Events

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design and the College of the Arts celebrate the twelfth year of the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize at Portland State University. A jury composed of Schnitzer School faculty and representative professionals from the art and design community reviewed 55 applications from art and design students,...

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...

Even from a young age growing up in Eastern Washington, Kim Slate had a fascination with the creation of images and the power they had to capture the imagination and elicit emotion. The encouragement of her interests and talents led her to study animation, where the power of images is amplified by story. After graduation,...

Mizna Wada: Kowaii Club 5 *Held at the Nucleus House Gallery Location: 1137 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR 97211  March 7 - 30, 2025  Opening Reception: March 7 / 5pm - 7pm  Mizna Wada is a Japan-based illustrator. She was born in 1974 in Kumamoto, Japan. She loves horror comics and horror movies from her childhood. Mizna creates creepy...

ja’ / buuts’ / t’aan (Water / Smoke / Word) is a multichannel video and sound installation emerging from a multidisciplinary and iterative project that encompasses public engagement, print, and media works. The presentation, made in collaboration with Patricia Vázquez Gómez and a group of Mayan youth living in Northeast Portland, explores the relationship between these young...

Alberta Street Gallery hosts Unsanctioned: A Group Show by Local Street Artists, plus Belonging: multimedia work by Michelle Purvis and metal art by Julia Alora. Unsanctioned: A Group Show by Local Street Artists Art doesn't ask permission to exist. It comes into our lives regardless and can organize some of the chaos in the world....

Join an inspiring evening celebrating the strength and beauty of women through art. Donna Bates's vibrant oil paintings, whose powerful figures embody resilience and grace, will be featured alongside Tamara Goldsmith's luminous stained glass creations, whose work captures light and color in stunning, artful forms. Together, these two artists offer a dynamic exploration of strength,...

This April, Portland-based fiber artist LeBrie Rich will unveil new work in her solo exhibition, “Crackers (& Cookies)” at Nine Gallery. Continuing with her visual explorations of mass-produced food and its cultural significance, Rich will present two-dimensional textile pieces and large-scale felted sculptures — including some snack-inspired furniture — featuring iconic brands of crackers and...

Carnation Contemporary is pleased to present Bodies in Blotter, a multimedia and multi-sensory exhibition featuring works by Megita Denton, Sarah Pagliaro, and Jeremy Rotsztain. This reconception of the Carnation space invites respite via all the senses, an installation in which the body is supported, celebrated, and simultaneously dissolved into another, softer, world. Drawing on both the...

Based on a large group of mushrooms, Cluster is a magical exhibition where artists customize a 5" tall pine mushroom.  Opening Reception: April 4 / 5pm - 7pm

Davor Gromilovic is a visual artist currently residing in Sombor, Serbia (born in Yugoslavia in 1985). Although contemporary drawing represents the primary field of his creative exploration and development, he also shows creative abilities and genuine commitment to other artistic forms such as painting, illustration, graphics, murals, art fanzines, etc. His work is narrative and often inspired...

The Imperfecta Gallery is excited to invite you to the opening reception of Il Cantastorie (The Storyteller), an exhibition featuring Italian artists Marco Calvi and Gioconda Pieracci. The show features an impressive collection of original artdolls, illustrations and stories that retrace the travels of "Il Cantastorie" (The Storyteller) — a mysterious and immortal figure who crosses eras,...

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...

Ani-May Scroll Show is a group exhibition celebrating the nostalgic anime scroll. Artists: Boya Sun / Choo / Junko Mizuno / KEHASUK / Kelly Sux / Maruti-bitamin / Natalie Andrewson / Patrick Mathews / Perry Maple / Matias Bergara / Mengxuan Li / Shintaro Kago / Sibylline Meynet Opening Reception: February 7 / 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. 

The Portland Garden Club will host a Garden Club of America major flower show. Visitors will experience an extraordinary display of creativity and expertise in horticulture, floral artistry and photography. Multiple exhibits created by artists from across the U.S. will compete in 4 divisions: Floral Design, Horticulture, Photography, and Botanical Arts. An educational exhibit will...

The first major retrospective to focus on the groundbreaking 20th-century painter and printmaker Yoshida Chizuko (1924–2017), a pioneering woman modernist in Japan, Yoshida Chizuko features approximately 100 works, many of which have never previously been exhibited, encompassing early paintings and sketches, rare monotypes, woodblock prints, and zinc-plate mixed media prints, in addition to archival material and ephemera....