Earlier this month, the first-ever Portland Arts Week launched 16 exhibitions across town that centered, however abstractly, the theme of art and sports. Elizabeth Leach, the influential gallerist who organized the new festival, explained the inaugural theme as a way of bridging two worlds: Portland’s art gallery scene plus its sports teams and sportswear companies. It was an excuse to get different kinds of creative people talking to each other, and perhaps to show them they had more in common than they might imagine. But what of the art shows this art and sports theme brought about?