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Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize 2016 | Apply Now!

APPLY NOW  DEADLINE: Monday May 2, 2016

First Prize: $5,500 Second Prize: $4,000 Third Prize: $3,000

WHAT The Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize is the most important visual arts prize awarded annually by Portland State University’s School of Art + Design.  It is meant to recognize excellence in visual art created by all students pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees from the School of A+D.

ELIGIBILITY Students must be majoring in programs in the PSU School of Art + Design (Art Practice, Graphic Design and Art History) and enrolled in half-time or greater status during Spring 2016 (prior winners of this award are not eligible). Winners will be announced in June 2016 and must be willing and able to display and help install their work at the exhibit held in their honor during Fall term 2016. Please note that this applies to all A+D majors creating visual work.

JUDGING A jury consisting of School of Art + Design faculty and professionals from the visual arts community will judge the submissions and identify the winners. Three awards will be made, though the jury can, at its discretion, decide not to make awards should they determine that none of the entries merit the recognition.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS Entries are due on or before Monday May 2, 2016 All submissions will be via pdx.slideroom.com; $10 fee to Slideroom required.

Slideroom submissions include electronic uploads of the following:
 a) A 100 word artist statement

b) A brief video artist’s statement (2 minutes maximum) that discusses the media and concept you are exploring. This could include process, purpose, intention and your own academic and professional goals.

c) Upload up to 7 images. An “image” presents a single work. Up to one of the 7 images can be video or audio clips of no more than 90 seconds.  Each clip must be a single work, or taken from a single work. Multiple works presented within an image will cause that image to be disqualified. Exceptions: if one of the presented works is a cohesive series, then one installation image and one detail image is permitted. If one of the presented works is a designed campaign or packaging series or design system, then an image of no more than 4 pieces and one detail image may be used to represent the system. In no cases will more than a total of 7 images, as defined above, be considered by the jury. Failure to adhere to the requirements listed above will cause the application to be dismissed.

d) By applying, applicants agree to participate in the award exhibition the following fall, should they be awarded a prize.

Email questions to [email protected]

APPLY NOW  DEADLINE: Monday, May 2, 2016

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Tuesday Social Practice Conversation Series with NAKA

José Navarrete and Debby Kajiyama of NAKA Dance Theater join us for our conversation series this Tuesday, November 24, 1pm at PICA (via Google Hangout from Oakland, CA). FREE and open to the public.

NAKA with installation above by Sun K. Kwak

Navarrete x Kajiyama creates interdisciplinary performance works using movement, theater, art installation, multimedia, and site-specific environments. Our work has been influenced by ritual, cultural studies, and the political and environmental concerns of the world in which we live. In the last eight years, the themes in our work have shifted to address our deepening concern with social and environmental issues. Recent themes include: racial profiling and state brutality, genetic modification of native crops, the commodification of water, cultural colonization, and the human response to overwhelming disaster.

Since 2001, Navarrete x Kajiyama has created work involving members of the Latino transgender community, the local Mexican-American and Japanese-American communities, and San Francisco’s community of Argentine Tango dancers. From 2005-2008, we were artists-in-residency at ODC Theater. In 2006, Navarrete x Kajiyama was named one of the 25 to Watch by Dance Magazine. In 2007, we collaborated with visual artists from Eastside Arts Alliance, an organization of artists and community organizers of color in East Oakland to create the performance environment for The Revenge of Huitlacoche. That same year, Navarrete x Kajiyama was invited to present their work at the Hemispheric Institute on Performance and Politics' Encuentro in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2008 and 2014, we were chosen to be the San Francisco representative for SCUBA Touring Network performances in Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and Seattle. In 2010-11 we were Irvine Fellows at the Lucas Artist Residency Program at Montalvo Arts Center.

