Portland, OR. Nearly 100 supporters of the Riverdale School District in white attire came together for a white party benefit. Ron and Jillian Cain, and Amber and Henry Hillman enjoyed the festivities. The Diner en Blanc, on October 1st, was a French-Euro White Party with cocktails, dinner, and dancing. The secret venue (Waverley Country Club) wasn’t disclosed until the night before.
Star Sanaee, Maryam Bolouri, Jillian Cain, Amber Hillman, Soloumeh Saghafi, and Rania Nordean helped host the party.
Chris Sanaee brought out a top hat and cane.
From Riverdale: The Riverdale School District serves over 600 families living in a residential, wooded area seven miles south of downtown Portland, Oregon and adjacent to the city of Lake Oswego. (District Boundary map) The grade school is the only public facility in the neighborhood and is a focal point for community activity. Lewis and Clark College is located within the District. The Portland metropolitan area, with a population of 1.2 million, is the cultural and economic center for Oregon. Residents enjoy the benefits of a major urban area, while living within a short drive of both the Cascade Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.
The Riverdale Community has valued excellence in education for more than 125 years. The community prides itself on its independent status and voted to retain this independence with the passage of a bond in March 1996 to build a high school. Riverdale School District has always enjoyed widespread community interest, involvement and support.
The Riverdale Grade School offers a program for students in preschool through grade eight and provides a comprehensive and varied curriculum. The preschool through grade eight students benefit from a low student-teacher ratio. The grade school is organized as Primary (Pre-K-4), Intermediate (5-6) and Upper Grades (7-8) to allow for broad curriculum flexibility. The faculty includes specialists in music, second languages, physical education, library/media, art and special education/student services. Students also enjoy a diverse selection of enrichment programs. A Field Studies program involving students and staff combines learning experiences with the opportunity to explore Oregon’s many resources. Both Riverdale Grade School and Riverdale High School have state-of-the-art computer labs with computers networked throughout the schools and connected to the Internet. The new state-of-the-art LEED Gold Grade School facility was completed in August 2010.
Riverdale High School opened in September 1996 for grades 9-12. The high school is located at 9727 SW Terwilliger Boulevard in Portland, just two miles from the Riverdale Grade School. Riverdale High School has grown to a student body in the mid-200’s, while maintaining a low student-teacher ratio to maximize individual attention. In addition to resident students, non-resident students are encouraged to attend Riverdale High School on a tuition or inter-district transfer basis.
Riverdale schools focus first and foremost on the relationship between teacher and student, and the academic disciplines that bring them together. Students are required to demonstrate their understanding of a core subject matter through classroom work as well as demonstrations called “exhibitions.” These exhibitions provide a basis for accountability by asking students to show what they know. The focus of the high school is to help adolescents learn to use their minds well. Riverdale School District is committed to providing education for all students that is personalized, learner-centered, and academically rigorous.
Aurora, OR. The Old Aurora Colony 44th Annual Quilt Show is hosting a portion of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. This internationally famous quilt is the sanctuary of the Aurora Presbyterian Church through October 23rd. TheOld Aurora Colony quilt show celebrates the 160th anniversary of the founding of the Aurora Colony in 1856 AND the 50th anniversary of the Old Aurora Colony Museum- in the heart of the French Prairie.
These handmade blocks, created by friends and family, tell the stories of individuals who have lost their lives to AIDS. The NAMES Project Foundation is the international organization that is the custodian of The AIDS Memorial Quilt. The AIDS Memorial Quilt began with a single 3 x 6 foot panel created in San Francisco in 1987. Today, The Quilt is composed of more than 49,000 individual 3 x 6 foot panels, each one commemorating the life of someone who has died of AIDS. These panels come from every state in the nation, every corner of the globe and they have been sewn by hundreds of thousands of friends, lovers and family members into this epic memorial, the largest piece of ongoing community art in the world.
Nearly 100 traditional and contemporary quilts will be exhibited throughout the Old Aurora Colony Museum and the historical Kraus House adjacent to the Museum, augmented by antique historical quilts from the Museum’s extensive collection. The centerpiece, as always, will be the Grand Prize Raffle Quilt, hand-quilted from the 2015 Quilt Block Contest winners by the Old Aurora Colony Quilters (Carol Burger, Ethel Combs, Mary Doak, Laude Hill, Gail McCormick and Dale Rushton),
Here are details about the Old Aurora Colony 44th Annual Quilt Show:
October 14-23, 2016 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Daily
Old Aurora Colony Museum
Admission $7.50 per person
Two Day Pass $12.00 per person
Admission to AIDS Memorial Quilt display-free
Groups of 10+ $5.00 per person
Portland, OR. Event organizers closed the street at Castaway Portland for 56 teams to compete in the round robin cornhole tournament. It was a benefit for Portland Youthbuilders which serves more than 200 young people a year, by offering programs for high school completion, vocational training, counseling, and support. The 4th annual Cornhole Classic on September 22nd had competitive and casual cornhole games. There were 350 guests and the event raised $142,000 to support Portland YouthBuilders. (Photo credit, Jaro Pylypczak)
Brenden Webb and Joey Yazzolino brought home the “gold” as this year’s winning cornhole team.
