On-going, by appointment
Cost: $2 per student
Email education@MuseumofContemporaryCraft.org or call 503.223.2654 x120.
CraftKids asks students to explore the interplay between form and function in craft through carefully looking at the Museum’s collection and temporary exhibitions. Through a 60-minute session, students are introduced to craft by
considering the role it plays in their daily lives. Tours are inquiry- and discussion-based, guiding students as they learn to look at objects in new and meaningful ways. Thematic tours focus on materials, process, identity in craft, positive and negative space, and more.
Reservations are required a minimum of two weeks in advance. Please provide the requested date and time, contact name, contact information, as well as the number and grade level of students.
Thursday nights, year round except November 27, December 25, 2008 and January 1, 2009
13 & older, drop-in fee $5. Contact Sam Keator 503.691.2078
The insiders view of Portland. This award-winning walk clarifies why Portland is regularly recognized as one of the best places to live. You’ll be smiling and laughing as you hear about early and modern Portland as you experience an enlightened city rich with artwork, parks, bridges, fountains, countless coffee shops, brewpubs, and friendly people. Find out how this area grew from "stumptown" to a modern yet livable city.
There has been a "Last Thursday" on Alberta Street since 1997. Art on Alberta sponsors the event, which is held every month year round. The galleries, studios, restaurants and other art venues on the street open their doors for a celebratory evening of art. Generally the galleries are open between 5 to 9:30 p.m.
Every Monday
11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Every Thursday
11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Every Sunday
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m
Portland Orchids and Bamboo Chinese Ensemble
Free, with order of tea service and Garden admission
9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Grounds open till 7 p.m.
8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Summer Hours Grounds open till 7 p.m.
Swing from vines, soar through treetops and 'Live Chimply' in the Chimpanzee Challenge maze. Perform feats of ape-like strength, agility, and communication to discover the surprising similarities between humans and chimps. Developed in collaboration with world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall and the Jane Goodall Institute, Chimpanzee Challenge brings the plight of the chimps closer to home, empowering visitors to make a difference.
Adults (12-64) $9.75, Seniors (65 and over) $8.25, Youth (3-11) $6.75, $2.00 fee required in addition to regular zoo admission
One of Oregon’s most treasured city-meets-country activities brings farm fresh produce, artisan-baked goods, flowers and plants to five seasonal open-air markets throughout the Portland metro area.
The Thursday Market at Eastbank is located in Southeast Portland on SE 20th at Salmon between SE Belmont & SE Hawthorne -- in the parking lot of Hinson Baptist Church.
Admission is Free
One of Oregon’s most treasured city-meets-country activities brings farm fresh produce, artisan-baked goods, flowers and plants to five seasonal open-air markets throughout the Portland metro area.
The Thursday Market at Ecotrust is located in the parking lot of the Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center on NW 10th between NW Irving & NW Johnson.
Explore the extravagant fashions imagined by famed illustrator Erté through this display of prints and sculptures. Born Romain de Tirtoff, but known by the French pronunciation of his initials, Erté is most famous for his Art Deco illustrations of dramatically dressed women. He worked for Harper’s Bazaar magazine for more than 20 years, creating over 200 covers, and designed costumes and sets for theater, opera, and Hollywood productions. Often featuring women draped in flowing silks and furs and covered with jewels and feathered plumes, Erté’s exotic designs delight the eye with their detail and sinuous lines.
Here's your chance to shoot off water rockets, concoct chemical creations, and enjoy the wonders of OMSI with no kids in sight! Enjoy a glass of wine while learning about robots, tornados, or fossils. Have a pint of local beer while exploring the exhibits. Talk to a brewer about the science behind beer, or taste the complexity of coffee.
$10 for nonmembers • FREE to members • No reservations required.
OMSI After Dark is an opportunity for the 21-and-over crowd to explore the museum in a child-free environment.
Take in the sights and sounds of the annual Washington County Fair and Rodeo, which features a professional rodeo, truck pull and thrill rides, plus hundreds of farm animals, live entertainment and food.
Admission is free
Admission is free
This year's series will feature some of the best local, regional and national talent around! Noon Tunes has become a summertime tradition in the heart of downtown providing FREE entertainment over the lunch hour every Tuesday and Thursday throughout the summer.
