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New York, Oregon and California, Marketing and Public Relations Agency for the Arts. www.aopublic.c

A&O is a boutique agency offering marketing, public relations, and creative content services to a wide range of clients in the arts and culture. We are a group of writers, publicists, curators, and creators who foster connections between our clients' audiences and their message, bringing well-deserved attention to exciting projects. Our agency combines traditional best practices with fluency in cu

tting-edge social media and digital strategy to provide everything from PR to content creation and brand development.

08/14/2026

Still buzzing with excitement over the inaugural Portland Arts Week, which took place July 9-12. The event activated Portland’s Cultural Corridor with a series of exhibitions, panel discussions, performances, and community events curated around the theme of Art and Sports. Portland Arts Week

It was an honor to participate on the Communications Committee and to support this thoughtfully-curated program that brought creative and cultural enrichment to Portland!! Mark your calendars for next years’s event taking place in late-June!

07/23/2026

The museum patrons of tomorrow need engagement and access today! Through K-12 curriculum, sliding scale tickets or student discounts, creating Young Curator or Young Collector Committees, and providing seamless ways to become a member, museums and nonprofit art spaces can nurture the future patrons of tomorrow. 🖼️✨

Read the full article:https://aopublic.com/how-musesums-build-a-younger-audience/

07/10/2026

The Bedford is pleased to present CALeidescop: Evolving Reflections of California, a juried exhibition featuring over 70 artists throughout California.

The selected work highlights the histories, perspectives, and tensions that reflect California’s diversity, inviting reflection on the personal, political, and ecological conditions of our time.

Juried by Juan Omar Rodriguez, Assistant Curator at the San Jose Museum of Art and Amanda Sroka, Senior Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CALeidescope presents more than 80 artworks in a wide range of mediums including painting, sculpture, photography, textile art, and mixed media by artists for whom California is a source of inspiration. At a moment marked by climate crisis, rapid technological change, and ongoing social transformation, many of these artists turn to the natural world, community, and ancestral knowledge as sources of wisdom and renewal.
Earth, water, and the human body often merge within the works, reminding us that our lives are inseparable from the environments we inhabit.

CALeidescope: Evolving Reflections of California on view Bedford Gallery July 11 - September 13, 2026.

For more information, visit www.bedfordgallery.org

06/30/2026

A&O’s Summer Art Guide 2026! ☀️ Exhibitions and fairs on our radar this summer.

06/26/2026

People have fewer places to gather and loneliness is rising, which has slowly become a genuine public health concern. Museums and galleries are well suited to become a much needed third place, the space between home and work where a community can come together.

To read more on how museums and galleries reduce loneliness and fill a community void, visit the article linked in our bio. 📌

06/24/2026

To Fischer Architecture, thresholds are not merely physical lines where a room ends; they are dynamic zones of transition used to negotiate the relationship between light and dark, new and old, and indoor and outdoor environments. For the Merriewood House, expansive views of the San Francisco Bay set the scene for physical boundaries of the living space to completely dissolve against its landscape.

With the main living and dining rooms wrapped in full-height glass windows that open directly onto a sweeping upper deck - bleached walnut doors and clean kitchen casework gracefully meet deep, dark walnut flooring and dramatic, inky metal-clad monolith walls.

Entirely coated in charcoal-colored fire-resistive shell designed to protect against the neighborhood’s historic wildfire risks, this sophisticated silhouette in the Oakland hillside allows the architecture and the natural landscape to blend into one unified, protective sanctuary.

While preserving the footprint and general programming layout of the home, they expertly refined the adjacencies of rooms and flow between each of the spaces.

To learn more about this project visit fischerarchitecture.com.

Pictured: Merriewood House, courtesy of Fischer Architecture.

Photography by ©Joe Fletcher Photography, Joe Fletcher.

06/23/2026

Curated by Philip E. Linhares, “Reaching,” is one of two exhibitions on view at Qualia Contemporary Art in Palo Alto.

The exhibition gathers more than two decades of paintings by Younhee Paik, a Korean-born, Bay Area-based artist.

Many of Younhee Paik’s paintings evoke movement, both literal and symbolic. Words such as “climb,” “reaching,” and “passage” suggest an ongoing search or ascent, a movement toward fulfilment, arrival, or the realisation of something deeply desired. Her art moves through navigation, transcendence, and the journey across physical and spiritual planes.

On view until July 3rd Qualia Contemporary Art.

Pictured:
Younhee Paik
Golden Climb - Recall, 2026
Oil on Aluminum

Younhee Paik
Above Wave, 2022
Oil on Aluminum

06/11/2026

We’ve seen firsthand that the way people find restaurants has fundamentally changed. Between AI search tools replacing Google and organic video outperforming professional ads, the path to earning media coverage isn’t what it was even two years ago!

Read more on The State of Hospitality PR in the A&O PR Journal, linked in our bio. 📌

06/01/2026

We’re thrilled with the wonderful coverage of “Aztec Stories in Modern Mexico: An Inocencio Jiménez Chino Retrospective” . This is the artist’s first-ever retrospective, which celebrates indigenous Nahuatl narrative tradition and highlights the vibrant color and rich storytelling inherent to Chino’s practice. This exhibition invites Bay Area audiences to experience Chino’s amazing work in person at Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA through June 28. Thank you to , , , , , , .info (among others) for the fantastic coverage!

05/29/2026

PAM CUT Cinema Unbound Week kicked with a celebration of art and cinematic storytelling taking place through May 31st. As a new member of the committee, I’m excited to support the cultural work of institutions like in nurturing the arts for our local community. I’m looking forward to a weekend full of programming and I hope you can join!

Attendees can expect film, food, music, comedy, and conversation across Portland for 5 days as well as the annual Cinema Unbound Awards honoring the significant contributions of visionary creators.

Be sure to check out the , which runs May 29-31st from 11am - 7pm. For more than 40 years, the Criterion Collection has been the gold standard in film preservation. This event is open to everyone, no ticket required!

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