Photo by Ross William Hamilton/The Oregonian
King Mural Fading
Commissioner Loretta Smith to Take Oath January 7
From Multnomah County:
On Friday, January 7, 2011, Loretta Smith will take the Oath of Office for Multnomah County Commissioner, representing our district. The ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. in the Moriarty Arts & Humanities Auditorium on the Cascade Campus of Portland Community College.
Commissioner Smith, a resident of District 2 for over 20 years, looks forward to working for the citizens of the county. Her priorities are job creation, enhancing senior and youth services’ protection, and increasing federal resources for Multnomah County.
The Oath of Office will be administered by the Honorable Adrienne Nelson, of the Multnomah County Circuit Court. Also participating in the event will be Algie Gatewood, president of the Cascade campus of Portland Community College; Rev. Renee Ward, a community advocate; and Jeff Cogen, Chair of the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners.
Jefferson Middle College Program Meetings
From 6:30-8 p.m. on Wednesday January 12, 19, 26 and February 2, Jefferson High School leaders will offer information on the school’s new Middle College program. Jefferson High School – Middle College for Advanced Studies will launch next fall.
Open to high school students across the district, with guaranteed access to neighborhood students, the Middle College program partners with Portland Community College to offer students access to college credit while attending high school. The Jefferson attendance boundary will be split between Grant and Roosevelt High Schools for those who opt to attend a comprehensive high school. King Neighborhood schools will feed to Grant.
Paul Knauls to Turn 80!
Paul Knauls, aka the Mayor of Northeast Portland will have his 80th birthday gala January 22nd.
More about Paul at the Boise Voices Oral History Project:
http://boisevoices.com/epaul.php
To purchase tickets, go to:
http://www.ticketsoregon.com/event.php?event_id=727
Local Artist Joe Ryckebosch at SCRAP’s Re:Vision Gallery
Joe Ryckebosch: New Formations Over Old Horizons
January 10 – February 25th
Opening Reception at SCRAP, January 13th, 5-7pm
Re:Vision Gallery is pleased to present the mixed media collage work of Portland-based artist Joe Ryckebosch. Utilizing vintage design tape in bright colors, Ryckebosch superimposes geometric patterns over found images. The printed images that inspire Ryckebosch’s work result from myriad forays into thrift stores, scrap yards, re-use centers and back alleys. By reclaiming and re-forming, Ryckebosch has enlivened cultural ephemera on the verge of being forgotten, safely resurrecting them from the shadows back into the light of attention. The applied colored tape is the artist’s tool for re-interpreting the original subject of these once-discarded images. The color and patterns that emerge may have always been there, but have never been noticed until emphasized through the fresh perspective of these works. The juxtaposition of form and color provides a subtle and contemplative commentary on the ways humans see pattern in the natural world.
Re:Vision Gallery
SCRAP Creative Reuse Center
2915 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
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