Last week an auction of all 31 “Coraline’s Curious Cat Trail” sculptures took place at The Judy and raised a total $244,000 for OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.
LAIKA, the Visit Downtown Campaign, Wild in Art, and OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital joined forces to bring Coraline’s Curious Cat Trail to the Rose City last August in celebration of “Coraline’s” 15th anniversary.
Donations can still be made on the dedicated site for the trail: OHSU Foundation – Coraline’s Curious Cat Trail.
Selectively chosen artists hand painted each one of the 31 almost six-foot-tall cat sculptures were stationed throughout Downtown Portland. The trail corresponded with the release of LAIKA’s remastered, Oregon made 3D stop-motion feature “Coraline”.
The trail will ran for 10 weeks, was free to the public, and culminated with an exciting auction to find permanent homes for these feline statues.
The Oregon Film Trail was the proud sponsor of a cat and was paired with artist and Oregonian creator, Nina Oberlin. Nina designed and hand painted the Oregon Film Trail “Cat Usher” that featured in Portland’s Living Room at Pioneer Courthouse Square. Nina’s background is in animation, puppetry, and film, and she is the owner of Shadow Streak Productions.
“It is the perfect campaign to highlight our creative and unique Downtown and celebrate LAIKA’s cinematic classic film Coraline,” said Sydney Mead, Director of Downtown Campaigns for Downtown Portland Clean & Safe and the Visit Downtown campaign. “This is a wonderful opportunity to tap into Portland’s creative side, illuminate our artist community, as well as collaborate with local award-winning movie studio LAIKA, and it’s all for a good cause, with proceeds going to OHSU Doernbecher,” Mead continued.
The Oscar-nominated film “Coraline” boasts stunning stop-motion animation, handcrafted puppets, and meticulously designed sets. “Coraline” is a wondrous, thrilling, fun and suspenseful adventure. A young girl walks through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life. On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life – only much better.
But when this off-kilter, fantastical adventure turns dangerous and her counterfeit parents try to keep her forever, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness, determination, and bravery to save her
family and get back home. The Oregon Film Trail features a “Coraline” marker on the trail in Ashland, Oregon.
Adapted for the screen and directed by stop-motion auteur Henry Selick (“The Nightmare Before Christmas”, “Wendell & Wild”), “Coraline’s” voice cast includes Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Ian McShane, Keith David (as Cat), and British comedy duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.
LAIKA was founded in 2005 in Oregon by President & CEO Travis Knight (located in Hillsboro) and the studio has produced five films; “Coraline” (2009), “ParaNorman” (2012), “The Boxtrolls” (2014), “Kubo and the Two Strings” (2016) and “Missing Link” (2019) and have all been nominated for the Academy Award for Outstanding Animated Feature. “Kubo and the Two Strings” won the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film and received an additional Oscar nomination for Visual Effects. Missing Link was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Animated Film. LAIKA was awarded a Scientific and Technology Oscar in 2016 for its innovation in 3D printing. LAIKA is currently in production on its next animated film “Wildwood”. The studio is developing the animated feature films “The Night Gardener”, from an original idea by Bill Dubuque, creator of the hit series Ozark, and Piranesi, based on the NYT bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke. LAIKA has launched a Live Action subsidiary with a range of projects in development including feature films based on the action thriller novel Seventeen by screenwriter John Brownlow and the original script Crumble, written and directed by Brian Duffield with Phil Lord and Chris Miller producing.
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Where do you get a map to locate the statutes.
There is the CoralinesCuriousCatTrail app (search in your app store, https://www.coralinescuriouscattrail.com/) where you can find a digital map, or, visit Travel Portland’s visitor center (https://www.travelportland.com/plan/visitor-center/) for a paper map. Hope that helps.