Winter Exhibits In The Gallery
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View Upcoming EventsPlease join us for the multiple art exhibits on display throughout the runs of Hedwig and The Angry Inch and School Girls; Or The African Mean Girls Play. These gallery exhibits will be on display in the PGE Gallery level and Ellyn Bye Studio lobby and will feature an art installation about gender identity from Basic Rights Oregon (BRO), collages from costume designer artist Wanda Walden and a photography exhibit featuring LGBTQ models as imaginary dystopian characters by Portland-based, Filipino/America fashion photographer Tom Lupton.
The exhibit opens on January 8, 2020 and will be on view daily, through March 1, 2020.
The Winter exhibits run from January 8-March 1, 2020. Open 10:00 AM to close every day.
Wanda’s first production design dates back to 1989. Her recent costuming credits include An Octoroon and We are Proud to Present.... She also created a visual representation of these productions that was displayed in the lobby. Wanda's other credits include Profile Theatre (The Secretaries, Fires in the Mirror), Oregon Children's Theatre (And in This Corner: Cassius Clay), Portland Actors Conservatory (All My Sons, Marisol, Othello: The Remix), Controversy Theater (Sibling Rivalry), Portland Playhouse (How I Learned What I Learned), and Vanport Mosaic (Left Hook, Hercules didn't Wade in the Water, American Summer Squash, Cottonwood in the Flood).
Wanda is Resident Costumer for PassinArt Theatre, where her credits include Two Trains Running, Repulsing the Monkey, The Gospel of Lovingkindness, Black Nativity, Smoldering Fire, and Tommy J & Sally. Wanda has an art studio in Oakland, California and has been commissioned twice to do the “Worship in Pink” artwork for breast cancer awareness for the Susan C. Komen Foundation in Oregon and SW Washington. Wanda is the Artistic Director of Retrospect Productions, a theatrical modeling company. She is also a prolific writer of historical scripts, including Soul Shadows, Turn Back and Get your History, Blues me, Jazz me and Rock me in Rhythm, Harlem on my Mind, DeJavue, and Tribute to Maya.
Basic Rights Oregon will ensure that all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Oregonians experience equality by building a broad and inclusive politically powerful movement, shifting public opinion, and achieving policy victories.
Tom Lupton is a Filipino/American photographic artist who has called Portland home for about half his life. Tom is known more widely for his fashion editorial work, which has been featured in numerous fashion magazines, and garnered him a nomination for fashion photographer of the year. His love for theatrical, emotion-filled subjects also finds its way into everything he does - music videos, fashion editorials and shows, portraits, and album covers.
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