Their work has been presented by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ODC Theater, the Queer Arts Festival, Movement Research at Judson Church (NYC), the Yerba Buena Choreographers Festival, California State University East Bay, the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center Performance Series, the Oakland Museum of California, and the San Francisco Asian Art Museum.

http://nkdancetheater.com/home/

Photo by Steven Sanchez José Navarrete is a native of México City where he was first exposed to theater and dance, choreographing and performing in parks, hospitals, and children's parties as a clown and dancer. He studied dance at the National Institute of Fine Arts in México, and has a B.A. in Anthropology from UC Berkeley and M.F.A in Dance from Mills College. He has studied dance with Sara Shelton Mann, Taiko with Hiroyuki Nakagawa and Argentine Tango with Nora Dinzelbacher. In 2004, José was the recipient of a Bessie Schönberg residency at The Yard, and a Djerassi residency. José is the recipient of a CHIME Mentorship with Jess Curtis, and a CHIME Across Borders fellowship with Ralph Lemon. Navarrete has taught dance and performance to youth and adults in Mexico, and in the San Francisco Bay Area at Berkeley High School, Marin Academy, Cal State East Bay, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He currently teaches youth in Eastside Arts Alliance’s Guerilla Performing Group.

Photo by Kim Anno and Kyung Lee Debby Kajiyama is a San Francisco Bay Area native, and has been performing there since 1994. She has performed with Dandelion Dancetheater, June Watanabe in Company, ZACCHO Dance Theater,  the Dance Brigade, and Somei Yoshino Taiko Ensemble. Debby's interests lie in the intersection of performance, cultural studies, and social change. She is a member of TsukimiKai, an intergenerational group of primarily Japanese American artists, activists, and scholars. In 2005, she traveled with TsukimiKai to Cuba to share Obon Festival folk dances and music, and to conduct oral histories of the Japanese Diaspora in Cuba.  In 2009, she was the recipient of a Djerassi Resident Artists Program residency and a Silicon Valley Community Foundation fellowship. In 2010, Debby is proud to have helped create the video “Fredi’s Fourth of July,” for Crosswater Media which tells the story of a Salvadoran immigrant family.

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2015 Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize

First Prize: $5,500 Second Prize: $4,000 Third Prize: $3,000

The Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize recognizes excellence in the visual arts for applicants pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees in the School of Art + Design.

ELIGIBILITY To be eligible for the Schnitzer Prize, you must be enrolled as a graduate or undergraduate student in the PSU School of Art + Design at least half-time during Spring 2015. Applicants must be willing and able to help install their work for the Arlene Schnitzer Prize Exhibition, scheduled for Fall term 2015. The Schnitzer Prize is available to all A+D students creating visual work, not just those pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees in Art Practices. Prior winners of the prize are not eligible to apply.

JUDGES A jury consisting of School of Art + Design faculty and professionals from the visual arts community will judge the submissions. Three prizes will be awarded, though the jury can  withhold awards at their discretion if they determine that not enough entries merit recognition.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS Entries are due on or before Monday April 13, 2015

All submissions will be via pdx.slideroom.com: http://pdx.slideroom.com $10 fee to Slideroom required.

Slideroom submissions shall include the following:

a) A 100 word artist statement

b) A brief (two minute maximum) video artist statement discussing the media and concept you are exploring. You can include process, purpose, intention, and your own academic and professional goals.

c) Upload up to seven images. Each image should present a single work; images containing multiple works will be disqualified. Up to three of the seven images can be video or audio clips of no more than 90 seconds each; each clip must be a single work, or taken from a single work. Exceptions: if one of the presented works is a cohesive series, then one installation image and one detail image is permitted. If one of the presented works is a designed campaign, packaging series or design system, then an image of no more than four pieces and one detail image may be used to represent the system. Applications presenting more than seven images, as defined above, will be disqualified; failure to adhere to the requirements will cause the application to be dismissed.

d) Applicants agree to participate in the award exhibition in Fall 2015, if they are awarded a Schnitzr Prize.

Please email questions to [email protected]

Winners will be announced in June 2015. Good luck!