7/9 Justin Klump
7/16 The Dimes
7/21 Throwback Suburbia
7/23 Brandon Chandler
7/28 Bryan Flannery Band
7/30 TapWater
8/4 Rhythm Culture
8/6 Jake Oken-Berg
8/11 Jacob Merlin
8/13 Justin Jude
8/18 Acoustic Minds
8/20 Patrick Lamb
Thur-Sat 7:30
Sun 7pm for July 12,19,26, Aug 2
Sun 2pm for July 19, Aug 9,16,23
$30 for adults and $28 for students and seniors
Lakewood will be presenting The Producers in July 2009! This Mel Brooks musical has won more awards than any show in history, including 12 Tony® Awards.
Bullseye Gallery is pleased to present the bold and trailblazing art of glass master Klaus Moje. On display from June 30 – August 22, 2009, the exhibit will feature pieces spanning three decades of the artist’s diverse artistic output. This work will be on view concurrently with the run of Klaus Moje’s retrospective at the Museum of Art and Design (MAD) in New York, which grew out of last summer’s lauded exhibition held at the Portland Art Museum.
Tues-Sat 10-5 and by appointment
Admission is free
Tues-Sat 11-6
Reception with the artist on First Thursday, July 2, 5:30—8:30pm
Admission is free
Charles A. Hartman Fine Art is pleased to present Recent Travels, its second exhibition of Michael Kenna’s photographs. As the title implies, this selection of work reflects the artist’s latest journeys to more than ten countries, including China, Japan, Italy, Norway, India and Egypt. Kenna feels that sharing the composite scope of this most recent work has the potential to reveal insight into his creative process, including its inherent aspects of meditation and ritual.
Tues-Sat 11-6
First Thurs 11-8
Admission is free
Museum of Contemporary Craft presents Call + Response, a multi-layered exhibition featuring diverse works by eight art and eight art history faculty members from colleges and universities in Oregon.
11-6
First Thurs July 2 6-8pm
Admission is free
PDX will exhibit new drawings by Wes Mills in Mondrian’s Forest. The drawing consists of 40 small, framed works 5 x 2.5 inches each. Simple organic forms floating in space, ethereal lines create meditative and sometimes tension filled contemplative drawings.
This exhibition follows his recent show in New York, Master Drawings New York: Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Wes Mills. Mills’ work has been exhibited internationally and is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe.
Mon CLOSED
Tue 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Wed 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Thu 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Fri 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Sat 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sun 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Adults $10.00, Seniors & Students $9.00 Children 17 and under free
Since 1909, the artist-faculty, students, and alumni of the Museum Art School, now Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), have made their mark on the Northwest art scene as Portland’s designers, gallery owners, and the founders of artist cooperatives and arts festivals such as Artquake. The exhibition PNCA at 100 celebrates the PNCA artists who have made the visual arts central to the community at large.
Mon CLOSED
Tue 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Wed 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Thu 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Fri 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Sat 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sun 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Adults $10, Seniors & Students $9, Under 17 years free
New York-based artist Sanford Biggers is recognized for complex, richly evocative installations centered on themes of identity and history. This installation, titled Blossom, is a mixed media work incorporating a massive tree, found piano, and Biggers' compositional reworking of Billie Holiday's 1939 jazz anthem Strange Fruit, a harrowing portrayal of lynching in the American South.
Mon CLOSED
Tue 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Wed 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Thu 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Fri 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Sat 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sun 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Drawn from the Portland Art Museum’s archive of the prints of Beth Van Hoesen (born 1926), this exhibition presents some 70 prints by this noted San Francisco artist. Van Hoesen’s intimate portrayals bring out the beauty and eccentricities of her subjects—people, animals, foodstuffs, flowers, still lifes, interiors, and landscapes.
Mon CLOSED
Tue 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Wed 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Thu 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Fri 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Sat 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sun 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Adults $10, Seniors & Students $9, 17 years and under free..
Printmaker Maurits Cornelis Escher (Dutch, 1898-1972) created visual puzzles that astonish with their mathematical rigor and their patent absurdity. This exhibition traces the development of the artist’s work from his early stylized depictions of landscape and architecture to his later use of repeated geometric patterns, stimulated by his visit in 1936 to the Alhambra in Granada, Spain.
Tues-Fri 10:30-3
Sun 1-4
First Thurs June 4 Opening Reception: 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. - meet the artist
General admission $3
The Oregon Jewish Museum is proud to present the works of Abshalom Jac Lahav, a young, emerging, conceptual painter who explores issues of identity. Lahav studied painting at the SVA and Cooper Union and received his MfA from Brooklyn College. He has recently shown his work at the Jewish Museum in New York, is currently exhibited at Jarmuschek + Partner in Berlin, Germany, and will have another solo show at the Jewish Museum of Florida in the fall.
