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2015-16 RACC Professional Development Grants (Cycle 1)

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The RACC Professional Development Grant Program individual artists and arts organizations in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties with activities that improve their business management development skills and/or brings to them to another level artistically. 33 Professional Development Grants were awarded for Individual Artists and 3 for Organizations. A total of $45,676 was awarded. These grants were approved by the RACC Board on May 27, 2015:

** From Washington County. The remainder are Multnomah County.
***First-time Professional Development Grantee

Individuals

Danny Bell***, Conversation on Plays program at OSF in Ashland, $750

Jin Camou, Two week choreography intensive at Ponderosa in Germany, $1800

Meshi Chavez***, Two week butoh training at eX…it! festival in Germany, $1500

Eliott Cherry***, Professional promotional video for performance, $1400

Samantha Estrella-Boyland***, Photography workshop at Anderson Ranch in Colorado, $1000

Emily García***, Two week traditional bookbinding workshop in Idaho, $1000

keyon gaskin***, One month Impulstanz International Dance Festival in Austria, $2000

Leanne Grabel***, Book arts classes at IPRC and OCAC, $430

Alison Gradischer, Work preparation and shipping for show in Colorado, $1300

Allie Hankins***, Two week Tanzland Festival at Ponderosa in Germany, $850

Lori Henriques(***) **, Computerized musical score training, $1400

Sara Himmelman***, One week MELT intensive dance workshop in NYC, $400

Linda K Johnson***, Alexander Technique teachers convention in Ireland, $1316

Leah Kohlenberg***, Self-publish creativity teaching book for marketing tool, $1750

Stephanie Lanckton***, Two week butoh training at eX…it! festival in Germany, $1145

Margaret Malone, Website upgrade in preparation for debut book, $1500

Lara Messersmith-Glavin***, One week at Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers, $833

Linda Olson-Osterlund***, Learn to frame own artwork from local artist and framer, $1200

Frank Omier***, Four day plein air painting workshop in Idaho, $1750

Eugenia Pardue, One month artist residency in New York, $1400

Cora Pearl***, Nine days master calligraphy classes in Pennsylvania, $1800

Vanessa Renwick, Website upgrade in preparation for PAM show, $1500

Alex Riedlinger***, Photophaphy archive plan and consultation, $1500

Johanna Robinson***, Four months of Turps Banana correspondence course, $650

Kaia Sand, Two month artist residency in Rio de Janerio, Brazil, $1500

Joe Sneed, International exhibition and symposium in Uraguay, $1750

Antonio Sonera, One month at Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, $1750

Jack StockLynn***, New promotional performance photos and video, $1652

Ted Vogel***, Website development, $1400

Lisa Ward, One month artist residency in Utah, $600

Mel Wells***, Two week writing residency in Belgium, $1800

Libby Werbel, Attend the Printed Matter Book Fair in New York, $1400

Lucy Yim, One week dance festival in Mexico, $650

Organizations

Portland ‘Pataphysical Society***, Hand-in-Glove alternative space conference in Minneapolis, $1000

Signal Fire***, Website update, $1000

triangle productions, Visual Arts marketing materials and branding, $1000

RACC grants $54,118 to 20 nonprofit organizations working with underserved communities

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PORTLAND, ORE – The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) has awarded grants to 20 Portland-based nonprofit organizations with $54,118 in funds from the city’s voter-approved Arts Education and Access Fund (AEAF), or arts tax. These “Expanding Cultural Access” grants are designed to provide arts and culture programs and services for communities of color, immigrants, refugees, underserved neighborhoods such as East Portland, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ communities, and other under-represented populations.

Funded organizations include:

  • Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO), $3,750 to cultivate a creative and artistic space for Asian and Pacific Island communities. This Cultural Event series will incorporate a poetry night/performance, an International Night Market, a comedy showcase and a Hip Hop show. (July – October 2015)
  • BCC BrownHall, $5,000 to fund art programming as part of a cross-disciplinary strategic vision for the recovery of Black, African and African American community from the impacts of marginalization, displacement and /or gentrification. The grant will provide materials, resources and support for using art and culture to engage, educate and reflect on issues of equity and sustainability. (Summer, fall and winter 2015)
  • Black United Fund – Vox Siren, $3,000 for a unique storytelling program focused on women of color in Portland’s North/Northeast community: 8-10 young women of color will explore local history and culture of the Alberta District, produce a documentary and organize a historic bike ride. (August 2015)
  • Cascade AIDS Project, $1,000 to present Concientízate, a day long festival to raise awareness of HIV prevention while celebrating Latino art, music and culture. (October 2015)
  • Colored Pencils, $2,750 to host Friday night Art and Culture family and community events on a monthly basis, using a variety of art forms to create peace and understanding among diverse communities. (July 2015 – April 2016)
  • Dance for Parkinson’s Oregon, $2,000 for dance classes for people with Parkinson Disease and their families living in Northeast, East, and Southeast Portland. (July 2015 – June 2016)
  • Folktime Inc, $2,500 to increase art programming that supports individuals in mental health recovery. The grant will help expand the types of art forms offered, including an annual exhibition. (July 2015 – June 2016)
  • Hacienda CDC, $1,518 to present a series of traditional Mexican music workshops and to celebrate two fandangos (traditional community parties). This project is a collaboration between Son Clandestino, a group of Mexican musicians, and Hacienda CDC, a community development corporation. (July – October 2015)
  • Live On Stage, $1,500 to present the musical Falsettos, a story about a man who leaves his wife and child for a male lover. Additionally, the grant will help Live On Stage host a panel from the AIDS Memorial Quilt in the theatre lobby. (September – October, 2015)
  • Living Stages, $4,350 to initiate a four-day festival of interactive forum theatre, and to host workshops during the day and performances in the evening. (December 2015)
  • Mochitsuki, $2,500 for a celebration of the Japanese New Year, drawing the Portland community together to understand and appreciate the rich traditions within Japanese American culture. (January 2016.)
  • Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA), $2,100 to present the Neerchokikoo Powwow, a community event that highlights and promotes the arts and culture of Native American people. The event will include Native food, art, dance and music; regalia, beadwork, dancing, drumming and singing. (September 2015)
  • Oregon Historical Society, $2,500 to create a multimedia/multisensory interactive exhibition that will immerse visitors in Portland’s Old and New Chinatown, utilizing Chinese elders’ stories, art, three dimensional objects and theatrical sets. (February 2016 – June 2016)
  • Oregon Nikkei, $1,750 to bring the Japanese American play Nihonmachi: The Place to Be to Portland for two performances. This story focuses on a family and their Japantown mocha (Japanese sweet cake) shop through three generations, and highlights the Japanese American experience during World War II. (November, 2015)
  • Parkrose Heights Associations of Neighbors, $2,000 to offer a series of free outdoor cultural performances, including Native American Storytelling, a Lao Dance presentation and a Slavic Cultural presentation. (July 2015)
  • Rogue Pack_Young Portland Speaks, $5,000 for a five-month theatre workshop in the Jason Lee SUN School program in East Portland. Participating youth will create original plays through writing development and theatrical training, focusing on their personal stories, culture and self-expression. The workshop culminates with performances open to the public. (September 2015 – May 2016)
  • Spect-Actors Collective, $2,100 for an African Latino Arts and Cultural Summer camp with public performances. This programming will engage youth ages 10 and older in Latino and Black/African communities to exchange artistic and cultural knowledge and self-expression. (Summer 2015)
  • The Portland Commission on Disability, $2,500 to empower people with disabilities to share the real stories they want people to know. The project will record personal stories of local residents with lived experience of disability; create accessible recordings of interviews; and provide archived transcriptions online. (July 2015 – June 2016)
  • The Skanner Foundation, $3,000 for the continuation of the Vanport Film project started in 2011, providing workshops and trainings to individuals to record the oral histories of Vanport survivors, and produce video to present to the public at two public venues. (Summer 2015 – Winter 2015)
  • Wisdom of the Elders, $3,300 to continue raising awareness of Native American cultural heritage and traditional tribal storytelling at the 10th Annual Northwest Indian Storytelling Festival. Additionally, 20 emerging storytellers will complete a nine-month apprenticeship program. (September 2015 – May 2016)

“We commend these 20 organizations for the many ways they are reaching underrepresented Portlanders and helping make the arts accessible to everyone in our community,” said Eloise Damrosch, executive director of RACC. “By investing taxpayer dollars in programs like these we can help every Portland resident participate in artistic and cultural experiences.”