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Jillian Mayer | PSU MFA Studio Lecture Series

Jillian Mayer | PSU MFA Studio Lecture Series Wednesday, February 11, 2015 @ 7pm

Portland State University - School of Art + Design Shattuck Hall Annex - 1914 SW Park Avenue (on SW Broadway at Hall street)

FREE and open to the public

Presented in partnership with the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA)

Jillian Mayer's work explores how technology and the Internet affect our identities, lives and experiences. Through videos, online experiences, photography, telephone numbers, performance, sculpture and installation, her work examines and plays with the tension between physical and digital iterations of identity and existence.

Sponsored in part by Blick-Utrecht Art Supplies, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and MFA Happy Hour, the PSU MFA Studio Lecture Series brings together artists from a variety of disciplines to explore the subjects of their own work before a live audience.

PSU’S MFA IN CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE/STUDIO degree program is dedicated to interdisciplinary experimentation and the exploration of ideas through the experience of making. Students are supported in a range of research and production, from the traditional to the emerging, as they consider the multiple ways art can live in and beyond the studio.

More Info: http://www.jillianmayer.net/ http://psumfastudio.org/lecture-series/ http://pica.org/

Images: JILLIAN MAYER, Swing Space (top) and #PostModern (bottom)

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Summer Printmaking in Guanajuato, Mexico

Immerse yourself for a two week intensive in Guanajuato, Mexico, a UN World Heritage city with rich Pre-Columbian, Colonial, and Revolutionary history.

June 18 - July 5, 2015

8 credits ART 399/499 Printmaking & Mixed Media Led by A+D adjunct faculty Mandee Schroer

This course will focus on drawing, painting, printmaking, and journalling. Students will consider how place and location influence ideas and also how it translates into an artistic production in the studio. Students will be asked to explore and supply their own answers based on the physical, cultural, and historical setting of Guanajuato.

In addition to field trips to local galleries and museums, participants will spend approximately nine days in the printmaking studio at Piramidal Grafica, a private art center owned and operated by Hugo Anaya, Jim Hibbard and Jenny Hibbard. Located within a two century old stone wall with patios and gardens, the facility houses three large printmaking presses in a 1200 square foot studio with an abundance of natural lighting.

Prerequisites None - although some printmaking, drawing, painting or other art experience would be helpful. Must have permission of the instructor.

Application Deadline: Wednesday, April 1, 2015

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Lyric Truth: Rosemarie Beck | On Exhibition in PSU's Lincoln Hall February 18 – May 3, 2015

The Tempest (Prospero, Miranda, Ariel), 1976 ("Lyric Truth" cat.44) (photo by Loren Nelson)

Paintings by Rosemarie Beck make up the inaugural display at Portland State University's Lincoln Hall exhibit space, February 18th through May 3rd, 2015. The exhibit is co-curated by PSU faculty Sue Taylor (art history) and Patricia Schechter (history). Beck's paintings at PSU will be displayed concurrently with a selection of her drawings at Helzer Art Gallery at Portland Community College, Rock Creek, February 9th-March 13th and her embroideries at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, January 14th-March 22nd.

Collected by museums such as the Whitney, Corcoran and Hirshhorn, Rosemarie Beck (1923-2003) was an American modernist painter who studied with Philip Guston and Robert Motherwell in New York City. Best known for her figurative works, Beck also taught at Vassar College and Queens College for many years. Lincoln Hall Broadway Foyer | February 18 – May 3, 2015 1620 Southwest Park Avenue

Rosemarie Beck Symposium | March 5 A symposium featuring a scholarly panel, dramatic readings, and music will be held on March 5th at PSU in Lincoln Hall's Studio Theater. In the evening, Professor of Art History Samantha Baskind of Cleveland State University will deliver the Sara Glasgow Cogan Memorial Lecture in Judaic Studies as the symposium's keynote.

Symposium Schedule

All events are FREE and open to the public.

