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Africa Fashion Black Artists of Oregon Throughlines: Connections in the Collection Upcoming Exhibitions: Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks Psychedelic Rock Posters & Fashion of the Sixties 21
NEWS & NOTEWORTHY Tomorrow Theater Now Playing Jeffrey Gibson to Represent United States at 60th Venice Biennale in 2024 Assistant Curator of Native American Art Free Digital Guide New Comprehensive and Accessible Website
PORTAL, VOL. 12, ISSUE 3
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 engage diverse communities through art and film of enduring quality, and to collect, preserve, and educate for the enrichment of present and future generations. The Portland Art Museum recognizes and honors the Indigenous peoples of this region on whose ancestral lands the museum now stands. These include the Willamette Tumwater, Clackamas, Kathlemet, Molalla, Multnomah, and Watlala Chinook Peoples and the Tualatin Kalapuya who today are part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and many other Native communities who made their homes along the Columbia River. We also want to recognize that Portland today is a community of many diverse Native peoples who continue to live and work here. We respectfully acknowledge and honor all Indigenous communities—past, present, future—and are grateful for their ongoing and vibrant presence.
TOP: ‘Chasing Evil’ collection, IAMISIGO, Kenya, Autumn/Winter 2020, Courtesy IAMISIGO. Photo: Maganga Mwagogo; Intisar Abioto speaking at the opening reception for Black Artists of Oregon; Corey Arnold (American, born 1976), Wake and Sea, 2015, inkjet print, image/sheet, Museum Purchase: Acquired with the assistance of The Ford Family Foundation and the Northwest Art Fund. Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2017.10.1.
FROM THE DIRECTOR Dear Members, Much like the fall and winter seasons are moments for change and growth, the Portland Art Museum is in its biggest season of change in decades. Construction for the Mark Rothko Pavilion expansion and renovation project is officially underway, and even though things may look a little different, we are staying open to the public with a tremendous lineup of special exhibitions for visitors to enjoy. The recently opened Black Artists of Oregon exhibition is a major achievement. In a state that was founded with exclusionary laws against Black Americans, recognizing, honoring, and celebrating the history and talents of Black Oregon artists continues to be part of our vision to tell an expanded history of art. I am grateful to Intisar Abioto for her curation;, to Grace Kook-Anderson, The Arlene & Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art, for her collaborative efforts; and to all the staff, community advisors, and funders for bringing this important exhibition to our galleries. On the main-floor special exhibition space, you’ll find Africa Fashion, the acclaimed exhibition from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Portland has long had a thriving design and fashion community, and I am thrilled to bring this exhibition that celebrates the abundance and richness of Africa. Similar to our previous collaborations with the V&A, I am confident audiences will be inspired and awed. The opening of the Tomorrow Theater launches a new era for our film and new media program, expanding the Museum’s reach into the community. The Theater will also serve as a needed alternative to our beloved Whitsell Auditorium, which is closed during construction. Finally, we are pleased to share Throughlines: Connections in the Collection, which highlights some of the Museum’s most recognizable works with new and less-seen pieces, creating visual juxtapositions that I am sure will be enlightening. Thank you, members, for continuing to support the Museum and your city. Investing in arts and culture is a proven way to spark economic growth and civic pride, and we are grateful that you are here. Sincerely,
Brian J. Ferriso Director and Chief Curator
Director Brian Ferriso (right) greets featured artist Bobby Fouther at the Black Artists of Oregon opening celebration in September.
ROTHKO PAVILION
FRAMING THE ROTHKO PAVILION The Portland Art Museum’s redesigned, glassensconced addition will make viewing easier and could be a boon to an ailing downtown BY BRIAN LIBBY
By the time the invited crowd of Portland Art Museum patrons and donors gathered in the Mark Building’s ballroom on May 24 for a talk about the updated design of the planned Mark Rothko Pavilion, Museum director Brian Ferriso was more than ready to make his pitch. This wasn’t just about connecting two buildings or adding exhibit space, he argued, but writing a new chapter: for the museum, the city and more. In centuries past, institutions like the British
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Museum and The Louvre exhibited art and artifacts in palatial settings, but today they’ve evolved to meet contemporary needs. Take the Louvre’s 1983 architectural addition by I.M. Pei: a small, pyramid-shaped glass entry bringing natural light and improved navigation while ceding the lead architectural role to the original architecture. The Rothko Pavilion takes a similar approach. As a glass connector between the original Portland Art Museum building and its next-
door neighbor, the Mark Building, its design, by Vinci Hamp and Hennebery Eddy, defers to the historic structures while adding transparency and more intuitive circulation. Transparency is also symbolically important here: As PAM expands its commitment to social justice, giving the public an everyday chance to see inside the building matters in myriad ways. The Portland Art Museum has expanded many times: 1939 (the Hirsch Wing), 1970 (the Hoffman wing), in 2000 (the Whitsell Auditorium), and 2005 (the Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art). More than just adding square footage, what the Portland Art Museum needed was something inherent to architect Pietro Belluschi’s original design, but perhaps lost: its simple axial connections. The Rothko Pavilion design “reconciles the TOP: Rendering of the West Plaza; RIGHT: Rendering of the Swigert Warren Community Commons; Rothko Pavilion renderings courtesy of Hennebery Eddy Architects.
physical separation between the Belluschi and Mark buildings,” architect Tim Eddy of Henneberry Eddy explained at the May event. “It will improve every aspect of the visitor experience: the pathway through the museum, the galleries, the café, the Museum Store. The Rothko Pavilion is really the moderating element.” The redesign pays particular attention to how the museum gives way to the street and outdoor public spaces. A pedestrian/bike passage through the Rothko—a key addition from its 2016 design—doubles as a view into the museum. “It’s a very unique opportunity for the museum, enabling pedestrians, people walking by, to view into the galleries and see artwork,” Eddy said. “We think the passageway will be a uniquely Portland feature of the project.” The Rothko Pavilion lobby (dubbed the Swigert Warren Community Commons), like the bike/pedestrian passageway, will be accessible without a ticket to the museum, so it too can act as a pass-through space. And on its back side, facing Southwest 10th Avenue,
the Rothko is set back farther from the street, leaving room for an outdoor plaza connected to the museum’s store and its cafe, which is set to reopen along with the Pavilion. In tandem with new exterior gathering spaces upstairs, the redesign gives PAM a new kind of indooroutdoor experience. And it’s not just peoplefriendly. The Rothko’s fritted-glass façade reduces glare and solar heat gain while reducing the risk (common to glass buildings) of birds striking the glass. The project’s delay during the pandemic may also turn out to have been for the best, not just because of the Rothko’s design evolution but its timing. Today, downtown Portland needs cultural institutions and tourist attractions like the Portland Art Museum more than ever. The Rothko Pavilion seems like part of a collective answer to what ails the central city.
private collection. And come 2025, that’s where you’ll find me. To look at Rothko’s paintings isn’t just a matter of marveling at beauty. It’s experiential art that, if you surrender and stare into it, pulls you into its vortex. Perhaps the best argument for building and funding and celebrating the Rothko Pavilion is that it, too, will be an experience that pulls you in. Brian Libby is a Portland-based architecture journalist and critic. This article is excerpted and adapted from an in-depth feature in Oregon ArtsWatch, which you can read at orartswatch. org/framing-the-rothko-pavilion. Learn more about the Mark Rothko Pavilion at portlandartmuseum.org/rothko-pavilion
Lest we forget, this is called the Rothko Pavilion for a reason. As part of the project, a first-ofits-kind partnership with the children of Mark Rothko will bring a long-term loan of major paintings by the legendary artist from their
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A NEW VISION FOR THE COLLECTION With the completion of the Mark Rothko Pavilion in 2025, we will celebrate new, expanded, and accessible galleries with a host of exhibitions drawn from the Museum’s collections. Just as our physical spaces are expanding to become more inclusive and welcoming, so too is the process of creating exhibitions for the public. The curators envision collection galleries as responsive spaces for storytelling, creative production, and community connection, including more diverse audiences as well as addressing the evolving social, cultural, and creative contexts in our city.
Contemporary Native American Art program, and the ongoing Miller Meigs Contemporary Art projects—were physically in very separate spaces. In this new presentation, these exhibitions will offer more of a flow of an exchange of ideas and collaborative efforts.
Hear more from PAM curators about this vision: Mary Weaver Chapin, Ph.D., Curator of Prints and Drawings; Erin Grant, Assistant Curator of Native American Art; Julia Dolan, Ph.D., The Minor White Senior Curator of Photography; Jeannie Kenmotsu, Ph.D., The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Asian Art; Sara Krajewski, Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art; and Grace KookAnderson, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art.
JEANNIE: The current main entrance, facing the South Park Blocks, will transform from an entry point into an expansive new space for art. I’m excited by the possibilities and challenges of this gallery, which will retain its historic glass windows and doors. This makes for a beautiful setting but raises important considerations for light-sensitive works of art. I’m researching new projects that would highlight this unusual space, yet still maintain a kinship with the adjacent galleries of Asian art.
