Every Story Contains the World.
Raw and/or reimagined, a Portland Artist and Educator shows us what we've tossed out. Heidi Schwegler came by the gallery the other day to install Satisfactual, July’s art exhibit. She pulls out a bunny, a ceramic trinket you’d find in a free box or local thrift shop, looking like it’s been touched up, but not …
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Cornelius Swart discusses the discipline of journalism, why it is perceived as fake, how it can save us from propaganda, and how to be a more vigilant media consumer. Sean introduces the program with a reading from Krishnamurti, and begins the trickle of Pizzagate revelations soon to be published. Pizzagate is a conspiracy theory born …
Music for this podcast comes from Protestant Work Ethic, a song called, "As They Are Blown Here and There." On Sunday, there was a mega protest bringing a spectrum of political persuasion into a single campus in downtown Portland, Oregon. From City Hall, where non-violent resistance was preached, to Chapman Square where anarchists riled things …
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777 Drawings to show at THRU Gallery this June. Nearly two years ago, I was taking an aimless late summer evening walk through downtown Portland. I lived in Goose Hollow and I took frequent walks into the heart of the city. The excitement to build THRU as a magazine enabled me to spend entire days …
Danbert Nobacon’s new protest album cannot resist toe-tapping. Resistance is the central message of Stardust to Darwinstuff, Danbert Nobacon’s newest full-length album, and it is so upbeat that you may forget you’re resisting the presidency of Donald Trump. The album is a protest, not just against Trump, but a whole generation of conservative, corporate globalist governments in …
Alejandro Ceballos' colorful abstractions enlivened THRU Gallery last April Just one week before the next art opening was supposed to take place, for the gallery that we had just inaugurated only three weeks prior, and we had nobody booked. A chance run-in with Alejandro Ceballos provided the perfect solution to ground us for another month. He …
Featured Image by the artist's sister, Carolyn Sullivan. Ottawa Painter Christina Sullivan is having her first art show ever in Portland. When Christina Sullivan was studying ecosystem reforestation in Ottawa, she was encouraged to touch everything in nature -- tree branches to the soil. She got in the habit of “feeling nature,” continuously finding new …
Mefore Aday opened the new THRU Gallery last March Washington-based artist Mary Aday changed her first name to represent her mission as an artist. The work she puts out reflects an unusual perspective, putting you in her shoes in a way. She sees the grotesque in reality but never without humor and innocence. She grew up …
Featured image of Keller Auditorium at night. Portland Opera visits the Cenral Library for free previews all season long. Think of a movie where an operatic voice lifts and moves you through a scene; a death scene, love consummated, a plot-revealing monologue, a car pile-up. Heart palpitating on the waves of the aria, heightening the seriousness, inflaming …
