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Welcome
It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the Affair at the Jupiter Hotel (2006) in Portland, Oregon. This is year three for the fair, continuing to provide arts professionals, collectors and enthusiasts a generous dose of the contemporary art scene. Galleries and not-for-profits will come from across North America to showcase their artists. Approximately 4000 people attend the fair each year.

Saul Ostrow, the moderator of our 2004 panel discussion and the Dean of the Cleveland Institute of Art suggests that, “Art fairs, beyond their economic impact on a community, have in recent years become important educational and cultural events. They form momentary museums of contemporary art "bringing together and juxtaposing art works in unexpected combinations under novel circumstances. What more could one want from art than the type of intense aesthetic and social experience that an art fair can afford. An art fair like the Affair at the Jupiter Hotel gives the host community not only a focus, but a sense of its cultural worth and ambition.”
Our fair is a intimately scaled event at a much-heralded boutique hotel. Affair at the Jupiter Hotel is the exhibition/event where you can develop contacts with knowledgeable dealers and curators, exchange opinions about emerging and mid-career artists, and make new acquisitions for your private or public collections. A keynote address, informal curator discussions, and numerous parties round out the fair offerings.

We would like to thank all of the participants, sponsors, friends, and volunteers whose energies make the Affair at the Jupiter Hotel such a success.

Stuart Horodner & Laurel Gitlen
Organizers