Two with Horse, 1964 ("Lyric Truth" cat.39) (Collection of Nora Beck, Portland)

Rosemarie Beck in her New York studio, 1966 (photo courtesy Rosemarie Beck Foundation, New York)

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Life Long Work Month 2015

Life Long Work Month 2015 Life Long Work Month selects twelve students from the School of A+D to take over the AB Gallery. These twelve will set up shop, transforming the gallery into the collaboration space they want to see. Running throughout the month of January, the activities of this pop-up studio are driven by its participants. AB Lobby Gallery | January 5 – 30

Art Building 1st floor | 2000 SW 5th Avenue

Open Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm

Views of the AB Lobby Gallery transformed into a collaborative workspace during Life Long Work Month 2012

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PRINTS, PRINTS, and more PRINTS!

The School of Art + Design in collaboration with Rose City Prints Arts Collective presents PRINTS, PRINTS and more PRINTS during the month of January. This celebration of printmaking will highlight etchings, woodcuts, lithographs, silkscreens and mixed media works by faculty, current students, and alumni. In addition to the works on display throughout the month, new works by current students - fresh off of our presses! - will be added daily. All works are for sale with proceeds going directly to the artists. Featuring the work of PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY PRINTMAKING ALUMNI: Jason Angelo • Kate de Villers • Michael Endo • Paul Fujita • Chris Gaslin • Chris Harmon • Wiley Hickson • Amanda James • Jamie Klaetsch • Kristin Kohl • Alison Lutz • Kelli MacConnell  • Garrett Price • Nicole Saude • Beate Scheller • Nicholas Sheldon •  Ashley Shumaker • Graham Stephens • Lila Temple • Cameron Thomson • Erik White • FACULTY: Lori Gilbert • Josh Hulst • Michael McGovern • TRIBAL ELDERS:  Emerson Christoff • Reed Clarke • Mary Pacios • ROSE CITY PRINTS ART COLLECTIVE and CURRENT PRINTMAKING STUDENTS. Curated by Eleanor H. Erskine. Autzen Gallery | January 5 – 29 Reception: Thursday, January 8, 4-6:30pm

Neuberger Hall 2nd floor | 724 SW Harrison Street | Open Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm

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Still Room in these Winter 2015 Courses!

Elliot Erwitt, Madrid, 1995

ARH 199 / 399 | Visual Literacy Instructor: Carmen Ripolles

This course equips students with the skills to critically view and interpret global visual culture, from ancient sculpture, everyday objects, conceptual art, to contemporary advertising. Through critical analysis, reading, discussion, and writing, this course seeks to help students develop the skills necessary to engage with visual culture and provide them with a strong foundation for future courses in art history, art and design.

TR 13:00-14:50  |  CRN 45379 / CRN 46109

No Prerequisites - Open to all majors

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ART 227 | Introduction to Art+Social Practice Instructor: Erin Charpentier http://guestwork.org/

This course introduces an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and producing social practice art projects. Students will be encouraged to use a wide range of media and approaches in responding to various class assignments. Exploration of the PSU and Portland community will be an essential part of the class. Students will create work that responds to the dynamics of social spaces and public environments.

MWF 10:15-11:20  |  CRN 44864 Open to all-majors

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Ben Gest, Chuck, Alice & Dale, 2003 (left) Kazimierz Podsadecki, City, Mill of Life, 1929 (right)

ART 262 | Photoimaging I

Instructor: Ian Whitmore

Studio introduction to concepts, techniques, practices, aesthetics, and ethics of photographic imaging and image-making using analog and digital resources.

MW 12:00-14:50  |  CRN 40167

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ART 299 | Contemporary Soundscape Instructor: Burke Jam

http://burkejam.com/home.html

This special studies course is a survey of and introduction to contemporary sound practice. It will be a combination of reading, discussion, and introductory studio based projects. Technical information covered will include field recording techniques and equipment, Arduino based physical computing, SuperCollider sound design, and Logic DAW manipulation. Discussions and readings will focus on recent art history and theory specific to the evolving field of sound art and ideas about sound in contemporary practice. Students will complete individual and group based studio projects during the class.

