July 26 Allied Entity∆ Control

Allied Works is Portland's world class architectural firm. First there was a sculptural structure at Maryhill Museum, and the interior design of Saucebox. It really started when a UO architecture professor convinced a world class ad agency founder to undertake an impossible renovation of an old ice storage warehouse. I worked on the project as part of the architecture interface team for a nonprofit included in the project. If you have been in the soaring W+K building, you have seen it. That architect, Brad Cloepfil has gone on to design beautiful structures in the US and Canada.

This morning, Cloepfil describes his design journey.

The event is fully subscribed. Tickets are no longer available for his talk, but the video will soon be available on the Creative Mornings website. Sponsored by Portland Creative Mornings at Ziba Design Auditorium www.ziba.com 810 NW Marshall Map Doors 8:30AM, talk 9. Free



Appendix shows are always high concept. That means that what you are in for is not always clear from the artist's advance description. But my experience is that the work is always good. Continuing the exchange between Portland and Brooklyn, Sean Raspet presents Entity∆: Advance Viewing. You can see the mysterious description on the Appendix website. At Appendix Project Space www.appendixspace.com On the alley between 26th and 27th, South of Alberta. Map 8-late Free



Control Voltage is Portland's own synth store. They have some of the tools for making electronic music, which includes but spans more than dance. This evening they are having a bring your own barbecue, meet, greet and collaborate "open mic". Details: www.facebook.com/events/281473341995444. At Control Voltage www.controlvoltage.net 3742 NE Mississippi 6PM-9:30 Free

July 25 Last Thursday on Alberta

The sky has not fallen and Last Thursday continues. There are brick and mortar galleries on the street including Ampersand, Flight64, Talisman, Screaming Sky, Guardino, Antler, Six Days Art. Some businesses also regularly rotate the art on their walls, including Random Order. And there is still a small amount of art on the street. So take a look and check the pulse of Alberta. And encourage the bars and restaurants to step up to fund the event!

This month there is also a show of art by tattoo artists. That is at Optic Nerve. Included is work from artists working at Atlas, Blacklist, Jackalope, Lucky Supreme, Optic Nerve and Scapegoat. At Optic Nerve Arts 2224 NE Alberta

July 24 Destination Magic

Destination DIY is a podcast interviewing individuals who are champion do it yourselfers. Beyond the pod, this in-person event is one of Portland's great crafter meetups. People bring their projects to work on, listen to excerpts from the show's producer and a DJ while munching on pizza and quaffing micros at the always excellent ADX. There was a craft-themed trivia contest too. At adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map 7PM-9 $3-5 comestibles included



Matt Hall opens Memory / Magic / Wonder tonight at Ampersand. Hall taps the Northwest Magical Naturalism theme in mixed media assemblages and drawings. The show will also be open last Thursday. Ampersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-9 Free

July 23 UX:Still Worth Doing Well

We have written before of Edward Tufte.

Tufte is the original user experience - UX - designer. He teaches one day seminars in information design which are highly, highly recommended. His specialty is a design philosophy that is at once beautiful and effective. Think that's not important? Tufte heavily cites examples of PowerPoint presentations that were poorly designed. People died as a result of decisions based on those self same PowerPoints. Unfortunately this event is completely subscribed. There are still openings in Seattle later in the week. The seminar is reasonably priced as it includes a set of Tufte's reference books. It is also fascinating and entertaining; Tufte is professor emeritus at Yale. Edward Tufte one day seminar on information and presentation design. Details at www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/courses. 8:45AM-4 $380

July 21 Guru Full Moon

Guru Full Moon. It is a pregnant phrase. It is an event too, celebrated by Buddhists in honor of the Buddha's first teaching; it is celebrated by Hindus as the birth of the guru Vyasa.

And you can celebrate it with an intimate concert of vocal ragas by Michael Stirling accompanied by David Jacobs on tabla.

At the intimate Sun Gate Studio 4940 NE 16th 7:30PM by donation

July 20 Deep Caldera Place

We live on the very edge of the ring of fire. Tectonic plates collide here. As one slides under the other, mountains and volcanoes rise. Caldera is a beautiful word capturing the remnants of a mountain collapsed into a molten pool.

Caldera is the name and metaphor too for the ad agency's camp for artists and kids coinspiring one another. They have rare tours and today is one. You will get a chance to see the studios, the classes as they happen and the beautiful land. RSVP required at 503-937-3071. At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR 1PM-3 Free



This is the second Deep of the season. "United Through Movement, Bonded By Community". All styles. JayBee Littlefoot on the wheelz of steel. Special guests, The Miracles Club. Performances by Paint, FRM, Drish and Horizun. Battlers be Jesus & Kelvin, John & Yuta, Day & Night, Soulja Hostile & Sammie, Young Thrillz & Aantix, Chi Rod & KamikOszee, Shamboyant & JustJensine, Stickz n' Stonez, #TheMiniMonsterz, Madd Soul Family, Fly & Lil C-Lee, Timon & Pumbaa, Temptations, Cawn Syrup, 4play, House of Aquarius, Synikk and Julie, Blazy and Zack Vowell, BeToBe, Jesus & Alfred, Shallow, Cat Pak, Daniel & Malik, Lazy Rocka Bama, Daewoo, Young Budda & Kung Fu Phamda, Matt & Jimmy, Girl Leo & Cash Flow Joe, B. Doug & Po, Yin Yang Twinz, Soul Trigger (Jungwho & Z), Miracles Club x Paint, Obi-wan-ton-soup and Qui-gon-jinn-n-juice, The Lovemachines, Vietbodian , The Minions , EL and EL, Main Event, EJ & Gerardo , Hype and Prodigy, Marshae & Bryan , Shift & Hi Tech, Yung Boneafide and Kid Blast , Shawn & Ciara and Kiana Sagon & Reallyne Russell. Epics. #DeepPDX At the Trio 909 E Burnside. All ages. Doors 4PM $14



Place is the space for installation in Portland. Their two galleries and a video room are home to the area's most interesting art work.

This month Liz Harris opens Event Horizon: living on the edge in the Black Gallery. That is appropriate, because the work is a field of black ceramic forms inspired by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the time-space distortion produced by black holes.

Mask Tape Project by Tim Combs is his comment on educational and work cultures, and their unnecessary constraints. The White Gallery continues Internal Server Error by Felicity Fenton. Freedom: Godot Has Finally Arrived by Gabrijel Savic Ra also continues.

All at Place, www.placepdx.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall along with the People's art of Portland and the Woolley Gallery. If the mall appears closed, enter the film theater building adjacent, travel through the tunnel to the Place mall, and take the elevator to the 3rd floor, sometimes the bridge on the 3rd floor is open too. 700 SW Fifth. 5PM-9 Free



Next door, Mark Woolley throws a samba party to accompany his group show Carnival. Participants are encouraged to attend in Carnival-inspired costume.

July 13 More Art West, East, North

Brandon Chuesy has paintings and sculptures opening tonight. At Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map 6PM-8ish Free



ruf·fle is a show women artists and designers. They are: Natalie Barela, Albertha Bradley, Noelle Bullock, Lydia Cambron, Goose&Flo, Ali Gradischer, Sara Huston, Kate MacKinnon, Kari Merkl, Diane Pfeiffer, Erin Reschke, Jennifer Wall and Jennifer James Wright. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, whitebox.uoregon.edu 70 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free



Disjecta has Versus, a mid-program readout by PNCA visual studies MFA students: Sarah Abbott, Stephanie Brachmann, Mary Mac Dahlke, John Dougherty, Mario Gallucci, Thomas Gamble, Jonathan Gann, Michael Horwitz, Leif Lee, Travis Nikolai, Mark Palmen, Anya Roberts-Toney, Lauren Seiffert, Jessie Spiess, Rachel Wolf, Richard York and Stephanie Yu. There is a Tumbler for the students at pnca-versus.tumblr.com. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free

July 12 Eastside Art Openings

America has embraced food as a fetish. Culinary school has produced a generation of cooks who are obsessed with artistically garnished plating. There are food magazines with photography that could go up with any beauty or architecture publication. Then eaters are photographing their food and sharing it on social media. With that inspiration, Gina Beavers presents Family Style. Starting with photographs of food from social media sites, they are paintings of that photograph built in low relief. The messy build textures work well with the range of hue. Ironically the work itself does not translate well to being photographed, it demands to be seen in person. At Portland's only member of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map 6PM-8



The Decisive Moment: Documentary and Street is a group show curated by Christopher Rauschenberg, who brings quite a few years himself of looking at, and sometimes exposing, street photography. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free



Homeland opens Free People, a show of paintings. The painters are Kavin Buck, Calvin Ross Carl, Timothy Scott Dalbow, Arcy Douglass, Danridge Geiger, Ruth Lantz, Kendra Larson, Matthew Letzelter, Raul J Mendez, Ralph Pugay and Roy Tomlinson. It's an interesting cross section of some of the more individualistic painters in town. At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org in the Ford Building www.fordbuildingpdx.com 2505 SE 11th x Division. Enter through the cafe on the corner if the main doors on 11th are locked. 6:30PM-9 Free



Mad Science is a performance installation. Imagine a future in which the Mad Science institute, using time travel, pulls the brilliant minds of today forward to solve the sure-to-be-many problems of 2045. Would you go? Falling firmly into yes are the artists: Jason Blackheart, Eric Trine, Shawna X, Jason Rens, Kiji McCafferty, Nick Stokes and William Bryant. Continually living into the future, at least a little, is the Portland ad community which seem to be behind this project. Mad Science at Gallery 135,
135 NW Park. RSVP requested. Free



ADX opens Americana, household furniture by local maker Carlino. At adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map 6PM-9 Free

July 11 Help!

