And the Quartet Played On
Elizabeth Mehren
November 19, 2020
From making music in wartime Sarajevo to performing and teaching in Oregon, violist Dijana Ihas forges a new life.
From making music in wartime Sarajevo to performing and teaching in Oregon, violist Dijana Ihas forges a new life.
COVID has put the kibosh on the popular reindeer room, but the community still has holiday plans.
James H. Barron’s “The Greek Connection” tells the tale of a fight for justice amid the tricky thicket of politics.
Nine months into shutdown, even introverts miss the bustle of the streets. A look back on the art of gathering.
As covid cases spike and Oregon orders new restrictions, museums are closing their doors again.
Pandemic inspires youth orchestra to create a new music festival and commissioning program featuring new music by diverse voices Art is all about creativity, so when the pandemic struck, Portland Youth Philharmonic, facing cancellation of in-person classes and concerts, got creative. The
Sitka Center brings a Native American tradition to elementary students.
Dance is cooking: solo concerts from NW Dance Project, Franco Nieto’s new studio, comic dance film from BodyVox.
Five Oaks Museum’s virtual exhibit ‘DISplace’ traces the long history of the Hawaiian diaspora in the Northwest.
“The arts are undergoing a catastrophe. The performing arts sector, specifically, has been squashed. And, as with any tragedy, I think there are also revelations.”
The nation cringes from the brinksmanship of election denial. Isn’t there a show about that?
Businesses boarded up against Covid and protests. Artists saw blank canvases. A look at very public art projects.
Photographer/writer K.B. Dixon profiles leading gallery owners Martha Lee, Charles Froelick, Elizabeth Leach.
Portland Center Stage’s online ‘Love in the Time of Piñatas’ hits the cultural and theatrical sweet spot.
Alyson Provax’s innovative print work showcases resourcefulness in both medium and audience engagement
The Music is Instrumental program pays for mentors to keep music education alive in Lincoln County schools.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Brett Campbell solves the riddle. Theater discovers radio. Music, dance, art, books, more.
Lo-fi, death metal, slowcore, millennial punk, pop and jazz: new sounds from local artists on Bandcamp.
ArtsWatch’s new language arts column arrives just in time for a busy November. Amy Leona Havin reports.
Portland theaters, shut off from the stage, find a future from the past: radio theater, updated for the digital age.
The veteran artists are exemplars of independent dance artists making successful careers in Portland.
The planned performing arts wing wins the support of an influential statewide arts lobbying group.
Fear No Music’s new series starts with Nokuthula Ngwenyama, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Adolphus Hailstork.
November’s art viewing options range from abstract paintings to a multisensory lizard immersion installation.
As Portland Public Schools teach long-distance, the district’s arts teachers find creative ways to adapt.
A collaborative community project from the Living School of Art on display at Nationale.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A different kind of orchestra, weekend of horrors, board moves, statues, farewells & flicks.
In his final days, designer and artist Tim Stapleton hosted a free flow of friends. Now, his final artwork is on view.
The fundraiser for arts education includes work by artists in Newport’s sister city of Mombetsu, Japan.
A monument on Mt. Tabor to pioneering editor Harvey Scott was toppled. Is it worth putting back up?
A riveting documentary tells the tale of an orchestra of musicians with mental illness — and a Portland affiliate.
As the quaran-time slowly unspools, movies are moving to a small screen near you, including “Martin Eden” and Alex Gibney’s take on our coronavirus fumble.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Portland Book Fest goes virtual; art all around; dance on film; October musical surprise.
Living composers, ghost composers, cloned string quartets, and a virtual songspiel
The pandemic has accelerated the movement of dance toward film, where more people can see it.
Sculptor Sam Briseño’s last works are available, and the city’s exhibition space prepares to welcome visitors again.
The Portland actor-writer moves briskly into his tale of Black Americans and the violence they face.
The Watercolor Society of Oregon’s show in Newberg debunks stereotypes about the medium.
A Portland artist and his iPhone camera create a complex portrait of a city in flux.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A culture clash over the past; a museum reopens; photos, films, books & sounds.
The last six months have left us starved for live music, with the country kinda-but-not-really shutting down to handle the pandemic. Luckily for us, a cohort of young singers took it upon themselves to stage the first full opera production in Oregon since March.
Portland police killed Quanice Hayes. His grandmother’s film gives back his voice and 8 other police victims’.
Shining through: Astoria’s LightBox Photographic Gallery is a bright beacon in dark times.
The owner of Cloud & Leaf in Manzanita discusses what it’s like running a bookstore during a pandemic.
At least 5 sculptures have been pulled down or removed in Portland in recent months. What should we do with them?
Organizers are coming up with two scenarios for February, and a virtual fundraiser this weekend will feature greatest hits.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Backstage love, Lynn Nottage by ear, art all over, elk & otters & deep dark woods.
Barry Johnson starts with a beloved statue and then follows it and a New York Review of Books article all the way to Confederate monuments and buttons.
Bob Keefer embraces an unusual art-making process befitting his unusual pathway to becoming an artist.
Coast calendar: Cellists perform for aquarium residents; online talk about Rick Bartow; Andean music.
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