Approved by Portland voters in 2012, the AEAF tax code states that at least 5% of all arts tax funding that goes to RACC shall be used for “nonprofit organizations that are making arts and culture experiences available to more Portland residents, with particular emphasis on programs directed to communities who are underserved by local arts providers.”

A total of 53 applications requesting $351,182 were received between January 1 and March 3, 2015. A panel of community volunteers reviewed and ranked all proposals – its members were Aja Blair from the Office of Commissioner Nick Fish; Jedidiah Chavez from Ethos Music Center; Jennifer Cies from RACC’s Board of Directors; and Terri Houston from Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare. The panel was facilitated by Tonisha Toler, RACC’s community liaison, and the panel’s recommendations were approved by RACC’s board of directors on May 27, 2015. 

For more information about the Arts Education and Access Fund visit www.racc.org/aeaf. To learn more about RACC’s equity initiatives visit www.racc.org/equity.

Alanna Risse presents her “Lub Dub” installation at the Portland Building Installation Space June 8 – July 10

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PORTLAND, ORE – Inspired by the 1966 sci-fi movie Fantastic Voyage, in which miniaturized scientists enter a living human body on a medical rescue mission, artist Alanna Risse has created an installation that invites viewers to make believe they are inside a whimsical reconstruction of the human heart. While still remaining roughly anatomically correct, the overall form and use of everyday re-purposed materials, such as recycled cardboard, rivets, old curtains and fabric remnants, miscellaneous nuts and bolts, etc., also allows the work will to function like a kid’s fort.  

“As a latch-key kid, growing up in the Silicon Valley in the 1970s and 80s, with no personal sense of cultural identity, my identity was formed from a saturation of imagery from the technology and media that pervaded my life. As my surrogate parent, television, music, and movies shaped aspects of my personality indelibly. My current body of work explores this relationship by drawing inspiration from the electronic sources that inspired me.”

-Alanna Risse

The interior of the heart forms a cave-like refuge bathed in red light and filled with red and white blood platelets—in the form of appropriately shaped red and white floor pillows. Risse also takes advantage of the existing architecture of the Portland Building by incorporating round apertures (or “arterial entry points”) into the roof and side of the heart’s exterior that offer a sneak-peek inside as one ascends the staircase adjacent to the exhibition space. While the installation is playful and invites young and old to enter and investigate, it also offers a deeper level of engagement that asks visitors to examine their perceptions of body, mortality, and fragility.

About the Artist: Alanna Risse is a graduate candidate at Pacific Northwest Collage of Art’s MFA in Visual Studies program.  She completed her BFA in Painting and Drawing at California College of the Arts in San Francisco and has shown at multiple venues in Portland and in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Viewing Hours & Location: The Portland Building is located at 1120 SW 5th Avenue in downtown Portland and is open 8 am to 5 pm, Monday – Friday. Lub Dub opens June 8th and runs through July 10th, 2015.

For more information on the Portland Building Installation Space, including images, proposals, and statements for all projects dating back to 1994, go to www.racc.org/installationspace.
 
 

Americans for the Arts presents national award to Jeff Hawthorne

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PORTLAND, ORE – Americans for the Arts, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education in America, announced six recipients of the 2015 Americans for the Arts Annual Leadership Awards. Among this year’s honorees, Jeff Hawthorne, director of community engagement for the Regional Arts & Culture Council, will receive the Michael Newton Award. 

For the past 25 years, the Michael Newton Award has recognized exemplary leadership skills and extraordinary dedication to supporting the arts through a united arts fund, which is a combined effort to raise money on behalf of multiple arts institutions in the community (like Work for Art), and through other unique and powerful partnerships with the private sector.

In his position with RACC, Jeff Hawthorne collaborates with community partners to increase funding and visibility for the local arts community. He is responsible for strategies to secure public and private funds that compose RACC’s annual budget, which has grown from $3.8 million in 2003 to $10.2 million in 2015. Hawthorne designed and implemented Oregon’s first united arts fund, Work for Art, which has raised $6.2 million over the last nine years, mostly through workplace giving campaigns. Hawthorne also oversees RACC’s outreach and communications efforts, and manages research projects that help quantify the value of the local arts community. He graduated cum laude from the University of Portland with a B.A. in theater management, and currently serves on the boards of the Northwest Regional Re-Entry Center and Oregon’s Cultural Advocacy Coalition. 

