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28 February 2007
In his 17 years of writing about art, architecture, and planning for the Oregonian... More
13 February 2007
The board of the Oregon Council for the Humanities (OCH) has named Cara... More
News releases from February 2007
28 February 2007
In his 17 years of writing about art, architecture, and planning for the Oregonian newspaper, Randy Gragg says he is struck by how many of the state’s conflicts in these arenas are rooted in efforts to merely preserve the past rather than build on it.
“Preservation is an easy argument,” he says. “Articulating a theory of change is much harder. By holding on so hard to the past, I believe we, as a region, risk becoming victims of the future.”
Gragg, the Oregonian’s architecture critic, will deliver a free public lecture, “Against Nostalgia: The roots of a new direction for architecture and planning in Oregon,” at Temple Beth Israel, 1931 NW Flanders St., Portland, on Saturday, February 24, 2007, at 5 p.m. with a reception to... More
13 February 2007
The board of the Oregon Council for the Humanities (OCH) has named Cara Ungar-Gutierrez as its new executive director, announced board chair Jill Powers Kirk on Monday. Ungar-Gutierrez, who most recently served as Director of Education for the Oregon Historical Society (OHS) in Portland, will officially assume her duties on March 5.
Ungar-Gutierrez will be the fourth executive director of OCH, which was established in 1971 by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and is one of five statewide partners of the Oregon Cultural Trust, a statewide plan that raises funds to invest in Oregon’s arts, humanities, and heritage. She succeeds Christopher Zinn, who left the organization last fall. She will manage a staff of seven... More
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