Summer Line-Up
Second Thursday Night Artist Talks
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, May 22nd, 2009 | 
| Contact: | Amy M. Echo-Hawk |
| 503-276-4305 | |
| amy.echo-hawk@pam.org | |
| Beth Heinrich | |
| 503-276-4370 | |
| beth.heinrich@pam.org |
PORTLAND, Ore. — This summer the Portland Art Museum’s Artist Talks will be led by Portland Spaces magazine Editor-In-Chief Randy Gragg, Nomad piercing studio owner Blake Perlingieri, 2008 Contemporary Northwest Art Award finalist Jeffry Mitchell, and local artist and PSU faculty member Wendy Red Star.
Artist Talk: Randy Gragg
For more than two decades Randy Gragg, editor-in-chief of Portland Spaces magazine, has written about art and architecture in the Northwest. Gragg will discuss the Portland Art Museum’s main building as a work of art and the collaboration between architect Pietro Belluschi, Museum Curator Anna Belle Crocker, and Harry Frederick Wentz, a teacher at the Museum Art School, which brought the building to fruition in 1932. Participants depart from the Hoffman Lobby at 6 p.m. and the conversation continues during happy hour, held after the talk until 8 p.m.
| Date and Time: | Thursday, June 11, 6 p.m. |
| Location: | Departs from the Hoffman Lobby Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205 |
| Cost: | Free with Museum admission. Admission includes happy hour cover. Free drink tickets available upon request for the first 50 ticket holders. |
Artist Talk: Blake Perlingier
Thursday, July 9, 6 p.m.
Artist Blake Perlingieri operates a piercing studio and owns the Nomad Museum of Body Adornment in Portland. Perlingieri wrote A Brief History of the Evolution of Body Adornment in Western Culture (2003) and has appeared on TV programs for The Discovery Channel and National Geographic.
Artist Talk: Jeffry Mitchell
Thursday, August 13, 6 p.m.
Northwest Artist Jeffry Mitchell’s work is a mix of craft practices and fine arts training. Mitchell was selected to receive a 2008 Contemporary Northwest Art Award from the Portland Art Museum, where he exhibited his work Sphinx.
Artist Talk: Wendy Red Star
Thursday, September 10, 6 p.m.
Through recreated dioramas reminiscent of natural history museums, Portland artist Wendy Red Star explores the intersection between life on the Crow Indian reservation and the world outside of that environment.
About Artist Talks
Every second Thursday of the month, the Portland Art Museum invites local artists to lead evening gallery talks and share their thoughts about art on view that intrigues, delights, or inspires them. The talks begin at 6 p.m. and afterward, attendees can continue the conversation and enjoy complimentary hors d’oeuvres during happy hour in the Museum’s Hoffman Lobby until 8 p.m. Free drink tickets are available upon request for the first 50 ticket holders.
MK Guth, PNCA Chair of the MFA program, launched the series in February with a discussion of Christ on Lake Genesareth by Eugene Delacroix and Lifeboat by Jeff Koon. Artists TJ Norris, Michael Knutson, and Pat Boas led gallery talks discussing a sculpture by Sol Lewitt, 16th century painted screens by an Edo workshop, and a painting by Philip Guston. Artist Talks give attendees the chance to see local artists and the works discussed from a new perspective.
About the Portland Art Museum
The seventh oldest museum in the United States and the oldest on the West Coast, the Portland Art Museum is internationally recognized for its permanent collection and ambitious special exhibitions drawn from the Museum’s holdings and the world’s finest public and private collections. The Museum’s collection of 42,000 objects, displayed in 112,000 square feet of galleries, reflects the history of art from ancient times to today. The collection is distinguished for its holdings of arts of the native peoples of North America, English silver, and the graphic arts. An active collecting institution dedicated to preserving great art for the enrichment of future generations, the Museum devotes 90 percent of its galleries to its permanent collection. The Museum’s campus of landmark buildings, a cornerstone of Portland’s cultural district, includes the Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, the Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, the Schnitzer Center for Northwest Art, the Northwest Film Center, and the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Center for Native American Art. With a membership of more than 22,000 households and serving more than 350,000 visitors annually, the Museum is a premier venue for education in the visual arts. For information on exhibitions and programs, call 503-226-2811 or visit portlandartmuseum.org.
Editor’s Note: For high resolution images of this summer’s line-up of Artist Talks, please contact Amy M. Echo-Hawk at amy.echo-hawk@pam.org or 503-276-4305.
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