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Iván Carmona | Support Beam Grant

7 December, 2020

Iván Carmona has been selected as one of seventeen artists to receive the Support Beam Grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council, in Portland, Oregon.

Support Beam is designed to support emerging artists’ long-term creative practices and livelihoods during an unprecedented time. This new opportunity prioritizes Black artists, Indigenous artists, and artists of color to acknowledge the disproportionate historical and ongoing systemic inequities, and the impact this pandemic is having on BIPOC communities.

Inspired by the depression-era Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.), this program utilizes City of Portland PDXCARES funding to commission a piece of public art, without restriction to media or themes, and aspires to sustain as many artists as possible during a precarious economic and political time.
Follow along with their posts and stories on Instagram at #raccsupportbeam.
Congratulations, Iván!

For more information on Support Beam: https://racc.org/2020/11/10/support-beam-round-two-announced/


Gallery Owner Discussion: Jane Beebe, Charles Froelick and Cecily Quintana for Portland Art Museum's Native American Art Council

1 December, 2020

Join the Portland Art Museum's Native American Art Council for an informal conversation with three art gallery owners Cecily Quintana, Jane Beebe and Charles Froelick. Each has a long history of working with contemporary Indigenous artists.



Marie Watt | Welcomed as a New Trustee at the Portland Art Museum

30 October, 2020
Marie Watt

Marie Watt was welcomed as a new Trustees at The Portland Art Museum- Congratulations, Marie!

"The Portland Art Museum welcomed prominent artists Carrie Mae Weems and Marie Watt to its Board of Trustees in its virtual annual meeting earlier this month.

“I am so honored and excited that Carrie Mae Weems and Marie Watt accepted our invitation to help lead our institution at this crucial time,” said Brian Ferriso, Director and Chief Curator of the Portland Art Museum. “Our communities need the arts more than ever, and it is vital to have the wisdom of these consequential artists who have both contributed so much and in so many ways to our lives.”

Watt and Weems are among nine new or returning trustees joining the Museum’s 70-member Board of Trustees. The role of the Board of Trustees is to lead in the governance of the institution, including budget approval and oversight of the Museum’s finances and assets, hiring and evaluating the performance of the Executive Director, and serving on subcommittees overseeing the areas such as the Museum’s collections, development, equity and inclusion, finances and investments, learning and community partnerships."

For more information visit:
https://nwfc.pam.org/artists-carrie-mae-weems-and-marie-watt-among-new-…


Marie Watt | Live Q and A "Hallie Ford Fellows: Art and Activism"

5 October, 2020

Join exhibiting artists Bruce Burris, Harrell Fletcher, Jessica Jackson Hutchins and Marie Watt on October 7, at 5:30 p.m. for “Hallie Ford Fellows: Art and Activism,” a virtual live presentation and Q&A on the intersections of activism, social practice and art making in their lives and communities.

To join the Virtual Presentation and Q&A: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/94097839085

For more information visit: https://around.uoregon.edu/content/fall-brings-some-options-your-arts-a…



LINK TO RECORDING: A Conversation between James Lavadour and Kathleen Ash-Milby

6 October, 2020
James Lavadour, HOWL, 2020, oil on panel, 28" x 32"

On the occasion of James Lavadour's exhibition EXPECTING RAIN at PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, we invite you to join us for a virtual event and conversation:

A Conversation between Artist James Lavadour and Kathleen Ash-Milby, Curator of Native American Art at Portland Art Museum

Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
6:00pm
VIA ZOOM

WATCH THE RECORDING: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeYVtwgP86w&feature=youtu.be


Marie Watt | 516 Arts Exhibition

25 September, 2020
Marie Watt (Seneca Nation), Untitled (Dream Catcher), 2014, reclaimed wool blankets, satin binding, thread , 107 x 99.5 inches

Marie Watt is featured in 516 Arts upcoming exhibition “Feminisms” opening September 26, 2020, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “Feminisms” is a partnership between 516 Arts and the Wheelwright Muesum of the American Indian and is guest-curated by Andrea R. Hanley.

“Feminisms features artists of various cultures whose creative possibilities use the theme of feminism in its most expansive meaning. Works are far reaching from a diasporic experience, the politics of body, resilience, self-determination, and land. These artists approach their process and practice in a variety of mediums including video, performance, installation, two and three dimensional works, all of which are all connected to current cultural, political, historical and semiotic climates.”

Feminisms will be open from September 26, 2020 to January 2, 2021.
https://www.516arts.org/exhibitions/feminisms

Read about some of the work in the show here:
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/art/radical-elasticity-fem…

Listen to an interview with Carol Boss, curator Andrea Hanley, and Marie Watt here:
https://www.kunm.org/post/feminisms-new-516-arts-exhibition