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Martha Daghlian is an artist and writer based in Portland. Her past/future projects include Grapefruits Art Space, athousandcirclets.garden, and the High-Tech Luddites Anti-Smartphone Club. She is an admirer of all things artsy, ephemeral, and handmade, and she loves cartoons.
“When you call my name, it’s like a little prayer. I’m down on my knees, I wanna take you there.”
Artist Pace Taylor’s studio is surrounded by artifacts of Portland’s early history. It’s on the second floor of an early 20th-century brick warehouse, sandwiched between the railroad tracks and the Willamette, in a sleepy industrial neighborhood of North Portland. Chalky sticks of pastel are loosely arranged according to color on a central table, and multihued […]
For a mid-size city with a bite-size art market, Portland maintains a consistently high ratio of cool and exciting art per capita. How do we manage to stay so awesome? The secret is artists! The leaders of our scene are the folks who make the art, and they’re all in cahoots with one another—artist-run galleries, […]
The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another. Conversations about food, music, performance, and “weird” installation art provide touchstones to deepen friendships, create new connections, and better understand our world. If you appreciate the Mercury’s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution […]
[Editor’s note: Read all our holly jolly HOLIDAY GUIDE articles here. Looking for a print copy? Good! You can find it in more than 500 spots across Portland with this handy map!] Throughout centuries of human civilization, people have sought out ways to combat the darkness and cold temperatures of winter: from ancient temples that […]
In keeping with its perma-tentative title, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA)’s annual experimental performance fete has regularly seen major shifts with each year’s iteration. But one thing we can always count on is the Time Based Art (TBA) festival’s massive lineup of cutting edge work. Which makes planning your TBA itinerary an art form […]
In keeping with its perma-tentative title, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA)’s annual experimental performance fete has regularly seen major shifts with each year’s iteration. But one thing we can always count on is the Time Based Art (TBA) festival’s massive lineup of cutting edge work. Which makes planning your TBA itinerary an art form […]
The schedule for Portland’s favorite experimental art festival, TBA, dropped this week. After last year’s slow roll out, the fest returns with three weekends of weird music, Black horror, and an opera about the prime meridian.
Is the schedule for PICA’s Time Based Art festival part of the fest? (*°ω°) And other mental gymnastics associated with Portland’s favorite experimental art fete.
The more things change, the more they stay the same—especially for a contemporary arts festival founded to highlight the most cutting-edge innovations in art. The Time-Based Art Festival—PICA’s flagship event for the past 20 years, known to most of us as TBA—is going through some changes this year. As an experiment, Portland Institute for Contemporary […]
The more things change, the more they stay the same—especially for a contemporary arts festival founded to highlight the most cutting-edge innovations in art. The Time-Based Art Festival—PICA’s flagship event for the past 20 years, known to most of us as TBA—is going through some changes this year. As an experiment, Portland Institute for Contemporary […]
[Welcome to our “Say Nice Things About Portland” guide to the city! Did you know that this feature package is also in PRINT?? That’s right, this is our first print product since the start of the pandemic, and we’re psyched to produce a lot more. Find the “Say Nice Things” guide in over 500 locations […]
Climate change is a terrifying subject, but when you bring art and fun into the reflection instead of only doom and gloom, more people want to engage.
Making Earth Cool advocates for the environment with art and fun: For the next two months the Portland art collective are the artists in residence at Parallax Art Center and are planning community projects for Youth Climate Strike and Earth Day.
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