Thelma Johnson Streat is a renowned painter, dancer and educator from the Pacific Northwest who was known for promoting intercultural dialogue and understanding in the 1940s. Not only was she the first African-American woman to have a painting displayed in the MoMA, but she dedicated her life to showing people around the world the value […]
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Media Packaging Mashups
posted by Arts Intern Matthew Vollono Got a couple of hours to spare? Then check out this collection of amazing media mashups over at Kottke. Artists included re-imagined everything from movie posters to albums to book covers by either mixing the packages they came in or just changing the package all together. Below is Olly […]
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Mira Nair Lecture Tonight
Indian-American film director Mira Nair speaks at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall tonight as part of the Portland Arts & Lectures series. Nair directed Salaam Bombay!, Mississippi Masala, Monsoon Wedding, and The Namesake, and her current projects include Shamtaram, based on the novel by Australian cuckoo-bird Gregory David Roberts and starring Johnny Depp, and Amelia, a […]
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A Few Arts Picks
I’m going on vacation tomorrow (I’m going to New York City, to break into public television). And since I consider myself the lone advocate for “things people mean to do, but never really get around to” here on Blogtown, here’s a coupla things I’d hate for you not to feel guilty about not doing this […]
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Plazm Thread’s T-Shirt of the Month Club
Add this to you beer- and cheese-of-the-month club subscriptions: Plazm design group has teamed up with Buy Olympia to create Plazm Thread, wherein for $99 you can subscribe for monthly installments (six months’ worth) of limited edition t-shirts designed by hot up-and-comers as well as established names in the art and design world. So far […]
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This Week’s Wiener!!!
Every week the Mercury‘s Flickr pool fills up with randomly awesome picture from around town.Every week we pick a winner for the Photo Lottery from this pool.This weeks winner is an actual wiener by Hannah Westberg.This wiener speaks volumes about who we are as a people; our values, our politics, our food of choice, etc…But […]
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Kimberly Howard Trades One Tough Arts Post for Another
Portland actress and arts administrator Kimberly Howard (that’s her above, from an ad for Sojourn Theatre’s 2007 “Good,” which we can only pray she’ll parlay into a new statewide cultural philanthropy ad campaign – but we digress…) has resigned her position as managing director of the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center to accept a high-profile post […]
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Arts Intern Wanted!
Want to be an intern in the fast-paced, growing, totally-not-virtually-obsolete world of print media? Sure ya do. My current intern expires on May 7, so I’m looking for a fresh one to start on Wednesday, May 13, and commit to being in the office for two days a week, ideally Wednesdays and Thursdays, for at […]
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Re: This Morning’s Think Out Loud
Ohh man. If I could write this blog post entirely in emoticons, I would. This morning, Think Out Loud hosted three local comedians who will be performing at this weekend’s Bridgetown Comedy Festival. The ostensible premise of the show was, rather horribly, whether Oregon makes good comedy fodder (Socks and Birkenstocks LOL!!!! …No, really, that […]
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Back Fence, PDX—Tonight!
Anis Mojgani – Back Fence PDX from brewcaster on Vimeo. If you’re into hobnobbing with like-minded literary folk, Back Fence, PDX has become quite the destination. (If not, there’s always this.) The storytelling series returns tonight with true, unrehearsed stories from guests like the very funny Shelley McLendon (of improv troupe the Liberators and sketch […]
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Michel Gondry Will Draw Your Portrait for $19.95
I suggest you all get on this ASAP because HE IS MICHEL GONDRY FOR CHRIST’S SAKE and he directed the Jim Carrey movie that didn’t suck which is something only a Frenchman or a seventh level warrior mage could do*. For my money, Be Kind, Rewind is a much better movie than Eternal Sunshine of […]
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Bridgetown Comedy Fest Giveaway
So, crazy weekend, right? I drank too many free MacTarnahans’ at the Stumptown/Cosmic Monkey party (confidential to somebody: I stole an ice cream sandwich. SORRY!!) and never did make it to the Record Store Day afterparty, but I trust everyone was able to put the memory of that Blazer game behind them and eke some […]