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work.place
www.workplacepdx.com
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work.place is a documentary of Portland creativity facilitated by local photographer, Carlie Armstrong. The aim of work.place is to understand creative processes and the places that contain them. We also hope to inform - by displaying the work of some of the most talented artists, musicians, designers, and craftspeople in this great city.
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Esque Studio

Esque Studio is an eco-minded glass blowing studio tucked away in St. Johns and brimming with beautiful and oddly shaped designs that speak both of functionality and creativity. Glassblowers Andi Kov...

20 feb 12

Hinged Strung Stitched

Hinged Strung Stitched is a book bindery located in the lovely mustard-yellow Olympic Mills Building. In their sunny studio, bookbinders Molly Lewis and Michelle Johnson cut, glue, bind, and hand sew...

05 nov 11

Egg Press

Egg Press is a letterpress (and sometimes screenprinting) print shop which specializes in creative and adorable greeting cards, baby tees, and posters. Started by designer extraordinaire Tess Darrow ...

28 oct 11

Carson Ellis

Carson Ellis is a prolific illustrator well-known for her work for Pacific NW band, The Decemberists. Her whimsical and detailed style often speaks of charming narratives and characters; dragons, cab...

15 oct 11

Kate Bingaman-Burt

Kate Bingaman-Burt is one of the bubbliest, multi-talented people I have ever met; excitedly delving into design and craft in every way she possibly can! An example of this vivid creativity is her bo...

17 sep 11

Tanner Goods

Tanner Goods is a locally made/designed leather-craft shop and studio. Owned by Sam Huff and Mark Perusich, the shop specializes in heritage leather techniques; drawing inspiration from a member of t...

08 sep 11

Chelsea Heffner of plainMADE

Chelsea Heffner is a multi-disciplinary artist from the sunny land of Encinitas, California (of which I am strangely and coincidentally also from!) who learned her trades from the Hodgeschool voor de...

04 aug 11

Laura Liebe and Aaron Montaigne of Galerie Salome

Laura Liebe is an artist who works mostly with large-scale figurative drawings and paintings. Aaron Montaigne is a painter, photographer, and the lead-singer in local dark/new wave/dance band The Dan...

04 aug 11

Laura Liebe and Aaron Montaigne of Galerie Salome

Laura Liebe is an artist who works mostly with large-scale figurative drawings and paintings. Aaron Montaigne is a painter, photographer, and the lead-singer in local dark/new wave/dance band The Dan...

30 jul 11

Heather Sielaff and OLO

OLO is a fragrance line created by local perfumer, Heather Sielaff. She mixes each bottle by hand in a dreamy, softly-lit room in her home, joined by brother-cats Boots and Hoover and her husband, Jo...

19 jul 11

Carson Ellis

Carson Ellis is a prolific illustrator well-known for her work for Pacific NW band, The Decemberists. Her whimsical and detailed style often speaks of charming narratives and characters; dragons, cab...

12 jul 11 1 person likes this

Erika Diehl

Erika Diehl is an abstract oil painter whose work explores the association of architecture and the conceptual space it seems to share with her art of painting. She explains, "My work revolves aro...

02 jul 11

Jo Hamilton

Scottish-born Jo Hamilton is a painter by trade, but her recent work has manifested itself in a truly exciting new medium: crochet. She spends hours calmly, painstakingly crocheting large-scale depic...

22 jun 11

Andy Paiko

Andy Paiko is a glass blower that has been practicing his craft since he was just a teenager. Taken under the wing of a seasoned artisan at that young age, he has honed his abilities and used them to...

17 jun 11 1 person likes this

Liam Drain

Liam Drain is a ceramic wonder - making usable and lovely pottery as well as mysterious objects that look like they surfaced from a hidden future realm. He recently showed the latter work at PNCAs Ma...

02 jun 11

Emily Counts

Emily Counts is an artist who explores organic and geometric forms through a variety of artistic disciplines. Her aim is to document the "transformative, unstable, and energetic properties of our...

24 may 11

The Portland Garment Factory & Britt Howard

The Portland Garment factory is a local Pattern Drafting, size grading, design consultation, sample construction, line production, garment manufacturing wonderland located in the adorable Montavilla ...

16 may 11 1 person likes this

Rachel Hays

Rachel Hays is an illustrator and performer who makes heartfelt and personal comics. Her style is very unique - using little shading and a very specific palette of colors. She often pairs realistic e...

11 may 11

Midori Hirose

Midori Hirose is an intermedia artist who works largely with the concepts of structure and disorder; using an almost staggering array of disciplines to investigate these ideas. Her work is often geom...

06 may 11

Heather Treadway

Heather Treadway is a fashion designer who loves capes! Her sewing studio/boutique Aequanimitas is full of them, and when I happened over she was working on the stunning number below for queen-diva

06 may 11

Keegan Meegan Press and Bindery

Keegan Meegan Press and Bindery was founded by Katy Meegan and Keegan Wenkman, two amazing printmakers that have a real passion for antique presses! Besides tending to the lovely and impressive machi...

06 may 11

Grant McGavin

Grant McGavin is a woodworker and custom furniture designer who works primarily with Oregon Black Walnut. Grant designs under the moniker, "Heartwood Design," and uses wood that has been salv...

06 may 11

Colette Patterns

Colette Patterns is an amazing sewing pattern company founded by the lovely Sarai Mitnick. Fusing vintage sophistication with modern clean lines and simplicity, Colette makes the sewing patterns weve...

06 may 11 1 person likes this

Dominic De Venuta

Dominic De Venuta (aka Dominic Toast) is a photographer, painter, and illustrator from LaFayette, California. Currently slaving away on his thesis for The Pacific NW College of Art, Dominic hopes to ...

06 may 11

Wynde Dyer

Wynde Dyer is an artist, photographer, community builder, performance artist, and founder of local shop ad art space, GoldenRule. Without any formal training, Wynde works from intuition and memory - ...

06 may 11

12128boatspace

12128boatspace is a floating art workshop gallery started by Lewis and Clark grads Kyle Thompson, Caitlin Ducey, Zoe Clark, and Lewis Feuer, who are also all amazing artists in their own right. Posit...

06 may 11

Jordan Hufnagel

Jordan Hufnagel is a custom bicycle builder from Indiana. His bicycles are heavily influenced by his love of a simple, clean, utilitarian aesthetic and he pours those notions into each frame he build...

06 may 11

Dawn Sharp

Dawn Sharp is a Fashion Designer who became interested in designing around the age of ten while growing up in Seattle. From there, she nomadically traveled between Portland, Los Angeles, and New York...

06 may 11

Nick Makanna

Nick Makanna is a California native who moved to Portland to pursue an art degree at Lewis and Clark. Nick has a strong relationship to space, largely due to a childhood spent in San Francisco watchi...

06 may 11

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