Jim Riswold is a highly regarded Portland, Oregon photographer—and former creative director at Wieden Kennedy—known for his staged photographs and mixed media works that poke fun at taboo figures such as Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Mao Zedong, General George Custer, Vladimir Lenin, and Kim Jong-Un, among others.

After battling leukemia for five years, Riswold became a full-time artist, creating staged photographs and other mixed media works poking fun at taboo figures including dictators, royalty, and other historical heavyweights. For the past dozen years, his scathing humor and sense of the absurd have been used to ridicule and deflate the potency of history’s most impactful bullies.

Organized by Collection Curator Jonathan Bucci, the exhibition features a selection of European and American prints and photographs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that depict scenes of workers and the working class in European and American life.
Included in the exhibition are works by Jean Charlot, John Stuart Curry, Carl Hall, Darius Kinsey, Lewis Hines, Marion Post Wolcott, and Myra Albert Wiggins, among others.

The works were generated at a time of enormous economic, political, and social upheaval – a time period that included two world wars, the industrial revolution, worldwide economic collapse, and large scale immigration to the United States. Socialist and capitalist ideas were very much in debate in the Western world during this time and concern for how these changes impacted the working classes was a subject of significant artistic output.

Organized by Collection Curator Jonathan Bucci, the exhibition features a selection of European and American prints and photographs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that depict scenes of workers and the working class in European and American life.
Included in the exhibition are works by Jean Charlot, John Stuart Curry, Carl Hall, Darius Kinsey, Lewis Hines, Marion Post Wolcott, and Myra Albert Wiggins, among others.

The works were generated at a time of enormous economic, political, and social upheaval – a time period that included two world wars, the industrial revolution, worldwide economic collapse, and large scale immigration to the United States. Socialist and capitalist ideas were very much in debate in the Western world during this time and concern for how these changes impacted the working classes was a subject of significant artistic output.

Jim Riswold is a highly regarded Portland, Oregon photographer—and former creative director at Wieden Kennedy—known for his staged photographs and mixed media works that poke fun at taboo figures such as Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Mao Zedong, General George Custer, Vladimir Lenin, and Kim Jong-Un, among others.

After battling leukemia for five years, Riswold became a full-time artist, creating staged photographs and other mixed media works poking fun at taboo figures including dictators, royalty, and other historical heavyweights. For the past dozen years, his scathing humor and sense of the absurd have been used to ridicule and deflate the potency of history’s most impactful bullies.

Jim Riswold is a highly regarded Portland, Oregon photographer—and former creative director at Wieden Kennedy—known for his staged photographs and mixed media works that poke fun at taboo figures such as Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Mao Zedong, General George Custer, Vladimir Lenin, and Kim Jong-Un, among others.

After battling leukemia for five years, Riswold became a full-time artist, creating staged photographs and other mixed media works poking fun at taboo figures including dictators, royalty, and other historical heavyweights. For the past dozen years, his scathing humor and sense of the absurd have been used to ridicule and deflate the potency of history’s most impactful bullies.

Organized by Collection Curator Jonathan Bucci, the exhibition features a selection of European and American prints and photographs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that depict scenes of workers and the working class in European and American life.
Included in the exhibition are works by Jean Charlot, John Stuart Curry, Carl Hall, Darius Kinsey, Lewis Hines, Marion Post Wolcott, and Myra Albert Wiggins, among others.

The works were generated at a time of enormous economic, political, and social upheaval – a time period that included two world wars, the industrial revolution, worldwide economic collapse, and large scale immigration to the United States. Socialist and capitalist ideas were very much in debate in the Western world during this time and concern for how these changes impacted the working classes was a subject of significant artistic output.

Jim Riswold is a highly regarded Portland, Oregon photographer—and former creative director at Wieden Kennedy—known for his staged photographs and mixed media works that poke fun at taboo figures such as Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Mao Zedong, General George Custer, Vladimir Lenin, and Kim Jong-Un, among others.

