An unexpected collection of objects welcomes visitors into a brightly lit gallery room through the streetside windows of Well Well Projects in North Portland. A wooden dining room table with a curiously uneven surface is flanked by a green vest dangling from the ceiling. Laid out across half of t
When Portland-based artist Forest Wolf Kell was asked what inspired his work, he answered everything. “It’s hard to explain because I don’t know if inspired is the right word,” Kell said. “It’s kind of like compelled. It’s like throwing up or something it’s putting myself there, and then you inter
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education (OJMCHE) reopened this summer after a four-month period of renovation. Alongside three core exhibitions which focus on Oregon’s Jewish community and the state’s history of discrimination, OJMCHE has added a new core exhibit, Human Rights af
This summer, 11 Portland parks have transformed grassy lawns into theater stages for the fifteenth season of the Original Practice Shakespeare Festival (OPS Fest). OPS Fest prides itself on replicating production techniques true to Shakespeare’s time, with limited rehearsals, an onstage prompter a
One hundred years ago in southwest Portland, what is now Portland State, high-rise apartments and hotels was a thriving Italian-Jewish community. The area between Clay Street, the Portland city dump now Duniway Park and Ross Island Bridge was known as Portland’s Little Italy. According to the Oreg