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Cooley Gallery Exhibition: E.O. Hoppé: Studio, Society, and Street Photography, 1909–1945

http://events.reed.edu/posts/2014-15/cooley-gallery-hoppe.html Emil Otto Hoppé (1878–1972) was one of the most important art and documentary photographers of the modern era, and his artistic accomplishments rivaled those of his peers, Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), Edward Steichen (1879–1973), and Walker Evans (1903–1975). The exhibition includes vintage prints that reveal the breadth of his interests and travels and his intimate […]

Liz Longley

http://www.mississippistudios.com/event/761505-liz-longley-portland/ Female artist with beautiful vocals to perform at a Portland venue in the heart of Portland’s Historic Mississippi District. Built in 2003, Mississippi Studios is owned and operated by musicians. The venue offers show-goers incredible acoustics (with all-custom, non-parallel venue walls, and state-of-the art analog perfection in the booth) and ‘feels like you’re in […]

Pittock Mansion

http://pittockmansion.org/ The Pittock Mansion was home to Portland pioneers Henry and Georgiana Pittock from 1914 to 1919. During the late 1800s and the early 1900s, their lives and work paralleled the growth of Portland from a small Northwest town site to a thriving city with a quarter million population. With its eclectic architectural design and […]

Two by Ionesca

http://events.reed.edu/posts/2014-15/reed-theatre-two-by-ionesco.html   Reed Theatre presents two plays by Romanian-born Eugène Ionesco. Writing in French about a “typical” English couple, Ionesco brashly depicts what happens when the world goes awry but retains its veneer of normalcy in The Bald Soprano (1950).The Lesson, written in 1951, is a dark academic comedy. Both plays invite questions about time, language, and how we cope […]

Impact – Oregon Ballet Theater

http://obt.org/season_program4.html   IMPACT: “The effect or influence of one person, thing, or action, on another” – The New Oxford American Dictionary Oregon Ballet Theatre closes its 25th Anniversary Season with IMPACT – a program of four powerful ballets which reveal how the emotional, social, and artistic aspects of dance can create an experience that moves the audience and […]

Urban Walking Tour

http://urbantourgroup.org/ Urban Tour Group is a volunteer organization dedicated to giving young people a sampling of the history, culture, architecture and resources of Portland, Oregon. They also do tours for the public.

Itinerary

Week 0: (March 30-April 9) Reading: Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now WEEK 1: (April 10-13) Lyric Truth: Paintings, Drawings and Embroideries of Rosemarie Beck (an exhibit at Reed College); Urban Tour Group (walking tours for $5); and Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances (at Arlene Schnitzer Hall) Reading: Frozen Music: A History of Portland Architecture WEEK 2: (April […]

Sketch

My apartment is on the top right corner, slightly cut off by my lack of spatial awareness as I began my sketch.  I will miss my little home, but my daughter and I will be coming and going.  

City Reflections

seattle i love you lazy, sprawling city, hospital which used to be apartments which used to be a warehouse, dilapidated house on the corner with the falling-in roof, toy poodle walking your owner in the falling rain i love you library, home to stacks upon stacks of records of past, present, future i love you […]

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