RACC Seeks Submissions for the Visual Chronicle of Portland

RACC Seeks Submissions for the Visual Chronicle of Portland

Portland, June 12th, 2013. The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) is seeking works on paper—prints, drawings, paintings on paper and photographs—to purchase for the Visual Chronicle of Portland collection, for example, Motoya Nakamura (The Oregonian), Orange Devy, 2008, archival pigment print, 11 ¾” x 18”. The budget for the purchase and framing of artwork is $10,000. The deadline for submissions is Monday, July 15, 2013.

Background: The Visual Chronicle of Portland is a collection of original works on paper that portray artists’ perceptions of what makes the City of Portland unique. The Chronicle is owned by the City, and exists as a subset of its Public Art Collection. Since its beginning in 1985, the Chronicle has grown to 303 works by 179 different artists and has established itself as an important archive of daily life in Portland, Oregon. RACC oversees the day-to-day management of the Visual Chronicle for the City and insures that the collection remains available to the public by rotating works throughout public spaces in City of Portland and Multnomah County buildings. The collection strives to reflect a diversity of populations, artistic disciplines and points of view.

Until I served on the Visual Chronicle Selection Panel I had no idea what a diverse and talented group of artists was at work in Portland. This collection is a testament to the fact that there is not just one Portland, but many—and that we need the artists’ perspectives to get a glimpse of those aspects of the city.

– Former Visual Chronicle Selection panel member Judith Barrington,

Images and details of the entire collection can be seen by going to www.racc.org/visualchronicle

William Park, Sentinel, 2000, oil on paper, 30” x 22”

William Park, Sentinel, 2000, oil on paper, 30” x 22” is an example of The Visual Chronicle of Portland.

Theme for 2013: As in the past, purchase selections will be made based on how well the work matches the purpose and spirit of the Visual Chronicle—conveying perceptions of what makes Portland unique. This year however, the selection panel would like to encourage work that documents, describes, or evokes areas, communities and issues that are under-represented in the Chronicle. The bridges, the Rose Parade, Washington Park and other Portland icons, are all well cataloged, but the collection has fewer works that represent people and places that exist beyond downtown and outside of the mainstream. While no absolute boundaries or subjects are mandated or excluded, the panel hopes to add range to the Chronicle and better represent vital neighborhoods, communities and artists that contribute to a fully textured view of Portland.

Selection and Purchase Process: Additions to the Chronicle are supported each year by a fund of $10,000 which covers the purchase of new artwork and archival matting and framing. The Chronicle is restricted to works on paper no larger than 24” x 30”; this keeps the cost of individual pieces modest and allows the selection panel to purchase multiple works.

The selection panel is composed of an independent group of artists and curators. This year’s panel includes Yoonhee Choi, artist and teacher; Gabe Flores, artist, curator; Roll Hardy, artist; Grant Hottle, artist, teacher; Blake Shell, artist, curator. The selection process will take place in two parts—an initial review of digital images followed by a final review of actual artwork.

Submission Details: Works on paper—prints, drawings, paintings on paper and photographs—from professional artists familiar with Portland are eligible. For more information and to download guidelines in English or Spanish, visit the RACC website at www.racc.org (direct link: http://www.racc.org/public-art/racc-opportunity-2013-call-visual-chronicle-portland), or contact program manager Keith Lachowicz at [email protected] or 503-823-5404.

Information Session: To assist artists with the submission process and to provide additional
in-depth background on the Visual Chronicle collection RACC staff will hold an information session on Tuesday, June 25th from 5:30pm – 6:30pm at RACC offices, 411 NW Park Avenue, Suite 101.
Email Keith Lachowicz at [email protected] to reserve a spot. RACC staff is also available to speak off-site to groups of artists who would like to learn more about this purchase opportunity.

Submission Deadline: The deadline for all submissions is Monday, July 15, 2013 at 5pm.

For more information contact project staff:

Keith Lachowicz Cheryl Norton

[email protected] [email protected]

503-823-5404 503-823-5865

Nichols Norman’s Waiting Room Kicks Off New Season of RACC Installations at the Portland Building

Nichols Norman’s Waiting Room Kicks Off New Season of RACC Installations at the Portland Building

Portland, March 13th, 2013. The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) announced a line-up of nine new installations by local artists at the Portland Building Installation Space. Here’s information from RACC about what’s coming:

Over the next twelve months artists representing a wide range of approaches to art making will be featured in 4 week installments. Since 1994 RACC has managed the Installation Space in the Portland Building (located downtown at 1120 SW 5th Avenue) and has presented some of Portland’s best interactive and experimental media installations. At 13’wide by 8′ deep, this modestly sized venue is devoted exclusively to installation art. The space has developed a devout following over the years and competition for a spot on the roster is always spirited.

