Blue Sky Gallery, also known as The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, is a non-profit exhibition space for contemporary photography in
Portland, Oregon
Portland ( ) is the List of cities in Oregon, most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated close to northwest Oregon at the confluence of the Willamette River, Willamette and Columbia River, ...
. Blue Sky Gallery is dedicated to public education, began by showing local artists and then slowly expanded to national and international artists.
History
In 1975 a group of five young photographers
—Robert Di Franco, Craig Hickman, Ann Hughes, Terry Toedtemeier, and Christopher Rauschenberg (son of
Robert Rauschenberg
Milton Ernest "Robert" or "Bob" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combine painting, Combines (1954â ...
)—pooled their resources to start a small gallery on NW Lovejoy Street in Portland Oregon. The gallery relocated several times over the years, to NW Fifth Avenue in 1978, then to NW Hoyt Street in 1987, where it remained for just under twenty years. In 2007 Blue Sky raised $2.7 million
and moved into the former
North Park Blocks
The North Park Blocks form a city park in the Pearl District, Portland, Oregon, in the United States. Most of the park is in northwest Portland (north of Burnside Street), but one block ( Ankeny Square) is in southwest Portland (south of Burnsi ...
store and warehouse of Daisy Kingdom,
[Daisy Kingdom had been acquired by ]Springs Industries
Springs Global is a Brazil-based multinational corporation engaged in the manufacturing, marketing, and sale of packaged textile and non-textile home furnishings. It makes textile goods, such as sheets, pillows, bedspreads, towels and bath rugs, ...
in October 1996, according to th
Portland Business Journal
. In July 2008 they exhibited the last completed works by Robert Rauschenberg.
It "has introduced more than 700 emerging and established photographers to the region".
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