Portland
Collaborative Art Project
Dedication
Monday, July 30, 2012
5:30 – 8:30 pm
The artists, Rachel Seed and Reba Rye,
will be at each site for an hour to greet and discuss the project.
Installation
Sites:
·
The
front lawn of Western Middle School, corner of 22nd Street and
Rowan Street (5:30 – 6:30)
·
The
Portland Promise Center, 1831 Baird Street, in the small park area across Baird
Street (6:30 – 7:30)
·
The
front lawn of the Portland Museum, 2308 Portland Avenue (7:30 – 8:30)
Center
For Neighborhoods and the Portland neighborhood invite you to celebrate the
P.A.I.N.T. dedication and project launch of the Portland Collaborative Art Project.
The purpose of
this project has been to celebrate the Portland community of today and
yesterday through interactive outdoor photography exhibits, as well as to
illuminate and bring positive attention to people and places that add spirit to
the community every day.
Rachel Seed’s
portraits of a diverse group of Portland community members began in the fall of
2010 through winter 2012. The subjects, including a poet, a church
leader, a young dirt bike champion and several activists, were identified
through community organizations and word of mouth.
Reba Rye
printed photographs, along with two other sets, on fabric with Epson
Ultrachrome HDR ink technology. Outdoor sculptural shelters were designed
and installed highlighting the three sets of photographs, each of which deal
respectively with some aspect of the past, present and future of the Portland
community. Black and white historical
photographs from the Portland Museum’s archives, Rachel Seed’s portraits of
contemporary residents and portraits made by students in a seventh grade class
at Western Middle School under the guidance of art teacher, Amanda Thompson, a
Visual and Performing Arts Magnet School in the Portland neighborhood were used
in the project. The shelters invite
visitors to enter, rest and seek a protective covering created by the planting
beds designed to host vegetation that will climb up and over the structures on
mesh trellis to provide shade.
Rachel Seed is
photographer and filmmaker living and working in New York City. She is an MFA
candidate at the International Center of Photography in New York, and is
working on an experimental documentary film.
Reba Rye is
represented by Zephyr Gallery, 610 E Market St, Louisville. She
resides in Henry County and Frankfort and is an Associate Professor of Art at
Kentucky State University.
Funded
by grants from the George and Mary Alice Hadley Fund of the Community
Foundation of Louisville, and by the External Agency Fund of Louisville Metro
government.
