Oregon SCBWI partners with the Multnomah County Library to exhibit Oregon KidLit Illustrators! October through November 2025, Oregon SCBWI is sharing member work at the Multnomah County Library in Portland, Or. Explore how children’s book illustrations come to life in this exhibit highlighting the creative process and varied illustration styles. Featuring sketches, storyboards, and final […]
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Just Published! Leanne Grabel’s newly published illustrated chapbook, ‘Waiting To Hate … Maybe”, is an ‘in-the-moment’ response to the shocking avalanche of change in America’s political climate in 2025. A renowned Oregon poet, Leanne’s work is uniquely funny and insightful. Visit Leanne’s Website HERE. Purchase Waiting to Hate … Maybe by clicking the button below.
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Four Episodes of The StorieRising Podcast are up and waiting for kids of all ages to listen in – and – if you click the link in the program notes you’ll find a place to share your ideas. That’s how you become a ‘Story Collaborator.’ If your ideas are included in the published version of […]
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Over the summer months of 2024 I collaborated with my friend and colleague, Randall Stuart, on a fascinating book about his early career as an actor with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Coincidentally, OSF will be celebrating its 90th year in 2025; anyone interested in the ‘golden era’ of repertory theater in America will appreciate this […]
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Now you can listen to our growing series of Cullyville Stories – interviews with Neighborhood Innovators. Season one will be posted through June, 2025. Check out the Podcast HERE. And for kids, we’ve created StoryRising, a podcast about inventing stories collaboratively and as solo authors.
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RACC sponsors Cullyville Stories! Cullyville Stories was funded through a spring 2024 project grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council in May 2024. Cullyville Stories is a community story-making project focused in Portland’s NE Portland Cully neighborhood. Learn more HERE!
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January 2024: Portland Youth Philharmonic Exhibit at the Oregon Historical Society! In 2023, Dreaming Earth Press was selected to design an exhibit celebrating the 100th anniversary of Portland Youth Philharmonic, to include portable, reusable signage for use at future events. Here is a wall layout diagram and two signs included in the show. Excellent sign […]
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Dreaming Earth Press happily announces the latest book in David Vala’s mandala series, Architecture Mandalas, now available on Amazon. Below are sample spreads from the book in which David shares source photographs and the mandalas created from them. Using a process he calls: “Digital Alchemy,” David transforms photographs taken over the course of many years […]
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Published Summer 2022, Leanne Grabel’s illustrated memoir is a feast of imagery and prose.
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Leanne Grabel’s long-awaited Brontosaurus Illustrated is now available. I worked closely with Leanne over the last year, digitizing her drawings and collaborating on the design and layout of this highly visual memoir – a story of rape and recovery told with ineffable honesty. Find out more about the book, and the author, HERE. Published by […]
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