Category: Multi-Discipline
June 25, 2025
Olga Kravtsova’s Harvest of Woman
Olga Kravtsova is a Russian-born movement director, performer, and interdisciplinary artist artist who lives in Portland. She is opening a new solo show called “Harvest of Woman” which she describes as a “raw excavation of women’s unseen labor, endurance, and survival.”
May 11, 2025
Vanport Mosaic Turns 10!
Laura Lo Forti and Damaris Webb have run the Vanport Mosaic Festival as co-directors for ten years which in itself is an admirable achievement built on trust, hard work and mutual friendship, each respecting the others desire for art, activism and community engagement.
January 23, 2025
Linda K. Johnson
Linda K. Johnson is a visionary dancer who has created more conceptual and site-relevant performances and projects for the last 40 years. She has been both an educator and curator bringing together artists of varied disciplines to create together. O
August 9, 2024
Jessica Wallenfels-The Hatchery
Jessica Wallenfels, artistic director of Many Hats Collaboration and a longtime director and choreographer, is embarking on a new project. She calls it The Hatchery –a project dedicated to developing nontraditional new works using music and movement as an integral part of the storytelling and audience experience.
May 22, 2023
Vanport Mosaic with Chisao Hata and Aaron Spriggs
The 8th Annual Festival Vanport Mosaic Festival is underway in Portland through May 29, 2023.
Curated and produced by Laura Lo Forti, who calls herself a Story Midwife, two artists who’ve worked with the festival through the years are taking … Read the rest
June 1, 2021
Vanport Mosaic 2021
Dmae talks with Laura Lo Forti and Damaris Webb, co-directors of Vanport Mosaic, a multidisciplinary organization that devotes itself to memory activism through visual and performing arts, history and community dialogue. First formed to honor the history of the devastating … Read the rest