This year, 71 artists submitted proposals in the Professional Artist category, and 26 artists applied in the Student category. An independent selection panel reviewed all of the proposals, and ultimately selected nine site-specific works that are challenging, topical and diverse.

Portland Building Installation Space—2012/2013 Season Calendar and Project Descriptions:

Nicholas Norman March 25 – April 19, 2013

Jacob Sorenson April 29 – May 24, 2013

Patricia Vazquez Gomez & Betty Marin June 3 – June 28, 2013

Anthony Hudson July 8 – Aug 2, 2013

Michael Sell August 12 – September 6, 2013

Paula Rebsom & Grant Hottle September 16 – October 11, 2013

Ariana Jacob October 21 – November 15, 2013

Paul Clay and Zachary Krausnick January 13– February 7, 2014

Joseph Kucinski February 17 – March 14, 2014

Nicholas Norman (Student – PSU) March 25 – April 19, 2013

Waiting Room – Nicholas Norman’s work, which explores the meanings of places and how we understand them, kicks off the new season of installations at the Portland Building. Nicholas has a particular interest in waiting rooms: “Most of us are familiar with the experience of a waiting room, the uncomfortable seats, the horrible magazines, we know what it is…but what is the difference between a waiting room in an everyday doctor’s office versus a gallery?” Norman will create an artificial waiting room in the Installation Space to explore the difference between a fabrication and a room that is intentionally functional—is a fabricated space really any different if it can serve an identical purpose? Can a waiting room be anything other than a waiting room, or is its true meaning trapped within intention? Norman’s faux waiting room promises uncomfortable seating, dull magazines, a ticking clock, a potted plant, bad (but free) coffee, mediocre landscape paintings and the ubiquitous lost toy underneath the chair. Viewers are encouraged to bring their own interpretation to the installation, in this case however, they will be completely in control of the amount of time they decide to wait.

Jacob Sorenson April 29 – May 24, 2013

A Landscape – “Is Bigfoot real? I hope so. But I’m pessimistic.” This quote from Jacob Sorenson’s proposal might serve as a tagline for his installation. He’ll construct a nature-circus landscape in the space that embodies the human tendency to both ideologically and physically manipulate the environment. To the right picture a silhouette-like sculpture of a majestic tree-line, but with Las Vegas style chase-lights there to help better define the trees. To the left notice a sculpture that sets out to improve upon the beautiful sunset image we all hope for at the end of a day…only maybe with a few extra colors and a repeat cycle so we can enjoy it longer. And finally in the back, slightly obscured by the tree-line, look for that elusive silhouette of Bigfoot rumored to make periodic appearances.

Patricia Vazquez Gomez & Betty Marin (Students – PSU) June 3 – June 28, 201

WelcomeWelcome is intended to inform and expand the connection between a building that represents the City of Portland and the experiences of some of this city’s newer residents. Grounded in this artist team’s social-practice work serving the immigrant community, and in their own cultural roots, the project will explore the ways in which Spanish speaking immigrants feel both welcome and not welcome in Portland. The physical installation will consist of projected images of those interviewed by the team, and text from participants’ responses presented as a “wallpaper” backdrop. In honor of the exchange of hospitality, a small artesanal souvenir will be offered to visitors to take home.

Anthony Hudson (Student – PNCA) July 8 – Aug 2, 2013

Queering Portlandia – Despite her notoriety and our love for her, Portlandia is irrefutably rooted, by sculptural tradition and in concept, to Euro-centrism. The 35 foot high hammered copper statue that graces the façade of the Portland Building depicts the image of a classical female figure with European features. In that sense she represents only a portion our city’s diverse population. Artist and performer Anthony Hudson, who identifies as a “queer Portlander, a native Oregonian, and a Grand Ronde Indian,” will offer up a series of alternate Portlandias that embody the diversity that exists in Portland today. “Queering is essentially to make something queer, different, to make it anti-oppressive; queering here is to make Portlandia accessible again, giving an underprivileged audience a chance to recreate Portlandia in their own image.” The Installation Space will be transformed into a richly decorated photo booth/performance set complete with a selection of costumes and props and participants will be invited to perform on camera as their own version of Portlandia. In the artist’s words “Queering Portlandia will allow for a multitude of new Portlandias: Portlandia as a person of color, Portlandia as queer, Portlandia as a person with disabilities, Portlandia as a true, living Portlander. Queering Portlandia will demonstrate our community’s commitment to providing visibility, safety and opportunity to all its citizens.”

