PNCA Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies

The Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies at PNCA is a summer intensive graduate studies program located in Portland Oregon. Come to Portland, Oregon in the summer!

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Join the Low-Res MFA program for our winter lecture Wednesday, January 16 at 6pm for a lecture with visiting artist Nicholas Frank in the PNCA Mediatheque Nicholas Frank is an artist, writer and curator in San Antonio, where he relocated after a term as an Artpace International Artist-In-Residence January-March 2017. Formerly located in Milwaukee, Frank ran the Hermetic Gallery (1993-2001), co-founded the Milwaukee International Art Fair (2006-2009), served as curator for INOVA (Institute of Visual Arts) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and co-wrote a new Fine Arts curriculum for the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, where he taught for eight years. Recent exhibitions include Sala Diaz in San Antonio, The Green Gallery in Milwaukee, Western Exhibitions in Chicago, and Nathalie Karg Gallery at the Untitled Art Fair in Miami.

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Congratulations to Low-Res chair Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas on their solo exhibition “Contra el Bien General” at Uma Certa Falta de Coerência. Porto, Portugal 
Curated by Mauro Cerqueira
 October 19-November 21

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Low-Res MFA chair Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas guest edit Swedish journal OEI

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See you Saturday!

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“SARI NOT SARI” Exhibition Debuts During Filipinx American History Month Group Installation of Filipinx American Artists Opens October 26 At Third Room PORTLAND, OR (October 23, 2018) –Third Room is pleased to present Sari Not Sari, a collaborative multimedia installation of new works by Filipinx-American artists. Inspired by sari-sari stores in the Philippines and America, curator Pamela K. Santos assembled artists participated in conversation with each other about diasporic identities and cultural consumption. In celebration of Filipinx American History Month in October, Sari Not Sari opens Friday, October 26 with a reception 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., and will run through December 2. “This installation is an invitation to take dialogues that previously would take place in kitchens and domestic spaces with friends and family around being Filipinx in the Diaspora, and transplant them in an art space,” says Pamela Santos. “As much as we intend for conversations to extend to the greater Portland community who may not be Filipinx or familiar with sari-sari stores, the art begins with and centers Fil-Ams, who have been in America since 1587.” The five artists include curator Pamela Santos, Carlynn Gaite de Joya, Kat Magalgalit, Palmarin Merges, and Anthony Wylen as Montavilla Press. The artists employ textiles, printmaking, repurposed organic and inorganic objects, photography, film/video, sculptural installations, and working vending machines filled with food, mini-zines and ephemera to answer the question, “If you had your own sari-sari store, what would you offer to our people?” The sari-sari store was a known fixture of daily life in the Philippines and later in Filipinx ethnic enclaves in American cities. “Sari-sari” in Tagalog translates to “variety,” so fittingly the neighborhood convenience stores offered essentials like food, soap, cleaning products, calling cards, prepaid mobile phone credits, and even movies on VHS tapes or DVDs. At home or in the Diaspora, these family-run stores operate as sites of communal gathering, daily gossip and balita, and relationship-building in the barangays. Media Contact: Vanessa Englund, Curator-in-Residence Kalaija Mallery, Dir

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Join Low-Residency MFA candidates Vanessa Englund and Kalaija Mallery Friday night 10/19 for the Third Room Anniversary Party!

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Congratulations Vanessa!

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Please join the Low-Residency MFA program for Open Studios 6pm Thursday August 9th. Visit the artists studios to see where they work and what they have created this summer. LRVS OPEN STUDIOS 6TH FLOOR Julie Winter, 605 5TH FLOOR Vanessa Englund, 505 Marie Conner, 505 Kalaija Mallery, 505 Abney Wallace, 514 4TH FLOOR Tina Sparkles 402 MEZZANINE (ACCESSIBLE BY STAIRS FROM 1ST or 2ND FLOOR) Richard Boswell, M23 Patrick Durka, M24 BASEMENT Nicole Baker, B10

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Join us for a Low-Residency MFA Lecture with CLAIRE FONTAINE Wednesday, July 25 at 6pm in the PNCA Mediatheque CLAIRE FONTAINE PARIS Claire Fontaine is a Paris-based collective artist, founded in 2004. After lifting her name from a popular brand of school notebooks, Claire Fontaine declared herself a "readymade artist" and began to elaborate a version of neo-conceptual art that often looks like other people's work. She grows up among the ruins of the notion of authorship, experimenting with collective protocols of production, détournements, and the production of various devices for the sharing of intellectual and private property.

