In 2009, Abraham Ingle brought Berlin’s Papergirl Project to Portland. Over 200 pieces of original 2d art were displayed in a gallery, then rolled up, and distributed via bicycle to randomly selected people on the streets of Portland.
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Music by Blue Horns www.myspace.com/bluehornsband
Here’s the video from the Papergirl Distribution.Special thanks to everyone who participated, to Dustin Zemel for the excellent video work, and to The Blue Horns for letting us use their music. More Papergirl Here
Papergirl rode through Portland yesterday, delivering over 200 pieces of art to random people on the streets.
It was a really fun and amazing event.
A big thanks to all the artists who donated, to all the paper girls and boys, to the documenters, and to Portland for being absolutely lovely yesterday.
More documentation is to come, so stay tuned!
Photos by the wonderful Melissa Delzio (design portfolio & blog at www.meldel.com)
In 2009 I partnered with Papergirl in Berlin to bring Papergirl to Portland.
Over 200 original works of art were donated to the project.
In September the art was shown at the Second Nature Gallery.
In October, some awesome people and I rode through the streets of Portland on bicycles, distributing the donated art at random to people on the street.
Papergirl PDX, like most of my projects, was funded by myself alone. If you’d like to support free, public art that is kinda awesome, please consider buying me a burrito:
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