The Oregon Craft microgrant program is an annual award provided by the Rainmaker Craft Initiative that awards outstanding achievement and creativity in the field of craft. These grants are intended to support platforms providing education to others. This could include creating scholarships, fellowships, residencies, workshops, or other educational projects. Please contact RCI if you have questions about the eligibility of your project. #Craft education is the key component here, the hope is this encompasses a wide range of project.
✨Share this opportunity with your friends!✨
#artandaboutpdx #rainmaker #microgrants
Come and see an exhibition with us 🌟 Viewing: Claire Elliott’s 𝒶𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝒷𝓁𝑜𝑜𝓂. Featuring a collection of perfectly moody paintings of flowers and garden life with skies in transition ~ twilight to sunset and all those shifting hues in between ~ Plus over a hundred poppy sculptures disperse throughout the gallery, some even with seeds included. ✨ It was great to visit when Claire was there to learn more about her process and inspiration for the work at on view at One Grand Gallery, closing reception tomorrow Oct 24. 🥀
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #painting #installation
Stopped by @wellwellprojects a couple weeks ago and got to see ₍^. .^₎⟆ ~&~ /|\ ^._.^ /|\ - Cat 🐈⬛ & Bat 🦇 exhibition by Anna Fidler, Michael E. Stephen, and John Whitten @annafidlerart @michaelestephen @john.whitten ✨ Featured photos include bold and saturated paintings by Anna, magical sayings wrote with #catwhiskers and tamagotchi/stuffed animal/key chain/trinket/readymade sculptures by Michael. Unfortunately missing shots of John’s gorgeous #graphite drawings because we got distracted by the cutest gallery visitor 🐈 before leaving the gallery!
🗓️ Closing October 26, 2025, ⏳Hours: Sat-Sun 12-5 p.m., 🎟️ Free to the public
#artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland #portlandoregon #pacificnorthwest #whattodothisweekendpdx #pdxartgalleries #discoverart #artblog #artplatform #arthappenings #artgallery #artgallerypdx #travelportland #artistsupportartist
@sitkacenter Art Invitational highlights that were sitting in our camera roll begging to be shared!! 🤳🏼🍃🪵✨🎨🏺 Did you go?! Did you discover artists to love? Buy a new piece of art? Enjoy seeing your favorite artists work? Let us know ⬇️
Gallery visit recap! (*from a couple weekends ago 🫣🤭)
✨Oct 11 - Opening receptions at @pdxcontemporaryart for @heatherwatkinsstudio & The Wandering Womb with #louisebourgeois work and @isabellealbuquerque at @lumberroompdx
✨ Oct 12 - Visits to @wellwellprojects featuring work by @annafidlerart @michaelestephen @john.whitten and @carnationcontemporary show by @kimsmithstudio and @oregoncontemporary to see this #amysillman on loan
🎶 + popped by Speck’s to browse their vinyl selection
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart
@returnform one-night only showcase this Saturday! ✨🪐
See tags for artists showcased and tag yourself or friends in the comments if we missed you!
#artandaboutpdx #portlandartscene
Slovak Kroj: Passing on Traditions Through Color and Needlework
🗓️October 26 @ 12 - 1:30 pm
📍Textile Hive (NEW Location) 1314 NW Irving Street Suite 205, Portland
Cost: Free
This talk by Bea Fields will discuss the distinctive design of a traditional Slovak dress called a “Kroj,” defined by layers of vibrant colors, needlework, and varying patterns.
Women in each family would gather together to create a new Kroj when a baby girl was born, and again when the girl came of age as an adult; the needlework and colors of the dress indicated which village she was from and gave clues to family lineage. Bea’s mother, grandmother, and great grandmother were from a small village called Podolie – the colors and designs of the Kroj Bea will be sharing are based on this village. The Kroj was worn for holidays and other ceremonial events, especially when several villages gathered for a celebration. Since homes and household furnishings were often utilitarian and made of wood, the addition of colorful clothing, paintings, and embroidered goods gave each home a unique and distinctive look.