Michael Sell August 12 – September 6, 2013

Untitled (Photoswatch installation) – Photographer Michael Sell’s installation explores the point at which fine art intersects with décor, and investigates how the one supports and/or subverts the other. Sell will turn the Installation Space into a floor-to-ceiling grid of color, with the individual colors to be sourced from actual artwork hung inside the Portland Building. The project will function as a site-specific extension of his Photoswatch series that sampled and presented a single rectangular swatch of color from famous photographs—thus collapsing all visual elements and meaning within the photograph into one single color statement. The painted panels on the grid in the Installation Space will reference individual works of art that are hung throughout the building and each grid will be labeled with the title and location of the source work (for example: Purple Fields, 9th Floor). On the floor of the space Sell will place rows of small “sample sized” cans of paint—all mixed to match the grid colors. These will be offered to visitors to take home as souvenirs so they can ponder how much meaning travels home with them.

Paula Rebsom & Grant Hottle September 16 – October 11, 2013

Forecast – This site-specific project marks the first in a series of collaborations between Rebsom and Hottle. It combines painted and sculptural elements to suggest an impossible but thought provoking NW scene. Upon entering the building lobby the viewer will encounter a painted landscape on a stretched canvas that completely covers the front of the installation space. The scene, a typical Pacific Northwest landscape will physically screen off the entry to the space and will appear as a purpose-built covering…with the exception of an odd protrusion in the center of the painting that stretches the canvas (without puncturing it) and pokes out slightly into the lobby, creating an immediate desire to see what lies behind. As the viewer proceeds to the stairs (which offer a view behind the painting) they discover the cause of the protrusion that intrudes on the landscape and ultimately exposes its façade-like quality. The installation cleverly goads us into reconsidering our reflex definitions of “wild” or “natural” and suggests we consider those terms through a more complex lens.

Ariana Jacob October 21 – November 15, 2013

Working Title: As You Make Your Bed, So You Must Lie in It? – Social Practice artist Ariana Jacob has proposed an “artist-in-residence” installation designed to create an intimate, yet public setting where people will discuss thoughts and feelings about being both a single individual citizen as well as an element of the collective entity that is the United States. The space will be set up as a bedroom (an intimate space everyone is familiar with) with the U.S. Constitution printed on the bed spread. The Articles and Amendments to the Constitution will be screen printed on the pillowcases, the walls of the space will be transformed into chalk-boards on which different sections of the Constitution will be written. As the installation progresses the chalkboard text will be collaboratively edited as agreed upon by artist and participants. Jacob, a veteran of several successful conversation-based projects, will keep regularly scheduled hours and will focus the sessions on gaining a better sense of “American identity” by addressing the document that legally and symbolically binds us together as a people.

Ariana Jacob’s Conversation Station project from the 2009/2010; Jacob and eight other artists will present new a new set of installations at the Portland Building over the next 12 months.

Paul Clay and Zachary Krausnick January 13– February 7, 2014

Leda and the Swan – This team of I.T. savvy artists will present a fully interactive video interpretation of the classic “Leda and the Swan” story. In the darkened space a real-time digital projection will produce an image on the back wall of the installation space that is responsive to, and directed by, visitors’ body movements. As participants walk up to the opening of the space a projection of a swan will appear on the wall before them—the movements of the swan will mirror the movements of the participant as the viewer widens his/her arms, feathered wings will spread on the projected image, the swan’s feet will step and its neck will crane to match how the viewer orients his/her body. Ultimately the viewer will discover that faster, more violent movements will cause the feathers to fall off to reveal the figure of a woman (Leda). If the participant then returns to slower movements Leda will once again grow new feathers and transform back into the swan. The cycle continues on as long as there are participants willing to move.

