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Featuring the Repertoire Singers, Concert Choir, University Singers, and Chamber Choir.

Enhance your museum experience with an Exhibit Talk given by a trained volunteer. Talks are offered every afternoon, Tuesday through Sunday, and are included with the price of admission

These two contemporary Oregon artists offer two substantially different but equally innovative approaches to figurative art. Hamilton, born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1972, found her true home when she moved to Portland in 1996. After painting for almost twenty years, her artistic practice was transformed when she visited a non-traditional textile arts exhibition. From there she was inspired to fuse the two parts of her life that were closest to her-her daily urban environment and her grandmother's tradition of crochet. Often portraying friends and co-workers from her days in the food-service industry, Hamilton's work displays a whimsical and affectionate vision of working-class Portland. As her work has progressed, she has taken on other subjects as well, including mug shots from Multnomah County, industrial landscapes of Portland, and full-figure nudes.

Super bright, feisty eight-year-old Alice Quivery challenges the strictures of Victorian society by happily following a pocket watch-toting White Rabbit down a magical hole into the quirky world of Wonderland. Help Alice as she tromps through a fantastical forest and struggles to grasp nonsensical celebrity Tweets, learn hip hop dance moves, and win a battle of wills with a Hatter who considers Twilight a serious work of nonfiction. Appropriate for all ages, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland powerfully recasts the beloved children's classic by artfully infusing Victorian mores with modern popular culture.

Click on the "Snaapshot of 2012" link to get to a visualization of the most recent survey...

The Pocket is a student run organization that helps students craft their artistic visions on the stage. Each quarter, roughly 4-6 shows are produced in the Pocket, completely under the direction and operation of students. Many productions are original, some are new renderings of old classics, and some are obscure offerings seldom seen on stage, but they all come from the vision of directors, actors and designers just like you! The Pocket Playhouse aims to provide an arena for students to get involved in all aspects of theatre regardless of prior experience.

I played in a small group of strings and percussion with a pocket play, once! It was definitely a unique experience.

The Chinese restaurateur Zhang Lan, who was in Hong Kong this week, bought Andy Warhol's Little Electric Chair, 1965, for $10.5million

We see this piece of art being copied and printed off in mass amounts but I did not know that the original piece was worth that much. It is unbelievable that one piece of work can be worth 10.5 million dollars.

I still have some limited-edition bottles of Perrier inspired by Andy Warhol, but I do not know the relationship between the artist and the company of Perrier

Brazilian graffiti artists join demonstrations against the Brazil World Cup, using the streets as a canvass to express their discontent. Protesters are angry about the government spending billions on World Cup infrastructure rather than basic public services. Graffiti artist Paulo Ito says the World Cup is an ideal platform for residents to demand action from the government

"We help you easily discover new and interesting stuff on the Web. Tell us what you like, and we'll introduce you to amazing web pages, videos, photos and more that you wouldn't have found on your own." Users can choose which interests they would like to explore on the Internet, including anything within the arts.

"Eugene's art & culture scene is a vibrant, across-the-board experience that is found in architecture, visual arts and performing arts. A mecca for nationally and internationally known artists and a long-time attraction for performers traveling the West Coast, downtown performances regularly feature mainstream and alternative acts form well-known producers. For a community our size, there's an astonishing variety of cultural events going on."

"Great storytelling and rigorous reporting. These are the passions that fuel us. Our business is telling stories, small and large, that start conversations, increase understanding, enrich lives and enliven minds." NPR is a news radio station and website that covers anything from politics to arts and music.

Month long festival with 100+ different art workshops

The Block Party will feature 6 bands, 4 DJs, food carts, and an art gallery put together by the Oregon Voice. Several blocks will be shut down for this so you know it'll be good! No open containers because cops can also get in, but there are bars nearby.

Shapeways has been around for a few years and has gained a lot of traction since 3D printing has gotten more common. It lets 3D artists upload their 3D model and sell it in a variety of materials to whoever wants it. It's sort of like Etsy of 3D printing, except the artist designs it and Shapeways processes the customer's payment, 3D prints it, and ships it. The artist gets some money and Shapeways probably gets more, but they have really high-caliber 3D printers so that's okay. They can also cast your model in metals, including gold and silver, which is something that can't be done yet with a home 3D printer.

Wordpress is a free and open-source software package originally designed for blogs but is also now used for websites, forums, and social networks. It lets programmers make plugins and themes and lets them distribute them for free or for pay. After reading through their documentation and examples in high school, I've used it to create several websites for clients -- free to me, and I can charge for my labor. Over the years it's gotten easy enough for almost anyone to put together with some effort and patience. It's putting the power of next-level internet content production into the hands of everyone, and it's getting easier every year.

From adrenaline-pumping roller coasters to life-like interactive rides, Americans love big amusement parks. But if yet another turn on the Scrambler or ride on the swinging pirate ship is leaving you yawning, we've got some more interesting theme parks around the world that give "theme" park an entirely new meaning.

Like this a lot. Definitely added these to the bucket list.

As a kid I have always enjoyed an escape to a theme park, and these theme parks are so different yet uniquely engaging in their own way. Shame there weren't more like them where I grew up.

The public will be able to see the life-size Mark Zuckerberg wax figure in San Francisco.

Impressive. Definitely thought it was real at first.

This is incredible, the meticulously placed details make the statue impeccable.

As a nexus for labor and shipping in the Pacific Northwest, Portland often had the repute of a rugged, rough and tumble town, more than willing to allow the miners, loggers, and fishermen an opportunity to part with their hard earned cash in whatever debaucherous manner they chose. Historian Doug Crispin will lead a tour around that will explain all the dirty details that lay behind some of these historic places, and take you back into the history of Portland, which has always big one of the bigger port cities in the world, filled with some good little secrets.

Vancouver will be hosting a recycled arts festival from June 28-29. There will be over 120 artists with stage perfumers, jugglers, and clowns. Nothing like mixing some good music with some good art. This is promoting the practice of recycling as well which I think is really important to show to people, and how recycled works can be just as good as those who use new materials only. It would be cool to see how one's trash develops into an artists treasure.

The time has come, it will be starting June 5 and go on until June 15. There will be three separate events throughout the week, all of which will be a little different. The whole beer community in Portland will be participating, everything from bars to pizza parlors. Three bigger events within the week will be the Fruity Beer Fest, which will be June 7-9. Then there will be the Rye Beer Fest, on June 13. Finishing of with the Beer And Cheese Festival, on the 15 of June.