Profiles - College of the Arts

A unique partnership between College of the Arts faculty members and Northeast Portland's Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School transforms the school into a museum while providing one of a kind art practice experiences for students.

With support from the W. M. Keck Foundation, PSU researchers will develop an online electron microscopy platform to promote undergraduate nanoscience education.

PSU researchers launch a new study to support the construction of wooden skyscrapers.

During the summer of 2016, the Portland State University Multicultural Student Center worked closely with the School of Art + Design to create a mural for their space.

Assistant Professor of Violin

Yoga for Musicians Instructor

Adjunct Jazz Saxophone and Combo Instructor

Collaborative Piano Area Coordinator

Classical Voice Professor

The Kenton Audio Walk is a guided tour through Portland's historic Kenton neighborhood. Part of Disjecta's The Music That Makes Us, the piece is a collection of interviews and field recordings that were taken in the neighborhood during February and March of 2016

At the Portland Art Museum, PSU art history major Erin Frye is assisting curator Sara Krajewski with preparations for an upcoming exhibition of prints by Andy Warhol.

Art History undergraduate Ashley West is an intern at Cascadia Art Conservation Center with object conservator Robert Krueger

Students from Jodi Darby's Video, Design + Community course work collaboratively on video production and community based media.

Artwork by winners of the 2015 Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts + Special Jury Commendations

Artwork by 2015 graduate and undergraduate scholarship recipients in the School of Art + Design. Paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, video and design work.

Architecture students designed and built a mini-park on SW Fourth Avenue, adjacent to the popular food cart pod that draws crowds from nearby offices and classrooms.

Classical Saxophone Instructor

Jazz Bass Instructor

Brass Area Coordinator, Trumpet Professor

Animation work by students of A+D adjunct instructor Laura DiTrapani's 2D Animation and Visual Storytelling classes.

PSU graphic design students produce marketing materials for low carbon microbrew made by Migration Brewery in Portland.

Friendtorship brings together PSU Graphic Design students and high school students from Centennial Park School, increasing access to design and arts learning for under-served high school students.

PSU graphic design students analyze the trash flow in the Art Building and devise improved systems for handling trash and recycling.

Campus reuse project designed and executed by PSU students. The School of Art + Design has a brand new reuse room, open this year in the Art Building, Room 125.

Artwork from the 2014 Studio MFA Graduate Exhibition.

Harrell Fletcher launches a performance series at the PSU Recreation Center, designed to create art in unexpected places.

Be Honest, annual portfolio review where PSU graphic design students share work with local designers and listen to renowned designers speak about their craft.

BFA Thesis Exhibition 2015. Artwork by graduating seniors of the 2015 BFA program.

Artwork from the 2015 Studio MFA Graduate Exhibition

Screenwriting

Acting, Performance

Voice, Acting

Film Production

Film Production

Theater History, Production

Film Studies

Associate Director of School and Head of Theater, Writing, Directing

Film Production

Acting and Directing

Film Studies

Art Practice

Director of School Film

The Art and Social Practice MFA at PSU and Martin Luther King Jr. School in Northeast Portland partner and the idea of creating a “living museum” in a dynamic neighborhood takes off.

"There's no better way to give, than to help somebody continue their education."

Before Signe Anderson was the lead female vocalist for Jefferson Airplane, she was a PSU Viking. In 1959 Signe Anderson, then Signe Toly, was crowned Rose Festival Princess of Lincoln High School and awarded a $1500 scholarship. Upon graduation Anderson attended Portland State University from 1960 - 1963, where she majored in speech, taking classes in French, theater and performing in campus musicals. Her mother wanted her to attend Oregon State, but Anderson said, "On $1500 I can afford PSU. I can go to college right here! And we lived right up the hill; I can hitch a ride down to Salmon Street or take the 51 bus."

A new interdisciplinary program will provide engineering and architecture students the experience, training, and skills to address issues of energy consumption in the building sector.

PSU hosts teams of high school students and teachers at an interdisciplinary summer camp designed to cultivate cyber citizenship and interest in STEM-related fields.

Inspiring action for a better world.

Inspiring action for a better world.

Professor DeLys Ostlund is bringing a little-known play by one of Spain's greatest playwrights into the 21st century in a first-of-its-kind critical edition.

At Portland State University's newest research center, design is for equity. Design is for sustainability. Design is for the best interests of everyone.

Jazz Area Coordinator

Professor and Early Film Scholar

Portland State Alumnus Douglas Soesbe is a story analyst and editor working for NBCUniversal. He recently wrote a feature film entitled “Boulevard.” It is being shot in May of this year with Robin Williams starring. It will be directed by Dito Montiel, whose film, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, is a previous Sundance winner.

Supporting fundamental and applied research relevant to the green building industry, and serving as a teaching resource for students studying building science.

In 1962, Mr. Robert Bogue donated a fine and extensive collection of nearly 200 oil lamps to the Middle East Studies Center.

Innovation & Intellectual Property helps negotiate a partnership between public, private, and non-profit organizations leading to the construction of the green modular classroom, an affordable, sustainable alternative to current portable classrooms.

Public Works - Greening schools and housing

Academic Adviser

Taiko Ensemble Director

Classical Guitar Instructor

Adjunct Piano Professor

Director of Choral Activities

Jazz Piano Adjunct

Classical Piano Instructor

Professor of Flute

Harp Instructor

Professor and Theater Critic

Professor of Theatre & Film

Sonic Arts & Music Production Area Coordinator

"I MERELY TOOK THE ENERGY IT TAKES TO POUT AND WROTE SOME BLUES" Duke Ellington

Urban environment and sustainable design

Home of the fine-art foundry

Opera to the Portland Community

Executive Assistant to the School Director

Clarinetist, Woodwind Area Coordinator

Ex Africa semper aliquid novi

Head of Acting, Associate Professor of Theater Arts

Tenor Carl Halvorson is well-known internationally as a concert, opera and recital artist

KEN SELDEN, Director of Orchestral Studies

Place and the historic paradigms of landscape inform Rita Robillard's mixed media art.

School Director, Composition Area Coordinator

Coordinator of Music Education

"It's a very odd thing - As odd as can be - That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T." - W. De La Mare

Dr. Ron Babcock, Professor of Trombone, Music Theory and Music Education.

PSU oboists keep the urban musical scene vibrant

Music Technology

Hamilton Cheifetz is a dedicated teacher and internationally known concert cellist

Professor of Percussion, Graduate Coordinator, Assistant Director, School of Music

An active piano soloist and chamber musician, Dr. Chan promotes music from Asia and music written by women composers.

The first building on the PSU campus, Lincoln Hall was once a high school. It is now the lively center of performing arts in the College of the Arts.

Dan Vance '97 has made an independent film in Arizona with a camera of his own design.

Take one fired-up musician/scholar, a network of community partners and the legacy of a beloved jazz legend. Mix thoroughly and jam a while. What do you get?