The new craft fair features local makers of nerdy delights.
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Get Your Geek on at GeekCraft Expo PDX
The New Craft Fair Features Local Makers of Nerdy Delights
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Grrrl in Motion: Alien She’s Riot Grrrl Capture
To begin Alien She properly, you have to go back to school. Specifically, the sparkling Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design building’s 511 Gallery, part of the new PNCA campus. There you’ll find enough music, zines, and ephemera documenting the formative early ’90s era of the Riot Grrrl movement to immerse yourself […]
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New In: Fashion/Retail/Design News with Urban Air Market, Up/NXT, & More
—I didn’t go to the first Portland edition of the Urban Air Market last summer because Pickathon, and from what I heard, you probably didn’t go either—blame a saturated market, an out of the way location… or Pickathon, but the SF-founded operation is giving it another shot, this time with a late-summer date that gives […]
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Scoping Highlights from the Renegade Craft Fair
Yes, yes—craft fairs and other vendor-oriented events are legion in this city. But the touring Renegade Craft Fair (which comes to Portland July 25 & 26 at Rejuvenation) isn’t just a rehash of the same local small companies you see at every holiday pop-up event. A ton of vendors are coming from other cities to […]
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Time, Place, and The State of Oregon Craft
I wouldn’t ordinarily lead with a lengthy quote, but much of the language in the Museum of Contemporary Craft‘s literature on its new State of Oregon Craft exhibit cuts to the heart of my interest in regional products (not just clothes!): “Craft is the stuff of everyday life. It is a tangible rubric for measuring […]
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New In: Fashion/Retail/Design News with State of Oregon Craft, Backtalk West, & Honeyfox
—Our wonderful local institution, the Museum of Contemporary Craft, is gearing up for a new summer exhibition, State of Oregon Craft. Featuring over 50 objects and 15 makers from around the state, “from spruce root baskets and leather saddles to conceptual jewelry and a kinetic glass and sound sculpture,” the exhibit opens June 5 and […]
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The Cube Craft Lab
Baby steps: As of March, it’s become a little bit easier to begin a business in sewing, jewelry making, or screen printing. ADX stands for “Art Design Portland,” and with the opening of their craft lab, the Cube, they’re taking bigger steps in fulfilling the “art” portion of that name’s promise. ADX has functioned as […]
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Handmade to the Streets
In a city where everyone is a crafter of some sort, it’s sweet to see a thoughtful little project like this: Ashleyann Burnett got tired of watching a homeless man trying to keep himself warm on MLK with a flimsy sheet, and decided to start designing and making warm blankets with the lifestyle of a […]
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Oregon History Diorama Winner Announced—Plus, A Francine Sighting!
On Saturday, the winners of Kick Ass Oregon History’s annual Oregon history diorama contest were announced at a birthday party for Oregon, at Astoria’s Merry Time Bar. Kick Ass Oregon History’s got the blow-by-blow on their blog, but here’s the winner, this artful gem by Heather Arndt Anderson: It’s a depiction of the Roseburg Blast […]
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Calling All Oregon History Diorama-Makers! Your Time Has Come!
It’s that time again: DIORAMA TIME, the one time of the year you can relive what was arguably (according to me) the best part of elementary school—making a slapdash dollhouse, for education! After two years of hosting its Oregon history-themed diorama competition, the good people of Kick Ass Oregon History show no signs of stopping […]
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Your (Attempt at) a Handmade Holiday: It Begins
If you are one of those people who likes to DIY your way through the holidays, good for you. If you are merely an aspirant, there’s some really good help coming your way courtesy of Schoolhouse Electric‘s “A Handmade Holiday” series of instructionals, which kicks off on Monday. They rounded up some quality folks like […]
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That Back to School Smell and ADX’s New Scholarship Fund
This time of year still makes me want to go out and splurge on fancy pens and anything related to scholastic self-improvement, so it seems appropriate to mention that ADX and Portland Made have recently launched the Make it! FUNd in conjunction with the Equity Foundation. ADX is at the fore, locally of working to […]