Events + Exhibitions Calendar
Starting Tuesday, January 1
Beth Campbell
I can't quite place it
PNCA Artist-in-Residence Beth Campbell continues to exhibit new works made during her residency at the College. Campbell is a New York based artist working with drawing, painting, audio, installation,video and photography, to explore the psychology and perception of the self and one’s physical surroundings.
Campbell shows with Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York. This December, she will have her first solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her previous solo shows include Roebling Hall in New York, Sandroni Rey Gallery in Los Angeles, Sala Diaz in San Antonio and the Art Academy of Cincinnati. She just completed a major project with the Public Art Fund in NYC titled “Potential Store Fronts” and will be included in the upcoming 6th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil.Her solo
Campbell has participated in various museum shows including And Therefore I am at the Tang Museum in 2006, Open House at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 2004, Hello My Name Is…. at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh in 2002, Greater New York show atPS1 Contemporary Art Center in 2000.
Other showing venues include: Andrea Rosen, Feigen Contemporary, White Columns, Expodium (Netherlands), the Drawing Room (London), Hallwalls, Socrates Sculpture Park, Public Art Fund at Metrotech. Her work is included in collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum’s Altoids Curiously Strong Collection and Bloomberg Radio and News. Campbell’s art reviews have appeared in the New York Times, LA Times, Village Voice, Art on Paper, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, Art Index.
Ticket info: Free and Open to the Public
Event runs:
Tue, Jan 1 –
Sun, Jan 6
Feldman Gallery + Project Space
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Starting Thursday, January 3
Chris Mullins
Bivalence
Junior Chris Mullins’ work feels right at home in Portland’s gray winter months. Thoughtful and quiet, these paintings evoke the angst and loneliness of a rainy afternoon.
Ticket info: Free and open to the public
Event runs:
Thu, Jan 3 –
Sat, Feb 2
BFA Gallery
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Peterson Caldwell
Vómito
Gritty, chaotic and colorful, Caldwell's energetic show consists of several small works on paper and one large painting.
Ticket info: Free and open to the public
Event runs:
Thu, Jan 3 –
Sat, Feb 2
Higgins Gallery
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Starting Saturday, January 5
National Portfolio Day
Seattle, WA
Come visit with a PNCA admissions representative and have your portfolio evaluated.
Event runs:
Sat, Jan 5 –
Sat, Jan 5
Cornish College of The Arts
Sunday, January 6
National Portfolio Day
Portland, OR
Come to the College and visit with a PNCA admissions representative and have your portfolio evaluated.
Event times:
12:00 am –
12:00 am
Pacific Northwest College of Art
National Portfolio Day
Pacific Nothwest College of Art
Representatives from PNCA and over 30 other leading art colleges from across the country will be available to answer admission questions and review portfolios of prospective undergraduate students.
The day begins with campus tours and financial aid information sessions from 10 am – 12 noon. Portfolio reviews are from 12 noon – 4 pm. This is free and open to the public.
Ticket info: Contact us at:admissions@pnca.edu or 503.821.8972
Event times:
12:00 pm –
4:00 pm
PNCA: 1241 NW Johnson St
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Starting Saturday, January 12
Northwest Oregon Scholastic Art Awards
Sponsored by Young Audiences
The Northwest Oregon Scholastic Art Awards are part of a national project that encourages, fosters and rewards creativity in our nation’s classrooms, and provide an avenue for young artists and writers to receive recognition for their creative achievements. Started more than 75 years ago, The Awards is the largest and longest running recognition program of its kind in the nation.
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards is a remarkable celebration of young and talented students of the arts at the middle and high school levels. Equally important, The Awards salutes dedicated art and writing teachers in our schools.
Ticket info: Free and open to the public
Event runs:
Sat, Jan 12 –
Sat, Feb 2
PNCA Swigert Commons
Starting Friday, January 18
Joe Sacco
Graphic Articles
Joe Sacco is a Maltese citizen currently residing in Portland, OR where he makes his living as a cartoonist and journalist. Sacco was awarded the American Book Award in 1996 for his book Palestine, a collection of his serialized comic book depicting Sacco's encounters with Palestinians and Israelis as he traveled the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. His exhibit "Graphic Articles" curated by Mack McFarland, will be Sacco's first in Portland, and will include over 20 pages from four books: Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-95, The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo, and War’s End: Profiles from Bosnia 1995-96. Also exhibited will be photographs, sketches, and audio interviews made during Sacco's travels.
