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Across the city, Art in Plazas sparks joy • Oregon ArtsWatch
16+ hour, 32+ min ago (939+ words) Neighborhoods around Portland are popping with portraits, furniture, murals and more. Portland has 20 plazas throughout the city — community spaces with public seating, activities and space for businesses — where neighbors can gather outside. Portland Bureau of Transportation and the Office of…...
Public forum set for Sept. 8 on the controversial return of downtown’s Abraham Lincoln statue • Oregon ArtsWatch
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1021+ words) The debate over how to return the state of Abraham Lincoln to the South Parks Blocks in Portland is heating up ahead of a Sept. 8 public forum on the question. The Lincoln statue was pulled off its pedestal during an…...
National Endowment for the Arts chair visits Portland; Kennedy Center funding plummets • Oregon ArtsWatch
2+ week, 5+ day ago (224+ words) She recently spent a day in Portland, visiting cultural centers with members of the Oregon Arts Commission and Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici. Carter and Bonamici then visited with North Pole Studio. A 2026 NEA grant to North Pole Studios helps support a…...
What We Hold & Leave Behind • Oregon ArtsWatch
2+ week, 6+ day ago (399+ words) Nearly a year after the Cover to Cover reading I attended on November 4 (in conjunction with the 2025 Portland Book Festival) at Mother Foucault’s Bookshop to a standing-room-only crowd, I could feel, even without the poets’ physical presence, the energy, emotion…...