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Moments after Megan Kim (second from right) was named Oregon's 2017 Poetry Out Loud champion, she poses with Arts Commission Executive Director Brian Rogers (far left), runner up Philip Chan (second from left) and Arts Commission Chair Libby Unthank Tower (far right).
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Ashland student named Oregon's Poetry Out Loud champion
Megan Kim, an 18-year-old senior at Medford's Cascade Christian High School, will represent Oregon at the April 24-26, 2017 Poetry Out Loud National Finals in Washington, D.C. She was one of nine regional finalists who competed in the March 11 state Poetry Out Loud contest at Salem Public Library. The runner up was Philip Chan of West Linn High School.
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Megan, who lives in Ashland, reads poetry for fun and serves as editor of the school's literary magazine. Her plans are to attend college (she's considering several) and to major in English.
"Falling in love with poetry completely changed how I process the world," says Megan.
"Through the lens of rich language, I get to explore emotion, to ask questions and seek truth, and to connect with other humans in a way that is entirely set apart from any other experience.
I really think the truest me is the me that is writing or speaking poetry," she adds.
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Enjoy an excerpt of Megan's performance of Carmen Gimenez Smith's "Bleeding Heart" and the moment she was named our state champion.
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Wendy Red Star exhibits in Governor's Office
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| Wendy Red Star, Apsáalooke Roses, 2016, Four-color lithograph with chine-collé archival pigment ink photographs, 18 x 26 inches. Courtesy of the artist. |
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Portland artist Wendy Red Star will exhibit "Works" in the Governor's Office of the Capitol Building in Salem through May 11.
Red Star works across disciplines to explore the intersections of Native American ideologies and colonialist structures, both historically and in contemporary society.
Raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana, her work is informed both by her cultural heritage and her engagement with many forms of creative expression, including photography, sculpture, video, fiber arts and performance.
Red Star has exhibited at venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fondation Cartier pour l' Art Contemporain, Portland Art Museum, St. Louis Art Museum and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, among others.
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Grant alert!
FY2017 Arts Build Communities awards announced
Thirty-six Oregon organizations recently received Arts Build Communities grants from the Oregon Arts Commission. The grants, totaling $210,400, are designed to address and alleviate community needs by engaging in the arts.
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Among the projects are new public art to revamp the streetscape of Vale while celebrating and reinforcing community collaboration; Slam Across Oregon, bringing together Oregon's young slam poets from diverse rural, urban and suburban backgrounds for a Slamboo competition in Portland; and a public performance and exhibit designed to facilitate a community discussion about homelessness and home insecurity in the Columbia Gorge.
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Lane Arts Council's Fiesta Cultural, supported by a 2017 Arts Build Communities grant.
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Now in its 21st year, the Arts Build Communities program targets broad geographic impact and arts access for underserved audiences. More than half of the 2017 awards go to communities outside of the Portland Metro region.
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43 artists receive Career Opportunity Grants
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| Wynde Dyer's tarp quilt tents for Camp Here Tonight at Littman Gallery at Portland State University. |
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In the first two of three rounds of FY2017 Career Opportunity Grants, the Oregon Arts Commission, The Ford Family Foundation and The Oregon Community Foundation have collectively awarded $111,146 to 43 artists for career development projects.
The awards include $52,496 from the Oregon Arts Commission; $40,300 in supplemental funding for seven artists through a partnership with The Ford Family Foundation; and $18,350 from The Oregon Community Foundation. Individual grants range from $535 to $7,500.
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2017 Fellowship awards announced
Agnieszka Laska receives Joan Shipely Award
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Agnieszka Laska, a Portland-based dancer/choreographer and the founder of Agnieszka Laska Dancers, is the 2017 recipient of the Oregon Arts Commission's honorary Joan Shipley Award. The Joan Shipley Award is named for Oregon arts leader Joan Shipley, who passed away in 2011.
Laska leads a group of seven Oregon artists selected for the Arts Commission's 2017 Individual Artist Fellowships.
The 2017 fellowships support artists working in the performing arts; visual artists are reviewed in alternating years.
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The Arts Commission's fellowship program is available to more than 20,000 artists who call Oregon home. Fellows are recommended by a review panel of Oregon arts professionals who consider artists of outstanding talent, demonstrated ability and commitment to the creation of new work(s). The Arts Commission reviews and acts on the panel's recommendations.
The following performing artists were awarded 2017 fellowships: Agnieszka Laska (Joan Shipely Award), Portland; Oluyinka Akinjiola, Portland; Leah Anderson, Ashland; Douglas Detrick, Portland; Ashleigh Flynn, Portland; Eliot Grasso, Springfield; and Lydia Van Dreel, Eugene.
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Avantika Bawa exhibits at LAVC Art Gallery
This month marks Arts Commissioner Avantika Bawa's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.
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Parallel Faults," up through April 6 at the Los Angeles Valley College Art Gallery, large painterly gestures sweep across the gallery.
Topographical maps of the surrounding San Fernando Valley and San Gabriel Fault line inform the scale, colors and patterns of the swaths.
Stretches of silence are interrupted with multi-channel field recordings of tremors and earthquake sounds procured from geophysicists. The diagonal thrust of the visuals and the spatial distribution of sound synthesize to create a feeling of movement, raw power and unease.
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An installation view of "Parallel Faults," an exhibition by Arts Commissioner Avantika Bawa at the LAVC Art Gallery.
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Upcoming application deadlines
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