RAD HATTER for First Thursday

"Rad Hatter" invites Portland to check out the new Tender Loving Empire gallery-shop-etcetera space downtown... and invited some 40 local artists to transform trucker hats into wearable art. Folks like Mona Superhero and Chris Haberman are making hats; all will be priced under $50.

Plazm editor Tiffany Lee Brown has a piece in the show: a wearable, portable, personal gallery. "FAA: Fully Autonomous Art gallery" comes pre-loaded with a group show of miniature artworks by Gary Wiseman, Mildred Galore, Clare Carpenter, Stacey Tigner Loy, and Christine Toth, and a show catalog by Allison Dubinsky.

If you try out Tiffany's hat, be sure to turn on and position the studio lights. And should you decide to purchase it, proceeds will benefit New Oregon Arts & Letters, the nonprofit organization now publishing Plazm magazine and this fine blog.

Thursday, July 1, 2010, 6-10 pm
Tender Loving Empire
412 sw 10th Avenue at Stark / Ace Hotel block

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Typographic Ballet

Also tonight, our industrious friends over at wk12 and fashion buddha in collaboration with Oregon Ballet have created a dynamic typeface from dance. The font is called Ligne and is based on the physical movements of two Oregon Ballet dancers, Grace Shibley and Lucas Threefoot along with the work of choreographer Candace Bouchard. The dancers were fitted with LED lights, which captured their steps in real time as they danced all 26 letters of the alphabet. Motion-capture was used to record the movements and subsequently form the letters of Ligne.

You can download the typeface here: www.balletfont.com

Tonight from 6-8 pm in the lobby of the Portland Center Stage Armory, there will be a performance of the type ballet. Also live DJ sets from Let's Go Outside and Mr. Ballistic.

128 NW 12th

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Walt Curtis Benefit / Birthday Event

Back in 1991 when Plazm first launched Walt Curtis was an early supporter bringing myself, Neva Knott, Patrick Bardel, and Rueben Nisenfeld on to his KBOO radio program The Talking Earth. A few years later Carl Hanni did a great interview with Walt which we featured in Plazm #3. That was posted on our web site not too long ago. 


Walt lost everything in a catastrophic fire May 2 which also destroyed the Great NW Bookstore. His 69th birthday is on the Fourth of July... You can come celebrate Walt and help him get back on his feet. $10 cover. Additional donations by check, credit card, or paypal can be arranged that evening. 


An exciting evening of spoken word performances by top Portland poets and writers, including Tom Spanbauer, Oregon Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen, and others, live jazz by Nancy King and Glen Moore, DJs and surprises. This is a benefit for poet/painter Walt Curtis, author of Mala Noche, which became Gus Van Sant's first film.


Apparently the event will also be filmed. 

Start Time:	Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 8:00pm
End Time:	Friday, July 2, 2010 at 1:00am
Location:	Berbati Pan
Street:	231 SW Ankeny
City/Town:	Portland, OR

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Neither Higher Nor Lower Opening Friday

My last solo art show in PDX in a loooong time opens on Friday at Nationale. 6-9
Here's the info:
Sarah Gottesdiener presents new work at NATIONALE, with contributors Jenstar Brockman, Michelle Calvert, Lacy Davis, Kaetlin
Kennedy, Aaron Montaigne & Publication Studio
"One of the temptations of an artist is to believe himself solitary....But this is not true. He stands in the midst of all, in the same rank,
neither higher nor lower, with all those who are working and struggling. This is why any authentic creation is a giſt to the future."

---Albert Camus, The Artist and His Time

Over the course of the last few months, Gottesdiener asked four other artists to give her instructions for living. Each time, she took their advice for the duration of one week, and then made art from the ideas their directions had inspired. This process culminated with a ritual involving all parties and designed to charge their creative energy.

The work presented here, which includes photographs, paintings, silkscreens, and books published by Publication Studio, intends to be a celebration of collaboration, inspiration, friendship, and the energy of action and living.

Sarah Gottesdiener is an artist and musician from Hartford, CT, now living in Portland, OR. Primarily a painter, her practice also includes fashion design, sculpture, print making, curating, writing, party throwing, installation, music, and graphic design. Her visual work has been shown extensively in Portland, as well as in San Francisco, New York, Miami, Amsterdam, and Canada. With remarkable co-organizer Jenny Hoyston, she throws the art happening Art Party at Branx every month. Gottesdiener also plays percussion and sings in the bands Matrimony and Atole. This exhibit will be her last in Portland for a while as she will be attending CalArts to obtain her masters of graphic design this fall.

SAVE THE DATES
On view July 2nd - August 1st, 2010
Opening reception First Friday July 2nd, 6/9pm
Artist talk and presentation Thursday July 15th, 7pm (as part of our membership events)
NATIONALE
811 East Burnside
Portland, OR
503.477.9786


And here are some peeks:



More information at:

www.thenewnationale.com

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