Many of the monthly exhibits have an educational focus. On Sept. 21, the gallery will host an artisan fair featuring Judaica from the Pacific Northwest. This nonprofit organization has more than 165 members from the Western states and Canadian provinces. Its sales and exhibition space in a second-floor office on Hawthorne Boulevard is not technically a gallery, according to curator Nichole Rawlins, although prints regularly are on display and most are for sale. The organization has sponsored traveling shows throughout the United States, and even has sponsored exhibitions as far away as China.
Members meet to share ideas and learn new forms of printmaking.
By appointment Sanctuary is a small storefront gallery between Black Hole Body Piercing and Laurelthirst Public House. Only four months old, it still is developing a direction and needs time to find its identity in this Northeast enclave away from the artcentric Pearl District. The gallery's owners, painter Ron Mudge and jewelry maker Carol Bowes, support emerging artists. Though he opened by showing his own work, Tidbit is not a vanity gallery. The space is cramped, the aesthetic conceptual, the talk intellectually rigorous, but the atmosphere is Portland-friendly.