Exhibition: Brian Lund: "New Works"

Brian Lund works primarily in the medium of drawing. His recent series of works on paper combine the visual vocabularies of two cinematic sources: Oliver Stone’s Wall Street (1987) and Busby Berkeley’s choreographed dance sequences from Depression- era Hollywood musicals. Every character and/or action in every edit of Wall Street and the Berkeley dance numbers has been graphically translated to a series of marks. These marks cluster and expand to form a map-like surface. Through an interweaving of these diagrammatic forms, Lund interprets a complex and layered multimedia experience.

Image info:Bud Fox Meets Gordon Gekko (40+ Repeated Sequences from* Wall Street*) 2009 Graphite and colored pencil on paper 26 x 40 inch. Courtesy of Smith-Stewart Gallery

Ticket info: Free and open to the public. Daily from 10am - 7pm.

Homecoming Address | Lee Kelly ‘59

Portland Art Museum Chief Curator and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Bruce Guenther interviews PNCA Alumnus Lee Kelly ’59 for the 2009 Homecoming Address, part of PNCA’s Alumni Weekend. A significant Northwest sculptor, Kelly has spent over 50 years crafting dynamic works.

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International Writing Program

This year for the first time PNCA will be hosting five writers through the International Writing Program, which since its founding in 1967 at the University of Iowa, has brought together more than 1,000 rising and established literary stars from 120 countries to develop a community of writing to enhance international understanding. The writers’ week at PNCA includes both immersion in the campus curriculum along with collaborative public programming. The experience provides writers from around the world with a sense of American innovation and openness, and exposes U.S. readers, writers, and artists to international perspectives on the art and process of writing. Participating writers include: Fflur Dafydd, a novelist, literary critic and musician from Wales; Soheil Najm, a poet from Iraq; Osman Conteh, a novelist from Sierra Leone; Fedosy Santaella, a fiction writer from Venezuela; and Lijia Zhang, a nonfiction writer from China.

Digitally Building the DIY Community

A Conversation with Matt Stinchcomb of Etsy

-Buy, Sell, and Live Handmade- Portland’s DIY culture continues to be recognized internationally as a central hub of the American DIY movement, celebrated as a collective of creative talent with a progressive approach to the entrepreneurial spirit. Presented by the PNCA/CYAN/PDX Cultural Residency Series A Gerding Edlen Project with Pacific Northwest College of Art “This Moment in Time” …the urban context of Portland

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MFA in Visual Studies Lecture | Martin Kersels

Los Angeles-based artist Martin Kersels has long used art as a forum for wrestling with the limitations and possibilities of being a fully embodied, sentient and emotional being. He employs a range of media, from sculpture and photography to video and performance. He has worked on staff at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the UCLA Art Department, and currently serves as a faculty member and co-director of the art program at the California Institute of the Arts. His work has been featured in exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the J. Paul Getty Museum and ACME in Los Angeles, Deitch Projects in New York, and the Galerie Georges-Phillipe and Nathalie Vallois in Paris. His pieces are in the public collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 
and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, at La Reina Sofia in Madrid, and the Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Pompidou in Paris.

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International Writers Forum

Join Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland State University's Center for Public Humanities and the University of Iowa International Writing Program for a symposium on the state of world literature with five international authors: Osman Pius Conteh (novelist, Sierra Leone), Fflur Dafydd (novelist, Wales), Soheil Najm (poet, Iraq), Fedosy Santaella (fiction writer, Venezuela), and Lijia Zhang (writer, China).

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Lecture | Craft Dialogue: Sloppy Craft Featuring Anne Wilson

A term coined by Anne Wilson at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, “sloppy craft” is described by craft theorist Glenn Adamson as the “unkempt” product of a “post-disciplinary craft education.” Join Anne Wilson, Wilson’s former student Josh Faught (University of Oregon), Nan Curtis (Pacific Northwest College of Art) and local artist Jessica Jackson Hutchins to discuss this rising—and controversial—approach to conceptual craft practice. This conversation takes place in preparation for a related exhibition co-curated by Josh Faught, assistant professor and program coordinator of fibers, University of Oregon; and Namita Gupta Wiggers, curator, Museum of Contemporary Craft. Sloppy Craft is scheduled to exhibit at the Museum during the 2010–2011 exhibition season.