“All of our Leadership Awards honorees have distinguished themselves as tremendous leaders and passionate advocates for the arts and arts buycialisquality.com education,” said Robert L. Lynch, President and CEO of Americans for the Arts. “These leaders have implemented innovative and transformative programs to strengthen the communities they serve, and their unwavering commitment to local, state, and national support for the arts is deserving of this recognition.”

Honorees will be presented their awards at the Americans for the Arts 2015 Annual Convention in Chicago during the Opening Plenary session, Friday, June 12, 2015 from 12:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.

The five other recipients are: 

•           Association for Public Art, Pennsylvania: Public Art Network Award

•           Eric Booth, New York: Arts Education Award

•           Lara Davis, Washington: American Express Emerging Leaders Award

•           Richard E. Huff, Texas: Selina Roberts Ottum Award

•           Ann Marie Miller, New Jersey: Alene Valkanas State Arts Advocacy Award

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Americans for the Arts is the leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education in America. With offices in Washington, D.C. and New York City, it has a record of more than 50 years of service. Americans for the Arts is dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. Additional information is available at www.AmericansForTheArts.org.

The Regional Arts & Culture Council, a local arts agency, serves Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties. RACC provides grants for artists, schools and nonprofit organizations; manages an internationally acclaimed public art program; advocates for public and private investments in the arts; provides technical assistance; produces printed and web-based resources for artists; and helps artists and classroom teachers integrate the arts into other K-8 subjects. Online at www.racc.org.    
 
 

The Right Brain Initiative receives increased funding from the National Endowment for the Arts

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PORTLAND, ORE —The Right Brain Initiative, the arts integration program of the Regional Arts & Culture Council, has received its largest-ever grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The NEA will award $30,000 to increase creative capacity for teachers and teaching artists. This is Right Brain’s fourth grant from the NEA.

NEA Chairman Jane Chu said, “The NEA is committed to advancing learning, fueling creativity, and celebrating the arts in cities and towns across the United States. Funding these new projects like the one from The Right Brain Initiative represents an investment in both local communities and our nation’s creative vitality.”

Right Brain’s year-long professional development project will arm over 600 teachers, principals and arts teachers, as well as 80 teaching artists and arts organizations, with high-impact strategies to bring innovative and integrated arts education to all students. By training and empowering classroom teachers and other school staff to elevate the role of creativity in their instruction, Right Brain helps educators create environments where students thrive academically, socially and artistically.

This 23-day training program is designed and facilitated by Right Brain’s professional development partner, Deborah Brzoska, a national arts educational consultant and teaching artist from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Brzoska also carries deep Portland-area roots as a former dance teacher at Portland’s Jefferson High School and founding principal of the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics.

The Right Brain Initiative is a sustainable partnership of public schools, local government, foundations, businesses and the cultural community working to transform learning through the arts for all K-8 students in the Portland metro area. Now in its seventh year, Right Brain serves approximately 59 schools and 20,000 students from urban, suburban and rural communities in the Portland area. In fall of 2014, Right Brain released data connecting the program to an above-average increase in student test scores, with greatest results for English Language Learners. Right Brain is an initiative of the Regional Arts & Culture Council. Young Audiences of Oregon & SW Washington serves as Implementation Partner. Read more online at TheRightBrainInitiative.org.

The Regional Arts & Culture Council is the local arts agency for Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties, providing grants for artists, schools and nonprofit organizations; conducting workplace giving for arts and culture (“Work for Art”) and other advocacy efforts; presenting workshops and other forms of technical assistance; providing  printed and web-based resources for artists; and integrating  art into public spaces. Online at racc.org.

RACC shares tips and techniques for painting murals in two workshops, May 3 and 9

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PORTLAND, ORE — The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) will present “Painting BIG,” two hands-on mural painting workshops on Sunday, May 3 and Saturday, May 9. The May 3rd workshop will focus on using brushes, grids and projectors, while the May 9th workshop will cover spray paint, stencils and projection. Both workshops are from 1:00-4:00 p.m. at the Rosewood Initiative, 16126 SE Stark Avenue in Portland.

