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SUMMARY:Rose Dickson at the Portland Art Museum
DESCRIPTION:Rose Dickson\, Invented Histories \nPortland Art Museum Photography Council’s\nBrown Bag Lunch Talk Series \nWednesday\, July 18th\, 2018 (calendar) \nPortland Art Museum\nThe Miller Room\, Mark Building\n1219 SW Park Avenue\, Portland\, OR 97205\nwww.portlandartmuseum.org\n503 226 2811\nCost: Free to the public. \nDickson will discuss her process of looking for the line between art object and artifact and what is created when we\, as viewers\, invent histories for found and made objects. \nRose Dickson is a multidisciplinary artist based in Portland\, Oregon. This spring\, she participated in an eight-week residency at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough\, New Hampshire. Dickson’s work has been exhibited internationally and she shows with the Portland based gallery Melanie Flood Projects. Her work is in the collection of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/rose-dickson-at-the-portland-art-museum/
LOCATION:Portland Art Museum\, 1219 SW Park Avenue\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States
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SUMMARY:"A Group of Three" show at The O’Brien Photo Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Dennis Galloway\, Michael T. Williams and Jerry Jump\, A Group of Three \nThe show runs from July 14th through September 6th\nArtists’ Reception on Saturday July 14th from 3-6pm \nThe O’Brien Photo Gallery\n2833 Willamette\, Ste. B\nEugene\, OR 97405\n541 – 729 3572\nOpen weekdays\, call for hours\nEmail:  waltobrien1945@gmail.com\nWebsite:  http://obrienimaging.com/gallery.htm \nJerry Jump\, Michael T. Williams and Dennis Galloway each present unique approaches to the\ndiscipline of photography. \nDennis Galloway quotes Wordsworth “…a dim and undetermined sense of unknown modes of being”\,\nwdhich describes the work of these three photographers. Seeing is believing. \nJoin us on July 14th from 3-6 for an afternoon of immersion into three photographers who are all members\nof the PhotoZone Gallery organization. \n 
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/a-group-of-three-show-at-the-obrien-photo-gallery/
LOCATION:The O’Brien Photo Gallery\, 2833 Willamette\, Ste. B\, Eugene\, OR\, 97405\, United States
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SUMMARY:Terry Thompson and John Wimberley at LightBox Photographic Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Terry Thompson\, Latent Harmony\nJohn Wimberley\, When the Stones Sing \nJuly 14th – August 8th\, 2018 \nOpening and Artists’ Reception: Saturday\, July 14th\, 5-8pm\nArtist Talks – 2pm and 4pm \nLightBox Photographic Gallery\n1045 Marine Dr.\nAstoria\, OR 97103\n(503) 468-0238\nlightbox-photographic.com\nhttp://lightbox-photographic.com/shows/terry_k._thompson_latent_harmony\nhttp://lightbox-photographic.com/shows/john_wimberley_when_the_stones_sing \nLightBox Photographic Gallery opens two exhibits on Saturday\, July 14 featuring the work of a pair of photography masters\, Terry K. Thompson and John Wimberley. John Wimberley will give an artist talk at 2pm and Terry K.Thompson will give an artist talk at 4pm with the two opening receptions from 5-8pm. Seating reservations are needed for the artists talks\, contact michael@lightbox-photographic.com. \nLightBox is honored to exhibit Terry Thompson’s “Latent Harmony”\, a retrospective collection of Terry‘s lifetime of alternative process work. Terry’s background in photography includes an art education at the legendary School of Visual Arts in N.Y.C.\, working with artists as diverse as Diane Arbus\, Andy Warhol\, Vito Acconci\, Gary Winogrand and Tad Yamashiro. Graduate work was with the San Francisco Art Institute\, with the top West coast artists\, including Linda Conner\, Wynn Bullock\, Pirkle Jones and Jack Fulton. He was one of the first photographic artists to revive the Platinum print process in the 1960’s \n“I’ve used the photographic medium to define and explore the truths of existence\, devoid of the anthropocentric narrative. This exhibition is a retrospective of those concerns. Never trending\, never current\, these obscured harmonies of life need one to be “present” to make and “present” to view. I found that the Platinum print to be the most accurate and plastic of the realist processes available in the last 200 years. Other images appear as Platinum/Gum Bichromate when some color is called for.” ~ Terry K. Thompson – 2018 \nAlso opening on this night is a new series of work\, “When the Stones Sing”\, from the legendary photographer John Wimberley. Last Summer LightBox presented a major show of John’s work\, this year John is exhibiting something very different. Having had a career in fine art photography being known for his masterful Fiber Silver Gelatin B&W prints\, for the first time in a lifelong career of print making\, John’s new series is in color. \n“Since 1969 I’ve photographed in black and white. During those forty-nine years I exposed\, developed and printed many thousands of large and medium format negatives. But that season of my photography is drawing to a close. As of November 1\, 2018\, I will no longer accept print orders for any of my black and white images. A new season began about a year ago when I switched to color photography\, and my intent is to focus entirely on that medium. On July 14\, 2018\, the first exhibition of new color work opens at LightBox Photographic Gallery in Astoria\, Oregon. These photographs are respectfully dedicated to all First Nation people\, past and present; especially those who in ancient times made rock art.” ~John Wimberley \nLatent Harmony and When the Stones Sing run from July 14th until August 8th. LightBox offers memberships as a way of becoming part of the community of supporters that help to further the mission of the gallery. LightBox provides fine art reproduction\, restorations\, photographic printing\, and other photographic services. LightBox is located at 1045 Marine Drive in Astoria\, hours are Tuesday – Saturday 11 – 5:30. Contact LightBox at 503-468-0238 or at info@lightbox-photographic.com\, and visit lightbox-photographic.com for more info and to enjoy past\, current and upcoming exhibits. \n 
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/terry-thompson-and-latent-harmony-at-lightbox-photographic-gallery/
LOCATION:LightBox Photographic Gallery\, 1045 Marine Dr.\, Astoria\, OR\, 97103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pedro David at Blue Sky Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Pedro David\, Hardwood \nJuly 5–29\, 2018 \nFirst Thursday opening reception:\nJuly 5\, 6:00–9:00 PM \nBlue Sky Gallery\n122 NW 8th Avenue\nPortland\, Oregon 97209 USA\n503-225-0210\nTuesday – Sunday\, 12 – 5 pm\nFirst Thursday 6 – 9 pm\nbluesky@blueskygallery.org\nhttp://www.blueskygallery.org/ \nFor the last thirteen years\, Pedro David has been photographing commercial eucalyptus groves that are quickly replacing the natural forests throughout much of Brazil. Since the early 1900s\, eucalyptus plantations have greatly diminished the biodiversity of the country’s forests\, depleting the soil and consuming water and other vital resources at such a rapid pace that this phenomenon has become a global concern. In his Hardwood series\, David photographs the rows of eucalyptus as they overtake the native Sucupira\, Pequizeiro\, Araticum\, and Palo Tierra species\, drawing viewers into these unnatural yet alluring landscapes. \nPedro David (b. 1977\, Brazil) completed his BA in journalism at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais State in Belo Horizonte\, Brazil and holds a graduate degree in contemporary fine arts from the Escola Guignard\, Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais in Brazil. He has published numerous books\, including Underwater Landscape (2008); The Garden (2012); Route Root (2013); and Catharsis Phase (2014). His work is housed in the collections of the Musée du Quai Branly\, Paris; the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo\, Brazil; the Museu Nacional da República\, Brasília; and the Minas Gerais State Museum\, Belo Horizonte\, Brazil. Blue Sky exhibited David’s series 360 Square Meters in 2015 and the Hardwood series was recently exhibited at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington\, DC. \n 
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/pedro-david-at-blue-sky-gallery/
LOCATION:Blue Sky Gallery\, 122 NW 8th Avenue\, Portland\, OR\, 97209\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alia Ali at Blue Sky Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Alia Ali\, BORDERLAND \nJuly 5–29\, 2018\nFirst Thursday opening reception: July 5\, 6:00–9:00 PM\nArtist talk with Alia Ali: Thursday\, July 5\, 5:00 PM \nSpeaking in Image workshop with Alia Ali\n2 sessions: Saturday\, July 7 — 11am-1pm or 3pm-5pm\nFor more information and to reserve your spot: Click Here \nBlue Sky Gallery\n122 NW 8th Avenue\nPortland\, Oregon 97209 USA\n503-225-0210\nTuesday – Sunday\, 12 – 5 pm\nFirst Thursday 6 – 9 pm\nbluesky@blueskygallery.org\nhttp://www.blueskygallery.org/ \n“Borderlands\, like textiles\, are territories of exploration and zones in which we will be judged for our humanity.”\nIn her photographic series BORDERLAND\, Alia Ali uses portraiture to explore the liminal spaces surrounding human-made borders\, which are often created as a result of conflict and violence. The portraits in the series feature textile artisans from eleven different regions wrapped in their own handiwork. Rendered anonymous and removed from their environmental and cultural contexts\, these individuals become characters that the artist calls “–cludes.” As viewers we must decide how the subjects behind these fabrics will be included or excluded within our own unconscious and subjective categorizations. Ali writes\, “We separate good from evil; familiar from unfamiliar; threat from safety; alien from native… We\, influenced by categorizations create these dichotomies ourselves.” Through this visual exercise\, the artist asks us to consider: what are the fabricated barriers in society that inhibit the incorporation of others? Or are the obstacles just that: ideas\, intuitions\, fear\, discriminations\, and misunderstandings? \nAlia Ali (b. 1985\, Austria) is a Yemeni-Bosnian-American multi-media artist. Having traveled to sixty-three countries\, lived in seven\, and grown up among five languages\, her most comfortable mode of communication is through image and multi-sensory mediums. Ali is a graduate of the United World College of the Atlantic (UWCAC) and holds a BA in Studio Art and Middle Eastern Studies from Wellesley College. Her work has been featured at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art\, the Marrakech Biennale as part of the Swiss-Moroccan KE’CH Collective\, and Gulf Photo Plus Dubai during Art Week Dubai 2017. Her work has most recently been exhibited at the Peter Sillem Gallery (Germany)\, Galerie Siniya 28 (Morocco)\, Space Gallery (Maine\, USA)\, Lianzhou Photo Festival (China)\, and Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans (USA). She has been awarded the Alice C. Cole ’42 Grant of Wellesley College\, LensCulture’s Emerging Talent Awards in 2016\, and she was a Gold Winner in the Fine Art Category of the Tokyo International Foto Awards.
