ultra is a forum and platform for contemporary art, dance, and performance in Portland.
ultra is evolving.
Tell me about your upcoming show, your great ideas, projects, favorite artist, exhibition. Tell me what you’re reading.
Backstory. ultra launched in July of 2005 with the ambition of documenting the best in art, fashion, and design in Portland and introducing the interconnected arts, fashion, and design communities to one another. Eventually, I focused ultra down to what I care the most about: visual art, dance, performance, regional art history, and culture. ultra took a nap late in 2009 while I launched the Culturephile blog for Portland Monthly.
Over the years a number of photographers, in particular Minh Tran, Pete Springer, and Josh Elliott, and writers, notably Tim DuRoche, Rebecca Goldschmidt, Erin Rackelman, Patricia No, and Will Levin, have contributed to and thereby elevated ultra.
Lisa Radon, founding editor
I write and think about arts, culture, and design. Former associate editor at Portland Spaces, I write the Culturephile blog covering Portland arts and culture for Portland Monthly. I’ve written for a number of publications including Portland Monthly, Surface Design Journal, SHIFT (Japan), FLAUNT, and The Willamette Week with work forthcoming in Oregon Humanities. I’ve also been honored to contribute essays to a handful of exhibition catalogs.
You can follow me at @lisaradon on twitter where you’ll here about the latest on ultra, and the latest in Portland arts and culture. Fair warning: I’m as likely to tweet about national arts news as Portland arts happenings (as well as other things I’m into like museums and social media, the salon, avant-garde poem and performance, the future of the book, and philosophy).