Local artists Robin Corbo and The Lost Cause will lead the workshops and share their knowledge, techniques and insights for creating large scale paintings. Each workshop costs $30, or individuals can sign up for both for $50. All painting materials will be provided. For more information, visit www.racc.org.   

Since 2005, the Public Art Murals Program, administered by the RACC, has provided matching funds for over fifty mural projects. Artists, curators, neighborhood associations, citizen-based groups, and private developers are eligible to apply. Guidelines and application forms can be downloaded at racc.org/public-art/mural-program.

In 2009, a second process for approving murals was implemented by the City: artists can obtain a $50 Original Art Mural Permit from the City of Portland without having their mural reviewed by RACC. No funding is available through this permitting process. Visit http://www.portlandoregon.gov/bds/50737  for more information.

Since the establishment of these programs, the city has seen a resurgence of murals around the city. These workshops provide an opportunity to learn practical skills to execute murals indoors and outdoors.

Robin Corbo painted her first mural in Portland for the Community Cycling Center on Alberta Street in 2006 with the assistance of nearly fifty volunteers.  Through her experience, she has learned “best practices” and “worst mistakes” and spoken to schools, organizations and individuals about ways to create murals. In 2011, she wrote “One Million Brush Strokes: The Making of a Mural,” the story behind the conception and creation of the Bark mural at SE 46th and Powell.

The Lost Cause loves to paint on things. Details and line work define his style which is riddled with hidden messages and patterns inspired by day to day life. Cartoons have also been an inspiration for his work and have influenced him since childhood.  Locally, his work can be seen at Music Millennium at 31st and Burnside.  He also has worked in cities throughout the U.S.

 

For more information, contact Peggy Kendellen, Public Art Manager, at 503.823.4196, pkendellen@racc.org.
 
 

The Right Brain Initiative offers nationally recognized arts education training this summer

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Imagine This! A Creativity Symposium for Educators
Tuesday, June 16 – Thursday, June 18, 2015
Portland Art Museum  |  1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, Oregon

2015 Theme: How Place Inspires Thinking
Designed for K-8 educators of all subjects and arts disciplines. See full schedule of sessions and register at: http://imaginethis2015.eventbrite.com
3-day registration: $250 | Single-day option: $100

Early bird registration (for 3-day registration only): April 22 – May 3. General registration opens May 4

“Imagine This! is ultimately transformative and tremendously valuable.”
— Past symposium participant

PORTLAND, ORE — This June, The Right Brain Initiative brings its arts education symposium back by popular demand for three inspiring days, hosted by the Portland Art Museum. Imagine This! helps classroom teachers, arts teachers, principals, curriculum directors and teaching artists deepen their ability to integrate the arts into the K-8 classroom setting. This symposium is presented by Bank of America.

Symposium participants will join peers in the field, as well as local and national arts education leaders. They will choose from dozens of workshops, hands-on studio sessions and facilitated lesson planning sessions designed to provide tools participants can directly apply to their work in schools. Sessions include The Arts: Closing the Opportunity Gap for English Language Learners, The Museum as a Classroom, Poetry Off the Page, andCelebrating People and Places Through Music.

The Right Brain Initiative, the arts integration program of the Regional Arts & Culture Council, has received three awards from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of its professional development program for teachers and teaching artists. Imagine This! has received additional support from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Space is limited to 125 attendees. Register by May 3 to take advantage of the early-bird rate athttp://imaginethis2015.eventbrite.com.

Featured Speakers and Workshop Leaders

Glenis Redmond is an award-winning performance poet, praise poet, teacher, and writer based in South Carolina. Glenis has been published in numerous literary journals and has authored several full-length books. As a performer, she placed in the top ten twice in the National Individual Slam Championships. She performs for audiences of all ages in venues ranging from top performing arts centers to juvenile detention centers. As a teacher, Glenis Redmond is part of the national touring roster for the Kennedy Center’s Partnership in Education Teacher Training. She helps professional and amateur writers from 9-90 find their own poetic voice.

Deborah Brzoska is a national leader in arts education who presents professional development for teachers and teaching artists across the country on behalf of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Deb also serves as Implementation Specialist for the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities’ Turnaround Arts Schools nationally. A former dancer and teacher, she was also the founding principal of The Vancouver School of Arts & Academics, the award winning arts-based public school in Washington State.

