San Francisco has one, New York has one, Brussels has one, and now Portland
may be home to a cartoon arts museum, if a group of academics, activists and
industry artists get their way.
Dr Mike Rosen, Sean Wynn, Michael Ring, and Katie Pryde are four of the board
memb...
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Leanne Grabel is an Portland-based author, illustrator, and poet who has
also run a café and performance space and taught in public schools and
treatment centers. She’s written books and produced spoken-word shows,
including The Lighter Side of Chronic Depression and...
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In 1941, simmering tensions between Walt Disney Studios and its animators
boiled over into one of the most notorious walkouts in American labor
history, an incident that changed the face of the animation industry.
Behind the surfact of the Disney Strike is a tangled ...
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In 1941, simmering tensions between Walt Disney Studios and its animators
boiled over into one of the most notorious walkouts in American labor
history, an incident that changed the face of the animation industry.
Behind the surfact of the Disney Strike is a tangled ...
Read more
Orpheus PDX is the newest opera company in the Pacific Northwest, bringing
together talent from around the world with the intention of making opera more
accessible and intimate. Their inaugural season opened in August
2022 with the Monteverdi opera L’Orfeo, and conti...
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Bushra Azzouz was an Iraqi-born experimental filmmaker who directed
documentaries and mentored students for two decades at the Northwest Film
Center's School of Film. When she died in 2019, her colleagues Ellen
Thomas and Enie Vaisburd took up her unfinished project ...
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Portland is an international hub for stop-motion animation, and Jerold
Howard and Suzanne Moulton are two of the most innovative artists in the
field.
Suzanne is a filmmaker, artist, and educator. She’s worked with Tim
Burton on Frankenweenie and Henry Selick on Cor...
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In the spring of 2020, the Northwest Film Center shut the doors of its
Whitsell Auditorium in the face of the Covid lockdown. Now, the space is
opening back up again, but with a different name and different priorities.
Jon Richardson fills us in on the changes at PA...
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Portland alt-comics heavyweights Barry Deutsch (Hereville) and Becky Hawkins
(French Toast Comix) have teamed up to create SuperButch, the adventures of
a lesbian superhero and the citizens whose lives she transforms. Set in the
1940's when many gay Americans led dou...
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In this extended version of our conversation with Craig "Spike"
Decker and documentarian Kat Alioshin, we hear more about the history of
the Spike and Mike Festival of Animation.
Spike teamed up with Mike Gribble in the 1970's to launch the Spike and Mike
Festival (a...
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