Portland Open Studios has been a springboard for many of its artist’s careers.  It seeks to incorporate a wide variety of voices and media, thereby representing a cross-section of the visual arts in Portland.  It fosters growth of all participating artists through workshops and encourages emerging artists.

Celebrate local art on First Thursday, March 4th when Mayor Sam Adams will honor Portland Open Studios with a Proclamation and unveil the organization’s 10th Anniversary Purchase Prize gift to the City of Portland. The 10 x 10 Show (all art 10 inches or less, in all media) features artworks by over 80 artists in the 2009 Portland Open Studios tour.

WFDJ pays tribute to the late, great illustrator Nick Dewar in a gallery and very short and sweet list of his gigantic set of accolades and partners.

photo by Jeff Beck

Over the past five years, Street of Eames has raised half a million dollars — all of it for two after-school programs for homeless public school students in Portland. But another motivator in creating and running this tour is to showcase architects. The builders have their Street of Dreams.  The Architecture Foundation of Oregon often praises Street of Eames for exposing the general public to good design.

Join hundreds of your online marketing peers for the fourth annual SearchFest. Portland’s largest search engine marketing conference is dedicated to search marketing education and networking. Industry experts and thought leaders from around the country are scheduled to deliver in-depth presentations. Past keynote speakers have included Danny Sullivan and Rand Fishkin.

This year will be the most comprehensive SearchFest ever with topics like Social Media Marketing, Advanced Search Engine Optimization, Local Search, Analytics, Paid Search Marketing and more.

Searchfest sessions present present multiple informative learning tracks, workshops, and panels designed to provide direct insight into the most up-to-date strategies and technological advancements in online search marketing.

SearchFest is open to all individuals interested in learning the latest advancements in enhancing search engine performance to deliver more visitors and customers to your website.

Introduce your work to the world. Enter Communication Arts magazine’s 51st Photography Competition. Hundreds of award-winning images are selected for their creative excellence by an esteemed jury of designers and art directors in editorial, advertising, institutional, for sale and unpublished categories.

Why enter?
CA’s Award of Excellence is one of the most-coveted awards in the industry. If selected, winning places you in the highest ranks of your profession. Ask any creative director which competitions rank as the most influential, and they’ll place Communication Arts at the top of the list.

This award show is different in every way—other than the winners receiving an award part. Every year, we have top talent for judges, a comedian for a host, a killer DJ to supply the beat, and presentation karaoke to kick it off. Register here!

One of the upcycled couture gowns from Gary Harvey’s New York Fashion Week runway show comprised 30 copies of the Financial Times. Via notcot

Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food. Via  SwissMiss!

Anonymously submit why you hate the job you can’t leave. Thanks Travis!

Designers work hard to produce work with unparalleled uniqueness, and sometimes we need a place to upload, store, and share our work. Anything further than that, of course, is a plus. The only thing that can be somewhat as hard as producing quality work, is actually finding a place where you can upload your work with ease and one that gives you the option to share with others for great exposure. Outlined over 10 websites that allow designers to upload and host their work for free. Via Reencoded.com