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My AccountToday’s Featured Book Event:
Artist’s Reception for Kate Bingaman-Burt (Reading Frenzy, @6:00pm): We’re very, very pleased to present Obsessive Consumption by Kate Bingaman-Burt this month! Ms. Bingaman-Burt will practically be creating a store within a store with not just an exhibit, but window displays, bins filled with dozens of original drawings, 40 issues of her beautifully produced What Did You Buy Today zines, and other objects and oddities relating to personal consumption! We can’t wait!
Kate Bingaman-Burt is an illustrator, designer, writer and founder of Obsessive Consumption. She also is an assistant professor of graphic design at Portland State University.
For the last four years, she has produced drawings inspired from her daily purchases, no matter how mundane. Bingaman-Burt’s work explores the relationship between people and their possessions as was as the consumer culture.
Her work about personal consumerism has appeared in installations and exhibitions across the country as well as in multiple media outlets such as New York Times Magazine, How, Print, Art News and National Public Radio. Princeton Architectural Press is publishing her first book: Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today? which contains containing 650 of her Daily Purchase Drawings, patterns and credit card statements in March of 2010.
She is active in the indie craft and craftivism movements and provided all of the illustrations for the book Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft and Design as well as the promotions for the companion documentary of the same name. Some of the other people she happily draws for are IDEO, Madewell, Ready-Made Magazine, The New York Times and Wieden + Kennedy.
Kate also travels to schools and conducts zine workshops and spreads the craftivism word. She will be conducting her first international zine workshop for the American University in Cairo, Egypt in 2010.
This event is free. The exhibit will run through the month of July.
Other Book Event’s Today:
Summer Thursday at ACP featuring Beth Zapitello (A Childrens Place Bookstore, @1:00pm): During the bright, fun days of summertime, come join your friends at ACP for “Summer Thursdays.” Each Thursday at 1:00, the store will host various events from sidewalk-chalk art drawing to author workshop visits. Sure to be fun for all. This Thursday ACP plays host to Beth Zapitello, author of The First Dog, with special guest Cooper, the Portuguese Water Dog.
Readings at Rilassi (Rilassi Coffee House and Tea, @6:30pm): Rilassi Coffee House and Tea, Ken Arnold Books and Buzzaroonie present Margaret Chula and Ken Arnold for the July Readings at Rilassi event. Chula and Arnold will read their award-winning haiku and other poems at Rilassi Coffee House and Tea in South Waterfront. As always this event is Free and Open to the Public and free drip coffee will be offered.
First Thursday: The Source Family Photography (Powells City of Books, @6:30pm): The Source Family was a spiritual commune led by a charismatic leader named Father Yod. In her new book, The Source, Isis Aquarian — Keeper of the Records at the commune — tells their fascinating story. The photo exhibit includes a selection from Aquarian’s archive. The author herself will join us in person next week, Wednesday the 8th, to discuss the book and share a slide show and rare film footage.
Jaimal Yogis Reading (Powells Books on Hawthorne, @7:30pm): Fed up with suburban teenage life, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. Equal parts spiritual memoir and surfer’s tale, Saltwater Buddha (Wisdom Publications) is a chronicle of finding meditative focus in the barrel of a wave and eternal truth in the great salty blue.
Bibi Gaston Reading (Annie Bloom’s Books, @7:30pm): Bibi Gaston’s memoir The Loveliest Woman in America is both a heartfelt exploration into the life of her grandmother and an elegant portrait of an epoch in America full of glamor and excitement.
After receiving a treasure trove of diary entries that belonged to her grandmother, Rosamond Pinchot, Bibi began to explore the life of the young woman who was born into a wealthy and powerful family, and who quickly became a Hollywood and Broadway star of the 1920s ad 1930s. Though she was a beloved actress and socialite, Rosamond committed suicide at the young age of 33. Bibi’s investigation into the emotional turmoil that brought her grandmother to such a decision grows into an exploration of her own life, her family’s history, and a bygone era that remains iconic in the American psyche.
Portland Noir Contributors (The Blue Monk, @9:00pm): Portland Noir editor Kevin Sampsell and contributors Justin Hocking, Karen Karbo, Gigi Little, and Monica Drake appear at The Blue Monk (3341 SE Belmont).
Please check your community Libraries schedule using these links: Washington County, Multnomah County, Clackamas County. For other book events this week, please check the list.