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/alia-ali-at-blue-sky-gallery/
LOCATION:Blue Sky Gallery\, 122 NW 8th Avenue\, Portland\, OR\, 97209\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhotoZone Gallery’s 30th Annual Juried Photography Show CALL FOR ENTRIES
DESCRIPTION:PhotoZone Gallery’s 30th Annual Juried Photography Show\nCALL FOR ENTRIES \nIN PERSON APPLICATION ONLY\, NOT ONLINE\nBring photos framed with hanging wire only (no tape and string or sawtooth hangers). \nTo: The Emerald Art Center\, 500 Main Street\, Springfield\, Oregon.\nOn: Saturday June 30th\, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm.\nor Sunday July 1st\, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm. \nHere’s how to enter. \n• The limit is 2 photographs per person. Fee due on delivery is $15 for one print or $25 for two prints. Cash or Check only.\n• The finished work must be brought in person to The Emerald Art Center at 500 Main Street in Springfield either on Saturday\, June 30th from 11- 4 pm or Sunday July 1st from 11- 4 pm. If you cannot deliver personally\, you may have someone else deliver them for you.\n• Prints must be framed and ready to hang by wires firmly attached to the back. Glass is not mandatory\, but be aware that work can be damaged without glass or plexiglas.\n• Frames can be no larger than 36″ on the long dimension. Frames must be in good solid condition.\n• PhotoZone reserves the right to exclude submissions which\, in its judgement\, may be objectionable or inappropriate for the Juried Show setting.\n• Unless marked ‘not for sale’ all work received will be considered for sale at the price set by the entrant. The Gallery will retain a 40% commission on all sales.\n• The images will be juried by about 10 members of the PhotoZone Gallery immediately after closing on Sunday the 1st of June.\n• Artists will be called on Monday or Tuesday after the jurying. Work not accepted will need to be picked up by the end of the week. Note the gallery will be closed on Wednesday\, July 4th. The show will be at the Emerald Art Center\, 500 Main Street. Hours are 11-4 Tuesday through Saturday.\n• Prize winners will be decided by the jurors. Grand Prize will be $300 followed by $200 and $100 respectively. There are at least three additional known cash prizes awarded by individuals and outside groups. Various local businesses are providing other prizes. Typically they are gift certificates.\nThe show will run through July 27th and must be picked up on Saturday the 28th from 11-4 pm. Please have someone pick up your work for you if you cannot be present. \nAn opening reception will be held at the gallery on Friday July 13th from 5:00 to 8:00 PM. Refreshments will be provided. \nJurying Criteria\nWhether you are a seasoned exhibit photographer or are submitting photos for public viewing for the very first time\, we hope these notes will help you understand how the show is judged\, and what\, in our eyes\, makes a good photograph! \nPRESENTATION\nPhoto\, mat\, frame and glass (if any) should be clean and free of defects. Mat windows should be cut to professional standards. Choice of frame material\, and size and color of mat(s) should be appropriate to artwork in a gallery setting. Overall presentation should contribute to\, and not distract from the appreciation of the photograph. \nARTISTIC\nPositives: Composition simplicity and clarity; Interesting subject placement\, graphic shapes\, texture\, patterns\, contrasts\, leading lines\, portrayal of rhythm and motion; novel/interesting use of color; novel viewpoint\, portrays emotion or dramatic moment\, goes beyond surface representation; suggestive or metaphorical\, evokes a sense of the ironic\, humorous\, fantastical\, tragic\, beautiful\, etc. \nNegatives: trite scene\, clichéd subject matter\, lack of unique view or execution; lack of clarity due to intrusion of negative space and extraneous elements; color(s) or tones that are distracting or arbitrarily chosen. \nTECHNICAL\nAppropriate exposure\, lighting\, white balance\, focus\, lens length\, depth of field\, perspective\, camera position. Appropriate control of color\, contrast\, sharpening\, highlights and shadows. \nChoice of colors\, tones or tint contribute to the expressive intent and effect of the image. Skill and crafts-person-ship in the production of traditional sliver prints or alternative techniques such as pinhole photography\, hand-coated papers\, etc. \nTHE JUDGING PROCESS\nThe show is typically juried by 10 or more members of the PhotoZone gallery\, generally applying the criteria above. After an initial round in which all entries are examined and rated\, top-scoring images are viewed again\, discussed\, and voted on for the various awards. \nFor more info:\nCall: 541 729 3572 for info.\nEmail: waltobrien1945@gmail.com\nPhotoZone Gallery website: http://members.efn.org/~fotozone/\nPhotoZone Blog: http://photozonegallery.blogspot.com
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/photozone-gallerys-30th-annual-juried-photography-show-call-for-entries/
LOCATION:The Emerald Art Center\, 500 Main Street\, Springfield\, OR\, 97477\, United States
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SUMMARY:Randy Olson at Camerawork Gallery (NEW LOCATION!)
DESCRIPTION:Randy Olson\, Plastic Apocalypse \nJune 30th – August 3rd\, 2018 \nOpening Reception\, Saturday\, June 30th\,  3:30 PM – 7:00 PM\nArtist Talk 4:30 PM – 5:15 PM \nCamerawork Gallery (NEW LOCATION!!!!!!!)\n301 N. Graham Street\, Portland\, OR 97227\nLocated in Lorenzen Conference Center – Legacy Emanuel Medical Center Campus.\nNew Hours: 9am – 6pm\, Monday-Saturday\, Sunday\, 10am-4pm\nFree off street parking available\nwww.TheCameraworkGallery.org\nwww.Facebook.com/cameraworkgallery\n503-701-5347 \nPlanet or Plastics? Photographer Randy Olson notes\, “The photographs in this exhibit are part of a multi-year National Geographic initiative to raise awareness about the global plastic crisis.” \nThere are millions of slum workers around the world involved in an informal plastic waste industry that is “always hiring.” This third-world “gold rush” to process plastic waste is an economy with no end in sight. With the shale oil boom\, companies like Shell\, Dow and others are in the early years of gearing up “cracker plants” that “crack” frack-gas-molecules into mostly single-use-plastic for food packaging. Plans are in the works for more and more cracker plants pushing peak plastic production all the way out to the year 2100. Despite growing concern and much discussion in the media this past year\, corporations plan for more and more singleuse-plastic in our lives. The planet produced 448 million tons of plastic in 2015 alone — just one year! As much as 6.3 billion tons in total now sits in landfills\, in the ocean\, or scattered across the landscape of multiple continents. More than 40% of plastics are used just once\, and then tossed. Only nine percent of our plastic waste is recycled into other products. \nwww.nationalgeographic.com/environment/planetorplastic \nABOUT THE ARTIST Randy’s 30+ National Geographic projects have taken him to almost every continent. National Geographic Society published a book of his work in 2011 in their Masters of Photography series. Olson was the Magazine Photographer of the Year in the Pictures of the Year International (POYi) competition\, and was also awarded POYi’s Newspaper Photographer of the Year — one of only two photographers to win in\nboth media in the largest photojournalism contest operating continuously since World War II. \nIn 2011\, Randy founded The Photo Society (thephotosociety.org) that is open to any photographer who has produced a full-length story for National Geographic magazine. \nOlson received an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship to support a seven-year project documenting a family with AIDS\, and a first place Robert F. Kennedy Award for his story on problems with Section 8 housing. He was also awarded the Nikon Sabbatical grant and a grant from the National Archives to save the Pictures of the Year collection. Randy and his wife\, Melissa Farlow\, live in Pennsylvania and Oregon.
