Showing 111 results for tag Art and Music

Spark To Finish: Creating Together Quickly

While creativity can be a slow and deliberate process, it can also be fast and spontaneous. In this highly interactive So Much Together workshop, we will explore the possibilities that reveal themselves when people get together to imagine and create something QUICKLY!

Event | April 6, 2024

Meet the 2024–26 Fields Artist Fellows

Oregon Humanities, in partnership with Oregon Community Foundation, is pleased to announce the recipients of the third Fields Artist Fellowship.

Other Projects | January 8, 2024

Portrait of Eugene Landry: Artist talk/reading with curator Judith Altruda

“Portrait of Eugene Landry—an Artist, a Time and a Tribe” brings together the artwork of Eugene Landry (1937-1988) with contemporary Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe artists and writers as they explore their cultural roots, tribal identity, and connection to ancestral land. Landry’s artwork offers a look at the political, economic, and cultural challenges the tribe faced during his lifetime—from near termination to federal recognition. Paralyzed by illness as a young man, Landry created his art from a wheelchair, using his non- dominant hand. Conversations with his former portrait models (now tribal elders), reveal his creative resilience and the positive impact he had in their young lives. Now, 35 years after Landry’s passing, a rediscovered collection of Landry’s art inspires a new generation of Shoalwater Bay artists. "Portrait of Eugene Landry—an Artist, a Time and a Tribe" will be on view at Astoria Visual Arts November 11 through December 2.

The exhibit opens with a reading with curator Judith Altruda and guests from the Shoalwater Bay Tribe

This exhibit is supported by a Public Program Grant from Oregon Humanities

Event | November 11, 2023

Conversation Project: Music as a Tool for Justice

Liberty and justice for all? In this conversation, we’ll examine what the word “justice” means and examine how it’s applied in Oregon. With the aid of local and national hip hop music videos and lyrics, we will examine the history of our state, legal anti-Blackness, and resistance movements. We will also examine a critical question: Are we closer to or further from justice for all since 2020? Join writer, artist, speaker, and producer Donovan Scribes for an exploration of Oregon as he lets music guide these critical questions and more about the place we live in.

Event | November 15, 2023

Lane County Arts and Culture Roundtable

Join arts leaders from the Lane County community as they answer questions about justice-oriented artistic work. The theme of this conversation is “Yesterday to Tomorrow,” and panelists will speak from their connections to various communities, art forms, and lived experiences and how these coalesce with their current artistic work. Questions from and conversations with the audience will be welcomed and encouraged!

Guests for this event are Pamela Quan, Jesica Zapata, Kanu Bearchum, and Dez Brock. The conversation will be moderated by Melissa Cariño. Read more about this event.

This program is supported by a Public Program Grant from Oregon Humanities.

Event | November 6, 2023

Conversation Project: What Is a Creative Priority?

So the world is ending, want to start a record label? This conversation investigates the relevance of making art during times of personal, communal, or global crisis. How can we justify painting when we don’t know where our food is going to come from? What resources are needed to create meaningful work when resources are limited? What exactly does creativity offer us during this time of obvious uncertainty? What is our collective and personal obligation to creativity during a significant upheaval? Join MOsley WOtta for a conversation about getting creative during the apocalypse.

Learn more and register here.

Event | November 5, 2023

Conversation Project: Music as a Tool for Justice

Liberty and justice for all? In this conversation, we’ll examine what the word “justice” means and examine how it’s applied in Oregon. With the aid of local and national hip hop music videos and lyrics, we will examine the history of our state, legal anti-Blackness, and resistance movements. We will also examine a critical question: Are we closer to or further from justice for all since 2020? Join writer, artist, speaker, and producer Donovan Scribes for an exploration of Oregon as he lets music guide these critical questions and more about the place we live in.

Register for this free, online event here.

Event | August 28, 2023

The Pains and Joys of Aging

An illustrated essay by Leanne Grabel

Beyond the Margins | July 26, 2023

Editor's Note: Joy and Pain

Ben Waterhouse on how this issue came to be

Magazine | April 20, 2023

Staged Frights: Banding Together around a Playful, Creative Cause

What happens when a community bands together around a playful, creative cause? In this workshop, Haunt Camp program director JR Rymut will share how a rural community can be a perfect and unexpected incubator of avant-garde art. 

