Blue Sky Gallery
Blue Sky Gallery is a non-profit "exhibition and explication space", "community research center", and archive for contemporary photography in Portland, Oregon. It grew to become a "preeminent West Coast venue where emerging photographers with 21st-century technologies." A non-profit space dedicated to public education, Blue Sky Gallery began by showing local artists and then slowly expanded to national and international artists. It "has introduced more than 700 emerging and established photographers to the region" and has been an early supporter of now-notable photographers such as John Divola, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Mark Klett, and Larry Sultan, John Chervinsky, among others.History
In 1975 a group of five young photographers pooled their resources to start a small gallery.
In 2007 Blue Sky raised $2.7 million and moved into the former North Park Blocks store and warehouse of Daisy Kingdom, In July 2008 they exhibited the last completed works by Robert Rauschenberg.
