Alfred Edelman Lecture: Alan Kapuler

“Ecosanity: Ongoing Discoveries About Life”

Tuesday, March 2, 6:30 pm
PNCA Main Campus Building, Swigert Commons, 1241 NW Johnson St.

For the 2010 Alfred Edelman Lecture, PNCA welcomes Alan Kapuler Ph.D., Public Domain Plant Breeder and Molecular Biologist, President of Peace Seeds, and Retired Research Director and Co-Founder of Seeds of Change. Kapuler — who along with his wife and three daughters breeds plants and sells seeds through his farm-based business Peace Seeds — is considered by many to be the founding father of the organic seed movement. He has been saving seeds and breeding plants for over 30 years from his farm in Corvallis, Oregon. The title of his lecture is “Ecosanity: Ongoing Discoveries About Life.”

When the late Portland architect and photographer, Alfred Edelman, taught three-dimensional design at PNCA he challenged his students to consider the principles of engineering, kinetics, physics and other subjects seemingly dissimilar to art. In doing so he brought the outside world into his classroom. Founded by Carol Edelman, the Alfred Edelman Lecture was created to enhance the student’s understanding of the visual world by presenting timeless and/or unique ways to examine and manipulate three-dimensional space; and to be a catalyst for lively discussions in the classroom at PNCA.

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.

Learn more about Kapuler at the PNCA Charles Voorhies Library Microsite

Exhibition: My Neighborhood

March 4 – 26, 2010
PNCA Main Campus Building, Gallery 214 (second floor), 1241 NW Johnson St.
The PNCA Youth program is proud to present My Neighborhood featuring the art of students, staff, faculty, and community members affiliated with the program. Using the medium of their choice, each individual examines the meaning of neighborhood and community. This unique exhibition features participants who range in experience from our four-to-six-year-old mini-masters in their first class to MFA graduates.

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.

Land Art: David Shaner

March 10 – August 7, 2010
Museum of Contemporary Craft, 724 NW Davis St.Through selected works by David Shaner, this exhibition examines connections between currently renewed interest in Land Art and contemporary ceramics. While Land Art works by Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer offer grand, sweeping gestures within the landscape, Shaner offers a quiet, contemplative and symbiotic relationship between land and life, art and the home. Drawn from works in the Shaner family’s and the Museum’s collections, this exhibition offers work from 1964 to the 1990s as a lens to an alternative relationship between land and art.

Ticket info: General: $3 Students (13+): $2 Seniors (62+): $2 Free to: Children 12 and under Pacific Northwest College of Art faculty, staff and students Museum of Contemporary Craft members Free for all the first Thursday of every month

MFA in Visual Studies Lecture: Daniel Joseph Martinez

Thursday, March 11, 6:30 pm
The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft, 724 NW Davis St.

Fifteen years after his indelible first appearance in the Whitney Biennial in 1993, Los Angeles-based artist Daniel J. Martinez continues to create work that unapologetically probes uncomfortable issues of personal and collective identity, seeking out threadbare spots in the fabric of conventional wisdom. A strategic provocateur with a keen intelligence and a wicked sense of humor, Martinez deploys the full range of available media in his practice, having used at various times (and in various combinations) text, image, sculpture, video, and performance to construct his uniquely tough-minded brand of aesthetic inquiry.

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.

MFA in Applied Craft and Design Lecture: Susan Brandeis

Thursday, March 18, 6:30 pm
MFA in Applied Craft and Design Studios @ The Bison Building, 421 NE 10th Ave. and Glisan Street
Susan Brandeis is a fiber artist and Director of Graduate Programs for the Department of Art and Design at North Carolina State University, where she also coordinates studies in Fibers and Surface Design and the Anni Albers Scholars Program. Her work is in numerous private and public collections nationally and internationally, including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian.

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.

PDXplore | Crossing the Columbia River: What Does it Mean for Our Region?

March 22 – 26, 2010
PNCA Main Campus, Gallery 214 (second floor), 1241 NW Johnson St.
Building on the momentum of the 2009 PDXplore events at PNCA, The Architecture Foundation of Oregon (AFO) and designers from PDXplore return for Crossing the Columbia River: What Does it Mean for Our Region?, a two-phase forum in February and March. Featuring exhibitions and public programs, the forum aims to draw attention to the current status of the Columbia River Crossing, increase citizens’ recognition of the project’s profound scope and impact, and inspire broad discussion about its potential for excellence. Collectively, AFO and PDXplore hope to stimulate a deeper understanding of the role of design thinking and its opportunities to influence the planning process. Join urban planners and designers, architects, journalists and policy makers for an in-depth examination of this pivotal urban design and transportation project.

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.

