Heather Watkins: Waiting Room at PDX CONTEMPORARY ART
By Sam Hopple Originally published May 2018 In Waiting Room, Heather Watkins presents a series of thirty-two, hand-stitched embroideries that line the walls of PDX […]
Visual Arts Ecology Project
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 […]
Which Way, Portland? by Grace Kook-Anderson
By Grace Kook-Anderson Originally published August 2017 In The Lure of the Local, Lucy Lippard defines place as “the locus of desire.” That locus for […]
Anna B. Crocker and the First Decade of the School of the Portland Art Association by Prudence Roberts
Anna B. Crocker and the First Decade of the School of the Portland Art Association by Prudence Roberts Originally published April 2017 Some years […]
Three Used Books by Jon Raymond
Three Used Books by Jon Raymond Originally published April 2018 One of the best garage-sale scores I ever had came in Brooklyn sometime in 2003. […]
My Rules: Patrick Rock’s Aesthetics of Antagonism by John Motley
by John Motley Originally written April 2017 In a promotional poster for Bay Area–based Club Paint’s second exhibition at Rocksbox Contemporary Fine Art in October […]
“Wild Life: The Work of Ryan Pierce” by Melanie Flood
Portland Wild Life: The Work of Ryan Pierce by Melanie Flood Originally published April 2017 The ecology of the place we live in helps define […]
Abstract Art as Political Art: Lynne Woods Turner by Sarah Sentilles
Abstract Art as Political Art: Lynne Woods Turner by Sarah Sentilles Originally published August 2017 Lynne Woods Turner’s abstract paintings and drawings trouble certainty. Her […]
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 […]
Thoughts on a Museum of Wonder by Linda Tesner
Thoughts on a Museum of Wonder by Linda Tesner Originally published April 2017 For the past thirty-six years, I have worked in museums and art […]
Kurt Fisk’s Monkey Fishes
by Patrick Collier I first saw Kurt Fisk’s Monkey Fish drawings at ArtWorks, a gallery/project space that is part of Collaborative Employment Innovations (CEI), an […]
“Why We Work Here”
Raymond, Jonathan and Tad Savinar. Why We Work Here. Salem, Oregon: Oregon Arts Commission and The Ford Family Foundation, 2013. The Visual Arts Ecology Project […]
Stephanie Snyder, Editors’ Statement
Originally published April 2017 To write is to send thoughts and feelings into the world—seeds that take root and blossom into emotional sustenance. To write […]