Blue Sky Gallery

Blue Sky Gallery
Established 1975 (1975)
Location North Park Blocks, Portland, Oregon, USA
Type Exhibition space and archive for photography
Website www.blueskygallery.org

Blue Sky Gallery (a.k.a. The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts) is a non-profit "exhibition and explication space", "community research center", and archive for contemporary photography in Portland, Oregon.[1] It grew to become a "preeminent West Coast venue where emerging photographers [engage] with 21st-century technologies."[2] A non-profit space dedicated to public education, Blue Sky Gallery began by showing local artists and then slowly expanded to national and international artists. It "has introduced more than 700 emerging and established photographers to the region"[2] and has been an early supporter of now-notable photographers such as John Divola, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Mark Klett, and Larry Sultan, among others.[2]

History

In 1975 a group of five young photographers[1] (including Bronson Fellow Christopher Rauschenberg, son of Robert Rauschenberg) pooled their resources to start a small gallery.

In 2007 Blue Sky raised $2.7 million[1] and moved into the former North Park Blocks store and warehouse of Daisy Kingdom,[note 1][3] In July 2008 they exhibited the last completed works by Robert Rauschenberg.

Notes

  1. ↑ Daisy Kingdom had been acquired by Springs Industries in October 1996, according to the Portland Business Journal.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Executive Director of Blue Sky Gallery". Community Nonprofit Resource Group. June 4, 2009. Retrieved 2014-10-20.
  2. 1 2 3 "Blue Sky: The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts at 40". Portland Art Museum. October 2014. Retrieved 2014-10-20.
  3. ↑ Row, David (July 20, 2007). "Portland's Precious Patronaccessdate= 2014-10-20". The Oregonian.

Further reading

  • Blue Sky Gallery, 1975-1980: Anniversary of an Alternative. Portland, Oregon: Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts. ISBN 0931194024.
  • Tom Champion, Robert DiFranco, Christopher Rauschenberg (eds.). Blue Sky: The Oregon Center for Photographic Arts. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-1883124373.

Coordinates: 45°31′27″N 122°40′42″W / 45.524063°N 122.678318°W / 45.524063; -122.678318

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