Portland State art lecture November 26, 2007

Jay Boss Rubin is a native of Portland, Oregon. He graduated from Lincoln High School in the year 2000, and attended Boston University from 2000 to 2002. He is the founder and organizer of the annual “Portland Challenge” event, wherein participants must cross the Willamette River in downtown Portland without the use of money, motors, or bridges. The Portland Challenge is a fundraiser for the House of Peace and Love Project, a community education initiative in Visiga, Tanzania. Mr. Rubin worked off and on as a doughnut fryer for Voodoo Doughnut, between 2003 and 2006. In 2004, he began offering free, Monday night Swahili lessons at the downtown Portland pastry emporium. Mr. Rubin is currently writing a work of nonfiction, about his travels in Tanzania and the United States, called The Bongo Diaries.

Portland State University's Art Department offers free public lectures every Monday night of the school year. This is the eighth lecture in the PMMNLS for this season. The PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series is supported in part by PICA, Reed College, PNCA, Lewis & Clark College, and PSU's Department of International Studies. If you or your organization are interested in becoming a supporter of the lecture series please let us know.

Free.

Official Website: http://www.pica.org/programs/detail.aspx?eventid=290