By now PORT readers, you have read Jenn's announcement that she is leaving the publication to focus on her excellent gallery, Motel. This is no surprise between the two of us and we have been implementing a slow phase out of her essential role for over a year. No drama here, just change… PORT isn't where either of us spends the majority of our time. Others who can devote more time to this small scale but successful and innovative publication will be stepping in to help take it to the next level. I will continue in my role. It's just a natural growth situation that we saw coming a long time ago.

PORT itself is more successful than ever with over 25,000 unique individual readers per month and is the top ranked site when you Google "Portland" & "Art." Recently, the Walker Art Center's blog singled us out as one of the 10 best art blogs on the planet… wow. Many of you come back daily and we are grateful for your eyes.

With those numbers and reputation weve looked at how to grow the operation from its current small (but influential) scale to a slightly larger one. To those ends we are going to be hiring at least 1 new critic + adding some new sponsors, both big and small. In other words, weve both been doing PORT on the side and its business now demands some attention and fresh management divisions. What wont change is our focus on presenting critical content and information about art both locally and internationally. Thank you Jenn, you've been a dream to work with and that has been a large part of the site's success, take a bow.