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Juma Jarms | MFA Studio Practice Exhibition
Juma Jarms, an exhibition featuring MFA Studio Practice students in the…
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Juma Jarms | MFA Studio Practice Exhibition
Juma Jarms, an exhibition featuring MFA Studio Practice students in the School of Art + DesignArtists
Andrea Hendrickson
Trash Thompson
Joaquin Golez
Júlia Sodré @stsodreMai Ide @maiidepdxMelanie Martinez @melaniemartinez.artist
Safiyah Maurice, @safiyah.maurice
La Uva @la_uva352
Raja Timihiri, @rajatimihiri
On view April 21-May 5
Opening reception: Thursday, April 21, 4:30-6:30pm
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
MK Gallery
PSU Art Building, 2nd floor
2000 SW 5th Avenue
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BLACK LIVES MATTER ARTIST GRANT EXHIBITION
Featured Artists:
AnAkA, Annabelle Araya, Julia Bond, J’reyesha Brannon,…
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BLACK LIVES MATTER ARTIST GRANT EXHIBITION
Featured Artists:
AnAkA, Annabelle Araya, Julia Bond, J’reyesha Brannon, Amirah Chatman, Steven Christian, Baba Wagué Diakité, Sadé DuBoise, Austin Gardner, Leila Haile, Elijah Hasan, Edmund Holmes, Willie Little, Latoya Lovely, Aiyana Monae McClinton, Jessica Mehta, Christine Miller, Annie Schutz, Sharita Towne, and Kyra Watkins
The Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Program is a multi-university granting project established by Jordan Schnitzer that has awarded funding to 60 emerging, mid-career, and established artists whose practices demonstrate a commitment to social justice. This granting initiative, which categorically references the Black Lives Matter movement(s), gestures towards the germinating financial and intellectual investment in artwork borne out of a continuing, centuries-long fight for Black autonomy, freedom, and most notably, life.
The 20 artists selected for the Portland State University Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Exhibition stretch the notion of ‘socially engaged artwork’ beyond its cursory definition, resulting in a collection of objects which require multiple shifts in perspective. Through installation, photography, video, painting, performance, textiles, sculpture, poetry, and printmaking, this exhibition is a microcosm of allied and conflicting political, social, and aesthetic approaches.
Some awardees find it imperative to use art as a vehicle to depict the horrors of white supremacy by swelling the effects to an unignorable size, asking their audience not to turn away. The artwork of other awardees tends to the intricacies of their individual craft, or the richness of material culture. To joy and pleasure, illustrating and narrating a better world than this, to the intersections of Blackness, indigeneity, and queerness, to secrecy, and to abstraction.
This exhibition is not only in the wake of a global pandemic, nor the two years of increased global uprisings and protests in defense of Black life, or even centuries of enslavement and imprisonment, but also; in the spirit of Black creativity, ingenuity, and collectivity.
To learn more about the exhibition and artists visit the exhibition website:
https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/winter-2022-exhibition/black-lives-matter-artist-grant-exhibition
Content for the exhibition was written by Ella Ray, a Portland-based art historian, cultural worker, and curator. Editorial support by Nia Pipkin-Glover.
The Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Program was established by Jordan Schnitzer in partnership with the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU. The program is funded through a generous grant from the Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation/Jordan Schnitzer.
The Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Exhibition was organized by the JSMA at PSU. Additional funding for this exhibition is provided by Portland State University President's Office and the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Image Credit: Amirah Chatman, Heaven’s Probably in Phoenix (detail), 2020, pastel on chipboard, Diptych, 44 x 56 inches
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Corporeal Gestures: Fragmentary Explorations in the Cultivation…
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Corporeal Gestures: Fragmentary Explorations in the Cultivation of the Human Body
Corporeal Gestures, organized by School of Architecture professor Clive Knights, is an international exhibition of collage art created in response to nine "muses," characterized as the shared bodily necessities of breathing, nourishing, sleeping, discharging waste, procreating, resisting the earth’s pull, communicating, aging and dying. The exhibition of over 120 collages brings together work by invited artists and work selected in a worldwide open call. The project challenged collage artists to consider how human action is pre-figured in the horizons opened up by the ineluctable processes of the animate human body; how human relations are preempted by these corporeal capacities; how one’s body is activated in the world – acting, gesturing, making – amidst the shared rhythms pertaining to our common, mortal predicament in a single, unfolding cosmos.
