November First Thursday at PNCA + North Park Blocks! |
Artwork credit: (left) Nathan Galvan '23, (center) Ilish Bath '23, (right) Limei Lai '23
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The Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at Pacific Northwest College of Art is excited to invite the public to the November First Thursday Art Walk in the North Park Blocks for a series of exhibition openings, live music and dancing, drop-in activities and refreshments!
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FIRST THURSDAY EVENTS
AT PNCA! |
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Nina Elder – 2023 Graduate Symposium Keynote Lecture | 12-1pm
Artist and researcher Nina Elder creates projects that reveal humanity’s dependence on and interruption of the natural world. With a focus on changing cultures and ecologies, Nina advocates for collaboration, fostering relationships between institutions, artists, scientists and diverse communities. Her work takes many forms, including drawings, performance, pedagogy, critical writing, long term community-based projects, and public art.
vanessa german – 2023 Graduate Symposium Keynote Lecture | 5-6pm
vanessa german is a self-taught citizen artist working across sculpture, performance, communal rituals, immersive installation, and photography, in order to repair and reshape disrupted systems, spaces, and connections. The artist’s practice proposes new models for social healing, utilizing creativity and tenderness as vital forces to reckon with the historical and ongoing catastrophes of structural racism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, resource extraction, and misogynoir.
BLACK HOLE DANCE PARTY w/ DJ Timothy Bee!
DJ Timothy Bee born + raised from beautiful Portland,OR Plays all the tunes to make people find their perfect world and find joy in the sounds of the music.
Bring your best moves and attire for empathy, humor, mystery, and camp to ease the speculative planetary future which intrigues like a dark disco ball of ecological grief, a warmly inviting black hole, an approachable asteroid.
Photo Booth with Photographer Ash Stone!
Bring some friends and get your photo taken by photographer Ash Stone at our pop-up Photobooth!
Yo Buri with FREE warm beverages and refreshments!
Visit Yo’s food & beverage cart in front of PNCA for free coffee and tea and come inside for more free nibbles and alcoholic and NA beverages!
UNLIMITED 2023 - 6th Annual PNCA Alumni Salon Exhibition Closing Reception! (RM 136)
For seven years, PAGE Space, or PNCA Alumni Gallery and Exhibition Space, has been dedicated to showcasing alum work. UNLIMITED continues to be a spotlight in our alum programming, and this year we are fortunate to offer the salon gallery in person and online. We are proud to feature PNCA alums from the past 50 years in our exhibition.
MFA OPEN STUDIOS
This event is an opportunity to get a private view of what grad students have been working on and to engage with them in conversation about their individual practices and projects.
Programs displaying work:
MFA Collaborative Design+MA Design Systems
MFA Print Media
Post-Bacc Residency
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Hold the Void
by Nina Elder
2023 CCAC Artist-in-Residence
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Displaying works from Nina's Uplift series
Is the world ending? In a time of social and ecological devastation, I contemplate what it means to be authentically alive during a time rampant with loss.
I embrace uncomfortable paradox, inviting beauty and bewilderment to mingle. These three bodies of work explore different aspects of existing and creating – not only on the edge of the unknown, but engaged, implicated, and enchanted with the void.
- Nina Elder
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The Solastalgic Archive
by Nina Elder
2023 CCAC Artist-in-Residence
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Ed Cauduro and Dane Nelson Collection Studies Lab +
Dorothy Lemelson Innovation Studio
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Solastalgia is a premonition of longing for the present moment from the perspective of an anticipated future. It is the feeling of homesickness before leaving home. What are we experiencing now that we will miss in the future? -- that is the sensation of solastalgia.
The Solastalgic Archive holds ephemera of memory, creation, forgetting, destruction, preciousness and transience. Contributions have been sourced from a vast array of people, each asked to consider what connects them to time. Unlike other museum collections, the Solastalgic Archive holds deeply personal items as well as things that change or disappear over time. By allowing emotions and ephemerality to displace institutional indifference and contrived permanence, this space enlivens the passage of time. The Archive will evolve over the course of the exhibition and will continue to grow through classroom activities and public workshops.
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Don't Call Me She, Call Me Mother
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Group Exhibition
PNCA Atrium
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FEATURING:
Ardis DeFreece
KP Phoebus
Jessica Joner
Jessie Lawson
Limei Lai
Sade DuBoise
Sarah Rushford
Don’t Call Me She, Call Me Mother is an exhibition by PNCA Artists and alumni exploring our experiences as Mothers. There have been a multitude of depictions of Motherhood throughout Art History not necessarily by mothers. Many of these images portray a romanticized and sometimes sexualized ideal. But who are we really? As Artists who are also Mothers we have the rare opportunity to depict and describe Our story from an insider perspective. We, the humans looking out at the world, our children, our suffering and joy, entangled with the unfathomable responsibility to raise, rear, nurture, educate, hold space etc. Through this work we hope to enrich and add depth to the plight of the Mother. To honor our work and shed light upon the realities that creating art as mothers embodies.
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| Mai Ide, Curated by Genesis Turris
157 Gallery
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Presented w/ The 2023 Graduate Symposium Art and Social Consciousness:
Critiquing the “American” Racial theology of judging objects based on racial prejudice to justify the “American” lifestyle.
