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Art Exhibition - Yesterday: Today: Tomorrow

Yesterday Today Tomorrow Exhibition

Yesterday:Today:Tomorrow celebrates ten years of Gertrude Press featuring eight visual artists or collectives whose work has been published in the journal. The show considers "Queerness"—an identity in constant flux—and addresses themes of otherness, sameness, and cultural collapse.

Portland Q Center - 4115 N. Mississippi, Portland, Oregon [map]

Participating Artists: Michelle Acuff, Dawn Forbes, Frank Munns, Neil Meitzler (posthumously), Kimberly Miller, Operation Pinko, and Sigrid Zahner.

Curated by Jedidiah Chavez, Art Editor, Gertrude Press.

Made possible through a grant from The Standard. Food provided by Hedge House.

Gertrude Press Presents Lounge Night

Gertrude Press Presents Lounge Night, a special event featuring live performances by Annie Vergnetti,
the E-Kings, Reba Strawser, and more.

May 2007 Reading

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Featured readers included Gertrude Press-published writers Henry Alley (fiction) and Austin Gray (poetry) as well as talented writers Amanda Powell (poetry), Risa Bear (memoir), and Ce Rosenow (poetry). Gertrude Press Founding Editor Eric Delehoy (fiction) also read.

This event was held on:
Monday, May 21
7 p.m.
Mother Kali's Bookstore
1849 Willamette Street
Eugene OR

For further information please contact Henry Alley, (541) 484-6259 or Mother Kali's at (541) 762-1077.

Fall 2006 Art Exhibit

Tricia McInroy
BEYOND BOUNDARIES

Q Center
1028 SE Water Street (entrance on SE Taylor)
Portland, Oregon
Hours: Sun 1-5 pm, Mon-Wed, 4-8 pm

Exhibit Opening:
Friday, September 8, 2006, 6pm-8pm

Gertrude Press is proud to present, in conjunction with Portland's Q Center, the internationally known photographs of Tricia McInroy.

The photographs on display through the month of September, are a small portion of McInroy's larger body of work in which she documents immigrant border crossings along the Arizona and Mexico border. Her photos speak of desperation, solitude, and more importantly, McInroy provides faces to challenge immigration politics that are undoubtedly imbued with racism.

Relying on the perceived boundaries that define the concept of "the other," her work navigates the spatial relationships between photojournalism and art activism. As an out lesbian, McInroy demands that, "oppressed communities must reach out to others that exist on the margins. Only in this way can we begin to cooperatively deconstruct the very social systems that have failed us all."

For more info, contact: Jedidiah Chavez, Art Editor, via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

About the Artist:

Tricia McInroy has been a professional photographer for more than ten years with photos appearing in publications such as Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today, Washington Post, and the fall 2006 issue of Gertrude.

Spring 2006 Reading

Our reading on June 8th in Eugene, Oregon was a great success! Over 30 people gathered at Tsunami Bookstore to hear readings by our fiction and poetry chapbook authors, Henry Alley and Kate Gray, and board member Elizabeth Simson.