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An interview with Marjorie Dial's  is featured in the new issue of Arcade NW.

"Issue 42.1: Materiality will be released alongside a specially curated exhibition of work from national artists, centering the themes of material and material use.

Issue 42.1: Materiality
Co-edited by John Parman & Camilla Szabo
Design by Finnegan Schneider

Issue 42.1: Materiality centers around critical discourse on architecture and the built environment, materials and sustainability in relation to a rapidly advancing world, and ephemeral works relating to scent, photography, textile, and sculpture. Themes include tactile engagement with the natural world, craft as a record of time, the role of technology in material understanding, and Indigenous fables on timber, territory & extractivism.

Materiality is a rich, sweeping theme which can’t be contained by one literal definition. It can include the ephemeral—scent, a shadow, an echo... It can be the poetry of architecture, or a photograph which leaves a trace of a history—or obstructs history altogether. It can be a clay vessel casting an incantation, acting as both a transmitter and receiver. Or the discolored patina on a hand painted cabinet after years of wear, each door a slightly different shade than the rest."

Read the interview here: https://www.arcadenw.org/print-magazine-articles/a-q-a-with-marjorie-dial

Marie Watt's work will be included in Ancestral Edge: Abstraction and Symbolism in the Works of Nine Native American Women Artists, on view at The Ringling, September 13, 2025 - April 12, 2026.

"This exhibition highlights contemporary Native design, craftwork, and art that employ the formal and aesthetic elements of abstraction as meaningful motifs and coded tools of Indigenous expression to communicate tribal cultures and histories, ancestral knowledge, and the lived experiences of the artists and their communities."

Ancestral Edge: Abstraction and Symbolism in the Works of Nine Native American Women Artists
September 13, 2025 – April 12, 2026
The Ringling
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
5401 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, FL 34243

For more information: https://www.ringling.org/event/ancestral-edge/

Marie Watt's work is included in Fabricated Imaginaries: Crafting Art, now on view at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltman, MA.

"Fabricated Imaginaries presents artworks that occupy a liminal space where art intertwines with craft traditions, design, and unconventional modes of creativity. The works assembled in the show, primarily drawn from the museum’s permanent collection,  reflect diverse global perspectives but share commonalities: they challenge “fine arts” norms and enhance our understanding of the versatility, possibilities, and potential materiality of visual expression.

The metaphor of weaving—interlacing weft and warp—is central to the show, relating to the artworks as well as the artists' experiences and identities. Many of the artists identify with more than one culture and espouse multiple sites of belonging. And so, their creative expressions embody an intricate blend of heritage and modernity, offering powerful commentary on cultural hybridity, hyphenated identity markers, and innovative artistic amalgamations."

Fabricated Imaginaries: Crafting Art
August 20, 2025 - May 31, 2026
Rose Art Museum
415 South Street
Waltham, MA 02453

For more information: https://www.brandeis.edu/rose/exhibitions/2025/fabricated-imaginaries.html

PDX CONTEMPORARY ART is looking forward to hosting the Big Yard Foundation’s annual art fundraiser, Big Yard Studio: The Academy.

The Big Yard Foundation is a Portland-based non-profit founded in 2018 to promote empowerment of historically marginalized communities through literacy, creativity, and physical wellness. Big Yard Studio is an annual art fundraiser that celebrates community and artists.

This year’s Big Yard Studio, The Academy, explores the deep connections between the worlds of athletics and creativity.  Both sports and art have the unique ability to foster connections among people—whether it's the camaraderie of teammates or the community formed around shared cultural experiences. The exhibition reflects on these shared human bonds, emphasizing how both art and athletics offer pathways to understanding, empathy, and collaboration.

Join us for the annual Big Yard Studio art show fundraiser on Friday, August 29, from 7:00 pm - 10:00—tickets on sale here!

The show will be on view in the gallery through Saturday, September 6th. 
 

Bean Finneran's work will be featured in More Clay: The Power of Repetition, at the Academy Art Museum, September 4, 2025 - February 1, 2026

"Transcending the structural limitations of clay and abandoning the material’s traditional association with function, the seven featured artists build powerful ceramic sculptures through accumulation, repetition, and innovative feats of construction. The exhibition will also feature a community-based ceramic installation inspired by the English studio potter Edmund deWaal and organized by Academy instructor Loretta Lowman. Despite the diverse range of styles and subjects, the exhibition demonstrates the power of assembling multiples as a compelling vehicle of expression, as the artists transform this humble, sustainable material…dirt! into something monumental in form and content."

More Clay: The Power of Repetition
Sep 4, 2025 - Feb 1, 2026
Academy Art Museum
106 South Street
Easton, Maryland 21601

For more information: https://academyartmuseum.org/more-clay-the-power-of-repetition/

Iván Carmona and James Lavadour both have work featured in Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts Biennial, now on view in the Study Gallery and Print Study Center at the Hallie Ford Museum of of Art. 

"Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts Biennial, a popular biennial exhibition hosted by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art since 2006, will feature a selection of contemporary prints created at this important printmaking atelier in northeastern Oregon during the past two years. Organized by Rebecca Dobkins, professor emerita of anthropology at Willamette University and curator of Indigenous art at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the exhibition opens July 12, 2025 and continues through June 20, 2026, in the Study Gallery and Print Study Center." 

For more information visit: https://hfma.willamette.edu/exhibitions/library/2024-25/crows-shadow-2025.html

Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts Biennial
July 12, 2025 – June 20, 2026

Hallie Ford Museum of Art | Willamette University 
Study Gallery and Print Study Center

Georgina Reskala will be teaching travel workshop in Mexico City February 1-8, 2026 with the Center for Photographic Art.  

"Join the Center for Photographic Art and photographer and educator, Georgina Reskala on an exciting journey to Mexico City during Zona Maco! This is a workshop that is focused towards a creative approach and away from the technical and/or rational constrictions that we assign to our work. We all feel stuck at times or out of ideas; this is when we need to feed our inner artist and put ourselves outside of our comfort zone."

Travel Workshop - A Way of Seeing
Instructor: Georgina Reskala
February 1 – 8, 2026
Limit 15 students (plus 1 scholarship)
$2,700

Applications Close: September 10, 2025
Notification of acceptance: September 20, 2025

For full details and information visit: https://www.photography.org/events/mexicoworkshop

James Lavadour has been selected to make a large-scale 2-D work for the Portland International Airport.

Port of Portland and the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) selected Oregon artists James Lavadour and Ryan Pierce to create a large-scale, 2D public artwork for Portland International Airport (PDX), anticipated to be installed in late 2025 and debut to the public in 2026. Both artists were selected by the PDX Terminal Core Redevelopment (TCORE) Public Art Committee.

Lavadour’s largest public artwork to date, the piece will be composed of 36 individual painted 24” x 30” panels in a grid formation that create one unified, complex painting. Conduit, the title of the painting, represents the idea of a passage or connector. Meaningful in the context of the airport, “conduit” as a theme is also personally significant to the artist: aware of the significant challenges faced by Indigenous artists trying to gain the recognition of mainstream galleries, Lavadour founded Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts in 1989, the only professional printmaking studio on a reservation in the USA, to provide a conduit for Native artists. Painted in Lavadour’s signature expression over a period spanning more than 10 years, the assembled panels represent the depth and breadth of Lavadour’s painting practice, his commitment to uplifting Native artists, and a welcome to visitors. In Lavadour’s words, “I think of this painting as similar to a beaded belt to be given as a welcoming gift to all that pass. This homeland is open and welcome to all.”

“RACC is proud to partner with the Port of Portland to bring James Lavadour’s and Ryan Pierce’s visionary works to PDX. Lavadour’s Conduit honors our region’s landscapes and Indigenous artistic legacy, while Pierce’s Liberated Luggage invites travelers to engage with the resilience and playfulness of our natural world. These installations exemplify RACC’s commitment to ensuring public art reflects the diversity of our communities and enhances our shared spaces,” says Kristin Law Calhoun, Director of Partnerships and Programs at the Regional Arts & Culture Council.

Read the full press release here.

Susan Seubert’s March 2025 exhibition Fragile Beauty was reviewed by Wonderful Machine.

“The exhibition was recognized by UNESCO and the UN as an official side event for the 2025 International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation. It has been featured in regional publications, is the subject of a short documentary by Pattern Integrity Films, and even connects to a piece of her work hanging in the Portland Art Museum’s Monet exhibit. These accolades amplify the project’s core message, carrying it from the quiet gallery space into a global conversation about art, science, and our planet’s future. It serves as a stunning, visceral record of what we see and what we stand to lose.”

Read the full story here.

Marie Watt’s work is included in Four Freedoms, now on view at the Kansas City Art Institute, June 26, 2025 - August 15, 2025

"For Freedoms deepens civic engagement through the arts. We provide artists, institutions, and communities a decentralized space for connection, and the tools to support their creative capacities and resilience as cultural producers. Together, our network is building more robust civic dialogue, and inspiring a sense of belonging and responsibility for one another. Our vision is of a joyful, interconnected world where creativity is seen as integral to enhancing civic expression, listening, healing, and justice."

Four Freedoms
KCAI Gallery | 4415 Warwick Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64111, USA
June 26, 2025 - Aug. 15, 2025

Created by For Freedoms, with Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur, in collaboration with Eric Gottesman and Wyatt Gallery. For Freedoms is an artist-led collective that uses art to inspire civic engagement and conversation. Their work highlights the diversity of America through nonpartisan, creative interventions.

For more information: https://kcai.edu/calendar/Four-Freedoms/