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/randy-olson-at-camerawork-gallery-new-location/
LOCATION:Camerawork Gallery\, 301 N. Graham Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97227\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jeff Corwin and Tyler Boley. A 14 Year Road Trip: Dual Perspectives in Eastern Washington
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Corwin and Tyler Boley\, A 14 Year Road Trip: Dual Perspectives in Eastern Washington \nJune 29 – August 4\nArtist Reception: 4-6PM\, Friday June 29 \nHawk Merlin Studios\n113 SW Russell Ave\nStevenson\, WA\n509-427-4747\nplease contact gallery for hours of operation\nhttp://www.hawkmerlinstudios.com/ \nBlack and white photography selections from 14 years of road trips together in Eastern Washington by photographers Jeff Corwin and Tyler Boley. \nThis is a nice one for me\, it’s a lovely collision of previously separate parts of life. My old friend photographer Jeff Corwin and I have been making road trips around Washington State for a long time. The majority of landscape work I’ve made over the last few decades has been on those trips\, many on the east side of the Cascades. Much of this work has not previously been printed. \nAnother friend of Jeff’s\, David Bunker\, informed him he’d opened a small gallery in the Columbia River Gorge\, in Stevenson\, WA. In 2005 I was hired by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad to shoot black and white images of trains in the landscape. One of our images was made in Columbia River Gorge at Cape Horn\, this was my first visit to Stevenson\, a beautiful small town. The second time was on the same project\, we passed through for another photo location at Lyle\, and stopped for food. Beverly and I vacationed there shortly after\, there is a Steamship dock\, the Railroad Museum\, some nice shops and food\, several walks and hikes close by. Every day we’d walk a few blocks from our lodgings on the river into downtown\, cross the railroad tracks and leave a few pennies on them to find flattened later\, past a small unique building. We had a second stay a few years later\, it’s very appealing. It turns out that small building is now David’s Gallery\, Hawk Merlin Studios. \nI guess at some point Jeff mentioned our trips\, and David expressed interest\, it somehow got more serious and here we are with this show. Most of the prints are new\, all made in Eastern Washington on these trips we take. It also nicely caps the end of that era\, easily loading Jeff’s car and heading out whenever we felt like it. Since Jeff and his wife moved to Montana in November it won’t be quite so effortless to repeat. \nSo I’m really looking forward to this\, visiting Stevenson again in the summer\, spending some days with Jeff and Audra\, who we have not seen since they moved\, seeing our work\, most newly printed\, together on the walls of a lovely studio\, meeting David\, and anyone who stops in. \nhttps://www.jeffcorwinphoto.com/ \nHome
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/jeff-corwin-and-tyler-boley-a-14-year-road-trip-dual-perspectives-in-eastern-washington/
LOCATION:Hawk Merlin Studios\, 113 SW Russell Ave\, Stevenson\, WA\, 98648\, United States
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SUMMARY:Submission request for "The Sacred" show at LightBox Photographic Gallery
DESCRIPTION:The Sacred\nJuror • Robert Adams \nAugust 11 – September 5\, 2018 \nSubmission Deadline\, Midnight\, Monday\, June 25\, 2018 \nLightBox Photographic Gallery is honored to have Robert Adams as juror. \nPhotographs included in The Sacred might have as their subjects a town\, a family\, a field\, a church\, a book\, anything the photographer sees with the deepest respect. \nsacred\n1) a : dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity a tree sacred to the gods\nb : devoted exclusively to one service or use (as of a person or purpose) a fund sacred to charity\n2) a : worthy of religious veneration : holy\nb : entitled to reverence and respect\n3) : of or relating to religion\n4) a : unassailable\, inviolable\nb : highly valued and important a sacred responsibility\n— sacredly adverb\n— sacredness noun \nRobert Adams was born in New Jersey in 1937\, and moved to Colorado as a teenager. Adams was a professor of English literature for several years before turning his full attention to photography in the mid 1970s. His work is largely concerned with moments of regional transition: the suburbanization of Denver\, a changing Los Angeles of the 1970s and 1980s\, and the clear-cutting in Oregon in the 1990s. His many books\, well-known to those concerned with the American Landscape\, include The New West\, From the Missouri West\, Summer Nights\, Los Angeles Spring\, To Make It Home\, Listening to the River\, West From the Columbia\, What We Bought\, Notes for Friends\, California\, Summer Nights Walking\, Gone?\, What Can We Believe Where? and The Place We Live. Adams has also written a number of critical essays\, including Beauty in Photography\, Why People Photograph and most recently\, Art Can Help. Among many awards\, Adams has received the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundation fellowships and in 2006\, the Deutsche Börse Prize. In 2009\, he was awarded the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography\, and in 2014 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. \nProspectus \nEntry Form
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/submission-request-for-the-sacred-show-at-lightbox-photographic-gallery/
LOCATION:LightBox Photographic Gallery\, 1045 Marine Dr.\, Astoria\, OR\, 97103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Trees of the Northwest at Argyle Winery
DESCRIPTION:Trees of the Northwest \nMay 15th – July 9th\, 2018\nArtists’ Reception: Sunday\, June 24th\, 2-4pm \nArgyle Winery\n691 Highway 99W\nDundee\, OR 97115 \nSponsored by\nLightBox Photographic Gallery \nPlease join the Members of LightBox Photographic Gallery and the Members of The Portland Photographers Forum for the Artists’ Reception of “Trees of the Northwest” at Argyle Winery on Sunday\, June 24\, from 2-4pm. \nTrees are part of the landscape everywhere in the Great NorthWest.\nThe lush environment encourages the growth of our life giving friends.\nWith the diversity of these living creatures\, we appreciate their special place\nin our precious home and the unique beauty and stature of NorthWest Trees. \nThis LightBox Photographic Gallery Exhibit includes work from Members of\nLightBox Photographic Gallery and The Portland Photographers Forum. \nCongratulations and thank you to the photographers: \nJody Miller • Rebecca Akporiaye • Sam Blair\nStu Levy • Leigh Oviatt • MariAnne MacGregor\nLorraine Richey • Rich Bergeman • Eric Brody\nJeff Brownell • Robert DiFranco • Bob Levine\nSandi O’Brien • Ann Kendellen • Walt O’Brien\nZan Hare • Roger Thompson • Jim Fitzgerald\nFriderike Heuer • Michael Datoli • Julie Moore\nDon Jacobson • Jim Hodel • David Lee Myers\nDavis Schaerer • Ray Tatyrek • Susan Turner\nScott Hoyle • Michael Van Buskirk • Steve Blair \nJurors: Roger Dorband\, Ken Hochfeld and Michael Granger \n 
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/trees-of-the-northwest-at-argyle-winery/
LOCATION:Argyle Tasting House\, 691 Highway 99W\, Dundee\, OR\, 97115\, United States
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SUMMARY:Clifford Prince King at Melanie Flood Projects
DESCRIPTION:Clifford Prince King\, Colors So True \nJune 22-July 21\, 2018\nReception: June 22 6-8pm \nMelanie Flood Projects\n420 SW Washington Street #301\nPortland\, OR 97204\n(503) 862-7912\nFridays\, Saturdays 12-5 + by appointment\nmelaniefloodprojects@gmail.com\nwww.melaniefloodprojects.com\nArtist Website: http://cargocollective.com/cliffordprinceking \nMelanie Flood Projects is pleased to present Colors So True a solo exhibition of photographic work by Los Angeles based artist Clifford Prince King. The show will open June 22\, 2018 and run through July 21\, 2018\, with an opening reception Friday\, June 22 from 6pm to 8pm. This will be King’s first solo exhibition. \nThe act of archiving is an evolving process. It exists within and outside of bodies and spaces and objects. Queer archiving is an art that stretches\, extends\, and challenges the body and its various constructions. In regards to the black queer body\, archiving can act as a mirror\, a map\, a space of origin\, a way to ask difficult questions. In the creation of a “visual diary\,” Clifford Prince King’s photographs are reflective of this process–his work acting as a way to challenge\, explore\, and negotiate concepts of black gay sexuality\, masculinity\, and community. \nOften it’s subtle\, a referential gesture seen through a staging of a black and queer ephemera. Shown in a tin of Murray’s hair pomade marked by the tips of fingers\, a comb glossy with the grease\, a mango fleshy and exposed. It’s the eroticism of a headboard adorned with wilting flowers wreathed by the elastic waistband of underwear\, framed by RUSH “liquid incense” and an ornamental bust. It is in the documentation of this right after moment that evokes a right before moment\, and vice versa. Through this staging\, the photograph gives a glimpse into a black gay world through scenes and rituals of the everyday. \nArriving at an honest\, critical portrayal of blackness is also a process. It’s constantly negotiating the “fear of rejection\, exposure\, and ridicule” that one encounters when existing in a world that has conceived notions of black masculinity\, specifically black gay masculinity that puts them at risk for violence and marginalization. It’s in calling to past\, present\, and future understandings of the ways in which queerness and blackness intersect on bodies and in spaces that King approaches this negotiation of existing while queer and black. \nNotions of anti-blackness and queer-erasure are challenged in the creation of images; dark skin is contrasted with white milk seeping over shoulders\, drenched yet unsaturated. Fatherhood is given a tender and intentional gaze. There is no shame\, no shyness in the occupation of the frame in this portrayal of blackness that fills the space with potentiality. \nMelancholia often marks scenes of black queerness\, reflective of the “stigma\, injustice\, and hardships” that afflict gay black men. Through a display of vulnerability and intimacy\, the black gay body gently exposed in King’s work remedies this trauma through the act of knowing and being known. In opening up and expanding into “the transhistorical space of gay life*” through evoking the ghosts of Baldwin\, Hughes\, and Basquiat\, the exposure and the laying of bodies together does not reproduce the act of being gazed upon but rather evokes a sense of familiarity. It is a call to not be seen as other\, but as part of a resilient and expansive collective. \nIt is in the layering of spaces that King’s work is not simply an act of archiving; it is a part of a collective world making\, of sustaining and imagining black queer existence defined by the lived experience of those who are black and queer. \n-Text by Sydney Haliburton\nSydney Haliburton is a queer black student\, writer\, and musician based in Chicago\, IL\n*Munoz\, Jose Esteban. Disidentifications Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota\, 2015. Print.
