SPRING 2018
fazal sheikh animating life we.construct. marvels.between. monuments.
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FROM THE DIRECTOR
19 NORTHWEST FILM CENTER
3 EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS
7th Grade Film Challenge
Portland International Film Festival
Common Ground
Reel Music 35
Animating Life
Japanese Currents
We.Construct.Marvels. Between.Monuments.
23 MEMBERS & PATRONS
APEX: Hannah Piper Burns
Object Stories: Invisible Me
The Shape of Speed
Patron Exclusives
Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings
Just for Members
Memorial Gifts
11 NEWS & NOTEWORTHY
Year in Review
27 PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES
Portland Fine Print Fair
Exhibition Programs
In Memoriam
Additional Programs
Ongoing Programs
Public Programs
35 GIFTS & GATHERINGS
45 CALENDAR
PORTAL, VOL. 7, ISSUE 1
Portal is a publication of the Portland Art Museum. A one-year subscription is included with Museum membership. Editorial inquiries should be addressed to: Portland Art Museum, Attn: Portal, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205-2430. Please call in address changes to Membership Services, 503-276-4249. For general information call 503-226-2811. The mission of the Portland Art Museum is to serve the public by providing access to art of enduring quality, by educating a diverse audience about art, and by collecting and preserving a wide range of art for the enrichment of present and future generations. COVER/OPPOSITE: Fazal Sheikh, Alima Hassan Abdullai and her brother Mahmoud, Somali refugee camp, Mandera, Kenya, 1993, from the series A Camel for the Son. © Fazal Sheikh; LEFT: Fazal Sheikh, Dr. Jan’s son and friend, Afghan refugee village, Nasirbagh, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, 1997, from the series The Victor Weeps, © Fazal Sheikh; Installation photo of Coraline’s Garden; Hannah Piper Burns (American, born 1984), still from Your Host, 2017, 3-channel video installation with sound. Courtesy of the artist.
FROM THE DIRECTOR Throughout the Portland Art Museum, it is evident we are evolving. As we celebrate our institution’s 125-year history and look to its future, we are committed to ensuring that we are welcoming and inclusive in our exhibitions, programs, and campus. This season offers important programs to fulfill this commitment by examining how art connects us with each other, our communities, and the world. Common Ground, a 25-year retrospective of the photographer Fazal Sheikh, depicts the faces and stories of refugees and other people who have been displaced and marginalized—by war, by ethnic and religious strife, by climate crises or social banishment. To amplify the images, the Museum and Northwest Film Center have partnered with important local organizations Portland Meet Portland and Oregon Humanities to discuss the vital, difficult questions surrounding international migration and our responses locally and personally. Curated in Portland by Julia Dolan, Ph.D., The Minor White Curator of Photography, Common Ground will truly be a revealing experience for all. On the fourth floor of the Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, another important project is taking place. We invited visiting artistic director Libby Werbel to collaborate with our curators and education staff on a year-long, artist-led exhibition series, We.Construct.Marvels.Between. Monuments. Developed in partnership with artists and art collectives, the programming asks how the Museum can intensify our artist-centered and inclusive practices to become critically engaged with a broader array of emerging and established artists in the region. I am grateful to Libby Werbel and the participating artists for bringing their important perspectives to this work, with the energetic support of Sara Krajewski, The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art; Grace Kook-Anderson, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art; and Stephanie Parrish, Associate Director of Education and Public Programs. The collaborative experiment in the Jubitz Center reflects an evolution to expanded inclusivity throughout the Museum. Our Object Stories gallery features Invisible Me, a partnership with the Invisible Disabilities Project and local documentary filmmaker Cheryl Green to bring in the perspective of people living with unseen physical, mental, and emotional conditions. And as our Rothko Pavilion project moves forward, we are working with accessibility experts and forming a disability advisory committee to improve accessibility in all areas of the Museum. As director of the Portland Art Museum, I place special emphasis on the goal of bringing the world to Portland and Portland to the world. That dynamic flow requires a will to welcome and an openness to evolve, both of which I see every day in our staff, our artist communities, and our dedicated member community. Thank you for joining this museum in progress.
Brian J. Ferriso The Marilyn H. and Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. Director Chief Curator
LEFT to RIGHT: Julia Dolan, Ph.D., The Minor White Curator of Photography; Stephanie Parrish, Associate Director of Education and Public Programs; Libby Werbel, visiting artistic director for WE.; Sara Krajewski, The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art; and Grace Kook-Anderson, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art.
EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS
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COMMON GROUND Photographs by Fazal Sheikh, 1989–2013 FEBRUARY 24 – MAY 20, 2018
Human rights and dignity form the core of Fazal Sheikh’s photographs. For more than 25 years, he has worked with individuals rendered invisible by war, ethnic and religious strife, climate crises, and social banishment, inviting them to share their stories of unimaginable hardship and perseverance. Featuring works from eight of his series, Common Ground demonstrates Sheikh’s sustained attention to the displaced around the world, and his drive to amplify the voices of the marginalized through his documentary-based photographic practice. Born in New York City in 1965 to an American mother and Kenyan father, Sheikh spent many childhood summers with extended family in Nairobi. After studying photography at Princeton University, he returned to Kenya on a Fulbright scholarship, living for extended periods near refugee camps harboring people displaced from Somalia, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Rwanda. Unlike most photojournalists, who spent less than a day in the camps before photographing their subjects, Sheikh built relationships with the residents over months and, often, years. People posed for his camera
as they wished to be portrayed, and the resulting photographs are collaborative works between the artist and sitters. First-person testimonies that accompany the photographs amplify the voices of individuals who advocate for themselves, their families, their communities, and the future. Many of Sheikh’s series are based in the homelands of his paternal ancestors. From 1996 to 1998, he photographed near his grandfather’s birthplace in present-day Pakistan. Once northern India, the borderland region harbored hundreds of thousands of Afghanis displaced by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. For his series The Victor Weeps, Sheikh photographed camp residents and preserved their stories by recording their oral histories. Later, he worked extensively in northern India, documenting the ways that caste systems and gender biases adversely affect women. Moksha features images and stories of the women who live in the holy city of Vrindavan, a sacred site for widows driven from their homes after the deaths of their husbands, while Ladli introduces viewers to girls and young women who experience nearly insurmountable hardship based solely on gender. As with all of his series, Sheikh collaborates carefully with the South Asian men and women he photographs, and their powerful stories become part of his sustained effort to call attention to humanrights abuses. Two series included in Common Ground merge documentary and conceptual photographic practice: Ether, the artist’s first series of color photographs, honors the states of sleep and death as seen in the sacred city of Banares, on the banks of the Ganges River, where many Hindus go to die in the hopes of achieving salvation. Ramadan Moon, featuring a soundtrack of sung prayers, is an immersive work that follows Somali refugee Seynab Azir
LEFT: Fazal Sheikh, Abshiro Aden Mohammed, Women’s Leader, Somali Refugee Camp, Dagahaley, Kenya, 2000, from the series A Camel for the Son; BOTTOM: Dr. Jan’s son and friend, Afghan refugee village, Nasirbagh, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, 1997, from the series The Victor Weeps; RIGHT: Malikh, Jai Hind squatter settlement, Delhi, India, 2007, from the series Ladli. All images © Fazal Sheikh.
Wardeere during the holy month of Ramadan. Seeking asylum in the Netherlands, she looks to the night sky in the hope that the family she left behind in Somalia sees the same stars during their separation. Sheikh’s photographic series have earned him many awards and fellowships, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Henri Cartier-Bresson International Grand Prize, and the Luce Humanitarian Award. To extend the spirit of his work to the Portland metro area, the Museum is working with leaders in the community on special programming that will engage local resettled populations and examine the wide-ranging experiences of displaced individuals from around the globe. Organized by the Denver Art Museum and curated by Eric Paddock, Curator of Photography, Denver Art Museum. Host curated by Julia Dolan, Ph.D., The Minor White Curator of Photography. MAJOR SPONSORS: Anonymous. SPONSORS: Stephanie Fowler and Irving Levin of The Renaissance Foundation; Ed Cauduro Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation, Judith Wyss; ProPhoto Supply; Sandy and Jeff Grubb.
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ANIMATING LIFE The Art, Science, and Wonder of LAIKA THROUGH MAY 20, 2018
Animating Life: The Art, Science, and Wonder of LAIKA has been a must-see since its opening in October. More than 120,000 visitors so far have experienced the groundbreaking view behind the curtain into the visionary artistry and technology of the globally renowned and locally founded animation studio, making it one of the most-visited exhibitions in the Museum’s history. Visitors from near and far have immersed themselves in the LAIKA creative process, taking to social media to document their experience and share their excitement—one couple even took their shared love of LAIKA’s first film, Coraline, to the next level with a surprise proposal in front of Coraline’s garden. Stop-motion enthusiasts, LAIKA fans, and casual observers, many of whom are not regular Museum visitors, have given glowing reviews of
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not only Animating Life, but the rest of the Museum. Established in Portland in 2005, LAIKA has produced four Oscar®-nominated features, including Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), The Boxtrolls (2014), ParaNorman (2012), and Coraline (2009). The striking Wall of Faces in the entrance court showcases LAIKA’s groundbreaking rapid prototyping system, which uses 3D printers to revolutionize film production and earned the studio a 2016 Scientific and Technology Oscar®. Through technological and creative innovations, LAIKA is devoted to telling new and original stories in unprecedented ways. This spring, the Museum reprises the popular, family-friendly LAIKA Sundays series. On the third Sunday of each month through May, visitors have the opportunity to meet
LAIKA artists, take a family tour, try their hand at analog animation, and watch a film. The Northwest Film Center continues its
series Animated Worlds: Stop Motion Classics, showcasing the studio’s work and surveying the evolution of stop-motion animation since before the turn of the 20th century. Along with film exhibition programming, the Center offers a range of animation classes, workshops, and visiting-artist programs for students, artists, families, and community members of all ages. “It has been absolutely fantastic to collaborate with the Museum on every level,” said Arianne Sutner, LAIKA’s Head of Production. “Our talented, dedicated group of artists love to share and talk about their work almost as much as they do creating it. We continue to be inspired every time we participate in the museum’s various programs; sharing what we
do with fans of the museum and our LAIKA movies is fulfilling on a very personal level. We don’t want it to end!” The inspiration has been mutual. LAIKA artists visited the Museum’s Japanese galleries while developing Kubo and the Two Strings, thanking the Museum in the film’s end credits. The Petti Gallery adjacent to the LAIKA exhibition displays 19th-century Japanese prints and samurai armor across the ages, inviting visitors to look more deeply into the artistry behind the armor. In a city renowned for its maker scene, Animating Life: The Art, Science, and Wonder of LAIKA and its related film and educational programming are a celebration of the
intersection of art, craft, film, and technology. Proudly embracing the studio’s unconventional, independent Portland spirit, the exhibition and programs celebrate LAIKA’s singular position in Portland and in the global film community. Organized by the Portland Art Museum and the Northwest Film Center in collaboration with LAIKA. PRESENTING SPONSOR: Phil and Penny Knight. LEAD SPONSOR: Exhibition Series Sponsors. MAJOR SPONSORS: Helen Jo and Bill Whitsell; Ameriprise Financial and Columbia Threadneedle; Clark Foundation; KinderCare Education; Stoel Rives; U.S. Bank/U.S. Bank Foundation. See website for complete list.
