K.B. Dixon's cultural-portrait series continues with black & white images of novelist Lydia Kiesling, actor Charles Grant, multidisciplinary artist Emily Ginsburg, photographer Thibault Roland, and writer/editor Margaret Malone.

K.B. Dixon takes a camera tour through the McMinnville museum, from the Spruce Goose to the world's fastest jet to replicas of the Spirit of St. Louis and Apollo Lunar Rover & more.

The traveling exhibition, created by the Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center, reminds viewers of the multiracial history of Oregon’s timber towns.

K.B. Dixon's cultural-portrait series continues with black & white images of jazz drummer Ron Steen, multimedia artist Pamela Chipman, musical-theater leader Sharon Maroney, filmmaker Jim Blashfield, and author and environmentalist Allison Cobb.

A photograph begets a mosaic begets quilted fiber art in an iterative exhibit at the Lincoln City Cultural Center.

During the day, a family fun event featuring crayons, dance, music, and a noon ball drop. The evening before, PCO and Ortiz performed music from 19th-century Vienna.

The 12-minute show, free and visible from the Bayfront, brings to life images of Native Americans, loggers, fishing fleets, and farmers.

Photographer K.B. Dixon takes a tour of Portland's neighborhoods and discovers an impromptu people's garden of inflatable statues celebrating the holiday season.

K.B. Dixon's cultural-portrait series continues with a "special edition" featuring trailblazing women artists Lucinda Parker, Judy Cooke, Phyllis Yes, Sherrie Wolf, and Laura Ross-Paul.

"The view never stays the same for long; never for a moment, actually": Dan Powell's book of photos captures moments from an ever-changing landscape in the dry stretches of the West.

K.D. Dixon roams the streets of Portland with his camera in search of the odd, the eerie, the hair-raising, the ghoulish, the spectral, and the skeletal. Saints preserve us, he finds them.

The Sempoashochitl Festival, in honor and celebration of Día de los Muertos and the glories of the marigold, brings a whirl of traditional dance, art, music and remembrance.

Steeped in the history of good and evil, these nightmare figures of protection and malevolence come out on Halloween. They're also K.B. Dixon's office mates.

K.B. Dixon's cultural-portrait series continues with visual artist Marie Watt, classical percussionist Niel DePonte, dancer & choreographer Oluyinka Akinjiola, poet & storyteller Brian S. Ellis, and actor & Portland Revels leader Lauren Bloom Hanover.

Decades of battle over a pristine old-growth forest climaxed with the devastating 2020 Beachie Creek fire. But new growth is happening – and photographers are documenting a rebirth.

From Portland's museums and galleries to the Guggenheim and Whitney to Amsterdam, Australia, Berlin and beyond, Angela Allen focuses her camera on people interacting with art.

Book review: K.B. Dixon on the celebrity portraits by a "poor working-class clod from nowhere (who) grows up to be a famous London photographer hobnobbing with cinematic royalty."

On a balmy July evening on a Beaverton farm, The Concerts at the Barn kicked off their summer season. For audience and musicians alike, the sights and sounds were delicious.

K.B. Dixon's cultural-portrait series continues with All Classical's Suzanne Nance, poet Carlos Reyes, playwright Andrea Stolowitz, visual artist James Minden, and flautist Amelia Lukas.

Life is a cabaret: Poison Waters and a bevy of drag stars dress up, feel their Pride, light the lights, and put on a show.

After a four-day feast of music and partying, the 2023 Waterfront Blues Festival winds up with a bang of Fourth of July fireworks over the river.

The skeleton celebrants of Mysti Krewe of Nimbus bring a sweet New Orleans flavor to Portland's annual outdoor bash of the blues.

The blues festival, a downtown summer highlight since 1988, lays down its groove through July Fourth. Photographer Joe Cantrell captures Saturday's opening-day action.

K.B. Dixon's culltural-portrait series continues with illustrator Kate Bingaman-Burt, artist Dan Gluibizzi, writers Cecily Wong and Aaron Galbreath, and Oregon Ballet Theatre's Dani Rowe.

Photographer Joe Cantrell discovers the beauties of the universal in the patterns of very small things.

As Portland strives to revive from the crises of the past three years, K.B. Dixon wraps up his five-part photographic series of scenes from the city that was and might be again.

Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center hosts the traveling exhibition “The Curious World of Seaweed,” which explores the importance of seaweed and kelp to ocean health.

Remembrance of things not so very past: As Portland crawls back from the crises of the past three years, K.B. Dixon's urban portraits capture the everyday beauty of the city that was.

