Hello, my name is Adam McIsaac. I have spent the last 25 years of my life studying, teaching and producing artwork based on the indigenous peoples of the Columbia River. Historically Columbia River art was found along the river in many forms and mediums. The earliest of explorers recorded carved...Read more
Jenene Nagy featured in "Man Made ", a group exhibition at the Brand Library & Art Center March 18, 2017 - May 6, 2017...
Read moreFor the past few years I've been thinking about an essay by Annie Dillard titled "The Wreck of Time." Posing the question of the relevance of the individual to the multitudes present and past, she quotes statistics of various populations and the historic and nature-driven events that have shaped...Read more
Fruit is alive. We speak about it in human terms. It has flesh and skin that bruises; therefore it is packed and transported carefully. When we buy a piece of fruit at the store, we’re unaware of the hands through which it has passed and the path that it has taken to get to its final destination...Read more
The stratification of socioeconomic class in Aspen, Colo., wouldn’t at first seem fodder for a fascinating art show, but former Portlander and current Aspen doyenne Jenene Nagy has the moxie to turn this arid conceit into a dazzling grouping of drawings, prints and sculptures...
Read moreOPENING THURSDAY OCTOBER 7th, 6 to 8. October 7th - November 2nd.
Forget Me Not is a Reading Frenzy tradition and this year we're pleased to present the biggest one ever! Nearly two dozen local artists (and one from the UK!) who have created work honoring a dearly departed person, place or thing.
Join us for the first Thursday reception or come visit us any time in October. You're also invited to bring small items (photos, artwork, tchotchkes, etc.) that represent your dearly departed to contribute to a public shrine.
Read moreHeather Watkins speaks about her work in conjunction with the new exhibition at Reed's Feldenheimer Gallery, Gradual Instant
Read moreJessica Jackson Hutchins (b. 1971) lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Hutchins’s expressive and intuitive studio practice produces dynamic sculptural installations, collages, paintings, and large-scale ceramics, all hybrid juxtapositions of the handmade. As evidence of the artist’s dialogue...Read more
Curated by Blake Shell, The Archer Gallery presents Vantage, an exhibition of artwork exploring perspective - visually, contextually, and perceptually. Featuring regional and national contemporary artists working in sculpture, video, computer animation, sound, photography, and installation, Vantage invites viewers into uncommon worlds, where meaning is reconstructed and reality subverted. CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION
Read moreGather: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger at Stelo Arts.
How are we connected? What are the ties that bind us? These are some of the questions that Cannupa Hanska Luger and Marie Watt have been talking through via their joint residency with Stelo. As we celebrate the culmination of their multi-year residency, you are invited to the exhibition Gather, on view at Stelo August 13 - November 27, 2022. Visitors to the Stelo flex space will engage with pieces from Luger and Watt’s individual art practices, as well as their first collaborative art work, Each/Other. Watt and Luger merged their practices to create this sculpture with hundreds of people from around the world.
The artists asked participants to embroider messages while considering “if acts of collaboration help heal broken bonds with the environment and with each other.” The artworks on view will be large in scale, sculptural, and will involve video and sound. Visitors will be encouraged to spend time in the space being with the work, and connecting with the potential for art to engage our hearts and minds.
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“Vivid Dream (Awakening) is in many ways a prototype and a test. It is a project I’ve been wanting, dreaming, to realize for some time. Gather is the perfect venue for its debut. The piece itself is the result of gathered stories, gathered jingles, and or gathered relationships.” - Marie
Opening Event: Saturday, August 13, 2-5pm.
From 2:30-3:30pm Stelo co-leader Tia Katcharian will lead a walk-through conversation with the artists and local fabrication supporter Neal Fegan from Camp Colton, and Shir Grisanti, founder of c3:initiative.
August 13 - November 27, 2022
Gallery hours: Friday - Sunday, 12-5pm
412 NW 8th Ave, Portland, OR 97209
All programs are free and open to the public and are ADA accessible. Face masks are recommended.
Read moreWe are pleased to share that Heather Watkins work is included in Bodies of Work: Art & Healing at the Sun Valley Museum of Art. Bodies of Work: Art & Healing will be on view January 12 - March 23, 2024. Participating artists include: Katherine Shaughnessy, Heather Watkins, Renée Stout, Katherine Sherwood, Estelle L. Roberge, and Dylan Mortimer.
“The notion that making and experiencing the arts can be healing has a long history. At the beginning of the 20th century, tuberculosis patients “taking the cure” at sanatoria often participated in structured arts and crafts programs. Wounded soldiers recuperating during World War II were taught “lap crafts,” such as beading and embroidery, as part of their medical therapy. The arts have served as powerful medicine for both mind and body for centuries. When planning for this exhibition considering the connection between art and healing began, the Covid-19 pandemic was dominating headlines around the globe. How do the arts help us process and/or recover from medical illness? How can they help us navigate the complex experience of what it is to be a medical patient facing serious illness in the 21st century? And how can art help us heal from other kinds of social and emotional trauma?
The exhibition features artwork by several contemporary artists who have used their practices as ways of exploring and processing their own experience of medical illness and also the experiences of others. Working in a range of media and from widely varying points of view and experiences, these artists have made art as part of their own healing and in order to enable the healing of others.”
THE MUSEUM
Sun Valley Museum of Art
191 5th St E,
Ketchum, ID 83340
HOURS
Tuesday - Friday
10:00 am—5:00 pm
Saturday
11:00 am—4:00 pm
Exhibition Page: https://svmoa.org/exhibitions/2024/bodies-of-work?mc_cid=83a204aee2&mc_e...
Read moreHeather Watkins' wood and fiber sculptures are inclued in the COCA Annual. The CoCA Georgetown Gallery is located in Suite 258 of Seattle Design Center at 5701 6th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98108, and is open Monday through Friday 9am to 5 pm. Work is on display through March 10, 2013
Read moreWe're excited to co-host a series of Saturday morning reading discussions in the gallery June 9th, 16th, and 23rd from 11:30-1pm. Discussions are open to the public.
Join us at PDX CONTEMPORARY ART:
Saturday, June 9th, 11:30am-1pm with Emily Squires
Saturday, June 16th, 11:30am-1pm with Rachel Hines
and Saturday, June 23rd, 11:30am-1pm with Ariana Jacob
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