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/clifford-prince-king-at-melanie-flood-projects/
LOCATION:Melanie Flood Projects\, 420 SW Washington Street #301\, Portland\, OR\, 97204\, United States
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Akporiaye at the Portland Art Museum
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Akporiaye\, In Case I Haven’t Told You\n\nPortland Art Museum Photography Council’s\nBrown Bag Lunch Talk Series \nWednesday\, June 20th\, 2018 \nPortland Art Museum\nThe Miller Room\, Mark Building\n1219 SW Park Avenue\, Portland\, OR 97205\nwww.portlandartmuseum.org\n503 226 2811\nCost: Free to the public. \nRebecca is an artist who expresses her experiences through photography. Her book and presentation\, In Case I Haven’t Told You\, is a personal narrative that spans more than a decade of her work. Its chapters offer an exploration of memory and family\, a testimony of living as a woman in the Middle East\, and the experience of living through cancer treatments. The final chapter\, War with My Father\, is comprised of photos taken by the author using her father’s 1930’s Leica camera and loosely tracing his deployment in WWII and includes the original 1944-45 photos taken by her father using the same camera. \nRebecca received her fine art degree from New Mexico Highland University in 1978 and her MBA from the University of Phoenix in 2002. Her artistic endeavors include working in large scale fine art sculpture\, fine art printing and publishing. She realized that individuals and organizations who have great visions sometimes lacked business proficiency. To meet this need she started a consultancy to help them with strategic planning\, capacity building and fundraising. She is past president at Newspace Center for Photography and is currently serving on the board of the Portland Art Museum Photography Council. Her photography has been curated into many shows at locations including Lightbox Gallery\, BlackBox Gallery\, Lakewood Featured Art Show\, and Photo Place\, and has appeared in Diffusion Magazine\, PrintedArt.com\, and others. \n 
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/rebecca-akporiaye-at-the-portland-art-museum/
LOCATION:Portland Art Museum\, 1219 SW Park Avenue\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Plastic Fantastic Show IX at LightBox Photographic Gallery
DESCRIPTION:The Plastic Fantastic Show IX \nJune 9th – July 10th\, 2018\nOpening and Artists’ Reception: Saturday\, June 9th\, 6-9pm \nLightBox Photographic Gallery\n1045 Marine Dr.\nAstoria\, OR 97103\n(503) 468-0238\nlightbox-photographic.com\nhttp://lightbox-photographic.com/shows/plastic_fantastic_show_ix \nLightBox Photographic Gallery celebrates its 9th birthday with the opening and artists’ reception of the Plastic Fantastic Show IX on Saturday\, June 9\, from 6-9pm. \nThis annual group exhibit originated with LightBox’s love for images made with basic\, plastic “toy” film cameras as a way to celebrate the gallery’s anniversary each year. A large number of photographers from around the world shoot images with basic cameras\, creating unique photos that are captured on film. The images achieved from this photographic method using cameras with less than perfect optics and control lead to unpredictable and sometimes extraordinarily beautiful results. \nInternationally renowned fine art photographer Susan Burnstine of Los Angeles once again juried the exhibit. Susan is a highly acclaimed photographic artist shooting with film using rudimentary homemade cameras of her own design\, consisting of plastic lenses and vintage camera and household parts. \n“Once again\, it’s been a great honor and pleasure to act as juror for the annual Plastic Fantastic Show. It was thrilling to see the work of so many old friends mixed in with a number of refreshing new artists. I’d like to acknowledge every photographer who submitted this year. You made my selection process very difficult as the quality and artistry exceeded my expectations.” ~ Susan Burnstine \nCongratulations to the photographers accepted into\nThe Plastic Fantastic Show IX \nJim Rohan • James Malsich • Alyson Bowen • Diane Peterson\nLilyan Aloma • Bob Gervais • Ryan Synovec • Vera Dohrenbusch\nCeline Dowden • Michael Weitzman • Ky Lewis • Christine Eagon\nRonald Butler • Brian Franczyk • Ellen Davis • Jennifer Walton\nBarbara Murray • Kerry Jeffrey • Priscilla Kanady • Ian Thompson\nBill Kirby • Stephen McNally • Kathrena Rivera • Myles Katherine\nJocelyn Mathewes • Marko Umicevic • April Rocha • Katy Tuttle\nKenneth Stevens • Jacqueline Walters • Richard Bonvissuto \nThis year Ryan Synovec of Seattle\, Wa. received the juror’s top award for the image\, “Monumental Cactus”\, Lilyan Aloma from New York\, N.Y. received the Second Award for “Herald Square”\, Priscilla Kanady from The Woodlands\, Tx. received the Third Award for “Meghan in the Shadows\, and Jim Rohan of Wakefield\, Ma. received the Honorable Mention. \nFirst Place: Ryan Synovec “Monumental Cactus”.\nRyan Synovec’s double exposure of a cactus in Monument Valley transports viewers to a magical and haunting place where time stands still. The narrative is direct yet complex and keeps us coming back for more. \nSecond Place: Lilyan Aloma – Herald Square.\nLilyan Aloma has done it again. She’s been selected as an award winner in Plastic Fantastic exhibits prior\, but this time she delivers abeautiful and evocative city scene that resonates between the layers of time. \nThird Place: Priscilla Kanady – Meghan In The Shadows.\nPriscilla Kanady’s Meghan In The Shadows invites you to look again and again. At first glance\, viewers may miss the ghostly glow of Meghan’s outline\, but as one looks closer the grasp of her hand appears mysteriously and quiet melancholy settles in. \nHonorable Mention: Jim Rohan – Brooklyn Bridge.\nMany might assume they’ve seen every possible view photographed of the Brooklyn Bridge\, but Jim Rohan proves everyone wrong with this humorous vantage point. A former exhibitor of several Plastic Fantastic exhibitions in years past\, Rohan returns with a fresh and witty perspective that offers a much welcome smile to all. \n 
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/the-plastic-fantastic-show-ix-at-lightbox-photographic-gallery/
LOCATION:LightBox Photographic Gallery\, 1045 Marine Dr.\, Astoria\, OR\, 97103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cinthya Santos-Briones at Blue Sky Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Cinthya Santos-Briones\, Abuelas \nJune 7–July 1\, 2018 \nFirst Thursday opening reception: June 7\, 6:00–9:00 PM\nArtist talk: Saturday\, June 9\, 3:00 PM \nBlue Sky Gallery\n122 NW 8th Avenue\nPortland\, Oregon 97209 USA\n503-225-0210\nTuesday – Sunday\, 12 – 5 pm\nFirst Thursday 6 – 9 pm\nbluesky@blueskygallery.org\nhttp://www.blueskygallery.org/ \nPORTLAND\, Oregon – This June 2018\, photographers Cinthya Santos-Briones and Daesha Devón Harris will each present solo exhibitions at Blue Sky\, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts\, as the first winners of the En Foco Photography Fellowship Exhibition Prize at Blue Sky. The Exhibition Prize is a collaboration between the two organizations to increase visibility for En Foco and its Photography Fellows program and expand the diversity of artists shown at Blue Sky. \nAbuelas is a portrait series that honors the culture and experiences of Mexican immigrant women living in New York. Having come to the United States decades ago in search of opportunity for themselves and their families\, these women are now the elders—the abuelas—in their communities. Although they are well established here\, many have children and grandchildren living on both sides of the US-Mexico border and some must work unstable or exploitative low-wage jobs due to their immigration status. For these collaborative portraits\, Cinthya Santos-Briones invites each sitter to choose where and how she would like to be photographed in her home in order to reflect each woman’s sense of self. The artist writes that “in these photographs\, the homes´ decorations become part of the women’s wider symbolic recreation of culture\, memory\, and ownership beyond borders.” \nBefore becoming a documentary photographer\, Santos-Briones studied anthropology and history\, which led her to work as a researcher in institutions in Mexico focused on the study of indigenous and rural communities. Her work as a photographer is centered on community\, migration\, gender\, identity\, and the struggle for human rights. Santos-Briones is a recent graduate of the Visual Journalism And Documentary Practice Program at the International Center Of Photography in New York City. In the autumn of 2016 she received a fellowship granted by the Magnum Foundation.
