Rendering of the future Grant High School (Portland Public Schools)
BY BRIAN LIBBY
Grant High School Tour
Grant High School is the third high school in the Portland Public Schools system being modernized as part of the 2012 School Building Improvement Bond. Grant's modernization will completely reconfigure and update learning spaces with a focus on indoor environmental quality, sustainability and historic preservation. Construction began in the summer of 2017 and students are scheduled to return to a Modernized Grant in the fall of 2019. Presented by the Oregon/SW Washington chapter of the Association for Learning Environments, this tour of Grant will also include an update on the ALE's annual 20 Under 40 conference next April. Grant High School, 2245 NE 36th Avenue. 3:30PM Friday, November 16. $15 (free for ALE members).
Avantika Bawa: Coliseum Book Release and Conversation
Artist Avantika Bawa has made Portland's Veterans Memorial Coliseum her muse, depicting the midcentury-modern landmark in a series of drawings currently on display at both the Portland Art Museum (through February) and Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books. Bawa's new book, Coliseum, is a collection of these drawings that also includes essays by Grace Kook-Anderson, curator of Northwest art at the Portland Art Museum, as well as writer and Friends of Memorial Coliseum co-founder Brian Libby, who is writing this calendar listing in third person. This book release party also includes a talk hosted by Ampersand's Myles Haselhorst. Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books, 2916 NE Alberta Street. 6:30PM Friday, November 16. Free.
Through Her Eyes Book Launch
Robin Chilstrom's new book, Through Her Eyes, tells the story of her mother, Betty Chilstrom, a prolific Portland artist who spent some 40 years painting local buildings, neighborhood scenes and streetscapes. Living through the Great Depression and homeless during her childhood, Portland became her permanent home during World War II and Chilstrom lived in the same Buckman neighborhood home for seventy years. In this presentation, Robin Chilstrom, a graphic designer and author, will share briefly about her mother’s life during a media presentation of the paintings. Cerimon House, 5131 NE 23rd Avenue. 7PM Friday, November 16. Free.
Broadway Corridor Open House #3
Hosted by Prosper Portland, the city's one-time development agency known as the Portland Development Commission, this open house for the Broadway Corridor development — including the former US Postal Service site along NW Broadway and some adjacent properties — will include the revealing of refined development concepts that, in Prosper Portland's description, "respond to public input received at the September Open House and the guiding principles and project goals developed by community leaders on our Steering Committee. Does the concept include the right mix of uses, activities, programs and public spaces?" Those are good questions, as is the question of whether this will be a homogeneous single-developer, single-architect project or a more diverse multi-developer, multi-architect project. Asian Health & Service Center, 9035 SE Foster Road. 5:30PM Wednesday, November 28. Free.
Design Museum Mornings: Innovating Wellness at Work
Working well requires one to be well. Creating a workplace culture with a reverence for failure is the first step towards developing a team that can deal with the rapid iterative cycles of the agile development process. In order to recover from failures, one's team needs the ability to trust one another; and quality of one's team is only as good as the experiences they’ve had together. In this talk, part of the Design Museum Mornings series from Design Museum Portland, Meg Dryer and Chera Justice, Cambia Health Solutions' the vice president of consumer experience and the wellness program coordinator, respectively, will explore what it means to be well at work, and strategies one can immediately apply to his or her own team. Prior to Cambia, Dryer worked as a global design director in both workplace design and product design at Nike, and previously she worked at legendary design firm IDEO, leading innovation and experience-design projects across a wide variety of industries. Cambia Health Solutions, 100 SW Market Street. 8:30AM Friday, November 30. $15 ($10 advance, free for Design Museum Portland members).
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