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Activist Art and the Poetics of Junk Mail

by K. Silem Mohammad If you’re like me, and it’s a safe bet you are, you’re fed up with spam calls and texts. Recent surveys […]

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Retelling Stories: Sarah Farahat’s “Palestine Then and Now” and “Towards the Setting Sun” Arts Writing

Retelling Stories: Sarah Farahat’s “Palestine Then and Now” and “Towards the Setting Sun”

by Amelia Rina In 1878, nine women stood in a river near Lawrence, Kansas. In 1961, Sarah Farahat’s grandfather took photographs of life in Ramallah, […]

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Sacred Threads at Great Vow Arts Writing

Sacred Threads at Great Vow

by Jovencio De La Paz Between Tank Creek and the hills of Clatskanie, Oregon, just south of the Columbia River, a Zen Buddhist Monastery nestles […]

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Sue Taylor • Editor’s Statement

A Social Good by Sue Taylor Originally published April, 2017 The five writers commissioned for the Oregon Visual Arts Ecology Project in 2017 had a […]

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Modou Dieng and the Worksound Moment by Mack McFarland Arts Writing

Modou Dieng and the Worksound Moment by Mack McFarland

Modou Dieng and the Worksound Moment by Mack McFarland Originally published April 2017 What makes an art scene? To start, a group of artists, like-minded […]

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BCCTV • RACC Intersections (4) Exhibition Images + Catalogs

BCCTV • RACC Intersections (4)

Mack McFarland, Carl Diehl, Ariana Jacob, and Jeffrey Richardson. BCCTV, May, 2012-March, 2013. Portland, Oregon: Regional Arts & Culture Council, 2013. In a series of […]

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BCCTV • RACC Intersections (2) Exhibition Images + Catalogs

BCCTV • RACC Intersections (2)

McFarland, Mack, Carl Diehl, Ariana Jacob, and Jeffrey Richardson. BCCTV, May, 2012-March, 2013. Portland, Oregon: Regional Arts & Culture Council, 2013. In a series of […]

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BCCTV • RACC Intersections (3) Exhibition Images + Catalogs

BCCTV • RACC Intersections (3)

McFarland, Mack, Carl Diehl, Ariana Jacob, and Jeffrey Richardson. BCCTV, May, 2012-March, 2013. Portland, Oregon: Regional Arts & Culture Council, 2013. In a series of […]

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BCCTV • RACC Intersections (1) Exhibition Images + Catalogs

BCCTV • RACC Intersections (1)

McFarland, Mack, Carl Diehl, Ariana Jacob, and Jeffrey Richardson. BCCTV, May, 2012-March, 2013. Portland, Oregon: Regional Arts & Culture Council, 2013. In a series of […]

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“TBA:10 Human Being” Exhibition Images + Catalogs Arts Writing

“TBA:10 Human Being”

Kennedy, Kristan, Anne Marie Oliver, Michael Dickman, Mack McFarland, et. Al. TBA:10 Human Being. Exhibition program. Portland, Oregon: Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, 2010. Published […]

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Portland2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art • Disjecta (Arnold Kemp et al.) Exhibition Images + Catalogs

Portland2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art • Disjecta (Arnold Kemp et al.)

Kemp, Arnold, Brian Gillis, Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen. Portland2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, February 26 – May 19, 2012. Installation view. Portland, […]

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Portland2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art • Disjecta (Arnold Kemp, Erik Geschke et al.) Exhibition Images + Catalogs

Portland2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art • Disjecta (Arnold Kemp, Erik Geschke et al.)

Kemp, Arnold, Erik Geschke, Mack McFarland, and Matt McCormick. Portland2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, February 26 – May 19, 2012. Portland, Oregon: Disjecta Contemporary […]

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Portland2014: A Biennial of Contemporary Art • White Box (Daniel Duford) Exhibition Images + Catalogs Artist Features

Portland2014: A Biennial of Contemporary Art • White Box (Daniel Duford)

Duford, Daniel. Portland2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art,February 26 – May 19, 2012. Installation view. Portland, Oregon:  White Box, University of Oregon, 2012. Photo: Mark […]

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