We need to Borrow Easels

We have a few big installations coming soon and are looking for easels. Eugene Storefront Art Project has about $280.00 in our account and cannot afford to purchase and rent easels for our installations at Broadway and Willamette and other downtown storefronts..
If you can spare an easel for two months or more please contact Marc Time at revmarctime@gmail.com or Paula Goodbar at paula.goodbar@gmail.com.Thanks to all of you who lent us easels,Thank You!

There is a PayPal button at the top of this page.Our officers are underemployed and have each spent a lot of time and money on supplies,printing and gas.
We are working toward attaining non-profit status and your donation would be tax-deductible.Even a couple of dollars helps.
It's hard to have to beg for donations,but without funding our efforts are hampered.

We are still accepting submissions, please look elsewhere on this blog for submission instructions.

Any property owners or managers interested in having local art in their windows please contact us!

Marc Time, Founding ESAP member

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” ~Jack Kerouac
Radio Announcer, Impresario, writer, musician and postcard collector.

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Paula Goodbar, Founding ESAP member

http://www.paulagoodbarphoto.com/index.htm
Illuminating every subject and capturing qualities that may not be evident to the naked eye is the objective of every photo session, wedding or event by Paula Goodbar Photography.

We create images that give you a glimpse of the individuality of every subject -- images that will be treasured for a lifetime.

Paula brings enthusiasm and insightfulness to make every photographic session a relaxing and enjoyable experience, whether in the studio or location of your choice.

Creative Portraiture sessions may include costumes, props, special hair and make-up - in short, anything to help create whatever your imagination desires in a portrait session that captures your true self.

Black and white photography may be combined with traditional and alternative darkroom processing methods to create one-of-a-kind pieces available for clients desiring something unique in portraiture.

Paula is an award-winning photographer, with over twenty years of experience, who is now devoted to portraiture, weddings and events, and fine art photography. Her artwork is regularly exhibited in galleries throughout Oregon, Arizona and California with many pieces available for purchase.

Peter Herley, Founding ESAP member

http://daricedesigns.com/Peter/bio.html
"The shapes, along with the bright and dark colors, represent the people, places and things I encounter from day to day. I try to convey tidbits of conversations I have with people and the energy I observe when people interact with one another. I'm hopeful that these pieces of work will capture the emotions and thoughts of viewers as they contemplate life through my paintings."

440 Coburg

http://www.visitstudiowest.com/Erin.html

Thank You!

The DNA has written a letter of support to ESAP. Please thank them by checking out their site, and joining. Eugene Storefront Art Project also thanks Pacific Real Estate , Steve Master,Beam Properties, and Cowfish for letting us use their storefronts for local art.

Taco Time at Broadway and Willamette

At 39 W. Broadway in Eugene on May 3 we will feature the works of Hosanna Haines. This will be our 4th installation in 4 months! This is a crucial corner in our downtown so to have a chance to beautify it is a big deal. We can't wait.

We Have 2 New Installations!

The first will go up this week at 440 Coberg Rd, right north of Trader Joes near Cafe 440 and the liquor store.We will be installing art by Erin Dougherty-Williams at Unit 104. This will go in Friday!!We are so excited, and this paves the way for more art in empty Eugene storefronts!

Letter to the City Council

Dear Members of the Eugene City Council-

It was a pleasure to meet you and speak before the council last night. Thank you for listening and participating in our dialogue about our efforts to find fast and economical solutions to downtown blight. We feel that the idea of Storefront Art has proven to be a positive influence in many cities around the nation. We hope that by planting these ideas and spreading our message that the seeds will grow into a fruitful harvest for the Downtown core.

At your next meeting you will be adopting an amended Urban Renewal Plan for the Downtown Urban Renewal District. We hope that you will add some teeth and vigor to some of the sections of your plan, specifically:

Section 400 – Goals and Objectives
A-2-“Eliminate blight and blighting influences;” A blighted area is characterized by the existence of one or more of the following conditions”
E-b- “Obsolescence, deterioration, dilapidation, mixed character or shifting of uses.”
E-h-“A growing or total lack of proper utilization of areas, resulting in a stagnant and unproductive condition of land potentially useful and valuable for contributing to the public health, safety and welfare.”

Attached is a copy of Section 400 and we hope that you will enforce some of the standards within, particularly concerning the existence of a number of properties downtown that have been vacant for more than 5 years.

We also hope that you will be able to recognize or reward some of the property owners that have stepped up to improve the look and conditions of their empty properties.

