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Category: Events
CELEBRATION OF ART 2018!!
October 27 – 28, 2018
At Mittleman Jewish Community Center in SW Portland
Saturday evening 7 – 9:30 pm
Sunday 10:30 am – 4:30 pm
Over 25 Jewish artists from the Pacific Northwest, plus special exhibits by Youth artists and Seniors.
COME MEET THE ARTISTS, AND BUY SOME ART! FREE ADMISSION.
Ora Social: Fun and Educational!!
When: Sunday Sept. 16th
These are the plans:
12:30pm to 1:30pm: The EDUCATIONAL part of the Social.
Experts Laurie Fendel, Linda Bourne and Brauna Ritchie will share “Tried and True Ideas” about booth set-up, display stands and “Ways to sell your ART.” Everyone is invited, new members or continuing members. It is really important for newbies who will be showing at COA.
1:30pm to 3:30pm: The SOCIAL part.
Lots of mingling and noshing….. PLUS 1ST EVER ART SWAP!
There will be tables set up for you to bring art items that are no longer useful to you, put them on the table and take other items that you might be able to use. No money involved.
Please bring finger food to share, ORA will provide drinks.
OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM – A PRIVATE TOUR – SUNDAY, AUG. 5TH
OJM PROVIDES THE FIRST NORTHWEST OVERVIEW OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POST-1960 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS,R.B. KITAJ, AND AN EXTRAORDINARY AND DIVERSE COLLECTION OF 169 MEZUZAHS.
We have arranged a PRIVATE TOUR of these two collections.
Here are the details, sure hope you can join us.
Date – Sunday, August 5th
Time – 11 am to noon (before the museum opens)
Cost – $4.00 per person (even if you are a member of OJM)
Lefty’s Cafe is closed on the weekends, but to continue our discussion we could either walk or drive to Whole Foods on NW 9th for lunch.
If you want more information about R.B. Kitaj or the mezuzah collection go to this website:
Please RSVP so that I can let the Educational Director know how many of us to expect.
E-mail me, Sharon Segal, at
Come meet Boris and see his wonderful art!
ORA Annual Meeting
When – Sunday, May 6th from
1 pm to 3 pm.
Where – Neveh Shalom room 102
What – We invite YOU and any artist friend, neighbor, or acquaintance who might be thinking about joining ORA.
It’s a time for artists to schmooze, nosh and ask questions about ORA.
We’ll vote for new officers for the coming year.
We invite everyone to bring one piece of your art work and share it with the group for 30 seconds.
ORA Annual JURY
When – Sunday, June 3rd
Where – Neveh Shalom from 9:30 am to 11:00 am.
What – If you want to show and sell your art at our largest art show of the year, Celebration of Art at the JCC, you need to first be juried into the show.
Celebration of Art is already scheduled for Saturday night, October 27th and Sunday, October 28th.
Who needs to jury for Celebration of Art?
***New members who want to show at Celebration of Art.
***Existing artists who have never shown at Celebration of Art.
***Existing members who have a different medium to sell. The artist need to jury again for the new medium only.
***********Example, Sharon was first juried into the show displaying 2-D acrylic paintings. Then she started working in clay, and wanted to show her vases. In order to do that, she had to jury her clay work.
Art and Spirit Workshop #2
Bring along a sketch pad or other materials for writing/drawing.
This is the second presentation in our Art and Spirit Workshops .
We already have three more workshops tentatively scheduled. We will get the finalized schedule to you (hopefully) bu our annual meeting!
Come…learn, grow, be inspired! Even if you don’t work with Jewish themes, you will find inspiration !
