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Oregon Contemporary
Oregon Center for Contemporary Art (also known as Oregon Contemporary, formerly Disjecta) is an art center in Portland, Oregon. It is home to the Portland Biennial since 2010, continuing in the tradition of the Portland Art Museum's ended Oregon Biennial. Programming Oregon Contemporary's Curator in Residence program began in 2011 and is the first of its kind in the region. Curators include Lucy Cotter (2021–22), Justin Hoover (2019–20), Suzy Halajian (2018-19), Julia Greenway (2017–18), Michele Fiedler (2016-17), Chiara Giovando (2015–16), Rachel Adams (2014-15), Summer Guthery (2013–14), Josephine Zarkovich (2012–13), and Jenene Nagy (2011-12). Visual arts programming highlights include solo exhibitions by Natalie Ball, Avantika Bawa, Karl Burkheimer, Tannaz Farsi, Anna Fidler, Chris Fraser, Dan Gilsdorf, Peter Halley, Mark Licari, and Jenene Nagy. In 2010 (then known as Disjecta), Oregon Contemporary launched the first Portland Biennial. The Biennial, which origin ...
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Art Center
An art centre or arts center is distinct from an art gallery or art museum. An arts centre is a functional community centre with a specific remit to encourage arts practice and to provide facilities such as theatre space, gallery space, venues for musical performance, workshop areas, educational facilities, technical equipment, etc. In the United States, "art centers" are generally either establishments geared toward exposing, generating, and making accessible art making to arts-interested individuals, or buildings that rent primarily to artists, galleries, or companies involved in art making. In Britain, the Bluecoat Society of Arts was founded in Liverpool in 1927 following the efforts of a group of artists and art lovers who had occupied Bluecoat Chambers since 1907. Most British art centres began after World War II and gradually changed from mainly middle-class places to 1960s and 1970s trendy, alternative centres and eventually in the 1980s to serving the ''whole'' communi ...
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Portland, Oregon
Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous county in Oregon. Portland had a population of 652,503, making it the 26th-most populated city in the United States, the sixth-most populous on the West Coast, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest, after Seattle. Approximately 2.5 million people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area (MSA), making it the 25th most populous in the United States. About half of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metropolitan area. Named after Portland, Maine, the Oregon settlement began to be populated in the 1840s, near the end of the Oregon Trail. Its water access provided convenient transportation of goods, and the timber industry was a major force in the city's early economy. At the turn of the 20th century, the ...
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Natalie Ball
Natalie Ball (born 1980) is a Klamath/ Modoc interdisciplinary artist based in Chiloquin, Oregon. Background Born in Portland, Oregon, Ball is enrolled in the Klamath Tribes. She is also of African-American, Modoc, and Anglo-American descent. Ball is a descendant of Kientpaush, also known as Captain Jack (1837–1873), the chief who led the Modocs to fight the United States in the 1872 Modoc War. Her grandfather was a painter, and her aunt Peggy Ball, was a quiltmaker. Her family moved from Klamath lands to Portland, Oregon, after the Klamath Termination Act was passed in 1954. Ball has three children, including daughter Lofanitani Aisea. Education Ball earned her bachelor's degree in art and ethnic studies from the University of Oregon, and her master's degree in Maori Visual Arts from Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand. She earned her MFA from Yale University School of Art in painting and printmaking in 2018. Artwork Ball's art practice includes i ...
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Avantika Bawa
Avantika Bawa (born 1973) is an Indian American artist, curator, and professor of art. Bawa is a multidisciplinary artist who works primarily in site-specific installation, video, printmaking, and drawing. She is the recipient of the 2018 Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts Golden Spot Residency Award, the Hallie Ford Fellowship in the Visual Arts, and the Oregon Arts Commission Joan Shipley Award. Education Bawa has an MFA in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the Maharaja Sayajirao University. Career Bawa is an associate professor of art at Washington State University Vancouver, and serves on the board of the Oregon Arts Commission. She has had solo exhibitions at the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, Suyama Space in Seattle; Saltworks Gallery in Atlanta; Disjecta Contemporary Arts Center in Portland, Oregon; and Gallery Maskara in Mumbai, India. Bawa is also one of the founders of ''Drain - A Journal of Contemporary Art an ...
