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Portland Remains a World Hub for Stop-Motion Animation

There’s a puppet boom underway in Portland, compounding the city’s storied history in the stop-motion style, which owes largely to Will Vinton’s pioneering Claymation work.

You Can Watch Two Classic Films by the Late Portland Animator Will Vinton at Hollywood Theatre This Weekend

You can catch the eight-minute long Academy Award-winning film, where museum exhibits come alive at night in the mind of a drunken patron, at the Hollywood on Oct. 14, along with The Adventures of Mark Twain, Vinton’s first full-length clay animation feature, from 1985.

Legendary Portland Animator Will Vinton Has Died

Vinton was born in McMinnville in 1947. He began creating films in Portland in the 70s. Within the decade, Vinton put Portland on the map as a hotspot for innovative animation and established his place in animation history. Vinton’s 1974 short Closed Mondays, which he co-created with Bob Gardiner, was the first Portland made film to win an Oscar.

30 Reasons To Love Portland Right Now

Portlandia is dead. Long live Portland.

Willamette Weekend: Katy Perry, A Free Super Bowl BBQ and 13 Other Things to Do and See in Portland, Feb. 2-4

By luck or design, this is free Sunday BBQ day at the North Portland gay bar—which means free, hot cheesy bacon burgers during the game.

Mark Shapiro Has His Finger on the Pulse Of Stop-Motion Animation. He’s Curated a Screening That’s a Crash Course in the Genre’s Shorts.

It takes less than two minutes before Will Vinton’s Closed Mondays gets really weird. In the 1974 short by the stop-motion animation pioneer and Oregonian, an old man walks into an art gallery. But the banal scene quickly turns surreal when music notes painted on one of the canvas start moving. From there, Closed Mondays only moves further from reality.

It's Back: Portland's Creative Conference Reviewed

Back from a three-year hiatus, The Portland Creative Conference threw itself back into Portland’s artsy scene Friday, Sept. 25 at Portland Center Stage’s Armory Theater.

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