Volume 1, Number 18, July 17-23, 2006
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Filmmaker Visits DIVA. The Second Friday Film Forum was please to host award-winning filmmaker Davey Porter who presented his feature-length documentary, The Boles Murders, on 12 July at the DIVA Center.
As a result of his work, Porter renewed interest in the reopening of a 40-year-old homicide case where the victims included an entire family and their beloved dog. The Boles Murders won the prestigious 2004 June Lockhart Award for Special Achievement in Film.
Davey Porter entered the motion picture business as a writer of episodic network television and small, independent feature motion pictures. One of his screenplays, Extreme Champions, was optioned by Disney, which led to a first-look deal with Disney for screenplays and story ideas.
Porter also produced the critically-acclaimed independent feature, Harley White Trash, the story of a troubled teen dealing with the loss of his mother.
Davey Porter currently writes and produces the locally produced Nanna's Cottage, a half-hour Saturday morning children's television program. Nanna's Cottage airs Saturday mornings on ABC (KEZI).
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What would you do with the Sears Hole? Now that "Lake Charnelton" has been drained, the Lane Arts Council and the City of Eugene seek artists' proposals for a temporary installation in the "Sears Hole" at 10th and Charnelton. The installation site will be viewable from the fenced perimeter of the lot.
The deadline has been extended to July 28. Details and instructions available online at the Lane Arts Council web site: lanearts.org/communityarts/rfp/ Photo: Lake Charnelton by Eric Ostlind.
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DIVA Artist Salon. A reminder that the fourth Sunday of the Month is the artists Salon. On July 23rd, from 7-9 PM the group will be selecting the next Members' Gallery exhibit for January 2007. There will also be a discussion about the all-members show during September - October. The session's workshop topic to be announced.
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Visit DIVA Artist e-Studios. Did you know that artists members have access to the online promotion of their work? Visit the DIVA E-Studios web site and see the work of current members. Visit: DIVA Artist e-Studios online.
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Video Slam@DIVA. DIVA is beings a monthly summer video slam for indie producers in Oregon. The event follows in the spirit and tradition of the popular competitive slams for poetry. Individuals submit work in advance, which is organized into an evening's program where it is screened, and discussed. At the end of each session the audience chooses a winning video. The monthly winners will be entered on behalf of the artist in the Third Annual OpenLens Festival competition, January 12-14, 2007.
The first slam is 4:00 PM on Sunday, August 20th. Individuals interested in screening their work must submit videos by August 14th. All screenings require that the artist be in attendance. Full details and a required submission form are available online at proscenia.net/diva/slam/. There is no entry fee but a SASE must be included if the video is to be return. The slam is open to the public for viewing and a $2-5.00 donation is asked.
The Slam coordinators intend the event to be a venue for independent media artists to show and discuss their work. The DIVA Video Slam is scheduled to run through October with a possible year-long program beginning in February.
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International Short Film Festival Comes To Eugene. The 3rd Sam Bond's International Short Film Festival will be held Sunday, September 10th, 8:30 PM at Sam Bond's Garage. The festival will feature short Animation, Experimental and Narrative films by NW filmmakers as well as Animation from the Czech Republic. $5-8 sliding scale. All proceeds will go to Eugene Peaceworks. For more info call 541/ .
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Lane County Fair Deadline Approaches. Individuals interested in exhibiting art and photography have until 31 July to register. Registration can be done on the County Fair web site. The Lane County Fair offers an opportunity for residents of all ages to showcase their talents in any number of exhibitor departments. An Exhibitor handbook containing each department's description of categories, sections and classes, entry form are available for both adult and youth art, photography, and textiles. The handbook can be downloaded from the web or picked up at the Lane County Fair Office, 796 W. 13th, Eugene, OR 97402. Phone:
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Bike Fest 2006 at DIVA. The first annual festival of bike-themed films took 15-16 July at the DIVA Center. Screenings included Roam, a beautifully photographed mountain bike film by a Canadian group called The Collective. The cinematography allowed the viewer to experience this sport only as could be presented through the power of moving images. A second film, 16K Feet on a Friday, was a personal journey by bike on a mission of support to a Peruvian orphanage high in the Andes. This video, made with a small still/video capable camera, illustrated what the simplest of technology could do for documenting a journey. Finally, Portland's Filmed by Bike 2006 IV presented 22 short films by international professional and amateur filmmakers on various themes related to bike life.
DIVA thanks Eric Ostlind, Becky Guy, Mary Unruh, Anna Hults, James Denier, Kristi Koons, Brian Walker, Steve Poizat-Newcomb, and Carl Diehl for their contribution of time and effort in making this event a success. The Center also thanks the Festival sponsors, The Eugene Weekly, Paul's Bike Shops, and Bike Friday.
