For art-lovers! This Valentine's Day.

Something special for art-lovers!

We're having a very special workshop on Thursday, February 14th and I wanted to make a special blog post because I know it's coming up soon! We are hosting a romantic art-making night for those of you guys that want to do something fun, but a little different!

Join us that night for a bottle of wine and make cameos of you and your special friend!
Here are all of the details -- we have 5 spots left, so grab one if you're interested in joining us!

The whole experience is about 1.5 hours, and costs $60 for the pair.
We'll have everything you need, so just pre-register and come on over!
We'll help get you set up to make your own silhouettes, decorate and frame them, all while listening to great music and sharing your own bottle of wine.

Ah, young love!

Interview with Tom Cassidy

This week we're hosting a guest performance/lecture by Tom Cassidy, a local artist and expert on mentalism, mail art, slam poetry and linguistics. His fascinating and unusual work has been featured globally, from publications to performances. To get a little taste of what's to come, we asked Tom a few questions about his work and process.

Can you share a little bit about your history and involvement with the literary and poetry communities? 

I’ve been an active mail-artist since 1970 and have accumulated over 30,000 pieces of correspondence art–pre-zine-culture smallpress, postcards, poems, collages, drawings, pass-&-add sheets, etc. And I’ve been a contributor to dozens of alternative, underground and visual poetry smallpresses, from Modern Correspondence to Popular Reality, from Shavertron (a mostly serious zine based on cult-sci-fi-guy Ray Palmer’s belief that ancient aliens inhabit inner earth) to Joe Bob Brigg’s Drive-In Newsletter, from Lost & Found Times to the Portland Scribe (for which I wrote a column about correspondence art in the 70s). I co-founded the performance poetry troupe The Impossibilists and have shown or read at over one hundred galleries, festivals, bars and colleges; my works have been in over 200 shows blahblahblah (I didn’t participate for a resumé or batting average). I also hosted Open Mics for 25 years and heard over 12000 writers and folksingers as a type of penance.