The Artist Series is an ongoing collaboration between Plazm’s Portland Stamp Company and invited designers, artists, and writers who create original poster stamp designs. All Artist Series stamps are in a signed, limited edition of 100, printed on lickable, gummed paper, and pinhole perforated by hand on our vintage machines. 

Artistamp No. 9: Christina Seely

Internationally renowned photographer Christina Seely uses the power of image to create awareness and deepen understanding around global environmental issues. Artistamp No. 9, a signed and numbered limited edition of 100, is a new extension of her Next of Kin project. Read more in our interview. 

Artistamp No. 10: Malia Jensen

Portland based artist Malia Jensen creates her first stamp — a printed provocation. The stamps are part of her “Changing Money” series. Read more in our interview. Her artist stamp is an 8.5″ x 11″ sheet featuring Ruth Bader Ginsberg, sized perfectly to replace Alexander Hamilton on the ten dollar bill. 

Artistamp No. 11: Charles Wilkin

Charles Wilkin is an artist, designer, and beekeeper. His grandfather was a letter carrier, this is his first stamp. Read more about his stamp in our short interview. In the mid-90s he designed many pages in Plazm magazine and we sold some of his typefaces too. It’s great to collaborate with him again in a new way. 

Habitus, a new Ann Hamilton project is part of Converge 45 this summer. The scale and depth of this work is quite exceptional. Make a point to visit. It’s not often something like this will happen in Portland. To get a real time sense of the experience, take a look at the OnCreativity interview we did with Ann at her New York Armory installation Event of a Thread. 

“To recognize the possibilities within something is key.”
—Ann Hamilton 

For this remarkable installation Hamilton reimagines habitus, her critically acclaimed large-scale artwork for the location of Portland, Oregon. The artist designed twelve immense, cylindrical curtains intended for public engagement and activation in the outdoor pavilion at Centennial Mills, along the Northwest edge of the Willamette River. habitus was originally commissioned by The Fabric Workshop and Museum for the changing waterfront at Philadelphia’s Pier 9 in 2016. For this installation, the artist considers Portland’s past and present, addressing themes surrounding human connectivity and a sense of belonging.

You can participate in advance here by sharing literature responses to word prompts of “home”, “sanctuary” and “dwelling.” https://buff.ly/2mxutXY 

Centennial Mills Pavilion
1362 NW Naito Parkway (at NW 9th Avenue)

Free and open to the public
Fridays – Sundays, 3:00 – 7:00 pm
August 10 – September 16

No. 1 by Ed Fella. Less than five of these remain.

No. 2 by Brooklyn-based Canadian collage artist Allan Bealy. Each sheet in the limited edition of 100 is individually rubber-stamped and signed by Allan.

No. 3. by art director and illustrator Mia Nolting is a letterpress + digital combo.

No. 4 is by Japanese artist and illustrator Kentaro Okawara.

The Artist Series is an ongoing collaboration between The Portland Stamp Company and invited designers, artists, and writers who create original poster stamp designs.

Craig Costello began making his markers in the early 90s and sold them at the New York City store Alife. He has since collaborated with brands such as Nike, Levis, Cooper Mini, Incase, KidRobot, and more.

With the “OnCreativity” series, Plazm explores the nature of creativity and how it works via informal interviews with designers, artists, musicians, animators, and educators. Like creativity itself, their differing points of view inspire, provoke, confuse, and delight.

Director: Niko Courtelis
DP: Robert Bryant

www.oncreativity.tv

With the “OnCreativity” series, Plazm explores the nature of creativity and how it works via informal interviews with designers, artists, musicians, animators, and educators. Like creativity itself, their differing points of view inspire, provoke, confuse, and delight.

With the “OnCreativity” series, Plazm explores the nature of creativity and how it works via informal interviews with designers, artists, musicians, animators, and educators. Like creativity itself, their differing points of view inspire, provoke, confuse, and delight.

OnCreativity.tv

We all have the ability to create. But what is creativity? How does it work? With the “OnCreativity” series, Plazm explores these and other questions via informal interviews with designers, artists, musicians, animators, and educators. Like creativity itself, their differing points of view inspire, provoke, confuse, and delight.

Since our founding in Portland in 1991, we have believed that creativity can change the world. “As human beings, we have to get over the period of competition,” as Arturo Vega says in an upcoming OnCreativity interview, “and we have to replace it with one of collaboration and compassion.” 

For our launch today, we are pleased to present graphic design legend Milton Glaser, graffiti writer/fashion designer Claw Money, art director/author Steven Heller, and filmmaker/photographer Andrew Zuckerman.

Welcome to OnCreativity.

Back then Newt was Speaker of the House in the mid 1990s. When he was elected he came up with the slick marketing term “Contract with America.” In our office we referred to it as a “Contract on America.”

Well, the slimy creature resurfaced this year as Chief Planner in the new Trump administration. He rehashed his marketing ploy calling Trump’s first hundred days a “Contract with the American Voter.” We can say the same thing now as twenty years ago: It’s a contract on the American voter.

Newt is no more moderate today than he was then so we are republishing the Guerrilla Girls ad. He continues to happily erode common decency and enrich the corporate class. Newt helped us get here, in his special slimy, hypocritical way.

Plazm has made some demented calligraphy inspired by Donald Trump’s demented words. Take them back and send him packing.

The screens are burned!  BYOB—Bring Your Own Bag or Shirt and pull a print Sunday night at Beacon Sound from 7-9 pm.

Green Line Press will be on hand so YOU can silkscreen our ‘nasty woman’ or ‘bad hombre’ designs onto your own t-shirt or bag— free.

E*Rock will be DJing.  

Enjoy the tunes.
Fill out your ballots with friends.
All ages.

7-9 pm
Sunday 11/6

Beacon Sound
3636 N Mississippi Ave