Call For Entries: MK Gallery The MK Gallery is
now accepting exhibition proposals from current PSU students for solo,
group-student, and project-based, exhibitions for the Fall 2009–Spring
2010 calendar year. All proposals will be reviewed and exhibitions
awarded based upon the submissions conceptual strength, clarity of
vision, supporting materials, and feasibility. A three-person panel
composed of one current MFA student, one art faculty member, and the current gallery director will review submissions. |  |
Pat Boas / Record Record / Gallery Talk Thursday, October 8th, 12 noon |
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Professor Harrell Fletcher invited to speak at Creative Time. Creative Time is pleased to announce a thrilling addition to the LIVE from the NYPL fall season—The Creative Time Summit: Revolutions in Public Practice. Over 35 international artists, curators, critics, scholars, anarchists, and activists will give concise presentations on their work and urgent issues of social justice in this rollercoaster conference, which takes place in the course of a single day. The Summit will open with the bestowal of The Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change on The Yes Men. |
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Don't miss Monday night - PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series. Review by D.K Row in The Oregonian October 5 Léonie Guyer |
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"Shine a Light" lights up the Portland Art Museum for a night. Review by D.K. Row, The Oregonian On Saturday night, the sluggish giant that is the Portland Art Museum
awoke, beckoned by strange and unlikely presences: break dancers,
outdoor beer gardens, gorgeous ikebana floral arrangements, mystical
dowsing auras, and much more.
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Art Talk AM Interviews limited edition run. Art Talk AM's radio host Cyrus Smith presents nine interviews with ten of his favorite artists transcribed and edited into book format. This compilation was a major component of Smith's MFA thesis work at Portland State University. This is limited edition run. Only 80 copies for sale. All proceeds will go towards a residency in North Carolina.
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The Portland State Graphic Design program is HOT! They should be on your RADAR! We know this, of course, but we are THRILLED that HOW Magazine decided to spotlight PSU (along with Mississippi State and Temple University-Tyler School of Art) as a hidden gem design schools. The July/August issue is out now! Pick one up if you want to read more about the Graphic Design program and if you want to peep the works of current students (Nicole Lavelle, Jong Seong Lee, Rory Phillips) and recent grads (Drew Marshall and Cari Vander Yacht). Pssst: The article is called Art School Confidential and it starts on page 56. |  |
Erik Geschke will lecture about his work and conduct a workshop at the PCC Sylvania Campus as part of ArtBeat 2009. Thursday, May 14th 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM |  |
Pat Boas, Artist Talk, Portland Art Museum, Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, Thursday, May 14, 2009 | 6 p.m. Pat Boas is an artist and writer whose language-based drawings are shown nationally. She teaches drawing and painting at Portland State University and has been published in Artweek and Art Papers. Join Boas in the Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art to discuss Untitled, 1969, by Philip Guston and John McCracken's Black Box, 1965. |  |
Sculpture faculty Stephanie Robison at The 9th Northwest Biennial at Tacoma Art Museum. Tacoma Art Museum's The 9th Northwest Biennial, on view from January 31 through May 25, 2009, features 24 artists who were selected from the 543 entries. Rock Hushka, Director of Curatorial Administration and Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art for Tacoma Art Museum was joined by Alison de Lima Greene, Curator of Contemporary Art and Special Projects at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston to juror and curate the exhibition. The Biennial will be accompanied by a full-color, 108-page exhibition catalogue. For more information please visit the Tacoma Art Museums wesbite. |  |
MFA Chair Pat Boas and MFA Graduate students Katy Asher, Eric Steen and Vanessa Calvert at FATE Biennial Conference in April. MFA Chair and Assistant Professor of Art, Pat Boas, will co-chair a panel with Mark Smith: "Expanding Art Foundations Curriculum in a Post-Discipline World". MFA students Katy Asher and Eric Steen will be presenting on "Who Is This For? What Does It Do? Teaching Social Practices at the Foundation Level" on April 3 at 3:30pm. Vanessa Calvert will also be presenting at the conference. FATE
Biennial Conferences support teaching and learning. Sessions focus
on exchange of ideas and practices among faculty in foundations-level
art classrooms. CONFLUENCE 2009 will especially benefit new instructors
of art and art history, adjunct instructors, and graduate students who
plan on teaching art and art history. The Conference also offers
inspiration to those who wish to freshen their approaches to teaching.
The Confluence 09 Conference will take place at the Benson Hotel April
1-4, 2009. |  |
Harrell Fletcher, Sandy Sampson, Eric Steen, Amy Steel, Cyrus Smith, Avalon Kalin, Laurel Kurtz, Katy Asher, and Varinthorn Christopher. Art Journal website. | |
MFA Social Practice students participate in panel discussion at SFMOMA: The Art of Participation 1950 to Now The panel focused on the thoughts and concerns of art and social practice. What does it mean to become a professional in this field? How as students are they thinking about the artist's responsibility to the audience and participants? These were a couple of the questions addressed in the panel at SFMOMA. | |
