Events

Showing Art & Design Events during Feb. 9, 2025–Feb. 8, 2026

Exhibitions

Editor's Pick
Bricks Cascade
May 17–18, 2025

Bricks Cascade

Oregon Convention Center TBA

Head to the Oregon Convention Center for the annual Bricks Cascade, Portland’s premier public LEGO event. See creations from hundreds of builders from the Pacific Northwest and worldwide in this two-day event. Talk to the creators of these fantastic creations, then leave your own builds on the Wall of Creation. Race your own brick-built car...

Conventions, Art & Design, Exhibition
Throughlines: Connections in the Collection
Jan. 25, 2024–Mar. 30, 2025

Throughlines: Connections in the Collection

Portland Art Museum $0 - $25

Throughlines embraces wonder and curiosity, bringing together artworks from across the Museum’s collections to explore the range of artistic innovation. From diverse geographies, cultures, and time periods, artists have consistently created images, objects, and experiences that ask us to consider ourselves and the world from different perspectives. Visitors will encounter playful groupings that reveal how artists...

Art & Design, Exhibition
Breathing. Room by Indian artist Ranjani Shettar
Oct. 18, 2024–Feb. 28, 2025

Breathing. Room by Indian artist Ranjani Shettar

Ellen Browning Building: The Lobby Free

Curated by Sima Familant, Breathing. Room opens October 18 and showcases renowned artist Ranjani Shettar’s first exhibition in Portland. Her monumental installation Morning Song — crafted from lacquered wood by Indian artisans — explores the balance between industrialization and nature. The exhibit invites viewers to pause and reflect on space and stillness. It also features works by Jeff Elrod, Naotaka Hiro,...

Art & Design, Exhibition
Psychedelic Rock Posters and Fashion of the 1960s
Oct. 19, 2024–Mar. 30, 2025

Psychedelic Rock Posters and Fashion of the 1960s

Portland Art Museum $0 - $25

Psychedelic Rock Posters and Fashion of the 1960s reveals the passion and creativity of the era through the iconic rock posters of San Francisco and beyond. The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco was an incubator for ideas, expression, social thought, and, above all, music. Young people from across the nation gathered there to explore alternative ways...

Art & Design, Exhibition
Carmi Tronci-Bell | Godhead
Jan. 6–Feb. 20, 2025

Carmi Tronci-Bell | Godhead

North View Gallery Free

An exhibition immersing viewers in the world of Godhead, an interactive webcomic that proposes an Afrofuturist vision of the United States in the nineteenth century. The narrative centers on a girl genius named Walnut enslaved in a historical United States where slavery is still legal. The story follows Walnut as she develops an unlikely friendship with...

Art & Design, Exhibition
Just Playin' Around
Jan. 21–Apr. 26, 2025

Just Playin' Around

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University Free

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU is pleased to present Just Playin’ Around, featuring the work of Derrick Adams, Calvin Chen, Jeremy Okai Davis, Latoya Lovely, Jillian Mayer, Takashi Murakami, Jeremy Rotsztain, Heidi Schwegler, Joshua Sin, Matthew Earl Williams, and Erwin Wurm. All events are free to the public. Play and humor have...

Art & Design, Exhibition
Survival and Intimations of Immortality
Jan. 26–May 25, 2025

Survival and Intimations of Immortality

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education $0 - $10

The exhibition explores the work of three artists representing three generations of one family: Holocaust survivor Allice Lok Cahana (1929 – 2017), her oldest son, Ronnie Cahana (born 1953), a major stroke survivor, and his daughter, Kitra Cahana (born 1987), a filmmaker and photographer. Alice Lok Cahana grew up in Sarvar, Hungary. She survived four different...

Cultural Communities, Art & Design, Exhibition
Alberta Street Gallery: Local Photographers Group Show and Love Works
Jan. 30–Feb. 24, 2025

Alberta Street Gallery: Local Photographers Group Show and Love Works

Alberta Street Gallery Free

Alberta Street Gallery's February show is a Local Photographers Group Show — photographs by Chenoa Kacheta, Cory Cliffe And Carol Isaak. In the windows will be Love Works — Artwork by David Friedman and Jewelry By Leslie McMillan Opening Reception January 30, 6-9 p.m.

Art & Design, Exhibition
Brief Encounters: Queer Instant Photography
Feb. 1–23, 2025

Brief Encounters: Queer Instant Photography

Carnation Contemporary Free

Brief Encounters is an exploration of the legacy of artists using instant photography to express the queer experience. Queer people have used instant formats to protect the free expression of their intimacies, relationships, sexual liaisons, and communities; some of the risks of showing these images exist to this day. Brief Encounters encourages artists to freely express...

Art & Design, Exhibition, LGBTQ+
Tender to the Touch
Feb. 3–27, 2025

Tender to the Touch

Mt Hood Community College Free

Tender to the Touch, A solo exhibition by Kim Smith Claudel, suggests a time of softening, a time to be tender and also a time of feeling tender — sore, sensitive, bruised; and yet, still strong and resilient. This exhibition is a collection of recent works: tenuous sculptures on the verge of collapse, large ethereal paintings stretched...

Art & Design, Exhibition
Unconventional Wisdom: The Work of North Pole Studio
Feb. 5–Mar. 2, 2025

Unconventional Wisdom: The Work of North Pole Studio

Waterstone Gallery Free

This February, Waterstone Gallery is pleased to present Unconventional Wisdom: The Work of North Pole Studio for the annual invitational show. This year's group show is a collection of works by Adam Richards, Adolph Bastendorff, Davis Wohlford, Deanna Wiessenhaus, Doug Wing, James Enos, Nathan Ueno, and Tyla Parsons of North Pole Studio. Waterstone is thrilled to...

Art & Design, Exhibition, For Kids
Monet’s Floating Worlds at Giverny
Mar. 1–Aug. 17, 2025

Monet’s Floating Worlds at Giverny

Portland Art Museum $0 - $25

The monumental canvas Waterlilies by Claude Monet is perhaps the most treasured painting in the Portland Art Museum’s collection. Now, after over 65 years, it will finally look much as the artist intended — without varnish. The detailed process of conservation resulted in new color harmonies and brightness. To celebrate the restoration of the painting...

Art & Design, Exhibition
Ceramic Showcase and Gathering of the Guilds
Apr. 25–27, 2025

Ceramic Showcase and Gathering of the Guilds

Oregon Convention Center Free

The Oregon Potters Association's Ceramic Showcase and the Gathering of the Guilds form one of Northwest's largest, unsurpassed art shows. More than 300 artists working in metals, glass, wood, beads, fibers, clays and glazes will be exhibiting their wares, doing demonstrations, offering youth activities and more during this unique and diverse three-day artisan show. In...

Art & Design, Conventions, Exhibition, Shopping

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