Urban Honking

When Kristan began planning out the visual art exhibits for TBA this year, she had bricks on the brain. After her brother made an offhand comment about bricks and anger, she began to think about the janus nature of the simple block: the foundations of buildings, but also the weapon of protest, the message thrown […]

ATTENTION: I meant to tell you this earlier, but I havent’ been updating this blog in quite some time. All new posts regarding Art/Music/Design/ E*Rock or otherwise are now HERE. Its been many years (2004-2011!!!), but I needed to consolidate my web output. I’ve finally gotten the blog design that I’ve always wanted as well!

We recently announced the hiring of Angela Mattox as our new, full-time Artistic Director, and we can’t wait until she starts in her new role. While we’ve all gotten to spend some time with her, we realized that you might like to learn a little more about her background, so we sent her a round […]

: STEP SANS FEARING : KISS SANS LOOKING : TOUCH SANS TRYING What You Need    

Photo: John Lee. PORTLAND, OR — Angela Mattox, former Performing Arts Curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), will join the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art as the new Artistic Director, Victoria Frey, PICA’s Executive Director, announced today. “We are happy to welcome Angela to PICA and to Portland. She is a respected […]

where’s the birdy?

“And were your eyes open all the way? ” “They were squinted, I was looking through my lashes. ” “Why. ” “I was afraid of her. ” “Why. ” “I wasn’t capable of Being It. ” “Did she know that? ” “No.  Maybe. ” “What will you do now? ” “Get a cat and name […]

Ace Of Spades MORE

Continuing our updates on what some of our past PICA interns have been up to, we check in with Raven Falquez Munsell, who moved to Marfa, Texas, last year to work on an internship with the Chinati Foundation. For the past three months I have woken up to the warm light of the expansive West […]