EVAPORATION / PERCOLATION

Works by Lucinda Parker

Selected from the past 20 years of Lucinda Parker’s ’66 expansive artistic accomplishments, the exhibit also unveils her recent large-scale commission for a new Gerding Edlen Development Company project in Bellevue, WA. Through this exhibition of studies from the project and over 20 paintings and drawings, viewers will glimpse Parker’s process, progress, and passions. The exhibit is held in connection with PNCA’s Alumni Weekend which will feature Parker as the Homecoming lecturer on Friday, October 3rd, 2008. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information about Alumni Weekend, please visit http://www.pnca.edu/about/alumni Photo Credit: Evaporation/Condensation/Precipitation/Percolation, 72×180” by Lucinda Parker. Commissioned by Gerding Edlen Development Company for Bellevue Towers, Bellevue, WA. Photograph by Jim Lommason

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.

Live Action Election

All are invited to a Student Services hosted live event that will last for two days. We will be airing the 2008 Elections live on the big screen starting mid afternoon on that Tuesday continuing on through the evening, and will resume again Wednesday morning. Whoever it is that you’re ‘voting’ for, come and actively watch as our future unfolds in these momentous times.

Ahmadi & Zhang: Looking Back

Paintings by Shiva Ahmadi and Baochi Zhang

Exhibit | Ahmadi & Zhang: Looking Back
November 6 through December 24
PNCA Feldman Gallery
Noontime Chats | Shiva Ahmadi | Nov. 5, 12:30pm
Baochi Zhang | Nov. 6, 12:30pm
Utilizing techniques learned while studying in their home countries, Iran and China respectively, Ahmadi & Zhang create works that infuse personal experiences into broader ethnic and political topics.

Image: LEFT, Shiva Ahmadi, Bullets and Boots detail, Watercolor and gouache on paperv28“X 28”.RIGHT, Baochi Zhang untitled, detail, oil on canvas, 24“x32”

Ticket info: Free and Open to the public.

Photographer Steven Miller

Noontime Chat | “Inappropriate Behavior”
Featuring Photographer Steven Miller
November 12, 12:30pm
PNCA Swigert Commons
Sponsored by the PNCA Photography Department
Free and open to the public

Photographer Steven Miller’s work invents new mythologies – a private universe that reinvents what it is to be a gay man in this day and age. Subverting cultural stereotypes and challenging the status quo forces the viewer to examine what is “natural” and what attitudes can be changed simply by shifting one’s point of view.

The Seatlle-baed photographer’s work has appeared in group shows across the US, including “Digitalia: Intimacy in the Hyperreal” at the Deborah Colton Gallery in Houston Texas, and the Eighth Annual Northwest Biennial at the Tacoma Art Museum. His work will appear in the New York Photo Festival in May 2009.

Steven Miller Photography

William Callahan Lecture

Free Lunchtime Lecture

Lunchtime Lecture | William A. Callahan
November 20, 12:30pmPNCA Swigert Commons

Free and open to the publicWoodrow Wilson Center Fellow William A. Callahan and Richard Kraus, Visiting Professor of Political Science at Portland State University, will focus on “Who is China?” during a noontime lecture co-sponsored by Pacific Northwest College of Art and the International Studies Department at Portland State University.Professor of International Politics at the University of Manchester, Callahan will examine the views of Chinese public intellectuals – philosopher Zhao Tingyang, writer Jiang Rong, film directors Zhang Yimou and Ang Lee and artist Cai Guo-Qiang. By taking a wide view of China, Callahan believes we can better interrogate official slogans like “One World, One Dream” by asking which world, and which dream?

His most current book, China: The Pessopotimist Nation, is unique because it goes beyond official sources to employ Chinese film, television, novels and blogs in an analysis o fthe interplay of state policy and popular culture. He is also the author of Contingent States: Greater China and Transnational Relations (Minnesota, 2004), and Cultural Governance and Resistance in Pacific Asia (Routledge, 2006).

Visit his blog

Multicultural Potluck

A PNCA community potluck featuring music by Justin King and more.

This is a chance for us to get together and share our culture through food. Join Student Services in the Student Lounge for our first Multicultural Potluck lunch with the PNCA community. Bring a dish to share, something that is unique to you.

Please RSVP

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

PNCA’s campus is closed for the Thanksgiving Holiday, November 27 + 28. Main campus building will reopen on Saturday, November 29.