Joseph Kucinski February 17 – March 14, 2014

The Tenacity of Change – Kucinski’s project is aimed at capturing a moment of wonderment and curious expectation. The installation will be composed of a custom garage door fit precisely into the space. With the viewer positioned “inside” the garage looking towards the outside, the door itself will be set so that the bottom edge hovers approximately two feet above the floor. A flood of mysterious colored light from under the door illuminates the darkened “garage” space. The piece is designed to create a sense of expectation and wonder as the viewer ponders what might lie ahead in the future if we are bold enough to (figuratively) open the door of the garage and move into the larger world, to look beyond the trepidation the future carries with it and think of it as an opportunity with infinite possibilities.

Viewing Hours & Location: 7 am to 6 pm, Monday – Friday. The Portland Building is located at 1120 SW 5th Avenue in downtown Portland.

For more information on the Portland Building Installation Space series including images, proposals and statements for all the installations since 1994, go to www.racc.org/installationspace.
Chelsea, 2012. Nicholas Norman’s work, which explores the meanings of places and

how we understand them, kicks off a new season of installations at the Portland Building.

Ariana Jacob’s Conversation Station project from the 2009/2010; Jacob and eight other artists will present new a new set of installations at the Portland Building over the next 12 months.

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Communications Associate

Regional Arts & Culture Council

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The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) Elevates Portland With New Projects

The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) Elevates Portland With New Projects

Portland, February 19th, 2013. The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) released its annual report for 2012. The year in review, available online at www.racc.org/2012annualreport, includes highlights of last year’s activities in service to artists and arts organizations in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties.

One highly visible project is, Inversion: Plus Minus. In the artists’ words, “The sculptures reference the outer shells of ordinary industrial buildings found in the Central Eastside Industrial Area like those that once existed on the project sites.” (Photo credit, William Rihel)

Inversion: Plus Minus is a set of towering site-specific sculptures created by artists/architects Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo of Lead Pencil Studio. Using weathered steel angle iron, the artists are presenting “ghosts” of former buildings at two similar sites along SE Grand Avenue. One site, at Hawthorne Boulevard, will feature a matrix of metal that almost appears as a solid building. The second, at Belmont Street, will render an enclosure around the perimeter of a “building,” emphasizing the negative space of the subject.

Inversion: Plus Minus is a set of towering site-specific sculptures created by artists/architects Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo of Lead Pencil Studio. Using weathered steel angle iron, the artists are presenting “ghosts” of former buildings at two similar sites along SE Grand Avenue. One site, at Hawthorne Boulevard, will feature a matrix of metal that almost appears as a solid building. The second, at Belmont Street, will render an enclosure around the perimeter of a “building,” emphasizing the negative space of the subject. (Photo credit, William Rihel)

Among the organization’s accomplishments in 2012:

  • RACC expanded the public art collection through murals, portable works purchases, large-scale projects, and more
  • The Right Brain Initiative expanded its arts integration services to 44 schools
  • Work for Art, a workplace giving program for the arts, raised a record sum: $823,693
  • More artists and arts organizations received grants than ever before
  • Voters approved a new $35 income tax to support arts education and access in Portland

Electronic copies (HTML or PDF) can be accessed at www.racc.org/2012annualreport. Hardcopies are also available upon request; contact RACC at 503-823-5111 or [email protected].

RACC Awards $732,440 in Project Grants to Schools, Arts Organizations and Individual Artists

RACC Awards $732,440 in Project Grants to Schools, Arts Organizations and Individual Artists

Portland, December 20st. The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) announced that $732,440 will be awarded for artistic projects scheduled to take place in 2013 – including 66 grants to organizations and schools, and 94 individual artists in Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties. This is the largest sum that RACC has ever awarded for project grants.

Keller Auditorium Mural – Una Kim and Students from Portland State University 222 SW Clay; RACC Funding: $3200; 18’H x 108’L

Keller Auditorium Mural – Una Kim and Students from Portland State University
222 SW Clay; RACC Funding: $3200; 18’H x 108’L

RACC’s funding of project grants is up 5% over last year, thanks to solid public investments from the City of Portland, Clackamas County, Multnomah County, Washington County, and Metro; and continued growth of Work for Art, RACC’s workplace giving program. Demand is up even more: RACC received 352 eligible applications this cycle – up 12% over last year.

Seventy volunteers serving on 18 different panels evaluated the proposals based on artistic merit, audience development and financial accountability. In the end, 160 (45%) of the proposals were recommended for funding and ultimately approved by the RACC Board on December 19th.