Exhibition on view April 4 through 29, 2022
First Thursday reception April 7, 2022
Participating artists:
Akinbo Akinnuoye | USA | @hrpaperscraps
Tatiana Almond | Russia | @tati.s.titch
Sara BakerMichalak | USA | @SaraBakerMichalakArt
Todd Bartel | USA | @Collagehead
Roger Bassetto | Brazil | @rogerbassetto
Allan Bealy | USA | @allan.bealy
Aaron L. Beebe | USA | @beebe.grafik
Kathryn Bird | Australia | @prettyshake
Julie Blankenship | USA | @privateyesf
Laurence Briat | France | @laurencebriat
Olivia Browne | UK | @oliviabrownecollage
Susan Bryant | USA | @susanbryantphoto
Andrea Burgay | USA | @andreaburgay
Nel Burke | England | @bangomylife
Sonia Cabañas | Portugal
Mary Madelyn Carney | USA | @marycarneycollage
Keith Childress | USA | @cottonkomet
Cheryl Chudyk | USA | @stitchpixie
Andrei Cojocaru | France | @andrcjcr
Sarah Cowling | Canada | @sarahcowlingartist
MJ Connors Davison | USA | @mjmixedmediaart
Margot de Korte | The Netherlands | @margotbirgitte
Şirin Bahar Demirel | The Netherlands | @mishaps.included
Elke Desutter | Belgium | @elkedesutter
Deborah Di Leo | Italy | @deborahdileocollages
Ben DiNino | USA | @biblioexcavations
Sam Dodson | UK | @samcollaged
Peter Dowker | Canada | @peterdowker
J. Nathan Dziedzic | USA | @formandtype
Elis | Ukraine | @elis_prostotak
Kellette Elliott | USA | @kelletteworks
Simone Esterhuizen | Australia | @simone.esterhuizen
Teresa Ettel | USA | @tess.collage
Rhed Fawell | Scotland | @rhedfawell
Musta Fior | France | mustafior.wixsite.com/mustafior
Nina Fraser | Portugal | @ninafraserartist
Fred Free | USA | @fred_free
Kathryn Gallant | USA | @redkgallant
Jonny Garcia | Canada | @art.by.jonny
Melanie Garcia | Canada | @_melanie_garcia
Barbara Gibson | UK | @barbaragibson_creative
Michelle Granville | Ireland | @beleafmoon
Roberta Guarna | Italy | @roberta.guarna
CP Harrison | USA | @c.p.harrison
Stefan Heuer | Germany | www.heuerseite.de
Alexis Hilliard | USA | @lexiehilliard
Jo Hudson | UK | @jo_collage
Anne-Julie Hynes | Canada | @annejuliehynes
Errin Ironside | USA | @ironside_eyes
Jeannine Jirak | Germany | @jeanninejirak
Laurie Kanyer | USA | @lauriekanyer | @kanyerartcollection
Allan Kausch | USA | www.arksurreal.com
Katrin Klink | Germany | @dailyperfectmoment
Clive Knights | England/USA | @knightsclive
Alejandra Koreck | Argentina | @makoreck
Flore Kunst | France | @florekunst
Alison Kurke | Italy/UK | @kurberry
Vincent La Scala | USA | @vincentlascala
Susanna Lakner | Germany | @planet_susannia.de
Louise Laplante | USA | @louiselaplante50
Nancy Goodman Lawrence | USA | @nancygoodmanlawrence
Yulia Lenina | Ukraine | @yulia.lenina.art
Susan Lerner | USA | @mixdmediamashup
Katana Lippart | USA | @katanalipp_art
Simone Löhndorf | Sweden | @eclectic_tree_collage
Janice McDonald | USA | @janicemcdonaldart
Lee McKenna | Australia | @leeamckenna
Dorothée Mesander | Greece | @dorotheemesander
Isabelle Milkoff aka Milkisa | France | @milkisa61
Mark Murphy | UK | @moif_collage
Scott Neff | USA | @theimagebutcher
Judith Nicolussi | Austria | @junillu
Örsi Nyikos | Hungary | @helloorsinyikos
Jo Parkin | Australia | @joparkinart
Cory Peeke | USA | @see_peekie
Tara Pellegrino | USA | @chicke_collage
Juliette Pestel | The Netherlands | @atelierjuliettepestel
María Elisa Quiaro | Germany | @mariaelisa.quiaro
Julia Racz | Hungary | @szulejka
Dale Rawls | USA | www.dalerawls.com
Billy Renkl | USA | @billyrenkl
Patti Robinson | USA | @PattiRobinsonArt
Rocío Romero | Spain | @laotrarous
Frances Ryan | Scotland | @little_pink_dog
Salix | USA | @salix_namu
Ruth Saporito | Canada | @inbetweenrinks
Kelly Schaub | USA | @powonwheels
Grayson Schoenbine | USA | @_fiftyshadesofgrayson_
Gail Seres-Woolfson | UK | @gailsereswoolfson
Irina Sevostyanova | Russia | @irina.se_se
Sasha Shevchenko | Canada | @lyusterko