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WE.CONSTRUCT.MARVELS.BETWEEN.MONUMENTS. THROUGH DECEMBER 2018 WE. ON VIEW THROUGH FEBRUARY 18 CONSTRUCT. ON VIEW MARCH 2 – MAY 6
We.Construct.Marvels.Between.Monuments is a yearlong, artist-led experiment transforming the fourth floor of the Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art. Five exhibitions developed in partnership with artists and art collectives activate the gallery with visual art, performance, screenings, and discussions. Organized by visiting artistic director Libby Werbel, the programming invites a range of emerging and established voices to ask questions about how the Museum can become more artist-centered and inclusive in its practices, and how it might become more critically engaged in the creative community. The programming intends to build a bridge between Portland’s independent artist-run spaces, activists, and the city’s established art institution. Through this yearlong program, Werbel encourages audiences to reflect on how museums historically have granted access to art and knowledge, and what the future of this institution could look like. She imagines the string of exhibitions as a sort of “museum alchemy”: Each artist or collective is tasked 8 PORTLAND ART MUSEUM
with contributing their own ingredients to the pot, acting as a catalyst for engaging new perspectives. The first exhibition, We., highlights the work of Ricky Bearghost, Kurt Fisk, Perry Johnson, Elmeator Morton, Lawrence Oliver, and Dawn Westover, artists who work with Public Annex, OUTPOST 1000, Oregon Supported Living Program, and Albertina Kerr, programs supporting artists with disabilities. This exhibition creates space for dialogue around how art-world institutions can more thoughtfully integrate the work and perspectives of artists of all abilities. Co-organized by Public Annex with curatorial assistance from Sonya Hamilton, WE. opened the process directly to the artists, providing opportunities for agency, selfdetermination, and reflection. From March 2 to May 6, construct. presents new work by keyon gaskin and sidony o’neal, whose project intends to challenge the museum’s core identity. Construct. places the Museum’s permanent collection in conversation with new and existing works, performances,
alternative use of space, and moments for dialogue. Their exhibition employs institutional critique to explore the value of detritus and lack, and the place of generativity in a decaying world. O’neal and gaskin recognize the generative potential of conflict that arises when we engage historically oppressive, exclusionary, and revisionist institutional environments. They write: “Construction of new institutional practices is preceded by de-construction. De-construction invites other modes of entry— getting inside, engaging old systems, and allowing other values to emerge through critical interrogations.” We.Construct.Marvels.Between.Monuments. is organized by visiting artistic director Libby Werbel in collaboration with the Museum’s curatorial and education departments. Funding is provided in part by the Miller Meigs Endowment for Contemporary Art, the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Endowments for Northwest Art, and the Artist & Participatory Programs Fund of the Education Department.
TOP: Opening celebration of We. with performance by Ural Thomas; RIGHT: Hannah Piper Burns (American, born 1984), stills from Your Host, 2017, 3-channel video installation with sound. Courtesy of the artist. FAR Right: Holly Oberg, Invisibile Me Object Stories participant.
OBJECT STORIES: Invisible Me FEBRUARY 10 – JUNE 17, 2018
APEX: HANNAH PIPER BURNS Venus Retrograde FEBRUARY 24 – AUGUST 12, 2018
This spring, the Object Stories gallery features Invisible Me. From autism to depression, Invisible Me focuses on persons living with unseen physical, mental, and emotional conditions in order to challenge traditional perceptions of disability and its impact in our lives. Object Stories has partnered with the Invisible Disabilities Project and local documentary filmmaker Cheryl Green to further the conversation of hidden disabilities in our abelist culture. Join us in celebration of this exhibition at a free Community Opening on April 5, 2018, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
In this APEX program titled Venus Retrograde, Hannah Piper Burns (b. 1984) takes reality shows as the medium of her work. In particular, she uses episodes of The Bachelor and its spinoffs The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise. Through Burns’ use of editing, splicing, glitches, and repetition, she rips apart the seams of a stifling narrative to pull out pieces of the morass lying just beneath the highly stylized gloss. Through Burns’ films and installations, we begin to see the uncomfortable forces and paradoxes that define much of our own contemporary moment. What becomes clearer is a patchwork of the banal and profound absurdities—of love and failure, of surveillance and spectacle—pulling the viewer into dream logic that is cinematic and intimate. What is experienced puts the viewer in a metaphysical pickle. As a multimedia artist, Burns creates projects spanning video, performance, installation, text, and interactivity. Her work has been shown widely across the United States and Canada, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the Indie Bits Festival in Columbia, South Carolina; the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival; and as part of Physical Education’s Say When. APEX is an ongoing series of exhibitions of Northwest-based artists, curated by Grace Kook-Anderson, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art. The APEX series is supported in part by The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Endowments for Northwest Art and the Exhibition Series Sponsors.
Object Stories is a personal storytelling project and exhibition series hosted by the Portland Art Museum. Upon launch in 2010, Object Stories became a first of its kind in the museum field and continues to innovate today. The project has grown the application of storytelling with objects from a way to interrupt the traditional authoritative museum voice and create a platform where Portland and the Pacific Northwest’s many communities can directly address issues affecting their lives. Object Stories helps drive the Portland Art Museum to become a safe and responsive space open for dialogue, conversation, and the exchange of ideas.
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COMING THIS SUMMER
RICHARD DIEBENKORN Beginnings, 1942–1955 JUNE 16 – SEPTEMBER 23, 2018
THE SHAPE OF SPEED Streamlined Automobiles and Motorcycles, 1930–1942 JUNE 16 – SEPTEMBER 16, 2018
The Museum is revved up to announce The Shape of Speed: Streamlined Automobiles and Motorcycles, 1930–1942, a special exhibition debuting at the Museum in June. Beginning in the early 1930s and extending until the outbreak of World War II, automotive designers embraced the challenge of styling and building truly streamlined cars that were fast and fuelefficient. The Shape of Speed features 16 rare streamlined automobiles and two motorcycles from Europe and the United States that demonstrate how auto designers translated the concept of aerodynamic efficiency into exciting machines that in many cases, looked as though they were moving while at rest. Featured automotive carmakers include Mercedes-Benz, which has restored one of the carmaker’s Stromlinienwagens (streamlined cars) from 1938, along with Porsche, Bugatti, BMW, Bentley, Voisin, Talbot-Lago, Adler, Cord, and Chrysler. In addition, The Shape of Speed includes two motorcycles: a radically streamlined Henderson KJ and a BMW concept R7 motorcycle that was developed in the mid-1930s, lost for decades in a missing crate, recovered in 2005, and completely
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restored. Engineering drawings and period photographs will show some of the aircraft, railroad, ship, and yacht designs that influenced the automakers. The latest exhibition in the Museum’s design series, The Shape of Speed is guest curated by Ken Gross, former director of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Gross curated the Museum’s popular 2011 exhibition The Allure of the Automobile, which enthralled visitors with its lavish presentation of automobiles as kinetic art—a form of rolling sculpture. With this new exhibition, the Museum opens the door to another fascinating exploration of automotive design. Organized by the Portland Art Museum. Guest curated by Ken Gross. SPONSORS: Sports Car Market 30th Anniversary Tour–Richard Duffy, Tim Gallagher, Bob Baily/Archie Urciuoli, Dan and James McCallum, Philip and Sarah Richter; Mr. Ken Austin; Bonhams; Mr. Keith Martin.
Featuring approximately 100 paintings and drawings from the collection of the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation—most of which have never before been publicly exhibited—Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 1942–1955 is the first exhibition to focus solely on the work the acclaimed painter made prior to his switch to figuration. Beginnings examines Diebenkorn’s stylistic and technical origins in oil, watercolor, gouache, ink, crayon, and collage, tracing the Portland-born artist’s evolution from representational landscape, to semiabstract and Surrealist-inspired work, to his mature Abstract Expressionist paintings in California from the Sausalito, Albuquerque, Urbana, and early Berkeley years. A landmark contribution to the study and understanding of Diebenkorn’s work, Beginnings and its companion catalog reveal the forces that shaped the young artist, including works that range from World War II drawings and watercolors of soldiers and military bases, to abstractions that unite the forms of Surrealism and the fractured planes of Cubism, to gestural works on paper. The exhibition concludes with one of the artist’s first mature figurative paintings, his 1954 Untitled (Horse and Rider), laying the foundation for the representational drawings and paintings starting in the mid-1950s for which Diebenkorn earned wide renown. Organized by the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, Berkeley, in collaboration with the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento. Curated in Portland by Sara Krajewski, The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. SPONSORS: Nani S. Warren / The Swigert Warren Foundation
Delahaye 135M, Figoni and Falaschi, 1938. Photo: Scott Williamson.
NEWS & NOTEWORTHY
YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-2017 Annual Report The 2017 fiscal year was a resounding success. From financial stability to world-class exhibitions and engaging public programs, the Museum and Northwest Film Center continue to deepen their connection with visitors and the community. Exhibitions that showcased Native fashion, presented the breadth of Pop Art icon Andy Warhol’s prints, featured Rodin’s brilliant human forms, and introduced under-recognized African-American artists attracted a wide range of visitors from both near and far. Community partnerships added vital context to our exhibitions, installations, and programs. These partnerships included: Working with the Independent Publishing Resource Center and local printmakers and illustrators during the Andy Warhol exhibition. Collaborating with the Portland 3D Printing Lab during Rodin to bring new technology and new ways of seeing to Rodin’s process. Working with an extraordinary range of artists, students, and community groups to bring Constructing Identity to life.
Connecting the experimentation and innovative thinking of architect John Yeon to local organizations working to address houselessness in the city—including the Village Coalition and Portland State University’s Center for Public Interest Design. The Museum continues to work closely with school districts and educators in the region. These relationships include hosting the HeART
of Portland event, a Portland Public Schools arts showcase, for the third year in a row, providing workshops and professional development to more than 400 educators, and bringing images of objects in the Museum’s collection to more than 1,000 classrooms across Oregon and Washington through the expanding Teacher Poster Project. Additionally, 200 Portland Public Schools seventh graders took part in the pilot “Maker Experience” program at the Northwest Film Center (see page 20). The Museum’s curatorial team continues to grow and evolve to advance the Museum’s mission. Several new appointments were made this year, including Grace Kook-Anderson as the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art, Sangah Kim as the Cowles Curatorial Fellow in Asian Art, and Jeannie Kenmotsu as the Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art. A number of important works were added to the collection, including a stunning Spanish painting by Felipe Diriksen; a conceptual sculpture by Jeppe Hein; a commanding work by Portland-based artist Arvie Smith; an iconic, 15th-century woodcut by Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer; two contemporary photographs by
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TOP: Gallery tour during the Adelantes Chicas summer program; LEFT: Conversations on African-American Art & Culture, a Constructing Identity program; TOP/RIGHT: Portland 3D Printing Lab demonstration during Miller Family Free Day; RIGHT: Student artwork from The HeART of Portland, Portland Public Schools Art Showcase.
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS 2017 marks the sixth year in a row that the Museum has ended the year with a balanced budget. Additional highlights include a 9 percent increase in visitors, and another record-breaking year for earned income from admissions, store sales, and rental income. Michael Cherney, inspired by traditional Chinese painting; a Chilkat robe by Tlingit artist and weaver Lily Hope; and a monumental contemporary photograph by Oregonian Corey Arnold. Another major highlight was the repatriation of 18th-century work Five Buddhas to its home in the Songgwangsa Monastery in Korea. The Museum and Five Buddhas’ longtime owners, Robert and Sandra Mattielli, were welcomed in Korea earlier this year on a trip to see the painting returned to the monastery. The Library and Collections Information Department continues to make more art and artifacts available to researchers and the public. Online Collections usage continues to increase each year, and 45 percent of the permanent collection is currently online.
Funding to support the Museum comes from a variety of revenue sources. Last year, 15 percent came from admissions and memberships, 14 percent from contributions and grants, and 13 percent from Museum Store sales and facility rental fees. New this year is the capital campaign in support of the expansion and renovation project, which accounted for 40 percent. The majority of expenses were used in support of Museum and Film Center programs and to acquire and preserve art. The Museum’s audited financial reports are available online at portlandartmuseum.org/ annual-report-2017.
BY THE NUMBERS 36 exhibitions 630 films 43,000 participants in public programs and school tours
27,000 elementary, middle, high school, and college student visitors
100 Northwest Film Center visiting artists
330,000 Museum and Film Center visitors. Nearly 1/3 attend for free or at a reduced price.
400 teachers attended
educator-specific events throughout the year
700 Museum and Film Center docents and volunteers
3,500 Northwest Film Center Global Classroom high school audience members
1,300 Northwest Film Center class participants of all ages
3,084 new high-resolution
artwork images created for Online Collections
95,000 + people attended
events in the Museum’s rental spaces
19,000 + member
households, who help make all of this possible. Thank you!
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PORTLAND FINE PRINT FAIR AT FIVE In the last week of January, the Museum hosted a celebration of the graphic arts that has become a regional pillar of art collection and appreciation. Now in its fifth year, the Portland Fine Print Fair brought together 18 premier dealers from across the United States, Asia, and Europe for a weekend of buying, browsing, and education. “Print Fair was inaugurated in 2014 with the goal of providing our community with the opportunity to purchase and study thousands of museum-quality prints, and to nurture the collecting impulse that has contributed so much to our city” says Mary Weaver Chapin, Ph.D., Curator of Prints and Drawings. Since then, it has been a favorite annual event for collectors, connoisseurs, printmakers, students, and those eager to learn more about the graphic arts. This rich history of collecting continues today and is supported by the Portland Fine Print Fair. The Portland Art Museum not only hosts the event, but also actively purchases work for the Museum’s collection. Since 2014, more than 50 works displayed at the Fair have entered the collection, either as direct purchases or as gifts from generous community members.
