Portland Arts & Cultural Alliance and SPACE bring you another season of Creative Conversations, mediated discussions about the Arts from a personal, local, and regional perspective.

The Arts in our Communities program will highlight several arts projects currently engaging diverse communities in Portland. Panelists will discuss programs in Public Art, individual initiatives, and Art At Work, a national venture to improve municipal government through strategic art-making projects with city employees and elected politicians. The program will be moderated by Marty Pottenger, PACA board member and Director of Art At Work with the City of Portland, www.artatworkproject.us. The public is invited to join program participants Elizabeth Jabar (Associate Professor and Chair of the Printmaking Department, Maine College of Art), Daniel Minter (Portland-based visual artist), Donna Gaspar Jarvis (Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs & Diversity Programs, University of New England), Tessy Seward (Co-founder, ROiL theatre group; Maine Inside Out) and Jennie Hahn (Artistic Director, Open Waters Theatre Arts) for an informal Conversation about The Arts in our Communities.

Creative Conversati is hosted by SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress Street; doors open at 6:30 and the program starts at 7 pm.

Do you love Portland’s First Friday Art Walk? 

Then help support PACA! 

PACA presents programs and projects supporting artists and the arts community year round including the monthly art walk, Creative Conversations and special lectures on public art.  PACA also works to create resources to support the arts with other community organizations to present Arts Guide Portland and Holiday Art Sales Poster.  All of PACA’s programs and resources are FREE. 

We need your help!  With your dollars PACA will be able to continue to provide the programming you have come to expect. 

Please make your tax deductible contribution TODAY via the link on our website (www.portlandarts.org) to Network for Good or by sending a check payable to PACA. 

Thank you for helping us to strengthen Portland by strengthening the arts!

Contributions are deductible to the extent allowable by law.

PACA / 549 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 / 772-6828 /www.portlandarts.org

Check out the April First Friday Art Walk brochure at:  www.firstfridayartwalk.com!

PACA kicks off an all new series of Creative Conversations on March 17 with “YOUR TURN!”.

All Creative Conversations take place at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress Street, Portland, www.space538.org.
Doors open at 6:30, program from 7 to 9 pm.

YOUR TURN! is a Creative Conversations comment box, moderated by Jessica Tomlinson.  This an open-forum discussion with members of PACA, the newly minted Creative Portland Corporation, City of Portland representatives, local press and the music and gallery communities. Come to this informal roundtable for answers to your questions or to voice your concerns about the future of the Arts in Portland. There are a few different avenues you can take to contribute to the conversation: during the discussion; submit an email anytime up until the day of the event with your question or comment to info@portlandarts.org, include the subject line “Your Turn”; or fill out a comment card anonymously and drop it in the comment box provided at the beginning of the night. Come be a part of setting the Arts agenda for years to come.

Future Creative Conversations:

April 13 – The Arts in our Communities.  This program will highlight several projects that are currently engaging diverse communities in Portland through the arts.  Panelists will discuss programs in Public Art, individual initiatives, and Art at Work, a national venture to improve municipal government through strategic art-making projects with city employees and elected politicians.  This program will be moderated by Marty Pottenger, PACA board member and Arts & Equity Director for the city of Portland, www.artatworkproject.us.

May 19 – Cool Ideas!  This evening, PACA invites several arts leaders in the community to discuss recently developed projects that have made Portland a more exciting, interesting, and creative place to be.

NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING
regarding the development of 70-82 Oak Street into
OAK STREET APARTMENTS

When: Tuesday, December 22nd from 4-5pm
Where: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, 561 Congress Street

The meeting will provide an opportunity for anyone interested in the project to learn more about initial design concepts, offer suggestions and ask questions of the design and development team.

Questions or comments may be directed to:
Greg Payne, Development Officer at 553-7780 x211 or gpayne@avestahousing.org

This meeting is to discuss the development of the proposed low income housing development project on Oak Street. Who should attend? Anyone, including artists and business people, interested in supporting artist live/work units. Have your voice heard – attend!

This Friday is the first FFAW of the fall season, and to celebrate, PACA is teaming up with Portland Discovery Land & Sea Tours to run the trolleys during the art walk!  The trolleys will run from 4:30 until 8:30, and will be available to transport art walk participants from Longfellow Square in Portland’s West End to Washington Avenue on the East End.

Board Secretary Virginia Rose commented, “With so many new venues across Portland, we are hoping to make travel between downtown and Munjoy Hill easier, and bring more art walk participants across the Franklin Artery in style.”

The trolley will run, free of charge, making stops along the following route: Longfellow Square, Congress Square, Monument Square, Washington Avenue & Congress Street, India Street & Middle Street, Exchange Street & Middle Street. For more information about Portland Discovery Land & Sea Tours, see their website: www.portlanddiscovery.com.

Looking forward to seeing you there!