Author Archives: thehappyvalleyproject

After months of reading and learning to inform my creative practice, I wanted to synthesize what I learned, and to share that synthesis. I am proud that Street Roots published an article I wrote on local responses to the financial … Continue reading →

I printed 200 broadsides of the dropcloth poem, and created a pdf that will be included in the final Dusie Kollektiv. Download the pdf: <a href="sand_dusie5“>

In the hours before I was to hang my dropcloth poem for the econ salon, my mom & grandmother picked up the poem and began to embroider. As they did that, I reflected on how they taught me to embroider … Continue reading →

Utterly buoying to read Allison Cobb’s always compelling thinking extend the salon–

I launched this project after reading an article two years ago about the high foreclosure rate in Happy Valley by Ryan Frank in the Oregonian. I was also reading Mike Davis’s Planet of Slums about the the millions of people … Continue reading →

***adding lines to my 8-foot drop cloth poem*** ***Jennifer Hardacker setting up her video installation on a clam shell, “Sheltered.”***

Event: An Econ Salon (“The Magician Who Puffed Up Money that Lost its Puff”—a magic show & story, followed by a talk on housing foreclosures) Date & Time: Wed. Dec. 1, 7PM-9PM Location: Field Works (storefront on corner of SW11th … Continue reading →

Nov. 5 / NW Couch between 4th & 5th / 12-3 PM