“The extraordinary richness of choices and the opportunity to examine the work in person allows me to make purchases of extremely high quality at the Fair,” says Maribeth Graybill, Ph.D., the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Asian Art. Dr. Graybill points to acquisitions of leading masters of 18th- and 19th-century art including ukiyo-e woodblocks by Kitagawa Utamaro and Utagawa Kuniyoshi, as well as striking work by contemporary female artists such as Yoshida Chizuko. For Dr. Chapin, acquisition highlights include a dramatic 1498 woodcut depicting the Apocalypse by Albrecht Dürer as well as 19th-century lithographs by French masters Odilon Redon and EugèneSamuel Grasset. The Trickster, an album of 16 lithographs purchased with funds provided by the Native American Art Council, added important work by Botswanan and Pueblo artists to the collection. The Museum Art Councils’ involvement in the Print Fair has been key to its success. Council members can be found browsing the aisles, staffing the volunteer booth, and making purchases for their own collections or as gifts for the Museum. “I am delighted by the generosity of our councils and donors,” adds Dr. Chapin, “as well as the dealers—several of whom have made gifts to the collection in
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recognition of the importance of graphic arts to Portlanders.” One such gift, Tiger Attack, by Louis-Candide Boulanger, is now on view in the exhibition Kingdom Animalia: Animals in Print from Dürer to Picasso. The Portland Fine Print Fair and the graphic arts collection is well positioned as we celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Museum and reflect forward. Last year, the Museum welcomed Jeannie Kenmotsu, Ph.D., the Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art, who brings great expertise of Japanese ukiyo-e prints and books. Dr. Kenmotsu, together with Dr. Graybill, will oversee the prestigious Institute of Museum and Library Services grant to complete the Japanese Print Initiative (see next page). Like the Fine Print Fair itself, this grant furthers the Museum’s strong mission to make art accessible, in person and online, to scholars, researchers, and art lovers everywhere. Portland Fina Print Fair 2018 was sponsored in part by the Graphic Arts Council of the Portland Art Museum; Framing Resource; Dan Bergsvik and Don Hastler; Dr. Douglas and Selby Key; Karen Varnhagen, Financial Advisor, Morgan Stanley; AKA: Aidan Krainock Appraisals. Wine for the Benefit Preview generously donated by Dave Holt.
ABOVE: Chyna Bounds, research assistant; Jeanie Kenmotsu, Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art; and Mary Weaver Chapin, Curator of Prints and Drawings; LEFT: Yoshida Chizuko (Japanese, 1924-2017), Landscape in Blue, 1972, color woodblock print with embossing on paper, Museum purchase: Funds provided by Asian Art Auction proceeds, © Chizuko Yoshida; TOP RIGHT: Suzuki Harunobu, Little Peachling: Calendar print for 1765, 1765, color woodblock print, The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection; BOTTOM RIGHT: Ben Cort, Collections and Exhibitions Photographer, with Jeanie Kenmotsu, Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art.
NEW GRANT TO BROADEN ACCESS TO THE JAPANESE PRINT COLLECTION The Museum’s Japanese print collection has long been a source of pride. In 1932, the Museum acquired the Mary Andrews Ladd collection of 750 Japanese prints—an impressive collection and one of the earliest of its kind in the country. During this anniversary year, as the Museum reflects on the past and considers the future, it is gratifying to report that the Asian art collection, and in particular the Japanese print collection, is thriving thanks to a long history of support and a new Museums for America grant of nearly $100,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The two-year grant supports the Japanese Print Initiative, which will create online access to the Museum’s collection of almost 3,000 traditional and modern Japanese prints, books, and portfolios. Comprising rare traditional prints
and one of the most comprehensive collections of modern Japanese prints in North America— including perhaps the largest concentration of prints by women printmakers—the Museum’s collection remains largely hidden, since the bulk of it is unavailable online. Support for the Japanese Print Initiative includes upgrades to the Museum’s photography studio, which will enable the Museum to achieve international imaging standards for works of art. The Museum will now be able to create and share images of Japanese prints that expose new levels of detail—inscriptions, markings, seals, metallic pigments—that are of vital importance to the study and understanding of the works.
to make the Museum’s collections more accessible. Recently, the Museum completed similar projects to create online access to approximately 13,000 works from its world-class collections of Northwest and Native American art. The Museum is grateful to IMLS for its continued support of major mission-driven initiatives, including digitization of the Native American Art Collection, improved storage for Asian artworks, and funding for Object Stories and the Center for Contemporary Native Art.
The Japanese Print Initiative is the latest in a series of ongoing physical and digital initiatives
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ROTHKO PAVILION MOVES FORWARD City Council and donors show support for building connection improving access. In December 2017, the Portland City Council approved an ordinance change that will allow the Museum to take the next steps in the proposed Rothko Pavilion project. The vote marks an important milestone in the public process toward making the Museum more accessible to all, including people with disabilities and visitors of all ages. The Rothko Pavilion will serve as a new enclosed, ground-level, accessible central entrance and free public space between the two campus buildings. Passage to and from 10th Avenue to Park Avenue will remain free and accessible through the Pavilion. The project also adds a new west-facing entry plaza, facilitates the redesign of existing galleries and corridors, and adds new barrierfree connections on multiple levels within the Pavilion. At the December City Council meeting, more than 30 Museum members, docents, volunteers,
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trustees, and employees told their stories about the impact this project would have for the Museum and the community. “It was helpful to hear the range of testimony on the project and to receive affirmation from the Mayor and Commissioners,” said Museum Director Brian Ferriso. Following the initial presentation of the project to City Council in April 2017, the Museum heard excellent feedback that was ultimately incorporated into the new amended ordinance that governs Madison Street, such as the importance that the Pavilion remain free and accessible for everyone, including people with pets and bikes, and that it remain open and safe during all Portland Streetcar hours. While the focus of the past six months has been on listening to the community regarding the Madison Street ordinance, a number of donors made major contributions to both the capital and endowment portions of the
campaign. Support includes $1 million gifts from the Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation and the State of Oregon Lottery Bond Funds; $500,000 contributions from The Harvey Mudd Foundation and The Smidt Foundation; and $250,000 from The Oregon Community Foundation. These gifts bring the total raised to $30.3 million toward a $50 million capital goal. Additionally, $2 million in gifts and pledges have been made toward the $25 million Endowment Campaign goal, with almost $9 million committed. “It is gratifying to know that these important funders believe in our ability to create a better, more accessible Museum for our community today, and in the future,” said Director Ferriso. As a new year begins, the Museum is looking forward to continuing to listen to and work with advocates from the disability community, along with an internal team and a range of stakeholders and community partners to ensure that Rothko Pavilion and related renovations benefit the entire community. Learn more about the Rothko Pavilion at portlandartmuseum.org/connections.
TOP: 10th Avenue entrance and West Plaza design concept; RIGHT: Cross-section of main building pavilion, and Mark Building; TOP RIGHT: Jang Jin-ik, Fulfillment of Emptiness II, © Jang Jin-ik.
KOREAN LOTUS LANTERNS A shining example of a burgeoning relationship When the Museum invited a team of Korean scholars to inspect a painting of Five Buddhas in 2014, there was no way of knowing where the results would lead. Four years and two continents later, an extraordinary relationship has blossomed between the Museum and a Korean Buddhist Order.
On November 18, 2017, the Museum hosted a Korean lantern workshop in partnership with the Yeon Deung Hoe (Lotus Lantern Festival) Preservation Committee, the Museum’s Asian Art Council, and the Office of the Consul General of the Republic of Korea in Seattle. The Lotus Lantern Festival is an annual three-day Korean celebration, with thousands participating in lantern making, lantern exhibitions, lantern parades, and various performances.
The lantern workshop in Portland was the first fruit from the new relationship with the Jogye Buddhist Order, forged through the recent repatriation to Korea of an important Buddhist icon: a painting of Five Buddhas. The painting’s owners, Robert and Sandra Mattielli of Portland, graciously agreed to return it to its original home in the Songgwangsa monastery. The monastery, in turn, invited a group from Portland to visit, including the Mattiellis, Museum Director Brian Ferriso, Curator of Asian Art Maribeth Graybill, curatorial fellow Sangah Kim, and members of the Asian Art Council. When the group visited the Jogye Order headquarters in Seoul they were amazed by the beautiful lanterns on display in the lobby of the building. Hearing the praise, the Yeon Deung Hoe Preservation Committee suggested not only having a lantern-making workshop in Portland as a tangible step toward a partnership, but also donating lantern artist Jang Jin-ik’s beautiful lantern to the Museum. The offer was happily accepted, and the lantern was on view from mid-November through January 7.
in Korean culture; youth in the Caldera arts program; and Korean-Americans. The Museum looks forward to sustaining and growing the partnership with the Jogye Order as it continues to bring the world to Oregon and Oregon to the world.
For the workshop, a delegation of seven people, including four artists, traveled from Korea to teach lantern making. Lanternmakers included students from Baker Prairie Middle School in Canby, which has an exchange program with a Korean school; seniors who are interested
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IN MEMORIAM Prudence (Prue) Miller 1934 – 2017
Maribeth Collins 1918 – 2017
The Museum and the city mourned the loss of Maribeth Collins late last year. Maribeth was one of the most significant philanthropic leaders in this state’s history, helping sustain thousands of educational and cultural institutions throughout her remarkable life. She was born in Gresham, studied literature at the University of Oregon, raised four children, chaired the board of a timber company that became a national leader in sustainable forestry, and served as president of the Collins Foundation, which was founded by her husband, Truman Collins, in 1947. Maribeth’s commitment to this state and to Oregonians was steadfast. She considered it a privilege and a responsibility to help others and instilled those values to those around her. Through her leadership, the Foundation made significant grants in the areas of art, youth, community, education, the environment, health and science, humanities, and religion. Her long-standing support of the Museum reflected her love of exhibitions and was recently demonstrated by a major bequest toward the endowment, supplementing a number of previous gifts. Maribeth Collins will be missed and long remembered for her generous spirit.
Roy Lichtenstein, Brushstrokes, 1996, painted aluminum, Gift of Prudence M. Miller and her family, © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein, 2004.89
Prudence (Prue) Miller, who passed away last summer, had a special place in the Museum community. She demonstrated her love of art through active participation in programs and events, as well as travel to other cities with fellow Museum supporters to help bring exhibitions to Portland. She served on the Portland Art Association board, organized exhibition openings, and continued her generous support of the Museum over the ensuing decades. The most public symbol of Prue’s generosity is Roy Lichtenstein’s iconic Brushstrokes (1996) sculpture, which graces the corner of the Mark Building. The landmark piece is currently undergoing conservation treatment to restore it to its original beauty. She also supported many important exhibitions and their associated education programs, including most recently Venice: The Golden Age of Art and Music and The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden. This is truly a loss for the Museum and the community. Prue Miller will be greatly missed.
NORTHWEST FILM CENTER
CHALLENGING THE NEXT GENERATION The 7th Grade Film Challenge pushes middle schoolers to high creativity. A new collaboration with Portland Public Schools (PPS) middle schools is flourishing at the Northwest Film Center this school year. Through the 7th Grade Film Challenge, nearly 300 seventh-grade students are visiting the Film Center facility for a hands-on, Film Center-generated curriculum in filmmaking. Their challenge: To make their own original two- to three-minute film from scratch in just three days.
The program is part of a PPS effort called 7th Grade Career Tech Exploration, or 7GCTE. It aims to expand college- and career-readiness opportunities at the midlevel grades by engaging students in arts and technology activities that are not routinely offered during the school day. Focusing on early adolescents, the program also ultimately hopes to increase student retention and graduation rates in high school.
The Film Challenge is modeled after the Film Center’s popular Summer Film Camps. Students are mentored by Film Center faculty through each step of the filmmaking process, from scriptwriting to editing. In addition to helping the youth develop literacy in one of the most pervasive influences in their lives, the program also encourages critical thinking, problem-solving, and teamwork.
