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Inner Landscapes

The p:ear gallery is thrilled to present Jeff Leake’s Inner Landscapes.

A Bay Area native, Jeff Leake holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from UC Davis. Fascinated with the origin and nature of our inner landscapes, he works alongside neuroscience faculty at Portland State University to teach art and neuroscience there and around the Portland area.

Also the co-founder and art coordinator of NW Noggin, an art and neuroscience outreach group, Jeff has travelled around the country to give lectures on neuroscience and art, and has lectured on art and drugs for Science On Tap, the Portland Art Museum, and the Washington State Psychological Association.

Along the way, Jeff has shown his artwork nationally and internationally. He currently lives and works in sunny Portland, Oregon with his wife, kids, and three dogs.

In addition to showing his work in the p:ear gallery, Jeff will be facilitating art workshops for p:ear youth, and youth artwork will be shown alongside Jeff's at the the Inner Landscapes shows.

Opening Reception:

On Display:
August 1st - October 31st
Tuesday – Friday 9am-2pm, or by chance or appt.

upcoming

“Friends and Family” Art Show

The Friends + Family Charity Smack-Down Arm Wrestling Tournament and Art Show brings together Portland’s community of nonprofits and p:ear’s community of volunteers, staff and youth in one giant showdown in a quest to see who will earn the title: 2018 Willamette Week Give!Guide Iron Arm Champion!

Representatives from nonprofits featured in Willamette Week's Give!Guide will arm wrestle in an series of epic battles. The winner donates the prize money to their respective nonprofit. But others can try their skills as well, challenging any willing person in the room, by donating through the Give!Guide to ANY nonprofit.

The Friends + Family art show will highlight the incredibly creative community of p:ear supporters along side the work of the youth who walk through our doors everyday. Youth artists keep 90% of the sales of their art, and guest artist work proceeds benefit p:ear.

Everyone’s a winner at p:ear’s events, with costumes encouraged and prizes abounding…!

Prizes include:

1st Prize "Might Makes Right" – Arm Wrestling Champion gets $ Prize Money

2nd Prize "Right Makes Might" - Best Costume gets a Giant Unicorn Pool Float!

...and more...!

Doors at 5pm and Arm Wrestling Tournament starts at 6pm emceed by Geof Garner and special guest, Richard Meeker.

Opening Reception:
November 1, 2018
5pm - 8pm

On Display:
November 1 - December 31
Tuesday – Friday 9am-2pm, or by chance or appt.

about p:ear gallery

p:ear gallery is located on-site and is the venue through which p:ear youth and guest artists display and sell their work. The gallery opens most First Thursdays, 5pm - 8pm, and serves as an open house in which community members and p:ear youth engage in an open dialogue and appreciation of our youths’ monthly artistic achievements. p:ear youth keep 90% of the proceeds from the sales of their work, a positive way to generate funds.