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Of the many galleries participating in Photolucida, Portland’s monthlong photography showcase, PDX Contemporary Art’s three-person show is the most effective...

“Spun: Adventures in Textiles” is designed to address a chronic problem at museums: getting visitors to look at their permanent collections. Visitors can also learn to quilt in a drop-in studio or join the sewing circle of Marie Watt, an artist-in-residence, a Seneca Indian whose sculptures, made from blankets, will be shown nearby.

"There are few living artists as in tune with the rugged spirit of the Pacific Northwest as Vanessa Renwick and her Oregon Department of Kick Ass." Hollywood Theater will be showing the artist's first full retrospective in fifteen years, including a series of films and the premiere of a new video . . .

D.E May’s work mines the inherent beauty of architectural drawing and diagrammatic project proposals...

PDX is pleased to be a participant of VOLTA NY. Please visit us at booth 2.26, where we have a beautiful installation of new works by D.E. May.

Public Hours:

Thursday, March 7, 2 pm – 8 pm
Friday – Saturday, March 8 – 9, 11 am – 8 pm
Sunday, March 10, 11 am – 6 pm

New Volta Location:

Soho
82MERCER
Entrance at 76 Mercer Street
(between Spring and Broome Streets)
New York, NY

VOTA NY WEB LINK: http://ny.voltashow.com/ABOUT.5726.0.html

The biggest show of contemporary indigenous art the world has ever seen — and it’ll be in Ottawa this summer . . .

March 5th, 7 pm
PUB, Clark College,
1933 Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver WA

....Amjad Faur received his M.F.A from the University of Oregon in 2005. He has
been working for over a decade with large format (8x10 inch) photography and it
continues to be the means by which he conceptualizes, associates and produces his
work. Amjad has spent a great deal of time in Italy as well as the Middle East. The
collective histories of these particular regions have come to inform and inhabit his
work. Amjad currently lives in Olympia, WA with his wife, Laila as well as their little cat
and giant dog. He teaches at Evergreen State ....College.http://www.clark.edu/news_events/archer/art_talks.php

Nice to Meet You at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (ACAC) pairs the work of West Coast artists Tony Labat and Tad Savinar. The artists had never met prior to Artistic Director Stuart Horodner’s introduction, nor did they know of each other’s work. Nice to Meet You implies a literal introduction that brought forth a comparison and collaboration. Though Labat and Savinar have disparate practices, this exhibition creates a new context for their work that heightens the political impact of each...

Portland, Oregon–based artist Arnold J. Kemp’s newest body of sculptures, photographs, and works on paper weave a poignant story of belonging and loss ...

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A new project by Jenene Nagy
Feb. 21 - April 12, 2013
Artist talk Thursday Feb. 21, 12:30p
Opening reception Thursday Feb. 21, 1:30-4p

Peninsula College
1502 East Lauridsen Blvd.
Port Angeles, WA 98362