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LEFT: A student from César Chávez School gets ready to film her classmates in the Film Center lobby; TOP RIGHT: Green screen technology makes it possible for students to film stories using superimposed electronic backgrounds; BOTTOM: Students proudly display a Certificate of Completion confirming that they met the 7th Grade Film Challenge.
possibilities for students. Students realize that what they learn in school is going on every day all over the city. Without a doubt, this will be the three days that they will remember of their seventh grade.” The program is supported by a Community Technology Grant from the Mount Hood Cable Regulatory Commission, the Oregon Arts Commission, and the PGE Foundation, along with the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation. A free public screening of all of the films created through the program will take place in the Whitsell Auditorium in June 2018. Check nwfilm.org for details to come.
Many of the youth participants are coming from high-poverty middle schools where funds are limited for specialty subjects like media arts. “It is easy to assume that all of today’s young people have technology at their fingertips at home and at school, but this is not the case in low-income households,” said Film Center Education Director Ellen Thomas. “This is an opportunity to help PPS achieve equity in serving all of its students.”
said one student from Ockley Green Middle School, echoing many others. “Don’t dillydally,” advised another. “You will have no time left to accomplish your goals.” César Chávez School teacher Huck Wilken described the benefits this way: “Far beyond just another field trip, this program changed attitudes about school and expanded the
The Film Challenge learning environment is purposefully kinetic and even a bit chaotic. Students begin by generating an original story idea and learning to operate equipment. By the third and final day, the deadline looms and the intensity rises. “I can see that the students are fully engaged while creating their film stories,” said Marie Tyvoll, 7GCTE Coordinator, “and that the kind of active learning environment we are trying to instill is working to motivate and inspire.” The reward comes when the lights go down and the students see their finished work on the screen. After the nervous giggles and applause die down, students are asked to reflect on what they learned. “That making movies is not easy,”
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41ST PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
JAPANESE CURRENTS
FEBRUARY 15 – MARCH 1
Since 1977, the Portland International Film Festival has been the Northwest Film Center’s annual showcase of new world cinema. Over three weeks in February, through the exhibition of nearly 100 feature films and more than 60 short films, PIFF audiences across the City of Portland travel the globe in theater seats through our celebration of the world’s filmmakers and cinephiles. Join us on February 15 for our Opening Night screening of Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin at Regal Fox Tower or the Whitsell Auditorium followed by our Opening Night party in the Museum’s Schnitzer Sculpture Court.
Opening Night Screening THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15 FOX TOWER SCREENING AT 7 P.M. WHITSELL AUDITORIUM SCREENING AT 7:15 P.M. GENERAL ADMISSION: $25
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Like Japanese fashion and pop culture, Japanese film is perpetually in the international vanguard, blending traditional genres and classical forms with cutting-edge technology and dazzling, innovative imagery. This year’s 11th annual Japanese Currents series—moving to April from its traditional December slot— highlights recent noteworthy films from Nippon, ranging from anime to jidaigeki, documentary to comedy, all while exploring issues important to contemporary Japanese society and the wider world. Collectively, films selected to screen in Japanese Currents offer a fresh take on Japanese culture and showcase the wealth of creative invention at work in Japan today.
Wendy Red Star Indian Summer, From the series Four Seasons 2006
MEMBERS & PATRONS
THE PGE FOUNDATION POSTER PROJECT Bridging the Museum and the Classroom With generous support from the PGE Foundation, the Portland Art Museum has created free posters for educators and students in Oregon and Washington. Now in its third year, the popular Poster Project has made 25 posters in all—featuring works across the permanent collection—available to hang in classrooms, libraries, and school hallways. Posters this year include works by artists from Argentina, Syria, India, Oregon, and beyond. Teachers receive the posters free of charge at Museum Educator Programs and, by request, through the mail. To date, the Museum has given out over 7,600 posters. Additional teaching resources are available through the Poster Project website (portlandartmuseum. org/posters). New this year, the Museum is thrilled to make available online Spanishlanguage translations, developed with the support and collaboration of AB Cultural Drivers, LLC. Hana Layson, Ph.D., Manager of School and Educator Programs at the Museum, works with more than 500 teachers annually
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facilitating educator programs including workshops on teaching with the posters. The workshops deepen student and teacher knowledge of original works at the Museum, make connections to school tours, and provide strategies for educators who teach a variety of subjects, including writing, science, critical thinking, and more. “We believe arts and culture are critical to helping all people realize their full potential,” says Kregg Arntson, executive director of the PGE Foundation. “That’s why we work with community partners like the Portland Art Museum to provide young people access to arts learning opportunities in urban and rural areas across Oregon.” Testimonials from teachers indicate that educators across disciplines and grade levels value the posters as a way to connect their students to the Museum’s collection. Many teachers have shared various ways in which their schools are incorporating posters into classroom instruction. Lindsay King, an art teacher at Beaumont Middle School in Northeast
Portland, wrote, “I appreciate the range of traditions and eras the posters represent… The posters are up in my room and they are beautiful! Thank you for the support. It is great to have posters that represent contemporary and multicultural artists and forms.” The Museum is deeply grateful to the PGE Foundation for its support of the Poster Project, which provides critical resources for educators and students bringing art to the classroom across the region.
LEFT: Wendy Red Star, Indian Summer, from the series Four Seasons, 2006, archival pigment print on Sunset Fibre rag, Gift of Loren G. Lipson, M.D., © Wendy Red Star; TOP: Nottingham Studio, Macon, Missouri, Untitled (Portrait of a Couple), ca. 1898, collodion print, Museum purchase: Photography Acquisition Fund; RIGHT: Diego Rivera, Los Frutos del Trabajo (The Fruits of Labor), 1932, lithograph on cream wove paper, Gift of Lucienne Bloch and Stephen Dimitroff.
PATRON SOCIETY Special Opportunities MEET THE ARTIST Fazal Sheikh
THE SHAPE OF SPEED
SUNDAY, MARCH 11
SUMMER 2018
Reception with artist Fazal Sheikh, following his public lecture.
Please join us this summer for a celebration of automotive design with The Shape of Speed: Streamlined Automobiles and Motorcycles, 19301942. Stay tuned for more details as this event takes shape.
MEMBERS
LAIKA MEMBERS NIGHT THURSDAY, MARCH 8 5:30-8:30 P.M.
Save the date for a LAIKA-inspired Members Night celebrating Animating Life! LAIKA characters will come to life as you explore the galleries with a LAIKA lens, try your hand at animation, or simply enjoy a special evening at the Museum with other members. More details to come—check your email for your exclusive invitation to reserve tickets.
VISITING THE MUSEUM AS A MEMBER The Museum is pleased to offer all current members FREE admission tickets (a savings of $19.99 per ticket).
How to reserve tickets for Museum admission: Online: Be sure to sign in to our website with your email address and password in order to access your member discount. The membership discount will be applied after you’ve added tickets to your shopping cart and proceeded to the checkout. Remember to print your e-ticket/ receipt and present it at the Museum’s box office for entry. Onsite: Visit the Museum’s box office and check in with your membership card for admittance. *Current membership card and photo identification will be required for entry on the day of your exhibition visit. Member tickets are limited to the named individuals on your membership cards.
Do we have your email? Don’t miss out! Register online to receive our electronic notifications and monthly e-news. Sometimes special member opportunities become available on short notice. When this happens, the only way for us to quickly communicate with you is via email. Visit portlandartmuseum.org and never miss another announcement. Questions about your membership status? Need to update your address or request new membership cards? Answers to our most frequently asked questions can be found online at portlandartmuseum.org/faqs. Please take a moment to review this important information.
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MEMORIAL GIFTS A Gift to Honor a Special Person In 1937, through a bequest gift to the Portland Art Museum, Ella Hirsch memorialized her parents and expressed what was important to their family—not only the arts, but also community service. The Solomon and Josephine Hirsch Memorial Wing was constructed with Ella Hirsch’s gift and opened in 1939, doubling the size of the Museum. While Ella Hirsch and her family were dedicated to the community of Portland in many ways, the Hirsch family legacy is alive at the Portland Art Museum because of the estate gift that Ella provided to the Museum through her will.
PURPOSE:
When someone close to us passes away, celebrating the person’s life and reflecting on favorite memories can help us cope. One way to help the person’s legacy live on is to establish a memorial gift in his or her honor.
Your gift may be given to us today to help support our most immediate needs, or you can include a gift in your will or living trust, stating that a specific asset, certain dollar amount, or percentage of your estate will pass to us after your lifetime in honor of your loved one.
Before you make a memorial gift, consider a few key factors:
Memorials honor the lives of friends or loved ones. You can make a gift to our organization without restrictions, or the gift can support a particular event or program. TIMING:
TYPE:
Cash is a popular and easy way to make a gift, but you can also use securities or other assets. Like all charitable donations, a memorial gift can offer tax benefits. AMOUNT:
No matter the size of your gift, you can be certain your support will make a lasting impact. If the Portland Art Museum’s mission was important to a late loved one, we can discuss ways that you can make a gift that properly honors his or her memory. Please contact Karie Burch at karie.burch@pam.org or 503-276-4240 for more information.
The information in this publication is not intended as legal or tax advice. For such advice, please consult an attorney or tax advisor. Figures cited in examples are for hypothetical purposes only and are subject to change. References to estate and income taxes include federal taxes only. State income/ estate taxes or state law may impact your results.
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PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES
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ANIMATING LIFE
COMMON GROUND
LAIKA Sundays
Arnold Newman Distinguished Lecture in Photography
FEBRUARY 18, MARCH 18, APRIL 15, MAY 20 10 A.M. – 2 P.M.
Join us on the third Sunday of each month between February and May for an immersive and family-friendly day of all things LAIKA Studios. Each LAIKA Sunday will include opportunities to meet some of the incredible artists who make the magic happen behind the scenes, participate in a LAIKA-inspired family tour, get creative with some analog animation activities, and settle in to watch a LAIKA film or other classic animated work. For a full schedule of events, visit the Museum’s website.
HUMAN FLOW (2017) DIRECTED BY AI WEIWEI
FAZAL SHEIKH
MAY 5, 1 P.M.
MARCH 11, 2 P.M.
POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION: 3:30 P.M.
During a career of more than 25 years, photographer Fazal Sheikh has focused on raising awareness of international human-rights issues through his critically acclaimed work. The artist will discuss his documentary-based photography practice and Common Ground, which features more than 170 portraits and landscapes chronicling individuals living in displaced and marginalized communities around the world, many times as the result of war, exploitation, and poverty.
Today, more than 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change, and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Human Flow, an epic film journey led by internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives visual expression to this massive human migration. Captured over the course of an eventful year in 23 countries, the film follows a chain of human stories that stretches across the globe in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Greece, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, and Turkey and documents the courage, endurance, and unassailable spirit of the displaced. Unrated. 140 Min.
Oregon Humanities Conversation Project THE SPACE BETWEEN US: IMMIGRANTS, REFUGEES, AND OREGON MANUEL PADILLA, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, PORTLAND MEET PORTLAND APRIL 8, 1:30 P.M.
Global displacement is on the rise, thanks to intractable conflicts, economics, and climate change. Residents of the Northwest have seen and will continue to see the results of international migration in our own neighborhoods. In this conversation, Manuel Padilla, who has worked with refugees in Haiti, Chad, and Washington, D.C., asks participants to consider questions of uprootedness, hospitality, identity, perception, and integration, and how we might build more informed, responsive, resilient, and vibrant communities. The Conversation Project is a program of Oregon Humanities that brings people together to talk—across differences, beliefs, and backgrounds—about important issues and ideas.
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Film Screening & Discussion
Join us for a post-film discussion led by Portland Meet Portland. Organized in partnership with the Northwest Film Center and Portland Meet Portland.
CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ART: INTERWOVEN RADIANCE Gallery Talk LILY HOPE, TLINGIT ARTIST AND WEAVER MARCH 16, 6 P.M.
Join celebrated Tlingit weaver Lily Hope for a gallery talk focusing on the artistic achievements and vitality of Chilkat and Ravenstail weavers of the Northwest Coast and illuminating the philosophy and ways of life for women weavers.
RODRIGO VALENZUELA Artist Talk RODRIGO VALENZUELA FEBRUARY 16, 6 P.M.
Rodrigo Valenzuela uses staged scenes and digital interventions, manipulating codes of representation to affect viewers’ perception of logic and reality. Working primarily in photography, video, and installation, Valenzuela utilizes imagery rooted in the contradictory traditions of documentary and fiction, often involving narratives around immigration and the working class. In conjunction with the exhibition Rodrigo Valenzuela: Labor Standards.
