HOLIDAY HOME LIGHTING DISPLAYS

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Do strands and strands of Christmas lights give you a warm and fuzzy feeling? Head for PEACOCK LANE, a street in Southeast Portland renowned for the homeowners who live on it, who spend hours and hours gussying up their houses each holiday season for drivers-by and passersby alike to enjoy. The houses, mostly English Tudors, are adorned with sparkling lights and the front yards are filled with nativity scenes, rotating Christmas trees and replicas of Santa and Frosty. A popular event (expect happy crowds), the decorations are best enjoyed on foot.

HOLIDAY FOOD AND GIFT FESTIVALS

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Home décor, arts and crafts, gourmet food, unique gift items, wines to taste, elegant holiday displays, Santa and a festive atmosphere are just some of what you’ll find at the ANNUAL HOLIDAY FOOD AND GIFT FESTIVALS. The fests will be held in Portland, Eugene, and Redmond.

ART SHOW

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Curated by former ID magazine editor Steven Skov Holt and art historian Mara Holt Skov, the exhibit MANUF®ACTURED: THE CONSPICUOUS TRANSFORMATION OF EVERYDAY OBJECTS includes new works made from mass-produced objects and materials, including a dress made from one continuous zipper and towers crafted from polystyrene. This is a great opportunity to think about the more serious issues of overabundance, appropriation and reuse. Some of the artists’ work will be for sale.

ARCHITECTURE PRESENTATION

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The American Foursquare, one of Portland’s most notable historic house styles, was popular from around 1900 until well into the 1930s. Today it’s found in every older neighborhood in Portland. To find out more about this popular house style, check out FOURSQUARE HOMES: QUINTESSENTIAL PORTLAND ARCHITECTURE, a presentation by architectural historian Jack Bookwalter, who will show what constitutes a Foursquare, including its ornamental details and hybrids.

ARCHITECTURAL PHOTO EXHIBIT

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Shelter is one of our most basic human needs, both physically and psychologically. We seek shelter from the elements, from the storm, from harm. SHELTER, a national juried exhibition of contemporary photography, shows how shelter can be interpreted visually in all its manifestations.

Brian Vegter

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When dog portrait artist Brian Vegter was working as a film and television cameraman in New York City, a friend of his opened an upscale pooch boutique in 2003. “I wasn’t getting film work I liked, so I took up the paintbrush again to make some paintings of dogs for the walls,” he says. “That turned out to be the beginning of a new career.”

Lawrence Newman

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While growing up in sunny San Diego, Calif., furnituremaker Lawrence Newman was frequently surrounded by wood, metal and tools. “My grandfather was a general contractor, so I spent a lot of time as a kid on his project sites,” he says. “I’d take things apart and try to get all the pieces back in order. Once I even took my grandfather’s chainsaw apart and put it back together, and it still worked.”

Mythology and Mosaics

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Until she was in her early 30s, stained-glass mosaic artist Tatiana Isotov had never considered a career in art. “I started doing mosaics when I shared a yard with someone who was making them,” says Isotov. “She taught me how, and then I kept on doing it by myself.”

Tatiana Isotov

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Until she was in her early 30s, stained-glass mosaic artist Tatiana Isotov had never considered a career in art. “I started doing mosaics when I shared a yard with someone who was making them,” says Isotov. “She taught me how, and then I kept on doing it by myself.”

DOWNTOWN PORTLAND III

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All the pretty dresses, treats for taste buds and some of that Amsterdam vibe that everybody loves. Also, places to stay fueled to keep up your energy level while cruising around downtown.