Stumptown Coffee Roasters is seeking to fill the position of Portland based Espresso Trainer and Coffee Education Specialist.

This position will work as part of the Stumptown training team and will focus on educating and training wholesale customers, providing wholesale account support and general team support for the greater Portland market.

Qualifications for this position include but are not limited to:

• Demonstrated passion and enthusiasm for coffee.
• Experience and proficiency with Stumptown espresso preparation standards.
• Desire to educate others about Stumptown and our coffee.
• Knowledge about origin, processing and coffee preparation.
• Ability to maintain work areas, work products and information in an organized manner (training room, paperwork, files).
• Effective in informal discussions and team meetings.
• Effective in formal presentations using visual tools.
• Ability to explain technical information.
• Ability to explain ideas and concepts.
• Ability to manage and prioritize daily and weekly tasks.
• Ability to be self-motivated and flexible.
• Proficiency with calendar and time management tools.

If you are a passionate coffee professional with the above listed qualifications please send your email and resume to Jon.

Candidate must have their own transportation.

Customer Service Associate / Billing Agent in Seattle

Part Time (25-30 hours/week)

Stumptown is seeking to fill the position for Customer Service Associate / Billing Agent.  This position entails interfacing with all of Stumptown’s wholesale customers, retail customers, wholesale inquiries from potential new clients, and general inquiries from the public. This individual will also work closely with the production floor, the roasting team, and with all Stumptown departments, in order to deliver excellent customer service.

Some of the responsibilities include:

• Act as key wholesale interface in the office, overall HQ.
• Serve as the voice that every Stumptown customer interacts with daily.
• Manage the wholesale call list, daily wholesale phone orders.
• Fulfill and expedite daily orders, working closely with the roastery and production floor.
• Work in Quickbooks: Manage wholesale and financial information.
• Assist with wholesale account receivables (AR).
• Help account managers address and prioritize wholesale account needs and issues.
• Update and maintain all wholesale account files and documentation.

You need:

• Demonstrated passion and enthusiasm for coffee and desire to educate others.
• Ability to deliver customer service the “Stumptown Way”.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to multi-task and problem solve; think on your feet.
• Good with, and comfortable talking about money.
• Familiarity with QuickBooks, MS Office, other basic computer tools and financial fundamentals.
• Ability to manage and prioritize daily and weekly tasks and handle stress with ease.

Please email or bring your resume to Andrew at the Roastery in Seattle:

1115 12^th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
206.860.2937

Laura is interested in the generation of order from chaos. This is something humans do as a way to make sense of the world around them. Nails define the limits and string reveals possible paths between those limits, mapping possible routes from one point to another. The final works show how chance can be interpreted and transformed into a learning experience.

Opening reception 4-6 pm Sunday, May 20th

You can view her website here.

Stumptown Coffee Roasters
4525 SE Division Street
Portland, OR
M-F: 6AM-7PM / S-S: 7AM-7PM
TEL: 503-230-7702

Curator Contact Info:
Wendy Swartz

Other Worldly
Jillian Vento

The pictures that make up “Other Worldly” consist of an honest look at my own contradictions. I have an untempered desire to disappear into the woods, dive into oceans, and observe wild animals with voyeuristic intensity. I rue the constant ringing in my ears, and criticize the modern industrial disconnect from the natural world, while still taking advantage of its benefits.

Using binoculars to take photographs, I employ a literal lens through which to depict a symbolic distance from our world, looking upon it as “other”, as not mine. Photography can serve as an artifact, and when abstracted, it can become an artifact of experience. Visual art became possible when evolving human brains became capable of abstract thought. The way science and evolutionary theory overlap with expression and emotion is well-suited subject matter for photography.

These photographs are a limited visual representation of my own experience of biophilia, a term used by sociobiologist E.O. Wilson and explained as “the innate affiliation people seek with other organisms, and especially with the living natural world.” Sentimentality and science coexisting.

Looking through binoculars makes me think of the theories of E.O. Wilson, the critical essays of John Berger, the poems of Mary Oliver, and ragged, urgent guitar music, in equal parts.

Opening reception is 6 pm – 8 pm Sunday, May 13th.

Stumptown Coffee Roasters
3356 SE Belmont Street
Portland, OR
M-F: 6AM-9PM / S-S: 7AM-9PM
TEL: 503-232-8889

Curator Contact Info:
Wendy Swartz

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Tom Dixon’s Design Talks from Carlo Lavagna and Roberto De Paolis on Nowness.com.

On view May 4th – May 31st, 2012
Opening reception Sunday May 6th, 5 – 7 p.m.

In Pinch of Space, his first solo exhibition at Stumptown’s Downtown café, Justin A. Kenney explores Portland’s architectural imagery and pushes his audience, by bringing attention to their immediate surroundings, to create a better understanding of their own position in space.

Originally from Massachusetts, Justin A. Kenney is currently attending Pacific Northwest College of Art as a Printmaking Major. His work has previously been shown in solo exhibitions at Great River Arts Institute in Bellows Falls, Vermont, and Diesel, PNCA, & Wieden + Kennedy in Portland, Oregon.

Image: Intentional Hours, 2012, ink and graphite on paper, 30” x 44”

Stumptown Coffee Roasters
128 SW Third Avenue
Portland, OR
M-F: 6am-7pm
S-S: 7am-7pm
503-295-6144

 THIRSTY SURFER
works by Jason Traeger

The title of this collection of paintings Thirsty Surfer also happens to be my user name on the blogging website Tumblr. Since getting accquainted with the site late last year I’ve become a dedicated, my girlfriend might even call me an obsessed, Tumblr user. I began using the site the same way the majority of its user seem to: as a self-curated photo gallery primarily consisting of images found on other Tumblrs.

