The United States is one of a small handful of countries with no official language. While it may be tempting to interpret this as intentional homage to the diversity of…
At This Time: Student Showcase at JSMA
Currently on exhibit at The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at Portland State is the 2023 BFA/MFA showcase, At This Time—an exhibition featuring the diverse works of 31 students…
Find it at 5th: Dog Star Man & student movie short
This week at 5th Avenue Cinema—Oregon’s only student-run theater—curators have chosen to screen Dog Star Man, along with a short physical film collection created by Portland State students! Stan…
Oregon Renaissance Faire
During the first three weekends of June, in the wooded fairgrounds of Canby’s Clackamas County Event Center, hundreds of artists, merchants and performers will come together for the Oregon Renaissance…
PSU senior’s Black-owned business celebrates individuality
Japhety Ngabireyiamana and Jospin Mugisha are cousins who lived and played in a refugee camp in Tanzania, East Africa. Japhety would run around playing soccer, hanging out with friends during…
Events Calendar May 31–June 6, 2023
Art Music Film/Theater Community Wed, May 31 Art Walk Mt. Tabor Park 10 a.m. Free A great opportunity to see quality visual art and meet the artists in their…
MESC hosts screening of The Last Queen
Portland State’s Middle East Studies Center will be hosting a screening of the 2022 Algerian historical drama The Last Queen, directed by Adila Bendimerad and Damien Ounouri, on Friday, May…
Events Calendar May 24–30, 2023
Art Music Film/Theater Community Wed, May 24 Creative Club Sellwood Community House 10:15 a.m. Free A mix of art skills instruction with a story circle, always looking for new…
Remembering Darcelle XV
The Portland arts community lost a legendary drag performer and community activist when Darcelle XV passed away from natural causes on March 23, 2023, at the age of 92. Hailed…
Find it at 5th: Double Feature: The State of Things & Stranger Than Paradise
This week at 5th Avenue Cinema, Oregon’s only student-run theater, Portland State students and staff can catch a free showing of a double feature: The State of Things and Stranger…
Artist Spotlight: Angela Anh Nguyen debuts How we Hegemony
Through lofty graffiti-smudged windows at One Grand Gallery in NE Portland, a spectacle of rugs splatter the walls and floor. The textiles take shape in whimsically exaggerated anatomies and bursting…