Artist Sheila Lynn Lawton spent three weeks interacting with, and creating art personifying the hopes and interests of, residents of Kehillah Housing, a new Portland affordable housing project for adults with special needs. Kehillah, which means community, welcomed 14 residents with developmental disabilities last September to the new apartment building on the southwest Portland campus…
Purple onions glow against a neutral background. Apples burnished by red and gold highlights. A female torso whose contours are outlined in green, orange, turquoise and gray. This is the color world of painter Anna Kodesch, a third-generation Portlander whose upcoming show, “Oregon, My Oregon,” opens Dec. 1 at Bellamy Studios in Multnomah Village (6715…
“What a beautiful way to expose these children to the arts,” exclaimed Portland Children’s Museum Board President Shawn DuBurg at the Sept. 28 opening of the Chagall for Children exhibit. As soon as the ribbon across the entrance was cut, children, parents and educators flowed into the exhibit space to explore the 14 reproductions of…