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/cinthya-santos-briones-at-blue-sky-gallery/
LOCATION:Blue Sky Gallery\, 122 NW 8th Avenue\, Portland\, OR\, 97209\, United States
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SUMMARY:Daesha Devón Harris at Blue Sky Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Daesha Devón Harris\, My Soul Has Grown Deep Like the Rivers \nJune 7–July 1\, 2018 \nFirst Thursday opening reception: June 7\, 6:00–9:00 PM\nArtist talk: Thursday\, June 7\, 5:00 PM \nBlue Sky Gallery\n122 NW 8th Avenue\nPortland\, Oregon 97209 USA\n503-225-0210\nTuesday – Sunday\, 12 – 5 pm\nFirst Thursday 6 – 9 pm\nbluesky@blueskygallery.org\nhttp://www.blueskygallery.org/ \nPORTLAND\, Oregon – This June 2018\, photographers Cinthya Santos-Briones and Daesha Devón Harris will each present solo exhibitions at Blue Sky\, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts\, as the first winners of the En Foco Photography Fellowship Exhibition Prize at Blue Sky. The Exhibition Prize is a collaboration between the two organizations to increase visibility for En Foco and its Photography Fellows program and expand the diversity of artists shown at Blue Sky. \n“This series is about the Black experience that is deeply connected to the landscape\, the idea of home\, and its intersections with water. Water becomes symbolic of Freedom\, whether it is in this world or the next\, and at the same time is evidence of social and cultural boundaries. Water has to be crossed on the journey to Freedom.”\nMy Soul Has Grown Deep Like the Rivers is a series of portraits inspired by African American folklore\, slave narratives\, and Harlem Renaissance poetry. Through this work\, Daesha Devón Harris examines current and historical racial ideologies in this country while highlighting Black Americans’ ongoing struggle for freedom. The artist begins her process with extensive research\, which includes collecting stories\, imagery\, and other memorabilia. She then makes transparencies of vintage cartes de visite and cabinet card portraits she has collected and places them in water alongside rocks and flora to create aquatic still lifes. All of Harris’ work is photographed in her hometown of Saratoga Springs and the surrounding region at sites chosen for their personal or historical significance. The final prints are encased in wooden shadow boxes alongside small keepsakes and covered with etched glass\, creating additional visual and narrative layers through which to view Harris’s already complex photographic imagery. \nDaesha Devón Harris is a Saratoga Springs\, New York native\, artist\, and photographer who has spent time in Buffalo\, NY and San Francisco\, CA. Both her multi-cultural family and the unexpected death of her young father have greatly shaped her life. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from the College Of Saint Rose and a MFA in Visual Art from The University at Buffalo. Harris has been featured in numerous exhibitions in New York State\, Philadelphia\, PA\, Louisville\, CO\, and beyond. \n 
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/daesha-devon-harris-at-blue-sky-gallery/
LOCATION:Blue Sky Gallery\, 122 NW 8th Avenue\, Portland\, OR\, 97209\, United States
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SUMMARY:Thomas Alleman at Camerawork Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Alleman\, Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws \nJune 2 – June 29\, 2018 \nCamerawork Gallery\nPeterson Hall\, Linfield Portland School of Nursing Campus\n2255 NW Northrup Street\, Portland\, OR\n503-701-5347\nHours: 9am-4pm\, Monday-Friday\, Saturday 9am-5pm\nFree and Open to the Public\nwww.TheCameraworkGallery.org\nwww.Facebook.com/cameraworkgallery \nLos Angeles photographer Thomas Alleman notes\, “I moved to San Francisco from Michigan in 1985\, with hopes of becoming a newspaper photojournalist. But I was young and ornery and a little weird\, and I didn’t fancy the unobtrusive\, “objective” photographic style that daily newspapers practiced in those days. I had something in mind that was more personal\, more astringent\, and somewhat kookier\, based on my near obsession\, in those days\, with Garry Winogrand’s “Public Relations” book\, Lee Friedlander’s party pictures\, and Mark Cohen’s very aggressive flash-on-camera street-shots from Pennsylvania. \n“More than all that\, though\, I was a great\, great admirer of Sylvia Plachy and the groundbreaking “New Photojournalism” she and others were producing for the Village Voice in New York\, and throughout Western Europe. In the Fall of ‘85\, I went searching for a San Francisco version of the Voice\, and found it in a scrappy\, very design-y\, very political weekly tabloid called the Sentinel\, which reported on the Gay community and used my kind of pictures nice and big\, and often. \n“I began freelancing for the Sentinel in early 1986\, shortly after the death of Rock Hudson brought sudden national attention to the scope of the AIDS epidemic. Almost overnight\, the\ninternational media descended on San Francisco\, shining a spotlight on the crisis’ perceived Ground Zero\, the Castro District. Correspondents and cameramen parachuted in from everywhere\, making their way to the hospitals and hospices that were filled with gaunt\, desperate (young) men. \n“But the Sentinel and the other gay publications I worked for—locally and\, later\, nationally—chose deliberately to turn their gaze from the stark documentary images of individual carnage that the “straight press” pursued. Their own readers\, they knew\, were already too aware of bedside vigils and funeral arrangements; they didn’t need their “hometown” weekly to recapitulate that dreary\, daily horror. Instead\, we maintained our focus on the community at large\, and reported on the public\, communal response of that very diverse group to the descending nightmare. \n“But not every drumbeat was martial\, of course. Often it was syncopated and disco-y\, and I watched countless partiers dance do it with a shimmy and a bounce\, and with life-affirming joy. Indeed\, I had a ball\, in bars and pavilions and on street corners in the Castro\, photographing gala parties and “scenes”\, drag shows and leather festivals and Halloween extravaganzas. In quieter moments and milieus\, much-deserved attention was also paid to the artists who were creating a home-grown\, alternate gay culture that spoke directly to the experiences and aspirations of Castro audiences: I made intimate portraits of writers\, dancers\, directors\, painters\, and actors. \n“The Castro had been an incredibly vital place in the 1970s and early 80s\, perhaps as Harlem had been during its famous “Renaissance” in the 20s. A group of people\, who for countless years had been marginalized\, cast-out and despised\, came together to live in a neighborhood where they built their own very vibrant culture. Because of San Francisco’s legendary openness and “tolerance”—which was often real\, and sometimes an illusion—they were mostly left to live in sufficient peace; because of their advantages in education and numbers\, and driven by ambition and anger\, they carved out a political presence that couldn’t be ignored\, which beckoned others from around the world\, furthering their security and allowing the culture to flower even more fearlessly. \n“People who’d lived through those years—and folks who came to the Castro in the 80’s to join the party—didn’t forget the joy and promise of all that. They were still the same \nbeautiful\, brilliant\, lovers-of-life that they’d always been. But many of them died\, and others were heartbroken and horrified and very afraid\, and the spirit of the tribe suffered from that toll. Still\, that “liveliness”—that passion—was so essential\, so much a part of the community that it just couldn’t be extinguished by something as dispassionate as a plague. So\, while many of the pictures in this exhibition demonstrate a community in lamentation\, many others are about anger and resolve\, and most are about love and life. And disco and drag. \n“During those years I shot black-and-white film in great bulk\, and processed negatives in my kitchen sink and made prints in a darkroom on the back porch\, holding back the daylight with curtains of felt and ribbons of duct tape. And then I threw those negatives into folders and drawers\, wiped the slate clean\, and raced away down Mission Street to deliver my pictures to editors and designers\, waiting anxiously. \n“Twenty-five years later\, I finally rehabilitated that menagerie of celluloid\, which had long lived in banker’s boxes and fruit cartons\, moving from apartment to house to garage a dozen times. In early 2008 I began searching-out and organizing those rolls of film from my sojourn in gay San Francisco; I started making electronic contact sheets on a flatbed scanner that summer\, and edited throughout the winter of 2009. That April I started scanning what I thought were the best of those pictures\, and once a year since then I revisit those contacts to cull what I might’ve missed the last time; just last summer I found three very important frames that I’d somehow overlooked on all those other editing forays. \n“I hope these photographs\, from San Francisco’s gay community in the mid-eighties\, remind viewers of that moment in our social history—so long ago\, and so very recent—when the first wave of the AIDS epidemic crashed onto one of our country’s most vibrant neighborhoods. And\, while that tribe convulsed with