Artist Mai Ide uses the grid as a metaphor for a social norm of standardizations to measure value, authority, and power. The grid, which represents the shoji screen, a traditional Japanese door, is an analogy for a virtual boundary between herself and white supremacy. She makes an association between these two ideas to showcase her struggle in society. In order to resist these oppressions, we must have to create our grid to be ourselves. These works show our vulnerability within these circumstances by showing how we, as BIPOC and queer artists, are ignored and appropriated by the Western gaze. ”shoji reality” highlights the complexities of identity within the systemic oppression of social norms created by white supremacy. Ide grapples with these challenges of contrasting social configurations through communal collaboration with artists; Kevin Yatsu, Crimson Ravarra, Kaya Noteboom, Erik Soriano, Mallary Wilson, PCP, Emiri Nakagawa, and Nonamey.
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Ari Albertson
B10 Gallery
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(parentheses) is an expression of recognition, homage, memorial and celebration; an exploration of queer lineage and resilience, trans embodiment, and the bittersweetness of history, memory and ancestry. Through a multimedia approach utilizing painting and sculpture, (parentheses) explores the inherited grief of queer ancestors painfully lost and the lineages of culture broken by that loss, and the urgent need to foster and protect queer community, solidarity, and action, through joy and anger, sadness and love. Occurring simultaneously is a consideration of what it is like to exist in a body that defies (cis)gendered expectations and exists outside of binary strictures – an experience rife with discomfort and fear, but also freedom and euphoria. Exploring notions of liminality and lineage, these works are informed heavily by a queer ethic of creation, one driven by process-based experimentation and curious seeking. Elements are left intentionally raw and unfinished; there isvisible evidence of trial and error. This exuberant messiness celebrates imperfection, in reverence to the infinite process of being human, acting with reckless love, and discovering constantly.
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| Leilani Luu
Holt Project Space
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One in five...One in five adults experience mental illness each year. One in twenty U.S adults experience serious mental illness each year. One in six U.S youth aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year. Fifty percent of all lifetime mental illnesses begin by age 14, and seventy-five by age 24. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among people aged 10-24. With this, mental illnesses often come with having to take medications. These medications are supposed to make a person with a mental illness behave “normally.” When taking these medications, it feels as if they follow you around all day, like a cloud looming over your head. Even though we as a society have somewhat normalized talking about mental illnesses and advocating for mental health care, I feel as if there is still a stigma around medications for mental illnesses.
This stigma makes those who have to take medications feel ashamed about their medications. This stupid, small, orange, pill bottle destroys people’s self-esteem because it makes them feel not normal. They would give anything to nothave this bottle follow them around every day but without it they wouldn’t be normal. That is why I chose to name this exhibition Be Normal.
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First Year Class Seminar - Commons Gallery |
The Foundation Department presents the inaugural book launch of “Baby’s First Art Book”, a comprehensive collection of the PNCA at Willamette First Year Seminar students’ thoughts and reflections on art and its value and importance within their lives. Spanning 140++ pages, this full-color volume is a poignant snapshot of the collective sentiments of this unique moment in cultural and creative history as well as a stunning compilation of the many ways in which each of these artists chooses to engage in their practice in response to the world around them. Over 125 artists across multiple disciplines and mediums were chosen to answer the question, What Does Art Mean to Me? and responded with eloquence and candor. The book is printed and perfect-bound utilizing the invaluable resources available on PNCA’s campus.
Image courtesy of Jae Jang
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For seven years, PAGE Space, or PNCA Alumni Gallery and Exhibition Space, has been dedicated to showcasing alum work. It is a hub for the alumni community to connect with each other as well as with students, faculty, and staff. UNLIMITED continues to be a spotlight in our alum programming, and this year we are fortunate to offer the salon gallery in person and online. We are proud to feature PNCA alums from the past 50 years in our exhibition.
PAGE Space is currently curated and managed by Alum Board Member Lauren Stumpf (MFA VS ’16).
Location: PNCA, 511 NW Broadway, RM 136
Virtual Gallery: https://pnca.willamette.edu/gallery
Gallery Hours: Monday - Saturday 10am - 4pm
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EXHIBITIONS IN THE NORTH PARK BLOCKS! |
Sean Healy's Lifer (install view) at Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Courtesy of Elizabeth Leach Gallery
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Save the Date for upcoming First Thursdays! |
December 7
February 1
March 7
April 4**
May 2**
June 6**
(** Expanded special programming at PNCA on these dates)
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About CCAC and PNCA
The Center for Contemporary Art & Culture is a platform for cultural production including exhibition, lecture, performance, and publication. Housed within Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), the Center throws open its doors to the greater public to foster conversation and community. Pacific Northwest College of Art is the leading professional arts and design school in the Northwest; we are the heartbeat of learning and experimentation in Portland’s vibrant cultural ecosystem.
We spark curiosity and sharpen skills so students can build creative careers anchored in innovation, justice and civic imagination.
About the 2023 Graduate Symposium: Art + Social Consciousness
This symposium, featuring artists vanessa german and Nina Elder as distinguished keynote speakers, promises to be an immersive exploration of the intersection of art, activism, and social consciousness. Set against the backdrop of their artwork and facilitation practices that challenge societal norms and provoke critical dialogue, this event invites attendees on a transformative journey through the realms of visual expression, social and ecological advocacy. German, celebrated for her dynamic mixed-media sculptures and community-engaged artistry, will ignite discussions on the power of creativity to effect meaningful change in historically marginalized communities. Complementing her perspective, Elder’s thought-provoking and multidisciplinary practice will illuminate the urgent need for artistic intervention to cultivate an authentic, curious, and empathetic state of living through times of extreme transition. Together, German and Elder will inspire a diverse audience of artists, designers, makers, educators, and community members to engage with creativity as a catalyst for social justice and environmental mindfulness, fostering a collective commitment to a more inclusive and sustainable future.
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