Rachel Carnes is the founder of Sparkplug Dance Educational Resources, a Eugene, Oregon non-profit organization, dedicated to making learning fun for everyone through dance. Sparkplug Dance has provided direct services in early childhood arts education, K-8 arts integration in the schools, and teacher training, working with the Oregon Department of Education, Springfield Public Schools, the Oregon Music Educators Association, and many other partners. Rachel holds an undergraduate degree in dancetheater from Reed College and has studied dance therapy at the New School in New York City.

Aaron Nigel Smith’s mission is to connect and empower children, families and communities through music. As a performer, he has produced several nationally recognized children’s albums, and is a former cast member of the PBS Kids show, Between the Lions. Aaron is a founder of FUNdamentals of Music and Movement, an arts program that has served over 100 early education centers in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Boston. He is also founder of One World Chorus, a non-profit providing music programs to children in Portland, Los Angeles, New York, Kenya & Jamaica.

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Thank you to Bank of America for serving as the Presenting Sponsor of Imagine This!

The Right Brain Initiative is a sustainable partnership of public schools, local government, foundations, businesses and the cultural community, which brings creativity to nearly 20,000 students in 59 schools. The program’s goal is to transform learning through the arts for all K-8 students in the Portland metro area. In fall of 2014, Right Brain released data connecting the program to an above-average increase in student test scores, with greatest results for English Language Learners. Right Brain is an initiative of the Regional Arts & Culture Council. Young Audiences of Oregon & SW Washington serves as Implementation Partner. Read more online at TheRightBrainInitiative.org.

The Regional Arts & Culture Council is the local arts agency for Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties, providing grants for artists, schools and nonprofit organizations; conducting workplace giving for arts and culture (“Work for Art”) and other advocacy efforts; presenting workshops and other forms of technical assistance; providing  printed and web-based resources for artists; and integrating  art into public spaces. Online at racc.org. 

Brittany Powell’s “Cell Phone Photo Paintings: Free” project at the Portland Building 5/4 – 29

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PORTLAND, ORE – While she was on vacation a while back, artist Brittany Powell lost her camera. Her husband said, “You should just paint all of our photos.” He was kidding, but she did—80 of them. In doing so she noticed something interesting about the process:

“Through painting the scenes, I became actively involved in the memory and gave the images more weight and value—two snow cones became a beautiful exploration of color, a jungle scene turned abstract, and a cityscape transformed into a study of shapes and patterns. Since then I began offering my services to paint other people’s vacations; I use their photos as source material, but the paintings are my interpretation of their experiences.”

-Brittany Powell

For her project at the Portland Building Powell will push this idea further and offer to paint photos from the cell phones of building users and passers-by. Our lives are now more documented than ever, but most of us rarely do more than transfer our cell phone photos to a hard-drive somewhere, or post them on social media, but these are the images that illustrate our daily existence, some of them deserve that extra weight and value Powell speaks of.

After setting up a small, table-sized work station in the Installation Space, the artist will hold “studio hours” (Monday – Thursday between 2pm & 5pm) when visitors can stop by to request a painting. Once selected, the photo will be texted from the participant’s phone to the artist’s phone and painting will commence. Each completed painting will be placed on display for the duration of the project. Participants can retrieve their photos during the final days of the exhibition, hopefully with a new appreciation for the images we take daily without a second thought.

About the Artist: Brittany Powell lives and works in Portland, Oregon. She has an MFA from California College of the Arts, San Francisco, and a BFA from Oregon State University, Corvallis. She has shown widely in the western U.S., completed a Caldera Residency in Sisters, Oregon in 2011, a Djerassi Residency in Woodside, California in 2013, and was awarded a Ford Family Foundation Fellowship in 2013.

Viewing Hours & Location: The Portland Building is located at 1120 SW 5th Avenue in downtown Portland and is open 8 am to 5 pm, Monday – Friday.  Cell Phone Photo Paintings: Free opens May 4th and runs through May 29th, 2015. Studio hours will be held by the artists 2 pm to 5 pm, Monday – Thursday (excluding Memorial Day).

For more information on the Portland Building Installation Space, including images, proposals, and statements for all projects dating back to 1994, go to www.racc.org/installationspace.