

Hi!
It's been a bit since we last saw each other via this newsletter.
So let's get caught up, shall we?
First off, I want to give you a sneak peek of my studio (see video below)! It's located in the amazing Falcon Art Community in North Portland. Owned and operated by the very cool Brian Wannamaker, it's my first studio and I am having a blast hanging out there!


Speaking of hanging out. I am currently planning to open up my studio in the very near future so that we can all hang out together! I will have details in the near future. Until then, if you know someone who would like to join us all please have them send me their email addresses to my email at byronbeck.pdx@gmail.com
STU-STU-STUDIO!
PARIS TIME
Before spring sprung itself on us my hubby and I had a chance to spend a couple weeks in Paris. We are making the move there in the near future (I will share more about that later) and were incredibly happy to walk the rues and boulevards once again.

Volume 6
April 29, 2026

BACK IN PORTLAND
PAM CUT, Portland Art Museum's Center for an Untold Tomorrow, is giving a twist to its annual Cinema Unbound Awards.
But first to the award ceremony!
Join me for an unbound evening celebrating world-renowned visionaries, artists, and storytellers expanding what’s possible in cinema and beyond. Honorees include comic Maria Bamford, artist Titus Kaphar, entrepreneur Emma Mcllroy and Tom and Maris Pisha-Duffly of Gado Gado fame.
Get your tickets for the May 29th event, entitled WILD AND FREE, here:

In addition to the awards, the now five-day celebration amplifies Portland’s growing importance as an international hub for unbound artists, filmmakers, and storytellers. Featuring local and global innovators in art, film, fashion, music, comedy, sports, pop culture, culinary and literary artists, this West Coast cultural highlight invites audiences not content to be contained to a single art form or medium to meet and experience visionary creators redefining what art and cinema can be.
NEW! Cinema Unbound Week Public Events May 27-31, 2026 include:
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Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner at the PAM CUT Tomorrow Theater
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PAM CUT x Criterion, including:
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The famed Criterion Mobile Closet comes to Portland!
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A Criterion takeover of PAM CUT @ The Whitsell
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A live taping of the Criterion Channel’s Adventures in Moviegoing with Fred Armisen & Carrie Brownstein
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Unbound Comedy Weekend, featuring a sneak preview of Sundance 2026 documentary Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story with comedian Maria Bamford in-person and an evening with Holy Shit! Improv