Since I began “Tumbling” I expanded from having a single photo gallery to having several galleries. Each one has it’s own unique aesthetic mission or vibe. A photo I love might fit well into Thrifty Herder but to my mind would be out of place on Thrashy Blurter for instance.

In the past few weeks I’ve branched out from working only on these photo blogs and I’ve started producing a written blog titled Jason Traeger. This eponymous blog is where I share stories from my life and place them in historic and cultural context. If you are reading this it is my great hope that while on your computer you take a moment to take a look at my Tumblrs. Thank you.

On view April 4th – May 1st, 2012
Opening reception Sunday April 15th, 4 pm – 6 pm

Here are links to the tumblr pages…
http://jasonotraeger.tumblr.com/
http://thriftyherder.tumblr.com/
http://thrashyblurter.tumblr.com/
http://paintaintpaint.tumblr.com/
http://arthateart.tumblr.com/

Stumptown Coffee Roasters
4525 SE Division Street
Portland, OR
M-F: 6AM-7PM / S-S: 7AM-7PM
TEL: 503-230-7702

Curator Contact Info:
Wendy Swartz
503-729-0822

TERRASCAPES
works by Karl Ramentol

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
— BenoÎt Mandelbrot

Pattern is an important visual as well as conceptual component in my paintings. Nature’s design is unified, repetitive, yet somehow also spontaneous. Our thoughts tend to repeat in patterns of thinking. Just as a trees essence shapes its branches, these patterns of thought shape our identities, our future, and even our reality. Spontaneity is constant while I paint. Yet decisions are always made in response to prior decisions. Spontaneity is defined as exhibiting actions, impulses, or behavior that is stimulated by internal processes. In actuality it is impossible to be fully removed from exterior stimulation. By default we are uniquely creative.

Spontaneity is part and parcel to free will. Free will allows us to effect and influence our surroundings either directly or indirectly. This is so because we are all connected to everything at the most microscopic level. In order to affect our environment, thought it turns out, plays a much greater role than action. As the observer effect implies, quantum physicists have found that particles respond to perception. I speak of perception not only in its most obvious form but down to ones perspective and expectations. This suggests our “free will” is expresses beyond our singular selves and into the world which surrounds. Life seems to “branch” unexpectedly no matter how well we try to physically control its course. I suggest control is often confused by indeliberate thought and or misguided action.

True control as it turns out, is not merely outwardly manipulation of our surroundings but mostly, deliberate mental focus. In order for success, a state of joyful equanimity is required. Actually, the state itself is success. Painting has become a vehicle for me to achieve that inspired state.

With emotion as my guide, and using spatula instead of brush, paint is deposited across the canvas to be then buried under new paint with only sections left revealed. Patterns of form and color arise out of the seeming randomness. With each layer, like our memories, the present state informs the next subsequent gesture. In this present is where all our power lies.

On view April 4th – May 1st, 2012
Opening reception is 6 pm – 8 pm Sunday, April 8th.

Stumptown Coffee Roasters
3356 SE Belmont Street
Portland, OR
M-F: 6AM-9PM / S-S: 7AM-9PM
TEL: 503-232-8889

Curator Contact Info:
Wendy Swartz
503-729-0822

This position would be a key position in the company and requires someone that is a self-starter, flexible, has a great attitude, a great work ethic, and the ability to work in a fast paced, non-traditional work environment. You should also be customer service oriented with excellent organizational skills.

Previous management and hiring experience is a plus, as is food service or coffee industry experience.

Responsibilities include:

• Oversee the ordering, receiving and distribution of all non-coffee warehouse merchandise and supplies
• Assist with receiving of green coffee inventory
• Manage vendor relationships for all non-coffee merchandise and supplies
• Maintain and update the inventory item list within QuickBooks
• Ensure item cost and sales price lists are up to date
• Create electronic purchase orders and receive against those purchase orders in QuickBooks
• Check incoming merchandise against receiving tickets, packing slips, or BOL
• Assist with unloading and putting away merchandise in an efficient and orderly manner
• Fulfill intercompany and wholesale orders from warehouse
• Coordinate and balance the inventory and supply needs of various departments within the company
• Maintain inventory levels and pars of all items in warehouse
• Work closely with both the production and service department heads to improvement and streamline the inventory control process
• Prepare BOL’s for shipment of freight
• Perform routine counts and inventory assessments
• Maintain the warehouse and receiving dock areas in a clean and organized manner

Qualifications:

• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Excellent work ethic
• Experience with inventory protocols and systems
• Ability to think on your feet and multitask effectively
• Strength and stamina sufficient to allow for a physically demanding job (ability to lift 70 pounds throughout the day)
• Knowledge of material handling methods
• Management experience a plus
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (with emphasis on Excel) and QuickBooks preferred
• A valid ODL and clean driving record

Interested parties should send a resume and cover letter to Alex.

On view April 5th – May 1st, 2012
Opening reception Sunday April 8th, 5-7 p.m.

Daniel Long is very much in the spirit of painting. Channeling his wild visions and feelings into diaristic works, he creates with a sense of immediacy. In a variety of media, Long playfully borrows styles from Classical to Pop and mixes in his own ideas of the contemporary.  With references to historical sources of painting and images from his daily visual field, Long constantly challenges conventional ideas of art, the value of painting, and the relationship of art to the everyday. The body of work in Don’t Die, Dummy celebrates his studio practice and the sense of freedom that Long finds in imagery that makes up certain cloud-like, visual rhymes.

Daniel Long is currently a first year student in the MFA in Visual Studies Program at Pacific Northwest College of Art. He is from Memphis, Tennessee.

Image: Big Red and Green with Keyhole (detail)

Stumptown Coffee Roasters
128 SW Third Avenue
Portland, OR
M-F: 6am-7pm / S-S: 7am-7pm
503-295-6144