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Sea of Nectar

tonight launches the first small public showing of the Lunar Maria Oracle Deck at the Portland School of Astrology

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Oregon Biennial Invitation from Anne Greenwood

4/21/2024

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Please join me for the ~opening receptions~ at the Oregon Contemporary 2024 Artists’ Biennial Saturdays: May 4th, June 1st, July 6th, 5-8pm.


Show opens on Friday, April 26th noon-5pm,
and the gallery is open: Friday noon-5pm, Saturday noon-5pm, Sunday noon-5pm and by appointment through July 2024.


Oregon Contemporary
8371 N. Interstate Ave
Portland, OR 97217
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*SAVE THE DATE*
Sunday, JULY 7th, 3-5pm for a special related event at
Albina Green Park
5134-5138 N Albina Street
Portland, OR 97217



BOOK
Shapes of Land one-of-a-kind fabric book began in 2018 while retracing my footsteps from where I was born in North Dakota, to travels with my husband to his native Argentina, then time spent with family in Central America and Mexico, to our home in Oregon. Along the way, I thought often about place, memory, and connection. This book contains a series of landforms: lake, plains, isthmus, plateau, meander, arch, hill and these images reside alongside bilingual prose by Mauricio Rioseco Milano. Together, we offer these visual and written portals to inspire imagined travel across borders of space and time.
The materials include: cotton buckram, silk thread, natural dyes.


In 2021 Lyla Rowen helped me complete the machine-stitching and compose the hand-embroidery with cut-up text from the existing bilingual prose.


Special thanks to John Eveland and Sally Brewer of Gathering Together Farm for providing a one-month stay in their cabin on the farm outside Philomath, Oregon, while Mauricio and I worked together as artists-in-residence at the Truckenbrod Gallery in nearby Corvallis in 2019.


EVENT
Anne Greenwood, Michael Callahan, and Patrice Kelly co-founders of the Albina Green Community Greenspace located at the corner of Alberta and Sumner in North Portland will host a Soundscape Gathering on July 7th, 2024 from 3-5pm. The Albina Green began as a grassroots movement in the Spring of 1996 with a handful of neighborhood residents intent on transforming a neglected piece of tax foreclosed property into an open and usable green space. As part of the 2024 Oregon Biennial Anne Greenwood will provide Raymains Blanket Co. blankets for lounging on the grass while listening to musicians Katherine Paul and Marisa Anderson and paging through paper book reproductions of Shapes of Land, activating the original one-of-a-kind fabric book of the same name exhibited at the Oregon Contemporary.
The paper book version was printed in an edition of fifty by Gary Robbins at Container Corp. for distribution at this public soundscape event. Partial proceeds from the sale of this book and blankets will help fund the Jefferson High School Art program. For more information on this event or to pre-purchase blankets ($275) or Shapes of Land paper book reproductions ($100), please contact: [email protected]


Thank you to the Oregon Arts Commission and the Ford Family Foundation for partially funding this project, Jackie Im and Anuradha Vikram for curation, Dustin Williams of Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, Joan Truckenbrod, Kent Smith, Cynthia Gladen, Mauricio. Eva, & Lucia Rioseco, Lyla Rowan, Eric Isaacson, Mississippi Records Charles Westmoreland, Red Fox Lounge, Nick O'Neill, Cherry Sprout Market, Piers Rippey, Rivka Sildesky, Sky Buis, and River Seidelman.

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Curators:


Jackie Im is a curator, writer, and editor based in Oakland, CA. She currently serves at the Associate Curator of the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries. She is also the co-founder and Director of Et al. and Et al., etc. in San Francisco. Im has organized exhibitions at the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art (SF), Queens Nails (SF), The Lab (SF), Important Projects (Oakland), Holiday Forever (Jackson Hole, WY), and SFAC Galleries. Her writing has appeared in Fillip Magazine, Art Practical, Curiously Direct, and various exhibition catalogues. She holds a BA in Art History from Mills College and an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts.
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Anuradha Vikram is a Los Angeles-based writer, educator, and curator of the upcoming Getty Pacific Standard Time Art and Science exhibition Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption (September 2024-March 2025) at UCLA. They recently curated the mid-career survey exhibition Jaishri Abichandani: Flower-Headed Children at Craft Contemporary (January 30–May 8, 2022) and the series Illuminate LA for the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture (September 2022-January 2023). Their book Decolonizing Culture is a collection of seventeen essays that address questions of race and gender parity in contemporary art spaces (Art Practical/Sming Sming Books, 2017).
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November 11th, 2020

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100 editions of the paper trade edition charged under the Blue Moon on Halloween October 30, 2020.
The first of this month’s two full moons fell on October 1, and the second one – for most of the world – fell on October 31. The second of two full moons in a single calendar month is called a Blue Moon. 2020’s fourth and final cross-quarter day and Halloween or Dia De Los Muertos or Samhain... are all celebrations marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or "darker half" of the year.
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November 11th, 2020

11/11/2020

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Pamphlet binding the booklets with indigo dyed thread
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November 11th, 2020

11/11/2020

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Here we are in Daniela's studio in the Alder Common's Building in Portland, Oregon assembling the card enclosures.
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Card enclosure die cut designed by Daniela Del Mar

11/11/2020

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Please look at the Daniela's website here to see other work
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Lunar Maria project ephemera

5/31/2020

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I have abandoned this idea of including a map with this project, and switched to including only a booklet!
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fabric layout

3/20/2020

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Sea of Nectar

3/3/2020

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My friend Meagan was asking today while we were at Kinko's making copies for tonight's "test the deck night" of the Lunar Maria Oracle cards and map I am in the process of making. These cards and map are based on the Lunar Maria, astrology, cycles of time, and originates from 44 hand embroidered and dyed images I made over the last several years in Portland and Iceland. Megan asked what the cards were made of.....I said, an old wool blanket that I had cut up while nursing my second baby Lucia. I had made nursing pads to catch the milk drips when I had produced too much milk for my baby. Years after weaning her, I started embroidering on these old wool nursing pads that I had made out of the wool blanket. Now they are the original cards for the upcoming Lunar Maria Oracle Deck.

Lunar Maria: fabric, paper or diy fabric kits for Covid Pandemic online stitching group

3/20/2020

Thank you to the Portland School of Astrology for hosting my 'test the deck' night. I learned so much! I have decided to scale back the project to be 44 cards with a booklet.
The 44 cards will be available in 3 ways: paper cards w/ paper booklet, & fabric pouch, fabric cards w/ paper booklet & fabric bag, or DIY fabric cards that you cut & sew together, w/ paper booklet & fabric bag. These DIY fabric cards will only be available for the online stitching group and those interested in getting together in this way.

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