SARA: The new Pavilion entrance and community commons offer visitors new
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pathways through the galleries, connecting horizontally on each level. I hope this encourages visitors to explore the galleries in ways they haven’t before. For example, we’re thinking of a broader presentation of contemporary art across the top level where the Hoffman wing joins the Jubitz Center. GRACE: The physical connection on the entire fourth floor across our intersecting departments is really exciting, as it will truly echo the connections made by contemporary art. Previously, what might be programmatically the most similar in scope and attention—the Northwest Art’s APEX exhibition series, the
MARY: A new gallery above the new loading dock on the south side of the Main Building will provide a prime location for rotating
Rendering of the Jefferson Street Gallery; Rothko Pavilion renderings courtesy of Hennebery Eddy Architects.
exhibitions. I am busy working on shows featuring prints and drawings in dialogue with the adjacent galleries. Because the art in this room will be rotated frequently, visitors will make new discoveries each time, encountering Old Master woodcuts and engravings on one visit and contemporary screenprints on another. The space is also amenable to focus exhibitions of paintings or photography—flexibility is a key feature of this beautiful gallery. JULIA: I’m so excited that the floor where the current photography galleries are located will be greatly expanded and offer places to sit, visit, and take in art as well as the cityscape. I love the intimate dimensions of the photography gallery and think that the new spaces around it will offer a lovely balance of experiences, especially after time spent looking closely at photographs. SARA: The second floor in the Pavilion will be a beautiful, double-height gallery to showcase PAM’s strong collection of sculpture. We are collaborating on a project that highlights works
from the Native American, Northwest, and Contemporary collections. One idea we are exploring—how sculptors depict nature—will resonate with the wonderful indoor/outdoor sensibility provided by the Pavilion’s glass walls. The airy aesthetics of this space will also make a lovely home for occasional performances and events. ERIN: I am hopeful the Rothko Pavilion will set the stage for Indigenous communities and all communities of color to center themselves and their knowledge amongst the art. During the next few years, the Native American Art galleries will undergo an entire redesign that prioritizes the art, Indigenous community voices, and updated display practices. We are currently in the process of doing a collection review including repatriation research, which will ultimately aid Kathleen Ash-Milby, Curator of Native American Art, and myself in the ethical storytelling of these items for wider audiences. While the new Native American Art galleries
will be redesigned after the opening of the Rothko Pavillion, we are exploring other ideas to highlight the collection, including a recent acquisitions installation, and the inclusion of Native American art in galleries and spaces throughout the Museum. Visit our blog at portlandartmuseum.org to read an extended form of this conversation, in which curators further discuss reimagining and shaping our collections, exhibitions, and programs in collaborative ways. For more on current collaboration, see Throughlines: Connections in the Collection on page 14.
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GETTING READY FOR THE MARK ROTHKO PAVILION is now closed, and will remain closed What’s Happening Now Avenue until it is safe to reopen it at the project’s Progress on the Museum’s expansion and renovation project is moving along as the new loading dock on Southwest Jefferson Street is heading toward completion later this year. The new loading dock construction represents phase one of the project and sets the stage for commencing work on the Mark Rothko Pavilion. With work shifting toward the middle of the campus, the Southwest Park Avenue entrance is now the primary entry for visitors. A semipermanent accessible ramp and platform now covers the stairs and will remain in place through completion of the project.
How to Visit Visitors to the Museum will see fencing in and around the courtyard, with largescale equipment on-site and an increase in construction workers. The passageway from Southwest Park Avenue to Southwest 10th
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completion in summer 2025. Safety of staff, visitors, and art continues to be the highest priority, and the construction team members work hand in hand with Museum protection and visitor services staff to ensure a positive experience. Construction shifting from the south side of campus to the central area means that more, and different, galleries are impacted. Galleries that will remain open and available to visitors include the special exhibition galleries (Africa Fashion and Black Artists of Oregon), and the south end of the European galleries (Throughlines). Stay tuned for community pop-ups and other unique programs and events in the north end of the European galleries and other spaces as construction allows. Additionally, members will have the newly opened Tomorrow Theater in Southeast Portland to explore cinematic storytelling with PAM CUT. The Museum Store is now in its temporary
location just off the Warren Foyer at the Park Avenue entrance. Visitors and members can expect a similar selection of merchandise and the same great customer service they are accustomed to. Shopping online also continues to be an option. We thank you for your continued support and patience as we make the Museum a more accessible place for all.
Get Involved Making this project a reality is a monumental undertaking, and we are so grateful to all of the donors and partners who have gotten us this far. Are you interested in learning more about the project and how you can be involved? Please contact campaign@pam.org.
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TOP: Rendering of the Grand Pavilion Gallery; All Rothko Pavilion renderings courtesy of Hennebery Eddy Architects.
EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS
AFRICA FASHION NOVEMBER 18, 2023 – FEBRUARY 18, 2024
Africa Fashion opens at the Portland Art Museum on November 18 after acclaimed runs at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. This firstof-its-kind exhibition, making its only West Coast stop at PAM, honors the irresistible creativity, ingenuity, and unstoppable global impact of contemporary African fashions. Garments and textiles dating from the mid-20th century to the present day, contextualized by a range of cultural touchstones such as Drum magazines, Fela Kuti record albums, and studio photography from Sanlé Sory, celebrate the transformative and liberatory power of self-fashioning. The New Yorker’s art critic Hilton Als called Africa Fashion a “vital and necessary exhibition.” The exuberance and cosmopolitan nature of the contemporary African fashion scene unfolds through more than 50 outfits designed by over 40 designers hailing from 21 countries, who are shifting the geography of the global fashion world. Elegant minimalist garments by Mmusomaxwell, Katush, and Moshions push back on stereotypes that African fashions are exclusively colorful and brightly patterned; knitwear by MAXHOSA AFRICA echoes traditional Xhosa beadwork patterns; shimmering silk and layers of raffia combine in a fuchsia pink couture outfit by Imane Ayissi; and striking ensembles by Selly Raby Kane and Bull Doff reference Afrofuturism. “Africa Fashion means the past, the future, and the present at the same time,” said fashion designer Artsi, founder of Moroccan design house Maison ARTC. “The joy of life and the joy of color is completely different and very particular to the continent. It’s a language of heritage, it’s a language of DNA, it’s a language of memories.”
Africa Fashion employs a cross-cultural and cross-continental approach throughout the exhibition galleries, centering multiple and varied African voices and perspectives. Starting with the African independence and the liberation years that sparked a radical political and social reordering across the continent, the exhibition explores how fashion, alongside music and the visual arts, formed a key part of Africa’s cultural renaissance, laying the foundation for today’s fashion revolution. A section on textiles presents vintage woven kente cloth alongside printed kanga cloth and Dutch Wax cottons, showing how the making and wearing of traditional textiles in the moment of independence became a strategic political act. During this period, groundbreaking designers worked fluidly both on the continent and internationally. Garments included in the exhibition by vanguard creatives Alphadi (b. 1957), Kofi Ansah (1951–2014), Naïma Bennis (1940–2008), Shade Thomas-Fahm (b. 1933),
Africa Fashion is accompanied by a catalogue published by V&A Publishing, which will be available in the Museum Store. In conjunction with Africa Fashion, the Museum will also offer a range of public programs to build on and deepen visitors’ experiences. Curated by the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Christine Checinska, Ph.D., Senior Curator of African and Diaspora Textiles and Fashion, with Project Curator Elisabeth Murray; curated for Portland by Julia Dolan, Ph.D., The Minor White Senior Curator of Photography. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, Mr. and Mrs. William Whitsell, Fred and Gail Jubitz, LEVER Architecture, Cyndy and Ed Maletis, The Standard, Greg and Cathy Tibbles, Ed Cauduro Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation, Heather Killough, Rena and Cheryl Tonkin and Marv Tonkin Leasing Company in memory of Alan Baron Tonkin, Robert Trotman Interior Design, Priscilla Bernard Wieden and Dan Wieden*, James and Anne Crumpacker, Judith and Hank Hummelt, Katherine and Mark Frandsen, and the Richard and Janet Geary Foundation. (* Deceased)
and Chris Seydou (1949–1994) embody the artistic expression of the cultural renaissance. “I feel like there’s so many facets of what we’ve been through as a continent that people don’t actually understand,” said South African designer Thebe Magugu. “Now more than ever, African designers are taking charge of their own narrative and telling people authentic stories, not the imagined utopias.”
The sophisticated fashions at the heart of Africa Fashion simultaneously celebrate long-held traditions of cultural self-expression through clothing and the significant contributions of contemporary designers of African descent to the international fashion scene. Be sure to see this groundbreaking exhibition in Portland before it closes on February 18, 2024.
LEFT: Alchemy collection, Thebe Magugu, Johannesburg, South Africa, Autumn/Winter 2021. Photography: Tatenda Chidora, Styling + Set: Chloe Andrea Welgemoed, Model: Sio CENTER LEFT: Kofi Ansah, “Indigo” Couture 1997, Narh & Linda, Photo © 1997 Eric Don-Arthur; ABOVE: ‘Chasing Evil’ collection, IAMISIGO, Kenya, Autumn/Winter 2020, Courtesy IAMISIGO. Photo: Maganga Mwagogo; TOP RIGHT: ANC Nelson Mandela commemorative cloth, South Africa, 1991, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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BLACK ARTISTS OF OREGON THROUGH MARCH 17, 2024
This fall and winter, the Portland Art Museum presents Black Artists of Oregon. This exhibition highlights and celebrates the work of Black artists in Oregon over more than a century, exploring this history both through the lens of Black artists whose works are represented in the Museum’s collection as well as the works of influential artists who, historically, have not been exhibited or held in museum collections. The exhibition opened September 9, 2023, and will be on view through March 17, 2024. Considering both the presence and absence of Black artists is critical to understanding the breadth of Black artistic production in Oregon—even in the midst of historic exclusion—as well as how the impact of that history affects our understanding of American art history and the history of the Pacific Northwest. This exhibition serves to deepen our awareness of the talented artists who have shaped and inspired artists regionally and nationally, and it is the first of its kind to consider the work of Black artists collectively in Oregon. Beginning in the 1880s and spanning through today, the exhibition captures the Black diasporic experiences particular to the Pacific Northwest with 69 artists and over 200 objects.
