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November, 2014

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Documentation from my collaboration show with Katie Piatt this summer.

#crochet #fiber art #petra fortes schramm #surplus space

Please join us for an evening of problematic cupcakes, performance, and participation.

July 26, 2014 / 6-9p / Surplus Space, 3726 NE 7th Ave, Portland, OR, InFATuation is a collaborative show between Katie Piatt and Petra Fortes-Schramm investigating and reclaiming the space in which (fat) female bodies reside. As body-positive movements have come into public discourse, fat-acceptance and fat-positive movements have been met with increasing scrutiny and animosity, most often wrapped in paternalistic concern for fat peoples’ health. What kinds of agency can fat parties claim? What sort of sizeist conversations are occurring? Are we adding to the fat/skinny binary? In what ways can we challenge, even break, the beauty/health standard? Through personal narrative, video and sculpture, Katie Piatt will address inherited bodily commands aimed at her habitus. Petra Fortes-Schramm’s in-process digital and analog research aims towards creating a fat pedagogy in partnership with online and IRL audiences that will culminate in a manifesto. Performance will occur at 7:30.

With a background in music, art, and community service, Petra Fortes-Schramm seeks out collaborations with other artists and socially conscious individuals to work toward trans-disciplinary, intersectional endeavors. When not laughing at cat videos or making stuff called "art", Petra can be found sharing in domestic banalities with their wife to ensure they both survive graduate school. Upon completing the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, petra plans to work towards making the arts and opportunities for alternative and higher education more accessible in the Salinas Valley in California. Katie Piatt is an artist living, playing dress-up, and telling jokes in Portland, Oregon. She has begun exploring the ideas of gender, body, sizeism, and identity not only with her background in soft sculpture and seamstress skills – but also with her new endeavors in performance. Through the art of spoken word, facial expression, body language and costume, she describes the history and effects of her upbringing in the conservative, religious Ozark Hills of Missouri in humorous albeit cringingly honest anecdotes and situations. Katie is a current MFA - Visual Studies student at PNCA. She received a BFA in painting from Missouri State University in 2012.

#inFATuation #fat pedagogy #katie piatt #petra fortes-schramm

Inspiration 2014

Ffffform 2014

Emo Feels 2014

#nsfw

"Mantequilla" from the Yo Comprendo Español series

2013

View larger size at maria-petra.com.

#mantequilla #butter #illustration #espanol #spanish #illustracion #artists on tumblr

"Tortuga" from the Yo Comprendo Español series

2013

View larger size at maria-petra.com.

#tortuga #espanol #turtle #illustration #illustracion #artists on tumblr

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Cindy Burton's TOO MUCH PRETTY////////////LIPSTICK at Place in Reflect/Refract: iterations of self curated by (maría)petra fortes-schramm

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Found this on the Vehicle of Escape blog, a blog about Portland art

#cindy burton #too much pretty #lipstick #vehicle of escape

Quick snapshots from Reflect/Refract: iterations of self

Featuring the work of: Cindy Burton | Courtney Coles | Demian Dine’ Yazhi‘ | Molly Bush | Samirah Raheem

#cindy burton #courtney coles #demian dine' yazhi'#molly bush #samirah raheem #petra fortes-schramm #place

So, I curated this show featuring some amazing artists. The opening was a success: got some great comments regarding the show and work; people ate the snacks; and good conversation was had.

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Reflect/Refract: iterations of self

October 10-13, 2013

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 10, 6:00 - 9:00 pm @ Place, 700 SW 5th Ave, 3rd Floor, Portland, Oregon [map]

Cindy Burton | Courtney Coles | Demian Dine’ Yazhi‘ Molly Bush | Samirah Raheem Reflect/Refract: iterations of self is a four-day group show, curated by (maría)petra fortes-schramm, wherein five artists investigate the self and its repeated representation. All art may be self-referential, but what of overt self-reference that occurs in self-portraiture? Are self-portraits to be understood as indulgent or narcissistic, expressions of the soul, honest examinations of one’s self, or self-determined self-representation? What results in repetition of the genre; clarity, abstraction, redundancy? This show asks viewers and artists to examine the stakes involved in self-portraiture. What claims are we making of ourselves, and the world in which we are situated, through the repeated gesture of self- representation, and what are the effects of this practice? - - - - The Interim Series is one of Place’s newest programs. We offer up our space a week before our newest shows to a class, a student curator, an innovative night of performance, or a special project.

Place is a gallery space on the third floor of the Pioneer Place Mall (Atrium Bldg) in downtown Portland, OR. Hours of operation are Thursday through Sunday, 12:00 to 6:00 pm.

#place #cindy burton #courtney coles #demian dine' yazhi'#molly bush #samirah raheem #petra fortes-schramm