PRESS RELEASE: Ethos Magazine Collaborates with David Minor Theater for a Silent Art Auction during First Friday Art Walk

Friday, April 2, 2010                                  PRESS CONTACT

5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.                                Rachael Mitchell

David Minor Theater                       Development Director, Ethos Magazine

180 E. 5^th Ave.                                            (928) 925-8381

Eugene, OR 97401                                     rachaelm@uoregon.edu

Eugene, OR – The David Minor Theater and Pub, in conjunction with Lane Arts Council’s First Friday ArtWalk, will host a silent auction to benefit Ethos Magazine on Friday, April 2 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. The David Minor Theater is located on 180 East 5^th Ave., Eugene, Ore., 97401. Ninkasi Brewing Co. is sponsoring this event.

Showcased artwork will include University of Oregon student photography and illustrations that have appeared in past issues of Ethos Magazine.

Artwork will be sold in a silent auction and will remain on display throughout the month of April.

All proceeds benefit Ethos Magazine, an entirely student-run publication that has received national recognition and several awards. Based at the University of Oregon, the magazine features multicultural content covering local, national and international perspectives. Ethos Magazine is free to its readers.

Information about the event will be available on both the Ethos Magazine website, http://ethosmagonline.com/events, and the David Minor Theater website, http://www.davidminortheater.com/.

Artist Bio
Richard D. Owens received a Bachelor's in Art, with a focus in photography and printmaking from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2004. He has shown extensively in Eugene, OR and was juried into the annual Mayor's Art Show in 2008 and 2009. He was this year's Honorable Mention Award recipient. He is a photography mentor with the NAACP ACT-SO high school youth program and volunteers weekly at the Materials Exchange Center for the Community Arts (MECCA). He was a active member of the Art Committee for the 25th Anniversary Oregon Asian Celebration and continues to promote the local arts community. His works are held in private collections internationally and across the United States.

 Feb.5 Art walk. Featuring Adam Lunt &TC Combs

Past Artists

# 5 David Minor Theater - 180 E 5th Ave.
Shawn Mediaclast started making collages when he moved to Eugene in 1996 as an alternative to going to bars and dealing with the hipsters’ attitudes he found there. He remained a total and complete hermit through 2002, when he opened the Museum of Unfine Art and Record Store and began making friends with people even stranger than him. Now he has lots of friends and is admired by all of his peers. He has been praised by University of Oregon professors, the Lane Arts Council, and numerous news agencies for his efforts in exposing hundreds of regional outsider artists.  His work has been heralded and criticized as "shockingly banal" and "anally composed.”  He does not like being a visual artist and only does so out of lack of time, energy, resources, and space to record massive electro dance tracks and play free jazz! He will be showing work spanning the last thirteen years and hopes someone will buy all of his work, as a collection, at a dramatic discount, to help fund the dance club he is opening on Broadway later this winter called Cowfish.

Past Artists