Art Spark by RACC

Tomorrow is the day! Join us for celebration and muralist stories at Jupiter NEXT. Music by DJ No Manches of Noche Libre!

Are you ready for a summer evening tomorrow at Jupiter NEXT? Catch the tunes of DJ No Manches aka Diana Suarez from 5 PM – 9 PM at our Art Spark: Murals event!

DJ No Manches plays songs heard growing up just outside of Los Angeles, where cultures intersect constantly, and the influence of the Latinx community can't be missed. Diana Suarez can often be heard playing classic cumbias, hip hop gems, international psych and chichas.

Be ready to dance, have great dialogue and celebration with five local artists, win wonderful raffle prizes, and see a special performance by !⁠

Event graphic designs by Natassja Pal⁠

More info about the Art Spark here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/376796946353757

Meet our 4th featured artist, Mehran Heard, (in-person!) on August 10th from 5 PM – 9 PM at our Art Spark event.

Heard is a freelance creative living and working in Portland Oregon. Originally from Fresno, California, he has been showing my work since 1998 throughout the west coast in a multitude of fine and contemporary art galleries and public art events. He took on his first large-scale mural in 2004; this initial project started a decade-long career of commercial, personal, and public murals, granting me the lucky opportunity to paint at home and abroad (including Japan and Panama). Along with showing in gallery exhibitions and mural projects, you’ll find him accepting illustration commissions for album covers, logo and apparel design, advertisements, editorials, and wine labels. He has been independently developing a comic that he’ll be self-publishing in the near future. “Simply put, I love to use my imagination, I love to draw, and I love to share my creativity with the world around me.”

More info about the Art Spark here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/376796946353757

Event graphic designs by Natassja Pal⁠.

Get ready to meet and have a conversation on August 10th from 5 PM – 9 PM at our Art Spark event with Mehran Heard.
Heard is a freelance creative living and working in Portland Oregon. Originally from Fresno, California, he has been showing my work since 1998 throughout the west coast in a multitude of fine and contemporary art galleries and public art events. He took on his first large-scale mural in 2004; this initial project started a decade-long career of commercial, personal, and public murals, granting me the lucky opportunity to paint at home and abroad (including Japan and Panama). Along with showing in gallery exhibitions and mural projects, you’ll find him accepting illustration commissions for album covers, logo and apparel design, advertisements, editorials, and wine labels. He has been independently developing a comic that he’ll be self-publishing in the near future. “Simply put, I love to use my imagination, I love to draw, and I love to share my creativity with the world around me.”

More info about the Art Spark here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/376796946353757

Event graphic designs by Natassja Pal⁠.⁠

Hi everyone! Meet our third (of five!) feautured artists, Tomás Alfredo Valladares, and join us on August 10th from 5 PM – 9 PM at Art Spark!

Tomàs is a Creative Producer, Filmmaker, and Arts Administrator with over 14 years of experience as a producer and documentarian, completing a Masters in Arts Administration and Media Management at the University of Oregon. Since then Tomàs has helped manage several art galleries in Portland including U of O White Box and One Grand Gallery and has worked as a freelance commercial producer and filmmaker. Tomàs serves on the Regional Arts & Culture Council public art murals committee and is a Founding Director and Board Chair of the Portland Street Art Alliance.

More info about the Art Spark here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/376796946353757

Event graphic designs by Natassja Pal⁠.

Get ready to meet, celebrate, and have a conversation on August 10th from 5 PM – 9 PM at our Art Spark event with Tomàs Alfredo Valladares!

He is a Creative Producer, Filmmaker, and Arts Administrator with over 14 years of experience as a producer and documentarian, completing a Masters in Arts Administration and Media Management at the University of Oregon. Since then Tomàs has helped manage several art galleries in Portland including U of O White Box and One Grand Gallery and has worked as a freelance commercial producer and filmmaker. Tomàs serves on the Regional Arts & Culture Council public art murals committee and is a Founding Director and Board Chair of the Portland Street Art Alliance.

More info about the Art Spark here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/376796946353757

Event graphic designs by Natassja Pal⁠.⁠

Meet our second featured artist, Alex Chiu! Join us on August 10th from 5 PM – 9 PM at our Art Spark event!

Chiu is a Portland based muralist, arts educator, and active community member. He has painted murals for Trimet, APANO, Open Signal, Roosevelt High School, Prescott Elementary School, Davis Elementary School, and more. This summer he will host a week long mural painting camp through the Rockwood Makerspace. His current work incorporates themes of family, cultural representation, breaking social barriers, and American culture. His art practice involves directly engaging with community members in conceptualizing and executing mural projects.

More info about the Art Spark here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/376796946353757

Event graphic designs by Natassja Pal.

Alex Chiu will be ready to meet and have a conversation with you on August 10th from 5 PM – 9 PM at our Art Spark event!

Chiu is a Portland based muralist, arts educator, and active community member. He has painted murals for Trimet, APANO, Open Signal, Roosevelt High School, Prescott Elementary School, Davis Elementary School, and more. This summer he will host a week long mural painting camp through the Rockwood Makerspace. His current work incorporates themes of family, cultural representation, breaking social barriers, and American culture. His art practice involves directly engaging with community members in conceptualizing and executing mural projects.

More info about the Art Spark here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/376796946353757

Event graphic designs by Natassja Pal⁠.⁠

Join us on August 10th from 5 PM – 9 PM at to hear from Patricia Vázquez Gómez!

Vázquez Gómez works and lives between Portland and Mexico City. Her practice investigates the immigrant experience, social invisibility, the performative aspects of identity, the intersections between ethics and aesthetics and the social function of art through a variety of media that includes painting, printmaking, video and socially engaged art projects, The purpose and methodologies of her work are deeply informed by her experiences working in the immigrant rights and other social justice movements in the US. Patricia’s work can be explored at http://cargocollective.com/patriciavg

More info about the Art Spark here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/376796946353757

Event graphic designs by Natassja Pal⁠.

Get ready to meet and have a conversation on August 10th from 5 PM – 9 PM at our Art Spark event with Patricia Vázquez Gómez.

Vázquez Gómez works and lives between Portland and Mexico City. Her practice investigates the immigrant experience, social invisibility, the performative aspects of identity, the intersections between ethics and aesthetics and the social function of art through a variety of media that includes painting, printmaking, video and socially engaged art projects, The purpose and methodologies of her work are deeply informed by her experiences working in the immigrant rights and other social justice movements in the US. Patricia’s work can be explored at http://cargocollective.com/patriciavg

More info about the Art Spark here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/376796946353757

Event graphic designs by Natassja Pal⁠.⁠

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Please join Reed College, the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, and the family of Reed alumna Mara Gibbs to celebrate the exhibition of Mara’s accomplished photography. The works in the exhibition consist of a newly published archival portfolio of Mara’s work:

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Good Morning! Project Grants applications are due February 20th for the Regional Arts & Culture Council, learn more at racc.org/grants/project-grants

It's that time again - project grants applications are due FEB 20! Our project grants offer up to $7,000 in financial support to individual artists and nonprofit organizations in Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas Counties for project based arts programming.

https://racc.org/grants/project-grants/