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Gay owned Paolo in the Pearl exhibits the
inspired paintings of Selene Robinowitz in Tortilla
Delights through Oct 31 at 1031 NW 11th Ave.
PDX Contemporary Art presents Nick Blosser's
landscape paintings through Aug 13 at 604 NW
12th Ave
p:ear gallery exhibits Lam Quang and Kestrel
Gates' whimsical lamps and lanterns in Rock Paper
Scissors through Sept 29 at 809 SW Alder St
Photographic Image Gallery exhibits Betty
Press’ photographs from Africa, where she worked
as a free-lance journalist from 1987 to 1995. through
Aug 27 at 79 SW Oak St
Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Ave ,
presents Vanished Kingdoms The Wulsin
Photographs of Tibet. China and Mongolia 1921-
1925 through Aug 28: Great Expectations: John
Singer Sargent Painting Children through Sept 11;
The Mauritshuis Protect: An Introduction to Dutch
17th Century Painting and Eleven Decades of
Modem Silver: A Taste for Coffee and Tea through
Jan 29. 2006: and Mysterious Spints, Strange
Beasts. Earthly Delights: Early Chinese Art from the
Arlene and Harold Schmtzer Collection through
Jan 1.2007
Portland Community College s Sylvania
Campus. 12000 SW 49th Ave., presents Katherine
Bovee and Philippe Blanc's legacy: boxed version.
an ideal landscape fashioned out of simulated
computer parts, through Sept 16 at Northview
Gallery
The Art Institute of Portland exhibits a
collection of onginal watercolor paintings in A Life in
Picture Books: Works of Allen Say through Aug 27
at 1122 NW Davis St
Artreach Gallery presents Questions for the
Genuine Imitation Gallery exhibits Jason
Greene's paintings based on some senous scnbbling
through Aug. 26 at 328 NW Broadway #116
Glenn & Viola Waters Cultural Arts Center
exhibits mixed-media sculpture, installation art,
ceramics and paintings through Aug 30 at 527 E
Main St. in Hillsboro.
Chnstian— Kenny Higdon's provocative political
paintings that touch on the war, the environment,
gays, abortion and how these issues relate to the
teachings of Jesus—through Sept 30 at First
Congregational Church. 1126 SW Park Ave Artist
reception 5-8 30 pm Sept. 1.
Guardino Gallery 2939 NE Alberta St., exhibits
Gregg Frederickson's oil and charcoal paintings and
Crystal Schenk's bronze and concrete sculptures
through Aug 23.
Blackfish Gallery exhibits New Members Steve
Tilden. Jim Neidhardt and Tori Bryer through Aug 27
at 420 NW Ninth Ave.
Tina Snow’s examination of the female form in
Technicolor Fantasies: Series I —Screwed Senes
through Aug. 31 at 3734 SE Hawthorne Blvd Artist
reception 2-5 pm Aug 13
Bonnie Kahn's Wild West Gallery exhibits art
inspired by form and flight in Birds through Aug 31
at 1524 NW 23rd Ave
Gay owned Brian Marki Fine Art, 2236 NE
Broadway, exhibits gay collage artist Sam Paden's Et
in Kmkadia Ergo and gay photographer Michael
Alago's Rough Gods through Aug 31. Opening
reception 6-9 pm Aug 5
Gay owned Butters Gallery presents its 17th
Anniversary Exhibit of historically important vintage
modem ceramic pieces through Aug. 27 at 520 NW
Davis St.
In Other Words Women's Books and
Resources exhibits Portland bisexual visual artist
Janovec Studio/Gallery exhibits printmaker
Ellen Emerson's monotypes through Aug. 22 at
4504 SE Milwaukie Ave.
Lawrence Gallery presents Yiqian Shu's acrylic
landscapes through Aug 31 at 903 NW Davis St
Mark Woolley Gallery presents a collection of
sculpture, drawings and pnnts by veteran Oregon
artist Tom Hardy through Aug 27 in Suite 210 at
120 NW Ninth Ave
Moving Through Center exhibits new paintings
Eunice Parsons and Paul Fujita in Cut and Paste
through Aug. 27 at 207 SW Pine St. #102
by Ilan Laks through Aug 24 at 2857 SE Stark St
Couch Gallery presents Das Gutte. famed
German art collector Dietmar Eichelberger's Steve
Guttenberg memorabilia, through Aug 28 at
328 NW Broadway #117.
Elizabeth Leach Gallery presents Lee Kelly’s
sculptures in Icarus Revisited and Richard Gruetter's
paintings in Northwest Memory through Aug 27 at
417 NW Ninth Ave
Froelick Gallery 817 SW Second Ave . presents
Kevin Kadar's paintings on envelopes in Travels and
Visitations and Sarah Horowitz's new works on
paper in Poppy and Memory through Aug 24
Gallery 500 420 SW Washington St #500.
