2026

President’s Message – March 2026

Artist traps can get in the way of doing our best work – or doing work at all!

Vancouver’s “Celebration of Sculpture”

This is an invitation to participate in a sculpture exhibition that will showcase artwork from Southwest Washington and Oregon artists. This exhibit is intended to provide a variety of education-oriented events and will span a 6 week time frame that will include two First Friday events, May 1 (opening day) and June 5th. You will […]

Editors Musings and more

Here is an interesting site which publishes a newsletter about art going ons in and around Portland Art and About PDX I found this article about collaboration quite interesting. Check out Postcards from Creative Residency Here is a link to a book published by member Caroline Allen Earth by Caroline Allen available at Powells Here […]

March Monthly Meeting, Potluck, and Studio Tour

Please mark you calendars for our upcoming monthly potluck meeting and studio tour. Date: Saturday, March 21 Time: 3 pm Location: The studio of Carole Murphy, 4495 SE Aldercrest Road, Milwaukee (moving to Northeast Portland in the next few months) Carole Murphy is a respected Pacific Northwest sculptor and past president of PNWS. She is […]

Call for artists – March 2025

There are a lot of great opportunities this month. Thanks to our hard-working volunteers Sandra Vise, Terry Cook and Alisa Looney, for all their hard work to research all these great opportunities! Check here for details March Call for Artists

Artists space available

Studio space available April 1st in the metalshop at Watershed PDX, 5040 SE Milwaukie Ave, 97202. 105″Wx65″Dx86″H three sided space with same size footprint open loft above. The metalshop has two other tenants with similar sized spaces and one with an adjacent space: a TIG welder, a MIG welder and a blacksmith. The room is 40-ish […]