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Instructor Andrew Huot has been binding books and making artists books since 1990. In addition to working in book repair and restoration he has taught workshops and classes throughout the Northwest for organizations such as the Independent Publishing Resource Center in Portland, Portland State University, and the University of Oregon Craft Center. Andrew is the former Chair, and is a current board member, of the Northwest chapter of the Guild of Bookworkers.
Long Stitch Book. Wednesday, August 9. Time 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Cost: $30 + $10. materials fee. Registration deadline: August 4
In this workshop we will construct a book using the long stitch bookbinding structure with multiple sections to allow more pages. Based on 16the Century models, this method has rows of sewing on the spine that serve as a decorative elements. Prerequisite: Intro to Bookbinding class or some bookbinding experience.
Book Boxes and Enclosures. Saturday & Sunday, August 19 & 20. Time 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Cost: $50 + $20 materials fee Registration deadline: August 11
Looking for a way to protect a fragile book or store a collection of small items? Conservation boxes and enclosures are the best ways to protect and house our collections and fragile objects. In this class, we will construct a number of boxes, slipcases, and enclosures to protect and display treasured items. Prerequisite: Intro to Bookbinding class or some bookbinding experience.
More information: , or sign-up online.
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New Exhibits -
- Amy Beller and Jane MacQueen: Earth and Sky- Western Landscapes
- Peggy Spiess: Escape: New and Collected Works
- Keith Legg: Consciousness and Memory
- Valley Calligraphy: Journeys Begin With a Single Word
- Lane Arts Council/Greenhill Humane: PAWsitive Strokes
- Renee Manford: Multimedia/Monoprints
Click Here to learn more about our July artists and their work.
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A UNION MAN - CONCERT AND FILM
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A Union Man
Juilus Margolin
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July 21, Film and Concert: A Union Man
Time: 7:30 PM
Admission: Donation $5 - $10
"A Union Man" is the story of Julius Margolin, 89, as seen through his eyes as well as those he's met and worked with. This is an affectionate portrait of a rank-and-file activist still in the struggle for justice and workers‚ rights.
Margolin has been a Central Labor Council representative for 32 years. A tireless fighter for justice, equality, and against war, Julius embarked on a new career in 1999, making music and CDs with George Mann while still hitting picket lines and organizing workers in New York City and around the United States.
Julius Margolin and George Mann will be at the Screening and perform a selection of folk and labor songs. Event sponsors include: Eugene/Springfield Solidarity Network/Jobs with Justice, International Alliance of Theatrical and State Employee's, Local 675 and Lane County Central Labor Council. See www.georgeandjulius.com
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Thanks to the Eugene City Brewery for their contributions to DIVA receptions and events. Visit their fine establishment only a block away on Olive Street.
844 Olive St. Eugene
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Australian Series Assemblages. The Jacobs Gallery will exhibit The Australian Series by Mike Walsh from July 28 - August 27. This exhibit was inspired by a month-long journey through Australia in 1999. Suggesting that a fragile bridge exists between indigenous cultures and contemporary Occidental societies, the Australian Series, comprised of 100 individual artifacts mounted in Plexiglas vitrines, juxtaposes Aboriginal painting fragments and objects found in Australia1 by Mike Walsh. Image: Gunja (Grub Dreaming), mixed media assemblages, 2004
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T+ Comics to Manga at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. A unique art form in itself, the comic book opens new possibilities of expression and creativity not seen in traditional art. From the simplified figures that allow the reader to identify personally with the character, to the intimation of action conveyed by multiple static images, the comic book employs many unique pictorial devices which set it apart from any other mode of visual representation. Perhaps the comic book’s most tell-tale characteristics are its sense of dynamism and its ability to transform a mere reader into a voyeur, two qualities that are expressed within the paintings of Roy Lichtenstein.
This exhibit examines the comic book’s dynamic and voyeuristic qualities, seen primarily within the genres of war and romance comics dating to the 1950s-60s, a source heavily utilized by Lichtenstein. A comparison will be made with the Japanese tradition of manga, a type of comic or print cartoon unique to that country. This immensely popular form of graphic novel was inspired by, and has transcended the limitations of, the American comic book. Current show ends September 24.
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Tate Papers. (Scout Report) Art museums often publish a journal, which includes papers primarily based on research about their specific collections. Since 2004, the Tate has been publishing its version online, as the Tate Papers. The tag-line on the Web site promises that the journal will “cover a wide range of subjects: artists, works of art and archives in Tate's collection, art theory, visual culture, conservation and museology.” A quick browse of the available papers shows that they do indeed live up to this claim. For example, a visitor can read an article on the difficulties of conserving the work of Joseph Beuys, an artist who often used organic materials that are bound to decompose (such as fat and wool), but who made contradictory statements regarding his willingness to allow his work to self-destruct. In the same issue (Autumn 2005) a visitor can read a much more traditional article researching the history and attribution of Thomas Gainsborough's 1781 portrait of Marie Jean Augustin Vestris, which passed from the hands of private collectors to the National Gallery in 1888, and has belonged to the Tate since 1955.