I wish there was more I could do to help is a work by artist Tori Abernathy opening tonight. America is anxious. We have prima face reason to be. But we also have a press-media that magnifies and falsely frames those reasons. I wish there was more I could do to help is here to help, in commenting on the situation from a creative viewpoint. Abernathy is one of Portland's finest experimental curators and operates in the social practice realm for her personal work. At the PSU Littman Gallery in Smith Union. www.pdx.edu/littmanandwhite Littman Gallery, PSU Smith Hall, Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway 4PM-7



Cheyenne Sawyer opens a poppy show of etchings tonight. She is a tattoo artist at Atlas. Several Mississippi outlets are also launching a second Thursday art opening schedule. That includes Good, Paxton Gate, Black Wagon, Optik and Mississippi Chiropractic. At Albina Press, 4637 N. Albina Ave x Blandena Map 6PM-8



Paradoxically paired with the anxiety show is the Portland drone fly-in. These are the smiley, good drones though.

The Portland-Hood River area is drone central. Several major drone manufacturers are homed here producing maybe a half billion dollars worth of war drones yearly. The dream is a much larger domestic drone ecosystem and there is an effort underway to open up a large area of Eastern Oregon for test flights. Eventually we will work out regulations to prevent drones and commercial aircraft from colliding, drones colliding, and deal with drones and birds colliding. Only then will we realize the dream of autonomous fast food delivery to every home with drones.

Seriously, I have seen some beautiful video shot from quadracopters. See the shot from 1:23-1:29 in Finding Portland. And one person's drone is another's model airplane.

Portland's DIY drone builders and experimenters get together monthly to compare notes and coordinate radio control frequencies. Many of their drones have built from kits or customized. So they are probably a smart group of interesting people.

PDXdrones fly-in at Washington High School SE Stark and 12th 6PM-9

July 9 Community Through Capitalism

Capitalism has its strong points. In practice its weak points are widespread externalities and information hiding to unnatural advantage. But this is not about that. Portland entrepreneur Mike Merrill has created a corporation of himself. It has shares that trade on a private online market. Mr. Merrill consults his shareholders on life and activity decisions. The shareholders vote their advice in proportion to their shares. Take a look at kmikeym.com. To most people the idea seems shocking. But it is really an elegant experiment in social networking. If you are curious about the experiences of Mr Merrill, you can visit, tune in, or watch later this presentation by Mike on his grand experiment in community through capitalism. A presentation of the Curiosity Club, you can tune into the free live webcast off the Core77 site or visit the talk and demonstration in person at Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com/pages/curiosity-club 23 NW 4th 6PM Free

July 5 Eastside Art Openings

Redux has Stitchers, a show of embroidery curated by Greg Pitters. The stitchers are Cate Anevski, Cathie Jo "Bo Betsy", Cathy Zwicker, Emily Katz, Jaclyn Rose, Tripper Dungan, Pamela Davis and Tyler Mackie.
At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside



Red Clouds Collective runs to craft, but that's fine. Their artists have a show tonight I Want to Hold Your Hand. Collective members are Mark Warren Jacques, David Wien, James Douglas Mitchell, Seth Neefus, Perry Pfister, Jason Levins, Timothy Karpinski, and more. Music by Gregory & The Hawk, Vikesh Kapoor and Settlers. At Union/Pine www.unionpine.com 525 SE Pine 7Pm-late Free



Another craft spot running to experimental ceramics is the Eutectic Gallery. They have John George Larson, Richard Brandt, Brad McLemore plus regular gallery artists. At Eutectic Gallery 1930 NE Oregon (entrance on 20th) 5PM-8



Newspace has a juried group show. It was curated by Sarah Stolfafrom the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center. Artists included are Zachary Archer, Matthew Arnold, Michael Butler, Larry Clark, Sage Corson, Juan Fernandez, Eran Gilat, Larry Gloth, Satu Haavisto, Kathleen Hayes, Kristen Heldmann, Birte Kaufmann, Sarah-Marie Land, Amiko Li, Robbie McClaran, Jennifer McClure, Diane Meyer, Sarah Nesbitt, Blake Ogden, Duncan Oja, Stan Raucher, Georgina Reskala, Debora Schwedhelm, H. Jennings Sheffield, Kurt Simonson, Paul Sisson, Annick Sjobakken, Stacie Turner, Brett Walker and Robert Walters. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map



The urban art gallery Home:Bass has Chelsea Rose and Laura Borealisis. Female DJs Foxdye, Bloodmouse and Mewp provide musical stylings. At Home:Bass www.homebasspdx.com 123 NE 6th 6PM-10 5-10

July 3 Westside Art Openings

Some galleries will be open tonight, none will be open tomorrow.



Caldera hosts a summer of shows by artists participating in the previous Winter residencies. The first is Roger Peet. At Caldera Arts www.calderaarts.org At the ad agency next door to the main entrance. 224 NW 13th #305 6PM-10 5PM - 8pm



Lure is a new show by Amy Ruppel which I think has to do with fish. Hellion will not be open at all, resuming normal operations Saturday. At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com 19 NW 5th Suite 208. Through the lobby of the arched brick entry, up the stairs and to the back. Very upper floor Japan-style.
Map not open tonight



Grass Hut knows how to take over the sidewalk for a barbeque. They do that and open a show of skatedecks, Bakerz Dozen. Included is a raffle for the Powell St Skatespot. Artists are Bigfoot, Brent Wick, Cupco, Ferris Plock, Chris Johanson, David Wien, Manny Aloha, Michiel Walrave, Scrappers, Erik Railton, Toshikazu Nozaka, Michael Sieben, and Dave the Chimp. Decks by Bearturds, Grass Hut's international skate division. Fun! Grass Hut in Floating World. www.grasshutcorp.com 400 NE Couch



Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map



Compound has Second Nature, by Adam Haynes, Steve Seeley and Keith Carter. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th 6PM-10



There are group shows at Augen and Froelick - Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis and Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8



The Museum of Contemporary Craft www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org is often open at no charge on first Thursday and there is also a craft talk there this evening. 724 NW Davis



Blue Sky has Portland artist Shawn Records with Flaming Energy Ball, a show themed on his newfound interest in basketball sparked by his children. There is a group show Optical with Blake Andrews, Hillary Atiyeh, Bill Bailey, Dietlinde Bamberger, Mary Ellen Bartley, Aryan Chappell, Thibault de Puyfontaine, Susan de Witt, Jeffrey Dionesotes, Ralph Gabriner, LeeAnn Gauthier, Barbara Gilson, George Greenstein, Martin Gremm, Curtis Hamilton, Harrison Higgs, Timothy Householder, Hannah Karsen, Ann Kendellen, Frank Lavelle, Stu Levy, Helen Maringer, Helena Lukas Martemucci, Larry Merrill, Graydon Miller, Alexis Pike, Quamar Salih, Stan Sherer, John Snyder, Joni Sternbach, Kirk Thompson, Donald Webb, Harry Wilks, David Wilson, Carol Yarrow and Yelena Zhavoronkova. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9

July 1 Getting To Know You(Tube)

This month's social practice art project is a night of videos by artists Will Bryant, Lisa Ciccarello and Stephen Slappe. Each artist has selected 10-15 minutes of favorites made by others on YouTube. Getting to Know You(Tube) www.gettingtoknowyoutube.com at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard 7:30PM $5

June 30 Recess Munch

The Research Club heats it up downtown today. This Portland group gathers interesting participants to talk about what they are interested in and for which they are seeking collaborators.

It's informal, conversational, collaborative. Bring vegan potluck brunch food items; and your own plate, cup, knife, fork, spoon.

This month main speakers include Sarah Badiali from The Reclamation Administration, Michael Klepfer who writes about his hidden SE Portland and organizers of WeMake PDX.