A complete list of grants awarded can be found at www.racc.org/2013projectgrants. They include:

  • The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Clackamas County received a first-time RACC grant for Stand Up for Mental Health and will present comedy classes to individuals living with chronic mental health issues.
  • The Hillsboro Farmers’ Market in Washington County will present a series of summer cultural festivals in celebration of the diversity of the Hillsboro community featuring performances and crafts highlighting the Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, and Indian communities.
  • Other culturally-specific artistic projects include performances of Lyndee Mah’s memoir piece E-B’an, Damaris Webb’s solo show The Box Marked Black, and Boom Arts’ puppet musical Tunde’s Trumpet. RACC also continues to fund diverse organizations like India Cultural Association, RASIKA, The Obo Addy Legacy Project, Painted Sky, and Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival.
  • The number of applications to RACC’s Media Arts category continues to grow every year, and Grand Detour received its first RACC award to produce the 2nd annual Experimental Film Fest at venues throughout the city. Other projects funded in this category include Sway of the Knife by Vu N. Pham and Cooped, a hand-drawn animated short film by Mike A. Smith. 
  • RACC also funded a number of multi-discipline projects that included strong media or technology elements, including Water in the Desert’s interdisciplinary performance AMERICAN ME, and Bill Holznagel’s Daisy Shorts using film and puppetry. Kelly Rauer’s Underbelly and Jacob Pander’s Incident Energy are both multi-channel video installations, and Ben Darwish’s Adobe Globe is a long-form musical composition incorporating multimedia elements.
  • For the first time, RACC convened a visual arts panel focused solely on photography projects, which resulted in several first time project grant recipients including Teresa Christiansen, Anna Daedalus, Loren Nelson and TJ Norris.
  • RACC-funded projects will continue to engage youth in many ways, ranging from Staged! Portland’s Musical Theatre Series’ professional premiere of “Ablaze: an a cappella musical thriller” written by local playwright and composer Matthew Zrebski, to the Girls Rock Institute  at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls,  and the Kukatonon Children’s African Dance Troupe program.
  • In addition, an anonymous donor continues to provide special funding for an annual “Innovation Prize” of $2,500. This year’s award for outstanding, innovative, media-oriented project goes to Orlund Nutt for a short movie based on the James Broughton poem, ‘Bear of Heaven’.

“We were amazed and inspired by the proposals we received this year,” said Eloise Damrosch, executive director of RACC. “It is especially gratifying to see that our outreach to artists and arts organizations is resulting in a significant increase in new applications. These grant awards will bring exciting variety to the region’s artistic offerings next year.”

A complete listing of grants appears below, and summaries of each grant are available at www.racc.org/2013projectgrants.

Note: (*) denotes Clackamas County applicants, and (**) denotes Washington County based applicants.  All other applicants are based in Multnomah County.

 

Organization Category/Discipline Amount
Architecture Foundation of Oregon Arts-in-Schools $               6,000
Beaverton Civic Theatre ** Community Participation $               3,620
Boom Arts Theatre $               6,000
Bubbaville Community Participation $               5,800
Buckman Arts Focus Elementary Arts-in-Schools $               4,800
Classical Revolution PDX Music $               2,460
Compass Repertory Theatre Community Participation $               5,024
Conduit Dance, Inc. Dance $               6,000
Dill Pickle Club Community Participation $               5,691
Dill Pickle Club Literature $               3,720
Estacada Arts Commission * Community Participation $               5,058
Experimental Half-Hour Media Arts $               4,800
FearNoMusic Music $               5,400
Friends of Marquam Nature Park Community Participation $               4,800
Grand Detour Media Arts $               3,731
Hand2Mouth Theatre Theatre $               5,700
Hillsboro Farmers’ Markets, INC. ** Community Participation $               4,800
Impact NW Arts-in-Schools $               5,998
India Cultural Association ** Community Participation $               3,655
Irvington School PTA Arts-in-Schools $               3,542
Kukatonon Arts-in-Schools $               5,700
Lewis & Clark College Hoffman Gallery Visual Arts $               5,100
Living Stages Community Participation $               4,720
Media, Arts & Technology Institute Arts-in-Schools $               4,304
MetroArts Inc Music $               4,316
Museum of Contemporary Craft Folk Arts $               6,000
Music Access Project of Portland Arts-in-Schools $               4,800
My Voice Music Community Participation $               5,307
National Alliance on Mental Illness of Clackamas County * Community Participation $               4,433
NAYA Family Center Arts-in-Schools $               4,800
NAYA Family Center Community Participation $               4,500
North Clackamas School District * Arts-in-Schools $               4,500
Opera Theater Oregon Theatre $               4,999
Oregon Cultural Access Community Participation $               3,521
Orlo Literature $               5,950
Pacific Northwest College of Art Visual Arts $               6,000
Painted Sky Inc. ** Folk Arts $               4,520
Polaris Dance Theatre Dance $               4,800
Polish Library Association Presenting $               5,700
Portland Actors Conservatory Theatre $               3,685
Portland Children’s Museum Community Participation $               6,000
Portland Jazz Festival Music $               4,800
Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival Media Arts $               4,800
Portland Playhouse Theatre $               4,800
QDoc Media Arts $               5,950
Portland Revels Community Participation $               3,560
Portland Story Theater Theatre $               4,380
Portland-Suzhou Sister City Association ** Multi-Discipline $               3,200
Portland State University Department of Art Visual Arts $               4,000
RASIKA – India Arts and Culture Council Music $               4,608
RECESS LLC Social Practice $               3,563
Resonance Ensemble Music $               6,000
Rex Putnam High School Theatre Department * Arts-in-Schools $               5,220
Jerry Tischleder Presenting $               5,985
Rock and Roll Camp for Girls Community Participation $               4,800
Signal Fire Multi-Discipline $               3,000
Sowelu Theater Theatre $               4,425
Staged! Portland’s Musical Theatre Series * Theatre $               5,044
The Art Gym, Marylhurst University * Visual Arts $               4,500
The Library Foundation Community Participation $               4,800
The Obo Addy Legacy Project Multi-Discipline $               5,850
Theatre In The Grove ** Community Participation $               4,800
Theatre Vertigo Theatre $               3,222
Water in the Desert | Mizu Desierto Multi-Discipline $               4,800
Willamette Partnership ** Arts-in-Schools $               2,280
World Forestry Center Visual Arts $               2,687