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MFA In Visual Studies Lecture | Alix Pearlstein

New York-based artist Alix Pearlstein will discuss her wide range of work that includes conceptual sculpture, multi-channel installation, and performance-based video. Pearlstein uses everyday objects, pop cultural artifacts, and art historical references to create narrative meaning through association. Characterized by deadpan humor and a minimalist aesthetic, Pearlstein's approach is direct and intimate. Her videotapes engage in wry, self-conscious renderings of icons of style, gender, media, and art historical Modernism. Her works have been included in exhibitions at the Biennale de Lyon, France; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Kunstverein, Cologne; S.M.A.K., Ghent, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. One-person exhibitions of her work have been seen at The Kitchen, NYC; The MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Postmasters Gallery and Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York; and The Grossman Gallery, School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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MFA In Visual Studies Lecture | Kate Gilmore

New York-based artist Kate Gilmore received her MFA (2002) at the School of Visual Arts, New York and BA (1997) at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. She currently has a solo exhibition at Franco Soffiantino Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy, and last year, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, Texas, Artspace San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, Maisterravalbuena Galeria, Madrid, Spain, and CESAC Centro Sperimentale Per Le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio, Italy. She is represented by Smith-Stewart Gallery in New York.

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Pecha Kucha–Inspired Night

Join the Museum of Contemporary Craft and Pacific Northwest College of Art's MFA in Applied Craft and Design program (a joint MFA offered with Oregon College of Art and Craft) for an energetic, casual Pecha Kucha-inspired Night. Pecha Kucha is a concept that grew out of the Tokyo design community, featuring a series of concise presentations. MFA in Applied Craft and Design students will present ideas and images in a modified format of roughly 3.5 minutes each. This lively program will introduce the audience to ideas, objects, and questions on the minds of the inaugural class in this innovative new program.

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MFA in Applied Craft and Design Lecture: Zahid Sardar

Zahid Sardar is the author and designer of New Garden Design and San Francisco Modern. He has written about architecture, interiors, craft and design for the San Francisco Examiner, and the San Francisco Chronicle where, for 20 years, he has held various titles including Architecture & Design Editor for the Chronicle magazine and most recently, San Francisco Chronicle Design Editor. Sardar has lectured widely about architecture, interior design and garden design and has participated on design juries for various organizations including the American Institute of Architects. His current lectures at Bay Area schools about the history of design focus on the return and value of craft in industrial design. Sardar has also written for House & Garden, House Beautiful, Elle Décor, Metropolis, Architecture, among others.

Lecture at the MFA in Applied Craft and Design Studios @ The Bison Building, 421 N.E. 10th Ave.

MFA in Applied Craft and Design Lecture: Ellen Dissayanake

Ellen Dissanayake is an independent scholar, author, and lecturer, whose writings about the arts synthesize many disciplines and draw upon 15 years of living and working in non-Western countries. Her Darwinian viewpoint provides a broader understanding of the arts than is customary in most theoretical approaches: the arts are integral to human nature and they evolved to help individuals adapt to their physical and social environments. She is the author of three books: What Is Art For?, Homo Aestheticus, and Art and Intimacy, as well as over 70 scholarly and popular articles. Her articles on craft themes have appeared in American Craft, the NCECA Journal (1995), the Glass Art Society Journal (1996), Surface Design Journal, a Haystack Institute Monograph (2000), and The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience (2004). Currently, she is Affiliate Professor in the School of Music at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Lecture: Caldera Residency Report

Featuring MFA in Visual Studies Visiting Artist Alix Pearlstein and PNCA Faculty Stephen Slappe

MFA in Visual Studies students, along with Visiting Artist Alix Pearlstein and PNCA Faculty Stephen Slappe will discuss their experience during a two-week residency at Caldera in Sisters, Oregon. Alix Pearlstein’s work includes conceptual sculpture, multi-channel installation, and performance-based video, using everyday objects, pop cultural artifacts, and art historical references to create narrative meaning through association. Slappe is an interdisciplinary artist who teaches in PNCA's Intermedia department. Together, Pearlstein and Slappe will lead MFA in Visual Studies students through art process and practice during the two-week residency.

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.