WE.CONSTRUCT. MARVELS. BETWEEN. MONUMENTS.
Weaving Keychain Workshop LILY HOPE, TLINGIT ARTIST AND WEAVER MARCH 17, 1 – 4 P.M.
Join us for an informal, drop-in art-making experience led by Lily Hope, who will guide participants through the making of their own woven keychain and share insights into the techniques and artistry of Chilkat and Ravenstail weavings.
Public programs and performances organized in connection with We.Construct.Marvels. Between.Monuments will primarily take place on Free First Thursdays, select $5 After 5 Friday nights, and Miller Family Free Days. For more information, visit the Museum’s website.
IN THE BEGINNING
125TH ANNIVERSARY PROGRAMS Curators in Conversation Please join us for this program series in celebration of the 125th Anniversary of the Portland Art Museum. Each one-on-one conversation will take place between Director Brian Ferriso and the Museum’s respective curators, offering insight into an area of the permanent collection. Learn about the rich histories of building the Museum’s collection and hear curatorial visions for the future. Curators in Conversation runs through the end of 2018.
DAWSON CARR, PH.D. THE JANET AND RICHARD GEARY CURATOR OF EUROPEAN ART FEBRUARY 1, 6 P.M.
MARIBETH GRAYBILL, PH.D. THE ARLENE AND HAROLD SCHNITZER CURATOR OF ASIAN ART APRIL 5, 6 P.M.
Public Symposium MINOR WHITE’S BEGINNINGS APRIL 20, 9:30 A.M.–5 P.M.
Join curators, art historians, artists, and archivists from around the country for a free, day-long discussion about Minor White’s early photographic work in Oregon, his influences, and his legacy. This symposium is co-organized and generously sponsored by the Minor White Archive, Princeton University Art Museum.
UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL PROGRAMS ARE FREE FOR MEMBERS. SPACE MAY BE LIMITED. ADVANCE
ACCESSIBILITY
TICKETS ARE RECOMMENDED AND
The Portland Art Museum is pleased to offer accommodations to ensure that our programs are accessible
AVAILABLE ONLINE OR ON-SITE.
and inclusive. Please email a request to access@pam.org at least two weeks in advance, or call 503-226-2811.
ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS Calligraphy Lecture and Demonstration
Calligraphy Workshop
JUNG DO-JUN, CALLIGRAPHER
FEBRUARY 17, 3:30 P.M.
FEBRUARY 17, 2 P.M.
In addition to his lecture and demonstration, Jung will offer a class in East Asian calligraphy. This class is intended for all those interested in East Asian calligraphy and will be limited to 20 participants. Materials will be provided, but you are also welcome to bring your own brushes and inkstones.
Jung Do-jun is one of the most celebrated calligraphers working in Korea today. Trained from childhood in both calligraphy and Chinese classics, he creates stunningly bold works in the Korean hangeul alphabet, as well as a variety of Chinese scripts. He is perhaps best known for his creative distortions of archaic seal script, a highly decorative form of writing that flourished in China between the fifth century BCE and the beginning of the Common Era. He is familiar to Asian art fans in Oregon, thanks to a solo exhibition at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in 2006. Two of Jung Do-jun’s works are currently on view in the Portland Art Museum’s Korean Gallery. Sponsored by the Asian Art Council. Free and open to the public.
JUNG DO-JUN, CALLIGRAPHER
Sponsored by the Asian Art Council. Workshop $25/person. Advance reservation is required.
The Rediscovery of the Portland Art Museum’s Egyptian Scarab Collection JOHN SARR, EGYPTOLOGIST MARCH 7, 6:30 P.M.
Who knew the Portland Art Museum was home to more than 1,350 ancient Egyptian scarabs and amulets? Although the collection entered the Museum in 1929 and was partially on display until the mid-1980s, most of the objects were hidden away in the vault for decades. Local Egyptologist John Sarr, who began investigating the scarabs in the 1990s, has just completed a year of intensive research on the scarabs. Carved between 4,800 and 2,300 years ago and usually smaller than 1 inch long, scarabs were used during life as seals or amulets and in death as a means of securing an afterlife. They often bear motifs or inscriptions that reveal much of ancient Egyptian religious beliefs. Sarr is an independent scholar, writer, and teacher who has taught extensively on ancient Egyptian culture and the hieroglyphic language. He is an active member of the American Research Center in Egypt and founding president of the Center’s Oregon Chapter. Sponsored by the Asian Art Council. Free and open to the public.
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Jung Do-jun (Korean, born 1948), Verse after Tao Yuanming’s Returning Home, 2011, eight-panel folding screen; ink on paper, Museum Purchase: Funds provided by Asian Art Auction Proceeds © Jung Do-jun; Egyptian artist (Egyptian), Menkheperre Scarab, New Kingdom to Late Period, light brown and white steatite, The Gayer-Anderson Collection of Ancient Egyptian Scarabs and Seals; Gift of many donors in memory of Albert E. Doyle.
Here Meets There in Contemporary Art THE TRANSCULTURAL ART OF ZHANG HONGTU AND MICHAEL CHERNEY JEROME SILBERGELD, PH.D, P. Y. AND KINMAY W. TANG PROFESSOR OF CHINESE ART HISTORY, EMERITUS, AND DIRECTOR EMERITUS OF THE TANG CENTER FOR EAST ASIAN ART, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY MARCH 28, 6:30 P.M.
Zhang Hongtu is a Chinese-born painter and installation artist living in America. Michael Cherney (also known as Qiu Mai) is an American-born photographer and calligrapher living in China. Their artworks are not simply Chinese or American but harbingers of an age of hyphenated, hybridized global culture. This talk examines how these two prominent contemporary artists (both with works in Portland Art Museum’s collection) not only combine aspects of East and West but also reach deep into China’s cultural past for the basis of their own very modern art. Sponsored by the Asian Art Council. Free and open to the public.
Delve Readers Seminar TO THINK THINGS THROUGH: WRITERS AND ARTISTS ON THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE APRIL 12 – MAY 17, 2018 6:30 P.M. – 8:30 P.M. COLEMAN STEVENSON, FACILITATOR
The Museum once again partners with Literary Arts on their popular Delve Readers seminars. To Think Things Through will meander through both the museum galleries and the pages of books, exploring commonalities in ways poets and visual artists re-create human experience. Participants will absorb their shared vocabulary through a multisensory examination of objects, images, and texts and through personal engagement with works in the Museum collections, as well as our own memories. Texts include work by National Book Award-winning poet Mark Doty, plus an assortment of poems, short fiction, and essays by modern and contemporary writers. Register through Literary Arts. Museum Members receive $10 off the $225 tuition fee. To register, please contact Dao Strom at dao@ literary-arts.org or 503-227-2583.
The HeART of Portland: A Portland Public Schools K-12 Arts Showcase APRIL 22, 10 A.M. – 5 P.M.
Join us for a range of youth programs in this day-long celebration organized in connection with The HeART of Portland: A Portland Public Schools K-12 Arts Showcase, on view April 10–22 at the Museum. For more information on the schedule of events for both Miller Family Free Days, please visit the Museum website. Family programs are generously supported in part by Sharon L. Miller and Family, the Gordon D. Sondland and Katherine J. Durant Foundation, the Lamb Baldwin Foundation, and The Joseph E. Weston Public Foundation.
UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL PROGRAMS ARE FREE FOR MEMBERS. SPACE MAY BE LIMITED. ADVANCE TICKETS ARE RECOMMENDED AND
ACCESSIBILITY
AVAILABLE ONLINE OR ON-SITE.
The Portland Art Museum is pleased to offer accommodations to ensure that our programs are accessible and inclusive. Please email a request to access@pam.org at least two weeks in advance, or call 503-226-2811.
ONGOING PROGRAMS Artist Talk Series
Baby Morning
Join artists from a range of disciplines in the galleries every month for lively conversations about works of art on view at the Museum and how they relate to their own practices. The talks are followed by a complimentary social hour in the museum cafe.
FIRST THURSDAYS OF THE MONTH,
Program begins at 6 p.m. $5 members, $19.99 non-members, $16.99 seniors. Space is limited. Tickets available online or on site. MARCELA DYER FEBRUARY 8
Marcela Dyer is the founder and designer of the label Myriam Marcela. Her work is known for attention to detail, expert craftsmanship, and consciously sourced materials. She is originally from Monterrey, México, and currently resides in Portland. As a Mexican designer living in the United States, Marcela has a passion to integrate creative talent among different cultures.
ELIJAH HASAN MARCH 15
Elijah Hasan is an awardwinning filmmaker, photographer, composer, and writer. His films often employ experimental techniques that work to blend complex concepts with powerful, graceful storytelling. As a teaching artist, he has introduced young people to creative filmmaking, photography, and various multimedia disciplines. His hybrid artistic approaches to programming have resulted in transformative impacts on participants as well as their exhibition audiences.
STEPHANIE ADAMSSANTOS APRIL 19
Stephanie Adams-Santos is the author of Swarm Queen’s Crown (finalist for a 2017 Lambda Literary Award) and several chapbooks: Total Memory; Little Fugues; and The Sundering, winner of the New York Chapbook Fellowship. She is the founder of Tarot Obscuro and Ojo de la Selva Press.
TRICIA LANGMAN MAY 17
Artist and textile designer Tricia Langman has 18 years of experience designing for prestigious fashion companies worldwide. Tricia is founder and co-owner of the print design studio Spoogi. Her work has been featured at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she has been a guest artist with several Portland-based companies, including Pendleton.
10 A.M. – 12:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 1, MARCH 1, APRIL 5, MAY 3
We welcome babies and their caregivers for tea beginning at 10 a.m. The first tour will begin at roughly 10:30 a.m., or when we have a large enough group ready to go. The second tour will begin 45 minutes later, or when a second group is ready. No need to be “on time” for this informal program. Baby Morning’s home base remains open until 12:30 p.m. with toys, games, and books, providing a welcoming, accommodating space free of worries. Caregivers are also welcome to leave belongings here while on the tour. Carriers are recommended while in the galleries, but not required.
Midday Art Break SECOND WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH FEBRUARY 14, MARCH 14, APRIL 11, MAY 9 12:30 P.M.
Take a break from your workday and join a curator, museum educator, artist, or local scholar for a 45-minute talk in the galleries. Please visit the Museum website to learn more about upcoming topics. Space is limited. Advance tickets recommended. Program departs from the Main Entrance Lobby.
UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL PROGRAMS ARE FREE FOR MEMBERS. SPACE MAY BE LIMITED. ADVANCE ACCESSIBILITY
TICKETS ARE RECOMMENDED AND
The Portland Art Museum is pleased to offer accommodations to ensure that our programs are accessible
AVAILABLE ONLINE OR ON-SITE.
and inclusive. Please email a request to access@pam.org at least two weeks in advance, or call 503-226-2811.
IN DIALOGUE Art & Conversation
Miller Family Free Day
Artist as Citizen
THIRD TUESDAY OF THE MONTH
COMMON GROUND
In Dialogue is an occasional series of interdisciplinary, discussion-based seminars that explore art on view at the Museum in relation to works in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. In 2018, we continue to investigate the idea of “artist as citizen.” How do artists participate in our social and political world through their artwork? Taking inspiration from Portland State University Professor of Music Darrell Grant and other PSU faculty, we will consider how “artists from a variety of disciplines intersect with institutions, social movements, and power structures; engage with communities; and connect with place.” The winter/spring seminars will focus on the special exhibition Common Ground: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh, 1989 – 2013. For a list of dates and topics, visit the Museum website.
FEBRUARY 20, MARCH 20, APRIL 17, MAY 15
Beginning on February 20, join us the third Tuesday of every month for coffee followed by a lecture or film screening. Coffee at 9:15 a.m. in the Fields Ballroom, Mark Building; lecture at 10:15 a.m. in the Whitsell Auditorium, Main Building, except in February when the entire program will occur in the Fields Ballroom. This series is free for adults 62 and over. Please visit the Museum website to learn more about upcoming topics. Art & Conversation is made possible through the Marguerite and Harry Kendall Education Fund. Additional support comes from Rick and Erika Miller.
MARCH 10, 10 A.M. – 5 P.M.