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Artists in the exhibition include Thelma Johnson Streat, Al Goldsby, Charlotte Lewis, Isaka Shamsud-Din, Ralph Chessé, Charles Tatum, Arvie Smith, Shedrich Williames, Harrison Branch, Bobby Fouther, and Carrie Mae Weems, among others. The exhibition and programming will also include the works of contemporary and younger artists working now, functioning as bright threads and offering intergenerational conversation throughout the exhibition, including sidony o’neal, Jeremy Okai Davis, damali ayo, Sharita Towne, Melanie Stevens, Lisa Jarrett, Tristan Irving, Ebin Lee, and Jaleesa Johnston. Through the narrative flow of the exhibition, visitors experience work by Black artists across decades and generations. Particular attention is given to the works of Black artists who were producing work during the Black Arts Movement of the late 1960s, ’70s, and early ’80s, such as Portland-based painter Isaka Shamsud-Din. The exhibition also marks regional artistic connections with global movements for Black liberation, as seen in the work of Charlotte Lewis alongside Portlanders Organized for Southern African Freedom and artists like Sadé DuBoise, whose “Resistance” poster series contributed to Portland’s 2020 George Floyd protests. Without chronological constraints, the exhibition is grounded by
the work of elder artists, intergenerational conversations, and live activation in the exhibition galleries. Black Artists of Oregon builds upon exhibition curator Intisar Abioto’s original research since 2018 exploring the lineage and legacy of Black artists in Oregon. The exhibition continues Abioto’s research, which is grounded in Black American practices of listening, keeping, and passing on each others’ stories. “Far from isolated or ancillary, Black arts and cultural production in Oregon has been in conversation and interchange with the world, and a part of its arts and cultural movements, all this time,” said Abioto. “Black Artists of Oregon is a heralding of Black presence, interchange, influence, and impact.” Black Artists of Oregon is generously supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Meyer Memorial Trust, Terra Foundation for American Art, The Ford Family Foundation, Bonhams, Ed Cauduro Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation, Oregon Heritage Commission, Rena and Cheryl Tonkin and Marv Tonkin Leasing Company in memory of Alan Baron Tonkin, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Endowment for Northwest Art, and the Museum’s Artist Fund.
TOP LEFT: Black Artists of Oregon artists gathered for opening weekend. FAR RIGHT: Intisar Abioto speaking at the opening reception; Photos courtesy of Sharon Thomas; Center: Black Artists of Oregon opening weekend; Photo courtesy of Jason Hill.
Programs
Black Artists of Oregon Podcast
Black Artists of Oregon public programming commenced in September with the opening panel discussion Keepers of OurStory: A Discussion with Black Elder Artists. Moderated by curator Intisar Abioto, this panel centered elder artists’ practices as the foundation of the exhibition. Throughout the run of the show, all programming will be artist-centered and will include a range of artist talks, panel discussions, and performances, with a Resonance Ensemble concert curated by Damien Geter on February 25, 2024, and the Alan Astrow Memorial Lecture highlighting Black image-making near the closing of the exhibition.
The Museum continues its Community Partnerin-Residence relationship with The Numberz FM and their AUX/MUTE platform to amplify the work of Black artists and creatives. For Black Artists of Oregon, The Numberz FM and the Museum have partnered to develop a podcast series. Interviews and conversations will be recorded and published through The Numberz FM and PAM’s Art Unbound podcast starting August 17, 2023, and during the run of the exhibition, including planned episodes recorded at the 2024 Spring Black Podcast Festival. Through music, visual arts, oral histories, and conversations, DJ Ambush, executive director of The Numberz FM, recognizes the connections of Black culture. “Our programming is a combination of music and talk, and in both cases we’ve seized the opportunity to uplift Black and Brown voices that may have faced obstacles in the past to share their experiences with their own community,” said DJ Ambush. “Through our partnership with the Portland Art Museum,
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creatives of color are behind these doors making good on a promise we’ve made to the community. We’re cooking up and delivering LIBERATED BLACK MEDIA.”
manuel arturo abreu (b. 1991)
Modou Dieng Yacine (b. 1970)
Arnold Kemp (b. 1968)
Bill Rutherford (b. 1937)
damali ayo art archive (b. 1972)
Sadé DuBoise (b. 1993)
Rupert Kinnard (b. 1954)
Isaka Shamsud-Din (b. 1940)
Natalie Ball (b. 1980)
Ray Eaglin (1941–2004)
ebin lee (b.1989)
Arvie Smith (b. 1938)
J.S. Bell (1882–1925)
Eatcho (b. 1980)
Charlotte Lewis (1934–1999)
Melanie Stevens (b. 1979)
Harrison Branch (b. 1947)
Mo Fee (1969–2020)
Geeta Lewis (b. 1956)
Kayin Talton-Davis (b. 1980)
Nikesha Breeze (b. 1979)
Bobby Fouther (b. 1950)
Willie Little (b. 1961)
Charles Tatum (1937–2008)
Grafton Tyler Brown (1841–1918)
Henry Frison (1940–2020)
Mark Little (b. 1948)
Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971)
Richard Brown (b. 1939)
Julian V.L. Gaines (b. 1991)
Latoya Lovely (b. 1982)
Sharita Towne (b. 1984)
Iván Carmona Rosario (b. 1973)
Al Goldsby (1930–2002)
Ivan McClellan (b. 1982)
Thomas Unthank (b. 1936)
David Ornette Cherry (1958– 2022)
Sherrian Haggar (1946–2019)
Chris McMurry (b. 1970)
Elijah Hasan (b. 1966)
Christine Miller (b. 1990)
Thelma Johnson Streat (1911– 1959)
Patricia Herron (b. 1951)
sidony o’neal (b. 1988)
Jason Hill (b. 1976)
Jeremy Okai Davis (b. 1979)
Janice Ingersoll (b. 1949)
Katherine Pennington (b. 1953)
Tristan Irving (b. 1991)
Otis Quaicoe (b. 1988)
Lisa Jarrett (b. 1977)
J.L. Quenton (b. 1953)
Jaleesa Johnston (b. 1989)
Cole Reed (b. 1973)
Nick Jones (b. 1945)
Philemon Reid (1945–2008)
Ralph Chessé (1900–1991) Robert Colescott (1925–2009) Licity Collins (b. 1972) Adriene Cruz (b. 1953) Cleo Davis (b. 1974) Baba Wagué Diakité (b. 1961) Penda Diakité (b. 1992)
Maya Vivas (b. 1990) Samantha Wall (b. 1977) Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953) Shedrich Williames (b. 1934) Tammy Jo Wilson (b. 1974) Mosley Wotta (b. 1983)
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THROUGHLINES Connections in the Collection OCTOBER 28, 2023 – ONGOING
Throughlines: Connections in the Collection offers a fresh look at the Portland Art Museum’s collections, bringing together artworks from diverse geographies, cultures, and time periods that do not typically share a gallery. Throughout time and place, artists have created images, objects, and experiences that ask us to consider ourselves and our world from different perspectives. Leading with a sense of curiosity and wonder, the curatorial team searched the collections, reflecting on the ways art connects everyone across time. We asked one another: What does a video art work share with a European oil painting? A conceptual art photograph with a Native American woven basket? A Chinese vase with a print emblazoned with a poetic message?
Expect the Unexpected shows how artists innovate with materials and explore unconventional processes in ways that broaden how art can be made and what it might mean. Color presents the powerful pop of pigments, paints, inks, glazes, and dyes, vibrantly lifting the senses.
The exhibition will also host programming curated by PAM CUT and the Museum’s Learning and Community Partnerships department. Adjacent spaces will be activated with artists’ talks and residencies, event-based experiences, and multimedia presentations and screenings. We hope visitors will find Throughlines fun, inspiring, and thoughtprovoking. As the PAM campus undergoes transformation, this exhibition previews the possibilities for the collaborations and creative approaches we will feature in the Mark Rothko Pavilion and new Museum spaces, as well as in our original galleries. Learn more on page 6.
We collaboratively developed four themes that allowed us to include each collection broadly and in surprising ways. Drawing from portraits and figurative art, Pose looks at our desire to represent one another and to be represented. Environments explores how artists help us understand and honor nature and place. TOP LEFT: Corey Arnold (American, born 1976), Wake and Sea, 2015, inkjet print, image/sheet, Museum Purchase: Acquired with the assistance of The Ford Family Foundation and the Northwest Art Fund. Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2017.10.1; Severin Roesen (German, active United States, ca. 1815-ca. 1872), Still Life of Flowers and Fruit, 1870-1872, oil on canvas, Gift of Mary and Pete Mark. Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2005.20; LEFT Bottom: Kehinde Wiley (American, born 1977), Likunt Daniel Ailin (The World Stage: Israel), 2013, bronze, Museum Purchase: Funds provided by patrons of the 2014 New for the Wall. Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2014.125.1; Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, The Eye of the Storm, 2015, oil and acrylic on canvas, Museum Purchase: Funds provided by Elizabeth Cole Butler, by exchange, 2015.166.1.
