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Beaverton City Hall Doubles as Art Gallery

Outside of Portland, the Beaverton City Hall doubles as an art gallery featuring local artists all month long.

August 23, 2010 | Posted in Entertainment, Events, Southwest, Style | Read More »

New Lake Oswego Retailer Combines Fashion with Environmental Responsibility

Local designer and proprietor, Sandy Varzarschi held the Silkwood ribbon cutting ceremony May 15, and will continue grand opening celebrations throughout June.
Combining environmentally conscious with an elegant fashion sense, Silkwood offers a fresh venue with selections from US and European designers of women’s apparel. “Our styles are fun, unique, and chic including a treasure chest of hard to find designer [...]

June 6, 2010 | Posted in Living Green, Southwest, Style | Read More »

Local High School Putting on Earth Day Trashion Show

Clackamas High School students in Michelle Colbert’s mixed media art class have been working over the past month to create sculptural clothing out of recycled materials.
To celebrate Earth Day they have partnered with the Clackamas Town Center Mall and plan to display their works from April 19th through April 25th. The “Trashion” art display can [...]

April 13, 2010 | Posted in Featured, Living Green, Southeast, Style | Read More »

Artists Becca Bernstein and Gwenn Seemel in a blind collaboration

In portraiture, the relationship between artist and subject changes everything. In Subjective, everything is relative. Portland artists Becca Bernstein and Gwenn Seemel have joined in a blind collaboration to show how portraiture is more than simply imitation. In their newest exhibit, Subjective, their genre is presented as a living process that is personal to each [...]

December 14, 2009 | Posted in Style | Read More »

All roads lead to a mural in Portland

From The Oregonian
Last Friday evening, at an apartment complex just off 82nd Avenue on Northeast Broadway, a small group, many of them strangers, gathered in the courtyard to consider how so many different paths could ultimately lead them all to the same place — in this case, a wall-size mural, inscribed with a question that [...]

October 12, 2009 | Posted in Style | Read More »

Portland Fashion: Coming Together at the Seams

Portland, I love you. But I can’t blame you for wanting to see other people. And I want to see them too! Diversity, the spice of life, gives us the opportunity to realize how much we’re actually alike. No matter what culture, from no matter what place, we have all common [...]

September 14, 2009 | Posted in Style | Read More »