 

 

Individual Artists Category/Discipline Amount
Devon Allen Theatre $               4,620
Corey Averill * Music $               4,463
Hayley Barker Visual Arts $               3,513
Amy Bernstein Multi-Discipline $               4,260
Barbara Bernstein Media Arts $               6,000
Jesse Blanchard Multi-Discipline $               5,486
Andy Blubaugh Media Arts $               5,624
Beth Madsen Bradford Music $               1,654
Gary Brickner-Schulz Theatre $               4,603
Tracy Broyles Dance $               4,370
Jessica Burton Dance $               3,727
Teresa Christiansen Visual Arts $               4,119
Anna Crandall Community Participation $               4,569
CarlosAlexis Cruz Theatre $               4,800
Philip Cuomo Theatre $               4,926
Anna Daedalus Visual Arts $               5,700
Berl Dana’y Arts-in-Schools $               2,640
Ben Darwish Music $               5,700
Shelby Davis Visual Arts $               4,800
Daniel Duford Visual Arts $               4,560
Dan Duval Music $               5,830
Wynde Dyer Visual Arts $               5,696
Lisa Fink Community Participation $               1,984
Subashini Ganesan Dance $               4,616
Keyon Gaskin Multi-Discipline $               5,382
Nicole J. Georges Community Participation $               5,400
Leanne Grabel Literature $               4,450
Anna Gray Visual Arts $               4,380
Cheryl Green Community Participation $               4,198
Jenni GreenMiller Theatre $               3,218
Ashia Joanna Grzesik Music $               1,625
Courtenay Hameister Multi-Discipline $               4,300
Joel Harmon Theatre $               2,888
Jen Harrison Music $               5,033
Chisao Hata Dance $               5,100
Matthew Henderson Multi-Discipline $               2,924
Ashley Hollingshead Theatre $               5,034
Bill Holznagel * Multi-Discipline $               4,425
CJ Hurley Visual Arts $               4,500
Kazuyo Ito Arts-in-Schools $               4,489
Sara Jaffe Literature $               4,182
Julie Keefe Community Participation $               5,475
Eva Kokopeli Community Participation $               3,808
Joanne Kollman Visual Arts $               5,092
Lee Krist Visual Arts $               4,774
Andrea Leoncavallo Visual Arts $               4,800
Alain LeTourneau Visual Arts $               4,624
Lyndee Mah Multi-Discipline $               4,500
Margaret Malone Literature $               1,640
Carla Mann Dance $               5,963
Paul Martone Literature $               5,387
Jim McGinn Dance $               4,800
Max McGrath-Riecke Theatre $               5,631
Janet McIntyre Multi-Discipline $               4,794
Chaz Mortimer Arts-in-Schools $               5,700
Emily Nachison Visual Arts $               5,100
Loren Nelson ** Visual Arts $               3,298
Eric Nordin ** Theatre $               4,774
TJ Norris Visual Arts $               1,688
Orland Nutt Media Arts $               4,566
Orland Nutt Innovation Prize $               2,500
Caroline Oakley Arts-in-Schools $               4,680
Kristin Olson-Huddle Theatre $               3,500
Brian Padian Media Arts $               5,079
Jacob Pander Media Arts $               5,307
Casey Parks Media Arts $               5,100
Leif Peterson Media Arts $               4,500
Nick Peterson Media Arts $               5,695
Vu N. Pham Media Arts $               5,026
Lisa Radon Multi-Discipline $               4,900
Jayanthi Raman ** Dance $               5,355
Kelly Rauer Media Arts $               5,596
Michael Reinsch Multi-Discipline $               3,463
Michelle Ross Visual Arts $               1,200
John C. Savage Music $               3,376
Crystal Schenk Visual Arts $               4,800
Lisa Ann Schonberg Multi-Discipline $               5,100
Heidi Schwegler Multi-Discipline $               5,144
Rebecca L. Shapiro Visual Arts $               5,229
Larry Sherman Multi-Discipline $               4,800
Carter Sickels Literature $               3,420
Shalanda R. Sims Arts-in-Schools $               5,100
Stephen Slappe Media Arts $               5,946
Mike A. Smith Media Arts $               3,360
Julia Stoops Visual Arts $               5,686
Paul Susi Theatre $               4,063
Minh Tran Dance $               4,500
Curtis Walker Community Participation $               5,558
Samantha Wall Visual Arts $               1,368
Holcombe Waller Multi-Discipline $               5,700
Archie Washington Community Participation $               4,069
Damaris Webb Theatre $               2,970
Jackie Weissman Media Arts $               4,800
Emmett Wheatfall Multi-Discipline $               3,260
Alan Wone Media Arts $               4,760

