Portland’s Time Based Art festival has snagged a 2-year, $100,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the 2010 and 2011 festivals. The Warhol Foundation, which focuses on supporting contemporary art that is experimental, under-recognized, or challenging in nature, says the TBA festival has secured a prominent place in the public imagination: “…Perhaps most impressive […]
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Tonight: First Thursday
It’s that time of the month again— First Thursday time, and tonight looks like it’ll be a good one. While there are boatloads of art events tonight, I’ve chosen three to talk about, and I hope you’ll go check ’em out. Ashley Sloan’s “Untitled,” on view at Tribute Gallery This month’s big buzz surrounds Play […]
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Peter Pan FAIL!
Please suppress your laughter when watching the following video of a community theater production of Peter Pan that goes increasingly and horribly WRONG. (Because the same thing happened to me at work the other day during “Peter Pan Friday.”) IT’S NOT FUNNY, YA’LL!
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PHART CHART
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is Tripper Dungan! Congrats, and look! We’ve animated it for you! Will you be the next Phart Chart Topper of the week? Submit your art or photos to the Mercury’s Flickr group, and start PHART-ing today!!
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PHART CHART
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is ohhh_yeah808! Congrats, and look! We’ve animated it for you! Will you be the next Phart Chart topper of the week? Submit your art or photos to the Mercury’s Flickr group, and start PHART-ing today!!
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PHART CHART
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is WorkByDrew! Congrats, and look! We’ve animated it for you! Will you be the next Phart Chart topper of the week? Submit your art or photos to the Mercury’s Flickr group, and start PHART-ing today!!
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RACC Announces 2010 Grant Recipients
The Regional Arts and Culture Council just announced they’ll be awarding $412,895 for 92 artistic projects in 2010. (That’s slightly down from the $458,676 awarded for 102 projects last year.) Here’s what jumps out at me (mostly theater, ’cause that’s how I swing): BaseRoots is a new African American theater company; they secured $3,935 for […]
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The Art of Musical Maintenance
These particular posters are from last year. Those available online from the current show don’t do justice to what’s there. Tonight marked the opening of the sixth annual The Art of Musical Maintenance concert poster show at the Goodfoot. The amount of work on display is staggering (281 in all), and the majority is great. […]
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This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is msfatale! Congrats, and look! We’ve animated it for you! Will you be the next Phart Chart topper of the week? Submit your art or photos to the Mercury’s Flickr group, and start PHART-ing today!!
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Tonight: The Big 100 Art Show
Lifted from the Portland City Art website Portland City Art, the non-profit arts organization run by Chris Haberman and John Graeter, does a great job organizing massive group art shows. The most recent memory of this ability is Manor of Art, held this past August at Milepost 5 in their Studios building— a not-yet-renovated defunct […]
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The 7th Annual Prints for PICA
There’s a reason they call them “starving artists,” but they are still asked often to donate their work for charitable causes around the holiday season. PICA, naturally, found a great way to sidestep any icky financial strains when they came up with the triple-win Prints for PICA formula seven years ago. For the un-initiated: Portland’s […]
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Tonight: Designspeaks at the Cleaners
The quarterly Designspeaks series showcases local and national designers, providing attendees with an “intimate venue intended to connect to others, what they are doing, and how they’re doing it”—the series returns to the Cleaners tonight for an evening with Portland designer Aaron Draplin, owner of Draplin Design and creator of Field Notes. Tonight, 7:00pm, the […]