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on Recycling in the Recession

I live in SE Portland (Milwaukie) and was informed that if any of the items in my re-cycle box(es) was unaccepable (upon pick up, just doing a "visual") that all that box(es) would go into the garbage, not re-cycle...if you read "the trash news" a paper that comes out, recycling gets really specific here, although, a class in recycling is offered for $50 (I think it's a 6 week class)-- I wonder how many people who are recycling through their garbage pick-up service are having all their recycled materials dumped into the garbage because they didn't follow protocol? mel

posted 4 years, 5 months ago
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on The Rise of the Graphic Novel

I bought my first "underground" comixs "HUP" and "Big ASS" by Robert Crumb in the late 1960's, they were racy, beautifully drawn, and acknowledged big asses and thick thighs, very powerfull stuff for a teenager art student. Crumb's drawing style is so beautiful, whatever he does (see this weeks NEW YORKER magazine with a piece by Aileene and Sophie Crumb--family reunion), I have often thought that Robert Crumb is similar to Goya...the lines, the mark making and powerfull content...outsiders rendering their dreams and realities, both amazing...the stuff art students everywhere must study...If you do your own story in your art it's all the more special and enriching.
mel (Poore Artiste CoOp Atelier)

posted 4 years, 6 months ago
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on The Region's Art

Not so! I just want equality in the money, an established organization like PAM should have the resources to up the money...I doubt that I'll be starting my own awards program--why do you have to be so personal and mean spirited?
The problems were not with the art, it's about money and selection processes.

posted 4 years, 9 months ago
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on The Region's Art

I find the NW Art awards show to be enjoyable,and a good lesson in the diversity of NW art, although snobbish attitudes by the curator did prevail ( see D.K. Rowe's article in the OREGONIAN A&E, and KBOO interview on Art Talk last month)--it's an underfunded show, and I think the museum needs to PAY all the artists the $10,000, or whatever, but, to give one big sum and then less, seems trite and insulting. Get it together Portland Museum and raise some money for this show, or don't do it.Make all the winners equal in pay. To say that "all are winners" (as the curator said over and over in the interviews) is not convincing at all (it seems condesending and too defensive) and to use "professional" arts organizations (etc.) as a resource is so limiting and who knows who...I am sure there are many museum members who disagree with this policy of choice. This show of art was a pleasure for me, but, the issues of how they make their choices and how one out of 5 artists gets the big award, and the rest are left to wonder "why?"--get it together PAM, advertise in local publications about the show, and make it open to those artists who aren't represented by the art powers locally. As a professional artist and educator, I find of the show disturbing, not because of the art, but, because it seems like some sort of institutional "insider" vs. "outsider" (or the have's and have nots)- yeah, I'm a "have not", but, I am not whining (as the curator called those who disagreed with the process in the A&E article)-- Be more democratic PAM, and stop making excuses. Pay everybody the same. Mel Paca
Poore Artiste CoOp Atelier

posted 4 years, 9 months ago
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