 

 

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Mary Bauer

Communications Associate

Regional Arts & Culture Council

Check Out Portland’s Six Beautiful New Murals

Check Out Portland’s Six Beautiful New Murals

Portland, August 10th. Six large scale mural projects are recently completed or underway in Portland this summer – all recipients of grant funding from the Regional Arts & Culture Council. RACC’s public art mural program, financed by the City of Portland, provides funding for community murals that reflect diversity in style and media and encourages artists from diverse backgrounds and range of experience to apply. In the photo above, Korean-American artist, Una Kim, has been feverishly working on a mural on the east wall of the Keller Auditorium with the assistance of students from Portland State University who enrolled in a class to specifically work on this project. The mural is located on the bottom half of the east facing wall of the Keller Auditorium along SW 2nd Street between SW Clay and SW Columbia. The design is influenced and inspired by such works as Degas’ ballerinas, Mary Cassatt’s At the Opera, and Dufy’s The Yellow Violin. Also included are a modern dancer, two musicians in an orchestra, and a jazz musician along with an acrobat to represent the large scope of the theater. A celebration is scheduled for Friday, August 17th, 6:00 – 8:00 PM (on SW 2nd);

Antwoine Thomas, mural designer, puts finishing touches on the Rosewood Initiative Mural, one of six new murals being created around Portland this summer. The Rosewood Mural will have an opening celebration this Saturday, August 11, 1-4pm at 16150 SE Stark.

Antwoine Thomas, mural designer, puts finishing touches on the Rosewood Initiative Mural, one of six new murals being created around Portland this summer. The Rosewood Mural will have an opening celebration this Saturday, August 11, 1-4pm at 16150 SE Stark.

Rosewood Initiative – Antwoine Thomas, Artist 16150 SE Stark St (south wall of Union 76 Gas Station); RACC Funding: $3,000

Rosewood Initiative – Antwoine Thomas, Artist 16150 SE Stark St (south wall of Union 76 Gas Station); RACC Funding: $3,000

In developing this fantastical design for a mural in the Rosewood Neighborhood, Antwoine Thomas, with the assistance and support of Addie Boswell, began collaborating months ago with local residents through The Rosewood Initiative community meetings and activities like Youth Night to create a design that represents the positive change occurring in the neighborhood. Throughout the energetic mural one can identify recognizable elements from Rosewood including roses, community gardens, diversity, and local businesses. There are also elements that link the neighborhood to the greater Portland metro area, honoring some of the neighborhoods from which many residents have relocated. While the mural contains these true elements, the design is also highly detailed and fantastical, meant to entice the senses and invite the eye to linger and keep discovering.