In the spirit of Fazal Sheikh’s photography and his emphasis on human rights and dignity, the Museum presents a day of community and artist-centered programs that aim to foster cross-cultural understanding. Come and experience the power of art and storytelling to remind us of our shared humanity. Family programs are generously supported in part by Sharon L. Miller and Family, the Gordon D. Sondland and Katherine J. Durant Foundation, the Lamb Baldwin Foundation, and the Joseph E. Weston Public Foundation.
Space is limited. Registration required. The series is co-sponsored by Portland State UniversityUniversity Studies. Cost per session: $10 Members/$19.99 non-member.
Fazal Sheikh, Borana war widows Dakie Galma Sora and Dira Wako Guyo, Ethiopian refugee camp, Walda, Kenya, 1993, from the series A Sense of Common Ground. © Fazal Sheikh.
PUBLIC TOURS Join Museum docents for gallery tours and other experiences at various times throughout the week. Public tours depart from the Park Avenue entrance on the following days and times (except Friday-Sunday when tours depart from the Sculpture Court): 1 P.M. TUESDAY & THURSDAY 6 P.M. FRIDAY (SLOW LOOKING) 12:30 & 3 P.M. SATURDAY 12:30 P.M. SUNDAY (FAMILY) 3 P.M. SUNDAY
Picture This
Meditation Series
TOURS FOR VISITORS WHO ARE BLIND OR PARTIALLY SIGHTED
FIRST AND THIRD THURSDAYS OF EVERY
Tours meet on the third Thursday of every month, but now take place from 1:30 to 3 p.m. This gives us time to slow down and explore the work through detailed verbal description, tactile experiences, and dialogue. To join our mailing list, or to RSVP for an upcoming tour, please call 503-276-4290 or email pdxmuseum@gmail.com.
MONTH, 5:30 – 6:30 P.M.
Meditate at the museum. You are welcome to attend all sessions or drop in as you like. For more information, visit portlandartmuseum.org.
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and inclusive. Please email a request to access@pam.org at least two weeks in advance, or call 503-226-2811.
GIFTS & GATHERINGS
PATRON SOCIETY MEMBERS The Portland Art Museum gratefully acknowledges the individuals and businesses of our Patron Society who make a significant impact on the Museum’s programs and essential operation. To find out more about the Patron Society, its unique member benefits, and how you can support the Museum, contact Paola Rodriguez at 503-276-4312 or paola.rodriguez@pam.org (List as of November 16, 2017) •Trustee and At-Large members, *Deceased CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE $25,000+
Berggruen Institute Ryan and Mary Finley• Janet H. Geary• Loren J. Schlachet• Arlene Schnitzer• The Smidt Foundation• Mr. and Mrs. William A. Whitsell• Anonymous DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE $10,000–$24,999
Linda and Scott Andrews• Sharon and Keith Barnes• Peter and Missy Bechen• Mrs. Mary Cecilia Becker Bryan Bickmore Donald and Mary Blair John Bradley Richard Louis Brown• Mr. and Mrs. Roger Burpee• Brooks and Dorothy Cofield Truman Collins Mr. and Mrs. James F. Crumpacker• Penelope and Foster Devereux Matthew and Jasmin Felton• Brian Ferriso and Amy Pellegrin Lana and Christian Finley• Ann Flowerree• Ms. Stephanie Fowler and Mr. Irving Levin• Katherine and Mark Frandsen• Mr. and Mrs. Mark Goodman• Alix and Tom Goodman• Mary Chomenko Hinckley and Gregory K. Hinckley Ronna and Eric Hoffman Fund of OCF Steven and Kasey Holwerda• Judy and Hank Hummelt• Mr. David J. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D. Jubitz
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Willa M. Kemp• Dr. Douglas and Selby Key• Heather Killough Wes and Nancy Lematta• Fund of OCF Mrs. Dorothy Lemelson Carol Schnitzer Lewis Fund of OCF Kathleen Lewis Mrs. Theodore Lilley, Jr. Cyndy and Edward Maletis• Margulis Jewelers J.S. and Robin May McGeady Family Foundation• Laura S. Meier• Sarah Miller Meigs and Andrew Meigs Prudence M. Miller* Mark J. and Dr. Jennifer R. Miller• Rick and Erika Miller• Mrs. Shirley N. Papé Alex Payne and Nicole Brodeur Dorothy Piacentini Travers Hill Polak• Yale Popowich, MD• Wayne M. Quimby and Michael J. Roberts Pat and Trudy Ritz• Grace Serbu• Thomas and Megan Shipley• Tina Skouras Angela and Rex Snow Andrée H. Stevens• Julie and Peter Stott• Hank Swigert Greg and Cathy Tibbles Jane and Lawrence Viehl Nani S. Warren• Mr. and Mrs. Robert Warren, Jr.• Mr. and Mrs. David Willmott• Jim and Susan Winkler• Judith Wyss Anonymous (2)
LEADERSHIP CIRCLE $5,000–$9,999
Anthony and Martha Belluschi Daniel Bergsvik• and Donald Hastler Phil Bogue Marianne Buchwalter Bryce Butler Richard and Liane Cabot Cynthia and Stanley Cohan Ms. Jean McGuire Coleman Cheney and Mary Cowles Ann and Mark Edlen Mr. and Mrs. Wayne R. Ericksen Suzanne Geary• Mr. John Goodwin• and Mr. Michael-Jay Robinson Leona and Patrick Green• Peter and Diana Hall• Jean Irwin Hoffman Sue Horn-Caskey and Rick Caskey Judy Carlson Kelley Nick and Patty Knapp Drs. Dolores and Fernando Leon Cascadia Foundation Elizabeth Lilley• Mr. and Mrs. Robert McCall Diane Forsgren McCall Marilyn McIver Jonathan Pellegrin and Patricia Mellencamp in honor of Amy Pellegrin and Brian Ferriso Dee Poth• Jennifer and Charles Putney• Richard and Mary Rosenberg Charitable Foundation Richard and Deanne Rubinstein April Sanderson• Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Schlieman Jordan D. Schnitzer Lois T. Schnitzer Sanjeev Lahoti and Angela Summers Robert Trotman• and William Hetzelson Don and Linda Van Wart• Joe and Shelley Voboril• Linda and Richard Ward Dr. Alton and Celia Wiebe• GUARANTOR $3,000–$4,999
Jean and Ray Auel Anne Barbey Mary Bishop Kathryn Bunn James and Diane Burke James and Nancy Dalton Paul and Pamela DeBoni James FitzGerald and Karen Howe Katherine and James Gentry Zephyr Charitable Foundation Mary and Gordon Hoffman The Holzman Foundation
Mrs. Salena Johnson Katherine and Gordon Keane Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Keller Donna L. Larson Patrick Y. H. Lee Peter and Susie Lynn Bill and Melinda Maginnis Stephen R. McCarthy and Lucinda Parker Ruben J. and Elizabeth Menashe Mia and Matt Miller Mrs. Hester H. Nau Cynthia and Steven Pailet Brenda J. Peterson Bob and Marilyn Ridgley Catherine Rudolf Richard and Marcy Schwartz Ambassador Charles J. and Caroline H. Swindells Rena L. Tonkin Christine and David Vernier Ms. Wendy W. Warren and Mr. Thomas Brown Dr. and Mrs. Grover C. Wetsel DJ Wilson and Bill Hoadley/ KGW Media Group Jonathan and Pearl Yu Anonymous BENEFACTOR $2,000–$2,999
Mrs. Roudi Akhavein Dr. Seth Alley Meredith and Robert Amon Stephen and Melissa Babson Joan Lamb Baldwin Rob Bearden Jane and Spencer Beebe Peter and Susan Belluschi Karen L. Benson Pamela H. Berg Deborah Bergman Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence S. Black Mary Lee Boklund• Gwyneth Gamble Booth Maureen and John Bradley Barbara and Robert Brady Buzz Braley Kay and Marty Brantley Martha L. Brooke Andy and Nancy Bryant Bruce and Brenda Burns Eric and Robin Busch Barbara and Worth Caldwell Suzanne Carlbom Brent and Laura Carreau Carol Ann and Kent Caveny John and Laura Cheney Mike and Tracey Clark Maribeth W. Collins* Climate Architecture + Landscape, LLC, Amy and John Cooney Kimberly B. Cooper and Jon Jaqua
Ré Craig Mrs. Sally S. Davis Elizabeth and Kirk Day• George and Barbara Dechet Maria and James* Declusin J. Michael Deeney, M.D. Barbara Delano and John Wyckoff Mary and Spencer Dick Family Theo and Nancy Downes-Le Guin Franklin Drake in memory of Harriet Drake Margueritte H. Drake Richard and Betty Duvall Carol Edelman Dr. Richard H. Edelson and Ms. Jill Schnitzer Edelson Barry and Janet Edwards Paul and Kristina Elseth Francene and Stephen English Doris Ennis Linda Falvey Robert Feldman and Julia Mangold Candace and Bert Forbes Dr. William and Beverly Galen Stanley Geffen and Adrienne Souther• Andra Georges and Timothy Shepard Thomas and Elizabeth Gewecke Mrs. Barbara Giesy William Gilliland Karen and Harry Groth Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Grubb Luisa Adrianzen Guyer and Leigh Guyer Ms. Susan Halton Hampton Family Foundation Bob and Janis Harrison Honoring Gerri Hayes Roger and Margaret Hinshaw Eric and Jan Hoffman Mrs. Gretchen Holce Janet Louvau Holt Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Horstkotte Ellen and James Hubbell Arnold and Virginia Israelit Mr. Donald Jenkins David Jentz Brad Johnston and Julie C. Evans Jessie Jonas So-Hum Foundation Mary Jane Kilhefner Michael and Mary Klein Cheryl and Chick Kozloff Ms. Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson and Jack Woida Jerry Lamb Barbara and William Langley Helena and Milt Lankton Douglas Larson and Sarah Ryan Bonnie Laun Robert and Susan Leeb Mr. Ross Lienhart
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ANIMATING LIFE: BEHIND THE SCENES 1. Arianne Sutner, Deborah Cook, Georgina Hayns, Brad Schiff, Ollie Jones, Nelson Lowry, and Steve Emerson 2. Brian Ferriso and Brad Wald 3. Richard Testut and Marilyn Rudin 4. Nelson Lowery, Malia Jensen, Steven McGeady, and Mara McGeady 5. Ruth Poindexter, Charles Poindexter, Brandon Reynolds, and Nanea Woods
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Ms. Nancy R. Locke and Mr. Donald Harris Alysia Duckler and David Lokting William and Connie Lovejoy Tonya and Rick Mahler Jon and Elise Makler Tita Malinow Lisa and Shawn Mangum Richard K. Mann and Lisa B. Mann Ken and Linda Mantel Mr. and Mrs. M. James Mark Keith Martin Michael and Barbara Masterson Win McCormack Jim and Char McCreight Mike and Judy McCuddy Nancie S. McGraw Daniel Schwoerer and Lani McGregor Patricia McMahan
Gloria Grimson Mighell Brad and Nancy Miller Jo Ellen and Samuel Miller Lucy Mitchem Dee Corbin Moore and Thomas Jewett Moore Mia Hervin Moore and Jon Moore Jeffrey Morgan Jeanette and Bruce Morrison Joyce and Dennis Muir Denise Mullen/Oregon College of Art and Craft Ernest and Anne Munch Judy Preble Murphy Tom and Chris Neilsen Mr. Dane Nelson Gareth and Lisa Nevitt John and Virginia Niemeyer Elizabeth C. Noyes Linda Ochenrider
PATRON BUSINESS SOCIETY MEMBERS (List as of November 16, 2017) BUSINESS CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE—$25,000+
BUSINESS DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE $10,000–$24,999
Shorenstein Properties LLC
Hoffman Construction Company Lady Hill Winery MTek Kiosk, Inc. Nike, Inc. Provenance Hotels REX HILL Wells Fargo Willamette Dental Group Winderlea Vineyard & Winery
Parsons Family Fund of OCF Patricia Pedersen* Mr. and Mrs. Luke Pietrok Charles and Ruth Poindexter David and Shirley Pollock David James Pollock Heidi Pozzo Patricia K. Prado Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Preble Lucy and Herb Pruzan Ron and Lee Ragen Jimmy Rattanasouk Stephen and Jean Roth Rutherford Investment Management, William D. Rutherford Dan Saltzman and Liz Burns Eugene and Mary Sayler Paul Schneider and Lauren Eulau Dina Schnitzer
Dori Schnitzer and Mark Brown Joanne H. Senders Bonnie Serkin and Will Emery Peter Shinbach Tom and Carol Shults Mr. Steven N. Spence and Mrs. Barbara Spence Bonnie Stern Pat and Larry Strausbaugh Charlie and Darci Swindells William R. Swindells Kimberly Tardie Christine Tarpey and Richard Yugler Dr. Marilyn L. Rudin and Mr. Richard S. Testut Jr. Jeffrey L.J. Thomas and Laura Cooper Marta and Ken Thrasher Cheryl Tonkin
Consul General Kojiro Uchiyama and Mrs. Uchiyama Jane Wachsler Barbara and Bastian Wagner Wendy Wells Jackson Elaine and Benjamin* Whiteley Bill and Wendy Whitsell Jo Whitsell Alice and Wim Wiewel Mrs. John Wild Janet Williamson Virginia Wright Cheryl and Tom Wyatt Anonymous (5)
BUSINESS LEADERSHIP CIRCLE $5,000–$9,999
Portland Business Alliance Vibrant Table Catering and Events Inc.
