whittlin’ away

The other week I gave a little talk over @ research club. Thanks Dustin Zemel for the documentation. Here is the link: http://vimeo.com/9593883 or watch below.

I have a new T-shirt project I’m doing in conjunction with the Mental Health Association of Portland. A portion of proceeds from the sale of these shirts goes towards funding the completion of Alien Boy, a documentary on the life of James Chasse. Order shirts and more info here: http://iamjameschasse.wordpress.com

Check out the Alien Boy teaser:

Have a cause or project you need to promote and market? I’m pounding the pavement, looking for freelance gigs. Just finished designing a series of posters for the Northwest Institute for Social Change, and will be soon at work on a promotional vid for Team Colors’ Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States (AK Press, 2010).

More than just a freelance designer, I am available for consultation, planning and implementing targeted media campaigns for individuals and non-profit, grassroots, social justice and community organizations. Services I can provide:

• Project planning and event management
• Marketing and media outreach
• Strategic communications
• Graphic design and video production
• Writing and editing
• Social media campaigns
• Fundraising campaigns
• Program evaluation

Click here for more on my past work experience; I’ll also be expanding an online portfolio for my freelance work soon.

Have a project in mind? Get in touch!

1. I’m back in Portland after 10 mind-numbing days of meditating. Hurrah!

2. Dara Greenwald and Josh Macphee have an incredible exhibition of activist art at PNCA (pictured above) that opens tonight, Feb. 4th. I had a chance to preview it; it’s mind blowing! The show is sprawling, staggering and looks something like a student occupation of the commons. Highly recommend.

3. Excited to check out Museum of Contemporary Craft’s Gestures of Resistance tonight. The exhibition “examines work by contemporary artists who focus on craft actions and create works that use craft to agitate for change”. It should be interesting to see how the show evolves over the course of its run, as the Museum will host seven artist residencies between now and June.

3. I’m giving a short presentation on a new T-shirt project this Sunday, Feb 7th @ Research Club. The event meets @ the Tribute Gallery (328 NW Broadway #117) at 1PM. The brunch intends “to create a context where active and interesting people can meet each other and talk about what they’re doing while having a little something to eat.” More on the T-shirt project in a bit…

4. Missed Ivy Lin’s film on the first Chinese burial ground and her search for missing remains of Chinese Laborers? There’s another one happening next Tuesday, Feb. 9th at UO White Stag Building (70  NW Couch St). 5:30PM reception, 6:00PM screening.

If you are trying to contact me, I will out of communication range, Jan 20 - Jan 30. I will be on a 10-day silent meditation retreat at Dhamma Kuñja in Onalaska, WA.

I will not be checking e-mail or voicemail during this time period. Please leave me a message and I’ll get back to you when I return to civilization!

This week’s Newcity Art picks Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia: Art & Politics in Jazz-Age Chicago as one of their top 5 groundbreaking shows of 2009. Check out the list here.

The catalog for the exhibition has just been reprinted. The new edition features a new cover, additional essays and materials, plus a DVD of The More Things Stay the Same. Pick up a copy here.

Check out some nice press for Tough Stuff from the Buff, screening in Buffalo this week! Here in the Buff News and here in the Artvoice!

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