well-earned fear\, heartbreak and anger\, some still found the courage and the will to celebrate the dream of life they’d come to San Francisco for\, and they danced in the dragon’s jaws.” \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nThomas Alleman was born and raised in Detroit\, where his father was a traveling salesman and his mother was a ceramic artist. He graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in English Literature. \nDuring a fifteen-year newspaper career\, Tom was a frequent winner of distinctions from the\nNational Press Photographer’s Association\, as well as being named California Newspaper\nPhotographer of the Year in 1995 and Los Angeles Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 1996. \nAs a magazine freelancer\, Tom’s pictures have been published regularly in Time\, People\, Business Week\, Barrons\, Smithsonian and National Geographic Traveler\, and have also appeared in US News & World Report\, Brandweek\, Sunset\, Harper’s and Travel Holiday. Tom has shot covers for Chief Executive\, People\, Priority\, Acoustic Guitar\, Private Clubs\, Time for Kids\, Diverse and Library Journal. \nTom exhibited “Social Studies”\, a series of street photographs\, widely in Southern California. “Sunshine & Noir”\, a book-length collection of black-and-white urban landscapes made in the neighborhoods of Los Angeles\, had its solo debut at the Afterimage Gallery in Dallas in 2006. Subsequent solo exhibitions include: the Robin Rice Gallery in New York in 2008 and 2013; the Blue Sky Gallery in Portland\, OR in 2009 and 2015; the Xianshwan Photo Festival in Inner Mongolia\, China\, in 2010; and the Duncan Miller Gallery in Los Angeles\, February 2013. “The American Apparel” debuted at the Redline Arts Center in Denver in 2015. Finally: Fifty-three of Tom’s photographs of gay San Francisco\, shot between 1985 and 1988\, debuted at the Jewett Gallery in San Francisco in December\, 2012\, under the title\, “Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws”. \nThe workshops Tom teaches at the Los Angeles Center of Photography include “The Photographer’s Eye” and “Photographing in the Social Landscape.”\nwww.AllemanPhoto.com
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/thomas-alleman-at-camerawork-gallery/
LOCATION:Camerawork Gallery\, 301 N. Graham Street\, Portland\, OR\, 97227\, United States
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SUMMARY:SEO Workshop with Aaron Hockley at Pro Photo Supply Event Center
DESCRIPTION:Aaron Hockley\, The Evolving World of SEO for Photographers (Workshop) \nSaturday June 2nd\, 9:00am-4:30pm \nPro Photo Supply Event Center\n1801 NW Northrup\nPortland\, OR 97209\n503-241-1112 \nRegistration: https://www.oregonppa.org/event-2807452 \nSearch Engine Optimization (SEO) brings people to your website. Your website brings people to your business. After word-of-mouth\, internet and web traffic can be the number two source of new clients for your business. SEO isn’t just about getting more traffic to your website\, but getting the right traffic to your website. \nThe long-term effort of improving your SEO will lead to long-term success. \n**SEO tactics evolve; what worked a few years ago might harm you in 2018.** \nPhotographers walk away with an understanding of concepts and tactics that will enable them to start making positive SEO changes immediately and learn how their website fits into a long-term web marketing strategy. \nThis full-day workshop explores: \n– A holistic look at SEO\n– Identifying and framing things for your ideal client\n– Google’s current search ranking signals\n– Technical factors of speed\, security\, and mobile\n– How content strategy trumps keywords\n– Optimizing images for search\n– A web publishing checklist for SEO success\n– A gaze into the future: what Google’s artificial intelligence for photos might mean for SEO \nAaron Hockley\, Cr.Photog.\, FP-OR brings a mixture of expertise in both the technology and photography worlds. He’s worked in the online publishing space for over ten years and has spoken at events such as BlogWorld and New Media Expo. In the photographic world\, he’s recognized by PPA as a Photographic Craftsman as as a Fellow of Photography by the Oregon Professional Photographers Association. In 2015\, he was awarded third place for Illustrative/Commercial images at PPA’s Grand Imaging Awards and was a World Photographic Cup finalist. \nhttps://photowebo.com \n 
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/seo-workshop-with-aaron-hockley-at-pro-photo-supply-event-center/
LOCATION:Pro Photo Supply – Event Space\, 1801 NW Northrup St\, Portland\, OR\, 97209\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fraction\, 30 From 10 at Pushdot Studio
DESCRIPTION:Fraction\, 30 From 10 \nJune 1-July 31\, 2018\nOpening reception on June 1st from 6-8pm for First Friday. *Editor-in-Chief\, David Bram\, will be present as well as some of the artists featured. \nThis year marks Fraction’s 10-year anniversary! Pushdot is honored to work in conjunction with Fraction to present 30 From 10\, an intimate retrospective\, showcasing photographs by select artists who have been featured in Fraction over the past 10 years. \nAbout Fraction: Fraction Magazine features the best of contemporary photography\, bringing together diverse bodies of work by established and emerging artists from around the globe. Each monthly on-line issue focuses on a central theme\, creating an implicit dialogue between differing photographic perspectives. Fraction also offers indepth photography book reviews. \nThe Featured Artists: \nAmy Friend • Antone Dolezai • Aziza Murray • Bree Lamb • Carol Golemboski • Dana Stirling • David Ondrick • Doug Lowell • Emily Shur • Emma Powell • Fetemeh Baigmoradi • Galina Kurlat • Jasmine Clark • Jesse + Jason Pearson • Kerry Mansfield • Margeaux Walter • Matt Williams • Missy Prince • Nathan Pearce •Nick Schietromo • Paul Sisson • Polly Chandler • Sean Carroll • Shawn Bush • Suzanne Revy • Terri Bright • Tim Hyde •Yoav Friedlander • Zachariah Szabo
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/fraction-30-from-10-at-pushdot-studio/
LOCATION:Pushdot Studio\, 2505 SE 11th Avenue\, Portland\, OR\, 97202\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Portrait Exhibit Honoring Muslim Women in Our Community at the Muslim Educational Trust
DESCRIPTION:WHO WE ARE\,  A Portrait Exhibit Honoring Muslim Women in Our Community \nSaturday\, May 26\, 2018\, at 7:00 PM \nMuslim Educational Trust\n10330 SW Scholls Ferry Road\nTigard\, Oregon\, 97223\nhttps://www.metpdx.org/ \nIn conjunction with the Muslim Educational Trust (MET) and as part of an interfaith service to honor those affected by the horrific attack on the MAX train on May 26\, 2017\, ​The Immigrant Story​ is proud to help tell the stories of six Muslim women in our community. Collected over the past year\, these stories represent voices of healing and those of our community’s Muslim women. \nThe exhibit will feature portraits and stories displayed side by side so that viewers can make a human connection with the subjects. Our hope is that this display will provide an opportunity for visitors to explore the emotions of this particular community\, which continues to bear the brunt of hate speech in the United States. \nThe event will begin at MET immediately after the interfaith service\, which is scheduled for Saturday\, May 26\, 2018\, at 7:00 PM. The Muslim Educational Trust is located at 10330 SW Scholls Ferry Road\, Tigard\, Oregon\, 97223. \nFor additional information: Sankar Raman\, 971-221-4802\, s​ankar@theimmigrantstory.org Paige Stoyer\, 503-830-3449\, paige@paigestoyer.com http://theimmigrantstory.org/who-we-are/ \nThe Immigrant Story is a volunteer led non-profit organization based in Portland\, Oregon\, that documents and archives stories of immigrants. \n 
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/a-portrait-exhibit-honoring-muslim-women-in-our-community-at-the-muslim-educational-trust/
LOCATION:Muslim Educational Trust\, 10330 SW Scholls Ferry Road\, Tigard\, OR\, 97223\, United States
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SUMMARY:Charles Jones at The O’Brien Photo Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Charles Jones\, Flower Abstractions \nThe show runs from May 14th through July 12th.\nThere will be an artist’s reception on Saturday May 19th from 3-6 pm. \nThe O’Brien Photo Gallery\n2833 Willamette\, Ste. B.\nEugene\, OR 97405\n(541) 729 3572\nOpen Weekdays\, call for open hours\nor to make an appointment.\nEmail: waltobrien@gmail.com\nGallery Website:  http://obrienimaging.com/gallery.htm \nWhen I dive into the depths of a flower\, I am fascinated by the variety of shapes\, colors\, and textures. The use of photo stacking allows me to capture portions of flowers as small as ¼ inch and produce images at up to 50 times magnification. I strive for abstract and surreal images while maintaining tack sharp focus. Some of my images involve stacking over 100 photos taken at different focal distances (using Zerene Stacker software.) \nI am a retired mathematician currently doing part time consulting. I had a career in the aerospace industry including coordinating research with small businesses and universities. Besides photography\, I have a variety of interests including science\, philosophy\, marble collecting\, and playing saxophone. I organize the Eugene Atheists Pub Social Meetup group. (Come join us\, details on meetup.com.) More info and photos on my website.
