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Chris Mullins : TOWARDNESS
On view April 2nd – April 30th at Belmont
Closing reception 4-6pm Sunday, April 14th 

“To look is to look like, to affirm again, and who doesn’t like affirming again? that reason and revelation are no lovers, nor a combination. But if an image can be an apology, what with its cudgels, trestles, cross seas, and lopsides, I would still go on wondering whereabouts you learned to be so magnanimous, so about the veil, and how the seasons thought to part themselves in that place.” – Chris Mullins

 

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Lori Damiano : To the Manner Born
On view April 8th – April 28th at Division
Closing reception 4-6pm Sunday, April 21st

Lori Damiano is a praise singer of all things handmade. The kinds of things she regularly makes with her own two hands are paintings, experimental animations, zines, films, quilts, gardens, miniature sweaters, and pies.

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Patrick Driscoll : Hang On, I’m Spitballing
On view April 1st – April 28t at Downtown
Closing reception 4-6pm Sunday, April 21st

“In any selection of works that I produce, there is a varied and sometimes disparate array styles and conventions of painting. Abstract works; representational works; pictorial works; process works; quick and gestural works; meticulously rendered works. This mixture of conventions is intended to appear inconsistent. It is meant to reveal a fact of life that I find curiously inspirational–that lived experience is often fundamentally incoherent. My experience of life is one of so many incompatible variations. My choices among these variations, no matter how careful, will inevitably lead me to contradiction and inconsistent decision-making.” – Patrick Driscoll

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PDX Roaster Kyle Larson shares with us his bighearted, Northwesterly mix. We’ve been lucky to have him working at Stumptown for over 8 years, working as a retail and wholesale trainer before taking post behind the Probat for the last five years.  He likes to plays indoor soccer and writes, he says, “cheesy sci-fi stories that only my hard drive gets to read.” He contributes to the music blog 67 Days of Music and tries to cook dinner for his family every night. He’s also maybe one of the nicest humans around.

SCAA 2013 Recap

Thanks to our producers and everyone who joined us this year at SCAA.

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SCAA 2013 Recap

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The annual SCAA exposition and symposium is this week in Boston and we’re thrilled to host these special cuppings with our green coffee buyers, Darrin and Adam, along with some of our finest producers. We’d love for you to join us.

Thursday, April 11,
2:30 pm
The Thinking Cup North End, 236 Hanover St
Arturo Aguirre of Finca El Injerto, cupping varieties from this farm.

Friday April 12,
2:30 pm 
The Thinking Cup North End, 236 Hanover St
Emilio Gamboa of Montes De Oro, Ricardo Perez of Helsar/Torres Villalobos, Francisco Mena and Juan Ramon Alvarado of Exclusive Coffees. Cupping new crop coffee from Montes de Oro and Villalobos.

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This month the gallery Nationale (May Barruel, PDX West Side Curator) presents the tender and provoking show JKJKJK by represented artist Ty Ennis (PDX Assistant Production Manager). The exhibit was organized in collaboration with Prole Drift (Seattle, WA) where it was recently presented.

“I feel like I’m always skirting that line: Is this a problem or am I okay with this?” Ennis told me. “I don’t know.” The thing about porn for progressive urban types is that it can be mindlessly upsetting, or it can be liberating, and it can easily be both at the same time. Underlying the tenderness that’s in JKJKJK are two portraits, one of Ennis’s father and one of his grandfather… The portrait is a memorial for his grandfather, but also for Ennis’s early life, marking a time when it seemed like he passed a point of no return as a man. It’s art by someone far from where he started, figuring out where he is. - Jen Graves, The Stranger

Read Jen Graves’ full review here.

The opening reception is tomorrow, First Friday, April 5th from 6 – 9 pm.
The show runs through April 28.


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Hello Spring. Portland Division barista babe Megan Adams brings us this super fun, life-affirming mix that makes you wanna twerk it. She is a self-proclaimed baby whisperer and makes lovely baubles at her Etsy jewelry site LoveMakes. She lives by the motto ”those who dance are only thought mad by those who cannot hear the music”. Sway me smooth, sway me now.