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OREGONIAN AND WALL STREET JOURNAL

Silas is the son of PDX owner/director Jane Beebe ...proud mother.

Innovations in Bicycle Safety and Usability Unveiled at Oregon Manifest

PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The nation's leading custom bike builders gathered in Portland on September 24 for Oregon Manifest, a demanding competition that allows designers and builders to showcase their best ideas and compete for the title of the ultimate urban utility bike.

Second place went to the collaborative design/build team of Rob Tsunehiro of Tsunehiro Cycles and Silas Beebe of ID+. Tsunehiro, a former Boeing engineer and custom bike builder, and Beebe, an industrial designer with over a decade of global design experience, who won for their "Louis Vuitton of city bikes."

In awarding the second place finish, Rob Forbes, founder of Design Within Reach and Public Bicycles, challenged the other judges to "show me one way this bike falls short." In their hands, the practical urban utility bike maximized its functionality but with added elegance and safety.
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PICA presents Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen in an ON SIGHT Salon at Washington High School as part of TBA:11. An informal lecture by the artists will touch upon their collaborative practice and their interest in alternate and revisionist histories. The talk will take place within the duo's 'Fix It' office where they worked at editing, redacting and manipulating September, an art historical broadside made specifically for TBA.

http://www.pica.org/festival_detail_new.aspx?eventid=772

Lecture
Vanessa Renwick

Sep 29, 2011 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

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The MFA in Visual Studies invites Vanessa Renwick to speak for the 2011-12 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

Working in experimental and poetic documentary forms, Vanessa Renwick produces films, videos and installations that explore the possibility of hope in contemporary society. She puts scholars to rout by solving through nature’s teaching problems that have fretted their trained minds. Her iconoclastic work reflects an interest in place, relationship between bodies and landscapes, and all matter of borders.

Presented by: ZGF Architects LLP

Supported by PNCA+FIVE (Ford Institute for Visual Education)

Crow’s Shadow will be hosting artist Storm Tharp for a two-week printmaking residency, Sept. 19-30, 2011.
SEPT. 29 EVENING RECEPTION FOR STORM THARP

Crow’s Shadow will be hosting a public reception for visiting artist Storm Tharp on Thursday, Sept. 29, from 5:30-7:30 p.m., in the Crow’s Shadow gallery.

Visitors will have the opportunity to meet Tharp and check out new works—or works in progress—created during the artist’s two-week printmaking residency.

Tharp also will present a brief slide presentation on his past works in other media. Light refreshments will be available.

Tharp arrived at Crow’s Shadow on Monday to begin some preliminary portrait drawing and experimentation with various lithographic drawing materials.

You can read more about Tharp and his residency here.

We hope to see you here (Crow's Shadow Institute 48004 St. Andrews Road, Pendleton, OR, 97801).
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Keenan Jay in "The Wrong Gallery" Playing on the No Shoes, No Shirt, No Service sign and the history of the real "Wrong Gallery" now housed at The Tate Modern (http://www.tate.org.uk/about/pressoffice/pressreleases/2005/wronggaller…), PDX Intern Keenan Jay presents an installation in "The Wrong Gallery"1:6 Scale model, before returning to his studies at R.I.S.D. "No BFA,No MFA No Service."

"Outside In"

September 1 - October 31, 2011

Reception: October 7, 6-8 pm

Johnson City Area Arts Council Gallery
300 East Main Street, Suite 102
Johnson City, TN

www.arts.org

Adam Sorensen has the cover - and a feature article about his show at The Portland Art Museum's APEX which runs from Sept 3rd- Jan1. Congratulations Adam!
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Opening Reception Wednesday Sept. 7, 6-8 pm

Louis B. James
143 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002

Louis B. James is pleased to present its inaugural exhibition You can never go home anymore, featuring the work of Travis Boyer, Kelly Jazvac, Arnold J. Kemp, and Virginia Poundstone. Through diverse media, the four artists grapple with the materiality and origin of an object, creating subtle transformations and minor displacements. You can never go home anymore is a verbal stumble, a deviation on Thomas Wolfe’s title sung by the Shangri-Las, a story of a regretful runaway whose home has disappeared. The work on view betrays this inconspicuous though definitive shift away from one’s origins.