Events + Exhibitions Calendar
Thursday, May 1
The Searchers
Continuing this month in the Feldman Gallery, The Searchers ask: What is the relationship between eBay and the consumer? Two eBay consumers? A person and their computer? The Searchers uses the construct of a first time eBay seller to explore the way that people connect, or don't connect, through technology--websites, email, letters, newspaper, books, iPods... The Searchers started with [ Read More... ]
Ticket info: Free and Open to the Public
Event runs:
Thu, May 1 –
Sun, May 25
Feldman Gallery + Project Space
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South Waterfront Artist Residency
PNCA Faculty Horatio Hung-Yan Law is Artist-In-Residence for May
PNCA Faculty Horatio Hung-Yan Law is the Artist-In-Residence for the South Waterfront residency program in May.
Not only a dedicated instructor at PNCA, Hung-Yan Law is a well-known Portland-based artist who uses common cultural material to create meaning and metaphor. His work excavates the ambivalent topography of personal and collective identities in the contemporary global culture. More recently, he has [ Read More... ]
Event runs:
Thu, May 1 –
Sat, May 31
Robert Burns
Local Dual
Intermedia major Robert Burns has created an interactive sculptural installation that invites the viewer to spin a large binary wheel that triggers an audio/visual response. Using magnets, and 8 track tape player and a self-reflective threshold, this installation addresses the non-local nature of consciousness.
Ticket info: Free and open to the public
Event runs:
Thu, May 1 –
Fri, May 30
Higgins Gallery
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Elizabeth Meyer and Gavin Potenza
Communication Design students Elizabeth Meyer and Gavin Potenza have developed a graphic language of symbols addressing the subject of mysticism. These geometric works on paper were produced both digitally and by hand.
Ticket info: Free and open to the public
Event runs:
Thu, May 1 –
Sat, May 3
BFA Gallery
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Friday, May 2
Lunchtime Performance Series
Brent Swanson
Acoustic and Electric Instrumental Guitar Performanceat lunchtime.
Event times:
12:30 pm –
1:30 pm
Commons
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Tuesday, May 6
Lunchtime Performance Series
In the Commons at 12:30 Student Services is sponsoring some Poetry and Movement.
Event times:
12:30 pm –
1:30 pm
The Commons
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Wednesday, May 7
Justine Kurland Lecture
Noontime Chat with Artist Justine Kurland
Justine Kurland is a contemporary photographer based in New York. Kurland creates large c-print staged tableau pictures of neo-romantic landscapes inhabited by young adolescent girls, half-sprites, and half juvenile delinquents.As landscapes she chose the ‘secret places’ of late childhood; wasteland on the edges of suburbia, ‘owned’ only by a feral nature and unsupervised children.
Ticket info: Free & Open to the Public
Event times:
12:30 pm –
1:30 pm
Room 125
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Thursday, May 8
Lunchtime Performance Series
Swing and Blues Dance Group
Some members from the Portland Sing and Blues dance community will be kickin it up in the Commons at lunch
Event times:
12:30 pm –
1:30 pm
The Commons
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Monday, May 12
Lunchtime Performance Series
Secret Powers
Luis Gonzalez, Michael Cahill, and Owen Smith are Experimental musicians who will be inviting you into their "Geodesic" dome.
Event times:
12:30 pm –
1:30 pm
The Commons
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Wednesday, May 14
Lunchtime Performance Series
Workshop/recital
Mia Nolting and Jackie Holmstrom will be having an "Ambiguous shape building workshop, with a possible piano recital at the end ".
Event times:
12:30 pm –
1:30 pm
The Commons
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Thursday, May 15
Gary Wiseman
From March 2006 to January 2008, Gary Wiseman produced 30 international, interactive performances with the help of hundreds of participants and volunteers under the heading Tea Project, in collaboration with Red 76, PICA, the Cooley Memorial Gallery (Reed College), THE M.O.S.T and Hope Hilton.
Wiseman is currently engaged in numerous smaller scale collaborations and ongoing projects such as Personal [ Read More... ]
Ticket info: free and open to the public.
Event times:
12:30 pm –
1:30 pm
Rm 201
Nan Curtis' 3-D Design Class - Opening
Performances at 7pm, featuring Jax Gise. Our final assignment is to "Replicate a 'Famous' Persons 3-D Work." This exhibition will feature the "work of Charles Ray, Brad Sells, Anish Kapoor, Manuel Neri, Alex Gray, Zoe Leonard, Jen Stark, a high design bed, a traditional shadow puppet and a flea circus."The exhibit will be up through Saturday, May 17.
Event times:
6:30 pm –
9:00 pm
Gallery 214
Friday, May 16
End of The Year Party
BBQ
You know you're dying to see who will be dancin on the tables this year. Come to the PNCA annual End of the Year Bash!! We'll have tons of drinks and food for the grill, plus some good peeps spinning the tunes to get ya in the mood to celebrate another year of greatness.There will be fun and goods to raffle off.
When: Friday May 16th 4:00 - 9:00Where: The Loading Docks on nw 13th
Ticket info: PNCA Community Only
Event times:
4:00 pm –
9:00 pm
The Loading Docks- on nw 13th
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Friday, May 23
PNCA+FIVE Idea Studio: Susan Szenasy
Green with Envy: How Innovative is PDX in its Quest to Make a Sustainable City?
Moderated by Ms. Szenasy and PNCA President Tom Manley, this panel discussion will identify some of the indispensable elements of sustainable urban communities in the 21st Century, the best practices being employed and where Portland might be headed if it intends to be an all around exemplar. Representing a cross section of the Portland community panelists will include: Mark Edlen, Managing Principal of Gerding [ Read More... ]
Ticket info: Free and open to the public
Event times:
10:30 am –
12:00 pm
Gerding Theater at the Armory, 128 NW 11th Ave
Sunday, May 25
2008 commencement ceremony
Senior Exhibition
On May 25th at 4pm, the class of 2008 will walk the stage at the commencement ceremony. This year commencement will be held tat the Tiffany Center located at 1410 SW Morrison street.
Following the event, students, families, and other attendees will re-group at PNCA for the Senior Exhibition where Seniors show off there developed talents. The show will be at both the Goodman Commons (13th and Johnson), and [ Read More... ]
Ticket info: Students can pick up tickets mid-April for guests to the commencement ceremony
Event times:
4:00 pm –
5:30 pm
Senior Exhibition
Thesis show
Graduates from PNCA's BFA program exhibit their Thesis body of work from May 25th - June 18th.
There will be a First Thursday Art opening for the show on June 5th from 6pm-9pm at both the Goodman Commons (13th and Johnson), and the Steven's Studios (14th and Johnson).
Ticket info: free and open to the public
Event times:
5:30 pm –
2:30 pm
Thursday, May 29
Panel Discussion
From Idea to Production: Craft in Conceptual Art Making
Moderator: Stephanie Snyder. Panelists: Melissa Dyne; PNCA MFA chair, M.K. Guth; Kathy High; Namita Gupta Wiggers.
Dyne's installation serves as a point of departure for a discussion about the relationship between concept-driven art, industry and craft.
Ticket info: Free and open to the public
Event times:
7:00 pm –
9:00 pm
Museum of Contemporary Craft, The Lab
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