There is yet another fantastic Monday Night Lecture going on at PSU tonight with Courtney Fink of San Fransisco & Southern Exposure (soex.org). I’ll be there trying to convince her to move to Portland. Please come out and help the cause.
Excerpt from 2005 interview in SFist:
Favorite mode of transportation
I love walking because I love looking. Walking is the perfect pace for seeing people on the street and looking around at all of the strange details and things that surround us. Unfortunately, I am usually rushing around…
Best Band or Musician to come out of the Bay Area
Since I don’t want to pick a favorite, here is a partial list of the bands I have seen play live in the past few months. I try to see live music whenever I can. Enorchestra, Ovarian Trolley, Dirty Power, Sagan, Matmos…
SF has the BEST:
Micro-climates. Produce. Colors. Nature close to urban spaces (We’ve got that too!!)…Read more here
From Portland State MFA Department:
Courtney Fink is the Executive Director of Southern Exposure in San Francisco, a nonprofit visual arts organization founded in 1974 that supports emerging artists and youth in a dynamic environment in which they can develop and present new work and ideas. Prior to Southern Exposure, Fink worked at the California College of the Arts and Capp Street Project in San Francisco, and Franklin Furnace in New York. For almost 15 years, Courtney has been committed to developing the capacity of visual artists and the systems that support them.
Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series
PMMNLS: 2008-2009
Portland State University: Shattuck Hall Room 212
1914 SW Park Ave. (at the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campus)
Almost every Monday night from Oct. 13 – May 18
7:30pm All lectures are FREE
***Photo from another great interview in Stretcher…READ here