While the cornhole tournament was taking place, other event attendees took advantage of the time to check out the silent auction tables. White Pepper Catering provided a beautiful array of appetizers and also poured drinks from Buffalo Trace Bourbon, Hopworks Brewery, and A-Z Wineworks.
PYB Board Member Julie Kopet celebrates Mackenzie Polley’s big win in the live auction.
The Cornhole Classic was presented by O’Neill Walsh Community Builders.
From Portland YouthBuilders:
The mission of Portland YouthBuilders is to support young people who are committed to changing their lives to become self-sufficient, contributing members of the workforce and their community.
There’s a video about the nonprofit:
For many young people, the path to success in life is neither straight nor clear. PYB offers hope and a second chance at success for youth age 17-24 whose experiences with poverty, violence, drugs, hunger and loss have interrupted their route to success. Serving more than 200 young people a year, we offer a program of high school completion, vocational training, counseling, and support that helps our students find a new path and a clear vision of success filled with pride, leadership, and commitment to community.
Portland, OR. Over 300 supporters enjoyed the ambience of the The Portland Nursery for the Impact NW Garden Party. The benefit on September 24th celebrated the nonprofit’s 50th Anniversary and was an opportunity for community leaders to strengthen Impact NW’s mission of helping people prosper through a community of support. The event raised $111,000. Dennis Peck and Marcia Westcott Peck, garden columnists for The Oregonian visited with Liz Burns and Andy Nelson of Impact NW. Marcia, an acclaimed garden designer was a judge for a Garden Container contest. Local gardeners and nurseries submitted garden containers and the winning container was auctioned off to raise money for Impact NW.
Here’s a video about the event:
Al Dobbins, Susan Stoltenberg, (Impact NW’s former Executive Director), Oregon State Representative, Alissa Keny-Guyer (a former Impact NW board member) and Diane Linn, former Multnomah County Chair. Diane’s mother was one of the founders of Impact NW.
Impact NW’s Annual Garden Party was hosted by The Portland Nursery on SE Division St. The Portland Nursery staff joined in the celebration.
Kate Koehler Lefco, an Impact NW Therapeutic Services Specialist, read a beautiful poem titled “Between Worlds: An Ode to Survivors” at our Annual Garden Party event. She’s pictured with Daniel Lefco and Amanda Keller.
Portland City Commissioner Dan Saltzman spoke in support of Impact NW at the Annual Garden Party, celebrating 50 years of service to our Portland community.
Presenting Sponsor JPMorgan Chase was joined by: Boeing, Philadelphia Insurance, Heffernan Insurance, Fred Meyer, PCC Structurals, Perkins & Co, Perkins Coie, Bridge Housing, AMR and Klarquist to celebrate Impact NW’s 50 years of serving people in the Portland area to help them overcome the impact of poverty in their lives.
From Impact NW:
Impact NW is a premier provider of educational and social services in the greater Portland metro area. Our mission is to help people prosper through a community of support.
Impact NW is a private non-profit organization that began in 1966 as Portland Action Committees Together, Inc. (PACT). Four neighborhoods came together and created the agency to address the growing problems associated with poverty in the area.
Since our inception, Impact NW has been a leader in providing individuals of all ages with the skills and resources necessary to achieve success and to advocate for themselves and their communities. Annually, over 36,000 low-income children, youth, families, seniors, and adults with disabilities participate in Impact NW’s comprehensive anti-poverty programs.
Portland, OR. The Portland Art Museum announced an expansion that will unify its campus by connecting the Museum’s freestanding buildings. The expansion is the culmination of a 20-year partnership with the children of Mark Rothko: Christopher Rothko, and Kate Rothko Prizel. The partnership includes the loan to the Museum of major paintings by Mark Rothko from their private collection; paintings will be loaned individually in rotation over the course of the next two decades. Mark Rothko, who lived from 1903 to 1970, was an American painter of Russian descent and is generally identified as an abstract expressionist. With Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, he is one of the most famous postwar American artists. The expansion at the Portland Art Museum will feature a new glass-walled building, to be named the Rothko Pavilion, in recognition of the artist’s legacy in Portland—his home as a youth after immigrating from Latvia—and the Museum, where he took art classes as a teenager and where he received his first solo exhibition. The naming was made possible thanks to the $8 million lead gift from a donor who wished to remain anonymous so the pavilion could be named in Mark Rothko’s honor.
View of the east entrance plaza. Courtesy of Vinci Hamp Architects.
