New Portland Art Map will help visitors navigate galleries

Published 1:00 pm Friday, November 1, 2024

A new Portland Art Map was unveiled recently by the new nonprofit, the Oregon Alliance for the National Museum of Women in th Arts (NMWA Oregon).

It’s called “The Cultural Corridor & Beyond: Portland’s Art Map,” and it’s the city’s first comprehensive map of art spaces since the COVID-19 pandemic.

The “Cultural Corridor and Beyond: Portland’s Art Map” highlights locations of museums, galleries, emerging art spaces, private institutional collections, and cultural venues in the heart of the city and its neighborhoods.

The printed map lists 65 spaces in Portland that range from the established to emerging venues and will be available in all of these venues at the end of October. The publication and distribution of this map calls attention to the vibrant arts and culture in Portland. NMWA Oregon will activate the map with events throughout the year.

The Cultural Corridor, named by designer John Jay, is a concentration of art and cultural institutions and galleries spread along Portland’s historic park blocks, anchored by Pacific Northwest College of Art at the North end and Portland State University at the South End.

NMWA Oregon Founder and Chair, Elizabeth Leach, a longtime Portland gallery owner, states “that as a result of this proliferation of art spaces along the Cultural Corridor, Portland can boast that it has the highest concentration of art venues in walking distance of each other then in any urban core on the west coast.”

The First Thursday Gallery walk in the Pearl and downtown as well as the Last Thursday walk on Northeast Alberta Street activate these areas of the city monthly, along with the First Saturday openings in North Portland.