Event | June 17, 2023

The Most, the All of It: New Music, New Spoken Word

Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble (PJCE) and Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani team up to curate an evening of music and spoken word that sets the artists free to inspire, to rejuvenate, and to provoke reflection. Mojgani and PJCE will pair Portland-based performing poets and composers to work with the twelve-member jazz ensemble in a concert featuring a cross-section of composers representing many corners of the Portland poetry and jazz scenes.

Learn more about this event and buy tickets at PJCE's website.

Event | June 2, 2023

Conversation Project: Music as a Tool for Justice

Music is instrumental in shaping a place. It’s one of the most explicitly human things we can experience. COVID-19 has further revealed how key it is in our lives, with every major music festival closing or moving online. In the conversation, we will look at the history of Black musicians in shaping the story of Oregon through the lens of a short documentary and music from a Portland hip hop artist.

Event | February 16, 2023

The Middle of Nowhere

Evelyn Sharenov writes about memory, music, and maternal inheritance.

Beyond the Margins | October 6, 2022

Return to Wonderland

Portland Playhouse presents a multidisciplinary short film festival that responds to the current moment in our country and world. Four short films imagine ways to listen, learn, and move forward with a sense of curiosity and wonder: "Larry & Joe-Joe" by La'Tevin Alexander; "Walla Walla" by Hayley Durelle, "Return to Kingsley: A Retrospective" by Kamryn Fall; "Petals & Thorns: A Spoken Word Journey" by La'Toya Hampton (aka The Poet Lady Rose).

Event | September 8, 2022

Poetry Walk: Anis Mojgani

Join Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani for a poetry walk and reading. This free event will begin at the Wonder Garden, across the street from the Hoffman Art Center. Read more about this event.

Event | July 31, 2022

Spoke'n Words 2: A Pedalpalooza Ride

Bikes! Poetry! Prizes! Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Pedalpalooza, Portland's citywide summer bike fun celebration, with the followup to last year's sweetly successful Spoke'n Words ride! Join Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani and some of his poet friends for a unique and interactive Pedalpalooza bike ride through Portland. We'll roll to a playlist curated by Anis, experience poetic performances in some unexpected locations, and maybe even be inspired to write a bit ourselves as we explore the city. The ride will last approximately two hours, including stops and performances, with about 3.5 miles of mostly flat traveling. The ride will begin at Portland's Laurelhurst Park, on the southern shore of Firwood Lake and end near SE 34th & Belmont with an optional post-ride hangout.

Event | August 3, 2022

Consider This with Jelly Helm and Nataki Garrett

Join us on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, for a conversation about storytelling and yearning with Nataki Garrett, artistic director of Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Jelly Helm, founder of the branding agency Studio Jelly. We’ll talk about how stories shape culture in advertising and theater alike. This program is part of our 2022 Consider This series, American Dreams, American Myths, American Hopes.

Doors will open at 6:00 p.m, and the event will begin at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $15. Click here to purchase a ticket.

No-cost tickets are also available for this event. Click here to register for a no-cost ticket.

Event | June 8, 2022

Fields Artist Fellowship

The Fields Artist Fellowship is a partnership between Oregon Humanities (OH) and the Oregon Community Foundation (OCF), aimed at investing in individual artists, culture bearers, and their communities.

Other Projects | April 4, 2022

Amplify Women

Have you noticed that we don’t hear enough women on the radio in Portland (or nearly anywhere)? For the last 5 years, XRAY has sought to shine a spotlight on these disparities and inequities in the voices we listen to and the perspectives whose media we consume. Since radio is an industry that continues to exclude women and those with intersecting experiences of marginalization, we hold an all-day radio teach-in each year on International Women’s Day.