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Deadline: July 31 - Call To Artists. Artists are invited to donate artwork to the Eugene Glass School's 7th Annual Art Glass Auction & Benefit, 7 October. This is the school's largest and most prestigious fundraising event of the year, catering to hundreds of local, national, and international glass artists and collectors. With the publication of a full-color auction catalog, an artist's work will be seen by over 2,000 artists and collectors. More Information.
Deadline: July 31 - Teaching Opportunities at Emerald Art Center. The Emerald Art Center's new children's art Program, TEACH Arts, is seeking experienced, creative, energetic and dynamic art instructors. Beginning this fall, we will be offering classes for five age groups 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 and 10-12. Please email to receive application materials.
The Center is also seeking qualified art instructors for adult classes and is now scheduling for the Fall 2006 through Summer 2007. Please email to receive application materials.
Deadline: August 1 - Call For Articles. "Music, Sound, and the Moving Image" will be the first international scholarly journal devoted to the study of the interaction between music and sound with the entirety of moving image media film, television, music video, advertising, computer games, mixed-media installation, digital art, live cinema, et alia. To be published by Liverpool University Press and co-edited by Anahid Kassabian (Liverpool University) and Ian Gardiner (Goldsmiths College), the journal will be truly interdisciplinary, inviting contributions across a range of critical methodologies, to include musicology and music analysis, film studies, popular music studies, cultural theory, aesthetics, semiotics, sociology, marketing, sound studies, and music psychology. It is hoped that the journal also will provide an important focus for the similarly diverse and expanding community of media music scholars.
The journal will be published twice a year, beginning January 2007, and its first issues will be open, embracing this diversity of topics and approaches. As it progresses it is intended that themed issues, under a guest editor, will alternate with open issues, perhaps encouraging writers to explore areas under-represented in current literature. The editors welcome contributions offering the broadest interpretation of the journal's title, not only seeking to build upon the existing scholarship on film music and film sound, but also to challenge its theoretical assumptions, and to extend its boundaries to include the full variety of moving image media and traditions. Submissions for the inaugural issue should be e-mailed, by 1 August 2006, as Microsoft Word documents to: Enquiries or requests for style guidelines should also be directed to this address.
Deadline: August 28. Mayor's Art Show Deadline. The annual juried Mayor's Art Show features an array of artwork created by artists residing in Lane County. This year's Mayor's Art Show will open September 7, with an Awards Ceremony in the main lobby of the Hult Center for the Performing Arts and Public Reception in the Jacobs Gallery beginning at 5:30 p.m. Entries for the 2006 Mayor's Art Show will be accepted on Monday, August 28, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Jacobs Gallery.
Deadline: September 1 CVALCO's 3rd Annual Lane County Photo Contest. Do you know someone with an interest or talent in photography? Be sure and tell them about CVALCO's 3rd Annual Lane County Photo Contest. All interested photographers can enter on-line. Adult and youth divisions will be judge in a variety of categories. The deadline for entries is September 1, 2006. Many thanks to all the CVALCO members that contributed prizes for the contest. Be sure and check out those sponsor businesses on the contest Web pages. Promotional posters and brochures will be sent or delivered to sponsor businesses soon. For more information, contact Lisa Lawton at CVALCO at or l.
Deadline: October 2 - Call for Oregon Bluebook Photographs. The State Archives, which publishes the Oregon Blue Book, is seeking color photos that represent some aspect of the state to grace the cover of the 2 edition. The contest is open to all amateur photographers who are Oregon residents, and photographs must be taken in Oregon. For full details go to the Blue Book web site.
Deadline: October 31 - Call to Artists: Lane Community College is accepting submissions from sculptors to participate in the 2006 Pacific Northwest Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition. Fifteen works will be selected for exhibition to take place throughout the 2007 spring term, showcasing the Eugene Oregon campus. Lane Community College may use this exhibition to select or commission a sculpture for purchase. More Information
Deadline: May, 2007 - Community Arts Grants are available each year for individuals and groups producing arts projects and programs that benefit the City of Eugene and its residents. These grants are made possible with funds from the City of Eugene Room Tax Fund. More Information.
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Programs: Eric Ostlind, Newsletter: Volunteers: Becky Guy, Calendars: Media Arts or Classes and Exhibits
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