The Cellist, Arts on Alberta Ave., Portland, Oregon

The Cellist, Arts on Alberta Ave., Portland, Oregon
Originally uploaded by rllayman

at the Portland conference of the Nat. Trust for Historic Preservation I managed to get to an arts night out on Alberta Ave. A couple days later I ran into a prominent ec. dev. person (in my field anyway) and we were talking on the exhibit floor (I missed a session I wanted to see because this improptu meeting was important)... we were talking about the "Arts on Alberta" event -- the kids making buttons, performance art, people hanging up art on vacant buildings and selling it, even this Cellist.

She called DC "stodgy" by comparison...

(In Louisville the year before I happened -- also at the Nat. Trust conference -- onto an arts event held in rented space on Clifton Avenue. One of the pieces was a video shown through a lightbox done up in a pewter marked cross, showing fellatio. I was thinking that it was unlikely I'd run across such a piece at a showing in DC. Not to mention the more than half naked bartenders.)