News and Events

April 23 & April 25

We Should Bury It - 7:30pm

Every Brilliant Thing - 8:30pm

Company - 9:30pm

April 24 & April 26

On Fate - 7:30pm

Thom Pain (Based on Nothing) - 8:30pm

The Actor’s Nightmare - 9:30pm

The last Watzek Arts Friday of the Year! Silent Disco on April 25th at 3pm.

April is National Poetry Month! Come hear some of Lewis & Clark’s Senior poetry students read from their portfolios.

Friday, April 11th, 6:30pm & 8pm
Saturday, April 12th, 1:30pm & 3pm

Friday, April 4th at 7:30pm
Saturday, April 5th at 7:30pm 

Tiffany Mills Dance Company offers five dance workshops, free and open to the public April 1st-5th.

Students in the course “Gender and Aesthetic Expression” share their takes on visual culture, 50+ years after the publication of John Berger’s influential Ways of Seeing.

In their 2025 capstone presentations and gallery installation, Metamorphic, art therapy pre-professionals in their final year of the program explore the connection between their artist self and art therapist identity. The students will present their work on April 7 and April 14, both online and in South Chapel on the graduate campus.

This spring on L&C’s Main Stage, the theatre department presented a contemporary take on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, a mystifying and twisted tale that explores the relationships between human beings and the natural world through horror, humanity, and the uncanny.

The March 7 performance is part of the 44th Annual Gender Studies Symposium at Lewis & Clark College. 

March 7th, 8th, 13th, 14th, 15th at 7:30pm
March 9th, 2:00pm 

Arts@LC brings art out into the library with short performances in the Watzek Library atrium. This spring, Arts@LC has expanded beyond just first Fridays to bring arts programming to more Fridays! 

3pm in the Watzek Library Atrium 

Arts@LC brings art out into the library with short performances in the Watzek Library atrium. This spring, Arts@LC has expanded beyond just first Fridays to bring arts programming to more Fridays! 

3pm in the Watzek Library Atrium 

Arts@LC brings art out into the library with short performances in the Watzek Library atrium. This spring, Arts@LC has expanded beyond just first Fridays to bring arts programming to more Fridays! 

3pm in the Watzek Library Atrium 

February 21- February 22nd 

Happy Black History Month! As part of L&C’s membership with the Council of Independent College’s Belong: Inclusive Learning Community, we wanted to share a few resources exploring the origins of observing Black history, its integration with American history, and its contemporary impact.

The (Anti)Valentine’s Concert, an annual Lewis & Clark tradition, will feature the musical groups Cappella Nova, Kith & Kin, Community Chorale, Voces Auream, as well as several talented soloists. Come see this fun, lighthearted production on Wednesday, February 12, at 7:30 p.m. in Evans Auditorium.

As part of L&C’s membership with the Council of Independent College’s Belong: Inclusive Learning Community, faculty and staff are invited to enroll by February 15 for a series of free self-paced courses on cutting-edge topics. 

Watzek First Fridays expand to more Arts Fridays in February! LC Chamber Music String Trio kicks off the First Fridays for the year. 

Music, theatre, and dance might not be the first things you think of when you hear “library,” but Lewis & Clark’s Aubrey R. Watzek Library is much more than a place for quiet study. On the first Friday of every month, Arts@LC takes over the Watzek atrium to showcase student participation in the performing arts. The final events of the fall semester featured actors from the Main Stage theatre production Into the Woods and dancers from theatre’s contact improv class.

With support from the Mellon Foundation, Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative (NWNMC) is developing Narrative Medicine Skills Training.

Narrative Medicine Skills Training introduces the narrative medicine principles of attention, representation, and affiliation and develops participant skills of listening and witnessing. We will reflect on how listening and witnessing can be applied to stories of health, illness and healing in diverse healthcare settings to improve care and support healing.

Training is open to students, health professionals, faculty, staff and community members– anyone curious about the practice of narrative medicine. 

Narrative Medicine Skills Training

Saturday, February, 22
8:45-3:30

in-person and on-campus
Smith Hall
Lewis & Clark College 

Register Here

Vision Quilt, in partnership with Art for Social Change (ASC), invites you to a powerful interactive workshop series: Addressing Gun Violence: Creating Visionaries, Storytellers, and Community Activists (AGV). This program empowers participants to explore solutions to gun violence through art, education, and visionary thinking, culminating in the creation of unique Vision Quilt art panels.

Lewis & Clark’s Department of theatre invites all students (regardless of major) to audition for the Spring 2025 MainStage production of Macbeth on January 22nd and 23rd from 7-10pm with Callbacks on January 24th - 6-10pm. See full details below!

Lewis & Clark’s Theatre Department is pleased to announce the audition schedule for Spring 2025 Productions! All Students (regardless of major!) are welcome!

Lewis & Clark’s Department of theatre invites students to audition for the Tiffany Mills Dance Company Residency on January 22nd from 6:30-8:30pm in the Fir Acres Theatre Black Box. See details below.

Arts@LC’s Fall 2024 Newsletter is out! Read on for more information (and pretty photos!) from the fall to see how Arts@LC “connects and amplifies the fine arts at Lewis & Clark: Music, Theatre, Dance, Art and Creative Writing.” 

Cara Tomlinson’s Art and Ecology class uses waste materials from around Portland to create beautiful and meaningful works of art. This course offers a fresh approach to creative practice, merging art and ecology to help students respond to the climate crisis, explore the agency of materials, and build connections to place.

The Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement (IME) office presents The I.D.E.A. Catalyst Awards. See here to learn more and to nominate.