The Research Club www.research-club.org at Geoloqi, 920 SW 3rd Ave #400. Noon-2PM, Talks 12:30. Free



Recess closes their Latino Art Now show www.latinoartnow.org tonight with a party including piñatas. At RECESS recessart.com at Oregon Brassworks Building, 1127 SE 10th Map 5-8

June 29 Seed Ark Angel

The big boat is taking a rest. But not a rest from quality curation. They have gathered a show of work from Springfield Oregon's Ditch Projects, a countrified art warehouse space. Ditch maintains a dialog with Portland, including with Rocksbox, and now they have a show at the Labrador themed on the late life of a 1960-1970's-era musician and band.

Ditch artists Mike Bray, Isami Ching, Brooks Dierdorff, Surabhi Ghosh, Nika Kaiser, Donald Morgan, Jack Ryan and Jesse Sugarmann present Dumb Angel.

Pop music takes no prisoners. An example is Dennis Wilson, inspiration for the show. Dennis Wilson was a member of a band, the Beach Boys. He acted in a film, Two Lane Blacktop, a paean to America's highways and drag racing when gasoline was $.28 a gallon. He died 30 years ago. The title also references The Smile Sessions, a sprawling, indulgent, but ultimately doomed recording project by the Beach Boys band.

Recommended. At the 12128 Labrador Project http://www.12128boatspace.com/ It's moored by Fred's Marina 12900 NW Marina Way, Portland. Map More detailed directions, don't get lost, on the website. 7PM-10 Free



The Seed Building holds its annual open house tonight. It is one of Portland's largest working artist studio spaces. Well worth a visit to see artists in situ. There are over 50 studios in three buildings connected by a warren of stairways and corridors. There is a freight elevator, but not sure the building is entirely wheelchair accessible. Not sure if River Studios down the street is open too. Just ask. At the North Coast Seed Studios www.pdxseedstudios.com 2127 N Albina 4PM-10 Free

June 28 Tiny Naughty Lumber

Imaging technology is in continuous flux. That creates a space for nostalgia and low-fi. The Impossible Project rescued the technology of one of the world's great brands, Polaroid. They bought the old machines to make paper- and chemistry-based instant film. Now they launch an oddity, the Instant Lab, which makes Polaroid prints from mobile phone images. No idea how the color management works.

As part of their project, they have put The Tiny Collective, an international network of ten photographers, to work making images on phones. The show is being seen in New York City, Paris, Los Angeles, Toronto, San Francisco, Istanbul, Dubrovnik, Atlanta, and Portland, homes of the collective members.

You can see their photographs here in a one day show this evening.

Photographs by The Tiny Collective www.tinycollective.com/Events at Phoogoo 412 NW Couch, Suite 306 6PM-10 Free



Darja Bajagić presents You Ve Been A Naughty Boy [C55] to win the copywriting award of the week:

""1.e4 e5 2.♘f3 ♘c6 3.♗c4 ♘f6 4.d4 e×d4 5.0-0 ♗c5 6.e5 d5 7.e×f6 d×c4 8.♖e1+ ♔f8 9.♗g5 g×f6 10.♗h6+ ♔g8 11.♘×d4 ♗×d4 12.c3 ♗f5 13.c×d4 ♘×d4 14.♘c3 ♗g6 15.♖e8+! ♕×e8 16.♕×d4 ♕e5 17.♘d5!!, 1-0

Female Diversion. Unavoidable. Close the Door. No Hesitation at all Give him a move How does a Queen beat a Rook? Transatlantic Flight Morphy’s Immortal Game Pawn Block Unfortunate Mishap. All about 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f6? Patience Pays. The Philidor Position in R+P vs. R. A useful technique called Enfilade.

Kramnik in Top Form Go home early Miracles almost happen. Two rooks vs one. Energetic Teamwork Caught from all Sides Invincible Rook Only precision wins Take the initiative Try to go home early Don’t die Poisoned. Believe in Yourself. Can Mate in One be Tricky? Del Rio Theme Fritz 10 Teaser. A Magnificent Royal Tango Solve this Miniature

Remember Saavedra? The weak link. Don’t hurry. Think! A Lesson in Geometry How to Solve a Difficult Study B + N vs. K Pure Pawn Masterpiece The Prodigal Son She can’t hide A Strategy Master Class Logical Retro.

Philidor in the R+B vs. R Surrealistic Cavalry A Tough Nut to Crack

It will be clarified in it (in the book) the way the game goes, the basic rules and the more detailed and advanced settings, and there will be various chapters from the beginning of the a game till the end, scenarios, great games (44 complete settings, 91 *something* check), analysis of their moves, tricks and plots. All of it brought by great Alfans Pan (** it's a name of a person. The name is how I read it. maybe will be written differently) and compiled from other books and educated chess players (** really guessing about *chess players*) in this war of check.""

This obviously means something the only NSA can figure out, or maybe not. At Appendix Project Space www.appendixspace.com On the alley between 26th and 27th, South of Alberta. Map 8-late



Mike Bray, Cynthia Lahti and D.E. May are mid-career artist recipients of the 2013 Hallie Ford fellowships. They have a show today and tomorrow at The Lumber Room. At The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map Noon-5

June 27 Last Dome

Last Thursday on Alberta came about when street artists were driven from the sidewalks of the previously grimy Pearl District by its newly flush businesses. So artists, the shock troops of gentrification, set up shop on gritty Alberta, along with fire performers, DJ's, musicians and creative neighbors in an inexpensive neighborhood. It grew by word of mouth and grew bars, restaurants, shops and property values. Everyone wanted the benefits, and substantially growing benefits, including benefits to landlords, but no one wanted to pay the costs. We hope the most profitable bars, restaurants and other businesses on Alberta step up to pay to keep the event alive, negotiate with the neighborhood association, and we hope the event can emphasize artists, musicians and performers who are not charged for or controlled in their creative contributions.

Although every aesthetic represented on the street and in the several galleries are not my interest, they have great experimental, social and Portland brand value for the city.

Tonight is Last Thursday on Alberta in which the scattered galleries will be open late and street artists later. Judge for yourself.

NE Alberta Street between 14th and 30th. 6PM-10 Free



Hand Eye Supply launches its Industrious Minds Fellowship with an award to Escape Collective, DIY dome builders. Geodesic domes are the invention of Buckminster Fuller bracketed by his time at Black Mountain College. There are certainly ultra high-end domes, using space grid double or triple layer struts. They are popular at world's fairs, for science museums, to cover stadiums and at Disney. Building a Mars base? Despite being more than 60 years old, they still scream future.

But just about everything not high end, meaning single layer grid, is DIY accessible. Interest in Buckminster Fuller's ideas and DIY domes started in the late 1960's in California. They are a popular wind resistant shelter at the Burning Man desert campout. Major dome makers Pacific Domes sprung from that ethos to make domes for music festivals, brand events and trade shows, like E3. Making the cover can be a challenge, in sheer yardage, seam lengths and loss from triangular cuts. The cover can also be weighty.

Escape Collective, representing a new subculture interested in domes has made one, and now is taking multiple domes to events. That makes them a good matchup with Hand Eye Supply and their extended Core77 network. They are also a good match for events, benefiting from multiple volunteers to assemble them, or disassemble them, bottom up, or top down.

Tonight in celebration, Hand Eye offers an installation by Escape Collective member Kara Jean Caldwell, illustrations and Polaroids by Hill Hudson, dome video by Andy Carlson and DJ & live music by sets and live Pegasus Dream. At Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com 23 NW 4th 6PM-8 Free

June 26 Dance Craft Revolution

Dance performance is a rare bird. It's expensive to make and has a small audience. One way to extend that audience is by video. That changes the black box experience with the possibility of multiple cameras and editing, and moves the audience into a different set of expectations. Tonight Adam Sekuler and Shannon Stewart have put together a program of NW dance performances on the moving screen. That includes Interpretive Site: Hanford Reach by Karn Junkinsmith and Adam Sekuler, Alternator by Rodrigo Valenzuela and Molly Sides, Transfer by Patrick Weishampel and tEEth, Contact by Mitchell Rose and Body Vox, In Transit by Meredith Horiuchi, Shannon Stewart, and Adam Sekuler, Prototype XXXX by Andra Rotaru, Robert Tyree, and Dicky Dahl, Airport Project by Alice Gosti, Guerilla Fire by Maria Allred, 1922 by Adam Sekuler, Daniel Mimura, Shannon Stewart, Meredith Horiuchi, Rosa Vissers, David Wolbrecht, Aaron Swartzman, and Jeff Huston and finally White of Spring by Jacob Rosen and Kate Wallich. At the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard 7:30PM $8



We are not much of a craft blog. But we do like creative nodes. Destination DIY, which is a Portland public radio show/podcast, has teamed with SCRAP & ADX for a craft night and listening session. So bring your own crafts to work, and you can participate in a craft trivia quiz. The new DIY podcast is Old School DIY, with the producer Julie's grandparents, zine makers, amateur radio operators, quilters, wildcrafters and foragers. Event includes pizza, beer and a DJ all for one low price. At adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map 7PM-9 $3-5

June 25 Codes Are Fun

We rarely note tech events. But unless you have been living under a rock, you know privacy and surveillance has been in the news lately. Interested in some keyboards-on experience with privacy-enhancing tools? You can has.

