The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) in Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

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, United States

United States

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 was founded in 1996 by Kristy Edmunds, formerly the Director of the Portland Art Museum

Portland Art Museum

The Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, United States, was founded in 1892, making it the oldest art museum on the West Coast and seventh oldest in the United States. Upon completion of the most recent renovations, the Portland Art Museum became one of the twenty-five largest art museums in...

's "Art on the Edge" program. Edmunds left PICA in 2005 to become art director for the Melbourne International Arts Festival

Melbourne International Arts Festival

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.

PICA specializes in contemporary performance and visual arts programming.

It sponsors the annual Time-Based Art Festival

Time-Based Art Festival

The Time-Based Art Festival is an annual interdisciplinary art and performance festival presented by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art . It occurs over a ten-day period in September in Portland, Oregon in the United States...

(TBA Festival) each September.

External links

• Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (official website)