Recent Publications
Hallie Ford Fellowship 2023
2023
Source
Shifting Time, African American Artists
2020-2021
2022
Klare Scarborough & Berrisford Booth
Source
Call and Response
2022
Monique Meloche
Source
Venice 2022 Art Biennial,
Personal Structures Reflections
2022
Lois Allan
Artweek
2Up and 2Back
Year
Eleanor Heartney
Source
APEX: 10 Years, Portland Art Museum
2007-2017
Year
PAM
Source
Constructing Identity, Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African-American Art
2017
Portland Art Museum
Print Publications
Unfettered Access
December 21, 2016
Jennifer Rabin
WWeek
Visual Arts: Arvie Smith
August 24th, 2016
Jennifer Rabin
WWeek
Race in Your Face
June 19th, 2006
D.K. Row
The Oregonian
Arvie Smith at Alysia Duckler Gallery
September 2004
Lois Allan
Artweek
Arvie Smith at 55 Mercer
January 1993
Eleanor Heartney
Art in America
A Discomforting Collection
June 11th, 2004
D.K. Row
The Oregonian
Nudes in electric colors bare painter’s boldness
May 17th, 2002
D.K. Row
The Oregonian
D.K.’s Hot Sheet
September 3rd, 2004
D.K. Row
The Oregonian
Critic’s Picks
August 3rd, 2000
D.K. Row
The Oregonian
A&E Recently Reviewed
June 30th, 2006
D.K. Row
The Oregonian
Talking About Color
March 1st, 2016
Anna Bird
1859 Magazine
Brush Fire
September 2017
Rebecca Jacobson
PDX Monthly
Online Publications
Oregon Artswatch Art Review: Beneath the Surface Seduction
January 20th, 2020
Laurel Reed Pavic
Oregon Artswatch
52 Critical Painters
December 30th, 2019
Kevin Smith
Self Published
2019 Black Art in America, Black Face: It Ain’t About Cork
April 25th, 2019
Talima Taha
Black Art in America
Strange Fruit: Arvie Smith’s seductive provocations at PAM
August 22nd, 2016
Bob Hicks
Oregon Artswatch
Arvie Smith’s Show at The Portland Art Museum Is a Raw Look at the Atrocities and Oppression of the Black Experience in America
December 21st, 2016
Jennifer Rabin
WWeek
Phoenix rising: Mural project brings hope to juvenile detention center teens in Northeast Portland
February 15th, 2011
Larry Bingham
The Oregonian
Artist Arvie Smith Unveils Five Stunning Murals Created with Youth in Detention
June 23rd, 2011
Helen Silvis
The Skanner
Arvie Smith, artist who guided incarcerated youth through mural, helps unveil project at Northeast Portland’s Donald E. Long Juvenile Justice Center
June 24th, 2011
Larry Bingham
The Oregonian
Piercing Racism with Art
January 1st, 2007
Andy Zieminski
The Examiner (now defunct)
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