Bea will also be sharing embroidered tablecloths and doilies created by her maternal grandmother in the 1950s and 1960s, and a tray of mill-end embroidery threads brought home by her maternal grandfather who worked in a textile mill where they were manufactured. Other items on display will include a Slovak baby shoe (1965) and Slovak pottery ware (1960s), along with a few picture books about Slovakia.
#artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland #portlandtextilexmonth
PNCA Open Studios at the Glass Building
✨ Connect with the emerging artists in PNCA’s Visual Studies MFA @pncamfavisualstudies program as they invite you into the spaces where they imagine and create. This event will feature artwork that spans and addresses a wide variety of media, forms, and concepts.
🗓️Saturday, October 25, 2025 from 5 – 8 PM
📍The Glass Building, Pacific Northwest College of Art
2139 N Kerby Ave, Portland, OR 97227
📌This event is NOT at PNCA’s main campus, but is at the MFA studios at the Glass Building located at 2139 N Kerby Ave. Portland, Oregon 97227📌
⭐️FREE and open to the public. All are welcome!
The annual MFA Open Studios at the Glass building is an opportunity to explore the creative spaces of MFA candidates, view in-progress and completed artworks, talk to the artists, and build creative community together.
Ok ok ok - need to report we finally got to see the stunning @marceldzama #triptych 🌊 Blue water blues 🌊 which is on view at @oregoncontemporary Art on Loan room and it is 🤩🤩🤩 just wowed by #dzama as usual 🐟🐟🧜🏼♀️✨🪸✨🐟🐟
#artandaboutpdx #artonloan #marceldzama
Design Lecture with Eleazar Ruiz (Odd Notion Studio) to talk about his work + what moves him.
🗓️Tuesday, October 21 from 6:30 - 8pm
📍Pacific Northwest College of Art
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. Eleazar Ruiz of Odd Notion Studio will join @pncadesign to talk about design with purpose, and how empathy and strategy can come together to benefit people and the planet.
Our 2025-26 Design Lecture Series explores, loosely, the theme of neighborhoods, and Eleazar’s practice is an example of how design can help visionary organizations disrupt business as usual. We invite you to take a closer look at the communities around you, whether mapped by shared interests or geographies, in all their wild variation: the intersections between us, the ways we differ, and how design builds connection.
Eleazar Ruiz (ellie-azar) (he/him) is a Dominican-born, award-winning brand strategist, creative director, and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience across in-house design teams, agencies, and innovative startups. His expertise bridges brand strategy, branding, and social impact, culminating in the successful launch of brands that tell powerful, culturally relevant stories.
Ruiz is the founder of Odd Notion, a certified B-Corp design studio focused on meaningful, purpose-driven brand development. His approach centers on strategic clarity and visual storytelling, guiding organizations from concept formation to confident, distinguished brand identities. Under his leadership, Odd Notion has grown into a creative hub known for its empathetic and principled design ethos, serving start-ups, established companies, and nonprofits alike.
#artandaboutpdx #artanddesign #artisttalk #pnca #portlandartscene
Elemental - Three New Works by Jed Sutton, Ariel Bittner and Maddy Schultz
Water Makes Me Honest, written and directed by Maddy Schultz
Zoltar Predicts, directed by Ermine Todd, words by Jed Sutton
Mountain Woman, written, designed and directed by Ariel Bittner
🗓️ ⏳Opening Night/Press Night: Saturday, November 15, 8pm ✨Saturday, December 6, 8pm (post-performance talk with creators)
📍 Ethos Music Center 2 Killingsworth St, Portland (ADA accessible, state-of-the-art performance and recital hall known with excellent acoustics, an intimate atmosphere)
RUNTIME: 90 minutes with brief intermissions
🎟️ TICKETS: $15 General Admission $5 Arts for All at elemental-3-new-plays.eventbrite.com
Following an international run of Mountain Woman at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Fertile Ground Festival @fertilegroundpdx and PAM Cut at the Tomorrow Theater @pam_cut Ariel Bittner returns to Portland with a new iteration of the emotionally resonant, multimedia solo exploring volcanic creation, destruction and rebirth. “I truly enjoy creating soundscapes from the heart. I draw my inspiration from the natural environment, incorporating live instruments with nature’s chorus.”
