Bill Rutherford This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. Portland Calendar of Local Events

   www.theskanner.com/030205/pdxc - [Cached]

   Published on: 2/1/2003   Last Visited: 2/18/2003

   ARTISTS' RECEPTION and exhibit opening, "Hung Out to Dry," paintings and installations about Reconstruction and post-Civil War America by Bill Rutherford, 5-7:30 p.m., Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, 5340 N. Interstate Ave.

2. 2. IFCC presents ORIGINS lecturer, BILL RUTHERFORD for Black History Month

   www.ifcc-arts.org/mediarelease - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/25/2003   Last Visited: 3/23/2005

   IFCC presents ORIGINS lecturer, BILL RUTHERFORD for Black History Month / January 25, 2003 IFCC presents ORIGINS lecturer, BILL RUTHERFORD for Black History Month
   
   Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center (IFCC) announced today that Bill Rutherford, Portalnd artist, will be its featured speaker for its annual ORIGINS Lecture Series to be held Wednesday, February 12, 2003 at 7:00 pm in the IFCC theatre. The lecture, An Artist's View of the South after the Civil War, anchors Black History Month at IFCC.
   
   Tickets are $15 for general admission and $10 for students/seniors and can be purchased by calling (503) 823-4322 . Bill Rutherford is an African American, Anglo, Native American, self-taught artist. After a twenty-year hiatus, Rutherford returned to his art in 1992 and has exhibited in Oregon since 1996 in both group and solo exhibits.
   
   In preparing his exhibit, Hung Out to Dry, showing in the IFCC Main Gallery February 6-28, 2003, Rutherford researched the role of the African American following the Civil War.
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   Paintings that I hoped would identify the sources of White Americans' attitudes about Black Americans that have remained more or less unchanged for 138 years," says Rutherford.
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   Other IFCC events being held during Black History Month include two art exhibits (African American painters, Bill Rutherford in the main gallery and abaca fiber artist, Raymond Alexander, in the entry gallery), and the play Becoming a Whole Man, A Poetic celebration of Black-on-Black Love by Renee Mitchell Holman and Bradford Holman on February 14, 2003.