Event | March 8, 2022

Consider This with David F. Walker and Douglas Wolk

Our 2022 Consider This series, American Dreams, American Myths, American Hopes, continues on March 16 with a conversation about comics. Comic books, and especially the superhero comics of Marvel and DC, have embodied the hopes and fantasies of many Americans for nearly a century, and the myriad media arising from them have come to comprise a uniquely American mythology.

Our guests for this conversation are David F. Walker, a comic book writer, filmmaker, journalist, and educator whose work includes Bitter RootNaomi, and The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History, and Douglas Wolk, a pop culture critic and author of Reading Comics and All the Marvels, for which he read some 27,000 Marvel comic books. Writer Courtenay Hameister will moderate the program.

Event | March 16, 2022

People, Places, Things

Mike Vos offers a glimpse beyond our world into an alternate timeline, where nature reclaims the industrial landscape.

Magazine | December 15, 2021

Conversation Project: Music as a Tool for Justice

Music is instrumental in shaping a place. It’s one of the most explicitly human things we can experience. COVID-19 has further revealed how key it is in our lives, with every major music festival closing or moving online. In the conversation, we will look at the history of Black musicians in shaping the story of Oregon through the lens of a short documentary and music from a Portland hip hop artist.

Event | September 29, 2021

Art and Activism in Modoc Point

Contemporary Klamath Modoc artist Ka'ila Farrell Smith on receiving a 2019–21 Fields Artist Fellowship

Beyond the Margins | July 15, 2021

Creating Joy, Art, and Social Change

Lincoln-City-based artist and musician Crystal Menseses writes about her experience as a 2019-21 Fields Artist Fellow.

Beyond the Margins | July 9, 2021

What Is a Creative Priority?

So the world is ending, want to start a record label? This conversation investigates the relevance of making art during times of personal, communal, or global crisis. How can we justify painting when we don’t know where our food is going to come from? What resources are needed to create meaningful work when resources are limited? What exactly does creativity offer us during this time of obvious uncertainty? What is our collective and personal obligation to creativity during a significant upheaval? Join MOsley WOtta for a conversation about getting creative during the apocalypse.

Event | June 22, 2021

What Is a Creative Priority?

So the world is ending, want to start a record label? This conversation investigates the relevance of making art during times of personal, communal, or global crisis. How can we justify painting when we don’t know where our food is going to come from? What resources are needed to create meaningful work when resources are limited? What exactly does creativity offer us during this time of obvious uncertainty? What is our collective and personal obligation to creativity during a significant upheaval? Join MOsley WOtta for a conversation about getting creative during the apocalypse

Event | July 22, 2021

So Much Together - The People’s Park: Reclaiming Spaces for Our Communities

Lauren Everett is a Portland-based artist, community activist, and researcher. In 2020, Lauren led the creation of the People’s Park, a temporary community space created on a vacant lot in the St. Johns neighborhood. In this two-part workshop, she will share the story of how the park came about, framed by a discussion about the ideology of property in the United States. Participants will collaborate to design their own community spaces and learn some of the basic practical aspects of doing this kind of project.

Event | June 14, 2021

So Much Together: Shared Possessions

Patricia Vázquez Gómez is an artist whose practice investigates the social functions of art, the intersections between aesthetics, ethics, and politics, and the expansion of community-based art practices. She strongly believes that we all possess unique talents, knowledge, and perspectives that make us unique and unordinary, and that those special possessions are often obscured by the situations in which we find ourselves. In this workshop, Patricia will share some of her projects and guide conversations and quick activities to connect to the themes and methods of her artwork. We will learn about the unique cultural possessions that each participant brings in the form of sayings inherited from families and cultures and make a set of posters featuring those sayings.

Event | June 21, 2021

So Much Together: Shared Possessions

Patricia Vázquez Gómez is an artist whose practice investigates the social functions of art, the intersections between aesthetics, ethics, and politics, and the expansion of community-based art practices. She strongly believes that we all possess unique talents, knowledge, and perspectives that make us unique and unordinary, and that those special possessions are often obscured by the situations in which we find ourselves. In this two-part workshop, Patricia will share some of her projects and guide conversations and quick activities to connect to the themes and methods of her artwork. We will learn about the unique cultural possessions that each participant brings in the form of sayings inherited from families and cultures and make a set of posters featuring those sayings.

