First Friday PDX

All events listed occur on the first Friday of the month and are free and open to all visitors unless otherwise specified.

FRIDAY 03.07.26

Galeria Lebris 2026 | Gagallery

Galeria Lebris returns to Gagallery this March!

Featuring book related artworks and books by: First Matter Press, Ash Good, Wendy Nicholas, Adam Strong, Ellen Robinette, Amanda Danford, Stashia Cabral, Jenny Wilde, Miriam Garcia, James Dipadua, Mychelle Moritz, Élan Chardin, Alyson Provax, Jay Stoneking, Ocean, Sophia Wroblewski, Ash Sanders, Justine Avera, Adelaide Blair, Alyson Bowen, Kelli Horan, and Ahuva Zaslavsky
More events to accompany this show will be announced soon!

6 PM – 8 PM @ 2035 SE Belmont St., Portland, Oregon

First Friday Open Studios | The Haven

The Haven PDX opens its doors for first Friday art walk. Over 50 artists open their studios

6 PM – 10 PM @ 2505 NE Pacific St., Portland, OR

Seven Deadly SINS | Splendorporium

This show features new work by painter Errol Rivers and over 30 other local artists exploring personal and collective vices, or other themes relating to the concept of the seven deadly sins. 

We will have:

Ice cream and coffee for sale by Sinister Coffee and Creamery 

Live Piano Music by Lee Comet

Oracle Readings by Ghost Terrestrea

And Dollhouse Tarot Readings by Ophelia Darkly

Our Children’s Gallery (inside the main gallery) is showing new work by students in our Art4Life programs. 

The show runs through March 26th. Gallery hours are 11-5 weekdays. 

Pictured: Street Fight, Oil on Canvas by Errol Rivers

7 PM – 9 PM @ 3421 SE 21st Ave, Portland, OR

CLUB V: ALL WOMENS ART SHOW | THE FORD GALLERY

One of our favorite shows at FGPDX is back for round 5, and we are SO STOKED! 40 of the PNW’s best emerging and established female artists show their best work in honor of Women’s History Month for Club V.
Libations from @backcountry.wine.tasting.room
Music by @djsappho

6 PM – 9 PM @ 2505 SE 11th Ave., Portland, OR

Inner-State Love Song | Sidestreet Arts

Sidestreet Arts is once again partnering with Portland’s beloved live-model drawing community, Hipbone Studios, for our third annual figurative art group show! New for this year, there will be sculptural work from selected members of the Oregon Potters Association, as well as local emerging ceramic artist Carrie Porter. We invite the viewer to contemplate the inner world that is beneath the surface of the skin and the many interpretations of the human body.

About Hipbone Studios:

For over 35 years, Hipbone Art Studio, located on inner SE Burnside St, has served Portland artists by offering affordable weekly figure drawing sessions open to everyone. The result has been a supportive, vibrant community made up of a wide variety of artistic disciplines. The high levels of discipline and focus during these sessions are considered essential practice toward keeping an artist’s skills finely honed, and the resulting art is often quite amazing, as creative individuals tend to thrive in group settings where gentle critiques and mutual inspiration are plentiful.

6 PM – 7 PM @ 140 SE 28th Ave., Portland, OR

GREG BIGONI’S ANTI-Evil ART EXHIBIT | Ambient Magic Studios

Original sturdy protest signs, anti-fascism / anti-ICE / anti-Trump, all for sale (sticks n’ all!) along with Smut-Stickies and other prints. 40% of the profits will be going to the Immigrant Defense Project.

Meanwhile on the studio’s top floor, there will be 20-plus other artists plus a pop-up bar & food for the Junk Drawer Art Bazaar! Come find solidarity in art, music, and justifiable pissed-off-ness!

All ages welcome, and bring an anti-fascist dessert to share! (Not that I know what an anti-fascist dessert is, but I wanna see everyone’s interpretations)

6 PM – 11 PM @ 322 SE Morrison St., Portland, OR

Celebrate Spring at Past Lives! | Past Lives Makerspace

Come wander our gallery of member art and paint a wooden bunny or egg to celebrate the coming of spring. Hang out, visit, and make some art!

