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Submission Deadline: RACC Professional Development Grants

The Internet 001 SE Cyberspace Lane, Portland, OR, United States

The Professional Development Grant Program supports artists, arts professionals, and arts organizations in Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties with up to $2,000 toward distinct opportunities that will push forward their creative practice and business skill development. The Professional Development Grant Program is centered on whether the opportunity you would like funding for 1) is distinct from other experiences you have had previously, 2) is timely, meaning you are in a prime position now to benefit from the opportunity, and 3) has potential for new professional growth. Note: The opportunity you apply with cannot be geared toward the creation of a specific art project. If you are interested in grants for specific art projects, refer to our Project Grants Program. For more information see RACC's website.

Free

TRUE NORTH STUDIOS OPEN HOUSE AND ARTS SWAP MEET

True North Studios 455 NE 71st Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

We are finally ready to have friends over to our new space! FRIST FRIDAY OCT 4th 6-9 TRUE NORTH STUDIOS OPEN HOUSE AND ARTS SWAP MEET with DJ Domino Pop FREE Free to vend arts, crafts, vintage, vinyl, home goods, care goods, sellables etc! Come out to this new rad community event that will be reoccurring every 1st Friday for the rest of 2019. Vending is 1st come 1st serve Vendors need to bring their own tables, chairs, displays etc. Shoot us an email at Hello@truenorthstudios.com to lets us know your coming -or- just show up ✌ Membership and Studio Space Available! Visit truenorthstudios.org .

Free

3rd Annual East Portland Arts & Literary Festival

Orchards of 82nd 8188 SE Division St, Portland, OR, United States

Will we see you at 3PALF — oops, we mean, EPALF? Our third annual festival featuring artists and cultural workers of color will animate two community hubs in East Portland: Orchards of 82nd (O82), APANO’s brand-new home and community space, and Fubonn, the largest Asian grocery store and shopping center in Oregon! Spanning October 4-5th, EPALF will feature a spectrum of live performances, interactive creative activities, a full family-friendly lineup, and more at O82, plus our hallmark Book & Craft Fair at Fubonn. Join us in celebrating local artists, entrepreneurs, and small business owners in East Portland through this signature event. Suggested donation is $5, and no one will be turned away from lack of funds. Hosted by APANO’s Arts & Media Project. WITH PERFORMANCES…

Free – $20

24 Hour Comic Book Day @ I Like Comics

I Like Comics 1715 Broadway St, Vancouver, WA, United States

Bring your own supplies and celebrate 24 hour comic book day with us: a challenge event where we will be completing 24 comic pages in 24 hours! It'll be a potluck, so bring some food or snacks to share! We'll have blow up beds for power naps, and rotating sales on things in the store throughout the event. We have over 50 seats available, so bring your friends!

Free

Ladies, Wine & Design: Special Risograph Workshop *Waitlist Available*

Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for an extra special Risograph Basics, Collage Experimentation and Mark Making workshop organized through Ladies, Wine & Design Portland! REGISTER HERE! About the Workshop Want to learn what Risograph printing is? Want to meet others who do too? Come and learn all about the basics of the Risograph in our two-color introduction workshop! The workshop will kick off with a Show & Tell of exactly what a Risograph can do with a printing demo, print and zine samples and a general exploration of how we can get the best results from this amazing printing machine. Participants will collaborate in groups of 2 to create an edition of 2-color 8.5x11 prints, plus you’ll take home one print from all of the other workshop participants (your…

$35

Italic Handwriting & Calligraphy Club

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

Join us on for a drop-in Italic Handwriting & Calligraphy Club, all experience-levels welcome. Monday afternoons from 3—5 for eight weeks, September 30th through November 18th. Following the lineage of Portland’s own Lloyd Reynolds and Jaki Svaren, learn about posture, motion and breathing in alignment with calligraphic strokes. Through learning Italic and using it as a daily hand, we can bring beauty, attention, and rhythmic flow into our everyday script. $5—10 sliding scale materials fee.

$5 – $10

Collage Night

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

Join us for the return of Collage Night, on the second Tuesday of the month. Glue sticks, scissors and collage materials will be provided. Free and open to the public.

Free

Glom Press and Walker Mettling print show and pop-up shop

Floating World Comics 1223 Lloyd Center, Portland, OR, United States

Glom Press, a small press comics publisher and Risograph printer based in Melbourne, Australia, comes to Floating World to present their work. This includes a recent series of graphic novellas by emerging and established Australian artists, a series of prints by the same, as well as the latest releases by Glom Press founders Marc Pearson and Michael Hawkins. The print show includes works by: Sam Wallman, Mary Leunig, Safdar Ahmed, Meg O’Shea, Bailey Sharp, Ben Juers, Merv Heers, Mira Schlosberg, Carolyne Wylds, Marlo Mogensen, Urbigfrog & Michael Fikaris. Walker Mettling is a cartoonist, printmaker, and since 2010 he’s directed the Providence Comics Consortium, an experimental education-based intergenerational comics micro-publisher which teaches comics classes at public libraries and publishes a huge array of comics, zines and books! In 2017…

Free

Intro to Risograph Printing

IPRC (Independent Publishing Resource Center) 318 SE Main Street #175, Portland, OR, United States

In this 4-hour introductory course, participants will learn the basics of risograph (riso) printing and will leave with an understanding of how to use this print technology to create zines, fliers, posters, or other printed matter. While this technology is not new, riso printing has recently become one of the most exciting developments in independent printing and publishing because of its cost-effectiveness for print runs between 25 and 1,000. Workshop participants will learn how to best maximize the many quirks of riso printing to achieve striking results. Participants are also encouraged to bring files of artwork that they’d like to print (files should be 100% grayscale, letter or tabloid size). For more information on riso printing and the modern riso resurgence, check out the riso wiki.…

$100 – $200

*ADVANCED* 4 Color Photo Process for Riso Workshop!

Outlet 2500 Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Portland, OR, United States

About the Workshop: Learn how to turn full color images into four color riso prints! In this workshop we will explore the history of four color printing and use of halftones in printmaking. We will walk through the process of setting up a full color image to print on the riso as a four color CMYK process print. The process of setting up these kinds of files can be confusing and frustrating, but we will have fun learning the how and why of four color printing. In the end you’ll walk away with a gorgeous print edition, and a step by step guide to reference for future four color prints. We will be making an edition of four color prints, using the combination of fluorescent…

$40