Throughlines: Connections in the Collection is presented by the Portland Art Museum’s curatorial team, in collaboration with colleagues in PAM CUT // Center for an Untold Tomorrow and the Museum’s Learning and Community Partnerships department. Kathleen Ash-Milby, Curator of Native American Art; Mary Weaver Chapin, Ph.D., Curator of Prints and Drawings; Julia Dolan, Ph.D., The Minor White Senior Curator of Photography; Amy Dotson, Curator of Film and New Media and Director of PAM CUT; Becky Emmert, Head of Accessibility; Erin Grant, Assistant Curator of Native American Art; Jaleesa Johnston, Head of Public Programs and Engagement; Jeannie Kenmotsu, Ph.D., The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Asian Art; Grace Kook-Anderson, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art; Sara Krajewski, The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art; Stephanie Parrish, Director of Learning and Community Partnerships ; Ben Popp, Head of Artist Services, PAM CUT; Teena Wilder, Art Bridges Community Partnerships & Curatorial Fellow Throughlines: Connections in the Collection is supported by the Museum’s Exhibition Series Sponsors. TOP RIGHT: Corita Kent (American, 1918-1986), somebody had to break the rules, 1967, color screenprint on Pellon, image/sheet, Museum Purchase: Print Acquisition Fund. Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2016.89.1; Sean Healy (American, born 1971), Egghead, 2006, resin cast chewing gum on wood table, Gift of the artist and Elizabeth Leach Gallery in honor of Glenda Goldwater. Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2015.70. 1a,b; Sonya Clark (American, born 1967), Penny Loafers, 2010, copper and pennies, Museum Purchase: Funds provided by Barbara Christy Wagner. Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2017.76.1a,b; Korea, unknown artist (Korean), Phoenix-shaped Kkokdu for a Funerary Bier, late 19th/early 20th century, wood with polychrome pigments, Gift of Virginia Nelson. Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2002.2.1; RIGHT BOTTOM: Wally Dion (Canadian and Yellow Quill First Nation/Salteaux, born 1976), Green Star Quilt, 2019, circuit boards, brass wire, copper tube, display, Museum Purchase: Funds provided in memory of Brian Gross. Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2020.1.1.
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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS FUTURE NOW Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks MARCH 30, 2024 – AUGUST 31, 2024
Coming to the Portland Art Museum from the Bata Shoe Museum in Canada, Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks is a groundbreaking new exhibition that features nearly 60 futuristic footwear designs like the auto-lacing Nike MAG. It explores how cutting-edge technologies, unexpected materials, and new ideas are transforming footwear today. The provocative exhibition features digitally designed and 3D-printed shoes, sneakers made from mushroom leather and reclaimed ocean plastics, and footwear created for the metaverse. Portland is a sneaker town, and we’re thrilled to share this exhibition with our community. Co-organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Bata Shoe Museum. Curated by Elizabeth Semmelhack, Director and Senior Curator, Bata Shoe Museum. Curated for Portland by Amy Dotson, Director of PAM CUT // Center for an Untold Tomorrow and Curator of Film & New Media, Portland Art Museum.
PSYCHEDELIC ROCK POSTERS & FASHION OF THE 1960s SEPTEMBER 7, 2024 — JANUARY 10, 2025
This exhibition reveals the passion and creativity of the 1960s through more than 200 iconic rock posters of San Francisco and beyond, alongside 20 vintage fashion ensembles. The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood was an incubator for ideas, expression, social thought, and music; at the heart of it all was the psychedelic experience. Capturing the heady nature of life and music, poster artists invented a graphic language to communicate the excitement of rock concerts, combining elements of Art Nouveau, Wild West posters, and Victorian engraving with vibrating color, inventive lettering, and provocative design. Organized by the Portland Art Museum and curated by Mary Weaver Chapin, Ph.D., Curator of Prints and Drawings. Gary Westford, consultant. Supported in part by Exhibition Series Sponsors.
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LEFT: Mr. Bailey, Octopus Shoe, 2018, Collection of Mr. Bailey, Courtesy American Federation of Arts and the Bata Shoe Museum; RIGHT: Victor Moscoso (American, born Spain, 1936) “Pink Panther”; Miller Blues Band, Daily Flash, and The Doors at Avalon Ballroom, 1967, Color offset lithograph on paper, image and sheet. Portland Art Museum: Gift of Gary Westford, from the Gary Westford Collection, all rights reserved © Family Dog 1967 - © Warner Brothers / Rhino Entertainment 2023, 2019.29.10
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TOMORROW THEATER NOW PLAYING PAM CUT’s new space showcases an expansive, inclusive vision for art, cinema, and multimedia storytelling. PAM CUT // Center for an Untold Tomorrow, the Portland Art Museum’s film and new media center, is opening a new space for cinematic storytelling on November 3. Located in the heart of Southeast Portland, at 3530 SE Division St., the Tomorrow Theater will devote its nearly 9,000 square feet to showcasing a broad range of mixed media arts that cannot be experienced anywhere else in the state, closely developed with artists and partners based in the Pacific Northwest and globally.
cinematic stories are told and connect with new audiences in fresh ways. Through screenings, exhibitions, performances, and interactive programs, each evening will bring something different with a variety show approach that incorporates at least two distinct art forms simultaneously. Embracing cinematic storytelling in all its forms—from film and series to animation and gaming, plus XR, performance, and audio stories too—the happenings will be as varied as the artists and audiences colliding on any given night.
The theater reflects PAM CUT’s ethos to reimagine for whom, by whom, and how
“Cinematic storytelling, like artists and audiences, comes in all varieties and flavors. With the
Tomorrow, we’re building a home for cultural snackers, a space where when people walk through this door, they will never quite know exactly what Tomorrow brings,” said PAM CUT Director Amy Dotson. “As a home to a multimedia feast of creators, content, and audiences who are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, we are firmly committed to mixing it up. By creating a space where artists collaborate across disciplines, audiences commingle and are exposed to a variety of art and media stories; they will never have the same experience twice.”
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History and Reimagination Originally imagined as architect Isaac Geller’s 1925 vaudeville theater, the Tomorrow Theater space has lived many lives in many eras, from its vaudeville origins to hosting art house and Spanish-language films, to its most recent iteration as the X-rated movie house the Oregon Theater. With deep storytelling roots and nearly a century of Portland history, the venue itself is a kindred spirit to the vision for the Tomorrow Theater. Andee Hess and Makrai Crecelius, of Portlandbased and female-owned interior design studio Osmose, designed the theater. Known for their wildly imaginative and unique projects, the two have been featured in The New York Times and Architectural Digest as the creative forces behind spaces as varied as Salt & Straw ice cream shops and Fred Armisen’s goth-inspired house. The project was developed by Guerrilla Development in concert with PAM CUT and the design team. The food program and full bar will be run through a partnership with ChefStable. Their playful approach to food and beverage will drive menus that will change according to themes, artists, and vibes of the featured screenings, events, and experiences.
PAM CUT Tomorrow Theater creative program advisors include: Savina Neirotti (Venice Biennale Cinema), Liz Mowe (Kickstarter), Thomas Gewecke (Former Chief Digital Officer, Warner Bros.), Aimee Lynn Barneberg and Nico Fearn (Nike), Producer David Cress (Portlandia), Rosemary Colliver (ShadowMachine, PAM CUT CoChairwoman), Tim Williams (Oregon Film), Chloe Mason (model and actress), Shelby Rachleff (Westridge Foundation), Julie La’Bassiere (Publicity and Awards Strategist, AppleTV+), René Pinnell (Founder, Artizen), Byron Beck (journalist and media personality), and Patty Brebner (Opinionated), as well as PAM Board Chairwoman Alix Meier Goodman and PAM CUT Co-Chairwoman Mary Blair.
“Portland Art Museum embraces art in all its many forms,” said Portland Art Museum Director Brian Ferriso. “As a museum, we value media arts storytelling as a fine art and want to ensure that we bring that to the community far and wide.” Bringing the Tomorrow Theater to life is made possible by the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts, Ritz Family Foundation, Travel Portland, Mary and Don Blair, the Lamb Baldwin Foundation, Mt. Hood Cable Regulatory Commission, and Anish Savjani. Portland Art Museum membership will include access and discounts on Tomorrow Theater programming and events. Learn more about upcoming Tomorrow Theater programs on page 26 and at tomorrowtheater.org.
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JEFFREY GIBSON TO REPRESENT UNITED STATES AT 60TH VENICE BIENNALE IN 2024 U.S. Pavilion Presented by Portland Art Museum and SITE SANTA FE Commissioned by Kathleen Ash-Milby, Louis Grachos, and Abigail Winograd Portland Art Museum in Oregon and SITE SANTA FE (SSF) in New Mexico, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, announced on July 27 that Jeffrey Gibson will represent the United States at La Biennale di Venezia, the 60th International Art Exhibition. Celebrated for an artistic practice
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that combines American, Indigenous, and Queer histories with influences from music and pop culture, Gibson creates a dynamic visual language that reflects the inherent diversity and hybridity of American culture. Using abundant color, complex pattern, and text, he invites deep reflection on identity, inspires empathy, and advocates for a widening of access to democracy and freedom for all. On view April 20 through November 24, 2024, the Biennale provides international audiences with the first major opportunity to experience Gibson’s work outside of the U.S.
The 2024 U.S. Pavilion is commissioned by Kathleen Ash-Milby, Curator of Native American Art at the Portland Art Museum and a member of the Navajo Nation; Louis Grachos, Phillips Executive Director of SSF; and Abigail Winograd, an independent curator based in Chicago, and is co-curated by Ash-Milby and Winograd. A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, Gibson will be the first Indigenous artist to represent the U.S. in a solo exhibition in the 129-year history of the Biennale. This exhibition is also the first to be commissioned and cocurated by a Native American curator. “Throughout his career, Jeffrey has challenged us to look at the world differently through his innovative and vibrant work,” said Ash-Milby. “His inclusive and collaborative approach is a powerful commentary on the influence and persistence of Native American cultures within the United States and globally, making him the ideal representative for the United States at this moment.” For the U.S. Pavilion, Gibson will activate the interior and exterior with a series of new and recent works that invite reflection on individual and collective identities including sculpture, paintings, multimedia works, and a site-specific installation activating the pavilion’s courtyard. In conjunction with the presentation at the U.S.
LEFT PAGE: TOP: Jeffrey Gibson, artist. Photo by Brian Barlow; MIDDLE: Jeffrey Gibson, They Come From Fire, 2022. Site-specific installation, Portland Art Museum.
