View Related Episode: Art Photographer Jim Riswold, Food Stylist Carolyn Schirmacher, Oregon Symphony's Community Music Partnership

Jim Riswold didn’t set out to become an artist…he already had a very successful career in advertising. He was the genius behind award winning ads for companies like Nike. He was a creative director at Weiden & Kennedy. Then a bad diagnosis turned his life upside down and propelled him into the world of art. Now, he says he’s gone from selling things people don’t need to making art people don’t want.

First Broadcast: 2007
Producer: KC Cowan

Appeared in episode: Art Photographer Jim Riswold, Food Stylist Carolyn Schirmacher, Oregon Symphony's Community Music Partnership

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The Woman with the Veil
by KC Cowan | 11/17/2009
It isn’t often that the Portland Art Museum brings in an exhibit that consists entirely of one painting, but a masterpiece by Raphael is now on display and worth the trip to see. I finally got there last week and am so glad I did. “The Woman with the Veil” is so stunning, so richly painted [...]
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