Jed Sutton and Ermine Todd present Zoltar Predicts, which follows spring’s What The Fox? (Fertile Ground/Edinburgh Digital Fringe). Sutton describes the work as “an influencer’s encounter with artificial intelligence.”
Maddy Schultz debuts Water Makes Me Honest created in residency with renowned devised theatre group From The Ground Up. Maddy is a fresh, authentic new voice performing a joyous and evocative exploration of the redemptive qualities of water, the importance of play, and the fluidity of self.
#what_the_fox_rox #artandaboutpdx #PortlandTheatre #ElementalPlays #ImmersivePerformance #QueerArt #PNWTheatre #EthosMusicCenter #PortlandEvents #ArtsForAll #MountainWoman #designedbyfirefly #MaddySchultz #maddss.93 #ermine94 #platform51 #ArielBittner #ErmineTodd #JedSutton #QueerPerformance #NewWorks #albinaartsdistrict #fromthegrounduppdx #edinburghfringe @designedbyfirefly @what_the_fox_rox @maddss.93 @ermine4
Affinities: Contemporary Artists of the Northwest Plateau Tribes
📍North Seattle College Art Gallery, 9600 College Way N, Seattle
🗓️ Sept 29-Nov 7, 2025
⏳ Hours : M-Th 11am-5pm, F 11am-2pm
Affinities: Contemporary Artists of the Northwest Plateau Tribes brings together a vibrant collection of works by artists who thoughtfully reinterpret the traditional forms, crafts, and stories of the Plateau cultural region. Working across various media, including sculpture, glass, print, jewelry, fibers, and painting, these artists reflect on time-honored narratives that continue to inform and inspire new creative visions. Their work bridges generations by drawing on enduring themes to build connections that speak to the present and demonstrate how cultural traditions are not static but are in a continuous state of evolution and renewal.
Participating Artists:
Frank Andrews
Johnny Buck, Lauren Iida, & Eunice Mathias
Corwin Clairmont
Spencer Keeton Cunningham
Carly Feddersen
Joe Feddersen
RYAN! Feddersen
James Lavadour
William Passmore
Britt Rynearson
#artandaboutseattle #seattleartscene @nscartgallery @north_seattle_college #northwest #plateautribes
A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin
📍Oregon Contemporary 8371 N Interstate Ave., Portland
🗓️ October 31, 2025-February 8, 2026
✨Opening reception, First Saturday, November 1, 5-8pm
⏳Hours: 12-5 p.m.
🎟️ Free to the public
A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin offers a biographical and poetical portrait of one of Oregon’s best known artists. Examining important moments and themes in Le Guin’s life and oeuvre, the exhibition encompasses a rich variety of media, immersing guests in the ideas, playfulness and hope that course through Ursula K. Le Guin’s art. The exhibition is curated by Theo Downes-Le Guin, the author’s son, with contributions from many others who knew the author or her work.
A Larger Reality honors many facets of this complex artist, intermingling contemplative and open-ended experiences with texts, images, audio, video, interactive experiences, and ephemera, places to lean back and unwind, and places to lean in and engage. The exhibition offers different levels of engagement for fans and Le Guin novices alike.
During the three month exhibition run, A Larger Reality will be punctuated by programming that brings in other elements of Le Guin’s art including music, activism, and community engagement. An accompanying book, published by Winter Texts (Port Townsend) offers a series of texts by Le Guin and others.
#artandaboutpdx #onviewpdx #portlandartscene #contemporaryart #pdxart #artinpdx #artinportland