About the Artist Jeffrey Gibson (b. 1972, Colorado Springs, Colorado) currently lives and works near Hudson, New York. Gibson has been recognized with numerous awards, including a 2019 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and he is currently an artist-in-residence at Bard College. His work is included in many permanent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, National Gallery of Canada, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. His recently published book, An Indigenous Present (August 2023), showcases diverse approaches to Indigenous concepts, forms, and mediums by North American Indigenous contemporary artists, musicians, filmmakers, choreographers, architects, writers, photographers, and designers.
Pavilion and in partnerships with the Institute of American Indian Arts (Santa Fe, New Mexico) and Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York), Portland and SSF will also develop year-long educational programming. They will focus on connecting Indigenous, Native American, and international undergraduate humanities students and graduate art students, including bringing students from the Institute of American Indian Arts to Venice for a summer arts program and organizing a fall 2024 convening for students, scholars, and the public. The 2024 U.S. Pavilion: Jeffrey Gibson is made possible by The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State.
RIGHT PAGE: BOTTOM LEFT: Jeffrey Gibson, AMERICAN HISTORY, 2015. Wool, steel studs, glass beads, artificial sinew, metal jingles, acrylic yarn, nylon fringe, canvas. 89 x 66 x 5 inches and 226.1 x 167.6 x 12.7 cm., Photo by: Pete Mauney; TOP RIGHT: Jeffrey Gibson, The Spirits Are Laughing, 2022. Performance. Photo Courtesy of Jeffrey Gibson; MIDDLE RIGHT: Jeffrey Gibson, Because Once You Enter My House It Becomes Our House, 2020. Metal frame, plywood, lithograph posters, archival pigment posters, wheat paste. 21 x 44 x 44 ft. Photo by: Brian Barlow; Jeffrey Gibson, The Body Electric, 2022. Installation view at SITE SANTA FE. Photo by Shayla Blatchford. Photo Courtesy of SITE SANTA FE. PORTLAND ART MUSEUM 21
ERIN GRANT HIRED AS ASSISTANT CURATOR OF NATIVE AMERICAN ART The Museum’s new position is supported by a major grant from the Leadership in Art Museums Initiative. relationships with Native communities in the region and beyond.”
The Portland Art Museum announces the creation of a permanent Assistant Curator of Native American Art position thanks to a major grant from the Leadership in Art Museums Initiative. Erin Grant was hired to fill this role and began her work in this position on July 3, 2023. The Leadership in Art Museums (LAM) initiative comprises four national funding partners: Alice L. Walton Foundation, Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and Pilot House Philanthropy. Over the next five years, the LAM funders will commit over $11 million in funding to museums to increase racial equity in leadership roles. The 19 selected museums have pledged to make these new positions permanent and to develop a diverse pool of applicants in a manner that is inclusive of communities of color—a process that the Museum is already committed to.
The Assistant Curator of Native American Art role will initially focus on Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) compliance—including tribal communications and continuing resolution of remaining active NAGPRA claims—and planning for the Museum’s major redesign and reinstallation of the Native American art permanent collections galleries. Eventually, the role will touch all aspects of the Native American curatorial program, focusing both on the collection of historical Native objects and cultivating the curation of contemporary Native art, and building relationships with the local Native communities. Grant has been with the Portland Art Museum since February 2022 when she joined as an IMLS Curatorial and Community Partnerships Fellow. Over the past 17 months, her primary
focus has been supporting Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe and Jeffrey Gibson: They Come From Fire by driving the Museum’s programs and community outreach with Native American communities in the greater Portland area for these two exhibitions. A member of the Colorado River Indian Tribes with family at Hopi, the Gila River, and throughout Phoenix, Arizona, Grant holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Seattle University and is a 2019 graduate of the History of Design and Curatorial Studies M.A. program offered through The New School and the Smithsonian Design Museum. Grant completed internships at the New York Historical Society, American Federation of Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Indian Arts Research Center (School for Advanced Research). “As an Indigenous scholar and museum professional, I have always strived to be the bridge connecting institutions and their audiences to the worlds and cultures they reflect,” said Grant. “I am guided by community collaboration and outreach methodologies. As I seek more growth opportunities, I am eager to continue my work in the prioritization of Native voices and to contribute my voice on a bigger scale at the Portland Art Museum.”
“This new position is a game-changer. We will now be able to focus on necessary work in our collections as well as exhibitions and more public-facing work,” said Kathleen Ash-Milby, Curator of Native American Art. “Both are needed as we continue to build our
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BOTTOM: Jeffrey Gibson, They Come From Fire (detail), 2022. Site-specific installation, Portland Art Museum, Photo courtesy of Portland Art Museum.
PORTLAND BOOK FESTIVAL RETURNS NOVEMBER 4 Portland Book Festival will return to the Portland Art Museum and neighboring venues on Saturday, November 4, 2023. Presented by our community partner Literary Arts, this daylong event features author discussions, popup readings, writing workshops for youth and adults, kids’ story time, an extensive book fair, local food trucks, and more! Purchase passes and learn more about the Festival at pdxbookfest.org.
MUSEUM LAUNCHES FREE DIGITAL GUIDE Earlier this year, the Museum launched a new mobile digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app developed by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Bloomberg Connects puts the Portland Art Museum experience in your pocket. You can use the guide to plan your visit, easily access helpful insights on-site, and dive deeper into the Museum’s special exhibitions or permanent collections anytime, anywhere. The app provides robust accessibility features and is available in multiple languages. We originally introduced Bloomberg Connects as part of Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio, and offered a free 12-stop audio guide that took visitors behind the scenes of the exhibition to hear from artists and animators who helped make the movie right here in Portland. You can currently listen to a similar audio guide made specifically for Black Artists of Oregon that features the voices of many artists in the show, along with narration by exhibition curator Intisar Abioto.
Download the free app at portlandartmuseum. org/free-digital-guide. The Portland Art Museum is proud to join over 250 international museums, galleries, sculpture parks, gardens, and cultural spaces on Bloomberg Connects. We are one of the first museums in the Pacific Northwest to launch the app along with the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. Look for other local institutions to be joining soon. Bloomberg Connects is part of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ longstanding commitment to supporting digital innovation in the arts. The Portland Art Museum is grateful for their investment in our work and making it possible to reach wider audiences inside and outside our walls.
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Next time you visit, be sure to download Bloomberg Connects before or as you arrive. It is available for both iOS and Android.
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NEW COMPREHENSIVE AND ACCESSIBLE WEBSITE The Museum launched a new website in August. The new site at portlandartmuseum.org, developed in partnership with web design firm 10up, represents a major shift toward modern functionality, accessibility, navigation, and user experience. Central to the redesign were several key goals, including to fully integrate PAM CUT // Center for an Untold Tomorrow and Museum exhibitions, experiences, classes, and events; significantly improve accessibility; and align with current best practices for user experience on desktop and mobile devices.
PAM CUT retains its distinct brand while being nested inside the larger Museum umbrella. This strengthens the recognition that PAM CUT is part of the Museum while also letting its unique personality and mission shine. Centralized navigation and a comprehensive calendar intermix PAM CUT screenings, experiences, classes, and artist services alongside Museum exhibitions and events. Differentiation between Museum and PAM CUT events is achieved through subtle and more overt visual design cues and labeling.
“The reimagined PAM + PAM CUT website showcases 10up’s vision for world-class design: beautiful, accessible, user-centered experiences and strategy that elevate PAM’s world-class content,” said Thomas King, 10up Director of Account Strategy. “The new platform is a point of pride for our globally distributed team, and especially so for our Portland-area team members.”
Additionally, the new website offers more intuitive ways for visitors to discover events, programs, partnerships, and services. It surfaces related content, suggests events, and has flexible home page features, allowing the full scope of the role of the Museum in the community becomes clearer. New exhibition page layouts make it easier to find resources, related events, complementary blog posts, podcasts, and more. Plus, large images with click-to-enlarge functionality and alternative text make the site more appealing and accessible to everyone. The ticketing and membership transaction systems were not included as part of this redesign, but updating certain user flows makes the experience friendlier. As with any major update, a learning curve is expected, but the hope is that the new site makes finding information easier and more enjoyable, modernizing the Museum’s platform for online engagement. The website redesign was supported by a grant from the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust. Explore our new site at portlandartmuseum.org.
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TOMORROW THEATER OPENING PROGRAMS The Tomorrow Theater’s impressive opening week features the incomparable David Byrne giving Portlanders Reasons to be Cheerful. This opening week of Carte Blanche: David Byrne gives audiences a taste of what to expect from programs and events at PAM CUT’s new space on Southeast Division Street—namely the unexpected. Our purposefully designed thematic series will mix and match performance types, genres, mediums, and food, and expand the notion of what’s possible in media arts. Audiences can look forward to experiences that fall into a wildly fun range of Tomorrow Theater signature series. They include: • Art House Cinema—Make art based on the movies, series, and performances you love. • Carte Blanche—Your favorite artists and polymaths are given free rein to do what they want to do and share something new. • The Intersection—Modern-day vaudevillian mashups of cinematic experiences that include performance, new media, participatory arts, technology, music, and audio storytelling. • Fam Jam—Cinematic fun for the whole family, including flair, coloring pages, dance breaks, and maybe even a kazoo! • The Great Escape—Incredible, transporting new work from all over the world. • Game-o-rama—Join us for e-gaming and live-commentary board game matches, TV trivia, game shows, and even world-building, scavenger hunts, contests, and quests.
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• Night of 1000….—Hours upon hours of interactive programming, screenings, and performances in tribute to an iconic actor, singer, performer, or director. • Now. Here. This—Featuring one-nightonly live podcasts and broadcasts, audio storytelling performance, and spoken word for an eye- and ear-opening experience • Now>>Then—Ahead of its time? Right on time? An abomination of its time? You decide. We’re looking back to look forward. • Special Guest Stars—Takeover nights by artists, curators, and partners. • Sneak Peeks—First-run films, previews of new series, podcasts, games, or test-driving new cinema tech before your neighbors do.