Who needs a giant concert hall to make the music zing? Classical Up Close brings great music to a small and happy audience in the cozy confines of a Tigard church.

From Fez to Spain to Oregon, a "transcendent" evening of Moroccan and flamenco music at The Reser: A photo essay.

A new book by the late, great New Yorker writer arrives as a series of collaged short essays. K.B. Dixon reviews it in the same spirit.

Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of portraits of Oregon cultural leaders with parks activist Randy Gragg, playwright Lava Alapai, mixed-media artist Erik Geschke, writer Erica Berry, and choreographer/dancer Samuel Hobbs.

In work gathered over 40 years, two sterling photographers aim their lenses at American assumptions and the realities of Black life.

For 73 years, the gallery and studio space has offered amateurs and professionals a place to show their work and to share skills and support.

The once and future city? K.B. Dixon's series of urban portraits reminds us of what Portland felt like in the not-too-distant past.

Got something to say? In the not too distant past, Portland was a town where you could put it in writing, and take it to the street.

As the city struggles to regain its footing, K.B. Dixon's series of urban portraits reminds us of what Portland felt like in the not-too-distant past.

Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of portraits with singer & actor Susannah Mars, violinist Tomás Cotik, Native arts leader Lulani Arquette, sculptor Ben Buswell, and multidisciplinary artist Fuchsia Lin.

For decades Jim Kingwell and friends have been firing up the 2,400-degree furnace at Icefire Glassworks in Cannon Beach and transforming nature.

"A Conversation with the World" on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene features Graham's portraits and interviews with individuals from around the world.

Has the city lost its way? In the first of a series of urban portraits, K.B. Dixon reminds us of what Portland felt like in the not-too-distant past.

Composer Sara Graef says her piece strives to express gratitude for the spirit of the 400-acre space, “what was decimated and what has been given back.”

Open Air Museum, Part 3: Still hesitant about entering a museum or gallery? Welcome to this statuesque exhibition-about-town.

David McCarthy's book of photographs portrays a city gritting it out through tough times. Plus, a new book celebrating Portland photographers.

As Studio Abioto's African-diaspora "Red Thread: Green Earth" closes with a vibrant performance at the Reser Center, show and space seem made for each other.

The gallery's painting and photography show "Inheritance" spotlights agricultural workers in Ghana and Black farmers in America.

As Portland Baroque Orchestra and the choir Cappella Romana bring Handel's "Messiah" to vivid life, photographer Joe Cantrell captures the energy and beauty of it all.

Photographer K.B. Dixon considers the art of portraiture in photographer Wilson's bold new book of images of famous writers.

Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of portraits with theater leader Josh Hecht, art school dean Jen Cole, opera singer Hannah Penn, novelist Tony Ardizzone, and film prop and effects artist Christina Kortum.

The Corvallis photographer used a folding field camera from the early 1900s to take the 25 images on exhibit at Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center.

A show at Newberg’s Chehalem Cultural Center focuses on Mexican artisans, many in trades on the cusp of vanishing.

Photographer K.B. Dixon continues his series of portraits with musicians Marv and Rindy Ross, artist David Eckard, actor Maureen Porter, and writer Todd Schultz.

A deep visit with the expanded garden and with the Japan Institute's first artist in residence, Japanese glass artist Rui Sasaki.

The Portland photographer says she is interested in the “lived history of Black place,” the legacy of Black artists in Oregon who came before.

Photographer Joe Cantrell roams the plazas and parks and barns of town and country, discovering a feast of music and dance.

"The first thing I am looking for in a portrait is beauty": K.B. Dixon talks about the intricate dance of subject and photographer.

OSU's touring Art About Agriculture exhibit, now at Newport's Pacific Maritime Heritage Center, explores the ways we grow and eat our food.

Maryhill Museum of Art finishes its sweeping Columbia Gorge fiber-arts project with a grand party on the museum grounds.

The Portland artist's new show at Gallery 114 has roots in family history, the Rosenberg spy trial, and the excesses of the 1950s McCarthy era.

The Oregon Symphony's Zach Galatis and friends raise the roof in the kickoff show of this summer's Concerts in the Barn.

A journey through the Portland Art Museum's fierce and piercing show of work by photographers of color about the city's 2020 racial justice protests.

K.B. Dixon's series of portraits continues with the Oregon Symphony's Scott Showalter, Renegade Opera's Madeline Ross, theater leader Michael Mendelson, poet Genevieve DeGuzman, and roots music legend Lloyd Jones.

... and as a bright and shiny Saturday fades into evening, food and art and crafts and celebrations of the many cultures of Washington County, too.

