The Searchers

The Searchers ask: What is the relationship between eBay and the consumer? Two eBay consumers? A person and their computer? The Searchers uses the construct of a first time eBay seller to explore the way that people connect, or don’t connect, through technology—websites, email, letters, newspaper, books, iPods… The Searchers started with a work of fiction written by curators Amoreen Armetta and Molly Dilworth. The Searchers proves that the relationship between the above entities exists, but that this relationship is difficult to quantify because the connections are constantly changing, and the entities are always in motion. The challenge posed to the artists asked to take part in The Searchers was to materialize these connections. The Searchers assumes that metaphor serves as proof.The Searchers features: Nuno Cera, Ann Craven, AC Dickson, Joan Grossman, Lucien Samaha, Jenny Vogel; with artist publications by Bill Brown, Gabriela Forcadell and Alejandro Cesarco, LTTR, Josephine Meckseper, Aleksandra Mir, Lone Twin, Pruess Press.The image is a video still from Nuno Cera’s “The Lost Soul.”

Ann Craven Lecture

Noon-Time Lecture with painter Ann Craven

Ann Craven is a New York based painter. Her work is included in the collection of the Miami MOCA, the Whitney Museum of Art, The New Museum, as well as many other public and private collections.

Ticket info: Free & Open to the Public

Monica Drake Lecture

PNCA faculty member Monica Drake has an MFA from the University of Arizona. She is a contributor of reviews and articles to The Oregonian, The Stranger, and the Portland Mercury. Her fiction has appeared in the Beloit Fiction Review, The Threepenny Review, The Insomniac Reader and others. She has been the recipient of an Arizona Commission on the Arts Award, the Alligator Juniper Prize in Fiction, and a Millay Colony Fellowship, and was a Tennessee Williams scholar at Sewanee Writers Workshop. Her debut Novel, Clown Girl, is published by Hawthorne Books. Drake will talk to students and faculty about the writing process.

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.

Melissa Dyne Lecture

Visual Artist Melissa Dyne discusses her experiments and inventions, which she uses to “tune” the architectural space they inhabit —a cinematic performance in the spirit of mise en scene. Through the use of simple mechanics, photography and early (often obsolete) technologies reconstructed through a contemporary artistic process, her work involves the creation of useful and useless inventions.

Ticket info: Free and Open to the Public

Gay Outlaw Lecture

Gay Outlaw, a sculptor known for her playfully complex pieces, will be giving a free lunch time lecture to PNCA students, faculty, staff and the public on her work and the artistic process.

Ticket info: Free & Open to the Public

Gay Oulaw Official Website

6th Annual Spring Gala

Announcing 6th Annual Spring Gala – PNCA’s premier fundrasing event of the year. Proceeds raised will go towards benefiting student scholarships.

STRANGELOVE

IN FLUX Installation

The new and improved IN FLUX gallery is proud to present :Kody Bosch’s installation on “Explorations into territories unknown” April 14th – April 26th

BFA Juried Show

This is a top example of the current year’s BFA student work. Students submit up to three pieces that are then juried by a panel of curator’s and artists from the outer community. Each piece is then selected for the exhibition, highlighting the best of the entries. The exhibition runs from April 17th – May 16th with a formal opening for the First Thursday on May 1st from 6-9pm.This is a great chance to see what the PNCA BFA students are up to!

Ticket info: free and open to the public

Lunchtime Performance Series

Nathan Henry Henry-Silva

Nathan will hosting an hour long live radio show during lunch for the Lunchtime Performance Series.

Talking Points

Jeff Jahn Lecture

Jeff Jahn will discuss his installation Eutrophication. He will cover details and decisions that lead to the show, including how meeting Robert Irwin lead him to use an essentially empty space in a not so empty way. Other influences such as Stuart Copeland, Miles Davis and Hendrix will also come up.

Ticket info: free and open to the public

Adam McEwen Lecture

Lunchtime Chat

Adam McEwen, an English artist now based in NYC, manipulates time, space, images and language to alternately convincing and arcane effects. His influences would seem to be Andy Warhol, Richard Prince and Michael Asher; his primary mode of operation is the thwarting of expectations known in art circles as intervention.Most of the more interesting artists these days work in several mediums, tend to approach ideas at a slant and are difficult to talk about. Adam McEwen qualifies on all three counts.McEwen is known for his elaborate gallery installations. In one such endeavor, he plotted the bombing patterns of US planes over Germany during WWII with wads of chewing gum. He has also been known to apply fabric over the outside windows of galleries, effectively changing even how light is able to access his work.

Ticket info: Free & Open to the Public

TBA 08 Discussion: Mark Russell

Mark Russell, Guest Artistic Director for PICA, will talk to students and faculty about events planned for TBA 08 to begin a conversation about the festival and the artists.

Ticket info: PNCA community only

TBA 08 Discussion: Kristan Kennedy and Erin Boberg Doughton

Kristan Kennedy, Visual Art Program Director of PICA and Erin Boberg Dougton, Performing Arts Program Director of PICA, will discuss events planned for TBA 08.

Ticket info: PNCA community only