A co-authored multi-day gathering of participatory events, discussions, and presentations by the PSU Art and Social Practice MFA Program.
Join us for a collection of student-led experimental and experiential offerings from our Art + Social Practice MFA program artists working in socially engaged forms.
What does the public domain mean to you? Is it the physical space and services that belong to a city? Is it knowledge that is free to use? Is it the people who have become public figures, like actors or government officials? Who is the public domain about and for? Whose knowledge is considered relevant to become public? Who gets access to public spaces and why? Who gets to be a person in public? Why are some spaces public and others private, and who decides which is which? These are some of the questions the students of the Art + Social Practice MFA Program at Portland State University have been considering, and these questions resulted in the theme for this year’s Assembly conference.
Assembly is the Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design's annual gathering of participatory events, workshops, and presentations highlighting the collaborative work and inspirations of our MFA cohort. Started in 2014, Assembly is a student-created event that assembles communities around participatory art making over three days of programming and projects. This year’s Assembly has something for everyone.
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Schedule of Events
Thursday, June 5
- 10:00-11:30 am | Xavier Pierce, KSMoCA Exhibition Opening
KSMoCA (King School Museum of Contemporary Art)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School
4906 NE 6th
Portland OR 97211
- 4:00-5:00 pm | The PDX Hour: The Aging Well Project
by Manfred Parrales
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU
1855 SW Broadway
Portland OR 97201
Friday, June 6
The Portland Building
1120 SW 5th Avenue
Portland OR 97204
Hosted by the Portland Office of Arts and Culture
- 1:00-2:00 pm | Permission to Leave
by Simeen Anjum and Midori Yamanaka - 2:15-3:15 pm | In Our Ways
by Dom Toliver, Gwen Hoeffgen, Adela Cardona, and the Watershed Community - 3:45-4:45 pm | The Happiest Hour
by Clara Harlow - 5:00-8:00 pm | Art + Social Practice Graduate Lectures
by Midori Yakanaka and Manfred Parrales
Saturday, June 7
South Park Blocks
827 SW Columbia Street
Portland OR 97201
- 10:00-11:00 am | Songs Against Dark Times: PDX Edition
by Lou Blumberg and Simeen Anjum
Event starts at Pioneer Square (on 6th Avenue between Morrison and Yamhill Streets) and ends at the South Park Blocks. - 11:30-12:30 pm | Diaspora Kitchen
by Sarah Luu - 1:00-2:00 pm | Give Me Shelter
by Gwen Heoffgen and Dom Toliver - 2:15-3:15 pm | Monument Speed Dating
by Nina Vichayapai