New & Neville Real Estate Services Party Place PDX CONTEMPORARY ART Phillips Pomarius Nursery Precision Door Service Rogers Machinery Company, Inc. ShedRain Corporation Showers Pass Tonkon Torp, LLP Vernier Software & Technology VTECH Communications, Inc. Wildwood & Company Woodruff Sawyer & Co. Ziba Design
Archery Summit Christie’s Davis Wright Tremaine Hotel Modera Nordstrom NW Natural The Standard BUSINESS GUARANTOR $3,000–$4,999
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BUSINESS BENEFACTOR $2,000–$2,999
Ad-Mail, Inc. Allen Trust Company Chubb Insurance City of Beaverton Columbia Private Banking Dalla Terra Winery Direct Elizabeth Leach Gallery ESCO Foundation Flair Plastic Products Geffen Mesher & Company, P.C. Hood River Distillers Langley Investment Properties Mario’s Markowitz Herbold PC Marmoset LLC Meyer Pro, Inc.
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EXHIBITION SERIES SPONSORS
Support 30 exhibitions a year at the Museum, enabling the allocation of resources to support a diversity of shows. (List as of December 21, 2017) PRESENTING SPONSORS
LEAD SPONSORS
The James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation Meyer Memorial Trust The Collins Foundation William G. Gilmore Foundation
Richard Louis Brown Education Exhibitions Fund Supporters*
EDUCATION AND ACCESS SPONSORS
Support exhibition programming, public and family programs, teacher and educator programs, school tours, and access programs supporting free and reduced admission prices. (Gifts of $5,000+ and endowments.) (List as of January 22, 2018)
SPONSORS
Maribeth Collins Exhibition Endowment Fund Mary C. Becker The Broad Art Foundation Reddog/Fish/Nick Pat and Trudy Ritz The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation Arlene Schnitzer/Jordan Schnitzer Miller Family Foundation* The Smidt Foundation The Sokoloff Family The Standard James and Dana Tananbaum
The Sharon and Keith Barnes Endowment Fund Joel and Sandra Damiani Patricia Johnson and Michael Davidson/The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation Ed Cauduro Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation Flowerree Foundation Alix and Tom Goodman TEGNA Foundation/KGW 8 Selby and Doug Key* Deborah J. and Peter A. Magowan Family Foundation Nordstrom* Shirley N. Papé U.S. Bank Foundation* Judith Wyss
Ken and Joan Austin Education Outreach Fund Bank of America Foundation William H. and Mary L. Bauman Foundation Fred W. Fields Fund of the OCF Marguerite and Harry Kendall Education Fund Selby and Doug Key KeyBank Foundation TEGNA Foundation/KGW 8
The Lamb Baldwin Foundation Wes and Nancy Lematta Fund of the OCF Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund Sharon L. Miller and Family Nordstrom Oregon Arts Commission Oregon Cultural Trust Pacific Power Foundation The PGE Foundation
Mildred and Morris Schnitzer Charitable Fund of the OCF Gordon D. Sondland and Katherine J. Durant Foundation U.S. Bank Foundation OCF Joseph E. Weston Public Foundation
Margulis Jewelers Keith Martin Harold Matzner Cheryl McElroy and John Bradley McGeady Family Foundation Laura S. Meier Melvin Mark Companies Mia and Matt Miller Jeanette and Bruce Morrison Denise Mullen Ernest and Anne Munch Nike, Inc. Nordstrom Norman F. Sprague, Jr. Foundation Charles and Ruth Poindexter Travers Hill Polak and Vasek Polak, Jr. David and Shirley Pollock Dee Poth Provenance Hotels Wayne Quimby Pat Reser Richard and Janet Geary Foundation Pat and Trudy Ritz Thomas Robinson, Lever Architecture
Roger and Laura Meier Flower Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation Lois Schnitzer John Shipley Tina Skouras Angela and Rex Snow, The Snow Foundation Lindsay and Corinne Stewart Ambassador Charles and Caroline Swindells William R. Swindells The Boeing Company The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation/Arlene Schnitzer & Jordan Schnitzer Robert Trotman and William Hetzelson Nani S. Warren/The Swigert Warren Foundation Wells Fargo Wendy Wells Jackson Helen Jo and Bill Whitsell Alice and Wim Wiewel William G. Gilmore Foundation Mr. and Mrs. David Willmott Jim and Susan Winkler
125TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Sheryl B. Acheson Linda and Scott Andrews Anne M. Barbey David Barnard and Akiko Hashimoto Sharon and Keith Barnes Henry Beaumont Mrs. Mary Cecilia Becker PDX CONTEMPORARY ART Daniel Bergsvik and Donald Hastler Anne and Mario Bisio Mary and Don Blair Mary Lee Boklund Kay and Martin Brantley Lisa Brooke and Bing Bingham Richard Louis Brown Marianne Buchwalter Kathryn Bunn Mary Beth and Roger Burpee
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Carol Ann and Kent Caveny Anne and James F. Crumpacker Elizabeth and Kirk Day Mary and Spencer Dick Cooper DuBois Amy Fields Ryan and Mary Finley Ann Flowerree Diane Forsgren McCall Katherine and Mark Frandsen Barbara Giesy Mark and Christi Goodman Leona and Patrick Green Denise Grimes Peter and Diana Hall Philip Hamp Linda Rae Hickey Amber and Henry L. Hillman, Jr.
Oregon Cultural Trust Oregon Arts Commission Regional Arts and Culture Council Work for Art
MAJOR SPONSORS
Mary Chomenko Hinckley and Gregory K. Hinckley Ronna Hoffman Steven and Kasey Holwerda Sue Horn-Caskey and Rick Caskey Ellen and James Hubbell Judy Hummelt Mrs. Salena Johnson Willa M. Kemp Heather and Christian Killough LAIKA Helena and Milt Lankton Martha Lee Nancy Lematta Kathleen Lewis Ross Lienhart Elizabeth Lilley Bill and Melinda Maginnis Cyndy and Edward Maletis
IN-KIND SPONSORS
Allen Trust Company NW Natural MTek Kiosk, Inc. *In support of the Education Exhibition Series
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ANNUAL MEETING & DINNER
GIFTS OF NOTE
The Portland Art Museum and Northwest Film Center are grateful to the many businesses and individuals whose support allows us to remain an important cultural resource in the community now and for future generations. The following list includes all non-membership gifts over $500, received between August 1 – November 15, 2017 *Deceased Ameriprise Financial/ Columbia Threadneedle Investments Asian Art Council of the Portland Art Museum Bank of America David Barnard and Akiko Hashimoto Sharon and Keith Barnes Mrs. Mary Cecilia Becker Daniel Bergsvik and Donald Hastler Bruce Blank and Janice Casey Steve and Lizzie Blatt Dawson Carr Carol Ann and Kent Caveny City of Portland Clark Foundation Dean and Gladys Webster Charitable Trust George and Barbara Dechet Lisa and Jerry Eckstein Richard Edelson and Jill Schnitzer Edelson European and American Art Council of the Portland Art Museum Bill and Theresa Farrens Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Flowerree Foundation Fred W. Fields Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation Daniel O. Georges Dena Gittelsohn Judy Gittelsohn Miriam S. Gottfried Graphic Arts Council of the Portland Art Museum Dr. Maribeth Graybill Tom Griffin and Carol Ann Stoney Julia Hannegan Calvin and Ruth Hennig
GIFTS OF ART Gifts received from September 1– December 31, 2017
Japan Foundation, Los Angeles JEZ Foundation Dr. Douglas and Selby Key KinderCare Education Phil and Penny Knight Bonnie Laun Jayne Lebsack Elizabeth Lilley Allison Lindauer and David Spencer Eric and Hollie Lindauer LaValle Linn Dr. Loren Lipson Lisa and Shawn Mangum Jerry L. Martin McGeady Family Foundation Laura S. Meier Native American Art Council of the Portland Art Museum Native Arts and Culture Foundation Anne and David Noall Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative Oregon Community Foundation Oregon Cultural Trust Paul G. Allen Philanthropies Marilyn Podemski Charles and Ruth Poindexter Gopolan Raman Rare Book School Sharlyn Rayment Regional Arts and Culture Council Richard and Janet Geary Foundation Robert Lehman Foundation Schwab Charitable Fund Grace Serbu
Richard W. Anderson and Adria Fulkerson Jane Beebe Christopher Bennett Daniel Bergsvik Mary and Cheney Cowles Robert DiFranco Rolf Eiselin and Gisela Klein-Eiselin Collection of Henry Goldman Wang Gongyi
Anna Shepard Social Venture Partners Portland Andrée H. Stevens Karl Studnicka The Benevity Community Impact Fund The Boeing Company The Jackson Foundation The Renaissance Foundation, Stephanie Fowler and Irving Levin The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation The Swigert Warren Foundation Travel Portland Robert Trotman and William Hetzelson U.S. Bank UBS Financial Services Inc. Don and Linda Van Wart Vulcan, Inc. W.C.F. and T.R.F. Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation Nani S. Warren Laurie Weiss Wells Fargo Walter E. Weyler Mr. and Mrs. William A. Whitsell Dan Wieden and Priscilla Bernard Wieden YourCause, LLC Anonymous (9) CONNECTIONS CAMPAIGN
Linda and Scott Andrews Fred W. Fields Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D. Jubitz Lamb Family Foundation Pat and Trudy Ritz Grace Serbu The Mildred E. and Harvery S. Mudd Foundation Jim and Susan Winkler BEQUESTS
David E. Wedge Trust Estate of W.H. Nunn Henry Failing Fund Jerry G. Jones Trust So-Hum Foundation
Yeon Deung Hoe Preservation Committee Peter Burns Hoffman and Lucinda Taylor Hoffman Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz Margaret L.L.C. Jones Steven McGeady William Moss Estate Emily Nilsson in memory of Dylan Williams and Marian Gottfried Sandra Phillips in honor of Terry Toedtemeier
The Museum gratefully acknowledges all members who have continued to support the Museum on an annual basis through their membership contributions. Please visit our website at portlandartmuseum.org/support-us as we recognize you, our loyal members, in our donor honor roll. The Portland Art Museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums and is supported in part by annual contributions from the Oregon Arts Commission, the Oregon Arts Heritage Endowment Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Regional Arts & Culture Council.
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In Honor of Jordan Schnitzer Mr. and Mrs. John von Schlegell In Honor of Mary Weaver Chapin Rhonda Coleman Sharon O’Neal In Memory of Maribeth Collins Dr. Lisa Andrus-Rivera and Carlos Rivera In Memory of Melvin “Pete” Mark, Jr. The Goodman Family Joanne Lilley Laura S. Meier
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Art of Catering Artslandia Bales & Lamb’s Marketplace Breakside Brewery Dawson Carr Cider Riot City Center Parking Holly Andres Lady Hill Winery Meyer Pro, Inc. The Party Place Pomarius Nursery Poplandia QUIN Saint Cupcake Sakura of America Scout Books The Heathman Hotel Vibrant Table Catering and Events Inc. Winderlea Vineyard & Winery
Marilyn Podemski in honor of Sarah Klinger and Levy Podemski Marilyn Podemski in honor of Professor Junghee Lee Suzanne and John Rahn Bill Rhoades in memory of Murna and Vay Rhoades Rita Robillard Jeffrey Rogers Suzanne and Alex Rosenkrantz Jan and Erik Sandgren, and Bill Rhoades
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Maribeth W. Collins* Mildred and Morris Schnitzer Charitable Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation MoneyGram International, Judi K. Hofer Oregon Community Foundation Pamplin Foundation Mrs. Jean Reynolds Dori Schnitzer and Mark Brown Susan Schnitzer and Greg Goodman
Marshall and Louann Thomas Carl Vance Josef Vascovitz and Lisa Goodman Estate of Ann Weikel Gary Westford Diana Weiss-Wisdom and Gabriel Wisdom The John Yeon Collection; Gift of Richard Louis Brown
SHOP FOR ART The Portland Art Museum’s retail and rental programs help support our mission of engaging and inspiring the community through art.