Event | June 23, 2021

Pandemic Flowers

Illustrator Mia Nolting reflects on a year of isolation through the dead flowers that have been in her house since the start of the pandemic.

Beyond the Margins | March 18, 2021

Tutoring the Kingpin

May Maylisa Cat writes about how helping a friend apply for the citizenship exam revived memories of her own experiences of educational discrimination and marginalization.

Beyond the Margins | October 22, 2020

Cuentos del Rio (River Tales)

Program Coordinator Rozzell Medina will interview director Julie Schroell after this online screening presented by Portland EcoFilm Festival.

Event | September 24, 2020

Consider This with Anis Mojgani, Demian DinéYazhi', and Sharita Towne

While art is always political, the rancor and unrest of US politics in recent years have moved many artists to engage with politics more directly. In this online conversation, we'll talk with three artists whose work often deals with political themes about the intersections of art and politics: Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani, poet and visual artist Demian DinéYazhi', and multidisciplinary artist and educator Sharita Towne.

Event | September 29, 2020

Foremothers of Photography

Raechel Herron Root on how the creative lineage of Southern Oregon’s separatist lesbian lands can help us reimagine the future.

Magazine | August 25, 2020

Connect in Place: Music and Place

This project will dive into the role of music in shaping memories, communities, and place. Join facilitator Donovan Smith to explore music and place through an interactive discussion that will include reflections.

Event | August 25, 2020

Black Opera: Singing over Ourselves

Singer Onry writes about making a place for himself as a Black man in the white world of opera.

Beyond the Margins | July 24, 2020

Music as a Tool for Justice

This conversation will dive into the role of music in shaping memories, communities, and justice. Join facilitator Donovan Smith to explore these through an interactive discussion that will include reflections/dissections of an oral history from Portland hip hop legend Cool Nutz.

Event | June 30, 2020

What Is a Creative Priority? with MOsley WOtta

How can we justify painting a painting when we don’t know where our food is going to come from? What is our collective and personal obligation to creativity during a significant upheaval? Join MOsley WOtta for a conversation about getting creative during the apocalypse.

Event | June 2, 2020

Changing the Way We See Native America

Over the past decade, photographer Matika Wilbur has developed a body of imagery and cultural representations of Native peoples to counteract one-dimensional stereotypes and to create positive Indigenous role models. In this talk, learn about the ways Matika Wilbur is changing the way we see Native America through her work, including her exhibition "Natural Wanderment: Stewardship. Sovereignty. Sacredness."

Event | May 12, 2020

People, Places, Things

Berenice Chavez photographs her mother.

Magazine | April 27, 2020

Stories from the Diaspora: “Art is My Freedom”

Artist Akram Sarraj tells the story of his journey from Mosul to Portland as part of Stories from the Diaspora a project now being hosted on our website.

Beyond the Margins | January 17, 2020

Conversation Project: What We Risk

What do we risk when we lay ourselves open through music, painting, or any other art form? What might we give up and what might we gain when we set out to craft something beautiful or provocative or simply expressive that the world did not previously hold? Given today's artistic economy, to what extent is exposure—to other people and of the creative self—desirable? Join artist and educator Jason Graham, a slam poetry champion and speaker who performs hip hop as MOsley WOtta, for a conversation exploring the relationship between self-expression and vulnerability. This event will take place in the annex.

Event | February 12, 2020

Strengthening Communities Through Art

Magazine | August 13, 2019

Conversation Project: What We Risk

What do we risk when we lay ourselves open through music, painting, or any other art form? What might we give up and what might we gain when we set out to craft something beautiful or provocative or simply expressive that the world did not previously hold? Given today's artistic economy, to what extent is exposure—to other people and of the creative self—desirable? Join artist and educator Jason Graham, a slam poetry champion and speaker who performs hip hop as MOsley WOtta, for a conversation exploring the relationship between self-expression and vulnerability.

Event | August 5, 2019

Cover Songs of Myself

Jason Arias on "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and the different versions of ourselves.

