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Gallery Closing Party

Roll-Up Studio + Gallery 1715 SE Spokane St, Portland, OR, United States

Roll-Up Gallery is closing and we're moving! Closing Party Saturday, August 3 3-8 pm We're celebrating 5 years, packed with: • Transforming a warehouse into a gallery & a junkyard into a garden • 22 exhibits featuring 87 artists • 8 poetry readings with 25 writers • 5 live music performances • An eclectic array of happenings and community gatherings On Saturday, August 3rd, we invite you to come one last time to celebrate and raise a glass to 5 vibrant years of creative community at Roll-Up. We'll have food & libations and art available for purchase, along with some other odds & ends. Come find out what's next. If you're interested in renting the warehouse, let us know and we'll put you in contact…

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PROCYON II book release with Karissa Sakumoto

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

Join Karissa Sakumoto on Thursday Sept. 5 to celebrate the release of her new book, PROCYON II, published by Floating World Comics. Oneill Island / 3 Type Colony / Alpha Quadrant ::: Set on a distant space colony, Procyon II follows a nameless protagonist through the city labyrinth in what is either an escape from a simulation, the recollection of a dream, or a betrayal of the self. WHO: Karissa Sakumoto WHAT: PROCYON II book release and art exhibit WHEN: Thursday Sept. 5, 6-8pm WHERE: Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St.

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First Thursday: Night and Day

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Inspired by the wonders of geology and astronomy, Portland artist Cristina Aine Berretta creates vivid mixed media landscapes and nature portraits.

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TERRA FLATS #3 release party and art exhibit with Jason Fischer

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

The highly anticipated third issue of Terra Flats has arrived! Get reacquainted with your favorite best friend duo Pony and Vee (and their cat Tigre) in the best and biggest issue yet! Join Portland artist, Jason Fischer, at Floating World this Thursday October 3rd, for a release party and art exhibit to celebrate the release of Terra Flats #3. “Fried Green Demons”: Pony meets another close friend of Vee’s: the stylish, slithery photographer gorgon named Maddison. They do NOT get along… Later, Pony finds work as a handyperson while Vee puts out fires at Iceburg. Will their mysterious, unfriendly neighbor keep their cat Tigre locked in her apartment forever?! WHO: Jason Fischer WHAT: Terra Flats #3 release party and art exhibit WHEN: Thursday Oct. 3rd,…

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DAKWÄKÃDA WARRIORS artist talk and book signing by Cole Pauls

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

Join author Cole Pauls for a signing & artist talk to celebrate the release of the Dakwäkãda Warriors graphic novel! Newly collected and published by Conundrum Press – Canada. As a young person growing up in Haines Junction YT, artist Cole Pauls performed in a traditional song and dance group called the Dakwäkãda Dancers. During that time, Pauls encountered the ancestral language of Southern Tutchone. Driven by a desire to help revitalize the language, he created Dakwäkãda Warriors, a bilingual comic about two earth protectors saving the world from evil pioneers and cyborg sasquatches. Pauls’ Elders supported him throughout the creation process by offering consultation and translation. The resulting work is a whimsical young adult graphic novel that offers an accessible allegory of colonialism. Dakwäkãda…

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First Thursday

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

In “Nurture vs. Nature,” Portland artist Jess Bronk brings new collections of watercolor, women, and dark dreamy landscapes in oil. Mysterious landscapes have long been a subject explored by Bronk. A couple years ago she began painting stern, resolute women, which for her has evolved into a many-faceted exploration of both homage and resistance.

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THE SLEEP GAS release party and art exhibit with Chris Cilla

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

Chris Cajero Cilla is the author of the 2010 cult classic graphic novel, The Heavy Hand, and this new book from FU Press is a collection of the artist’s short stories created over the past decade-plus. Cilla’s absurdist humor takes center stage in this bouillabaisse of pieces that recalls the work of contemporary masters such as Matthew Thurber and Michael Deforge, as well as the unfettered id that permeates the great underground comix of the 1960s and 1970s. Cilla co-mingles a variety of styles and genres in the service of surrealist gems such as “Burp’s Law,” “Exqueezmeat,” and “Labyrinthectomy,” all of which will buoy you with a blissfully dull buzz, long after you’ve put it down. WHO: Chris Cilla WHAT: The Sleep Gas release party and…

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POSTSCRIPT release party and art exhibit with PNCA cartoonists

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

This is what happens when a group of the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s finest cartoonists dive into the unknown, led by the incomparable Jonathan Hill, comics artist extraordinaire. In 2017, Unversed launched as a collection of stories that navigate unfamiliar situations and explore the growth that comes from not knowing. No Refunds, explored stories about how you can never return to the way things were. Now, in its third and final year, Unversed Comics presents Postscript. Sometimes you know a moment will be the last time. Other times, you don’t realize until it’s too late. Postscript is a comics anthology that captures these last times. It is a two-color, softcover comics anthology featuring 12 new artists from the Pacific Northwest College of Art, as well as 27…

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First Thursday: Build It an Altar

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

In "Build It an Altar," Rebecca Artemisa references the way in which we as people build altars for our grief, faith, accomplishments, and happiness. Artemisa references her own Indigenous, Mexican, and Xicana roots with (often) symmetrical images of people building their lives around ends of life, ends of seasons, welcoming new life, embracing new seasons, and untapped joy.

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Spare Room Presents: In-person outdoor reading with Cobb, Kawano, Hartigan, & Morse

1122 Outside 7629 SE Harrison, Portland, OR, United States

*A Triple Book Launch!* *An Outdoor Poetry Reading!* *The First In-Person Spare Room Event in 16 Months!* Spare Room Presents ALLISON COBB & YUKIYO KAWANO ENDI BOGUE HARTIGAN JESSE MORSE Sunday, July 18 2021 4:00 p.m. at 1122 Outside, 7629 SE Harrison, Portland, OR free / buy books / outdoors / masks and social distancing encouraged Please help us celebrate a (tentative) return to in-person events and three (not tentative) new books by the readers! Walking Mountains, an art exhibit by Erika Rier, will be on view in the outdoor gallery, and there is a "Paint Your Own Mountains" event earlier in the day, from 1 to 3 pm. Visitors are encouraged to come for the mountains and stay for the reading! *** Allison Cobb…

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