Tonight is Portland's first Crypto Party. You can learn about key signing, virtual private networks and cryptography. Key signing is an example of creating the chain of trust for cryptographic certificates establishing identity and keys for encoding-decoding. Virtual private networks are a way to hide your computer network address, the untraceable phone call. Cryptography is a way to keep your messages and files secret from those without the decoding key.

Unfortunately each of these contains its own seeds of weakness. Cryptographic certificates can be compromised by breakins to the key server. This was the case when Chinese hackers stole information from RSA Security that compromised their SecureID. SecureID is used by the government and companies to supplement passwords and was thought to be unbreakable. The exploit was used to break into Lockheed, a military equipment maker. The Stuxnet attack on the Iran nuclear program used stolen certificates to trick computers into trusting the hostile software. Of course various governments would have an interest in compromising key and certificate servers in furtherance of their own hacking.

Some forms of cryptography are thought to be essentially unbreakable, at least for the next few years. That is why they are used by governments, and that same software is available to individuals. Unfortunately it was just revealed that it is legal for the NSA to capture communications between Americans, within America, solely because it is encrypted.

Virtual private networks have many uses. For instance, they allow Americans visiting China to communicate privately to servers in the US for mail and news without being meddled with by the Great Firewall. Unfortunately the Chinese government has reportedly started terminating virtual private network sessions. They are almost universally used by corporations for employees working at home or traveling. They enable watching region-limited broadcasts by, say the BBC, outside the UK. The Catch-22 is that US-based systems could be subject to government inspection, and foreign systems are guaranteed to be surveilled at the border.

All of these combine in the Tails project, a relatively secure way to use an Internet cafe anywhere in the world. It is a bootable USB device that routes your Internet connection though the Tor virtual private network. Ironically these type systems are promoted by our very own State Department to provide a measure of safety for journalists and democracy advocates overseas.

Unfortunately while mobile security has to date been relatively good, privacy is weak against a determined adversary.

But fortunately Oregon's own Senator Wyden, who has been on the Senate Intelligence Committee since 9/11, and thus in a position to review government surveillance programs, is seriously questioning the cost effectiveness of the programs. He and Senator Merkley are working to reform the programs, so I'm sure they would like to hear your thoughts on the issues.

Bring a computer, a USB storage device and curiosity. No experience necessary.

CryptoParty Portland at Lucky Labrador, 1945 NW Quimby 6:30PM-10 Free

June 22 West East Place

Indian classical music evolved and refined over millennia, passed from guru to disciple, often within families. In the late 1800's, yoga preceded Indian music traveling West. But it was only 1955 that Indian classical music made landfall in New York with a performance by the great Ali Akbar Kahn. The next year, Ravi Shankar performed. Pop musicians in the 1960's discovered and incorporated those world beats and seeded early interests in Indian spiritualism and yoga.

Early too, the Asia Society also drew performers from East to West. Beginning in the 1960's with Peace Corps I, volunteers coming off station pioneered backpacker routes including Goa, Kathmandu and points between. Interest in yoga, bharatanatyam and ayurveda traveled together with Indian music and Westerns traveled to India to study them.

A few years later, world music enthusiasts and the new Indiaphiles recruited touring Indian musicians to perform classical concerts, including in Portland. The Indian diaspora, including in technology, laid down a base of support, Indian families passing on their traditions to Western-raised children.

Western musicians incorporating Indian music into fusion forms, and performing in purely traditional mode are now in the third generation. This is that.

Musicians Steve Gorn, bansuri and Benjy Wertheimer, tabla, perform tonight. Both have long histories of pop music collaborations, film scoring, fusion and pure classical performance. The program ranges classical to Indian folk music.

Advance tickets www.brightstarevents.net/show.cfm?id=4553. Indian music at the Movement Center 1021 Northeast 33rd 7PM $15 advance, $20 door.



Place opens Felicity Fenton with Internal Server Error, themed on her personal web use. It includes artistic interpretations of her web history and Offline, a paper-based collection of old information forms. Freedom: Godot Has Finally Arrived by Gabrijel Savic Ra is a conceptual meditation on freedom. Rogue Waves by Nathanael Thayer Moss, Safe & Sound? and Radio Room by Stephanie Simek continue. All at Place, www.placepdx.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall along with the People's art of Portland and the Woolley Gallery. If the mall appears closed, enter the film theater building adjacent, travel through the tunnel to the Place mall, and take the elevator to the 3rd floor, sometimes the bridge on the 3rd floor is open too. 700 SW Fifth. 5PM-9 Free

At the same location, the Mark Woolley Gallery and People's Art of Portland will likely be eventing.

June 21 Meat Space

Between the pig and bacon is the knife. I fully admit active ignorance on the trip between stinky, though charming in a way, animals on the hoof, and tasty fire-forged umami proteins. Camas Davis is the opposite. She founded the Portland Meat Collective to transparently relate the two. The Portland Meat Collective connects local farmers of livestock to individuals who would like to learn breaking down a carcass into cuts of meat, hands-on butchery, and if you like, onto charcuterie. Her work complements that of Temple Grandin.

This morning Davis recounts her journey in founding the Portland Meat Collective. It has already expanded to Eugene and Olympia. She has a plan for nationwide meat collectives that are well underway.


Tickets are no longer available for her talk, but the video will soon be available on the Creative Mornings website. Camas Davis from the Portland Meat Collective sponsored by Portland Creative Mornings at Ziba Design Auditorium www.ziba.com 810 NW Marshall Map Doors 8:30AM, talk 9. Free

June 15 Deep Return

First Deep of the new seas'. Battle on Deep! Mighty Moves and ComputerFAM on the wheels of steel. Performances by FIO, League of Assassins, Unseen/LAF and Soul Trigger. Produced by Huy Pham. 2on2 all styles crowd judged. With Chuckies and Teej, Main Event, Day and Night, Kid Mango & BBoy Dfactor, 1nfinity Crew, Gutta Snubb & Big Snubb, Uflow & Blazy, Nitewing & Horizun, Shamboyant, Lil Snubb & B-Loop, Fruity-C & E, Chocolate Milk, .50 Cal and Golden, Empyre Legacy, Fly & Lil' C-Lee, Young Budda & Kung Fu Phamda, Caitlynn & Liz, Marika & Melanie, Kamikoszee & Brenton Douglas, Pak and Rojas, Gaby & Bao, Clik & Zee, Madd Soul Family, Elya & AAntix, Rhythm Kicks, Lady Snubb & Synikk, Matt and Reverb, A Tribe Called Basix, 1in Amillion Crew, $waggasaurus and ChaoTick, Rise Above, Gerardo & EJ, LaFamiliaXVinasvictory, Dae Dae and Po, Jungwho & Yen Boogie, Freak-A-Leek, FrenchKast and ThrillzLyfe. Part of deepworldtour.com. At adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map Beer and wine 21+. All ages. Doors 5PM $5 with res on the FB, $15 otherwise



The IRPC is also celebrating a birthday. Details on their website. Preceeded by a Pedalpalooza Yeti hunt, finishing at IRPC, home to Portland's Yeti museum-library. See the shift2bikes site. At the Independent Publishing Resource Center www.iprc.org 1101 SE Division, Suite 2 7PM-11 Free

June 14-16 Crowdsource Art

The Weird Shift Con instantiates this weekend with a series of artist presentations, a visual show and foods. The program is heavily dependent upon you, who can sign up to make a short, medium or long performance or talk. There is also a dinner by the Special Snowflake Supperclub, which is fully booked. Should all be loads of fun. Schedule at www.poszu.com/poszu/index.php/projects/weird-shit-con/weird-shift-con-20/#test. Weird Shift Con at Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org in the Ford Building www.fordbuildingpdx.com 2505 SE 11th x Division. Enter through the cafe on the corner if the main doors on 11th are locked. Friday 7PM-10ish Saturday 11PM-7 Sunday noon-8 Free, donations encouraged

June 14 Food for Thought

Tickets are sold out for this event, but you might enjoy viewing the video when it is posted after, free. Creative Mornings is an international series of monthly talks by creative individuals. In Portland their 200 seat events book in minutes. In Seattle they guest Michael Hebb this morning. Know him, he has good insights.

Food is a primal experience. Without it we die. Hebb has been thinking about food for some time. In addition to thinking, he has created many temporary and enduring communities around food including with editor, writer and publisher Matthew Stadler.

