 Entrance to the gallery, 2020 | |
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| Established | 1975 |
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| Location | Portland, Oregon, U.S |
| Coordinates | 45°31′27″N 122°40′42″W / 45.5242°N 122.6783°W |
| Type | Exhibition space and archive for photography |
| Website | www.blueskygallery.org |
Blue Sky Gallery, also known as The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, is a non-profit exhibition space for contemporary photography in Portland, Oregon, United States.
History
[edit]In 1975 a group of five young photographers[1]—Robert Di Franco, Craig Hickman, Ann Hughes, Terry Toedtemeier, and Christopher Rauschenberg (son of Robert Rauschenberg)—pooled their resources to start a small gallery on NW Lovejoy Street in Portland Oregon. The gallery relocated several times over the years, to NW Fifth Avenue in 1978, then to NW Hoyt Street in 1987, where it remained for just under twenty years.[2] In 2007 Blue Sky raised $2.7 million[1] and moved into the former North Park Blocks store and warehouse of Daisy Kingdom,[note 1][3]
The gallery "has introduced more than 700 emerging and established photographers to the region" according to the Portland Art Museum.[4]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Daisy Kingdom had been acquired by Springs Industries in October 1996, according to the Portland Business Journal Archived 2014-10-26 at the Wayback Machine.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Executive Director of Blue Sky Gallery". Community Nonprofit Resource Group. June 4, 2009. Archived from the original on November 21, 2010. Retrieved October 20, 2014.
- ^ Tubutis, Todd (2014). "This Deserves to Be Seen: Making (A) Space for Photography in Portland." Blue Sky : the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts at 40. Dolan, Julia, Ferriso, Brian J. [Portland], Oregon: Portland Art Museum. pp. 15–19. ISBN 978-1-883124-37-3. OCLC 875996765.
- ^ Row, David (July 20, 2007). "Portland's Precious Patron". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved October 20, 2014.
- ^ "Blue Sky: The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts at 40". Portland Art Museum. October 2014. Archived from the original on October 11, 2014. Retrieved October 20, 2014.
Further reading
[edit]- Blue Sky Gallery, 1975-1980: Anniversary of an Alternative. Portland, Oregon: Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts. 1980. ISBN 0931194024.
- Tom Champion; Robert DiFranco; Christopher Rauschenberg, eds. (2014). Blue Sky: The Oregon Center for Photographic Arts. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-1883124373.
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