Image from the Artisans Cup website. They also have an excellent blog with great articles like ‘Bonsai as an Education: the Pursuit of Sustainable Life.’
While we’re in Portland (actually I’m home in cold blasted Vermont, but the memories are fresh) it seems like the right time to talk about the Artisans Cup. I think it will prove to be a break-through (earth shattering?) bonsai event and you just might kick yourself if you don’t go.
If you need encouragement, there are plenty of very good reasons to put the soon-to-be-very-famous Artisans Cup at the top of your list; not of least of which it’s at the beautiful Portland Art Museum, a most definite venue step-up for a North American bonsai event. Or just the fact that it’s in Portland, a loveable and manageable city that’s in the center of one of the best growing areas in the world, and a city that is rapidly becoming the American Bonsai Capital (American Bonsai Village, see below). There’s more, but you can dig around on your own and find other good reasons to go. BTW: the dates are October 4-6. See you there.
Here’s your passport. You can visit Michael Hagedorn’s Crataegus Bonsai for the inside story.
Gothic bonsai. Another artistic image from the Artisans Cup.
The venue; aka Portland Art Museum.
Sweet tree, nice frame and someone’s memorialized lower half.
Looking forword to your bonsai spectacular
Would it be possible for you to send me all of the information to date for the artisans cup.
Can I buy my tickets now. If so could you please send me list of entry cost, reasonable accomadation, directions etc. I am off to Japan next week for a 6 week vacation. So excited . Like to get this settled before we leave in case we run out of cash while we are there. Are there any bonsai exhibitions in the south of Japan during this time frame or are they over now until the fall.
I am so excited.
Hope to meet all of you in the fall.
Regards
Brian