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We ran this piece in June 2025, but are sharing it again because Rupert Kinnard will be signing books at the Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts booth at Rose City Comic Con on Saturday.
You’ve probably seen Rupert Kinnard’s smile if you’ve passed the downtown Portland mural on NW Couch at Broadway. A wheelchair user since a car accident in 1996, Kinnard sits between Kathleen Saadat and Lynn Nakamoto, two other icons of Portland’s queer history. Look closer, to the bottom of the mural, and you’ll see two smaller […]
You’ve probably seen Rupert Kinnard’s smile if you’ve passed the downtown Portland mural on NW Couch at Broadway. A wheelchair user since a car accident in 1996, Kinnard sits between Kathleen Saadat and Lynn Nakamoto, two other icons of Portland’s queer history. Look closer, to the bottom of the mural, and you’ll see two smaller […]
JOSEPH HIRSCH (AMERICAN, 1910-1981), BANQUET, 1945, LITHOGRAPH ON BEIGE WOVE PAPER, GIFT OF CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL AT PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, 2015.21.1 In 1941, a typist in Billings, Montana, might see an ad in the back of Arts Digest shouting, “Now you too can own American masterpieces, such as the great Museums select for their permanent collections, […]
After the Great Depression, affordable art prints made their way into middle-class American homes. The Portland Art Museum has a very interesting collection.
PAUL FÄRDIG Like any normal child, I was obsessed with the 1996 film Evita, the film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical chronicling Eva Duarte’s rise from her humble origins as an illegitimate child shunned by her father’s middle-class family to becoming first lady of Argentina. A lot of Evita went over my […]
Stumptown Stages’ stripped-down Evita features good performances.
Three years ago, Tagaq sang live over a screening Nanook of the North. PICA On Friday, PSU’s Lincoln Hall was practically packed, for good reason. Tanya Tagaq, one of Canada’s most esteemed contemporary performers was playing that night. Tagaq specializes in a unique Inuit-influenced style of throat singing. Dressed in a simple but elegant red […]
Dohee Lee Pak Han MU/巫, Dohee Lee’s TBA: 17 performance, is a six-part journey. Using vocals, loops, dance, percussion, costuming, video, and technology, Lee moves through different acts—at times forlorn, animated, elegant, and ravaged. Lee is influenced by indigenous Korean shamanism, a female-led form of spirituality that has survived for thousands of years, despite the […]
Portland writer/artist Dao Strom discusses a new local effort to showcase authors of color.
It’s Oregon Cats’ Time to Shine at a New Cat Video Festival
How an Airstream trailer on NE MLK is making podcasting more accessible.
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