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OPB's State of Wonder

OPB's State of Wonder

Oregon Public Broadcasting

OPB's weekly journal of arts and creative work.

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  • 2248 - Artist Mixes Nature And Business

    It’s not often you find an artist whose work incorporates nature, meditation and a business plan.
    Erika Bartlett is such an artist.

    Sun, 09 Jul 2017
  • 2247 - Vancouver's Ghost Town Poetry Hasn’t Missed A Beat Since 2004
    Sun, 09 Jul 2017
  • 2246 - April 22nd: Oregon Book Awards Nominees

    We meet the contenders for the general nonfiction category: Tracy Daugherty, Andi Zeisler, Kathleen Dean Moore, Bill Lascher, and Sue Armitage.

    Fri, 21 Apr 2017
  • 2245 - Apr. 15: Solange & Soul'd Out Music Fest, Chuck Close in Pendleton, Wild Ones, Portland Art Museum, Diana Abu Jaber, North Bank Closes

    Chuck Close Portraits Heat Up The Pendleton Art Scene

    It's not every day that a small town arts center gets to pick works from a blue chip artist like it's checking out library books, but that's basically how this show came to be.

    Sam Hamilton Brings His Films And More To PAM's APEX Gallery

    The fresh face at Portland Art Museum is Grace Kook-Anderson, the new curator of Northwest art. It’s her job to make sure the museum reflects regional work, but she also has a strong feel for contemporary art. And that is reflected in her first choice for the Museum’s APEX Gallery: fellow recent Northwest transplant Sam Hamilton, whose playful interdisciplinary work interweaves films, music and installation. Who else would mix Carl Sagan, David Attenborough and Kenny G in one show?

    Oregon-Born Play Wins Pulitzer

    Playwright Lynn Nottage premiered her play “Sweat” in 2015 as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s “American Revolutions” series exploring key moments in U.S. history. With the announcement Monday that the play received the Pulitzer Prize for drama, Nottage made history as the first female playwright to win the prestigious award twice.

    "Sweat" is one of only two shows by women to open on Broadway this season. The other, "Indecent" by Paula Vogel, was also commissioned by OSF's "American Revolutions" project. The Bard might say: the Oregon Shakespeare Festival doest slayeth it.

    Get Ready To Shake Your Booty At The Soul'd Out Festival

    This week, Portland is gearing up to make some moves — dance moves, that is. It's the annual Soul’d Out Festival (April 19–23). Legendary soulful acts from around the country are on the bill with new breakers of soul, from the popular hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco to the prophetic R&B queen Solange.

    The Guttery Writing Group: Tough Book Love That Will Get You Out Of Your Pajamas

    The collective proclaiming itself “Portland’s second most-famous writers’ group” challenges the idea that great work is produced in cloistered solitude. The authors in the writing group "The Guttery" are like a literary engine: at least five published this past year.

    opbmusic Session With Wild Ones

    Does the smattering of recent sunny days have you dreaming of summer? There’s no better album to feed those dreams than Wild Ones’ “Heatwave.” Its songs of long summer nights and big-city adventures smolder and delight.

    Vancouver's North Bank Art Gallery Shuts Its Doors Next Month

    North Bank Artists is a co-op gallery on the city’s Main Street. Its presence and work downtown since its founding in 2003 — including the creation of a city art walk — has helped spur other galleries and cultural institutions to open, earning the area the moniker "The Vancouver Arts District." But after rent hikes and an uncertain future, the art gallery that served as a linchpin for Vancouver’s downtown revitalization will close at the end of May.

    Diana Abu Jaber Weaves The Story of Her Life With Layers Of Pastry Dough

    Diana Abu Jaber is a novelist, a professor and a cook. She is the daughter of a Jordanian father and an American mother, and her most recent book, “Life without a Recipe,” tells the story of growing up in both countries.

    Fri, 14 Apr 2017
  • 2244 - Laini Taylor Extended Interview on "Strange the Dreamer" and the Power of Fantasy

    As a girl, Laini Taylor wanted to be a writer. She would dream up magical worlds filled with witches and monsters. But once she got into high school and college, she started reading literature — all those serious books about the real world that serious people read. And she stopped writing.

    “I had no life experience,” she laughs. “And really nothing to say. I felt a lack of ability to contribute to that body of work.”

    Then years later, she read a little book you might’ve heard of. Harry Potter? And her childhood imagination rose up like a phoenix.

    “That whole ‘write what you know,’ you don’t have to do that,” she says. “I find it much more fun to imagine what I don’t know and want to figure it out.”

    Since then, Taylor has imagined stories to incredible success. Her early collaboration with her husband, the illustrator Jim Di Bartolo, “Lips Touch,” was a finalist for the National Book Award, and her “Daughter of Smoke and Bone” trilogy is an international best seller.

    We sat down with Taylor at her Portland home. It’s sunny and bright and filled with wonder: paintings of her characters, small figurines of magical creature, princess dresses for her daughter Clementine Pie, and a library with a grand fireplace and floor-to-ceiling book shelves that seems right out of a fairy tale. Which is fitting: Taylor launched a new series this week about a young librarian who also has big dreams, “Strange the Dreamer.”

    Taylor will read from the book and talk with Sara Grundell of the YA website Novel Novice at Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing on Apr. 6.

    Sat, 01 Apr 2017
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