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Join us for a Low-Residency MFA Lecture with PDP (PUBLIC DISPLAY OF PROFESSIONALISM) Wednesday, July 18 at 6pm in the PNCA Mediatheque PDP, a transdisciplinary think tank embedded in [Miami’s Design District] is a site for collective thought, discourse, knowledge exchange, and production. The projects that PDP undertakes question the ways in which [Miami]’s image, financial capital, and information flows generate new “creative” business models, neighborhood redevelopments, and high-end retail centers, all of which exploit a particular mode of [relaxed tropicality].

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Join us for a Low-Residency MFA Lecture with BEATRIZ SANTIAGO MUÑOZ Wednesday, July 11 at 6pm in the PNCA Mediatheque

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Alexandria Eregbu Mapping the Legacy of the Marvelous Yale Union 800 SE 10th Ave, Portland, OR 97214 Friday, July 13 at 5 PM - 7 PM In collaboration with the Low Residency MFA in Visual Studies at PNCA, home school is ecstatic to host Alexandria Eregbu! Join us on 7/13 at Yale Union, 5pm for her talk, Mapping the Legacy of the Marvelous: Uses of the AfroSurreal from West Africa and Across the Atlantic! Snacks and refreshments will be available. The talk will be livestreamed and archived for distance learning. Fundamentally motivated by philosophical and artistic contributions rooted in the African diaspora, Mapping the Legacy of the Marvelous: Uses of the AfroSurreal from West Africa and Across the Atlantic examines the role that visual language and Surrealist discourse have influenced Alexandria’s practice Alexandria Eregbu is a visual artist and independent curator. At her core, Alexandria is most passionate about re-imagining 21st century possibilities for creative practice through service and support structures that promote sustainability and accessibility for artists and communities engaging the arts. As an artist, her practice has illuminated pathways globally, nationally, and throughout the Midwest. She has held fellowships with ACRE (Steuben, WI); HATCH Projects, Stony Island Arts Bank, (Chicago, IL); The Center for Afrofuturist Studies (Iowa City, IA), Independent Curators International (New Orleans, New York City, Martinique); and The Camargo Foundation/3Arts Residency (France). Among her curatorial projects includes du monde noir, an artistically run collective which seeks to identify contemporary evidences of Surrealist activity produced by visual artists and writers of the African diaspora in the U.S. and abroad. Forthcoming projects include Oh, Heavenly Father, Mother Ocean, and Cosmic Seed…! her solo show at Ditch Projects in Eugene, OR.

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In Practice: Works by Alumni of the LRVS at PNCA in the 157 Gallery Opening Reception: Saturday, July 14th 6-9pm on view July 14th through August 2nd

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Expanding Expanded Cinema at Third Room Opening Reception: Friday, June 13th 7-10PM 707 NE Broadway #205 on view July 13th - 31st

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Forest Aliya Stories within Color 2nd Floor Galleries 1&2 Opening reception July 5, 6pm Forest Aliya’s paintings are landscapes that have multiple meanings such as: they are a journey that leads to different opportunities of exploration, a study of how light passes through the earth creating many different shades of color and how a color changes when placed next to different color which represents steps walked in life. Memories of feeling connected to earth heavily influences her work. She calls these moments; magic.

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Britt Humphrey Mothers Milk: in the Land of Milk and Honey Holt Gallery Opening reception July 5, 6pm A newborn’s existence is completely dependent upon, in most cases, its parents - for feeding, sanitation, and comfort. These daily rhythms of parenthood are a shared universal experience regardless of race or gender. Mother’s Milk speaks to the “Breast is Best” movement, birds and bees metaphor, and the idea of life under a microscope; through painting, sculpture, and collage, one is welcomed into the open arms of the pain and joys that encompass the first months of human life.

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Join us for a Low-Residency MFA Lecture with SONDRA PERRY Wednesday, June 27 at 6pm in the PNCA Mediatheque Sondra Perry's videos and performances foreground the tools of digital production as a way to critically reflect on new technologies of representation and to remobilize their potential. She lives and works in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Exhibitions include The Kitchen, New York; ICA Philadelphia; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo; 2015 Greater New York exhibition at MoMA/PS1; Seattle Art Museum; Institute for New Connotative Action, Seattle; Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, New York; and Arlington Arts Center, Arlington VA.