Multnomah Arts Center Gallery presents
Bodacious Basketry Art through Aug. 17 at
7688 SW Capitol Highway.
Gay-owned Onda Arte Latina 2215 NE Alberta
St.. presents its first exhibit of Haitian Art through
Aug 23
Optic Nerve Arts presents Cad Annala s mixed-
media paintings in Mirth. Lust & Disgust and Annette
Bryan's panels in Pale Green Scent of Memory
through Aug. 25 at 1829 NE Alberta St.
Oregon College of Art & Craft, 8245 SW
Barnes Road, presents Craft Biennial A Review of
Northwest Art & Craft through Aug 28
Pacific Northwest College of Art exhibits
work from the 1930s government programs of the
Roosevelt era in Art from the WPA through Aug 13
at 1241 NW Johnson St
presents Dan Gilsdorf's Interstate, a compelling
exhibition of kinetic sculpture and installation,
through Aug 27
503 777-5879 or scott@brooklynbay org.)
Lakewood Theatre Company presents Bye
Bye Birdie, the Tony-winning musical about a rock n'
roll icon who visits a small town to kiss one adonng
fan goodbye before entenng the Army, through
Aug 21. (Call for times 368 S State St.. Lake
Oswego $25-$27 from 503 635-3901 or
www lakewood center org.)
Look Away Productions presents Salome.
Portland Opera Plaza presents Log. a group
exhibition of work by students and alumni from
Oregon College of Art and Craft’s wood department,
through Aug 31 at 211 SE Caruthers St.
Oscar Wilde's darkly beautiful story of a young
princess whose romantic desires turn bloodthirsty,
through Aug 7 at Milagro Theatre. (8 pm. 525 SE
Stark St. $10-$15 from 503-715 0960)
RC Gallery presents the group exhibit Summer
The Lynx Company presents A Light in the Dark,
one man's powerful, poetic search for identity,
purpose and life in the moment of his death, through
Aug 7 at Back Door Theatre Proceeds benefit
Metropolitan Community Church of Portland. Basic
Rights Oregon and P'nai Or Education Fund. (8 pm
Friday and Saturday. 2 pm Sunday 4319 SE
Hawthorne Blvd $10-$15 from 503-287-8737 or
thelynxcompany&yahoo com)
Introductions through Aug 27 at 1314 NW Glisan
St
Reed College presents site-specific installations
by three young mavenck Portland artists in Bent
Aug 9-14 at 207 SW Pine St Artists reception
6-10 pm Aug 6.
Savage Art Resources exhibits Zack Kircher's
exploration of the cult of celebrity and the group
show Vintage Vandals Reposed through Aug 13 at
1430 SE Third Ave.
3D Center of Art and Photography exhibits
Lenticular Heaven. Elliott Swanson's images that
allow the viewer to see depth without the customary
eyewear, and Island Apart: Only in Madagascar.
Marlin Peterson's travel slides, through Aug. 14 at
1928 NW Lovejoy St
V-Gun, housed inside Veganopolis Cafeteria,
Northwest Children's Theater and School
presents Footloose, the 1980s pop musical about a
hip Chicago teen who relocates to a Bible Belt
farming community where rock music and dancing
have been outlawed, through Aug 7 at Artists
Repertory Theatre (8 pm Fnday and Saturday. 2 pm
Sunday. 1516 SW Alder St. $14 $ 18 from
503-222-4480 or www nwcts.org.)
Old Slocum House Theatre Company
exhibits paintings by Justin -Scrappers" Mornson in
The Enchanted Forest through Sept 10 at 412 SW
Fourth Ave.
presents Twelve Dancing Princesses, based on the
Grimm fairy tale about a king with a mystery to
solve, through Aug 14 (Call for times 605 Esther
St.. Vancouver. Wash $8 $ 10 from 360-696 2427.)
World Forestry Center exhibits Oregon
Portland Actors Ensemble presents its second
photographer Steve Temll's The Way We Look at
Trees through Dec 31 at 4033 SW Canyon Road
free summer Shakespeare in the Park production.
As You Like It. through Sept. 5 at a different park
each weekend Bring a lawn chair or seating pad for
comfort (3 pm Saturday and Sunday, plus Sept 5.
www. port landactors, com.)
Milagros exhibits Katie m. Berggren's whimsical
ink drawings through Sept 24 at 5429 NE 30th Ave
Chambers opens its doors with collage works by
Look Away Productions presents Oscar Wilde's Salomé through Aug. 7.
