Working Artists Network Presents rdEVOLUTION 2010: Story and Interpretation
Created by Artistic Director & Principal Curator Adrienne Fritze

Event Date: Jan 22 through Feb 2
Venue: Urban Grind Coffeehouses
Cost: FREE

rdEVOLUTION 2010 is an ongoing collective story - told in pictures, words, movement and sound  - about the future of our species and our responsibility to the world. The works  – combining a variety of visual arts and technology-driven artforms – are explorations addressing the idea of evolution – intentional or otherwise. Do we need to devolve – take cues from our past – to set the stage for a cultural breakthrough? Or does it require revolution? Or are we on a path of evolution down which we have no influence? rdEVOLUTION encompasses exhibits, readings, and interactive events.

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Working Artists Network Presents

rdEVOLUTION 2010: Story and Interpretation

Created by Artistic Director & Principal Curator Adrienne Fritze

Event Date: Jan 22 through Feb 2

Venues:

Urban Grind Coffeehouse, 2214 NE Oregon, Portland OR 97232

Ned Space Old Town, 117 NW 5th Ave, Portland, OR 97209

Ned Space Downtown, 920 SW 3rd Ave, Portland, OR 97204

Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, 5340 North Interstate Avenue, Portland, OR 97217

Cost: FREE– and all the exhibits are set as fund and awareness raisers for the p:ear mentor program, an organization dedicated to the health and well being of homeless youth through the tools of education, art and recreation.

rdEVOLUTION 2010 is an ongoing collective story - told in pictures, words, movement and sound  - about the future of our species and our responsibility to the world. The works  – combining a variety of visual arts and technology-driven artforms – are explorations addressing the idea of evolution – intentional or otherwise. Do we need to devolve – take cues from our past – to set the stage for a cultural breakthrough? Or does it require revolution? Or are we on a path of evolution down which we have no influence? rdEVOLUTION encompasses exhibits, readings, and interactive events.

SPECIAL RAFFLE FOR p:ear! Working Artists Network offers a local collector’s dream package of new work by local artists. The package includes original art from Adrienne Fritze, Chris Haberman, Karen Dixon, Kathryn Reese, Becca Deysach and others; CDs from local musical groups; the new book “Mermaid Song” by local author Gary R. Moor, and gift certificates for workshops, services and more from Ibex Studios, the Ohm Home and Morphis Studios (to name a few).

THE EXHIBITS

One: Personal Perspectives

Artists: Angela S. Gay and Adrienne Fritze, with artworks from p:ear youth (http://pearmentor.org).

Where: Ned Space Old Town.

Exhibit Run: Jan 4th through Feb 26th.

Public Reception: TBD.

One: Personal Perspectives: exploring the inner and outer workings of individuals facing private and public challenges. Pro artists Angela S. Gay and Adrienne Fritze are both active in tackling demons and opportunities through the process of creating these works, with the intention of helping others gain insights and perhaps even freedom when exposed to them. Although their styles seem to be polar opposite (Angela works in oils, Adrienne in assemblage and extreme collage), the work resonates with the powerful intention both women bring to their canvasses making the exhibit united and powerful in its expression.

Both women also see themselves in the art created by the youth served by the p:ear mentor program, and are honored to have those works accompany their own.

Two: Community Stories

Artists: Kindra Crick, Victoria Frankland, Judith Devine, Chris Haberman, Sam Roloff

Where: Urban Grind Coffeehouse and Roaster, 2214 NE Oregon, Portland OR 97232

Exhibit Run: Jan 22nd through Feb 2nd

Public Reception: TBD.

Two: Community Stories: exploring different communities of people (neighborhoods, families, political and other human groupings of folk, etc.) and their viewpoints (whether about taboos, gender issues, sexual orientation, individuals, et al) and the effect on our evolution.

Three: Women’s influence on Social Evolution

Artists: Adrienne Fritze, Karen Dixon, Talus FM

Where: IFCC Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center (5340 North Interstate Avenue)

Exhibit Run: Jan 22 and 23

Three: Women’s influence on social evolution. This is a breakout of Broadarts Theatre’s Fertile Ground offering, “A/Broad for All Seasons” at IFCC for which WAN members designed and built the set. It represents a cross-pollination of arts disciplines –with social change @ the heart of both organizations participating.

The set was designed around the timeless, eclectic and international nature of the lead character - memoir writing, gal about globe, goddess Lilith – who shares the stories of seven extraordinary women leaders throughout the world with her overworked and underpaid assistant Lily. Adrienne Fritze is the lead designer of this set, and was commissioned by Broadarts Theatre because of her assemblage work and commitment to social change through the arts. Adrienne’s team include animator and collage artist Karen Dixon, and A’s multitalented daughter Talus FM.

The play features intimate encounters with such amazing women as Wangari Maathai, the creator of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Ang Sang Suu Kyi, “Our Lady” the inspiring Democratic reform representative under house arrest for the past 20 years in Myanmar (Burma), Jane Goodall, the environmentalist and savior of chimpanzees and other endangered species worldwide, Arundathi Roy, the radical grassroots organizer, writer and political commentator from India, Mairead Corrigan and Betty Richardson, the two mothers who brokered the peace in Northern Ireland, and Portland’s own late Bonnie Tinker, lesbian and gay rights advocate, pacifist, founder of Love Makes a Family and feisty member of Pissed Off Grannies.

Performances are Tuesday-Saturday, Jan 19-23. Tickets HERE (https://robot.boxofficetickets.com/800-494-TIXS/WebObjects/BOTx2005.woa/wa/inspectProgram?id=87235&passKey=6ae8e3d22e)