International Panel: Fresh Design Perspectives

Part of the forum Crossing the Columbia: What Does it Mean?

Thursday, March 25, 6 – 8 pm
PNCA Main Campus Building, Swigert Commons, 1241 N.W. Johnson St.Join moderator Ethan Seltzer as he leads a provocative discussion about the Columbia River Crossing with international experts in the fields of design, culture and urban planning. Panelists include: Boston Globe architecture critic Robert Campbell, artist Ed Carpenter, outgoing National Endowment for the Arts Director of Design Maurice Cox, and Toronto architect and urban design consultant Ken Greenberg.

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.

Social Innovation—The Designer’s Voice

A Conversation with Julie Lasky and Ernest Beck

Monday, March 29, 6:00 pm
Jimmy Mak’s, 221 Northwest 10th Ave.
Bright Lights: Discussion on the CityA Conversation with Julie Lasky, Editor of Change Observer, and Ernest Beck, Journalist and Editorial Director of 2009 Aspen Design Summit

The 2009 Aspen Design Summit brought non-profit organizations, decision makers, corporate leaders and design experts to focus on solutions to problems that challenge the quality of life.AIGA and the Winterhouse Institute partnered with Change Observer to report on Design Summit’s presentations, including such projects as Hale County Rural Poverty Project, Center for Disease Control and Healthy Aging, Sustainable Food and Childhood Obesity, and the Mayo Clinic’s program for Rural Health Care Delivery.In conversation with Portland Monthly editor-in-chief Randy Gragg, Ernest Beck and Julie Lasky will discuss the dialog that ensued between the Summit and Change Observer, the role criticism can play in evaluating the effectiveness of these programs, bringing voice to projects that address the impediments to human dignity and achievement faced by real people.The public programming featuring Julie Lasky and Ernest Beck is presented as part of the PNCA/Cyan PDX Cultural Residency Program, a collaborative initiative, established by Gerding Edlen Development and Pacific Northwest College of Art.The Bright Lights series is presented by Portland Monthly magazine.

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.

Michael Mandiberg Artist Talk

The Great Recession

In conjunction with his exhibition, The Great Recession, Michael Mandiberg will give lecture on the works on views as well as his other projects.

Michael Mandiberg is an artist, programmer, designer and educator. His work varies from web
applications about environmental impact to conceptual performances about subjectivity, to sculptures
made from laser cut reference books.
His recent projects include Security Patterns, a series
of laser burned drawings and found reference books
laser cut with poetic epigrams, HowMuchItCosts.us, a
car direction site that incorporates the financial and
carbon cost of driving, and the groundbreaking
textbook Digital Foundations: an Intro to Media
Design that teaches formal principles through design
software. Recent projects include The Real Costs, a
browser plug-in that inserts carbon footprints into
airplane travel & car directions websites, and Oil
Standard, a browser plug-in that converts all prices
on any web page in their equivalent value in barrels
of oil.
He is well known for his year long performance and e-commerce website Shop Mandiberg, which
marketed and sold all of his possessions, and for AfterSherrieLevine.com, where he made available hi-
resolution scans of the Walker Evans images rephotographed by Sherrie Levine, complete with
certificates of authenticity to be signed by the user themselves. The Essential Guide to Performing
Michael Mandiberg, an extensive DIY guide prepared for a life art performance was included by the
Electronic Literature Organization as one of the foundational works of electronic literature to be included
in the Library of Congress. From 2001 to 2006 he edited the Calls and Opps list, the most popular email
list for calls for work and artist opportunities.
He is a founding member of Eyebeam’s Sustainability Research Group. Through this forum he has
spearheaded collaborations such as the Eco-Vis Design Challenge, and the critically praised Feedback
exhibition. He created the retroreflective Bright Bike that Treehugger.com called “obnoxiously bright.”
Working with fellow research group member Steve Lambert, he created the Bright Idea Shade, a Creative
Commons licensed flat-pack laser cut lampshade for bare CFL lightbulbs.
His work has been exhibited at such venues as the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York City,
Ars Electronica Center in Linz, ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, and Transmediale Festival, Berlin. His work
has been featured in such books as Tribe and Janaʼs New Media Art, Blais and Ippolitoʼs At the Edge of
Art, and Greeneʼs Internet Art. He is a recipient of grants, residencies, and fellowships from Eyebeam,
Rhizome.org, Turbulence.org/Jerome Foundation, The Banff Centre, and the City University of New York.
An Assistant Professor of Design and Digital Media at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, he is currently
an Senior Fellow at Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology. Raised in Portland, Oregon, he rides his
bicycle around his adopted home of Brooklyn.

Ticket info: Free & Open to the Public.