I recently made a trip up to Portland, OR to visit a school I am looking at making application to. Being a poor college, I had $60 to cover everything for the entire 4 days I was there. Of course I wanted to see as much of the city I could while I was there. So, I researched everything free to do in the city before I left for my trip.
I came across a brochure online showing a
map with all of the pieces a public art in the city. I came up with the idea of doing a sort of
terrain association game where I would run around the city looking for all the spots on the map where piece of art could be located. This ended up being a terrific idea. I took the map out and looked at it before I left my room, got a quick idea of the direction I was going to head in, and took off. As you can tell from
the map of my run, I got a little lost at first, ran around in circles for a bit, but in the end I realize there was so much art in the city that I the map was not needed. All I needed to do was keep my head up and eyes open!
Here are some of the pictures that I took along the way. This ended up being the funnest part of my trip. I definitely foresee more of these runs in other cities I visit!
....and, I uploaded my pics in the order I snapped them but had to upload them from my Blogger mobile app and they didn't upload in order :/ Hopefully, I will find the time to reorder them... but, anyhoo.. enjoy!
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| FREE TOURS - didn't quite have time to make it back for one though. |
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| Headed Out the Door! |
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| Public Fountains! Constructed in memory of Philanthropist Simon Benson. |
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| Portland! |
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| Honest Abe...& me. |
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| Yet another fountain (or, er, a picture of the fountain that was hidden behind the vegetable stand) |
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| Just thought this was nice! |
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| I was happy to see that at least one of the Farmer's Markets stays open for the winter. |
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Portland was one of the friendliest cities I have ever visited!!!
Even strangers spoke to each other on the bus. |
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| A piece of a building that was left, I believe.. |
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| Jamison Square is where this red sculpture below was found. |
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| Theodore Roosevelt, Rough Rider |
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| Coming of the White Man, in Washington Park (ran here the day after art jogging tour) |
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| Asked someone sitting close by - this is a fountain when it is not freezing out! |
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Rock located at the Chinese Gardens
Chinatown |
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The first piece I located after running around in a few circles.
I actually uploaded a pic of this without me bombing it, but it did not upload :(
This was another favorite piece of mine - sorry you can not see it!
You can see it HERE though |
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| Street Entrance to Chinese Gardens |
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| Chinatown |
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HUGE piece - but not quite sure of it's name. : ?
Another favorite - and behind it, there is some construction going on that I believe will incorporate MORE ART! :) |
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| Just some really pretty graffiti |
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Multinoma County Library - had an amazing collection of popup art books!
I took many pictures to show my students for the summer reading program I work at! |
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| Very cool idea! I loved this! Wish I had my nephew with me to play. |
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I thought the city was full of culture!
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This a fountain during warmer season! Drained for winter :(
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By the Water at the start of my run....hmmm..pics uploaded completed out of order!
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| These are located all over the city.. apparently food is good here.. I even saw a vegan truck... but I was limited to purchasing my own groceries and eating in! Next time... |
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Ok... I was particularly excited when I came across this one.
This was not an art piece listed on the brochure.
I lucked into finding this one - can any of my running buddies guess who this is??? |
