GRID PROJECT NEWS
Fall 2005
The Fall 2005 issue of
Houston Center for Photography's SPOT Magazine includes an
article on the grid project. Photographer Phil Harris of
Portland wrote "Mapping Portland: The Portland Grid
Project, 1995-2004". He describes the project as "another
signpost pointing in the direction that the arts seem to be
headed: decentralization, collaboration, an attachment to
the local and the regional."
Download article (5.7 mg pdf)
Spring
2005
The Portland Grid Project had
its first international show at the Internationale Fototage
in Mannheim, Germany. About 1200 prints from the project's
first and second round photographers were displayed as part
of the Contemporary American Photography exhibit curated by
Tina Schelhorn. A dozen images were also reproduced in a
catalog, Das Bild Forum.
Winter 2005
Beginning early in 2005 the
Rose Room in Portland's City Hall began a small rotating
exhibit of grid photographs. The Regional Arts and Culture
Council is coordinating this show. The meeting room has
limited viewing hours for the public.
Spring 2007
From Thursday, April 5th,
through Friday April 27th, 2007, the Portland Art Center
will present the largest exhibition to date of the Portland
Grid Project.
The core of this exhibition combines 3,000 photographs from
the nine years of the first round and the first three years
of the second round, selected by the photographers. That is
accompanied by 6 smaller exhibitions of work from the
Project. There are three shows of prints curated by
Clint Willour (Galveston Art Center Director), Kate Mellor
& Charlie Meecham (photographers and founders of the
offshoot Bradford Grid Project in Yorkshire, England), and
Stephanie Snyder (Curator and Director of Reed
College’s Cooley Gallery), as well as three sets of
projections, curated by Jennifer Gately (Northwest Art
Curator of the Portland Art Museum), Ethan Seltzer
(Director of the School of Urban Studies and Planning at
PSU), and Alison Nordström (Curator of Photography at the
George Eastman House).
This exhibition has been produced by Blue Sky Gallery and
the Portland Art Center as part of the Photolucida festival
of photography. It has been supported by a grant from
Portland's Regional Arts and Culture Council.
The Portland Art Center is located at 32 NW 5th Avenue,
Portland, Oregon 97209. It is open Wednesday through
Sunday 12 to 6pm. For more information contact or call
503-236-3322.