The Eventbrite provides a good summmary:

""The Scale of The Dinner Table; finite space, infinite potential.

Michael Hebb has been staging convivial gatherings and redefining hospitality/tablemaking since 1997; co-founding the City Repair project and Communitecture with Mark Lakeman; and co-founding family supper, ripe, clarklewis, and the Gotham Bldg Tavern in Portland OR with Naomi Pomeroy. His expansive multidisciplinary dinners have taken place on five continents, have been exhibited in several museums and featured in the NY Times, W, Art Forum, The New Yorker, GQ, The Guardian and dozens of international publications. Michael strongly believes that the table is one of the most effective (and overlooked) vehicles for changing the world.

He is also the founder of One Pot - a creative agency that specializes in the technology of the common table, and the ability to shift culture through the use of thoughtful food and discourse based engagements and happenings. One Pot has worked closely with thought/cultural leaders and many foundations/institutions including: the Republic of Gabon, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Clinton Global Initiative, X Prize Foundation, FEED Foundation, Architecture For Humanity, and Summit Series. Michael is the founding Creative Director of The City Arts Festival, the founder of Night School @ The Sorrento Hotel, and is currently a Teaching Fellow at University of Washington's Master of Communication in Digital Media department. His writings have appeared in GQ, Food and Wine, Food Arts, ARCADE, Seattle Magazine and City Arts. Michael and Dr. Shauna Shapiro are currently writing a book focused on mindfulness, neuroscience, and table ritual.

In Fall 2012, as part of UW MCDM, Michael and Scott Macklin began designing Let's Have Dinner and Talk About Death with Masters students and many of our countries healthcare leaders - the interactive digital platform is scheduled to launch Spring 2013.


About Let’s Have Dinner and Talk about Death
The Let’s Have Dinner and Talk about Death project brings the important subject of end of life into the foreground and gives people the opportunity to talk about it. The Let’s Have Dinner and Talk about Death project stemmed from a Master of Communication in Digital Media (MCDM) course at The University of Washington. The course and resulting long-term project is intended to not only create communal dialogues around death, healthcare and human life, but to bolster a universal discourse, ushering in a revolution of life itself. The syllabus for the course is available at www.learni.st. For more information about Let’s Have Dinner and Talk project, visit deathoverdinner.org.""

You should be able to view the video of the event in about a week at www.creativemornings.com.

Michael Hebb at Creative Mornings|Seattle. At EMP 8:30AM Free

June 13 Happening #6

The PSU Time Arts Club invites your participation in the Happening Pride edition with live music by Lavender Mirror, Fred Meyer and the Tenses. Performance by Stacey y Blanca; video - performance by Angela Campbell; video art by Julie Perini, Mami Takahashi, Tim Ferrell & Heather Palmer; and installation by Bugenhagen. All ages, BYOB. At Shattuck Hall Annex 1914 SW Park 8PM-11 Free

June 12 Shock and Aw

Not all of our notes are for art events. This would fall into the keep Portland weired category. Tonight is a Tesla coil demonstration. Don Anderson talks about Tesla, Edison and electricity. Then he flips the switch on his homebuilt Tesla coil to make some lightning. Meanwhile there will be steampunk art and crafts on display in the parlor in a show entitled Through the Aetherscope by Don Anderson, Valentine Barker, Andy Clapp, Louis Delegato, Steven J. Elliott, Victoria Hammond, Kit Kerkvliet, Josh W. Kinsey, J Kovach, Richard Moore III and Jessica R. Van Hulle. Later in the month there will be a reception for the artists accompanied by a DJ playing 'steampunk inspired music'. In July there is a steampunk conference, pdxgearcon.com. I am not making this up. (And actually this is not weird at all, it is just one of many specialized subcultures that thrive in Portland) At Catalyst Art & Cultural Space www.catalystculturalspace.com 4810 NE Garfield 7:30PM $3

June 10 Your You(Tube) is Watching (You)

Getting to Know You (Tube) hosts the video selections shown on the big screen of Lydia Rosenberg, Alisa Bones and Riley King. Each artist has selected 10-15 minutes of favorites made by others on YouTube. Free time at the end to suggest your own favorites. If you power down your phone, bike and pay with cash, your viewing can't be tracked, yet. Getting to Know You(Tube) www.gettingtoknowyoutube.com at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard 9:30PM $5

June 9 Vodoun R Us

Vodoun, voodoo, vodun. Forget tired zombies, this is real. Vodoun in popular use is the lazy term encompassing the traditional spiritual beliefs of numerous individual African tribes, and Western hemisphere amalgams resulting from the admixture of tribes brought as slaves and later arriving free.

Vodoun Gods on the Slave Coast is a 2010 documentary on ceremonies in Benin. Not an anthropological study. The filmmaker, Hisham Mayet, is a Portlander, cofounder of Sublime Frequencies, and tireless explorer of the music and traditions of Africa, West and North (as well as other world parts!). Mayet has also gathered footage of possessed individuals in West Africa.

Presented by xray.fm, the film shows at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard 7PM $8

June 8 Sad Tamales

We are approaching peak daytime hours as the scales of Winter-sad are lifted! That's a perfect antidote to Sad Night Live, a celebration of sad musics. Michael Hurley, Shelley Short and Dragging an Ox Through Water perform sad songs and writer Patrick DeWitt reads his saddest stories. The presenters win a special copywriting award for their observation: "The sadness of others, when presented in the form of song, story, or painting, can be moving and empowering, as the viewer is forced to recognize sorrow as a shared or communal experience". At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8 Free



I have never seen the fireplug party trick in Portland, but we do love our street parties. This afternoon and evening, art and street party make love. Latino Art Now is a show at Recess Gallery including Chris Beanes, Alejandro Ceballos, Claire Barrera, Julia Carrillo, Paul Clay, Edgar Frias, Hector Hernandez, Mark Martinez, Michael Martinez, Jeremy Neldon, Kirk Rea and Sergio Torres. Recess is one of a list of the top Portland experimental galleries countable on one hand. So their work with Latino Art Now, following previous great shows on crossing national and cultural borders is recommended. The street fair includes a tamale taste off with tamales from Amo Sabor, Mextica Catering, Gabe Flores, Montiel's Cocina and more. Taste, vote 3PM-5:30, winners 6. Music afternoon; performances and readings at 6PM and 7. www.latinoartnow.org/street-party.html at RECESS recessart.com at Oregon Brassworks Building, 1127 SE 10th Map All ages. 3PM-9 Free

June 7 Eastside Art Openings+

In contrast to Westside galleries' shift to safe Summer group shows, the Eastside is going inventive.



Shades of berny is a show by NY artist Bunny Rogers. Rogers is a fearless artist and Parsons grad based in Brooklyn. She taps memories of the transition between childhood and adulthood, usually shelved as, shall we say politely, unedited. We are so brilliant then. But those crazy, by their boundlessness, thoughts hold taboo engrams connecting childhood and adulthood we still carry. Her work is varied, including performance, video, installation, illustration, poetry and machinima. You can get a sense at her websites. plus.google.com/100485286965708864927/about.

Appendix is a double garage in a humble residential neighborhood, with white walls glowing against night. Showings go late, late onto a gravel alleyway with no signs, no directions and no address. Earlier it was an even rougher alley of mud puddles overgrown with invasive weedy blackberries and bounded by hay bales. Even now, one direction of the alley cannot be passed at night for its plants taking back the land wildness. Sometimes there is a bonfire. Nonetheless it is well known for showings of international artists.

The show includes 5 works from her residency at Appendix. The space is occupied by a fat comfortable velvet upholstered chair with a draped bright red riding hood cape and an archaic strap on pocket of pure white fabric. The chair faces a deep black shiny resin-covered and very old looking book on the floor, with pits and holes, being devoured by skinny scrappy black mice in the same resin texture. The back wall holds a simple modern quilt, logoed with a geometric font RU in mirror, top level domain name of the Russian Republic. The artist maintains her interwebs home there, and is fascinated with the different from USA values there too. To the left is a color photograph of a young girl carrying a basket of apples dressed in red with a black, very wolf-like dog, the frame surrounded by purple roses. To the right is a framed line drawing of a dog and a cat verging making a baby.

Maybe a dated association, but she reminds me of early Miranda July in her ability to confidently engage "dangerous" raw material. That "danger" carries more weight for the viewer than the creator, though some get that backwards.

At Appendix Project Space www.appendixspace.com On the alley between 26th and 27th, South of Alberta. Map 8-late



Homeland opens Weird Shift Con: The Conference June 14-16. An art component in the gallery is The Long Share, works by Peter Claugh, Julia Oldham, Tom Sherman, Stephen Slappe, Soda Jerk and Weird-Fiction, opening tonight.