After battling leukemia for five years, Riswold became a full-time artist, creating staged photographs and other mixed media works poking fun at taboo figures including dictators, royalty, and other historical heavyweights. For the past dozen years, his scathing humor and sense of the absurd have been used to ridicule and deflate the potency of history’s most impactful bullies.

Organized by Collection Curator Jonathan Bucci, the exhibition features a selection of European and American prints and photographs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that depict scenes of workers and the working class in European and American life.
Included in the exhibition are works by Jean Charlot, John Stuart Curry, Carl Hall, Darius Kinsey, Lewis Hines, Marion Post Wolcott, and Myra Albert Wiggins, among others.

The works were generated at a time of enormous economic, political, and social upheaval – a time period that included two world wars, the industrial revolution, worldwide economic collapse, and large scale immigration to the United States. Socialist and capitalist ideas were very much in debate in the Western world during this time and concern for how these changes impacted the working classes was a subject of significant artistic output.

Organized by Collection Curator Jonathan Bucci, the exhibition features a selection of European and American prints and photographs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that depict scenes of workers and the working class in European and American life.
Included in the exhibition are works by Jean Charlot, John Stuart Curry, Carl Hall, Darius Kinsey, Lewis Hines, Marion Post Wolcott, and Myra Albert Wiggins, among others.

The works were generated at a time of enormous economic, political, and social upheaval – a time period that included two world wars, the industrial revolution, worldwide economic collapse, and large scale immigration to the United States. Socialist and capitalist ideas were very much in debate in the Western world during this time and concern for how these changes impacted the working classes was a subject of significant artistic output.

Jim Riswold is a highly regarded Portland, Oregon photographer—and former creative director at Wieden Kennedy—known for his staged photographs and mixed media works that poke fun at taboo figures such as Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Mao Zedong, General George Custer, Vladimir Lenin, and Kim Jong-Un, among others.

After battling leukemia for five years, Riswold became a full-time artist, creating staged photographs and other mixed media works poking fun at taboo figures including dictators, royalty, and other historical heavyweights. For the past dozen years, his scathing humor and sense of the absurd have been used to ridicule and deflate the potency of history’s most impactful bullies.

Named after the sixteenth-century Danish castle in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the Elsinore Theater opened for silent films and vaudeville shows on May 28, 1926. It was heralded as the “largest and most lavish theater between Portland and San Francisco.”
In the decades since attorney and art connoisseur George B. Guthrie constructed the building at High and State Streets, the Elsinore has been an integral part of the city’s cultural scene. Performers have included John Philip Sousa, Clark Gable, Jack Benny, Bonnie Raitt, Gregory Peck, Bernadette Peters, James Earl Jones, and Itzak Perlman.
Ellis F. Lawrence, founder of the University of Oregon School of Architecture, and interior designer Fred S. Allyn designed the Elsinore by combining the characteristics of a Gothic cathedral and a Tudor palace. The building included Povey Brothers stained-glass windows, 30-foot faux stonework walls, candlelit chandeliers, a decorative foyer, murals of Shakespeare’s characters, and two grand carpeted staircases.
In 1986 Clayton and Rick Parks donated and installed the largest theater pipe organ in the Pacific Northwest—a stunning 26-rank, 1,800-pipe instrument— The Elsinore Theatre remains the home of the Parks Murdock Mighty Wurlitzer Organ.
Hear the stories behind the ghost light, which is a light bulb on a stand, glowing center stage. The ghost light remains on casting shadows against the walls of the stage and the back of the auditorium when the stage and theater are empty.
Take the tour and learn so much more.

Organized by Collection Curator Jonathan Bucci, the exhibition features a selection of European and American prints and photographs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that depict scenes of workers and the working class in European and American life.
Included in the exhibition are works by Jean Charlot, John Stuart Curry, Carl Hall, Darius Kinsey, Lewis Hines, Marion Post Wolcott, and Myra Albert Wiggins, among others.

The works were generated at a time of enormous economic, political, and social upheaval – a time period that included two world wars, the industrial revolution, worldwide economic collapse, and large scale immigration to the United States. Socialist and capitalist ideas were very much in debate in the Western world during this time and concern for how these changes impacted the working classes was a subject of significant artistic output.