Tours
Mt. Hood Loop Tour including Multnomah Falls
Join in on a full-day guided tour from Portland to Mt. Hood. By visiting Mount Hood with enthusiastic and knowledgeable guides, you will have multiple opportunities to get the best photographs of the awe-inspiring scenery and to learn about the history and heritage of Portland’s iconic mountain. The tour will depart the hustle and bustle...
Morning or Afternoon Half Day Portland City Tour
More than just a basic Portland city tour, the half-day Portland City Tour will reveal the laid-back small city feel of this fun and thriving downtown. You will experience the best Portland sites, including the International Rose Garden, Pioneer Courthouse Square, NW 23rd (the best shopping area in Portland), the Pearl District, the South Park...
Morning or Afternoon Multnomah Falls & Gorge Waterfalls Tour
Explore the beauty of the canyon walls and rock formations, breathtaking waterfalls and awe-inspiring visas that make the Columbia River National Scenic Area one of the Seven Wonders of Oregon. Our enthusiastic guides will introduce you to the most amazing places in the Gorge while providing a comprehensive narrative of this spectacular landscape and its...
Oregon Coastal Tour
Maximize your beach time while at the Oregon Coast Oregon’s coastline is graced with unforgettable vistas: dramatic cliffs, offshore rocks and sea lions, wide sandy beaches, majestic capes, historic lighthouses, enchanted forests and lovely small beach towns which artists and artisans make their home. Locations we may visit include: Cannon Beach, Haystack Rock, Short Sand...
Winter Twig ID with Casey Clapp
When deciduous trees lose their leaves each year, one of their most conspicuous characteristics is lost: their leaves. But all is not lost. Join arborist Casey Clapp, creator and co-host of the tree podcast Completely Arbortrary, in this identification course focused on what the leaves leave behind: the twigs. This course will introduce how to...
Exhibitions
Fernanda D'Agostino: Chrysalis (Generativity)
Oregon Contemporary presents Chrysalis (Generativity), a solo exhibition by Fernanda D’Agostino. The exhibition is part of Site, a series of site-specific large-scale solo exhibitions by artists of the Pacific Northwest. Chrysalis is an installation of a series of projection sculptures based on the beautiful nests of tent caterpillars. The sculptures are constructed of branches and...
Traces
Traces presents poetic reflections on memory in contemporary art. Art has long played a role in aiding memory by depicting detailed stories in history painting, epic poems, or song cycles. It is also a space for artists to give physical forms to cerebral or emotional sensations. This exhibition, featuring recent acquisitions alongside artworks borrowed from...
Garden of Resonance: The Art of Jun Kaneko
Portland Japanese Garden is delighted to welcome internationally acclaimed artist Jun Kaneko (b. 1942-). Kaneko, recently honored with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center, has made major contributions to the field of sculptural art on a global scale, exploring the relationships between art, nature, and people with the boldness and placement...
Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe
Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe introduces new generations to one of the twentieth century’s most innovative Native American painters. Howe (1915–1983) committed his artistic career to the preservation, relevance, and ongoing expression of his Yanktonai Dakota culture. He proved that art could be simultaneously modern and embedded in customary Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Sioux) culture...
Jeffrey Gibson: To Name An Other
Community, empowerment, and visibility are at the heart of the ongoing performance work To Name An Other, by multimedia artist Jeffrey Gibson (b. 1972), who is a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent. The fifty pairs of matching tunics and drums in this large-scale installation are emblazoned with phrases...
Symbiosis
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a plant? Perhaps a frog, a slug or an orchid-butterfly hybrid? Or maybe you’re not an organic lifeform at all. This November 2022 through February 2023, the PAM CUT // Center for an Untold Tomorrow building at 934 SW Salmon Street will come to...
Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes
Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes is a groundbreaking exhibition celebrating Marvel’s 80-year history, from the iconic characters to the creators who’ve told the stories. Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes features hundreds of artifacts, including original comic book pages, interactive displays, life-size statues of your favorite Super Heroes, and costumes and props from Marvel films and...
A Century of BB Camp
Take a journey through time and distance, along Highway 101 to Otis, Oregon. “We’re B’nai B’rith Campers, Rough and Ready!” greets you in singsong as you drive through the camp gate. It all began in 1921 with campers sleeping on old army cots in tents. After a century of growth, over 1,000 campers a summer...
The Odyssey of the Historic Jantzen Beach Carousel
The Jantzen Beach Amusement Park officially opened on May 26, 1928. It added a new attraction in July of that year—an impressive four-abreast carousel built by C. W. Parker. The Odyssey of the Historic Jantzen Beach Carousel examines the carousel’s journey from Parker’s Leavenworth factory to California’s sunny shores to the Jantzen Beach Amusement Park,...
Human | Nature
150 Years of Japanese Landscape Prints Selected from the Portland Art Museum’s permanent collection, this exhibition explores Japan’s journey with and through nature during the 19th century and into the modern age through the lens of landscape prints, revealing the at-once reverential and playful spirit in which people held the trees, mountains, and rivers around...
Masterworks | Portland: Botticelli
The Portland Art Museum is pleased to present Sandro Botticelli’s masterwork Madonna of the Magnificat, a tondo (round painting) of the Madonna and Child with angels. This rarely seen work is a variant of the artist’s celebrated painting in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, considered one of the finest Madonna and Child paintings of the...
Flowstone
Flowstone, a collaborative project by Hannah Newman and Susan Murrell, explores the end of day as it relates to the end of days. Sunsets depicted as solitary figures, propagate into a forest or family of stalagmites. The sunset in Flowstone is depicted in multiple ways - as a sculptural figure embedded with sediment, a flat...
M U S I N G S FROM THE FUTURE
PDX CONTEMPORARY ART is pleased to present M U S I N G S FROM THE FUTURE, an exhibition of new work by Tad Savinar. The exhibition will mark Savinar’s fiftieth year of working in the studio. With wry wit, the ever-careful observer Tad Savinar “reports” on the present culture, projecting into his view of...
Weaving Data
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU is pleased to present Weaving Data, featuring the work of Faig Ahmed, April Bey, Jovencio de la Paz, Ahree Lee, Kayla Mattes, Shelley Socolofsky, Joan Truckenbrod, Vo Vo, and Sarah Wertzberger. The exhibition is on view from January 24 through April 29, 2023, with an opening reception...
l'appel du vide 2023 MFA First Year Exhibition
(Portland, OR) The Center for Contemporary Art and Culture and the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies at PNCA are pleased to present l’appel du vide, a group exhibition of new and recent works by First Year MFA Graduate Candidates and Post-Bacc Programs students. Exhibition Statement: Walking along a high cliff path, you are gripped...
home school: The shape of memory
home school and Oregon Contemporary proudly present The shape of memory, on view 27 Jan – 19. Mar 2023. The second show in home school’s curatorial residency includes works by Star Feliz, Deborah-Joyce Holman, Dozie Kanu, Nkhensani Mkhari, Portland Backyard Art Group, and MODUS. Exploring the slippage between symbol and sigil, the works in the...
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