The Con wins the copywriter monthly content award for a description of the weekend event:

The Long Share includes "para-fictional photo essay by Rosalynn Rothstein; a speculative history of WikiLeaks by Australian art collective Soda Jerk; and Portlander Stephen Slappe's video of a surprisingly erotic bomb-diffusing robot and the weekend event is an "array of presentations, lectures and performances including LE Long’s “Critical Fight Studies,” Adam Flynn’s “Solarpunk” and “Secret Twitter Fan Club,” along with Suzanne Fischer’s histories of psychokinesis artifacts at the intersection of museology and parapsychology. Michael Reinsch attempts to understand who we think we are in an anthropologically inclined sculptural performance while D.Todd Dickerson demonstrates the cut-up sorcery methodologies of his Soup Purse performances, and an array of appetizers are provided by the Center for Genomic Gastronomy’s pop-up culinary hacklab.

The weekend also promises outward excursions, including those of the “We’ll See Tour Co.,” running alongside and in opposition to reality as it is commonly construed.

Agoraphobes may prefer the indoor offerings of the event...including the Research Commons, the PDF Library, the dossiers, and the Map Room, paired with fine coffee and edibles, will provide other itineraries betwixt and between the scheduled events."

Very Museum of Jurassic Technology. Organized by Poszu www.poszu.com/poszu/index.php/projects/weird-shit-con/weird-shift-con-20.

At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org in the Ford Building www.fordbuildingpdx.com 2505 SE 11th x Division. Enter through the cafe on the corner if the main doors on 11th are locked. 6PM-9 Free



Catherine Haley Epstein shows Sorting the Seeds www.mindmarrow.com/mindmarrow/projects/Entries/2013/6/7_For_This_I_Breathe.html. It's mixed media, photography and illustration. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-9



The Ford Building, www.fordbuildingpdx.com the ark holding Homeland, holds its annual open house this evening. It tends to run early, 5PM-8



Marie Koetje extends her Space Invader work. It's bright simple and abstract painting reminding primitive electronic paint tools. At Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map



Moons of a Dewdrop is a collaborative installation by Paul Swenbeck and Joy Feasley from Philadelphia. The work ties together prehistory ritual, romantic landscape painting and science fiction. At Adams and Ollman Gallery www.adamsandollman.com 811 E Burnside #213



Field Notes: Landscape and Architecture is a group show at Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30


Papercut is a show of paper cut art. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-10



There is a large show of art themed on Home at Union/Pine www.unionpine.com 525 SE Pine 7Pm-late



Home:bass presents its first Friday Art Bash with LA artists Tommy Face and Jennifer Korsen. They join Portland artists Doctor Rasterbator and Justone Racoon. Music by Skeme and DJ ADHDJ. At Home:Bass www.homebasspdx.com 123 NE 6th 6PM-10



Portland Storage Building opens its studios this evening too at 215 SE Morrison St. 5PM-9



Brandon Thibodeaux has When Morning Comes, a personal journey through the Mississippi Delta and there is also a show of photos by its own board of directors members. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9



Lightbox Kulturhaus has Finding Our Place and installation inspired by Northwest geography by Tyler Corbett and Erinn Kathryn. At Lightbox Kulturhaus lightboxkulturhaus.com 2027 NE MLK Blvd, behind Tiny’s Coffee Haus 6PM-9



APAK show their prints at Buy Olympia's Land Gallery www.landpdx.com 3925 N Mississippi 6PM-8



Spring goes back a way in history. The rites of Spring too. The Rite of Spring, 100 years. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, Le Sacre du Printemps, was first performed May 29, 1913 with choreography set on Ballet Russes by Nijinsky at age 23, and when Stravinsky was 31. Tonight the Agnieszka Laska Dancers perform their own version with the Portland State University Orchestra. At PSU Lincoln Hall 1620 SW Park x Market portlandstate.universitytickets.com/user_pages/event.asp?id=348&cid=51 8PM $20, seniors $15, students $10



And for fun, in addition to the next few weeks of Pedalpalooza fun, a pinewood derby is tonight at Nemo. http://www.facebook.com/MeatCheeseBreadPinewoodDerbyRace. Prize for design and speed, plus an "outlaw class" race. 6PM-10 race 8.

June 6 Westside Art Openings

Summer is early and many galleries are offering group shows, the Summer gallery tradition, early. It is a good opportunity to learn the style of work each gallery gathers.



As previously mentioned, art school thesis shows are up. The public reception for the PNCA BFA show is tonight in the main building. By shear numbers sprawling, but often including gems. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map 6PM-9:30



The Laura Russo Gallery is one of Portland's oldest, heir to the Fountain Gallery. Occasionally they take on new artists. Tonight they open six: Sahar Fattahi, Jo Hamilton, Ruth Lantz, Loren Nosan, Ahmad Rafiei and Samantha Wall. At Laura Russo Gallery www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-8



In addition to helming the excellent Fourteen30 gallery, Jeanine Jablonski curates occasional recent graduate shows. Here Come the Warm Jets is one such show of masters grads from PSU: René Allen, Leif Anderson, Steve Brown, Will Bryant and Mami Takahashi. As she is one of a handful of Portland curators that understand what is happening in galleries outside Portland, her selections are worth a look. At the temporary space 929 NW Flanders. 6PM-8 early close



Portland is a paper town, more so for printing than sculpture. Marisa Green presents Intersect, a geometric structure of folded paper pyramids in grayscale tones. Also showing her cut paper works. At Gallery 135, 135 NW Park 6PM-9



We usually eschew graphic design shows, and the term digital arts often captures that work. But some of the work in a UO graduating class show includes video installations. So you can see for yourself. There are other students shows scattered around the building, some of art. White Box at the University of Oregon White Stag Building, whitebox.uoregon.edu 70 NW Couch 6PM-9



Digmeout continues to make love to Portland. Tonight two Digmeout artists, Yoriko Youda and Tomoe Taniguchi present Stunning Beauty, a show of watercolor in the suiboku or sumi-e style. The painting style was brought from China by Zen monks. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th 6PM-10



Hellion has Nigamushi and Gloria Muriel. At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com 19 NW 5th Suite 208. Through the lobby of the arched brick entry, up the stairs and to the back. Very upper floor Japan-style.
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PDX has a group show, Range, comprising Anne Appleby, Johannes Girardoni, Victoria Haven, James Lavadour, Wes Mills, Megan Murphy, Jane Timken and Leigh Wells. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM



Augen has a free art history lesson with prints by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, 1863-1944. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8



Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map

June 2 Song of the Gamelan

Venerable Showers of Beauty presents a special concert with Heni Savitri and Midiyanto. Midiyanto is a musician and puppetmaster long connected to the Venerable Showers. Heni Savitri is a rarely heard outside Indonesia gamelan vocalist. More information at www.vsbgamelan.org/concerts.html. At the First Presbyterian Church 1200 SW Alder 2PM $10-$12

May 31 - June 1 Quiet Creative

The Quiet Music Festival returns quietly. It's the child of artist Chris Johanson, tapping his artistic music networks' deep vibes for your deep listening. This year the performers Friday are Lori Goldston, Money Mark, Heidi Alexander, Tara Jane Oneil, Dragging An Ox Through Water and Michael Henrickson. Saturday is White Magic, Volunteers Park, Peggy Honeywell, Meg Baird, Sun Foot and Michael Henrickson. The Quiet Music Festival www.disjecta.org/exhibitions-events/quiet-music-festival-of-portland at Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Doors 7PM, show 8. Tickets at the door: $10 a night, $18 two



We don't usually cover the usual music events, except sometimes when they are connected to art as is the above. But sometimes we make an exception when they are connected to dance. Like the Improvisation Summit of Portland.

