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Entries from May 2008

Reverb: Radio + Writing + Photography

May 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Art and Design, Education

Salt Institute For Documentary Studies held it semi-annual student exhibition at Space Gallery on May 26th. The exhibit featured radio, writing, and photography pieces of stories from Maine. It was pretty funny watching a crowd of people stare at an empty stage while the radio pieces were airing. Check out Salt here.

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The World Runs on Dunkin

May 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Art and Design, Cities, Economic Development, Public Art

D&D created a sand sculpture on Fore Street a few weeks ago.

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Urban Shelter - Cincinnati, Ohio

May 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Art and Design, Cities, Field Trips, Public Art, Transportation, Urban Planning

Outside the Cincinnati Art Museum.

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Rookwood Pottery – Cincinnati, Ohio

May 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Art and Design, Cities, Economic Development, Field Trips

Earlier this month Sally and I were in Cincinnati for a wedding. One of our tours included lunch at the original Rookwood Pottery factory in the Mount Adams neighborhood. A wonderful building which once employeed 200 people producing fine collectable ceramics and architectural ceramics. Rookwood produced work from 1880 to 1941.
In 2004, 124 years after [...]

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Street Art: NYC

May 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Art and Design, Cities, Public Art

Via: Wooster Collective  

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Meet Justin Alfond- May 15

May 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Events, Our Projects, Politics

Meet Justin Alfond
Democratic Candidate for State Senate District 8
May 15th from 7-8:30 pm
253 Congress Street
(home of Port City Studios and Eli Phant)
Peter Eiermann, Sally Struever & Nolan Thompson invite you to join us for a meet and greet with Justin Alfond- former Director of the League of Young Voters, and currently a candidate for State [...]

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Indie Biz Awards: Right around the corner

May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Cities, Economic Development, Events, Our Projects, Philanthropy

MAY 22nd at SPACE Gallery
6:30-10pm
This event has been one of my recent obsessions- I hope folks in town can make it out! The Indie Biz Awards is Portland Buy Local’s first fundraiser, and it looks like it might even raise some funds! Amazing!
Anyway- the voting is going on as we speak, and this is your [...]

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Knitfiti on Munjoy Hill

May 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Art and Design, Cities, Public Art

 
Right here in our own little city of Portland- in fact, right here on my very own street near our new studio- I spotted my very first knitfiti. I had heard of knitfiti before, and seen pictures, I’d even flirted with the idea of making some (I have some old scarf projects I never finished [...]

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