The expansion project will link the Museum to the surrounding Cultural District with a new central entrance flanked by greenery and sculpture that opens onto the South Park Blocks. The project will make the Museum more publicly accessible, while knitting the campus together with the surrounding neighborhood and reducing the Museum’s carbon footprint. Groundbreaking is scheduled to take place in 2018, with an expected completion date for the project in late 2020 or early 2021. The Museum is launching the public phase of a $75-million capital and endowment campaign to fund the project. To date, $21.75 million (43 percent) of the $50-million capital goal has been raised, and $5.4 million has been raised towards the $25-million endowment goal.
View of the community commons. Courtesy of Vinci Hamp Architects.
“The partnership with the Rothko family is a homecoming of sorts, enabling us to share with the public major works from the family’s private collection, offer new insight into Rothko’s practice, and honor his legacy in the Pacific Northwest and the international arts community,” said Brian Ferriso, The Marilyn H. and Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. Director and Chief Curator. “We are deeply appreciative of Christopher and Kate’s extraordinary generosity in sharing these works with the people of Portland, the state of Oregon, and visitors to our city. Our plans for the Rothko Pavilion bring together the elements of the Portland Art Museum’s mission: to present exceptional works of art, develop exhibitions that take new perspectives on human creativity, and increase public accessibility and inclusion.”
Mark Rothko (2012), Portland Art Museum.
“Our family is thrilled to enter into this partnership with the Museum,” said Christopher Rothko. “Portland played a formative role in my father’s youth, and we are eager to share these works with the public and give Rothko a more active role in the vibrant cultural life of this city. Our hope is that visitors will take the time to pause and engage with each of these paintings, and to participate in the process of ‘slow looking’ that the Museum has championed.”
Designed by Chicago-based Vinci Hamp Architects, the three-story Rothko Pavilion will add roughly 30,000 square feet of space to the Museum and will be anchored by a glass-walled stair tower that will connect the Pavilion to the Museum’s Main Building. In addition to the Community Commons, the Pavilion will feature 9,840 square feet of new gallery space, including space for contemporary and media art, as well as a new Education and Design Lab, and new space for the Museum’s library. The project will also create a third-floor sculpture garden that will provide visitors the chance to step outside and enjoy the Museum’s natural surroundings; the rooftop deck will also serve as a space for public programming and events. The paintings loaned by Christopher and Kate Rothko Prizel will be installed in light-controlled galleries adjacent to the new Rothko Pavilion.
“As we look forward to the next 125 years, we look to strengthen our connection between the Museum and the public it serves,” said Janet Geary, Chairman of the Portland Art Museum Board of Trustees. “Our campaign will connect building to building, the Museum to the community, people to art and to each other.”
Architect Vinci Hamp’s previous work includes projects for the Art Institute of Chicago, the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and the Neue Galerie in New York, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Oriental Institute, Smart Museum of Art, and The Arts Club in Chicago, among others. Also known for their historic preservation work, Vinci Hamp has completed award-winning projects that include the Illinois State Capitol, Chicago Tribune Tower, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home and Studio.
The Portland Art Museum has mounted exhibitions by a diverse roster of artists since the time of its founding. In 1913, the Museum brought works from the famous New York Armory Show to Portland, helping to introduce West Coast audiences to Modernism. In 1933 the Museum organized the first solo exhibition of works by the 29-year-old artist Marcus Rothkowitz, later to be known as Mark Rothko.
From the Portland Art Museum:
The mission of the Portland Art Museum is to engage diverse communities through art and film of enduring quality, and to collect, preserve, and educate for the enrichment of present and future generations.
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The Riverdale Grade School offers a program for students in preschool through grade eight and provides a comprehensive and varied curriculum. The preschool through grade eight students benefit from a low student-teacher ratio. The grade school is organized as Primary (Pre-K-4), Intermediate (5-6) and Upper Grades (7-8) to allow for broad curriculum flexibility. The faculty includes specialists in music, second languages, physical education, library/media, art and special education/student services. Students also enjoy a diverse selection of enrichment programs. A Field Studies program involving students and staff combines learning experiences with the opportunity to explore Oregon’s many resources. Both Riverdale Grade School and Riverdale High School have state-of-the-art computer labs with computers networked throughout the schools and connected to the Internet. The new state-of-the-art LEED Gold Grade School facility was completed in August 2010.
Riverdale High School opened in September 1996 for grades 9-12. The high school is located at 9727 SW Terwilliger Boulevard in Portland, just two miles from the Riverdale Grade School. Riverdale High School has grown to a student body in the mid-200’s, while maintaining a low student-teacher ratio to maximize individual attention. In addition to resident students, non-resident students are encouraged to attend Riverdale High School on a tuition or inter-district transfer basis.
Riverdale schools focus first and foremost on the relationship between teacher and student, and the academic disciplines that bring them together. Students are required to demonstrate their understanding of a core subject matter through classroom work as well as demonstrations called “exhibitions.” These exhibitions provide a basis for accountability by asking students to show what they know. The focus of the high school is to help adolescents learn to use their minds well. Riverdale School District is committed to providing education for all students that is personalized, learner-centered, and academically rigorous.