Friday's program is: films Bridge & C.A.G.E, musicians Jen Hackworth & Heather Treadway, the John Gross Trio, movers Linda Austin, Gregg Bielemeier and Ken Ollis, Grammies, Eet, Daniel Menche, Taka Yamamoto & Lisa Schonberg, William Hooker, Gulls, the WIMBC Big Band (with Ryan Spangler, Ben Kates, Stephanie Simek, Carson McWhirter, Russel Durham), Dawn Stoppiello & Thollem Mcdonas, HITS and Elphin Elephant. Saturday there are early events then Doug Theriault & Juniana Lanning, movers Jim McGinn, Tere Mathern, Ben Kates, John Savage and Catherine Lee, Battle Hymns and Gardens, mover Noelle Stiles, Marisa Anderson and Christi Denton, 1939 Ensemble, movers Danielle Ross & John Niekrasz, Like a Villain, mover Tracy Broyles & Loren Chasse, Wm. Hooker Ensemble and Golden Retriever. Tickets www.brownpapertickets.com/event/382722. Schedule including Sunday afternoon items www.creativemusicguild.org/improvisation-summit. At Sandbox Studio. 420 NE 9th 7PM $12-40 one-two days, sliding scale

May 26 PNCA BA Thesis Show Opens

The first piece I collected was from this show. There is a theory that from a collecting standpoint, post the MFA jag is the way to go for safety. But collecting is not about safety, it is about love. Whatever your philosophy, the BFA show represents a summary of the thinking of a large number of artists in a time and place honed by the thesis faculty advisors, social elements and current culture. That PNCA BFA show opens tonight after the commencement. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map 6PM Free

May 25 May Ragas

Yoga Shala hosts a concert of ragas by Michael Stirling and his students. At Yoga Shala 3808 N Williams 8PM Donation

May 20-26 Experimental Experiment

The Portland Experimental Film Festival happens throughout this week at various venues. See www.effportland.com

May 19 Birding

Portland illustrator Trish Grantham has new stuff now. Grantham's work is instantly recognizable to Portlanders. She is an early put a bird on it artist. Some of her work has become signboards by cafes and even material for the big ad agency. Tonight is a reception for Grantham's new work. At Stumptown Division stumptowncoffee.com/trish-granthama-sympathetic-seaart-at-division-may-2013/ 4PM-6 Free

May 18 Radio Rogue Sound Plain High Who

Radio is magic. I'm an engineer, with deep specialization in the field. Even to me it is magic, though not in its mechanics, but in the ethnographies of its application. The first radio receivers were crystal radios. The same principal then, the electrical properties of rocks, is at work today in microchips of ultra purified sand. Artist Stephanie Symek is interested in the magic of radio too. She has made an art installation, Radio Room, of a crystal radio and other artifacts, such as rare earth magnets, of her own construction.

Rogue Waves is geometric op art illustration by Nathanael Thayer Moss. It is a pun; op art is a visual system artifact, not produced by [wave] diffraction.

Safe & Sound? is a video installation and website by Portland community members, journalists and artists Julie Perini, Jodi Darby, Erin Yanke, Amelia Cates, Christopher Hamann and Ian Wallace. Its theme is the power relationship between police and community. The creators also participate in a discussion: Socially & Politically Engaged Art, Sunday, May 19th 4PM-6 in the gallery.

Off the Plain is a group show curated by TJ Norris including artists Ben Buswell, Brooks Dierdorff, Jacqueline Ehlis, Melanie Flood, Ted Hiebert, Harrison Higgs, Tricia Hoffman, Joshua Kim, Heidi Kirkpatrick, Sarah Knobel, Elizabeth Papadopoulos, Richard Schemmerer, Michael Sell, Jennifer Vaughn, Chao Wang, Colleen Woolper and Bea Nettles.

All at Place, www.placepdx.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall along with the People's art of Portland and the Woolley Gallery. If the mall appears closed, enter the film theater building adjacent, travel through the tunnel to the Place mall, and take the elevator to the 3rd floor, sometimes the bridge on the 3rd floor is open too. 700 SW Fifth. 5PM-9 Free

At the same location, the Mark Woolley Gallery and People's Art of Portland will likely be eventing.



There is a theory that it is a universal human need to get high. People climb mountains, trees, fly and even go into space to slip the surly bonds of earth. People like to dance too. Combine them and you have aerial dance.

Early aerial dance in Portland was established by Do Jump, with a focus on children's classes. Robert Davidson, a national pioneer in aerial choreography, choreographed a scene for the Portland Center Stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Davidson created a lyrical work informed by Skinner Releasing Technique. A performers in those works spread branches through a series of Portland dance units: Aero Betty, Pendulum and AWOL. It is the brave desire of these performers to get high and our pleasure to be audience to them.

AWOL, Aerial Without Limits, opens their studios this evening for a student performance at a very reasonable price. At AWOL www.awoldance.org 2303 N Randolph, back of building, enter at A-WOL door in gravel lot. Tickets http://www.awoldance.org/2013/05/a-wol-2013-student-showcase/ 7PM $5



In art, annuals, biennials and other periodic competitive group shows are olympics. They are not scored, but they are curated. The curator, with their singular vision, sifts thousands of artists to select a handful. Once upon a time, the Portland Art Museum hosted a biennial group show. It was a bold move: it is unusual for collecting museums to be interested in the local region. They have little incentive to do so in the museum value system. The local focus here was driven by philanthropists the Schnitzers. Arleen Schnitzer had one of the first art galleries in Portland, the Fountain, operating from 1961-1977. Local and regional collectors, the Schnitzers, have been a strong force in encouraging the museum to collect locally and engage the local art community. The Oregon biennial relocated a few years ago from the Museum to Disjecta. In a bold and savvy move, Disjecta has invited an out of town curator, Amanda Hunt, based in LA and operating internationally, to select the 2014 biennial. Her resume is on the Disjecta website.

Tonight there is a reception for Hunt, an opportunity to sense her aesthetic interests in person. She will be introduced by Disjecta curator Summer Guthery, with a short Q&A. At 923 NW Flanders 6PM Free

May 17-19 Engaging Open Engagement

Social Practice art is relatively new, though it has roots going back. Portland Oregon is a world center for Social Practice Art studies. Today those centers include Chicago, San Francisco and maybe London. So art types come here for the only conference on social practice art. They practice exchanging ideas, likely leading to experiments and classes elsewhere. The conference is packed with talks, panels and meals. Best of all it's entirely free. Most venues are in walking radius downtown. See the entire schedule at www.openengagement.info Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10PM-midnight Free (except Shine a Light at the Museum Friday evening)

May 17 Shine a Light All Over Again

Shine a Light is what happens when social practice artists take over the Museum and create a series of interactive tableau throughout its many galleries. In the courtyard and many spaces in the Masonic Temple Building there is food and drink. It's about as filled as the Museum ever gets and as late night as galleries go. Flirty, friendly and conversational. You can see the whole schedule here: www.portlandartmuseum.org/document.doc?id=103. There is often a waity line for admission, so picking up hard tickets in advance is recommended. The cost is a regular Museum admission, good all day, come early before the crush if you like. Members are free, so by becoming a member, you can save admission. Shine a Light at the Portland Art Museum, a production of the PSU Social Practice Art program www.pam.org 1219 SW Park 6PM-midnight $15, $12 students

May 11 No 5upremacy

Gallery Homeland hosts Activated Complex curated by Julie Perini and Jodie Cavalier. Two completely different artists. It's Trojan Horse, Brian King; Salt Lick, Allison Halter; Human ontology – why we are the way we are, Helli Kontinnen; Transmission, Ernest Wedoff & Tim Ferrell and Uncertainty Principle. At the same time is Happening #5 by the PSU time arts club. Modeled after 1980's NY events organized by Warhol, Portland's happening tonight includes time-based painting by Kaila Farrall-Smith, 16mm film projections by Colin Manning, video Performances via Buenos Aires by Daniela de Sarasqueta, a visit from the Future by Bugenhagen, Soup Purse, Portland Bike Ensemble, Manny & Lyrels. It is all part of the Portland Experimental Film Festival. Wow, just wow. At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org in the Ford Building www.fordbuildingpdx.com 2505 SE 11th x Division. Enter through the cafe on the corner if the main doors on 11th are locked. all ages 6PM-9 Free



Vancouver is a suburb of Portland. I'm mystified by it. But this weekend they are hosting a b-boy/b-girl battle, Street Supremacy. It's an all day into evening event. 11 starts preliminary rounds. Noon is a junior-adults battle. 2 is 2on2 all style battles. 6 is the championships and guests Elm & Dancers and Beat Freaks. It is at Skyview High School. Details and directions to the suburbs at the link on the facebook: www.facebook.com/events/329843243802311 11AM-9:30PM $20 attend, $25 to compete, which is a little weird

May 10 Fly Room

New York artist Hayley Silverman presents a performance Fly Room tonight at 9PM Sharp. At Appendix Project Space www.appendixspace.com On the alley between 26th and 27th, South of Alberta. Map 9PM arrive early Free

May 9-11 Compassion and the Earth

Compassion is a human value learned when we are babies. A little older, many of us apply the principle to the natural environment and all its non-human actors. Yes that is a jump, but it definitely falls into the realm of self actualization. The earth and its environment need a counterbalancing force to the forces of raw short term economic exploitation. It is not clear that we have enough compassion, or even common sense as a species, to balance exploitation and sustainability.

The indigenous nature-based religions of the world have a strong tradition of that balance. Without the tools of the scientific method and with a mystic view of nature, perhaps destructive exploitation did not occur to them. And without vast machinery of industry, their ability to exploit beyond sustainability was limited.

Christianity's "multiply and subdue" passage, coupled with the tools of industry, has resulted, though not necessarily by intelligent design, in a culture of unsustainable exploitation of nature. That is not to say that philosophy is shared by all Christians, or that there have not been Christians with a focus on sustainability. One need only look at the work of Thomas Merton.