• Social Cinema—You’re coming to see and be seen. Featuring more than a little razzle-dazzle for a fully immersive cinematic experience, this includes costume nights, dance lessons, and visual enhancements that make the night shine. • Tour Stop—When bands, artists, and performers come to town, they stop by to share the art and films that inspire them. • The Blind Date—It’s date night with a twist, where no one knows what the night holds, where clues and instructions will be given at ticket purchase but full details will not be revealed until entry. • Unorthodox Docs—Nonfiction arts that play with the boundaries of form, function, style, and story, with cosplay too!
Upcoming Highlights
UPDATE FROM THE CO:LABORATORY
NOVEMBER 2023: UNORTHODOX Celebrate artists discovering and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Programs and events include Contemporary Color with Cascadia Winterguard Live, Unorthodox Docs Fest, Night of 1000…Dollys, and Sneak Peek NW: Finding Grooveopolis. Plus, community and family fun open house(s). DECEMBER 2023: CULTURAL SNACKERY Join us for a hot mess of fun and pop-culture joy with The Numberz FM Black Horror Fest; The Shining Back & Forth & Room 237 with Rodney Ascher; Fam Jam: Pee Wee Herman’s Christmas Special; and more. Plus, PAM member open house(s). JANUARY 2024: SHIFT/HAPPENS Discover and dig into innovations and innovators shifting the way we tell stories. Programs and events include a David Bowie Birthday Bash, Africa Fashion Week programming, and much more. Details, dates, and tickets at tomorrowtheater.org.
PAM CUT’s 2023 Co:Laboratory summer camp program was a tremendous success, with all nine animation-focused camps completely sold out! Camps took inspiration from the exhibition Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio, with campers exploring animation techniques including storyboarding, concept art, clay animation, and pixelation. Some campers learned to draw digitally, using their creations as anchors for augmented-reality animation. These animations add to what you can see in the real world and can be viewed using a tablet. Game Jam! participants collaborated to produce 3D animations that served as characters and sets within their virtual game world. Parents were enthusiastic about the program. One parent shared, “We appreciated these programs on a couple of levels. First, it’s good to find summer programs available to young teens. It’s often difficult to find activities for kids aged 13 and up. Second, the program content was incredible! What a joy to find an alternative to sports camps that engage young, creative minds—and PAM CUT did the job so well!”
our new family program for caregivers and kids ages 7+, kicked off with spooky artmaking in late October and on December 1 offers creative holiday decoration for new family traditions. UnStuck, our new adult program aimed at provoking creativity for practicing artists, launched in November with Poem Comics with Illustrator/Art Director Elizabeth Haidle on November 18 and December 9. Programs for youth ages 11-14 are expanding with Youth Art Unbound, offering middle school students opportunities for new media art-making workshops, with our Ready, Set, Animate series continuing on October 21, November 18, and December 16. We’re also planning full-day Winter Break Camps, December 18-22, 2023, and Spring Break Camps, March 25-29, 2024. All-day Summer Camps will be announced in mid-December 2023. For more information and registration, visit portlandartmuseum.org/colaboratory.
Co:Laboratory fall programs include exciting offerings for families and adults. WonderLab,
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SUSTAINABILITY LABS The Sustainability Labs are a program that uniquely prioritizes holistic career advancement and sustainability. The Labs are supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and generous contributions from Joan Cirillo and Roger Cooke, the Reil Foundation for Arts and Creativity, and the King Family Foundation. The 2023 Sustainability Labs program kicked off the week of October 16, with five multimedia artists given the exciting opportunity to push even further into the possibilities of where their talents can take them at PAM CUT. Rather than focusing on a singular project, the Sustainability Labs act as a spark not only for select artists, but for our community and the ecosystem at large. The Sustainability Labs program focuses on embracing artists’ multiplicities and de-siloing modes of storytelling to provide greater opportunity and access. Serving five mid-career storytellers working in a variety of mediums, the Sustainability Labs were created to help artists in search of guidance to harness and expand their creative and business talents across multiple platforms. This guidance will include individual, bespoke support for each artist on business plans, project and personal financial planning, creative brand expansion, and growth opportunities, as well as small group sessions on mental health, balance, and personal sustainability. Ultimately, the Labs are focused on improving equity, creative diversity, and sustainability in cinematic storytelling in all its forms. In PAM CUT’s ongoing commitment to inclusion, a minimum of half of the participants in the Sustainability Labs will be artists who identify as Black, Indigenous, artists of color, women artists, trans/nonbinary, or disabled artists. The Labs will also bring together both Northwest artists and international artists, uplifting the region’s talent to a global scale and creating lasting interconnected cohorts that can support one another now and into the future.
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MEMBERS & PATRONS
JUST FOR MEMBERS 131ST ANNUAL MEMBERS MEETING THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2023 IN-PERSON AT THE MUSEUM’S SUNKEN BALLROOM AND VIRTUALLY VIA LIVESTREAM NOON – 1 P.M.
Save the date for our annual members meeting! Members will hear from curators, trustees, and special guest speakers, get updates about upcoming exhibitions, and elect new trustees for the year to come. We have many exciting things to look forward to in the year ahead, so be sure to join us to learn more! The meeting will be held in person at the Museum and virtually via livestream. Watch your inbox for a link to join the livestream on the day of the meeting.
COFFEE WITH A CURATOR for Africa Fashion WITH JULIA DOLAN SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2024, 11 A.M.
Join us for an engaging discussion with Julia Dolan, Ph.D., The Minor White Curator of Photography, on the creativity, ingenuity, and global impact of contemporary African fashions. Advance reservations required; watch your inbox for your email invitation to reserve tickets this winter.
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MEMBERS OPEN HOUSE at Tomorrow Theater THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30 – FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 5:30 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.
Pop over to Portland’s East side to check out the Museum’s new Tomorrow Theater location at 3530 SE Division St. We’ll be hosting two open-house evenings, just for members! Come see the new space, hear from PAM CUT director Amy Dotson, participate in fun activities, and learn more about the exciting new programming to come! Members only; advance registration required. Visit portlandartmuseum.org/calendar to reserve tickets.
MUSEUM STORE MEMBER DISCOUNT DAYS ALL MONTH LONG! DECEMBER 1 – 31, 2023 ON-SITE ONLY IN OUR MUSEUM STORE
In appreciation of your membership support, this year our seasonal Museum Store sale for members will take place in person at the Museum, all December long! Members can save an additional 10% (20% total!) off merchandise from our Museum Store. On-site only from December 1 through December 31, 2023; additional discount is not available for online purchases.
GIVE THE GIFT OF ART THIS SEASON! A membership is the perfect gift that inspires all year long! Gift memberships are available online at portlandartmuseum.org, in-person at the Museum’s box office, or by phone at 503-276-4249.
You’ve got Options! Annual automatic renewal and monthly installment plan options are available to make renewing your membership easier than ever! Call us at 503-276-4249 to sign up to have your membership renewed automatically or set up payments in installments of as low as $13.33 a month.
Visiting the Museum as a Member All members receive FREE admission to the Museum (a savings of $25 per ticket!). Current membership cards and/or photo identification are required for entry on the day of your visit. Please note that member tickets are limited to the individuals listed on your membership cards. To reserve your tickets online, visit portlandartmuseum.org/tickets.
Do we have your email address? Don’t miss out! We offer lectures, film screenings, classes, events, and more at free or reduced cost to members. Make sure we have your current email address on file to stay connected with your museum and never miss an invitation. 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.
PATRON SOCIETY
Experience a deeper connection to the Museum— and each other—through a year-round program of insider access, events, travel opportunities, and more.
ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Patrons are among the Museum’s most generous annual donors and experience a shared connection to the Museum enhanced by a host of offerings that bring art into daily life. Join the Patron Society and enjoy benefits that deepen your involvement with the Museum: • A guided tour of current exhibitions • Special access to events, exhibition previews, and programs • Local, national, and international art-focused travel opportunities with fellow Patrons
EASY WAYS TO JOIN OR UPGRADE TO A PATRON: ONLINE: pam.to/patron PHONE: Call 503-276-4203 to join or upgrade! For more information, questions, or to join with monthly installments, please contact Aashna Tiruvallur, Patron and Annual Giving Officer, at aashna.tiruvallur@pam.org or 503-276-4203.
SAVE THE DATE!
ANNUAL GALA Celebrating Africa Fashion NOVEMBER 18, 2023
The Portland Art Museum Annual Gala returns this November and will celebrate the muchanticipated exhibition Africa Fashion, organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Enjoy cocktails, dinner, and world-class couture at this year’s not-to-be-missed benefit. Formal invitation coming in the fall. For information about table sponsorship, contact Harper Brokaw-Falbo, harper.brokaw-falbo@pam.org, or call 503-276-4297.
THROUGHLINES: CONNECTIONS IN THE COLLECTION Curator Talk & Reception JANUARY 2024—DATE & TIME FORTHCOMING
Please join us for a Patron reception to celebrate Throughlines: Connections in the Collection, an exhibition that playfully brings together artworks from across the Museum’s vast collection. Enjoy light refreshments and learn about how this exhibition teases new approaches and collaborations we’re undertaking as we look forward to the opening of the Mark Rothko Pavilion.
