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Opening June 18th, "The Power of Paper" will feature "Love Nothing More", a large scale work of Storm Tharp's from the Saachi collection . . .

PDX is delighted to announce that D.E. May and Cynthia Lahti have each been awarded 2013 Hallie Ford Fellowships . . .

Finalists Named For 2013 Neddy At Cornish Awards in Open Medium . . .

It all started with a single work of art...

To mark the opening of its new textile galleries, the Denver Art Museum is covering nearly all of its public spaces with fabric, yarn, and needlework. The museum-wide project “Spun: Adventures in Textiles” will bedeck the atrium with a four-story quilt, send a crocheted coral reef snaking through galleries, and culminate in a massive blanket sculpture by Marie Watt . . .

Marc Mayer is calling it “the largest undertaking of our history” . . .

The international video project curated by Laurence Wood and Zoran Poposki will be held at the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park in Shatin, Hong Kong, and will feature works by: Arnold J. Kemp, Tricia Sellmer, Lucy Harrison, Daniel Arnaldo-Roman, Zoran Poposki, Laurence Wood, Luis Lara Malvacias, Tessie Word and Damon Ayers, Victoria Hindley, Eva Petric. Arnold Will be in attendance.

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 . . .