Beyond the Margins | June 14, 2019

Grant-Funded Event: Connecting Threads

This is the first of several gatherings meant to connect young people with adults, especially those interested in art. One purpose of the program, funded in part by an Oregon Humanities grant, is to begin bringing creative young people into connection with the Southern Oregon Guild of Artists and Artisans and with adults who can support their growth in the arts and in their lives. The other side of that purpose is to encourage young people to share their skills with the adults (e.g. their skill with contemporary technology). The Guild also hopes to have some impact on bridging the age gap in the community and begin developing strong relationships between the Guild and the schools. There will be a lunch and social from noon to 12:30 p.m. followed by an interactive program from 12:30 to 2 p.m.

Event | May 18, 2019

Black Mark, Black Legend

Intisar Abioto writes about uncovering the lineage of Black artists in Portland.

Magazine | April 29, 2019

Conversation Project: What We Risk

What do we risk when we lay ourselves open through music, painting, or any other art form? What might we give up and what might we gain when we set out to craft something beautiful or provocative or simply expressive that the world did not previously hold? Given today's artistic economy, to what extent is exposure—to other people and of the creative self—desirable? Join artist and educator Jason Graham, a slam poetry champion and speaker who performs hip hop as Mosley WOtta, for a conversation exploring the relationship between self-expression and vulnerability.

Event | May 29, 2019

Black Mark, Black Legend

Intisar Abioto explores the legacy of Black artists in Portland and the meaning of that history for current creators in the community, as part of Oregon Humanities' Emerging Journalists, Community Stories fellowship program.

Beyond the Margins | April 25, 2019

Intisar Abioto and Kimberly A. C. Wilson on the Stories of Black Artists in Oregon

A conversation with 2018 Emerging Journalists, Community Stories fellow Intisar Abioto and Kimberly A. C. Wilson, her mentor for the fellowship, on celebrating Black presence and creativity in Oregon.

Beyond the Margins | April 25, 2019

Airlie Poetry Night

Airlie Press, a nonprofit publisher, is hosting a free, public, open poetry event at Devil's Den Wine Bar in the Alberta Arts District as part of the Association of Writers and Publishers (AWP) conference. This event is family-friendly, all-ages, and open to anyone interested in reading their work. The event will also featured notable local writers.

Event | March 29, 2019

Conversation Project: What We Risk

What do we risk when we lay ourselves open through music, painting, or any other art form? What might we give up and what might we gain when we set out to craft something beautiful or provocative or simply expressive that the world did not previously hold? Given today's artistic economy, to what extent is exposure—to other people and of the creative self—desirable? Join artist and educator Jason Graham, a slam poetry champion and speaker who performs hip hop as Mosley WOtta, for a conversation exploring the relationship between self-expression and vulnerability.

Event | April 7, 2019

Conversation Project: What We Risk

What do we risk when we lay ourselves open through music, painting, or any other art form? What might we give up and what might we gain when we set out to craft something beautiful or provocative or simply expressive that the world did not previously hold? Given today's artistic economy, to what extent is exposure—to other people and of the creative self—desirable? Join artist and educator Jason Graham, a slam poetry champion and speaker who performs hip hop as Mosley WOtta, for a conversation exploring the relationship between self-expression and vulnerability.

Event | May 11, 2019

Conversation Project: What We Risk

What do we risk when we lay ourselves open through music, painting, or any other art form? What might we give up and what might we gain when we set out to craft something beautiful or provocative or simply expressive that the world did not previously hold? Given today's artistic economy, to what extent is exposure—to other people and of the creative self—desirable? Join artist and educator Jason Graham, a slam poetry champion and speaker who performs hip hop as Mosley WOtta, for a conversation exploring the relationship between self-expression and vulnerability.

Event | June 8, 2019

Croppings: Enrique Chagoya, Reverse Anthropology

Through January 27, 2019, at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art

Magazine | December 13, 2018

Conversation Project: Ecology of Creative Space

Gathering Inspiration from the Natural World

Event | November 4, 2018

Day of Judgment

Simon Tam writes about the day he won a case before the supreme court and realized that winning can be complicated.