TOP: Models holding hands, Lagos, Nigeria, 2019 by Stephen Tayo. Courtesy Lagos Fashion Week
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MAKE ART YOUR LEGACY Edie and Mark Millar have traveled and lived around the world. After landing in Portland in 2006, they fell in love with the Portland Art Museum and became members. Their involvement grew over the years; they joined the Asian Art Council in 2008, and Edie volunteered as a docent from 2014 to 2020. Recently, the Millars named the Museum as a beneficiary in their will. “We strongly support the mission of the Museum, and we are thrilled that they are elevating voices that have previously been underrepresented,” says Edie. “Mark and I want to make sure the Museum is available and easily accessible for our great-great-grandchildren and beyond. We care about the cultural life of Portland, and I truly believe this city is a better place with the Portland Art Museum in the
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heart of downtown. Mark and I feel strongly that you have to put your money where your heart and passion lie, which is why we chose to make this gift to the Museum.” Mark enthusiastically agrees, adding that “The Portland Art Museum offers a broad range of different exhibits from different cultures across the globe. When we became active members of the Museum, we had the opportunity to learn more about other cultures through art. We gravitate toward Asian art, but we have learned so much about Native American art and Pacific Northwest artists as well. The galleries constantly have new artworks, so every time we visit we see something new. We truly believe the Museum is an important part of a vibrant downtown Portland.”
Thinking of making a planned gift? We are here to help, and look forward to talking with you about making the Portland Art Museum part of your legacy. Please email us at development@ pam.org or call 503-276-4365 to learn more. Fine print: The information in this magazine is not intended as legal or tax advice. For such advice, please contact your financial advisor or attorney.
Edie and Mark Millar at the Museum’s 2022 Gala celebrating Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe and Jeffrey Gibson: They Come From Fire.
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THANK YOU
We gratefully acknowledge the members and supporters who make our mission possible. All gifts above $250 received March 1, 2023 - July 31, 2023 *deceased Dr. Anisha Abdul-Ali and Gregory Abdul-Ali Bradley Akamine George and Sharon Alexander Zulfiqar Ali Richard and Kristin Allan Tony Altucher and Collette Young Laura Alvidrez Amgen Foundation Leslie Anderson Lydia and Phoebe Anderson-Dana Kan Ando Linda and Scott Andrews Paul and Grace Andrews Dr. Lisa Andrus-Rivera Georgiana and Michael Antonelli Stephen Archer Fred Armisen Pamela and Charles Armor Lee and Lynn Aronson Artifact Creative Recycle Karen Ashikeh Ray and Mary Ashmun Brenda K. Ashworth and Donald F. Welch AT&T Robert Aughenbaugh and Chi Nelson Robert and Martha Bailey Janet Bailey and John Driscoll Joan Lamb Baldwin Lucy and James Baldwin Marguerite Ballard and Pamela Harrel David Ballew Amjad and Helen Bangash Suzanne and Mark Banister Bank of America Foundation Bettina Bardin-Sorensen Dr. David Barnard and Akiko Hashimoto Sharon and Keith Barnes Deby Barnhart John Barry and Toni Eigner-Barry Steven Bass and Suzanna Darcy Adam Murdoch and Christopher C. Bateman Lori I. Bauman Rob Bearden
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Michael and Melissa Haglund Mrs. Molly G. Haglund Ken Haines and Peg Welch Robert and Dorothy Haley Wendy Atkinson and Pamela Hamilton Karl and Irene Hammann Hampton Family Foundation of Oregon Community Foundation Jennifer Hanson Janet and Joe Hanus Hans and Stephanie Harder Michael Hare and Alison Archambault Sharon Harker and Scott Bontempo Rochelle and William Harper
CINEMA UNBOUND AWARDS
TOP ROW, LEFT: 2023 honoree Guillermo del Toro giving his acceptance speech; TOP ROW, RIGHT: Riki Lindhome with 2023 honorees Fred Armisen and Gregory Gourdet; MIDDLE ROW, LEFT: Kimber Ritz, Portland Art Museum Director Brian Ferriso, PAM CUT Director Amy Dotson; MIDDLE ROW, CENTER: Board of Trustees Chair, Alix Meier Goodman with honoree Jacqueline Stewart, and Curator of Prints and Drawings, Mary Weaver Chapin; BOTTOM ROW, LEFT: Trustee, Roger Brue McHayle and Anjanette McHayle; BOTTOM ROW, CENTER: Todd Haynes, Emily Chenoweth, Jon Raymond, Ivan McClellan, Libby Werbel; BOTTOM ROW, RIGHT: Cinema Unbound Awards guest, Carrie Brownstein, Lance Bangs.
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MEMBERS NIGHT
Dr. Andy Harris and Sue Miller Glenda Harrison Commissioner Nancy Hawver Todd Haynes Georgina Haynes Helen Hazen and John Loewen Phyllis Helland and Raymond Morse Richard and Sandra Helmick Hennebery Eddy Architects, Inc. Henry Failing Fund Katelena Hernandez Cowles and James Cowles Frances Herrall Clifford Herrall* Diane M. Herrmann Mary Jo Hessel and Morgan Boyle Tom and Margaret Hickey Phillip Hillaire and Paul Lumley Kerri and Josh Hoffman John and Karen Hoke Tom and Char Holland David and Maryanne Holman Sandra and Stephen Holmes Barbara Holmes Dan and Pat Holmquist Terri and Robert Hopkins Al Horn and Nancy Goodwin Adam House Kathleen and Kevin Howden Meganne Steele and Daniel Hoyer Laurel Kincl and Kevin Huck William J. Huebner Mark Huey and Wayne Wiegand Dr. Lee Hullender Rubin and Joseph Rubin Judy and Hank Hummelt
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Jennifer Lackey Ronni Lacroute Ross P. Laguzza LAIKA Lane Powell PC Hank Langfus Luise Langheinrich Bree LaNoue Alice and David Larsen Donna L. Larson Felicia and Fred Lauritsen Mary Lavelle Angel Lawler and Brandon Brown Elizabeth Leach and Bert Berney Sally and Robert LeFeber Nancy Lematta Drs. Dolores and Fernando Leon Kirsten and Christopher Leonard Lois Leonard and Douglas Magedanz Kari Lesher Ryan Leverenz and Claire Anctil-Cathey Holly Levow Kathleen Lewis Marneet and Juanita Lewis Perrin and Samuel Lim Ian and Meda Lind Allison Lindauer and David Spencer Hollie and Eric Lindauer Susan Lindauer and Chris Maloney Lloyd and Judy Lindley Anita Lindsay Kyle and Genevieve Lipson Vicki Liu-Demian and John Demian Lynn Loacker Mary Ann Lockyear
Sandra Loeb Michael Longo and Richard Palmer Eric Lopez and Jennifer Beedle Kevin Love Connie E. Lovejoy Mrs. Heidi Lowell Dr. Richard and Diane Lowensohn Bettina B. Luce John E. Lutz Stephanie Luyties Judy W. Lyons Joshua M. Lyons Judy Ma Clinton MacKenzie and Kate Johnson Donna J. Maebori Miss and Mrs. Melissa E. Maebori Jane Maland and Kyle Napoli Liz Malarkey Cyndy and Edward Maletis Judy Malolepsy and Alex Williams Mr. Chris Maloney Manitou Fund Linda and Ken Mantel Alice and Kipp Marcus Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation George and Elizabeth Marino Mario’s Mr. and Mrs. M. James Mark Robert Clay and Susan Marmaduke Rocco Martin Anne Matlak Oscar and Mary Mayer Colonel Mary J. Mayer, USAF (Ret) Diane Forsgren McCall Alexandra W. McCann
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Carolyn and Terry Murphy John C. Murphy Catherine and Mark Myers Marcus Nadel Helle and Wei Nathan National Endowment for the Arts Native American Art Council of the Portland Art Museum Diego Palma and Michael Neal Tom and Chris Neilsen Netflix Media LLC Avis Newell Jeanne Newmark Nike, Inc. Representative Robert Nosse and James Laden NW Natural Colleen O’Brien Jeremy Oakai Davis Dr. Susan ODell and Joan Clark Madeline and Allan Olson Kathleen L. Olson Oregon Arts Commission Oregon Community Foundation Oregon Film Beverly Ormseth Mrs. Alison Ortiz and Alex Ortiz Peter and Terry Osborne Mary A. Overgaard and David E. Cook Sandra and Rodney Page Jin and Julieann Park Stephanie Parrish and Steve Rauner Gloria Patterson Lynn J. Patterson and David E. Hart Megan and Aaron Payment Chuck Pearson Jocelyn Pease and Trevor Corry Edward G. Perkins Melissa and Steve Peterman Geoff Peters and Lenka Jelinek Charles Peterson and Susan Sater Jillian Pettit and Fred Willmore Rebecca Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Luke Pietrok Marney and Allan Pike Nancy Pilgrim Mike Plaster Dorothy Plummer Kimberly and Eric Pohl Charles and Ruth Poindexter Elle Poindexter Travers and Vasek Polak David James Pollock Yale Popowich, MD Portland Film Office Reynolds Potter and Sue Kenney Paige A. Powell Bob Powers Curt and Mary Pradelt Precision Garage Door Service
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Amanda Wallace Frank and Margo Walter Keith Walters and Jonathan Tamez Yatong Wang and Dong Zhao Ms. Wendy W. Warren and Mr. Thomas Brown Mr. and Mrs. Robert Warren, Jr. Betsy Warren Jennifer Watters and Annalisa Hagg William and Julia Wayne Karen and Michael Weddle Wells Fargo Foundation Wendy Wells Jackson Ann Werner David West and Clara Seasholtz JT Taylor and Barb West Beth K. Westbrook Gary Westford Kristin Wethern Mr. Walter E. Weyler
Rebeccah White and Jeremy Swartz Mr. and Mrs. William A. Whitsell William D. Wickart Alice and Wim Wiewel Wildwood & Company Cameron and Carey Wiley Willamette Dental Group William G. Gilmore Foundation William Morris Endeavor Tim Williams and Tracy Rosenbalm Charles Williams Chesley Williams and Jake Lowenstern Veronica L. Williams Janice Williams Roger Willoughby and Rico Bocala Audra Wilson Cheryl Wilson Julie R. Wilson Alan Winders and Michael Mase Susan Winkler
Nord Winnan and Evelyn Roeloffs Helen and Carl Winterstein Patricia Witherite and Phil Farber Brit Wittman Adam Wogan Elizabeth and Robert Wolf Roxanne and Tim Wolfe Carolyn V. Wood Sue and Jerald Woodbury Sarah and Tim Wright Dr. Monica Wright and Mr. Arick Rouhe Megan and Thomas Wuest Sue Wunder Merri S. Wyatt Christy N. Wyckoff and Beverly Teach Roxby Judith Wyss Barbara and Philip Yasson Henry R. Ybarra Fabian and Julie Yeager Gary Young
Jonathan and Pearl Yu Karin Zachow and Jim Kirwan Craig and Suzanne Zarling Dr. Zohreh Zarnegar Kathryn Zerbe, M.D. and Kelli Holloway, M.D. Zidell Family Foundation Giovanna and Pavel Zivny James and Carol Zuiches Anonymous (3)
In Memory of Jim Winkler Andra Georges and Timothy Shepard Anne and Ernest Munch Wendy and Jeff Stevens Margaret and Steve Doman in Memory of Jody Klevit Paul and Grace Andrews in Appreciation of John Goodwin Kandis Nunn in Memory of Laurie M. Meigs
Connie E. Lovejoy in memory of Linda Ochenrider’s devotion to art Dana Director in Celebration of Marcia Director Sarah Potter and Kenneth Anderson in Honor of Mary Potter Commissioner Nancy Hawver in Memory of Michael Parsons John and Marlene Kondelik in Honor of Ralph Davis William and Donna Baily in Memory of Richard C. Stetson, Jr.