The 3D Center has been offered an unprecedented opportunity to print and exhibit images from “A Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy,” a groundbreaking project developed by Portlander William Gruber, the inventor of the View-Master, in collaboration with Dr. David Bassett. Originally published in Portland in the 1950’s and 60’s, the series included View-Master reels with booklets of accompaying text and drawings.
Thurs-Sat 11-5
Sun 1-5
$5 adults (age 15 and over)
The Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present Quilts from Gee’s Bend, our fourth exhibition of quilts and prints by the women of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. This year seven quilters, ranging in age from the younger quilters, in their 40s, to Lucy Mingo, who is in her 80s, will be on hand for the opening reception
Admission is free
Tues-Fri 11-5:30
Sat 11-5
First Thursday Reception July 2, 5-8pm
Admission is free
A native Oregonian, Michael Brophy creates paintings that are uniquely indigenous to
the Pacific Northwest landscape, focusing this exhibition on the open spaces of southeast Oregon’s Alvord Desert. Our Summer Group Show will feature a selection of new work by many gallery artists, including Francis Celentano, Michael Dailey. Mel Katz, Lucinda Parker, Judith Poxson Fawkes, Margot Voorhies Thompson and others.
Oregon College of Art and Craft is pleased to present “BENT,” an exhibition curated by Jeanine Jablonski featuring the work of Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Peter Kreider and Donald Morgan. In its 102nd year, OCAC moves forward with its vision for the future: to become the principal center for the invention of modern craft. The artists within this exhibition were chosen with this vision in mind; their contemporary art practices embodying new genres and directions in craft.
The public is invited to the opening reception on Thursday, July 2 from 4:00-7:00PM
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 12:00 noon - 6:00 p.m. or by appointment
First Friday 6-9
Admission is free
Portland painter Chris Haberman is known for his intense, vibrant paintings that are so literate that you wonder if they are paintings or poetry. Haberman will show paintings based on the classic, Alice In Wonderland for this terrific solo show.
Noon-6pm
First Thurs 6-9
Admission is free
“You’ll Love It Here: The Lilac City Track Murders ‘96-’98” will be Ty Ennis’ 4th Solo Exhibit at NAAU. His preparation for this exhibit has involved one of the most thorough examination to date of Spokane’s most infamous serial killer, Robert Lee Yates. His nearly 2 year endeavor documenting murder sites, scouring of all available literature and fleshing out the lives effected during this capsule of time in Spokane, demonstrate a type of artistic discovery that questions the role art can play in the historical record. By lending a sympathetic and informed eye to the memory of events more so remembered through hard-line fact alone, Ty builds a revisionist history using unique visual and written documents.
Celebrate summer with these special free performances by our company of "short takes" from a selection of Portland choreographers. Bring the kids down early to explore dance with our company on the stage and take in all the fun at the Farmer's Market. Performances provided in partnership with Portland Center for the Performing Arts and their Summer Arts on Main Street series.
Admission is free
11-6
First Thurs 11-8
Admission is free
Museum of Contemporary Craft maps craft's historic transition from industry to academia through works in the ceramics collection
Product design team Studio Gorm collaborates with the Museum to architect a visual timetable communicating major shifts in craft history
"In my films, I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see." - Agnès Varda
KUNG FU MASTER stars Jane Birkin as a forty-year-old divorced woman who falls in love with her teenage daughter’s video game-obsessed friend. By presenting Birkin’s desire without passing judgment, Varda evenhandedly explores a potentially explosive subject with a seriousness not usually granted to female fantasies.
July 29 7pm
July 31 7:30pm
$5-$8
Join us on the panoramic parking rooftop at the Hotel deLuxe, SW 15th at Yamhill, for some warm starry nights filled with entertaining films, culinary treats, a little live music, and spectacular city views. The evenings begin at 8 p.m. with live music and refreshments. Gracie's Restaurant will offer easy-to-juggle meals, snacks, and cocktails, and additional beverages will be available from TAZO and BridgePort Brewing. The screenings start at dusk—8:45-9:15 p.m. depending on the light. Bring your favorite portable chair or blanket, but please, no pets or outside food and drink.
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