Magazine | August 30, 2018

Croppings: The Casta Paintings

Multimedia works by Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez at the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland

Magazine | August 30, 2018

On Tinnitus

Lucie Bonvalet writes about eight years of living with tinnitus, "a gray veil, a sort of curtain of rain, between me and everything outside of me."

Beyond the Margins | June 15, 2018

Conversation Project: What We Risk

Creativity, Vulnerability, and Art

Event | May 12, 2018

Croppings: Strange Narratives

Jamila Clarke's photographs combine the extraordinary with the commonplace, using the imagery and language of folktales and literature to explore complex emotions of everyday life.

Magazine | April 27, 2018

Gamanfest: Reclaiming Identity Through Art and Activism

Inspired by the spirit of gaman—"perseverance" or "endurance"—and those Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated in government camps during World War II, this festival serves as a venue for artists and activists within the Asian American community who use their heritage and culture as motivation for the work they create.

Event | May 12, 2018

Gamanfest: Reclaiming Identity Through Art and Activism

Inspired by the spirit of gaman—"perseverance" or "endurance"—and those Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated in government camps during World War II, this festival serves as a venue for artists and activists within the Asian American community who use their heritage and culture as motivation for the work they create.

Event | May 11, 2018

Conversation Project: What We Risk

Join artist and educator Jason Graham, a slam poetry champion and speaker who performs hip hop as MOsley WOtta, for a conversation exploring the relationship between self-expression and vulnerability.

Event | June 3, 2018

Conversation Project: What We Risk

Creativity, Vulnerability, and Art

Event | June 6, 2018

Conversation Project: What We Risk

Creativity, Vulnerability, and Art

Event | April 28, 2018

Conversation Project: What We Risk

Event | February 28, 2018

Astoria Call to Life: An Earth Day Ingathering

Clatsop Community College Foundation presents a collaborative performance and discussion by philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore and pianist Rachelle McCabe. This program is made possible in part by a Responsive Program Grant from Oregon Humanities.

Event | April 20, 2018

Conversation Project: What We Risk *RESCHEDULED*

Creativity, Vulnerability, and Art

Event | April 2, 2018

Field Work: Community Stories Onstage

Student-created show raises consciousness in Southern Oregon's Illinois Valley

Magazine | December 15, 2017

PLAYA Presents: Calligraphy of the Wind

A discussion with PLAYA resident and novelist Leslie Schwartz about the ways that specific places and communities shape the creative process.

Event | December 9, 2017

Conversation Project: What We Risk

Creativity, Vulnerability, and Art

Event | December 9, 2017

SuperReal: Our Town, Onstage!

RiverStars Performing Arts presents a holiday comedy created by local youth through interviews with community members.

Event | December 9, 2017

SuperReal: Our Town, Onstage!

RiverStars Performing Arts presents a holiday comedy created by local youth through interviews with community members.

Event | December 10, 2017

Conversation Project: What We Risk

Creativity, Vulnerability, and Art

Event | October 20, 2017

Finding Home at the Mims

From the 1940s to '60s, the Mims House was a safe place to stay for African Americans traveling through Oregon. Now it’s a gathering place for the Black community in Eugene. Video by Nisha Burton.

This Land | September 11, 2017

More to the Story

A grade-school musical offers educators and students a chance to reexamine history. An article by Marty Hughley with photos by Fred Joe

Magazine | August 22, 2017

PLAYA Presents

Current PLAYA residents ask, How can the art we make and the technology we devise feed the needs of our own community? This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.

Event | August 19, 2017

Vanport Mosaic Festival

Theater, documentaries, historic exhibits, lectures, and tours will explore will explore the history and legacy of Vanport. Oregon Humanities is a cosponsor of this event.

Event | May 26, 2017

Arts & Cultural Equity: Current Examples and Relevant Strategies

Arts and cultural workers, managers, educators, and students share current insights, experiences, and practices around equity and leadership within arts and culture organizations. Oregon Humanities is a cosponsor of this event.