Rick F. Caskey in Honor of Sue Horn-Caskey Michelle Farber in Memory of T Rex
TRIBUTE GIFTS Rena and Cheryl Tonkin and Marv Tonkin Leasing Company in Memory of Alan Baron Tonkin In Honor of Alix M. Goodman Mrs. Mary R. Dick Nicholas G. Garaufis and Elizabeth Seidman Michael and Wayne Roberts Quimby Dori Schnitzer and Mark Brown In Honor of Betsy Warren’s Birthday Alexandra W. McCann Franklin W. McCann
Brianna McDonald in Honor of Brian Colville Robert Polson in Honor of Christine Nelson David James Pollock in Honor of Dr. C. Mondragon Kaylene Campbell in Honor of Greg Hansen McGeady Family Foundation in Memory of J. Glen McGeady
We gratefully acknowledge our major supporters of Exhibitions, Learning & Community Partnerships, and the Museum Fund, who help make all of our work possible. As of July 31, 2023 PRESENTING SPONSORS
Mary and Ryan Finley William G. Gilmore Foundation Institute of Museum and Library Services The Laura and Roger Meier Family The James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation
LEAD SPONSORS Mary and Tim Boyle Mary and Cheney Cowles Flowerree Foundation Dorothy Piacentini
MAJOR SPONSORS
Nancy Lematta Travers and Vasek Polak The Reser Family Foundation Pat and Trudy Ritz The Smidt Foundation The Standard Darci and Charlie Swindells Mr. and Mrs. William A. Whitsell
The Museum gratefully acknowledges all members who have continued to support the Museum on an annual basis through their membership contributions. 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.
SPONSORS
Allen Trust Company Sharon and Keith Barnes Endowment Louis and Virginia Clemente Foundation Kirk and Elizabeth Day FRAME The Lamb Baldwin Foundation Sarah Miller Meigs and Andrew Meigs
Northern Trust Oregon Community Foundation Pamplin Foundation Endowment for the Arts Barbara and Phil Silver Joseph E. Weston Public Foundation of the Oregon Community Foundation
WAYS TO SUPPORT YOUR MUSEUM Choose a way to give that’s right for you. HONOR SOMEONE SPECIAL Recognize loved ones with a donation in their honor or as a memorial gift. MONTHLY GIVING Easy and always under your control, monthly giving provides a reliable source of funding that supports our mission throughout the year. GIFT MEMBERSHIPS Share the inspiration of art by giving a gift membership.
DONOR ADVISED FUNDS Manage your charitable giving through an existing giving account or create a DAF to secure a charitable deduction now but designate beneficiaries later. IRA CHARITABLE ROLLOVER If you are 70 or older, you can use your IRA to fulfill your charitable goals. We will acknowledge your generous gifts as qualified charitable distributions, which may satisfy your required minimum distribution. When you support the Portland Art Museum through a charitable donation, you ensure that the arts are a vibrant, valued, and sustained part of our community.
Support the Museum today!
Please call our development team with any questions, 503-276-4365. pam.to/give
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SHOP FOR ART The Portland Art Museum’s retail and rental programs help support our mission of engaging and inspiring the community through art.
Rental Sales Gallery
Museum Store
Located just behind the Museum at Southwest 10th Avenue and Jefferson Street, our Rental Sales Gallery offers a great opportunity to fill your walls with stunning original fine art, through either purchases or our art rental program. RSG is open for walk-in visits Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Museum Store has temporarily moved while our beautiful new Store adjacent to the Mark Rothko Pavilion is being built. We are now located to the left when you come in the front entrance of the Museum on Park Avenue. The Store remains open during Museum visitor hours—please come and see us!
With prices starting from less than $50 for a three-month rental, this is one of the most accessible ways to have beautiful, unique artworks in your home or business. RSG also offers delivery and installation services. Make sure to visit the Gallery soon to see our newly opened Fall Member Artists Show. There are more than 200 newly acquired works now available in the inventory. The Gallery has more than 1,000 original works of art by over 200 regional artists, all available for rental or purchase. Every transaction supports our artists and Portland Art Museum. Visit the gallery online at rentalsalesgallery.com or contact us at 503-224-0674 or rentalsales@ pam.org to find out more.
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The Museum Store is also online at store.pam.org, with shipping and curbside pickup, and it’s easier than ever to browse the eclectic selections that the Store is known for. Use discount code MEM1219 to receive your 10% member discount on the same great merchandise you’d see in-store, online! You can support the Museum by shopping in our Museum Store on site or online. Celebrate the art and beauty of the place we share, as well as our usual huge selection of cards, books, jewelry, handbags, scarves, and toys.
PAM Venues Engage in the Portland Art Museum mission by hosting your next event in one of our historic spaces. Whether you are planning an intimate wedding, a 500-person fundraiser, or any other milestone event, we offer a diverse assortment of unique event spaces. Our venue provides an event experience that your guests will never forget. Visit events.portlandartmuseum.org. The Museum’s beautiful Kridel Grand Ballroom features major upgrades to lighting and audiovisual systems for a state-of-theart experience.
Book your next event in January through March 2024 and receive a 10% discount on room rental.
PROGRAMS
For the latest on public programs, pop-up happenings, and ongoing offerings, subscribe to our email newsletter and check our online calendar at portlandartmuseum.org/calendar.
CONTACTS General Information Membership Information
503-226-2811 503-276-4249
HOURS
Wednesday–Sunday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Please check portlandartmuseum.org for the most up-to-date information on hours and admission rates.
ADMISSION
Members/Children (17 and younger)* free Adults $25 Seniors (62 and older) $22 Students (18 and older with ID) $22 *Children 14 and younger must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets available online.
FREE & REDUCED
ADMISSION Every Day
Children ages 17 and younger are free.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Arts for All – Oregon Trail Card holders can purchase up to two admissions and/or PAM CUT Whitsell screenings for $5 each.
Opening
Blue Star Museums Program – Offers free admission to the nation’s active-duty military personnel and their families.
THROUGHLINES: CONNECTIONS IN THE COLLECTION October 28, 2023 – November 1, 2024
Multnomah County Library Discovery Pass – Two free adult admissions by using a Multnomah County Library account to reserve.
AFRICA FASHION November 18, 2023 – February 18, 2024
Continuing
FUTURE NOW March 30, 2024 – August 31, 2024
BLACK ARTISTS OF OREGON Through March 17, 2024
1219 SW PARK AVENUE
College Pass – $25 for a full year of free admission for college students. Register online, then present your student ID at entry.
PORTLAND, OREGON 97205
PORTLANDARTMUSEUM.ORG
UNITING COMMUNITY THROUGH ART For more than 130 years, the Portland Art Museum has supported an environment that fosters creativity and connection. You are the cornerstone of our success, enabling us to reflect on the past, explore the present, and reimagine our future through our always expanding collection and thought-provoking exhibitions. We are grateful that you are an essential part of our Museum family. Together we will continue to bring art, beauty, and joy to our community for generations to come. Thank you for standing with us in pursuit of a more vibrant and compassionate world through art.
THROUGHLINES Connections in the Collection OCTOBER 28, 2023 – ONGOING
TOP: Joe Feddersen (American and Colville, born1953), Blue Horizon, from the series Rainscape, 1984, color lithographs on paper; diptych, sheet, Gift of Kay WalkingStick. Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2003.63A,B; LEFT: Felipe Diriksen (Spanish, 1590-1679), Portrait of Infanta María Ana de Austria, 1630, oil on canvas, 82 5/8 in x 46 1/2 in, Museum Purchase: Funds provided by William and Helen Jo Whitsell; European and American Art Council; John S. Ettelson Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation; Nani S. Warren; May Van Dyke Fund; Laura Meier; Marilyn Ross Podemski; Janet Geary; Ann Flowerree; Kent and Carol Ann Caveny; James FitzGerald and Karen Howe; Shawn and Lisa Mangum; George and Barbara Dechet; Sharon and Keith Barnes; European Art Purchase Fund, public domain, 2017.59.1.
1219 SW PARK AVENUE, PORTLAND, OREGON 97205-2430