The People’s History of Hawthorne – Artist, Chris Haberman Fraternal Order of Eagles, SE 50th & Hawthorne; RACC Funding $2,400;

The People’s History of Hawthorne – Artist, Chris Haberman
Fraternal Order of Eagles, SE 50th & Hawthorne; RACC Funding $2,400;

Work continues on this ambitious mural that extends along the north and west walls of the building that serves as the Portland headquarters for the Fraternal Order of Eagles. The mural’s theme, “The History of Hawthorne” – or the “people’s history” — celebrates this SE neighborhood, located between an extinct volcano (Mt. Tabor) and the 100 year old Hawthorne Bridge, both components of his design. Scattered throughout the mural are notable historical figures (such as Dr. Hawthorne), the asylum, pioneers, the street car line and the always changing figures that have been part of Hawthorne for 100 years. It is Haberman’s first mural grant and he is “very proud to have such a piece of art in public view and to have so much support for my crazy looking art in the city.” A celebration was held on July 1st. The west wall will be completed late summer/early fall.

Albina Maintenance Yard Building – Spacecraft Mission to the Arts  3150 N. Mississippi Ave.; RACC Funding:  $10,000; 14’H x 177’L

Albina Maintenance Yard Building – Spacecraft Mission to the Arts
3150 N. Mississippi Ave.; RACC Funding: $10,000; 14’H x 177’L

Photo: Courtesy of SpaceCraft Mission to the Arts

Over the last several months, a mural has begun to take shape along the west side of the City’s Albina Yard Maintenance Building. Throughout the design development, community engagement has been the driving force—the Boise Neighborhood Association, community members, and the maintenance workers have all contributed their voices as to how they want themselves and their neighborhood depicted. More than a way to deter graffiti, it is a powerful, collaborative, self-reflective vision of the neighborhood created by those who live in it. The mural embraces a theme of “perpetual collaboration” through time. Community practices and industries that affected the local Portland-Albina neighborhood can be found among the local mountains, bridges, gardens, parks, icons of communities, and city workers behind the scenes that keep the city functioning. Included are symbols of the neighborhoods’ transitions of communities from the Native American, Volga German, Finn, Chinese, and African American communities. You can follow the project on https://www.facebook.com/spacecraft.missiontoarts.

Alberta Street Crossing – Loey Hargrove, Artist  4824 and 4905 NE 42nd Avenue;  RACC Funding:  $3,000; 11’H x 77’W and 13’H  x 50’W

Alberta Street Crossing – Loey Hargrove, Artist
4824 and 4905 NE 42nd Avenue; RACC Funding: $3,000; 11’H x 77’W and 13’H x 50’W

Photo: Courtesy of artist (proposed mural)

Finishing touches are underway on a pair of twin murals at NE 42nd & Alberta. Members of 42MSC began working on the project at the Alberta Court Crossing — one on the north-facing wall of the Morel Ink Building and another on the south-facing wall of Doggy Business. The murals aspire to invoke community through a “Tree of Life’ theme symbolizing process, change, the continuity and connectivity of life. Words submitted by members of the surrounding neighborhoods are being added to the mural and are intended to reinforce the symbiotic relationship between the commercial district and area residents.

Lutz Building – Mike Lawrence, Artist 4625-4639 SE Woodstock Blvd; RACC Funding: $6,000; 15’H x 60’L

Lutz Building – Mike Lawrence, Artist
4625-4639 SE Woodstock Blvd; RACC Funding: $6,000; 15’H x 60’L

Photo: Courtesy of artist (proposed mural)

This proposed mural is situated centrally in the Woodstock Neighborhood and is highly visible from the street. The mural aims to highlight the best of the neighborhood and instill a sense of community pride. Local artist Mike Lawrence designed a mural for the building’s west wall that celebrates commerce, education and the outdoors. The Lutz tavern wall that will host the mural is divided into three sections, as is the mural. A strong central figure grounds each section. Each figure is adorned with symbols of Greek Gods that represent the theme of each section. The project is still fundraising and hopes to begin the project next Spring.

For more information and a copy of the mural program guidelines, visit www.racc.org/public-art.

Story Submitted by Mary Bauer, Communications Associate, Regional Arts & Culture Council