Art Focus

On Tuesday January 31 Joseph Gallivan interviews Judith Sobol, the Executive

Director of the Cantor Foundation, about Rodin: The Human Experience, a new

show at the Portland Art Museum which runs now through April 16, 2017.

 

Sobol will talk about Rodin as a businessman, h...

Accepted codes of race like “white” and “black” are constructed

societal, political, and economic identities. They are used as the justifying

principles for enslavement of Africans by Americans in order to build a new

nation’s economy. Racial identity continues to permeate ...

David F. Walker is an award-winning comic book writer, author, filmmaker,

journalist, and educator. His work in comic books includes Shaft (Dynamite

Entertainment), winner of the 2015 Glyph Award for Story of the

Year. Recognized as a leading scholar expert of African-Ameri...

Y.G.B is more than just a party it is a community. What is felt as you walk

into the room is a sense of belonging and freedom that is supported by the

music, people and burning sage the air. We call upon our roots and our

ancestors to reconnect with each other and to our de...

On Tuesday January 17 Joseph Gallivan interviews painter and glass artist

Alex Hirsch about her new show “Once Asunder,” which is on now though

January 28 at the Russo Lee Gallery in Northwest Portland.

 

Hirsch will talk about how she made glass that looks like thick, whi...

How do we train for a political body – one that is responsive, resistant,

and resilient? How do we engage our citizenship as dancers? Bridging the

divide between political action and somatic instruction, this class draws on

practices informed by Contact Improvisation and Bo...

On Tuesday January 3, 2017, Joseph Gallivan plays audio from a trip to

the National Portrait Gallery in London, UK, with discussion of major

paintings by the gallery's media manager Neil Evans and British art critic

Rosie Millard. We walk around the galleries discussing por...

Jacob Njoroge Wachira Ezigbo enjoys watching life and expressing it through

any art medium.  He experiments with all media and materials as he follows

his natural process of creating the stories of life he sees happening all

around him. Art is his connection to his spiritua...

Cole Merkel is the Vendor Program Director at Street Roots.

Cole Merkel moved to Portland in 2010 to be a Jesuit Volunteer, first at

Operation Nightwatch, then at Street Roots. He was hired by SR the day his JV

term ended and now oversees all aspect of the vendor program as...