About the Calendar
Artful Education recruited noted photographer Charles Waugh to the project with the enticing offer of “creative liberty.” The Portland Icons: Predictably Unpredictable 2008 calendar is available for individual and group sales. The retail price is $19.95 (plus $4.95 shipping & handling) with 95% of profits going directly into the schools.
Participating local retailers :
- New Seasons Markets
- Presents of Mind
- Sole
- VooDoo Doughnuts
- PedEx
- Frock
- The Portland Art Museum
Press Release, October 2007
"Artful Education proudly announces the arrival of a funky new calendar which features some of the city’s most prominent citizens in some very unexpected poses. The “Portland Icons: Predictably Unpredictable” 2008 calendar offers one-of-a-kind photos benefiting arts and music education for children.
The inspiration for the calendar came from Bud Clark’s famous 1978 “Expose Yourself to Art™” photo in which Portland’s former mayor flashed Norman J. Taylor’s naked woman statue. The original poster is still available at www.errolgraphics.com. This time around, Clark and current Mayor Tom Potter are caught “exposing” themselves to the amusement of former Portland Mayor Vera Katz.
Other fun photos include a legendary football coach playing with toy cars, an NBA star finger painting and the police chief caught with her hands in the doughnut jar. According to Artful Education founder Lyndsay Levy, “This calendar is as wild, weird and wonderful as Portland. It also provides a fun way to support arts and music education in our schools.
The “Portland Icons: Predictably Unpredictable” 2008 calendar features:
- Greg Oden, Portland Trailblazer
- Portland Mayor Tom Potter and former Mayors Vera Katz and Bud Clark
- The Portland City Council: Sam Adams, Randy Leonard, Dan Saltzman
and Erik Sten - Multnomah County Commissioners: Jeff Cogen, Lisa Naito, Lonnie Roberts,
Maria Rojo de Steffey and Ted Wheeler (Chairman) - Jerry Glanville, Portland State University football coach
- Storm Large, singer and entertainer
- Rosie Sizer, Portland Police Chief
- Darcelle, female impersonator & Tres Shannon, co-owner of VooDoo Doughnuts
- John Callahan, Cartoonist
- Katie Harman-Ebner, Miss America 2002
- Susan Castillo, Oregon State Superintendent of Public Instruction
- Matt Zaffino and Brenda Braxton, KGW-TV news personalities
- Pennie Trumbull (a.k.a. “Penny Lane”)