ONSTAGE
Portland Arts & Lectures presents Love's
ArtAttack Theater presents its last play in
Ashland before relocating to Seattle: the world
premiere of Great Highway, a compelling drama that
explores what happens when cultures collide,
through Aug 8 (8 pm Friday. Saturday and Monday.
2 pm Sunday. 310 Oak St. $17 $19 from
541 482-6505 or www ashlandtheater com)
Labors: Lost & Found, the second season of Verb:
Literature in Performance, where short stories by
contemporary masters of the form are adapted to
the stage as full fledged dramatic works, through
Aug. 7 at Theater Theatre. (8 pm Friday and
Saturday. 7 pm Sunday. 3430 SE Belmont St. $12-
$22 from 503-227 2583 or www literary arts.org.)
Broadway Rose Theatre Company presents
the heartwarming musical revue The Melody Lingers
On—The Songs of Irving Beriin through Aug 21 at
Tigard's Deb Fennell Auditorium (8 pm Thursday-
Saturday. 2 pm Sunday 9000 SW Durham Road
$15-$24 from 503-620 5262 or
www broadwayrose com.)
Quintessence Language and Imagination
Theatre presents William Shakespeare's gender
Brooklyn Bay presents Tao Soup, a savory blend
of Eastern and Western influences utilizing text,
movement, music, sound and an assortment of
unpredictable delights and surpnses, through Aug 6
(8 pm 1825 SE Franklin St $10 $ 14 from
bending comedy Much Ado About Nothing through
Aug. 13 at University of Portland's Mago Hunt
Center (Call for times 5000 N Willamette Blvd.
$12-$15 from 503 943 7287 )
Stark Raving Theatre revisits Joseph Fisher's
contemporary version of a classic dilemma in Faust
Lis. (Version 2.0) through Aug 6. (8 pm Fnday and
Saturday 2257 NW Raleigh St. $10 $20 from
503-232 7072)
Sylvia's Class Act Dinner Theatre presents
Forever Plaid, a quartet of fresh young lads killed in
a 60s car crash singing the concert they never got a
chance to perform, through Aug. 20. (8 pm
Thursday-Saturday. 1 and 7 pm Sunday. 5115 NE
Sandy Blvd. $31 $36 from 503 288 6828 or
www sylvias. net.)
Triangle Productions presents The Rocky
Horror Show, the original gender-bending, glam-rock,
B-movie, science-fiction interactive rock show
starring Wade McCollum as Frank-n-Furter and
Donald L. Horn as the Narrator, extended through
Aug. 20 at Theater Theatre. (Call for times 3430 SE
Belmont St. $35 at the door, $30 in advance from
503-239-5919 or TicketsWest)
BULLETIN BOARD
Call for photos: Alison Dubois is finishing up her
book. She Kissed Me, chronicling the importance of
kissing within the lesbian community, and would like
to include photos of couples who have gotten
married through civil/public ceremonies, especially
those conducted at the beach For more information
wnte to PO Box 928, Battle Ground. WA 98604
(8/19)
The 32-voice David York Ensemble seeks
experienced choral musicians with good reading
skills to audition through Aug. 15 for its 20th season
at Rose City Park United Methodist Church. For
more information call 503-721-0262 or e-mail
auditions@davidyorkensemble.org. (8/5)
The Regional Arts A Culture Council invites
artists, nonprofit organizations and schools in
Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties to
apply for Project Grants for a specific art project or
event taking place in 2006. For guidelines call
503-823-5111 or visit www.racc.org. The deadline
for individuals is 5 pm Aug 15; the deadline for
organizations is 5 pm Aug. 22. (8/5)
The fourth annual Portland International Short
Film Fest (PISS Fest), to be held Oct. 21 and 22
at Hollywood Theatre, has extended the deadline for
entnes to Aug. 15. For details visit
www zonkerfilms.com. (8/5)
The Elder Resource Alliance seeks an outreach
panel member to speak to professional classes of
service providers, college students, nursing schools
and community groups. For more information contact
Grace Hague at 503-224-2640 or
eracoordinator@yahoo.com. (8/5)
Bradley-Angle House is conducting a
confidential study exploring domestic violence in
lesbian, bi and trans same-sex relationships and
seeks self identified women who have been victims
within the past year of abusive relationships or who
are using violence in their relationships The goal is
to improve resource organizations' queer sensitivity
Participants will be paid for their time For more
information contact Emily Gardiner at 503-232-7805.
ext. 3. or emilyg@bradleyangle.org. (8/5)
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