Portland Oregon Arts, BeMuse: The Unveiling, June 1 2011

The Accurate & Passionate Witness: Artist/Muse It's a complicated mystery. Where does Inspiration come from?

Art is simultaneously the loneliest thing a person can do and the most sociable. To go into yourself to find the thing that must be said, the thing that must be painted or recorded or photographed or explained or witnessed. To struggle to bear accurate and passionate witness to a truth that is difficult to articulate fully in the darkness of your own mind and to force it into the light --on to the canvas, the page, the stage!-- and to demand the world experience it, consider it, share/witness.



Art is the primal communication. It is a dialog between Id and Ego, God and Man, our ancestors and our children, humanity's History and its Future, emotion and intellect.



It is a conversation between the artist and herself, between artist and the audience, between the artist and her contemporaries and the canon of art that existed before this interloper forced its conversation on the scene.



The first question a viewer asks is... what inspired this?



In attempt to proliferate Art and inspiration, to honor our diverse gods, to litter the canon, and to get our jollies we are ecstatic to present



BeMuse!



Art inspiring Art inspiring Artists

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What exactly does "Art inspiring Art inspiring Artists" mean?

The opening show paired some of the finest local artists and poets to create a work inspired by the other's work. The artists, visual and literary, had never met before and were in most cases unfamiliar with each other's work. We then encouraged our muses/artists to get ekphrasiscal on each other. Ekphrasis is usually defined as "Noun : a literary description of or commentary on a visual work of art ". It has become the word for poetry or prose inspired by art and in our alliterative, sculpting hands it also means an "artistic depiction of a poem".


The first show, Bemuse: meet the muses, was a celebratory meeting of select Portland, Oregon artists and poets. They then had approximately 20 days to create a new work to be shown at the Unveiling.



BeMuse Gala --Meet the Muses

May 4, 2011 7-9pm



Madison's Grill (Banquet Room) 1109 Southeast Madison Street

Portland Oregon



Multimedia, multi-artist, cross-pollination, ongoing Art Project BEMUSE debuts! At this gala, Artists meet their muses. Audience meets artists. Performing artists perform. Poets wax poetic. Much fun and inspiration to be shared.

BeMuse: the Unveiling

June 1, 2011 7-9pm



Madison's Grill (Banquet Room) 1109 Southeast Madison Street

Portland Oregon



Multimedia, multi-artist, cross-pollination, ongoing Art Project BEMUSE bears fruit! The moment we've been waiting for: the big reveal! See new local art inspired by local poets and new poetry inspired by selected art. Enjoy the first taste of the exciting produce of the multimedia, multi-artist, cross-pollination, ongoing Art Project BEMUSE!

The event is free. Cash bar available.