MW 18:00 - 20:50  |  CRN 44865 No Prerequisites - Open to all majors

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Book of Hours from Portland State University's Millar Library

ARH 407 | Medieval Manuscript Seminar

Instructor: Anne McClanan

During this seminar, students will collaboratively research Portland State’s newly acquired medieval Book of Hours as well as curate an exhibition about the manuscript that will be on display in the spring of 2015, in the Millar Library. This course would be a good fit for students interested in art history, exhibition and graphic design, history of the book, or medieval history – all of these fields will be need to come together to make a compelling exhibit.

F 10:00-12:50  |  CRN 44857

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ARH 450 | Medieval Portland Instructor: Anne McClanan

http://www.medievalportland.pdx.edu/

This course will collaboratively research Portland’s medieval collections and create learning tools to help make our city's archival materials more accessible. Students will work on projects such as object research, grant writing, teacher guides, web-based learning tool development, multimedia projects, etc. This would be a good fit for students interested in art history, medieval history and the history of Portland.

F 13:00-14:20  |  CRN 44858

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A+D Scholarships 2015–2016

Eligibility Scholarships awarded to Art Practices and Graphic Design undergraduates, MFA Studio and MFA Social Practice graduate students. Undergraduate students must have completed at least 20 credit hours in their major and all students must have at least 6 credit hours remaining before graduation. Awards are based on financial need, first-generation college student status, enrollment status, creative work and accomplishments in area/s of study in the School of A+D. Awards Awards will be put toward tuition fees. Amounts vary. Your application to the university scholarship portal ensures that you will be considered for all scholarships for which you are eligible. Instructions 1. Set up an account and apply through the university scholarship portal. Link: http://www.pdx.edu/scholarships/ 2. Create an account at Flickr.com and create a photo set of five. Examples of artwork, include title, date, dimensions and medium for each image. (See Portfolio Requirements.) 3. Copy and paste the link to your Flickr photo set in university scholarship portal application. Portfolio Requirements: Artists Create a Flickr photo set containing five examples of your work. This portfolio must consist of five works, preferably in the student’s area(s) of concentration. In addition to image files, videos/animations should also be uploaded via the same Flickr photo set. The committee will review up to five minutes of time-based work.  Graphic Designers Create a Flickr photo set containing five examples of your work. Videos/animations may also be uploaded to the same Flickr photo set. The committee will review up to five minutes of time-based work.

Deadline: Sunday, February 1, 2015

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Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize Exhibition

We are so proud to present the work of three of our MFA candidates who are recipients of 2014 Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prizes. Come see their work in the Autzen Gallery October 6-31.

Opening reception and awards ceremony Monday, October 6, 4-6pm.

Jea Alford • 1st Prize

video still from "Eight Hours of Turning Straw to Gold"

video still from "Certain Things are Expected"

Katie Holden • 2nd Prize

video still from "#beachparty"

video still from "Illusion Screen"

Pam Minty • 3rd Prize

Two photographs from "Roadside Geology," a series of photographs taken between August 2013 and August 2014 showing the changes that occur in the sky and landscape surrounding Bond Butte over the course of a year.

The Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize was created in 2013 with a gift from the Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation to help raise awareness of the quality of art education at Portland State University. Fifty-five students competed for this year’s prizes. Winners were selected by a jury that included PSU faculty members Pat Boas, Erik Geschke, and Lis Charman, and community representatives Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson (Portland Art Museum); Sarah Meigs, (founder of the Lumber Room); Duane King (Huge/KingCoyle); and Theo Downes-Le Guin (Upfor Gallery).

For more about the artists, visit their websites Jea Alford http://www.jeaalford.com/ Katie Holden http://cargocollective.com/katieholden Pam Minty http://www.pamminty.com/

School of Art+Design Portland State University

Autzen Gallery Neuberger Hall room 205 724 SW Harrison Street (on SW Broadway between Harrison and Hall streets)

Gallery hours: Monday-Friday 10am-5pm

FREE and open to the public

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Art Building: Neighborland

At our April 17 Open House we asked you to give us your feedback by completing the prompt "In my art building, I want..." The Image above is a summary of results!