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/charles-jones-at-the-obrien-photo-gallery/
LOCATION:The O’Brien Photo Gallery\, 2833 Willamette\, Ste. B\, Eugene\, OR\, 97405\, United States
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SUMMARY:Rich Bergeman at High Desert Museum
DESCRIPTION:Rich Bergeman\, High Desert Dreams: The Lost Homesteads of the Fort Rock Basin \nMay 12 – Oct. 14\, 2018\nPanel Discussion: Thursday\, May 17\, 6-7pm \nHigh Desert Museum\n59800 S. Hwy 97\nBend\, OR 97702\n541-382-4754\nHours: 9am – 5pm daily\nwww.highdesertmuseum.org \n“High Desert Dreams: The Lost Homesteads of the Fort Rock Basin” chronicles a nearly forgotten chapter in Oregon history\, when hundreds of pioneers flooded the high desert in the early 1900s\, only to abandon their homesteads within a decade\, leaving the landscape littered with deserted cabins\, idle windmills and hollowed-out towns. \nOver the decades since then\, nearly all evidence of that era has gradually disappeared. Enough remnants remain into the 21st century\, however\, to allow the photographer to bring the story back to life through more than 25 black-and-white images of decaying homesteads and vanished town sites. \nRich Bergeman of Corvallis is a retired journalism and photography instructor at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany\, Ore.\, who has also been an exhibiting fine art photographer for the past 30 years. In recent years his focus has been on investigating and interpreting local histories in the Pacific Nortwest through photographs and stories of what’s been left behind. \n 
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/rich-bergeman-at-high-desert-museum/
LOCATION:High Desert Museum\, 59800 S. Hwy 97\, Bend\, OR\, 97702\, United States
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SUMMARY:Harley Cowan at the Portland Art Museum
DESCRIPTION:Harley Cowan\, A Cathedral of Science \nPortland Art Museum Photography Council’s\nBrown Bag Lunch Talk Series \nWednesday\, May 16th\, 2018 at Noon \nPortland Art Museum\nThe Whitsell Auditorium\n1219 SW Park Avenue\, Portland\, OR 97205\nwww.portlandartmuseum.org\n503 226 2811\nCost: Free to the public. \n“I travel to historically significant but largely unrecorded sites in the Pacific Northwest in order to create photography eligible for the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER). HABS was established in 1933 as a joint venture between the National Park Service\, the American Institute of Architects\, and the Library of Congress as a way to preserve American built history. HAER was added in 1969 to record American industry and infrastructure. \n“There was a time when photographers established themselves with work produced for a private or federal documentation program such as the Farm Security Administration or Works Progress Administration. Unlike other federal programs following the Great Depression\, HABS/HAER are on-going and active today. They continue to follow strict guidelines for black & white\, large format\, film photography. As a contemporary photographer\, it is an intriguing starting point. \n“I grew up in Richland\, Washington next to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. B Reactor\, brainchild of physicist Enrico Fermi\, built in 1944 as part of the Manhattan Project\, was the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor which produced plutonium for the Trinity Test and the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki\, Japan. Arguably the greatest engineering feat of the 20th Century\, and the most terrible\, a Promethian altar of science\, it has long held a fascination. In 2017\, I was granted four days of access to photograph the reservation and the reactor.” \nHarley Cowan is a photographer based in Portland\, Oregon. He is also a practicing architect. His interest in large format photography led to a research fellowship in architectural heritage documentation and preservation with work in the Library of Congress. Cowan won the 2018 Access Award from the Vernacular Architecture Forum. He has lectured before the Society of Architectural Historians at their 2017 conference in Victoria\, B.C.\, DoCoMoMo_Oregon\, University of Oregon’s Historic Preservation Program\, and the Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School. His work is included in SAH Archipedia\, an online encyclopedia of historic sites\, and his Manhattan Project portfolio is presently in the Pacific Northwest Viewing Drawers at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland and the “PDX 30” group show at LightBox Gallery in Astoria. \nA graduate of Washington State University\, Cowan is a member of the Professional Advisory Board for WSU’s School of Design & Construction. Early in his career\, he spent six years working in nuclear industry. His studies also took him to Far Eastern State Technical University in Vladivostok\, Russia. \nHarley Cowan\nwww.harleycowan.com
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/harley-cowan-at-the-portland-art-museum/
LOCATION:Portland Art Museum\, 1219 SW Park Avenue\, Portland\, OR\, 97205\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180512T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180512T200000
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SUMMARY:Extending Tradition:Large Format at LightBox Photographic Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Extending Tradition:Large Format \nMay 12th – June 6th\, 2018 \nOpening and Artists’ Reception: Saturday\,  May 12th\, 5-8pm \nLightBox Photographic Gallery\n1045 Marine Dr.\nAstoria\, OR 97103\n(503) 468-0238\nlightbox-photographic.com\nhttp://lightbox-photographic.com/shows/extending_tradition_large_format \nLightBox Photographic Gallery will host the artists’ opening reception of “Extending Tradition: Large Format on Saturday\, May 12th\, from 5-8pm. pm. Thirty Photographers from around the world will show work in this exhibit celebrating the traditional approach and beauty of large format film photography. \nExtending Tradition: Large Format features work from photographers who continue the tradition of using large format film or plates\, generally 4 x 5 inches and larger. The call went out for work from photographers who use large format film or plates and who print in any analog process. One image each from 30 individual photographers is shown in the exhibit with work printed in many unique analog processes giving recognition to those whose interest and talent follow the masterful path of traditional large format photography. \nCongratulations to the Photographers of Extending Tradition:Large Format \nEmily Lint • Ritch Winokur • Rory Earnshaw • Patrick Whitaker • Elizabeth King\nSara Silks • Tri Tran • Aleksandra Wolter • Hendrik Faure • Katt Jansen Merilo\nRich Caramadre • Norman Riley • Jason Windingstad • Tim Scott • Logan Clark\nPaul Cunningham • Henrietta’s Eye • Loren Nelson • David Vic • Walt O’Brien\nCarol Glassman • Ronald Butler • Emily Gomez • Matthew Blais • Dave Roberts\nMichael Weitzman • Bob Sanov • Ryan Gillespie • Austin Granger • Rich Bergeman \nLightBox was honored to have an amazing panel of Jurors for the exhibit. \nTerry Thompson • John Wimberley • Jim Fitzgerald \nTerry Thompson’s background in photography includes an art education at the legendary School of Visual Arts in N.Y.C. He was one of the first photographic artists to revive the Platinum print process in the 1960’s. Terry currently lives in Portland\, Oregon. \nJohn Wimberley stands alone among current large format masters for his substantive and refined imagery and his prowess and technical mastery of the Silver Gelatin Process. His beautiful writings muse about the human element in the eternal search for the perfect photographic image. \nJim Fitzgerald is a Large and Ultra Large Format camera builder\, photographer and educator living in Vancouver\, Wa. working exclusively in the monochrome carbon transfer process using in camera negatives from his 8 × 10\, 11 × 14\, 8 × 20 or 14 × 17 hand crafted cameras. \n“Extending Tradition: Large Format” will be on display in the gallery through June 6th. Please visit the gallery during the month to see the collection of work. Complete show info is on the LightBox website at http://lightbox-photographic.com/shows/. LightBox memberships are a way to become part of the community that helps to further the mission of the gallery. Contact LightBox at 503-468-0238 or info@lightboxphotographic.com. LightBox is located at 1045 Marine Drive in Astoria\, hours are Tuesday – Saturday\, 11 – 5:30. \n 
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/extending-traditionlarge-format-at-lightbox-photographic-gallery/
LOCATION:LightBox Photographic Gallery\, 1045 Marine Dr.\, Astoria\, OR\, 97103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jim Fitzgerald: Revealed in Carbon at LightBox Photographic Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Jim Fitzgerald: Revealed in Carbon \nMay 12th – June 6th\, 2018 \nOpening and Artists’ Reception: Saturday\,  May 12th\, 5-8pm\nArtist Talk\, 4-5pm\, Call for Seating. \nLightBox Photographic Gallery\n1045 Marine Dr.\nAstoria\, OR 97103\n(503) 468-0238 \nlightbox-photographic.com\nhttp://lightbox-photographic.com/shows/revealed_in_carbon \nLightBox Photographic Gallery host the opening reception of Jim Fitzgerald’s exhibit\, “Revealed in Carbon” on Saturday\, May 12th\, from 5-8pm. Please join us for an artist’ talk from 4-5pm immediately before the opening reception. Please contact the gallery at info@lightbox-photographic.com for seating reservations for the artist talk. \nLightBox is proud to exhibit the work of this very passionate photographer. Jim is a Large and Ultra Large Format camera builder\, photographer and educator currently living in Vancouver\, Washington. Jim prints his images using the 150 year old Carbon Transfer process in all of his work. On this night\, Jim will present a special carbon transfer book project that has taken eleven years to complete. Additionally\, the artist will discuss this project and share a series of carbon transfer prints in a limited edition collection. \nA self-educated photographer\, Jim works exclusively in the monochrome carbon transfer process using in camera negatives from either his 8 × 10\, 11 × 14\, 8 × 20 or 14 × 17 hand crafted cameras. Carbon transfer is a process perfected in 1864 and is a highly labor intensive process that yields prints of the finest quality. The photographer has total control of the image tonality due to the blending of pigments and manufacturing of tissue unique to the artist’s vision. Carbon prints require several days to produce one finished print. Jim is one of a handful of artists who works exclusively in carbon transfer and he teaches Carbon transfer printing in his home studio in Vancouver\, Washington. \njimscarbonartphotography.com \n“To be one with your subject\, completely\, is how I work as an artist.\nI hear\, smell\, sense and always see what moves my soul. These fleeting moments are what I share\, what I hope will open the eyes and most importantly the hearts of the viewers to the beauty that is all around us.\nThe overwhelming joy with which I work has set me free. My methods and the final presentation of my vision\, carbon transfer prints\, are the gateway to my inner self. One only has to “let go” and experience the feeling of the images. I found my way long ago and the journey continues every waking moment.\nAs an artist my hope is to inspire others with my methods\, philosophy and images in a way that will allow them to touch their own inner self and share their vision with the world.\nPlease enjoy the carbon transfer prints I present as they are the culmination of my vision for they live and breathe for all to see.”\n~ Jim Fitzgerald \n“Revealed In Carbon” will show in the gallery from May 12th until June 6th. LightBox offers memberships to be part of the community that helps further the mission of the gallery. LightBox is located at 1045 Marine Drive in Astoria\, hours are Tuesday – Saturday 11 – 5:30. Contact LightBox at 503-468-0238 or at info@lightbox-photographic.com\, and visit lightbox-photographic.com for more info on this exhibit and to enjoy past\, current and upcoming exhibits. \n 
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/jim-fitzgerald-revealed-in-carbon-at-lightbox-photographic-gallery/
LOCATION:LightBox Photographic Gallery\, 1045 Marine Dr.\, Astoria\, OR\, 97103\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180510T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180510T210000
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SUMMARY:Conversations: A Small Talk Social at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center
DESCRIPTION:Conversations: A Small Talk Social\n\nMay 10th\, 2018 from 6:00-9:00pm\nDisjecta Contemporary Art Center\n8371 N Interstate Ave\, Portland\, Oregon 97217\nwww.disjecta.org \nPlease join Small Talk Collective for a party\, pop-up exhibition and live photographic collaboration on May 10th at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center. \nWe will display our ongoing collaborative project “Conversations” for one night only! Additionally\, we will reserve space for a live photo conversation open to everyone. Bring an image on your phone and we will make a 4×6 print for you to add to the wall. Make a connection or respond to someone else’s photo and watch how this visual web builds organically throughout the evening! \nAnd if you haven’t purchased We’re Always Touching by Underground Wires\, we will have signed copies available at the event. \nThis is the third and final installation of our RACC Project Grant\, which began with our book launch and current exhibition at Pushdot Studio for Portland Photo Month. We hope you’ll join us for a night of celebration. \nPhotos! Drinks! Music! Books! Snacks! And many\, many thanks! \nwww.smalltalkcollective.com\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/199996154120566/
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/conversations-a-small-talk-social-at-disjecta-contemporary-art-center/
LOCATION:Disjecta Contemporary Art Center\, 8371 N. Interstate Ave.\, Portland\, OR\, 97217\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180510T150000
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SUMMARY:Photography at Oregon On-Line Photography Auction
DESCRIPTION:Eugene-based Photography at Oregon (PAO) is having their 40th annual photography auction of original photographs. \nPhotographs by Wynn Bullock\, Christopher Burkett\, Carl Chiarenza\, Monte Gerlach\, Stewart Harvey\, Don Kirby\, Stu Levy\, Richard Man\, Suzanne Opton\, Bill Owens\, Alan Ross\, George Tice and many other photographers are being offered. \nPAO has supported the area’s photography teaching programs for more than 50 years. \nAuction proceeds support PAO’s public lectures\, exhibitions\, workshops\, visiting artists and community fine-art photography nights. \nAuction bids can be made through June 1. Please bid on a photograph and help support photography in our community!