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Tannaz Farsi
Tannaz Farsi (born 1974) is an Iranian-born American multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. Farsi is an Associate Professor of sculpture at the University of Oregon. She lives in Eugene, Oregon. Biography Tannaz Farsi was born in 1974 in Tehran, Pahlavi Iran. Farsi received her BFA degree (2004) from West Virginia University; and her MFA degree (2007) from Ohio University. Farsi has had solo exhibitions at the Linfield Gallery at SculptureCenter (2008); the Barron and Elin Gordon Galleries, Old Dominion University; Ohge Ltd, Seattle (2009); Delaware Center for Contemporary Art (2010); Disjecta (2011); Pitzer College Art Galleries (2013); and Linfield College (2017). Farsi has had group exhibitions include at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan; Tacoma Art Museum; Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University; Gallery Homeland, Portland, Oregon; and the PDX Film Festiv ...
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Jenene Nagy
Jenene Nagy, a native of New York is a Portland, Oregon, based installation artist and curator. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Oregon in 2004 and has co-curated the noted Tilt Gallery and Project Space in the Everett Station Lofts since January 2006. Known for her space shaping architectural interventions debuted at THE HOOK UP exhibition at the New American Art Union (June 2007), her work has grown exponentially in later shows like False Flat and S/plit in the Portland Art Museum The Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, United States, was founded in 1892, making it one of the oldest art museums on the West Coast and seventh oldest in the US. Upon completion of the most recent renovations, the Portland Art Museum beca ...'s Apex Program.Advance website ...
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Cris Moss
Cris Moss is a curator and multimedia artist based in Portland, Oregon. Currently Cris Moss is the director and Curator of the White Box gallery at the University of Oregon's Portland campus. Initially noted for his ongoing series of itinerant donut shop shows in the early aughts. He then became Adjunct Professor of Design, Electronic Media, and Gallery Director at Linfield College. Moss' programming is considered to be some of the most notable in the Portland area. He is also part of the Red Shoe Delivery Service collective. Moss's work explores the various layers of identity as mediated through culture by employing narratives both scripted and non-scripted. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including The Melbourne International Arts Festival, Australia, Nottdance, UK, Display Gallery in Prague, Maccarone Inc. in New York City, Swiss Institute - Contemporary Art in New York City, Elizabeth Leach Gallery Portland, Oregon, Whatcom Art Museum, Bellingham, Was ...
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Michelle Grabner
Michelle Grabner (born 1962 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin) is an artist, curator, and critic based in Wisconsin. She is the Crown Family Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she has taught since 1996. She has curated several important exhibitions, including the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art along with Anthony Elms and Stuart Comer, anFRONT International the 2016 Portland Biennial at thOregon Contemporary a triennial exhibition in Cleveland, Ohio in 2018. In 2014, Grabner was named one of the 100 most powerful women in art and in 2019, she was named a 2019 National Academy of Design's Academician, a lifetime honor. In 2021, Grabner was named a Guggenheim Fellow by The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Life Grabner received a B.F.A. (painting and drawing) in 1984 and an M.A. in art history in 1987 from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Her MA thesis and exhibition was titled Postmodernism: A Spectacle of Refle ...
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North Park Blocks
The North Park Blocks form a city park in downtown Portland, Oregon, in the United States. Most of the park is in northwest Portland (north of Burnside), but one block (Ankeny Square) is in southwest Portland (south of Burnside). Description and history Captain John H. Couch deeded the five blocks to the city in 1865, and they were officially platted for a municipal park in 1869. An ordinance was passed in 1904, setting aside one park block for women and children. In 1906, another block was added for a children's playground. The playground was divided into a boys' playground and a small children's and girls' playground. Use of the North Park Blocks declined, especially as the 1924 zoning code did not preserve residential uses near them. By the 1940s, the North Park Blocks area was decidedly neglected. A problem with the homeless and aggressive panhandlers led to Daisy Kingdom and the U.S. Customs House to hire security guards, and park sprinklers were set to intermittently spr ...
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Burnside Bridgehead
The Burnside Bridgehead is a development project at the northeast end of the Burnside Bridge in Portland, Oregon's Kerns neighborhood, in the United States. The site includes: * Yard, a black 21-story apartment building completed in 2017 * Fair-Haired Dumbbell, two brightly colored connected six-story towers, completed in 2017 * Blake McFall Company Building; historic, home to Autodesk * Slate building, 10 stories, home to CENTRL Office * Eastside Exchange; historic * Union Arms Apartments; historic * Sideyard, designed by Skylab; 4 stories of cross-laminated timber, completed in 2020 * Frigidaire Building Frigidaire Appliance Company is the American consumer and Commercial area, commercial home appliances brand subsidiary of multinational company Electrolux. Frigidaire was founded as the Guardian Frigerator Company in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and deve ... References Kerns, Portland, Oregon {{Oregon-struct-stub ...
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American Artist Groups And Collectives
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