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What to do in Portland in October 2026

346 events from Saturday, October 17 to Saturday, October 31, 2026. Free: 3. Busiest venues: Portland Art Museum, Helium Comedy Club, Clinton Street Theater.

Saturday, October 17, 2026

Visual arts
until Nov 29

American Land

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jun 6

Highest Heaven

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jun 6

Conversations in Clay

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 15

Facing Ourselves

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jun 11

Global Impressionism

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 20

For the Enjoyment of All: Celebrating the Kress Gift

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 15

Abstraction Since Mark Rothko

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Aug 22

Black Art and Experiences (B.A.E. Galleries)

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 20

Black Arts PDX at the CREATE SPACE

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 3

Forming Nature, Nature Formed

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 26

Heaven and Earth: Chinese Art from the Collections

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until May 23

Here we are

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
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Visual arts
until Jun 11

Im/Material

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 8

Inkling Studio: Community and Printmaking in Portland, 1981–2009

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 3

Lisa Jarrett: Tenderhead

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until May 30

MAKERS: The Culture of Craft

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Feb 21

Marco Brambilla: Maximalist Dreamscapes

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 28

Mary Henry: A Long Unbroken Line

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 15

Mickalene Thomas: Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers)

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Dec 27

Mirror Mirror: Silver in the 20th Century

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Dec 27

Mystic Mountain: Mount Hood in Art

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Dec 27

Myth and Memory: Mediterranean Antiquity and its Revivals

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Feb 7

Pipilotti Rist: 4th Floor to Mildness

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 28

Rick Bartow: Storyteller

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
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Visual arts
until Dec 12

Shifting the Narrative: 21st Century Acquisitions

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until May 30

The Art of Mark Rothko

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until May 23

To Gather Your Leaving: Themes of Diasporic Experiences in the Northwest

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Aug 22

Word in Flower: Arts of Buddhism

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Other
until Oct 18

TITANIC: The Artifact Exhibition

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) · Central Eastside
Visual arts
until Jan 31

Todd McGrain: Debut of York

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Mar 26

Portraits from the Society Pages: Bushnell Studio Portraits and Women's Fashion after World War I

Oregon Historical Society Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 3

Harriet Tubman Center Museum

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Feb 21

Nine Women Artists

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 29

How We Show Up: Oregon Jews in Civil Society, An America 250 Exhibition

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education · Old Town
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 29

One Nation

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education · Old Town
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Mar 14

A Brief History of Photography: The Portrait

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
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Visual arts
until Mar 7

An Honest Day's Work: Photographs of Labor

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Nov 16

Ukandu: Bringing Hope, Joy, and Connection to Communities Impacted by Childhood Cancer

Oregon Historical Society Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Aug 31

Yinka Ilori: Mountains Full of Blessings

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Oct 24

MORE by Trisha Baga

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) · Eliot
- Visual arts
Free
Visual arts
until Jan 3

The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Sep 26

Watanabe Sadao

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Feb 21

DREAMs Deferred

Oregon Historical Society Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Theatre
until Oct 25

Pride & Prejudice

Portland Center Stage at The Armory · Pearl District
- Theatre
Tickets
Theatre
until Nov 1

Table 17

Portland Playhouse · Prescott
- Theatre
Tickets
Music
until Oct 25

Guys and Dolls

Winningstad Theatre · Downtown
- Music
- Theatre
Tickets
Visual arts
until Aug 1

Our Stadium, Our Story: 100 Years of Portland's Providence Park

Oregon Historical Society Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Music
until Oct 25

H.M.S. Pinafore

Brunish Theatre · Downtown
- Music
- Theatre
Tickets
Theatre
until Oct 25

Halloween One Acts by Don Nigro

Imago Theatre · Buckman
- Theatre
$25 Tickets
Visual arts
until Mar 21

Imagine Monuments: A Partnership with Arts in Education of the Gorge

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
Dance
until Oct 17

Swan Lake

Keller Auditorium · South Downtown
- Dance
Tickets
Other
until Mar 29

Unstoppable: 150 Years of the University of Oregon

Oregon Historical Society Museum · South Park Blocks
Visual arts
2 PM

Eraserhead (1977) x Fresh Cut Flowers

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
- Cinema
Literature
2 PM

Rose City Stage Company Presents Persuasion - Day 1

Powell's City of Books · Pearl District
- Literature
Cinema
3 PM

Psychotronic Halloween Special

Clinton Street Theater · Hosford-Abernethy
- Cinema
Visual arts
4 PM

Hocus Pocus

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
- Cinema
Comedy
4 PM

Special Event: Pinky Patel

Helium Comedy Club · Buckman
- Comedy
Tickets
Visual arts
5 PM

Blue Velvet (1986) x Fresh Cut Flowers - 35mm

Portland Art Museum · South Park Blocks
- Visual arts
- Cinema
Comedy
5 PM

The Neon Room at Helium: Pedro Gonzalez

Helium Comedy Club · Buckman
- Comedy
Tickets
Comedy
6 PM

Special Event: Christopher Titus

Helium Comedy Club · Buckman
- Comedy
Tickets

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