"Marie Watt's balance of technical precision and expansive vision melds in larger-than-life textile processes and multimedia explorations. Storywork centers stories from her Seneca Nation ancestry, pairing them with references to everything from Greco-Roman myth to Star Trek. The selection of narrative prints appears alongside a sculptural tin jingle cloud. Programming includes an October 2 performance by champion jingle dancer Acosia Red Elk and a campus native plant tour led by the Indigenous Traditional Ecological and Cultural Knowledge team on October 14."
"Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) turned 30 this year, making it both a millennial and the creator of the city's shiniest experimental performance jewel, the Time-Based Art Festival (TBA). This year's fest brings a full-force two-weekend lineup packed with multimodal poetry, queer opera, and shape-shifting dance. You'll find programming at four venues-PICA's cavernous Hancock headquarters, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Winningstad Theatre, and Reed College-featuring a lineup that leans West Coast, with artists hailing from Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, and Los Angeles."
"September 5-November 7 (VISUAL ART) This traveling exhibition features Black Oregonian perspectives you should make time to engage with-works by heavy hitters like Intisar Abioto, Jeremy Okai Davis, Sadé Duboise, and Master Artist Michael Bernard Stevens Jr. appear together, culminating a diversity of perspectives that "challenge the expectation that Black art must be political." Curated by Tammy Jo Wilson (who also curated this"
Marie Watt's Storywork (through December 6) combines large-scale textile processes and multimedia prints that center Seneca Nation stories alongside references from Greco-Roman myth to Star Trek, and includes a sculptural tin jingle cloud plus an October 2 jingle dancer performance and an October 14 native plant tour at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's Time-Based Art Festival (through September 14) presents a two-week, multimodal lineup across four venues featuring poetry, queer opera, and shape-shifting dance with West Coast artists. A traveling exhibition (September 5–November 7) showcases Black Oregonian artists challenging expectations of Black art.
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