Taoism, with strong roots in nature, proposes a balance between man and nature. Modern Buddhism has addressed the question too. This week is a series of talks in Portland and Eugene by the Dalai Lama and others on the application of compassion and spirituality to environmental sustainability.

The events are long since sold out. But each event is being webcast live. Free!

May 9: “Spirituality & the Environment” at the University of Portland 9AM-11:30
Live webcast can be viewed at http://www.dalailama.com/live-portland9am

May 9: “Universal Responsibility & the Inner Environment” at the University of Portland 1:30PM-3
Live webcast can be viewed at http://www.dalailama.com/live-portland9pm

May 10: “Life and After Life” at Maitripa College 9AM-11
Live webcast can be viewed at http://www.dalailama.com/live-portland10am

May 10: “The Path to Peace and Happiness in the Global Society” at the University of Oregon’s Matthew Knight Arena 1:30-3:30
Live webcast can be viewed at http://www.uoregon.edu/

May 11: “Universal Responsibility & the Global Environment” at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland 9:30AM-11
Live webcast can be viewed at http://www.dalailama.com/live-portland11am

May 11: “Inspiration for the Global Environment” at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum 1:30PM-3:30
Live webcast can be viewed at http://www.dalailama.com/live-portland11pm

The webcasts are also available at http://youtube.com/dalailama or http://www.dalailama.com/liveweb.

All times Pacific time, now GMT-7.

We live in an era of spiritual remix. Each of us today can construct a personal spiritual system from samples of many available. Maybe a little Buddhist compassion for sustainability and the environment is a good sample for each of us to include?

Live, learn, act (compassionately).

May 8 Innovation is Free

Quality is free was a realization beginning in the 1960's applied to space manufacturing. Innovation, progressively driven out of American business, is free too. It is just that management does not want to pay for it. Writer Bruce Nussbaum discusses his book Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire. He also speaks at 4 tomorrow at Ziba but reservations are closed. At Ecotrust 721 NW 9th noon-1 Free



Bullseye Glass is a world class manufacturer of glass sheet, powder and rod, right here in Portland. They also operate a gallery and glass art residencies. We don't cover glass art here because it has its own aesthetics and collector base, distinct from contemporary art. Tonight is a rare opportunity to tour the Bullseye factory. The local chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts sponsors a tour tonight. You can register at this link. At Bullseye Glass 3610 SE 21st 6PM $10



The first year students of the joint OCAC and PNCA MFA in applied contemporary craft present a show tonight. At the Bison Building, 3610 SE 21st 6PM-9 Free

May 6 Know the Tube

Getting to Know You (Tube) hosts the video selections shown on the big screen of Jamie Edwards, Julie Perini and Jodie Cavalier. Each artist has selected 10-15 minutes of favorites made by others on YouTube. Getting to Know You(Tube) www.gettingtoknowyoutube.com at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard 7:30PM $5

May 5 Tuvan Throat Singing and Infinite Reproduction In Portland

Tuva is a region in Siberia adjacent to Mongolia. For some it is on the map because the physicist Richard Feynman aspired to visit. Feynman is famous for his brilliance, including uniting previously unconnected physics theories to form quantum electrodynamics using social practice and ethnographic methods. With the bureaucratic and ideological differences between the Soviet Union, now the Russian Republic, and the United States of the 1980's (to now?), he was only granted a visa to visit the day after his death from cancer in 1988 at age 70.

Tuva is internationally known for throat singing. It is an unusual but instantly identifiable method of generating multiple overtones in the vocal tract. In Tuva it is part of land-based spiritual beliefs.

Portlander Enrique Ugalde has visited Tuva extensively, learned Tuvan throat singing, recorded performances, arranged Tuvan throat singing tours in the US, competed in international throat singing competitions and won third best in the world and best foreigner. He is universally acknowledged as the finest throat singer in the world outside Tuva and is a continuous vocal innovator.

He performs worldwide. Portland rarely. Tonight is an opportunity to hear him perform here and now. After he embarks a European and Asian tour.

At Star Theater 13 NW 6th 8PM $10



Noted Portland artist Wynde Dyer, the principal of Golden Rule and exhibitor at Place, Milepost 5 and elsewhere opens images from her China series. Family is all. Dyer taps family experiences in her art-making to strong impact, ask the artist or do your research for more. Opening reception tonight with music. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd. Early close 5PM-7 Free

May 4 Rockin' Modern Art

(You) New Bad Things (Video) is a show featuring (video) from Chase Allgood, Chase Biado, Matthew Green, Ashby Lee Collinson and Jason Hirata. (video) (art) is nascent in Portland for some reason, maybe it's not painterly, printerly or crafterly enough, or it is too heady. Rock has a good eye for performance and I'm familiar with several of these artists' (good) work along those lines. So this will be a good show to see and a great setting upon opening to discuss (video). Rocksbox is a place for Portland's most contemporary artists to converse and experience art beyond the warm and fuzzy Portlandia genres. Always recommended. At Rocksbox Fine Art www.rocksboxfineart.com 6540 N Interstate Map 8PM-11 Free



Uncontrollable Urge!!! is a retrospective of artist contributors to Mike McGonigal's Yeti journal. They include Fred Tomaselli, Alexander Ross, David Moreno and Saul Chernick from New York; Chuck Nanney from Oakland, David Fair from Baltimore, Kevin Arrow from Miami Beach, James Trotter from Kansas City, from Paris, Hippolyte Hentgen, Geneviève Castrée from Canada, Kinke Kooi from the Netherlands. Portland represents with Jen Olesen, Eric Mast, Marly Beyer, Josh Kermiet, Lori Damiano, Chris Cilla and Shana Cleveland. Visionary artist Anne Marie Grgich, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Lonnie Holley and the anonymous artist known as “Philadelphia Wireman” are in the show. Classic art vibes from Joe Brainard - New York School poet and painter, flmmaker Bruce Conner and mail artist Ray Johnson. Many are musician multi-artists too - that's the journal's theme. This show is perfect Summer fun band example of what this little museum can put out. At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM Free

May 3 Eastside Art Openings

Newspace has S.A.P.E photographs of sapeurs, flamboyantly costumed Congolese who adopt historic styles for France. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9



The Rock and Roll Camp for Girls produces visual art. Who would have known? This wins tonights copywriting award for content: "Music provided by Voices. Voices is a double drummer band featuring Gillian Avina and Cayla Davis. Gillian and Cayla met this summer at Rock and Roll Camp for Girls. Cayla stays busy in her other Portland bands Blind Lovejoy, Break Up Flowers, and Tofurkey Jerky. Gillian has a background playing violin in several orchestras as well as playing in the English band This is the Kit, as well as playing in another Not Enough! band this year, The Juggy River Sisters!" Wow. She Shreds Magazine will also be in the house. At adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map 6PM-9 Free



Aidan Koch has a show at Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map 6PM-9



Big show at Redux: April Coppini, Brent Wick, Brett Superstar, Keith Carter, Ryan Berkley, and Wesley Younie. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-10



Shadows and Light is the new show at Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free



Art+Music in the form of Dre LeRoca, Penpointred and Erin Mader + Aurei, Enjoy and Realiez. If they have some 3d art up, check it with anamorphic glasses! At Home:Bass www.homebasspdx.com 123 NE 6th 6PM-10 Free



William Rihel opens pilates, an installation which may have nothing to do with the exercise. Also the UO thesis show takes over the rest of the space. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-10 Free

May 2 Westside Art Openings

Jaq Chartier has Ultra Marine, continuing simple a simple and seductive markmaking strategy started with paintings reminiscent of electrophoresis gels. And Claire Cowie has Unreliable Source, a little bit of everything, illustrations, sculpture and photographs of performance/ costuming. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9



Lucas Foglia shows A Natural Order, portraits of individuals in the Southesat of the US living off the grid. It reminds a Northwest series, Community, Skyblue, by Justine Kurland about 10 years ago. Tamara Staples has portraits of chickens from Georgia. Portland is not the only weird place. Both series were gathered by the photographers traveling to the subjects in extended camper van expedition. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9



Tom Prochaska has Johnson City, paintings in a loose impressionistic style of people and people in landscapes. Along with Gail Tremblay: Reframing images, Conceptualizing Indigenous Art. Tremblay makes basket-like forms from non-traditional materials, like photographic film, itself terminally endangered as a medium. At www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis



Daydreamers is the theme of work by Stella Im Hultberg and Suite Charlie. Perfect for a warm evening of smells, sights and sounds. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th 6PM-10



Monica Choi has curated a group show - In the Process - of illustration work. Buzz Parker has Home Tree Home, light hearted illustrations of tree houses. At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com 19 NW 5th Suite 208. Through the lobby of the arched brick entry, up the stairs and to the back. Very upper floor Japan-style.
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Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map 6PM-9/10sh