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/photography-at-oregon-on-line-photography-auction/
LOCATION:Dot Dotson’s\, 1668 Willamette\, Eugene\, OR\, 97401\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180505T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180505T170000
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SUMMARY:2018 Curatorial Prize: Ultra Vivid Dreaming at Blue Sky Gallery
DESCRIPTION:2018 Curatorial Prize: Ultra Vivid Dreaming\nphotography and video by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. and Shikeith\ncurated by Ashley Stull Meyers \nMay 3–June 3\, 2018\nFirst Thursday Opening Reception\, May 3rd\, 6:00–9:00 PM\nArtist Talk: Saturday\, May 5th\, 3:00 PM\nClosing lecture for Ultra Vivid Dreaming with Dr. Derrais Carter: Saturday\, June 2nd\, 3:00 PM \nCurated by Ashley Stull Meyers\, Ultra Vivid Dreaming features photography and video work by two emerging artists that upends art historical legacies of portrait making and instead introduces contemporary studies of the body that are divorced from notions of “revealing”. Shikeith and Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. create images that are “ultra vivid” in color\, composition\, and focus on seemingly mundane environments with surreal undertones. The bodies pictured exist as if in a dream-state\, where the subject’s formal attributes and vulnerabilities are carefully considered by the photographer. While these works exist as contemporary representations of Black bodies and Queerness\, they also critique the pervasive consumption of Black imagery and culture by an otherwise negligent audience. The subjects of the photos obstruct access to their identities and innermost selves through intentional postures that obscure full visibility\, providing only a level of detail tangible in an ultra vivid dream. \nElliott Jerome Brown Jr. (b. 1993) is a conceptual photographer based in Brooklyn\, New York\, whose work focuses on intimacy\, vulnerability\, and social perception. He graduated in 2016 with a BFA from New York University and recently finished a residency at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine. His work has been exhibited in New York City\, Baltimore\, Philadelphia\, Prague\, and Michoacán\, Mexico\, where he also did a residency at RedLab Laboratorio de Gestión y Vinculación Cultural A.C. In addition to a visual practice\, he is also the curator of DATE NIGHT\, an interdisciplinary exhibition set in various homes. \nShikeith (b. 1989) is a multi-disciplinary visual artist and filmmaker originally from Philadelphia\, PA. He holds a BA from The Pennsylvania State University and he is a 2018 MFA candidate in the sculpture department of Yale School of Art in New Haven\, Connecticut\, where he currently lives. Shikeith’s public programs and group and solo exhibitions have been held at national and international venues such as the MAK Gallery in London; the Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit; MoMA\, the Aperture Foundation\, and the Vera List Center in New York City; Pittsburgh’s Kelly-Strayhorn Theatre; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Morehouse College in Atlanta; the Seattle Art Museum; and the Wrocław Contemporary Museum in Poland\, among others. Shikeith’s critically acclaimed documentary “#Blackmendream” (featured in this exhibition) was made possible by funding from multiple grants from The Pittsburgh Foundation and was named by the Tribeca Film Institute as one of ten films that capture the meaning of Black life in America. Shikeith is also the founder of Emerging Black Art. \nAshley Stull Meyers is a writer\, editor\, and curatorial collaborator. She has curated exhibitions and programming for the Wattis Institute (San Francisco)\, Eli Ridgway (San Francisco)\, the Oakland Museum of California\, Newspace Center for Photography\, Blue Sky Gallery\, and Bridge Productions (Seattle\, WA). She has been in academic residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha\, NE) and the Banff Centre (Banff\, Alberta). She is Northwest Editor for Art Practical\, and has contributed writing to Bomb Magazine\, Rhizome\, Arts.Black and SFAQ/NYAQ. In 2017 Meyers was named the The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Director and Curator of the Art Gym and Belluschi Pavilion. \n  \n 
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/2018-curatorial-prize-ultra-vivid-dreaming-at-blue-sky-gallery/
LOCATION:Blue Sky Gallery\, 122 NW 8th Avenue\, Portland\, OR\, 97209\, United States
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SUMMARY:Laurie Lambrecht\, Jungle Road
DESCRIPTION:Laurie Lambrecht\, Jungle Road \nMay 3–June 3\, 2018 \nFirst Thursday Opening Reception: May 3\, 6:00–9:00 PM\nArtist talk: Thursday\, May 3\, 5:00 PM \nIntermittently over a period of two years\, Laurie Lambrecht photographed the lush habitat surrounding the Robert Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva Island\, Florida. Inspired by the multi-layered and textured environment as well as the formal relationships between the plant and human life found there\, she began printing her images on the soft surface of recycled newsprint to convey the irresistibly tactile nature of the place. This focus on patterns and texture\, as well as a desire to work more directly with her hands\, soon led to Lambrecht’s Bark Cloth series\, which is also included in this exhibition. Close-up photographs of trees are printed on linen and embroidered by the artist along the unique lines and patterns of the bark. Lambrecht writes\, “I love that the bark of a tree can appear to be a topographical map\, and how the outlines of the bark’s scales can read like rivers or mountains. I am using lines of embroidered thread as a visual guide through the bark’s imagined landscape.” \nLaurie Lambrecht was born in Bridgehampton\, New York and resides there today. She earned her undergraduate degree at Marymount College in Tarrytown\, New York\, and has studied in graduate programs at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester\, New York\, where she also worked at the George Eastman House. Lambrecht’s projects include documenting Roy Lichtenstein’s studio in the early 1990s while she was his assistant. Inside Roy Lichtenstein’s Studio was exhibited in Houston at the Bank of America Center during the FotoFest 2010 Biennial\, as well as at Blue Sky\, and abroad. China 2009\, a series of landscapes\, taken during her first trip east\, was exhibited at Rick Wester Fine Art\, New York in 2012. Lambrecht participated in Centro Colombo Americano de Medellín’s 2013 Zoomlab in Colombia\, working with high school and university students for two weeks. While in Colombia\, she had a solo exhibition at El Museo Universidad de Antioquia. This is Lambrecht’s second solo show at Blue Sky. \n 
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/laurie-lambrecht-jungle-road/
LOCATION:Blue Sky Gallery\, 122 NW 8th Avenue\, Portland\, OR\, 97209\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T170000
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SUMMARY:Alan Wieder at Gallery 114
DESCRIPTION:Alan Wieder\, My Cuba — Santiago de Cuba \nMay 3 to May 27 \nGallery 114\n100 NW Glisan\nThursday\, Friday\, Saturday\, Sunday Noon to 6\nFirst Thursday — May 3 from 6 to 9 \nThis show is in Gallery 114 as part of member Al Stone’s sculpture exhibit. Included in the show are street photographs taken in early April in Santiago de Cuba.
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/alan-wieder-at-gallery-114/
LOCATION:Gallery 114\, 1100 NW Glisan\, Portland\, OR\, 97209\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T233000
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SUMMARY:“The Immigrant Story” photography contest - submissions due
DESCRIPTION:Submissions will be accepted from February 1 through April 30\, 2018 (12:00 midnight PST).http://theimmigrantstory.org/our-strength/ \nA photo contest telling the story of immigrants in our community \nTo highlight the diversity and strength of our community\, “The Immigrant Story” is hosting a photography contest to address an issue that is prevalent in our country today: xenophobia. The contest\, open from February 1 through April 30\, 2018\, welcomes submissions of photographs that depict the stories of immigrants who have added to our diverse cultural landscape. \n  \n 
URL:https://lukeolsenphotography.com/event/immigrant-story-photography-contest-submissions-due/
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