Event | May 12, 2017

"Spiritrials" Post-Show Discussion with Mic Crenshaw

A conversation reflecting on the show with hip hop artist and activist Mic Crenshaw. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.

Event | April 30, 2017

"Spiritrials" Post-Show Discussion with Pancho Savery

A conversation reflecting on the show with Pancho Savery, professor of English and humanities at Reed College. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.

Event | April 29, 2017

"Spiritrials" Post-Show Discussion with Creator Dahlak Brathwaite

A conversation reflecting on the show. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.

Event | April 28, 2017

"Spiritrials" Post-Show Discussion on Faith and Religion

A conversation reflecting on the show with Conversation Project leader Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo of Interfaith Muse. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.

Event | April 27, 2017

Conversation Project: What We Risk

Creativity, Vulnerability, and Art

Event | April 19, 2017

"Spiritrials" Post-Show Discussion with JoAnn Hardesty

A conversation reflecting on the show with JoAnn Hardesty, President of NAACP Portland branch. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.

Event | April 22, 2017

Conversation Project: What We Risk

Creativity, Vulnerability, and Art

Event | April 14, 2017

Conversation Project: What We Risk

Creativity, Vulnerability, and Art

Event | July 7, 2017

Conversation Project: What We Risk

Creativity, Vulnerability, and Art

Event | June 28, 2017

Conversation Project: What We Risk

Creativity, Vulnerability, and Art

Event | March 16, 2017

What We Risk

Event | March 16, 2017

Conversation Project: What We Risk

Creativity, Vulnerability, and Art

Event | February 26, 2017

Posts

Readers write about Move

Magazine | December 18, 2015

Trademark Offense

Bandleader Simon Tam explains his fight to trademark his band’s name, “The Slants.” Tam recently argued his case before the US Supreme Court. He won.

Magazine | August 11, 2015

Wild Blue Sea

How does a song become "our song"? An excerpt from Get It While You Can by Nick Jaina

Beyond the Margins | May 27, 2015

Kansas in Technicolor

After a mastectomy, finding beauty in loss. An essay by Gretchen Icenogle

Magazine | April 7, 2015

To Begin Is to Start

An excerpt from Spells, a novel-within-photographs

Magazine | July 31, 2014

Clowns for Christ

Norina Beck writes about losing her faith and finding her nose.

Magazine | July 31, 2014

In Defense of Navel-Gazing

To understand the world, we must first understand ourselves. An essay by Jay Ponteri

Magazine | March 25, 2014

Trapped in the Spotlight

What happens when quitting your job means quitting yourself? An essay by Courtenay Hameister

Magazine | March 25, 2014

Who Cares About the Future of Music?

Opportunities and ethics in the age of Internet music streaming. An essay by Dave Allen

Magazine | November 8, 2013

An Anecdotal Glossary of Spectacle

M. Allen Cunningham sorts through our landscape of scandal, show, and distraction

Magazine | July 25, 2013

Soldiers' Stories

Photographer Jim Lommasson collaborates with war veterans on a gallery exhibit and book project that look at life for soldiers after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Magazine | August 7, 2012

Uprockin' the Rose City

The community that hip hop built in Portland. An article by Walidah Imarisha

Magazine | August 12, 2011

That Public Thing

What jazz can teach us about being a community. An essay by Tim DuRoche

Magazine | August 12, 2011

Laughing Into the Abyss

The existential howl of Jewish American humor. By Scott Nadelson

Magazine | December 5, 2010

The Artist as Worker

Rilke would never have understood the current desire to merge commerce and creativity. An essay by M. Allen Cunningham

Magazine | August 10, 2010

A Closer Look

Editor Kathleen Holt on the effort of looking.

Magazine | March 17, 2010

Go Ahead and Look

In praise of forbidden looking. An essay by Scott Nadelson

Magazine | March 17, 2010

Just Look and Read

Can photography make a poem more accessible? By Henry Hughes and Paul S. Gentry

Magazine | March 17, 2010

Distance as an Illusion

John Yeon and the landscape arts of China and Japan. An essay by Kevin Nute

Magazine | November 23, 2009