Artist Emily Hyde

Emily Hyde is an award-winning artist. If you look at her stunning prints, you'll see why. You can view images of her lovely drawings, prints, and etchings here and here and here.

You'd think, from meeting her, that she was Scandinavian. But in truth, she hails from Estacada, Oregon. I had the privilege of photographing her in the letterpress studio at Pacific NW College of Art recently.





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John Weinland at Transitions' Awareness Event

Last night I photographed an awareness event put on by Transitions Global, regarding their work here in Portland to help girls trapped in sex slavery and prostitution. We were privileged to have Weinland playing music for the event. Beautiful music; check it out on their MySpace page. They're likened to Neil Young (in a good way), and I hear a little of Iron and Wine in there as well. Good stuff.




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Yoshihiro Kitai

Yoshihiro Kitai is a Japanese printmaker, living in Portland, Oregon. We went to art school together, and now we both teach at that same school: Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Since we were in school together, he has 'burst' onto the art scene, and his work can be seen online and in person at the Pulliam Defenbaugh Gallery. He's received some fine reviews; here's a favorite line from one of them: "Although the gentle miasmas and fog banks evoke Tibetan cloud tangkhas and the mist-enshrouded outcroppings of traditional Chinese landscape painting, the shiny metal leaf (an element in Japanese master drawings) also suggests the bling-obsessed glitz of contemporary Western hip-hop culture."

I photographed Yoshi in the printmaking studio at PNCA, as he worked on one of his prints.

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Douglas Lynch

Did you know that Portland, Oregon, has an official flag? Do you know who designed it? I didn't until now. The answer is: Douglas Lynch.

You may have seen his work around. He was commissioned, in the 1930s, to create mural panels for the Works Project Administration (WPA) at Timberline Lodge.

Some of his work is incorporated into Lynda Wysong's installation at the Delta Park/Vanport Max Station.

And his flag, designed in 1969 (and revamped in 2002), flies at Portland City Hall, the Portland Building, Pioneer Courthouse Square and other locations.

And he still designs labels for a local vintner, updating annually a label he first designed several decades ago.

Douglas and his sweet wife Alix still live in the same house they've had for fifty years, sitting inconspicuously right off busy NW 23rd. It's filled with their collections of books, folk art, and music--more LPs than I've ever seen in one person's collection.

Over his 94 years, Douglas has worked as a commercial artist (back before the term 'graphic arts' even existed), taught for 30 years at the Museum Art School (having graduated from there in the 1930s...he has some interesting stories to tell about it's history...), was the president of the Portland Art Commission, and more.

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