News & Events

Holly Andres's second solo exhibition, "The Fall of Spring Hill," opened in January at Robert Mann Gallery in Manhattan, NYC, and was subsequently reviewed in The Wall Street Journal.
http://blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/2012/02/03/holly-andres-farmer-of-photographs/

Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center announces twenty-four artists and artist teams selected by curator Prudence F. Roberts for Portland 2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art. A number of current PSU alumni, adjunct faculty, and faculty were selected: Vanessa Calvert (2009 Alumni), Erik Geschke (Full-Time Faculty), Wendy Red Star (Adjunct Faculty), Ben Rosenberg (2007 Alumni), and Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen (2010 Alumni and Adjunct Faculty).

http://disjecta.org/pdfs/DisjectaAnnouncesPortland2012Artists.pdf
http://www.oregonlive.com/art/index.ssf/2011/12/disjecta_announces_the_2...

Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center / a Non-Profit Organization Dedicated to Contemporary Art
8371 N Interstate Avenue / Portland Oregon 97217

Michael Simmons was recently named Oregon Art Educator of the year for 2011-2012. He was presented with the award by the Oregon Art Education Association at the OAEA state conference in October 2011, and will also be presented with an award at the National Art Education Association Conference in March. Michael has been with the PSU Art Department since 2006, where he draws on his twenty-one years of experience at the Buckman Arts Focus K-5 program in SE Portland to develop curriculum for teaching art methods for elementary school teachers to PSU students.

The Art History Student Association invites you to "Magic and Media: a CAA Conference Preview," with presentations by Sue Taylor and Rita Alves on Friday, January 20, 2012, in Art Building Room 200. Sue Taylor will present "The Masked Magician: Enacting Archaic Desires," and Rita Alves will present "The Freakshow & Transformation in Michael Jackson's Life & Work."

Here is a link to recent review on the Art 21 blog about a student project and the lecture series: http://blog.art21.org/2012/01/03/bound-art-talk-am-on-the-radio/

Study Art/Art History in Italy Summer 2012!
www.pdx.edu/art/international-study-0

Julie Perini received two awards from the Regional Arts & Culture Council for 2012: a Project Grant to support her community-based audio/web oral history project, the People's History of Portland Project, and a Professional Development Grant to fund her travel to the Experiments in Cinema Film Festival in Albuquerque, NM in April to present a program of videos.

Rita Robillard received a Ford Foundation Grant for an artist in residence at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and has been invited to extend her residency through January 2012.

Erik Geschke presented a solo exhibition of his work at the Pacific Northwest College of Art's Manuel Izquierdo Gallery. The exhibition, "Crocodile Tears," runs from the 3rd to the 23rd of November. Erik also conducted a lecture on his art at Pacific Northwest College of Art earlier in November.  Link: http://cal.pnca.edu/events/306

Julie Perini is a selected artist for the Signal Fire artist residency in Eastern Oregon in December 2011. 
Signal Fire:  http://www.signalfirearts.org/winter-wren-residency/winter-wren-residents

Pat Boas was selected by the Ford Family Foundation and the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts for a studio visit with art critic, curator, art historian and professor of history at UCLA, George Baker, as part of Connective Conversations I Inside Oregon Art, 2011-2012.  http://aaa.uoregon.edu/conversations/

Portland State's graphic design program was featured in HOW magazine in an article entitled "Art School Confidential."  http://www.howdesign.com

Una Kim completed an RACC funded project, The Pink Dragon Mural, with the help of 22 students from PSU and PCC . The mural can be viewed at 6112 SE Foster Road, Portland.

Amy Steel's project at Concord Elementary last spring was featured on Oregon Art Beat's special on Right Brain Initiative that aired on Thursday, October 20, 2011. http://www.opb.org/programs/artbeat/segments/view/9

Derek Bourcier, MFA student, receives rave review from John Motley for his piece in Blackfish Gallery's "Recent Graduates" group show. http://www.oregonlive.com/art/index.ssf/2011/07./recent_graduates_review_studen.html

Erik Geschke has been awarded a Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission.

Erik Geschke has been awarded a Professional Development Grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC).

Jesse Locker  co-organized and presented a film screening/lecture at the Portland Art Museum in November 2010, "An Afternoon With Artemisia Gentileschi," with filmmaker Ellen Weissbrod, whose newly released film, A Woman Like That, explores Artemisia's life and work.   

Kate Bingaman Burt was interviewed on Design Matters by Debbie Millman in NYC, October 29, 2010. The show is a thought provoking podcast, which profiles industry-leading graphic designers, change agents, artists, writers and educators. In this podcast interview, Kate Bingaman Burt discusses Obsessive Consumption, the designer as reporter, being in debt, feeling useful and making something everyday.

Kate Bingaman Burt has designed several accessory items for the Poketo x Target line. As of October 15, 2010, available in Target stores nationwide.

Sue Taylor was one of four national scholars selected to participate in the first annual symposium, "Grant Wood's World," at the University of Iowa, April 2010. 

Sue Taylor was a featured guest speaker at the opening of the retrospective exhibition "Hollis Sigler: Expect the Unexpected," at the Chicago Cultural Center, January 2010. Her lecture was based on her original research and writing on the art and activism of Hollis Sigler, and explored the impact of breast cancer on the work of Sigler and other artists who struggled with the disease.

Ralph Pugay of Portland, OR has been awarded the prestigious International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award for 2010. Ralph is a MFA student at Portland State University. The International Sculpture Center (ISC) established the annual "Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award" program in 1994 to recognize young sculptors and to encourage their continued commitment to the field. It was also designed to draw attention to the sculpture programs of the participating universities, colleges and art schools. The award program's growing publicity resulted in a record number of participating institutions; including over 176 universities, colleges and art school sculpture programs from sixteen countries for a nominated total of 445 students.
read more
http://www.sculpture.org/documents/programsandevents/programs/StudentAwards/2010/pugay.shtml

FIELD WORK is a collaboration between Portland State University's MFA Contemporary Art and Graphic Design programs that seeks to create a platform for public scholarship, lectures, exhibitions, workshops and other programming. Located in a former downtown storefront space, FIELD WORK allows the creative explorations of students to develop out of a visible site for interaction and collaboration with the public.
Field Work
1101 SW Jefferson Street
Portland, OR
www.fieldworkspace.org

New Graphic Design Lecture Series
The Show & Tell Lecture series is curated and sponsored by Portland State Graphic Design and the Friends of Graphic Design Student Group. Every Thursday at noon we host 45 minute long talks with nationally recognized designers, illustrators and makers in an informal setting. Bring your lunch if you would like! Some of these lectures are in person and some are video chats. All are free.
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PUBLIC CLASSROOM AND PROJECT SPACE
This week marked the inaugural use of the Art and Social Practice MFA concentration off site classroom. This downtown storefront space is the home of our classes as well as a public space for lectures, discussions, workshops and exhibitions that will engage the community. The space isalso used as a hub for all students in the MFA Contemporary Art Practice Program at PSU to work directly on a project with a visiting artist that will be made public in that space. This project is connected to an intensive seminar led by that invited artist. This invitational teaching position and public project is an initiative of the Art and Social Practice concentration and is tied to the annual Open Engagement conference. Mark Dion is one of the featured presenters at this years conference and is also the first artist to lead the students in seminar that will result in the creation of an exhibition here at PSU.