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"Our mission is to serve, advance, and lead the network of organizations and individuals who cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America. Connecting your best ideas and leaders from the arts, communities, and business, together we can work to ensure that every American has access to the transformative power of the arts"

The William James Association promotes work service in the arts, environment, education, and community development. Our major concern has been transformative arts experiences in nontraditional settings, working with prisoners, high-risk youth and parolees.

"Mission (sub)Urban Projections champions emerging artists, cultivates community, and generates vibrancy in downtown Eugene through a multimedia arts festival. Vision (sub)Urban Projections is a free festival that strives to create a vibrant and colorful environment fostering conversation and appreciation for contemporary art and new media. Through digital projections, the streets and alleys will be illuminated and the downtown landscape transformed, creating an inviting atmosphere for people to gather and enjoy the city while supporting local businesses, artists, and culture."

Portland Saturday Market is celebrating its 41st year in the historic Old Town/ Chinatown neighborhood of Portland, Oregon.  Our weekly market features 252 booths showcasing a variety of arts & crafts sold by local Pacific Northwest artisans. Established in 1976, our market has a thriving membership of over 300 artisans.  "Every Saturday and Sunday from March through Christmas Eve the Old Town/Chinatown neighborhood transforms into a thriving arts and crafts open-air marketplace. Seeing the Market's staff delegate booth spaces with precision each weekend for so many years, most of the neighborhood has come to think of Portland Saturday Market as a business like any other. But it certainly was not always that way, and some surprising elements still lie at the core of this unusual non-profit operation."

I love this! I love farmer's market, but this is more than just a farmer's market. It has many crafted art and different artists participated. It also create a lot of energy in downtown during Saturday morning. Kind of feel more like a big local gathering.

3D Projection Mapping A revolutionary technique to transform the world in ways never before possible. Some call it spatial augmented reality. We say it's a new paradigm in lighting, advertising, and entertainment that will leave your audience awestruck.

From Nike's project, we can see that even though they have successfully sold their products to people. Nevertheless, when shoes got beat up, people usually just throw it away. Fortunately, Nike has collected shoes for reuse and build couple public facility. This is type of work that working with community and society, which we talked about during the lecture.

I think this is a great idea. I would love to know more about it. There is not much other information about it on the internet besides what is in the video. Does anyone know if Nike donates these courts or fields? That would be a great way to give back to the community.

I really like this a lot. This is good for Nike public relations wise and it is smart economically as well. Nike being a progressive company is a positive for everyone involved.

This link is an article about the decision to close down the International Market place in the heart of downtown Waikiki, O'ahu, and transforming the space into a high end retail, Sak's Fifth. Being a frequent visitor to the islands, I find this news pretty sad. I have visited the International market every time I have been downtown to Waikiki because of how unique everything was. There were tons of kiosks with hand-made and high quality products and you could bargain with the owners. It really was a fun experience and allowed for a bunch of people to display and sell their distinct art. "The start of the new year marked the end of an era in Honolulu. By the time you read this the International Market Place, the last truly open green space for commerce in the heart of Waikiki, will be closed for good. It will be replaced by a ..."

I will be doing a short dance piece on stage during Medium Troy's set! Everyone should come to this unique event! Featuring RJD2, Medium Troy, and Eskmo performing with the Bohemian Dub Orchestra! Harmonic Laboratory, Devin the Dude, Ants on a Melon, Light at Play & Aerial Silks transform the stunning Silva Concert Hall into an epic costume party showcasing hundreds of Oregon's finest artists from all different backgrounds including dance, visual arts and interactive media. The theme of the evening is "Future Classic" so dress like someone from the past or future! May 10, 2014 Hult Center for the Performing Arts Lobby open at 7:00pm, Silva doors open at 7:30pm

These two contemporary Oregon artists offer two substantially different but equally innovative approaches to figurative art. Hamilton, born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1972, found her true home when she moved to Portland in 1996. After painting for almost twenty years, her artistic practice was transformed when she visited a non-traditional textile arts exhibition. From there she was inspired to fuse the two parts of her life that were closest to her-her daily urban environment and her grandmother's tradition of crochet. Often portraying friends and co-workers from her days in the food-service industry, Hamilton's work displays a whimsical and affectionate vision of working-class Portland. As her work has progressed, she has taken on other subjects as well, including mug shots from Multnomah County, industrial landscapes of Portland, and full-figure nudes.

"Instagram is a fun and quirky way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures. Snap a photo with your mobile phone, then choose a filter to transform the image into a memory to keep around forever. We're building Instagram to allow you to experience moments in your friends' lives through pictures as they happen. We imagine a world more connected through photos."

I also did my Intermission 2 assignment on Instagram.

I also wrote about Instagram on my second intermission paper. This app is so useful and I love this app. I think people who are interested in photograph, they must love this app!