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...

The OSA Rose Festival Exhibition is a vibrant celebration of Portland, its rich traditions, and its iconic flower—the rose. In alignment with this year’s Portland Rose Festival theme, All Together Now, we invite artists to showcase their unique interpretations of the city and its beloved blooms. This special exhibition will feature a portrait unveiling of...

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 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...

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...

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...

Alberta Street Gallery hosts the 4th Annual Paper Invitational: Paper-based artworks by 15 PNW artists and Cast in Metal and Pigment: Sentimental paintings by Gabe Wolfe w/ unique metalworks forged by Thomas Hynes. Opening Reception April 24, 6-9 p.m

Join two fantastic contemporary art exhibitions during the month of May. The North Gallery will feature We Speak in Color, featuring the Abstract Expressionist work of Heather Adamek and Jeffrey Fuchs. The South Gallery will feature a completely new body of work, Inventing People by Los Angeles transplant Michael Spence. The show will run from May...

The Imperfecta Gallery presents ANCESTORS, an exhibition featuring Portland artist Reese Bowes. The show features artworks created to draw one's attention "away from the digital edifice and interface, by subverting it and destructing it and choosing materials that mimic and mock it." Pieces in the show are the artist's 3rd iteration of a series that started 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. 

Inspired by archetypes of nurturing, acceptance and trust, Renee Couture and Ebenezer Galluzzo explore the spaces where difference and belonging exist together. The tension between searching and finding, confusion and knowing, letting go and holding on are the guides in each artist’s work. Each Step Pronounced gives space to witness and honor the small actions...

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....