Click HERE to view full information on our Current Exhibition and upcoming features
Past Exhibits...
In the artist's words: Through my photographs, I explore the relationship between the internal self and external ideas of past, present, identity, memory, and place. The images are part of an ongoing series of constructed portraits and self-portraits that give visual, photographic form to lived internal experience. They function as a symbolic autobiography: they do not depict what particular life events looked like, but rather what they felt like, or could have felt like, in moments of introspection, aspiration, recollection, and dislocation.
tapping the vibrations of the muse
if your muse has gone dormant and creativity seems to have gone underground ... this workshop with Leslie Ebert, light & vibrational photographer will remind your muse that spring has sprung! Creativity & new growth are all around us. Join us at sage gallery portland on Sunday, March 6th from 2:00 - 5:00 for an inspirational collaging workshop.
$50 for workshop & supplies
Feel free to bring some favorite magazines, glue sticks & any other inspirational items that call to you. Snacks & tea provided.
Using the medium of macro digital photography, Leslie explores the vibrational nature of our world and the idea of resonance as a universal creative force. She has been exploring light as subject for ten years and has watched as the images have become ever more complex. Interested in the physical nature of Light and its philosophical implications, she set off with camera in hand to explore what causes the diversity of shapes and marks emanating within the light around us.
'the spiritual gift'
... an endowment given by Spirit, Nature, God or Goddess that fills one with grace & gratitude, that creates a pause in the way we see the world ...
this exhibit shows the individual expression of 'the spiritual gift' by artists from across the United States.
Muse
Verb: To consider something thoughtfully
Noun: A source of artistic inspiration
One origin of the word muse is the 14th Century Middle English musen, which meant to mutter, gaze meditatively on, and be astonished. This is a great description of what we do in museums. In mythology, the Muses were nine goddesses who symbolized the arts and sciences. Today, a muse is a person or place that serves as an artist's inspiration. Writers, painters, musicians, and other artists may have muses. Muse can also refer to thinking deeply. If you muse about something, you're giving it serious thought. You can't muse in five seconds. Musing, by definition, takes time. Artists muse on certain ideas for years. These photos represent the things and ideas that I muse on, and that have been sources of inspiration for me. I hope they inspire musing in you as well.
* Do you have a dream that remains unfulfilled year after year?
* Or perhaps dreams from long ago that have been “put away”?
* Maybe you are looking for something new to dream about and bring in to your life?
Kerry Lee, Certified Intentional Creativity™ Teacher & Coach from the San Francisco Bay area will guide us to find some new insight in to your inner wisdoms that you may not accessed before.
Anyone can create their own similar yet completely personal painting with this guided step-by-step method- and there is no experienced needed! Just and open heart and an open mind for the possibilities of something new.
~ Have you always wanted to paint but haven’t known where to start?
~ Or are you already an artist and looking for something new, or a way to release a creative block?
~ Are you ready to give yourself a one-day get-away from the routine to discover new or additional insight in to yourself?
~ To literally play with paint using a step by step guided method that allows you to be as creative with as you’d like?
~ What would it be like to know you could not make mistakes?
~ Are you ready to go in to the new changing season feeling refreshed, peaceful and inspired?
If you said yes to even one of these then we invite you to come join us to start the New Year with a day of personal insight, color and fun. Discover and paint the symbolic Dream Weaver in you! We’ll also incorporate the beautiful scents and transformative properties of pure essentials oils throughout the day.
My desire to create portraits that aren't direct and true provides me with a good reason to use Lith materials as my medium. This darkroom technique can produce results that show an altered reality in the final outcome, bringing forth an illusion for the viewer, and a misrepresentation of accuracy. By photographing through diffusion materials and then printing with Lith chemistry on suitable papers, I can achieve what I'm searching for in creating my 'paper dreams.'
Embodying Medusa Workshop
with Kathleen Prophet and Amy Palko
Medusa, no longer a bloodless bodiless Monster, in this workshop we will explore, awaken, and embody our original Medusa nature – our instinctual bodily wisdom and power - through a depth process of embodied arts and photography.
What we've lost from Medusa is her story. We have lost her side of things. We only know her through the voice of the patriarchy. She has been frozen out and silenced. Isn't it time we got to know her better?
sage galleries portland is thrilled to have Clare O'Neill facilitate this photographic encaustic workshop here in portland!!!
This is a brief overview of the upcoming workshop...To get more information & to register, please follow the link to Clare's site ...
http://www.photoencaustic.com/studio-based-photo-encaustic-workshop/
Sun, Jun 5, 2016 9:30am - 4:30pm