The Eugene Storefront Art Project is very interested in your suggestions of letting us beautify and set up art installations in some of the vacant and stagnant city properties. We are extremely excited about the possibilities, specifically in areas such as parking structures and empty windows. There is a dearth of mural art in our downtown; we have a bank of artists ready to go.

Also attached is a copy of our installation and RIGHT OF ENTRY AND LICENSE AGREEMENT, which demonstrates our commitment toward professionalism and decorum in all of our projects.

We have also met with Nan Laurence and Laura Hammond about our efforts and we hope to meet with other city officials soon.

Please contact us here or at our address above to let us know how and when we can proceed with helping you add color to your downtown properties.

Please visit our web blog at http://esapblog.blogspot.com/ for information about our efforts and links to how many other cities have used Storefront Art to beautify downtown areas.

Yours Truly,

Marc Gunther
Paula Goodbar
Peter Herley
The Eugene Storefront Art Project

Video of City Council Meeting

Members of the Eugene Storefront Art Project spoke at last night's City Council meeting about eliminating blight . Go to:
http://www.eugene-or.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=267&PageID=321&cached=true&mode=2&userID=2
and look on the left side of the page for "Current webcast" of our April 12 public Meeting.

Blight

GENERAL PROVISIONS 457.010 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Blighted areas” means areas that, by reason of deterioration, faulty planning, inadequate or improper facilities, deleterious land use or the existence of unsafe structures, or any combination of thes...e factors, are detrimental to the safety, health or welfare of the community. A blighted area is characterized by the existence of one or more of the following conditions: (a) The existence of buildings and structures, used or intended to be used for living, commercial, industrial or other purposes, or any combination of those uses, that are unfit or unsafe to occupy for those purposes because of any one or a ... See Morecombination of the following conditions: (A) Defective design and quality of physical construction; (B) Faulty interior arrangement and exterior spacing; (C) Overcrowding and a high density of population; (D) Inadequate provision for ventilation, light, sanitation, open spaces and recreation facilities; or (E) Obsolescence, deterioration, dilapidation, mixed character or shifting of uses; (b) An economic dislocation, deterioration or disuse of property resulting from faulty planning; (c) The division or subdivision and sale of property or lots of irregular form and shape and inadequate size or dimensions for property usefulness and development; (d) The laying out of property or lots in disregard of contours, drainage and other physical characteristics of the terrain and surrounding conditions; (e) The existence of inadequate streets and other rights of way, open spaces and utilities; (f) The existence of property or lots or other areas that are subject to inundation by water; (g) A prevalence of depreciated values, impaired investments and social and economic maladjustments to such an extent that the capacity to pay taxes is reduced and tax receipts are inadequate for the cost of public services rendered; (h) A growing or total lack of proper utilization of areas, resulting in a stagnant and unproductive condition of land potentially useful and valuable for contributing to the public health, safety and welfare; or (i) A loss of population and reduction of proper utilization of the area, resulting in its further deterioration and added costs to the taxpayer for the creation of new public facilities and services elsewhere.

Artists sought for Artscapes opportunities

Why can't we do this in Downtown Eugene?:

Artists sought for Artscapes opportunities
""http://tacoma.komonews.com/content/artists-sought-artscapes-opportunities
Submitted by Morris Malakoff on Tuesday, April 6th, 08:33am KOMO news .com

The Tacoma Arts Commission invites artists and/or artist teams residing in Washington and Oregon to submit proposals for the creation of temporary site-specific artwork as part of Artscapes. Opportunities include the creation of outdoor installations and/or performance art for Tollefson Plaza and temporary installations for a variety of interior window spaces in downtown Tacoma.

Outdoor Tollefson Plaza installations and/or performance art will be presented for one month each starting in June, 2010, and commissions for Tollefson Plaza are $2,000 each. Interior storefront installations will be displayed for three months each starting in June, 2010, and commissions for interior storefront installations are $500 each.

Artscapes is a temporary public art opportunity that encourages the development of contemporary art designed to enliven our streetscapes and everyday experiences. Artscapes is a project of Spaceworks Tacoma – a collaboration between the City of Tacoma, Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber of Commerce and Shunpike to activate empty storefront spaces in downtown Tacoma with creative uses.

Deadline for submissions is May 7, 2010. Artists interested in applying may download the Call to Artists. Calls to Artists are also available by calling (253) 591-5191 or can be requested by e-mail.