October is Portland Textile Month so some galleries have shows on that theme.
The Urban Art Network occupies 13th with all their booths of stuff.
Illy2, Adams and Ollman, Elizabeth Leach, Stelo, PDX Contemporary and Froelick continue.
For your +1 you can experience Flamenco music with guitarist Brenna McDonald and guitarist/vocalist Yeshe Wingerd. A project of Espacio Flamenco, it repeats on first Thursdays. At Bar Botellón 606 NE Davis 7PM-9 Free
For your +2 the Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.
Law and culture are sticky wickets. The Dakota Access Pipeline met culture in people camping and demonstrating against it.
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Humans are thought by science to have emerged about 200-300 thousand years ago in Africa.
They migrated to fill the earth, arriving in North America about 20 thousand years ago. They came to the Dakotas about 13 thousand years ago.
It is thought that the Vikings came to North America about a thousand years ago. Columbus came in about 1492, about 500 years ago with a proclamation in Spanish that any who did not convert to Christianity could be justifiably killed.
English settlers to the Eastern US brought law. It was based on the Magna Carta and English common law, then the US Constitution about 238 years ago.
The native Cherokees developed a written language and written law insnpired by the settlers. Their existance was outlawed by the state, then Native soveignity was upheld in the Supreme Court case Worchester vs Georgia.
President Andrew Jackson, Indian fighter, was reported to say, "the supreme court has made their decision, let them enforce it," the decision, about 190 years ago. Then he proceeded to remove the native peoples in the Trail of Tears.
The 10th Amendment to the US Constitution reserves law to the states unless by act of Congress.
Congressional energy acts moved policy to the federal government. Water law is largely state by state. Natural gas pipelines have much federal authority, ironically because of natural gas deregulation from the late 1970s into the 1980s. Oil pipelines are on their own with the states along with electricty transmission lines.
Meanwhile there is legislation and case law on the rights of tribes. I always respect the great native poet and musician John Trudell. I think 1974 Boldt over reached. And I believe tribes, whose interests will be destroyed by climate change, are faulty opposing clean energy, for example, opposing the Goldendale storage project. Indian strategy needs the next generation.
The Standing Rock protest for the Dakota Access Pipeline has many points of law and commen sense culture any can research. It is the subject of this art show.
In that context, Tonita Cervantes https://www.cervantesnomad.photography brings photography show of the Standing Rock protest in show entitled Black Snake Killaz.
At the Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-7 Free
Pippa Arend, Leah Kohlenberg, Maude May bring Hallowed. At 239 NW 13th. Attendant for entry. 5:30PM-8:30 Free
Blue Sky 1975 - 1985 is a rtrospective show. If you look at photographer resumes, many had early show at Blue Sky. All prints in the show are available for $200. Over 100 Blue Sky members also show.In the Nine, Maria TD Inocencio has Reflecting Pool.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Russo Lee brings J D Perkin sculptures and painting by Michael Brophy.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Ruri & Satoko Motouji bring Destruction, Rejuvenation, Harmony. Kanetaka Ikeda brings Rhythm of Nature. Philip Stork brings Reflections.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Pamela Chipman, Kim Lakin, and Malu Londoño bring Woven Conversations a textile show.
At Writers Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Dan Tran brings Calendars in collaboration with disability artist at North Pole Gallery.
At After | Time Collective Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 6PM-9 Free
Augen has a group show of their gallery artists.
At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Mesmerizing Blues is a show of paintings of flowers by Claudia Hollister.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Daniel Menche is a well known Portland musician in the punk-noise genre. For visual art he brings Cymatic Landscapes to the gallery. They are photographs of particles excited by sound forming a loose geometric pattern. They would be kin to the work of deaf activist artist Myles De Bastion at Cymaspace. Christine Sun Kim is a noted artist in this space.
At the Portland Arts Collective
https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Fans Only shows its residents. It's an artist residency in an office building with First Thursday readouts. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free
PNCA Willamette has many visual shows and performances tonight.
At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