6 PM – 10 PM @ 2808 SE 9th Ave., Portland, OR

First Friday Art Show | East Creative Collective

Come check out some cool art and meet some of the artists! Connect, get inspired, have some wine.

Hope to see you there!

6 PM – 9 PM @ 211 SE Madison St., Portland, OR

Contact Us

We do our best to make the list as complete as possible, if you have an event or correction you would like to see listed please send show details to Info@FirstFridayPDX.org or use our easy online event submission form.

Events listed occur throughout the month are free and open to all visitors unless otherwise specified.

SATURDAY 03.07.26

Erinn Kathryn + M. Earl Williams: A Land That Remembers | Carnation Contemporary

A Land That Remembers assembles two distinct approaches to how landscapes endure over time. Erinn Kathryn engages material, labor, and deep temporal presence while M. Earl Williams centers relational sovereignty and continuity through story, image, and technology. Both practices witness the persistence of land beyond the constraints imposed by colonial systems, and their inherent ability to hold, transform, and endure. Kathryn’s installation, Echo of the Oak, evokes a quiet, lasting presence of what is both gone and still here, accentuating the tragic, enduring connection between the living world and an obsessive need to commodify. It eulogizes the memory of lost landscapes a half-millennium old, that thrived long before the colonialist drive and yearning for bigger/better/greater/more that leveled savannah woodlands of slow-growth hardwoods in pursuit of agriculture, industry, expansion, and possession. These landscapes were not empty nor passive; they were tended, known, cooperative, and alive. Her reassembled vertical bodies stand as afterimages; for things we may have not seen ourselves, but the land remembers, still. Williams’s work, Ghost Dance in the Machine, draws on the Ghost Dance as both a historical movement and a living framework for imagining Indigenous futures. The Ghost Dance carried visions of renewal, resistance, and continuance at a moment of profound disruption. In the digital era, those visions resonate again as Indigenous people navigate virtual worlds, algorithms, and complex identities. Through digital media, Williams explores how Indigenous knowledge systems adapt, persist, and reassert sovereignty within our contemporary world where the lines between real and virtual experiences are blurring. These virtual landscapes created by Williams are not about escape or fantasy, but more a continuation of presence, memory, and relationality into the futures that are already unfolding. Erinn Kathryn (she/hers) is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, mixed media, painting, and installation. She collects, hordes, and augments found materials of all kinds, ranging from mass produced goods like postcards and blister packs, to natural materials like bones and lichen, to literal street-side garbage. By re-contextualizing existing objects, Erinn reframes long-held perspectives and examines intersections between the ‘natural’ and ‘constructed’ within which we exist. Her work has been presented at NW Marine Artworks (Portland; 2025) Helzer Gallery and Paragon Gallery at Portland Community College (Portland; 2023, 2021), Multnomah Arts Center (Portland; 2014), Alaska House Art Gallery (Fairbanks, AK; 2013), Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland, OR; 2012). Her chapbook of “constructed poems” from one existing text, In The Frail, was published by Buckman Journal in 2024. Erinn hails from Central Pennsylvania. She received her M.A. in Teaching Visual Art from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Erinn is a member of Carnation Contemporary and Borderline Art Salon, both in Portland, OR. She has been teaching youth and adults in painting, printmaking, book arts, and 2D mixed media for more than a decade. M. Earl Williams is an artist, educator, and enrolled tribal member of The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon. M. Earl received a Masters of Fine Arts in Photography and a Masters of Arts in Studio Art from the University of Iowa. His work is shown internationally with recent cities including Rome, Los Angeles, Berlin, Chicago, New York, Denver, Portland, and Phoenix. Currently he resides in his ancestral homelands, the Oregon Willamette Valley, where he is the Digital Communications Manager for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. His work explores how we make meaning out of the world around us and how we create significance to our existence as humans. The photographs, videos, durational performances, and installations ask questions like; what is our purpose in the environments that surround us? What is our imminent future if we continue down our technological path towards a more digitized world? What happened to the ideas of the myth and the miracle? The work never expects the viewer to find true answers but instead is more invested in “the why” and “the what”.

5 PM – 8 PM @ 8371 N Interstate Ave Portland, OR

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