Special Event
24 Hour Comics Day in Library
For the second year in a row, PNCA’s Library is site for Portland’s only officially hosted 24 Hour Comics Day.
Each brave participant will attempt to complete their own 24 page comic in a 24 hour time period (October 20-21, from 10am to 10am).
Cartoonist Scott McCloud started doing 24 Hour Comics Days in 1990, but the event didn’t become an official, international experience until 2004.
The event has grown every year. There are now 80 officially hosted sites spread out in 30 US states and 14 international countries, as well as numerous events happening in private homes and dark alleys. See the official 24 Hour Comics website for more details about the event.
Special Surprise Guests will be attending...
Special thanks to LAIKA Entertainment for their generous support, and thanks to Bridge City Comics, Floating World Comics, Art Media and Hot Lips Pizza for their additional support.
Participating
So you think you want to try to stay up for 24 hours and make a 24 page comic, huh? OK, then. You can register below, but first, a few details to get out of the way:
Who can be part of the action?
Anyone is welcome to join the event, although minors must be accompanied by an adult. Space is limited, with first priority given to PNCA students. We keep a waiting list since some people drop out as the event draws near.
Rules and Guidelines
- We need you to promise not to drive yourself home. You may be unaware of how drowsy you are, and we don’t want any accidents to mar this great event. You’ll have to specify your mode of transportation home and/or the name and number of the person who will drive you home.
- Bring your own art supplies, snacks and comfortable items. We’ll also provide some snacks and pizza and coffee.
- It’s gracious of PNCA to host this event, so we need to treat the facility with respect.
- Alcohol and illegal drug use are forbidden at the event.
Connect with Art and Design
PNCA Continuing Education brings new courses in design and communication arts, special windows into contemporary art practices, a comprehensively updated certificate program, and expanded public programs.
PNCA Continuing Education is committed to excellence in education and innovation in art and design, to help all members of the community realize their artistic aspirations.
New adult courses include Animation Essentials with Joanna Priestly, Digital Sound Design with Heather Perkins, Digital Storytelling with Randall Jahnson, and Video + The Everyday with Julie Perini. Classes for young children are tailored to their cognitive and motor abilities, with emphasis on exploratory learning and imaginative growth. Young teens are immersed new media forms and visual expression. The Pre-College program for high school students focuses their creative abilities onto the central challenges of particular art and design disciplines.
To register or learn more, visit Continuing Education
Monica Drake Joins Oregon Book Awards Author Tour
PNCA Faculty Monica Drake, author of Clown Girl, is participating in the Oregon Book Awards Author Tour, Aug. 20-22.
Drake, along with Oregon Book Award winners Alison Clement and Elizabeth Rusch, will speak in Enterprise on Aug. 20 and again in La Grande on August 22. The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by Literary Arts for the finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, drama and young readers literature.
The state-wide tour covers major Oregon cities including Astoria, Enterprise, Ashland and Burns, among others, and offers literary fans the opportunity to meet Oregon’s pre-eminent writers.
All finalists are promoted in libraries and bookstores across the state, and invited to take part in the Tour, which brings finalists to public libraries and independent bookstores in towns including North Bend, Eugene, Newport and Astoria.
Drake is Assistant Professor of Foundation at PNCA. Her fiction has appeared in the Beloit Fiction Review, The Threepenny Review, The Insomniac Reader and others. Previous awards include an Arizona Commission on the Arts Award, the Alligator Juniper Prize in Fiction, and a Millay Colony Fellowship, and was a Tennessee Williams scholar at Sewanee Writers Workshop. Her debut novel, Clown Girl, is published by Hawthorne Books.
For more information on this and other Literary Arts events, visit Paper Fort.
PNCA Faculty at Mass MoCA
PNCA Faculty Daniel Duford’s work is part of Sleeping Giant, an emerging body of work by choreographer Lawrence Goldhuber at Mass MoCA.
Sleeping Giant, a collaboration with Duford, the video artist Janet Wong, and the chamber music group Tin Hat, is written by and based on a large-scale installation by Duford, who “uses massive wall drawings and a series of miniature houses with a graphic novel written across their facades to tell the story of a America’s rise, fall, and rebirth as seen through a small town,” according to MassMoCA.
The work incorporates projections, animations, and video enhancements of Duford’s work in its stage production. The New York Times called Goldhuber “An artist of considerable depth and refinement… First-rate theater with a surprising edge of poignancy.”
Daniel Duford is an Instructor in the Intermedia and Sculpture departments at PNCA and also works as an artist and writer. His sculptures and drawings have been exhibited in national galleries including: The Clay Studio, Philadelphia; Zocalo Gallery, Santa Fe; The Albuquerque Art Museum; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s A Lot series and The Art Gym at Marylhurst University.
His illustration and comic work have appeared in Tin House Magazine and in the self-published titles The Green Man of B Street and We Are on Our Mind (with C. Hollow). His writing has appeared in Artweek, ARTnews, The Organ, The Bear Deluxe,Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics Technical and Ceramics Art and Perception.
Sleeping Giant will be performed at MassMoCA on August 23 and at the Henry Street Settlement’s Abrons Arts Center in New York, Oct. 2-4.
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