08:00 PM : PORT 1 year anniversary party @ Apotheke

Party (Launch/B-Day/Etc.) Flyered by kmikeym

The Event: The Eurotrash Bash, 8:00 PM June 15th at Apotheke · 1314 NW Glisan, Suite 2A (Upstairs)

Come over, get your Gjetost on, meet PORT staffers and try some Zwak Unicum as you listen to the Europhile sounds of DJ van Dis.

About PORT: PORT www.portlandart.net has been noted internationally as an innovative macroblog, purposefully evolving the popular blog format into a serious forum for visual art information and discourse. With 8 paid staffers (though it’s still a labor of love and a public service) the site provides nearly daily updates, often with insider information that had been previously difficult to acquire. Also, all three of PORT’s critics have been published nationally or internationally outside of PORT as well.

By combining the skills of 8 savvy writers, with good design and the blog format Portland has achieved strong international voice (just google “Porland Art”).

Portland’s art scene has international exposure through PORT. PORT was Co-founded by Jennifer Armbrust of Motel Gallery and Jeff Jahn (curator & critic) and is supported by Portland galleries and visual art institutions.

Announcing: PORT's 1st Annual Pretentious Art Writing Contest:

PORT may be serious but we wanted to give our readers a chance at a little bit of fun. In conjunction with PORT’s 1st anniversary we are announcing our first annual "Pretentious Art Writing Contest." Simply give us your most craven and pedantic prose somehow remotely related to art (either real or imagined) by emailing it to jeff@portlandart.net on or before June 14th (a shadowy league of judges will decide). Yes you get points for name dropping but only to a point. The winning entry will be published on PORT and receive a dinner for two, complements of Le Happy, where you can feast on the sarcastically undermined pretenses distilled into their legendary Le Trash Blanc crepes. We will announce the winner of our pretentious art writing contest at the Eurotrash Bash.