On a warm day in Beaverton, all sorts of dancers stepped out to perform on the Tiny Stage – and the effect was big. A photo essay by Joe Cantrell.

In her section of Maryhill Museum's collaborative Columbia River art project, Carolyn Hazel Drake explores a world of transitions.

A trip into the toxic center of the Northwest's nuclear legacy, and to the museum that tells part of its story, reveals still-potent fissures over power, safety, and rights.

The 2022 Waterfront Blues Festival goes out with a fireworks bang on the Fourth of July. Photographer Joe Cantrell catches the action on the festival's fourth and final day.

On Sunday at the Waterfront Blues Festival, Mysti Krewe's bones rattle, Taj Mahal headlines, LaRhonda Steele soars, and much more. Photographer Joe Cantrell captures the spirit of it all.

As the music plays on the second day of Portland's big blues bash on the waterfront, the feet start moving to the beat – and photographer Joe Cantrell captures the action.

The Waterfront Blues Festival, back full force after Covid slowdowns, brings back the beat through the Fourth of July. Photographer Joe Cantrell snaps highlights from Day One.

Multi-disciplinary ‘Glass Stories’ project leads the Portland jazz musician to other times, places, and art forms.

Fabric artist Amanda Triplett and her team learn the science of the Columbia River Basin and transform it into the language of art.

After a two-year Covid layoff, the big LGBTQ+ celebration is returning to Waterfront Park. Photographer K.B. Dixon shows us what we've been missing.

Ready or not, here it comes. After two years in the Covid desert, Portland's Rose Festival roars back. Let the Bacchanalia begin.

Yes, it's a great beach town – and part of that is its cultural life. K.B. Dixon brings home the photographic proof.

K.B. Dixon continues his series with five fresh photographic portraits of people who help define the shape of Portland's culture.

Juliana Souther’s multimedia exhibit at The Arts Center conveys a sense of deep longing for connection.

From its Walters Arts Center to its Civic Center, a surprise Lee Kelly sculpture and more, Portland's booming western neighbor offers a surprise for the eyes.

Blake Andrews interviews the Bend-based photographer about past and future projects and her recent Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography.

As the nation celebrates the art of language, K.B. Dixon photographs ten leading Oregon poets.

Art from Tumult: Bev Grant’s Photographic Record
of Radicalized New York, at Reed College's Cooley Art Gallery.

The secret to the Portland Art Museum's exhibit on Kahlo, Rivera, and Mexican Modernism: Take it your own way, at your own pace.

By a popular restaurant on the way to the Oregon Coast, an open-air logging museum offers the strange and ghostly beauty of ruination. A photo essay by K.B. Dixon.

On a path from Germany to Southern Oregon, sculptor Christian Burchard goes with the grain as he collects, cuts, turns, and dreams the surprises in the wood.

Part 2: Friderike Heuer visits Kristy Kún, whose fantastic felt forms suggest something mythological.

Photo essay: Portland's iconic video store and memorabilia museum has kept the film lights flickering through the pandemic.

Stage & Studio podcast: Dmae Roberts talks with the artistically versatile Abioto about Black culture and her many projects.

The industrialization of the Columbia River continues to destroy local salmon ecosystems and the livelihoods of Indigenous fishers who depend on them.

K.B. Dixon continues his photo series with portraits of ten more people who help define the shape of Portland's culture.

A morning spent amid the Columbia Hills inspires musings on the rock paintings and carvings that dot the landscape.

The images, from the collection of photographer Bill Rhoades, run from the New Deal to the present and include work by famous Oregon photographers.

Multimedia exhibition captures stories of survivors who fled war, persecution, and genocide to rebuild their lives in Oregon.

In a year of sharp contrasts, visual art in Oregon bounced between the stark and the hopeful, with plenty of surprises along the way.

"One also sees the beauty in the organic, in the actual,
the particular": At the Seattle Art Museum, an eloquent look at the great West Coast photographer.

K.B. Dixon begins a new series with photographic portraits of eleven people who help define the shape of Portland's culture.

Blake Andrews interviews Shawn Records about photography, Joseph Campbell, becoming an adult, and his new book "Hero."

Double-exposure photographs by Mike Vos, Dinh Q. Lê and Gary Burnley speak to our polarized times.

On Street Photography Day, Portland photographer K.B. Dixon celebrates the art of capturing the moment.

A Lincoln City exhibit calls attention to “living laboratories” set aside for conservation and research.

Morocco's "The Unknown Saint" and South Korea's "It's Okay to Not Be Okay" spin beauty from fable.