Graphic Articles is part of Cultures in Conflict: The Redress of Art & Design, a series of exhibitions and related lectures featuring leading-edge artists, each of whom is dealing with facets of cultural discord in their work. PNCA thanks the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and the Oregon Arts Commission for their generous support for Cultures in Conflict.
Event runs:
Fri, Jan 18 –
Sun, Feb 24
Feldman Gallery + Project Space
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Jacqueline Salloum
Planet of the Arabs
A trailer-esque montage spectacle of Hollywood's relentless vilification and dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims.Inspired by the book"Reel Bad Arabs"by Dr. Jack Shaheen
Official Selection at the 2005 SUNDANCE Film Festival
Ticket info: Free and Open to the Public
Event runs:
Fri, Jan 18 –
Sun, Feb 24
Project Space
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Spring Orientation 2008
New students
New Student Orientation for Spring Term starts Friday, January 18, 2008
Hours 9am-4pm
Get to know the campus, the Faculty, staff and general resources for making the most of your PNCA experience.
You will also meet other students who will be in your class and get a jump start on feeling at home in your new community.
Ticket info: For Incoming students of Spring Semester 2008
Event times:
9:00 am –
4:00 pm
swigert commons
Saturday, January 19
National Portfolio Day
San Francisco, CA
Come visit with a PNCA admissions representative and have your portfolio evaluated.
Event times:
12:00 am –
12:00 am
California College Of The Arts
Sunday, January 20
National Portfolio Day
Los Angeles, CA
Come visit with a PNCA admissions representative and have your portfolio evaluated.
Event times:
12:00 am –
12:00 am
Otis College of Art and Design
Saturday, January 26
National Portfolio Day
Miami, FL
Come visit with a PNCA admissions representative and have your portfolio evaluated.
Event times:
12:00 am –
12:00 am
TBD
Sunday, January 27
National Portfolio Day
Sarasota, FL
Come visit with a PNCA admissions representative and have your portfolio evaluated.
Event times:
12:00 am –
12:00 am
Ringling School of Art and Design
Monday, January 28
Drawing Day
Drawing Day in the Commons all Day!
Event times:
10:00 am –
5:00 pm
Commons
Wednesday, January 30
Joseph del Pesco Lecture
Noontime Chat
Joseph del Pesco, a San Francisco based print artist and curator, will be coming to PNCA to talk with students about curatorial work and practical applications of professional practice in the art world.
Del Pesco is the founder of the Collective Foundation in San Francisco, and has a traveling print show of great diversity.
Ticket info: Free
Event times:
12:00 pm –
1:30 pm
PNCA Goodman Building room 125
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Focus the Nation
As part of an ongoing conversation on art, design and sustainability, PNCA hosts a two-day event in conjunction with Focus the Nation, a national teach-in on global warming solutions for America.
The two-day event centers on what art and design can do to counter the conditions that contribute to global warming and features presentations by artists and writers, including painter James Lavadour, PNCA writer and poet in residence Kim Stafford, Senior Fulbright Scholar Barry Sanders, along with photographers Gary Braasch and Joel Preston Smith.
PNCA is one of over a thousand colleges, universities, high schools, middle schools, places of worship, civic organizations and businesses that will participate in the national educational initiative. The goal is to "move America beyond fatalism to a determination of meeting the challenge of our generation," according to the Focus the Nation Web site.
Events:
JANUARY 30
5pm, ONLINE: Focus the Nation national webcast with Stanford University professor Stephen Schneider
6:30PM, COMMONS: Kim Stafford poetry reading
JANUARY 31
12:30PM, COMMONS: Photographer Gary Braasch presents his photographs of places around the world endangered by climate change
1:30PM, COMMONS: As part of Christy Wyckoff and Tom Prochaska’s printmaking classes, Artist James Lavadour presents print work
3:15PM, COMMONS: As part of Anne Johnson’s Art and Anthropology class, anthropologist and City Repair co-founder Dr. Pedro Ferbel-Acarate talks about art and cultural survival, related to the Taino people of the Domenican Republic.
4:30PM, COMMONS: Designer and City Repair co-founder Mark Lakeman talks about design, community, and social practice
8:00PM, COMMONS: Barry Sanders talks about the environmental degradation caused by the US military, and photographer Joel Preston Smith presents his work photographing the people of Iraq
10:15PM, COMMONS: Special musical guest performs
Ticket info: Open to the public.
Event runs:
Wed, Jan 30 –
Thu, Jan 31
PNCA campus | 1241 NW Johnson
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