(Note: The Tribune will highlight some gallery openings and other arts happenings in the first edition of each month to coincide with First Thursday this month, its Thursday, Sept. 3)
The first-ever Pacific Northwest College of Art faculty and alumni exhibition, Holding Sway, opens First Thursday, Sept. 3, and continues through Oct. 18, with the installations, paintings, videos and sculptures placed in the central atrium of PNCAs new campus, 511 N.W. Broadway.
Its meant to showcase the scope of contemporary art, craft and design created by alumni from PNCAs bachelor of fine arts and master of fine arts programs. Therell be 41 faculty members and 31 alumni involved in the exhibit.
Wobbly makes its gallery debut with the film collaboration Waking the Green Sound: A Dance Film for the Trees, with showings from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. First Thursday, Sept. 3, at Cameo Gallery, 2809 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Therell be a reception with artists at 5 p.m. Artists Yulia Arakelyan, Erik Ferguson and Grant Miller collaborated with local filmmaker Ian Lucero and musicians. For info: www.wobblydance.com.
The Zymoglyphic Museum & Bathtub Art Museum are open at 211 S.E. Madison St., No. 20, with a showing at 6 p.m. First Friday, Sept. 4. This months exhibit features collages and collections at the Zymoglyphic Museum and a twins and triplets show at the Bathtub Art Museum. For more: hiddenportland.com, the website run by Portland artist and Museum
Lady Carye Bye.
The 19th annual Art in the Pearl Fine Arts & Crafts Festival, free to the public, will take place 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 5 and 6, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 7, in the North Park Blocks (Northwest Eighth Avenue, between Davis and Flanders).
There will be 130 artist booths, a music stage, an education pavilion for adults and children, and creative process demonstrations.
For more: artinthepearl.com or Art in the Pearl on Facebook.
For information on galleries: First Thursday, firstthursdayportland.com; Portland Art Dealers Association, www.padaoregon.org.