Category: Festival Update

It’s all Kid’s Play!

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Newly named the Hands On Art Pavilion, four tents will feature activities for kids and kids at heart this year.  See great art and talk to the artists, but also MAKE some yourself!  Free that inner child (and the kid at your side who wants to mess with stuff)!  Here are some choices (or do it ALL!)

Print Arts Northwest
PAN offers a colorful printmaking experience with their popular fish printing program.
Saturday in the Arts Education booth

The Right Brain Initiative
The Right Brain’s button making program is a crowd pleaser enjoyed by people of all ages.
Sunday in A horoscope for leo woman thinks she is beautiful and often it?s really so. the Arts Education booth

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Oregon Potters Association
The enchanting clay chain program returns, led by talented OPA ceramic artists.
Monday in the Arts Education booth

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Multnomah Arts Center
Theatre and visual arts activities are offered under the guidance of dedicated MAC instructors.
Saturday, Sunday and Monday

 

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Portland Handweavers Guild

PHG will be featuring tapestry weaving, paper weaving and kumohimo weaving.  Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

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Youth Expression Project
Our Non-Profit Partner explores the translation of unity through art and dance of different cultures.
Saturday, Sunday and Monday

 

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Art In The Pearl By The Numbers

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AUGUST 31, 2013, 10:00 am

That is the date and time that is the focus of 20 hard working artists–the AIP Board of Directors. What do these 20 people bring to the festival to make it one of the top shows in the country?   Consider the following stats, and maybe you will have an answer:

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15 ​… Number of artists on the first AIP Board, each throwing $100 into the pot and going forward, without a doubt.

17 … Years Art In The Pearl has existed.

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 3 …  Number of founding members still on the AIP Board.

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157 … Number of total years this AIP board has worked on AIP.  Said another way, this year's board is drawing on 157 years of experience and knowledge to produce Art In The Pearl. 

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32 … Average number of years a member of this board has sold his or her artwork.  They know what it takes!  But each is remarkably YOUNG!

Little known facts that definitely contribute to Art In The Pearl’s continued success:

1 member sold macramé at Harrod's in London
1  member sold beaded jewelry on Haight Street in San Francisco.

1 member has been and always will be a pirate.

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 Arrg, Matey.  Get Art In The Pearl on your calendar!  Saturday, Sunday and Monday, August 31 — September 2. 

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Jurors for our 2013 Show

Every year the Art In The Pearl Festival artist are chosen by a volunteer jury. Each year there is a new panel of jurors.

Jurors for our 2013 show are:

  • Stephen Dixon – Jewelry, Metal
  • Raquel Edwards – 2D mixed media, Photography
  • Sheila Evans – Painting, Drawing
  • Joshua Rodine – Glass
  • Cheryl Snow – Executive Director of Clackamas County Arts Alliance

A very hefty thanks to these talented people for volunteering for this very important weekend.

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Emma Morehouse

Emma MorehouseToday, Tomorrow and Monday at 1 and 4 pm. At the Earth Narrative Booth on Davis between Park and 8th: Live performance/ sculpture installation by dance and visual artist, Emma Morehouse. The piece, Column, is inspired by the private spheres we create around ourselves in moments of silence. These are moments we tune our senses and notice the malleability of inside and outside. The installation overlays with video and exists as a space indicative of the regenerative and persistent nature of the earth. Between the outside viewer and the performer within there is a porous membrane. Light, shadow, and a sense of weight and depth pass through. Within this membrane the performer moves through a sequence using rhythms and shapes informed by the organization of cells into organisms, all atop a thick layer of earth. Live installation times are Saturday, Sunday, and Monday at 1 and 4. 

 About Emma Morehouse:

I recently moved here from the Northeast where I was working on a farm/artist residency project therunnymedeproject.org. While I've mostly studied choreography and dance, my work varies widely in form. Most recently I've been working on large drawings examining the reinterpretation of information, and movement-based public performance. I've been inspired by minimalism and while I wouldn't call my work “minimalist” I will say I'm interested in the direct and immediate experience of the piece, whatever that may be for the viewer. 

 

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