Portland’s ultimate multitasking DIYer, Susan Beal, launches her new book, Bead Simple, with an event April 7 at 7:30 PM at Powell’s. Here she answers the questions of the ultra q.
Dimestore Alchemy Revisited: Ethan Rose at Tilt
He shares Joseph Cornell’s practice of, what the poet Charles Simic termed, “Dimestore Alchemy”: that restless drive that solders connections between seemingly dissimilar, random odds and ends, renewing and transform materials, sounds, images and experiences—igniting cast-off, forgotten things with a combustible beauty and mystery.
ultra Q: Karl Lind
Portland-based filmmaker Karl Lind is the best kind of maker, the kind we are so lucky to have many of in Portland, who in addition to doing his own projects, makes interesting work in collaboration with non-filmmakers, AND makes time to see that local filmmakers’ work gets seen. Since 2006, he’s been programming the Odds […]
Luxury + Sustainability. Entermodal.
“The Entermodal philosophy originates from the idea that design can be a force for positive and meaningful change.” — Entermodal
Debrief: Action/Re-Action Runway Show
How to choose favorites? We saw curly flourishes, bold statements, pretty things, and finely crafted dresses that directly referenced pieces in the jewelry show.
The Art of Fashion: Action/Re-Action Fashion Show
each designer was invited to choose an object from the Museum’s current exhibition, Touching Warms the Art, and create a garment in response to it. We suggested they might “interpret ‘inspired by’ as loosely as you like.” And the designers responded to shape, texture, repetition, and free-associative suggestion of narrative.
Tilt Gallery is TWO
Q & A with Tilt Gallery and Project Space directors Jenene Nagy and Josh Smith on the eve of the two-year anniversary of one of the most consistently interesting galleries in Portland and the wondertwins behind it
ultra Q: Woolly Mammoth Comes To Dinner
Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner is a Portland-based contemporary dance collective that will knock your socks off and back on again. Fresh and smart with a combination of choreographed and structured improvisation, with humor, manic elements, and Tammy Faye eyes, Woolly Mammoth Comes To Dinner—Katie Arrants, Rikki Rothenberg, Kathleen Keogh, and David Rafn (who […]
