International Writers Project | Reading and Reception

co-sponsored by Wordstock

October 1, 6:30 pm
Swigert Commons, PNCA Main Campus Building
1241 NW Johnson St.

Meet and listen to the six guest writers with the International Writers Project at a public reading and reception.

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.

Craft Conversation | Dawn Odell: Culture Clash

Understanding Value in Chinese Antiquities Now

October 2, 2 pm
The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft
724 NW Davis St.
In conjunction with Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn

Imitation and forgery play an important role in Chinese culture both in the past and the present. How can we understand shifting values of “the antique”—particularly with ceramics? How does history become an aspect of beauty for Chinese (and global) consumers of Chinese ceramics?

Dawn Odell, Assistant Professor of art and art history at Lewis and Clark College, leads the conversation provides context for the works of Ai Weiwei.

Ticket info: Free for Museum members and the PNCA Community; $3 general public.

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Exhibition | George Johanson

Seven Decades of Painting

October 7–November 20
Swigert Commons, PNCA Main Campus Building,
1241 NW Johnson St.
First Thursday Opening, October 7, 6:00 pm

A Scholastic Magazine scholarship brought George Johanson to Portland from Seattle in 1946 to attend the Museum Art School, now Pacific Northwest College of Art. Since his arrival, Johanson has been a major force in the Portland art scene for nearly 60 years. He taught painting, life drawing and printmaking at PNCA for 25 years, retiring in 1980. Selected from hundreds of canvases, Seven Decades of Painting will showcase Johanson’s skill and intellect as a dedicated painter.

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.

Homecoming Lecture | George Johanson

Seven Decades of Painting

October 8, 6:30 pm
Swigert Commons, PNCA Main Campus Building
1241 NW Johnson St.

Born in Seattle in 1928, George Johanson attended the former Portland Art Museum School, now Pacific Northwest College of Art, in the late 1940s, where he studied with Oregon modernists Louis Bunce, William Givler, Jack McLarty and Michele Russo. Responding to the work of these artists as well as to the New York School and European avant garde, Johanson forged a mature style and range of imagery characterized by its graphic immediacy, intense coloration and exuberant figuration.

After receiving a Bachelors degree in 1950 he went on to teach painting, life drawing and printmaking at PNCA for 25 years, retiring in 1980. Johanson will speak about his exhibition, Seven Decades of Painting, and his 60 year connection to PNCA at the college’s 2010 Homecoming Lecture.

The Homecoming Lecture is one of four Cornerstone Lectures, including Convocation, the Edelman Lecture and Commencement, and is part of the PNCA Alumni Weekend.

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.

MFA Visual Studies Lunchtime Lecture: Mary Weatherford

PNCA MFA Caldera Artist-in-Residence

October 13, 12:30 pm
Swigert Commons, PNCA Main Campus Building
1241 NW Johnson St.

Since the 1990s, Los Angeles-based Mary Weatherford’s paintings have borne the influence of Ojai mysticism, California seaside craft and souvenir art, landscape painting of the American Symbolist movement and New York School Abstraction. Among her many exhibitions are solo exhibitions at P.S. 1 Museum, New York; Orange County Museum of Art, CA; Marc Jancou Gallery, Zurich; Debs & Co., New York; and Sister, Los Angeles.

PNCA Caldera Laboratories is a collaborative effort between Caldera Artist Residency and Pacific Northwest College of Art, joining forces to construct a site of possibility. Visiting artists, scholars, curators and critics come together with PNCA faculty and MFA students in a laboratory setting engaging in art making, original research, and visual and written investigations.

Presenting sponsor: ZGF Architects LLP

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.

See the full schedule of the 2010-2011 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

MFA Visual Studies Lunchtime Lecture: Guillermo E. Brown

PNCA MFA Caldera Artist-in-Residence

October 14, 12:30 pm
Swigert Commons, PNCA Main Campus Building
1241 NW Johnson St.

Guillermo E. Brown is a musician, multidisciplinary performer and producer/composer. He was awarded a 2001 Artist-in-Residence and 2003 Van Lier Fellowship from Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center. Featured on over 25 recordings, he has performed or recorded with David S. Ware, Anti-Pop Consortium, Anthony Braxton, DJ Spooky, El P, Carl Hancock Rux, Vernon Reid/DJ Logic’s Yohimbe Brothers, Mike Ladd, George Lewis, Vijay Iyer and Gordon Voidwell among others.

PNCA Caldera Laboratories is a collaborative effort between Caldera Artist Residency and Pacific Northwest College of Art, joining forces to construct a site of possibility. Visiting artists, scholars, curators and critics come together with PNCA faculty and MFA students in a laboratory setting engaging in art making, original research, and visual and written investigations.

Presenting sponsor: ZGF Architects LLP

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.

See the full schedule of the 2010-2011 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

CraftPerspectives Lecture | Philip Tinari: “Postures in Clay”

in conjunction with Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn

October 19, 6:30 pm
Swigert Commons, PNCA Main Campus Building
1241 NW Johnson St.

Philip Tinari discusses the practices of Jingdezhen porcelain production in the context of Ai Weiwei’s approach. Tinari is founding editor of LEAP, a new bimonthly journal of contemporary Chinese art based in Beijing and published by the Modern Media Group. Since 2007, he has run the publishing imprint, editorial office, and translation studio Office for Discourse Engineering.

He has written and lectured widely on contemporary art in China, for publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Magazine, and Parkett.

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.

Whitman Project

October 20, 6:30 pm
Swigert Commons, PNCA Main Campus Building
1241 NW Johnson St.

Some 50 readers will present a staged reading of Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself.” Images relevant to the 150th anniversary of Whitman’s book Leaves of Grass will be projected onto the walls.

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.

Lecture | Norman Klein

October 21, 6:30 pm
Swigert Commons, PNCA Main Campus Building
1241 NW Johnson St.

Norman Klein is a cultural critic, urban and media historian and novelist. He has written several books, and his essays appear in anthologies, museum catalogs, newspapers, scholarly journals and on the web.

His work centers on the relationship between collective memory and power, from special effects to cinema to digital theory, usually set in urban spaces; and often on the thin line between fact and fiction; about erasure, forgetting, scripted spaces and the social imaginary.

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.

MFA Visual Studies Lecture: Wallace Whitney

October 28, 6:30 pm
Swigert Commons, PNCA Main Campus Building
1241 NW Johnson St.

Wallace Whitney is a Bronx-based artist who makes large gestural/atmospheric paintings that recall the aesthetic of New York School painting. His work has been featured internationally in galleries such as Rowland Contemporary, Chicago; David Krut Projects, New York; CANADA, New York; and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York.

In addition to being a working artist, Wallace Whitney is an adjunct professor of painting at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Whitney is also a co-founder and current co-director of CANADA, an artist-run art gallery located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Presenting sponsor: ZGF Architects LLP

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.

See the full schedule of the 2010-2011 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

MFA Visual Studies Lunchtime Lecture: Caldera Report

October 29, 12:30 pm
Swigert Commons, PNCA Main Campus Building
1241 NW Johnson St.

The four Caldera students, Guillermo E. Brown, Joan Handwerg and Mary Weatherford engage in a public presentation about their experience at the residency. They present work completed while at Caldera and information about the discussions and learning experiences they shared as a group.

Presenting sponsor: ZGF Architects LLP

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.

See the full schedule of the 2010-2011 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series.