With the help of A+D Projects, an interactive installation was created for the event to engage viewers, invite ideas and spark a conversation. The installation covered the windows of Interim Director Ethan Seltzer's office with Post-its notes arranged in the form of buildings. Participants were asked to write on the notes their ideas for what ought to be on the "must have" list for a new art building. The results of the evening have been added to the School of Art+Design's strategic planning efforts for a new art building.

This project was inspired by Candy Chang's "Post-it Notes for Neighbors" and "Neighborland". For more information visit https://neighborland.com/

Special thanks go out to Chris Lopez and Jessie Woodcock of A+D Projects for making it happen. All images from A+D Projects.

http://adprojectswork.tumblr.com/post/83659656223/design-brief-art-building-neighborland-portland

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COMING SOON: The PSU School of Art + Design – MFA in Contemporary Art Practice – Studio Practice – Graduate Exhibition

Perry Doane Mark Martinez Kaila Farrell-Smith Isaac Fletcher Weiss Wesley Petersen Kathryn Yancey

Opening reception: Saturday, June 7, 2014, 6-11 p.m.  @ ROCKSBOXCONTEMPORARYFINEART

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Loose Associations | BFA Thesis Exhibition 2014

The School of Art+Design Art Practices BFA Program 2013-14 presents Loose Associations, the thesis exhibition of its thirteen graduating BFA students. Their diverse practices incorporate painting, sculpture, drawing, video, installation, photography, print and digital media, and represents the full breath of the program. Loose Associations is exhibited across the Portland State University campus art galleries and is open to the public from May 27 to June 10 (Littman and White Gallery continue until June 28).

The A+D BFA Program at PSU is designed to provide a group of senior Art Practices students with one year of immersive study before graduation. The program is designed to complement the Art Practices BA/BS tracks and to further develop, across disciplines, an open dialog about contemporary art, its practices, and its cultural implications. Upon admission to the program, students commit to an intensive one-year studio-based experience during which they conduct research, expand their practice, and construct a cohesive body of work. These exhibitions document their experience and highlight some of its varied manifestations.

May 27 - June 10, 2014

AB Lobby Gallery Annelise Reinhardt Kohlberger, Joel Stotesbery

MK Gallery Kayleigh Nelson, Anastasia Tuazon

Autzen Gallery Amanda Buckman, Carrie Clore, Eve Jakabosky, Chacha Sands

Neuberger Hall Display Cases (2nd floor corridors) Maureen Gates, Kayleigh Nelson, Anastasia Tuazon

June 2 - June 28, 2014

Littman Gallery Eilish Connor, Maureen Gates, Heather Palmer, Thomas Putman

White Gallery Shane Adair

Reception at all venues • Thursday June 5, 4-7pm

More about the School of Art+Design BFA Program: http://www.pdx.edu/the-arts/bachelor-of-fine-arts-in-art-practices

Locations and Hours

AB Lobby Gallery Art Building • Lobby 2000 SW 5th Avenue Gallery Hours • 10am-5pm

MK Gallery Art Building • 2nd Floor 2000 SW 5th Avenue Gallery Hours • 10am-5pm

Autzen Gallery Neuberger Hall • 2nd Floor 724 SW Harrison Street (on SW Broadway between Harrison and Hall) Gallery Hourse • 10am-5pm

Littman Gallery Smith Memorial Student Union • 2nd Floor (north) 1825 SW Broadway Gallery Hours • Monday-Friday 12-4pm

White Gallery Smith Memorial Student Union • 2nd Floor (south) 1825 SW Broadway Gallery Hours • Monday-Friday 8am-8pm

School of Art+Design Galleries http://www.pdx.edu/the-arts/campus-galleries

Littman+White Galleries http://www.pdx.edu/littmanandwhite/recent-history

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Katherine Ball and Sharita Towne Receive 2014-2015 Fulbright Fellowships

Katherine Ball, What is Enough? Kampnagel, Internationales Sommer Festival, Hamburg, Germany. 2012

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We are pleased to offer congratulations to two of our recent graduates. Katherine Ball and Sharita Towne are the recipients of fellowships from the 2014-2015 Fulbright US Student Program. The program offers fellowships for US graduating seniors, graduate students, young professionals and artists to research, study, or teach English abroad for one academic year.

