Seeking Artists to Submit Works of Self-Portraiture
The Cathedral Arts Committee at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral is seeking artists to submit works of self-portraiture for the “Mirror, Mirror” juried art exhibit, which will be on display at Trinity from January 9-February 27, 2011. Works in all media are welcome. Please submit a single self portrait image with a file size no larger than 450 pixels wide on the long dimension at 72 dpi. Please send a jpg only. Use your name in the image file (i.e. jane_doe.jpg), e-mail your image to arts@trinity-episcopal.org, and put Mirror, Mirror in the subject line. You may also mail your image file on a disk to Arts: Mirror, Mirror, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Avenue, Portland, OR 97209. The entry fee is $10. Please mail your fee to the above address. The fee and image deadline is November 1, 2010. All participants will be notified by December 1, 2010 if their image was chosen or not to be included in the exhibit.
Zimbabwe Artists Project
Zimbabwe Artists Project is a non-profit organization, based in Portland, working exclusively with artists, mostly women, from Weya, a rural area in eastern Zimbabwe. Our goal is to assist these artists in supporting their families through their own creativity.
Most women live on their own, providing for families. Sales of their art helps the women afford food, clothing, school fees, medicines, transport, seeds and fertilizer. Since the market for Weya art in Zimbabwe is extremely limited, sales in the U.S. are critical. ZAP pays much more than any other buyer, delivering cash at the time of purchase. Equally important, ZAP provides health care to all of the artists, including care to artists who are HIV positive.
Come and experience beautiful, affordable and meaningful art supporting women artists and their families in rural Weya, Zimbabwe, this November in Kempton Hall, Trinity Cathedral.
Bi-Monthly Art Exhibits
Our exhibits feature a variety of art styles and media from selected artists or small group of artists. These exhibits reflect the in-depth studies and enhance the Cathedral’s Arts experience. We invite you to enjoy our bi-monthly exhibits hosted in Kempton Hall and encourage you to support our artists and outreach offerings.
Contact: Barbara Darling Bracken.
Exhibit: “Balancing Act” Serena Barton
Aug 29-Oct 31
Trinity’s Art Commission proudly hosts native Oregonian, Serena Barton, who taught herself to paint and create mixed media work in her forties, earning her right to insist that it is never too late to delve into what inspires you! Serena offers creativity and art workshops locally and nationally, teaches classes on women and creativity at Portland State University and continues her visual art career. Her work has appeared in several art books. Serena’s book, A Joyful Frenzy, features her artwork with text on the stories and processes behind the work. Serena has published magazine articles appeared in Cloth, Paper, Scissors magazine Studios magazine.
It’s all a balancing act, isn’t it? Work and family, leisure and endeavor, creativity and practicality, belief and questioning.
This body of work comes out of my struggles to balance my lives as an artist, a counselor, and a college teacher and out of my need to balance my creation of representational and abstract work.
Painting with melted wax and pigment onto wood I find a balance between my intentions and my interactions with the medium. It’s like a conversation between me and the materials with the need to reach a harmonious accord. Working with mixed media also has an element of balancing—too much, too little, or just right?
In this show I hope to evoke a sense of precarious and joyful balance.
ZAP
Nov 21-Jan 3