Beverly Silva | USA | @beverly.silva.94
Daria Sorokina | Belarus | @sorro.collage
Carlotta Speroni | Italy | @carlottasperoni
Clashing Squirrel | France | @clashing.squirrel
Claire Standish | USA | @skippyc5
Svena Steinbrecher | Germany | @svena.steinbrecher
Jill Stoll | USA | @jillstollcollage
Lydia Pearce Swinney | England | @lidi_ofthe.arts
Emily Tironi | USA | @ett.designs
Kim Triedman | USA | @kimtriedman
Monique Vettraino | Canada | @moniquevettraino
Laura Weiler | USA | @cutandplaced
Geoff Wonnacott | Canada | @collagetech
Jens Wortmann | Germany | @jens_wortmann
Kass Yeigh | Australia | @zenmoonart
Image: "Balance Sheet," Clive Knights
Shattuck Hall, 1914 SW Park Avenue, Portland, Oregon
Second Floor
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To Survive on This Shore
To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and…
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To Survive on This Shore
To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults
Jess T. Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre
February 8 – April 30, 2022
Representations of older transgender people are nearly absent from our culture and those that do exist are often one-dimensional. For over 5 years, photographer Jess T. Dugan and social worker Vanessa Fabbre traveled throughout the United States creating To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender And Gender Nonconforming Older Adults. Seeking subjects whose lived experiences exist within the complex intersections of gender identity, age, race, ethnicity, sexuality, socioeconomic class, and geographic location, they traveled from coast to coast, to big cities and small towns, documenting the life stories of this important but largely underrepresented group of older adults. The featured individuals share a wide variety of life narratives spanning the last ninety years, offering an important historical record of transgender experience and activism in the United States. The resulting portraits and narratives provide a nuanced view into the struggles and joys of growing older as a transgender person and offer a poignant reflection on what it means to live authentically despite seemingly insurmountable odds.
Jess T. Dugan is an artist whose work explores issues of gender, sexuality, identity, and community. For the past decade, Jess has photographed people within queer and transgender communities, focusing on the complexities of identity, gender, and sexuality. Jess earned a BFA in photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, a Master of Liberal Arts in Museum Studies from Harvard University, and an MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago. Jess regularly exhibits internationally and has work in several museum collections.
Vanessa Fabbre, PhD, LCSW is an Assistant Professor at the Brown School of Social Work and Affiliate Faculty in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Vanessa’s research explores the conditions under which LGBTQ people age well, and what this means in the context of structural forces such as heteronormativity, heterosexism, and transphobia. Her research has been published in the Journal of Gerontology, Social Sciences, Social Work, The Gerontologist, the Journal of Gerontological Social Work, and the Journal of Urban Health.To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults is an exhibition organized by Barrett Barrera Projects. The exhibition is supported in part by the Oregon Cultural Trust.
Learn More: https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/to-survive-on-this-shore/home
Image Caption: Jess T. Dugan, Caprice, 55, Chicago, IL, 2015, courtesy of the artist and Barrett Barrera Projects. © Jess T. Dugan
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