Museum Store Browse our eclectic selections. Come see what is new and exciting for Spring. Members receive 10 percent discount. store.pam.org.
Museum Grounds The Museum’s coffee shop now offers great local foods from Elephants Delicatessen and pastries from various local vendors, and is now featuring a Friday night Art Pub with beer, wine, and snack specials from 5 to 8 p.m. Members receive 10 percent discount. @museumgrounds on Instagram.
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Rental Sales Gallery Museum members can rent original works of art for a fraction of the piece’s value. Pieces can be rented for up to six months. Fifty percent of the rental fee can be put toward the purchase. We offer flexible payment plans, interest-free. Learn more at rentalsalesgallery.com.
Artful Venues Consider one of the Museum’s rental spaces for your next special event, and help fund our education and exhibition programs. Discounts for nonprofits. Visit events.portlandartmuseum.org. #eventsunparalleled
RENTAL SALES GALLERY SPRING SHOW Connect with the local art community at our Spring Show, opening night Friday, April 20, 5–8 p.m. Enjoy refreshments, view more than 150 new works, and meet the artists who made them. 44 PORTLAND ART MUSEUM
Opening continued CONSTRUCT. March 2 – May 6, 2018 IN THE BEGINNING: MINOR WHITE’S OREGON PHOTOGRAPHS, PHASE II May 12 – October 21, 2018
Continuing OBJECT STORIES: IGNITING VOICES Through February 4, 2018 APEX: DAWN CERNY Through February 11, 2018 WE. Through February 18, 2018
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE Opening OBJECT STORIES: INVISIBLE ME February 10 – June 17, 2018 APEX: HANNAH PIPER BURNS VENUS RETROGRADE February 24 – August 12, 2018 COMMON GROUND: PHOTOGRAPHS BY FAZAL SHEIKH, 1989–2013 February 24 – May 20, 2018
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CRAFTSMANSHIP AND WIT: MODERN JAPANESE PRINTS FROM THE COLLECTION OF CAROL AND SEYMOUR HABER Through April 1, 2018
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PUBLIC TOUR
Works on Paper 3 p.m.
PUBLIC TOURS
Picture This 1:30–3 p.m.
13
FAMILY TOUR
ARTIST TALK
Asian - 1 p.m.
12
PUBLIC TOURS
OPENS
Portland International Film Festival
4 CLOSES
Seeing Science & Medicine in Art 12:30 p.m.
Marcela Dyer 6 p.m.
PUBLIC TOUR
3 OPENS
Object Stories: Invisible Me
Slow Looking 6 p.m.
ARTIST TALK
5
S
FAMILY TOUR
Meditation - 5:30 p.m. Dawson Carr - 6 p.m.
Collection Highlights 3 p.m.
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27
28
PUBLIC TOUR
C
PUBLIC TOURS
Mark Twain and the Art of War 12:30 p.m.
PUBLIC TOURS
26
SUN
European Art 1 p.m.
22
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24
25
MARCH MON
2018
TUE
WED
THUR
FRI
BABY MORNING
OPENS
Kingdom Animalia 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
PUBLIC TOUR
Slow Looking 6 p.m.
Native American 1 p.m.
SUN
PUBLIC TOURS
FAMILY TOUR
Common Ground 3 p.m.
PUBLIC TOUR
Impressionism 12:30 p.m.
Construct.
PUBLIC TOURS
D
SAT
Bird Watching at the Museum 12:30 p.m. Collection Highlights 3 p.m.
Meditation 5:30 p.m.
1 MUSEUM CLOSED
LECTURE
2 PUBLIC TOUR
LAIKA 1 p.m.
John Sarr 6:30 p.m.
E
Staff training
PUBLIC TOUR
3 MILLER FAMILY FREE DAY
Common Ground 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Slow Looking 6 p.m.
4 FAMILY TOUR
Hidden Messages in Chinese Art 12:30 p.m.
LAIKA MEMBERS NIGHT
LECTURE
5:30–8:30 p.m.
Arnold Newman Distinguished Lecture in Photography—Fazal Sheikh - 2 p.m. PUBLIC TOUR
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5
6 PUBLIC TOUR
7 MIDDAY ART BREAK
Common Ground 1 p.m.
8
PUBLIC TOURS
Picture This 1:30–3 p.m.
PUBLIC TOUR
Collection Highlights 3 p.m.
Slow Looking 6 p.m.
O
13 ART & CONVERSATION
9:15 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
14 PHOTOGRAPHY BROWN BAG TALK
FAMILY TOUR
Stories in Art 12:30 p.m.
PUBLIC TOUR
Interwoven Radiance 1 p.m.– 4 p.m.
15
PUBLIC TOURS
Modern & Contemporary Art - 1 p.m.
Noon
PUBLIC TOUR
Elijah Hasan 6 p.m.
10 a.m.–2 p.m.
WORKSHOP
ARTIST TALK
16 PUBLIC TOUR
Common Ground 3 p.m.
17 FAMILY TOUR
Common Ground 3 p.m.
PUBLIC TOUR
Picturing Oregon 12:30 p.m. Collection Highlights 3 p.m.
L
Works on Paper 1 p.m.
19
20
21
C
PUBLIC TOURS
26
22 PUBLIC TOURS
Common Ground 1 p.m.
23 PUBLIC TOUR
Photography 1 p.m.
24 PUBLIC TOURS
Slow Looking 6 p.m.
Women in Art 12:30 p.m. Photography 3 p.m.
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30
18
PUBLIC TOURS
LAIKA 12:30 p.m.
Slow Looking 6 p.m.
11
LAIKA SUNDAYS
Dance and Movement in Art 12:30 p.m.
Lily Hope 6 p.m.
Meditation - 5:30 p.m.
12
10
GALLERY TALK
Kingdom Animalia 1 p.m.
12:30 p.m.
9
PUBLIC TOURS
Collection Highlights 3 p.m
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25
APRIL MON
2018
TUE
WED
THUR
FRI
SAT
SUN FAMILY TOUR
April Fools Day Surprise 12:30 p.m. PUBLIC TOUR
D
Common Ground 3 p.m.
1 OPENS - Object Stories
E
PUBLIC TOUR
Asian Art 1 p.m.
PUBLIC TOUR
Slow Looking 6 p.m.
BABY MORNING
Picturing Oregon 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
PUBLIC TOURS
FAMILY TOUR
Collection Highlights 3 p.m.
PUBLIC TOUR
Picturing Oregon 12:30 p.m.
Drawing is Seeing 12:30 p.m.
PUBLIC TOURS
LAIKA 3 p.m.
European - 1 p.m. Meditation - 5:30 p.m.
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2
3 PUBLIC TOURS
4 MIDDAY ART BREAK
Native American Art 1 p.m.
CONVERSATION PROJECT
CURATOR CONVERSATION
Maribeth Graybill - 6 p.m. 5 PUBLIC TOUR
Common Ground 1 p.m.
12:30 p.m.
6 PUBLIC TOUR
Slow Looking 6 p.m.
FAMILY TOUR
Stories in Art 12:30 p.m.
PUBLIC TOURS
O
HeART OF PORTLAND OPENING RECEPTION
9
10 ART & CONVERSATION
11 PHOTOGRAPHY BROWN BAG TALK
9:15 a.m.–11:30 a.m. European Art 1 p.m.
6:30 p.m.
Collection Highlights 3 p.m.
12
14
PUBLIC TOUR
PUBLIC TOURS
Picture This 1:30–3 p.m.
SYMPOSIUM
Kingdom Anamalia 3 p.m.
Slow Looking 6 p.m.
15 CLOSES
Rodrigo Valenzuela: Labor Standards
Seasons in Art 12:30 p.m.
Minor White 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Meditation 5:30 p.m.
L
13
PUBLIC TOUR
Asian Art - 1 p.m.
J. Frederic May Noon
PUBLIC TOURS
MILLER FAMILY FREE DAY
HeART of Portland 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
ARTIST TALK
16
17
18
PUBLIC TOUR
C
10 a.m.–2 p.m.
Native American Art 3 p.m.
6:30–8:30 p.m.
8
LAIKA SUNDAYS
History of Landscapes 12:30 p.m.
DELVE READERS SEMINAR
23/30
7 PUBLIC TOURS
The Space Between Us 1:30 p.m.
Stephanie Adams-Santos 6 p.m.
19
PUBLIC TOUR
Northwest/American Art 1 p.m.
20 PUBLIC TOUR
Native American 1 p.m.
Slow Looking 6 p.m.
Jerome Silbergeld 6:30 p.m.
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27
22
PUBLIC TOURS
FAMILY TOUR
Collection Highlights 3 p.m.
PUBLIC TOUR
Contemporary Native American Art 12:30 p.m.
LECTURE
24
21 Bird Watching at the Museum 12:30 p.m. Photography 3 p.m.
28
29
MAY MON
2018 TUE
WED
THUR
PUBLIC TOUR
FRI
BABY MORNING
Asian Art 1 p.m.
SAT
PUBLIC TOUR
Native American Art 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
D
Collection Highlights 1 p.m.
E
Northwest Art 1 p.m.
S
7
8 ART & CONVERSATION
9
PUBLIC TOUR
LAIKA 1 p.m.
Slow Looking 6 p.m.
10 PUBLIC TOURS
Common Ground 3 p.m.
5 FAMILY TOUR
Common Ground 3 p.m.
PUBLIC TOUR
11
LAIKA 12:30 p.m.
Collection Highlights 3 p.m.
12 PUBLIC TOURS
Animating Life & Common Ground LAIKA SUNDAYS
LAIKA 3 p.m.
Picture This 1:30–3 p.m.
10 a.m.–2 p.m.
FAMILY TOUR
Meditation - 5:30 p.m.
Stories in Art - 12:30 p.m.
O
ARTIST TALK
14
15
16
PUBLIC TOUR
Tricia Langman 6 p.m.
PUBLIC TOURS
17
PUBLIC TOUR
Modern & Contemporary Art - 1 p.m.
18 PUBLIC TOUR
Slow Looking 6 p.m.
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21
22
23
C
PUBLIC TOUR
28
24
FAMILY TOUR
Native American 3 p.m.
PUBLIC TOURS
Contemporary Art Across Cultures 12:30 p.m.
PUBLIC TOUR
Asian Art 1 p.m.
Collection Highlights 1 p.m.
29
30
31
25
Common Ground - 3 p.m.
PUBLIC TOURS
20
What is Missing From This Picture? 12:30 p.m. Modern & Contemporary Art 3 p.m.
L
Collection Highlights 1 p.m.
13 CLOSES
Mythology in the Museum 12:30 p.m.
Slow Looking 6 p.m.
6
PUBLIC TOURS
Women in Art 12:30 p.m.
PUBLIC TOUR
Collection Highlights 1 p.m.
Harley Cowan Noon
PUBLIC TOUR
4 PUBLIC TOUR
European Art 1 p.m.
PHOTOGRAPHY BROWN BAG TALK
9:15–11:30 a.m.
3 PUBLIC TOUR
12:30 p.m.
LAIKA 3 p.m.
Fantastic Beasts 12:30 p.m.
Human Flow 1 p.m.
2 MIDDAY ART BREAK
FAMILY TOUR
FILM & DISCUSSION
Meditation 5:30 p.m.
1
PUBLIC TOURS
Silver in the Galleries 12:30 p.m.
Slow Looking 6 p.m.
PUBLIC TOURS
PUBLIC TOUR
SUN
26
27
1219 SW PARK AVENUE PORTLAND, OREGON 97205-2430
BMW, R7 Concept Motorcycle, 1934. Photo: Peter Harholdt
THE SHAPE OF SPEED Streamlined Automobiles and Motorcycles, 1930–1942 JUNE 16 – SEPTEMBER 16, 2018