SANJAY’S SUPER TEAM
ARTSHOUND
Sniffing out what you shouldn’t miss in the arts this week
Keep the Whit original: The Whiteaker Tattoo Collective
opens its door for Last Friday Art Walk from 5 to 9 pm Friday,
Jan. 29, at 245 Van Buren St. See new work from Sharden
Killmore, the lord of “fly art” (yes, his medium is dead flies)
and oil paintings by Erich Scwhartzwald of human-animal
hybrids.
Also on Last Friday Art Walk, The Photography at Oregon
group will screen the fantastic and mysterious documentary
Finding Vivian Maier starting at 7 pm at Jon Meyers’ studio,
385 W. 2nd Ave.; free or by donation.
Hear the Bern: Local fiddler Nick Mcleod hosts Bluegrass
for Bernie, “a bluegrass, old-time, folk and jug-band fundraiser
for the Bernie Sanders campaign,” 6 pm Saturday, Jan. 30, at
Old Nick’s Pub, 211 Washington St.
That same night across town the UO Opera Ensemble will
perform a tale of love, resurrection and betrayal with Orfeo ed
Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice) at 7:30 pm, with a second
performance 3 pm Sunday, Jan. 31, at LCC’s Ragozzino
Concert Hall. Tickets at door or on LCC’s website.
While the boycott of the Oscars is more than legitimate
(#OscarsSoWhite), Oscar-nominated shorts are typically more
diverse than feature film fare. The Bijou Metro opens its Oscar
Shorts program Friday, Jan. 29. Ed Schiessl, owner-operator of
the Bijou, says the documentary shorts are particularly good
this year, including Body Team 12, about the people tasked
with collecting the bodies of victims who succumbed to Ebola,
and A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, which explores
honor killings as it follows Saba, an 18-year-old Pakistani
woman who elopes. Also look for Pixar’s latest, the animated
short Sanjay’s Super Team, about a first-generation Indian-
American boy who prefers superheroes to his daily prayers
until a particularly colorful flight of imagination.
Bitch Media co-founder Andi Zeisler hosts two events
Tuesday, Feb. 2, at UO’s Straub Hall Room 156, beginning with the
6:30 pm presentation “Don’t Just Change the Channel: Why Pop
Culture Matters to Feminism, Activism and Social Justice,”
followed by the 7:30 pm workshop “Talking Back 101: A Workshop
on Identifying Bias, Bad Framin and Sexism in Media and Pop
Culture, and Responding Strategically.”
The Apprentice: Forget Trump. Seriously, forget him. The
Oregon Folklife Network announced that it is accepting
applications for the 2016 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship
Program, which “honors excellent master traditional artists
and culture keepers to apply with apprentices from their own
communities, Tribes, cultural, religious or occupational group
for $3,000 stipends.” Applications due April 1. Contact Brad
McMullen at ofn@uoregon.edu or 346-3820 for more
information about eligibility. — Alex Cipolle
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January 28, 2016 • eugeneweekly.com
MAGICALLY
MINIMALIST MAYFIELD
Jessica Lea Mayfield is a chameleon. From her first folk-country
release With Blasphemy, So Heartfelt (produced by Dan Auerbach of The
Black Keys) through her grunge-alternative record Make My Head Sing,
Mayfield’s rural music, tinged with a Liz Phair sound, is ever changing
— like a pink-haired glittery punk rocker with the heart of a country
singer.
“I feel like all of my albums could be a soundtrack to each part of my
life,” Mayfield tells EW via email. “Each stage of my life has its different
feelings and obstacles, so I’m still writing painfully personal and
intimate songs — the subject matter changes and the sounds shift to
match my feelings and moods as I grow.”
Last year, Mayfield released an Elliott Smith tribute alongside Seth
Avett of The Avett Brothers. This year Mayfield has embarked on a solo
tour.
“I’ll be playing a mix of all my records acoustically and quite a few
new ones that I’ve yet to record,” Mayfield says. “It’s really exciting and
also nerve-racking to play this super new material in such a bare way. It
feels like getting back to the roots of where I started with songwriting.”
Mayfield continues: “This tour is also very special because I’m
bringing my dog, who has never been to the West Coast. I cannot wait to
show him how beautiful Oregon is, and it’s so great having him along.”
So this time through town, Mayfield will introduce her dog to Eugene.
“I love Eugene,” Mayfield says. “I’ve been to and through Eugene a lot.”
Eugene’s fantastic and haunting alt-folk-country outfit Tara
Stonecipher and The Tall Grass opens for Jessica Lea Mayfield 8:30 pm
Sunday, Jan. 31, at Sam Bonds; $8 adv., $10 door. — William Kennedy