Katherine Ball has been awarded a fellowship in Denmark for her proposal "Environmental Sustainability Initiatives of Denmark: A Research-Based Art Installation." Katherine has spent the last few years working on projects around the world, exploring alternatives to the dominant discourse. Some of these projects include creating indoor grey water systems, bicycling across the US to interview Americans working on small-scale solutions to the climate crisis, coordinating a national day of action to halt business at banks and corporations unduly influencing state laws, and living in an off-grid floating island building mushroom filters to clean a polluted lake. She calls herself "an amateur" in the best sense of the word, and says she strives to give more energy to our dreams than our fears.

Originally from Detroit, Michigan, Katherine Ball earned a BS in Art from the University of Wisconsin in 2002. In 2011 she participated in an exchange program at the School of Walls & Space, Royal Danish Academy of Arts, Copenhagen. She earned her MFA in Art and Social Practice from the School of Art + Design in 2012.

Sharita Towne received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Brazil. In addition to teaching English, she will lead a group of Brazilian youth in the production of an audiovisual art-based project on cultural identity. As an artist, Sharita is interested in unpacking life's burdens, understanding how they mold our present selves, and in trying to give rise to a collective catharsis. To this end she has undertaken work at former concentration camps and memorials in Germany, in Saharawi Refugee camps in Algeria, in favelas and cultural centers in Brazil, with additional work in Chile, Spain, Palestine, and within her own family.

Sharita Towne grew up between Oregon, Washington, and Northern California, and graduated from UC Berkeley in 2008 with a BA in Art Practice and Interdisciplinary Studies. She is a MFA Candidate in Contemporary Art Practice from the School of Art + Design for 2014.

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For more about Katherine Ball and her practice, visit http://katherineball.com/

For more about Sharita Towne and her practice, visit http://cargocollective.com/sharitatowne

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Wesley Petersen | TOIL MFA in Contemporary Art Practice

Autzen Gallery April 28-May 9, 2014

Public Lecture Wednesday May 7, 2014, 6PM Shattuck Hall Annex On SW Broadway at SW Hall Street on the PSU Campus FREE and open to the public Galleries open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm ----- Wesley Petersen’s work deals with concepts of aggression and masculinity, while investigating the human condition through the lens of evolution. TOIL explores the subject of labor, drawing heavily on the artist’s own experience with work and his blue collar heritage. Petersen is an Idaho-based performance artist who comes from a small rural logging community. He holds a BFA in Sculpture from the University of Idaho, and is currently an MFA Candidate at Portland State University in Contemporary Art Studio Practice. ----- Autzen Gallery  Neuberger Hall 205 724 SW Harrison Street (On SW Broadway at Harrison Street) Shattuck Hall Annex 1914 SW Park Avenue 

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Come celebrate the School of Art + Design at our Open House! SAVE THE DATE! THURSDAY, APRIL 17th FROM 5–9PM 1990 & 2000 SW 5th AVE

Join Portland State University’s School of Art + Design in celebrating our vibrant programs & our amazing students. Our three departments, Art History, Art Practices, and Graphic Design, will present an evening of specially curated exhibitions, events, and open studios at the Art Building. Some events include: 5x5 Mini Presentations Space Room MFA Graduate Exhibitions BFA Open Studios MFA Open Studios Time Arts Club Happening Number 12 Art History Student Spotlight Art & Social Practice Open House A+D Projects Open House Trash Talk Hey, Sophomores! A Graphic Design Student Portfolio Extravaganza Elevator Mini Lectures Stairwell Project Sculpture in Shattuck Check out our website for all of the event details! RSVP on facebook!