Be Honest is the Portland State University Graphic Design annual student portfolio showcase. It’s not just for graduating seniors, but for all levels of graphic design students that want to participate and share their work.
It’s part portfolio show, part party, part open house, part alumni reunion, part awards, part lectures and ALL FUN. And we want you to join in with us!
This year, our sophomores, juniors and seniors are excited to share their work and engage with Portland’s creative community. Be Honest serves as a valuable opportunity for students to gain experience presenting their work and we would love for your feedback and support.
After the showcase, there will be a variety show called Good Nervous, hosted by Adam Garcia at 8pm!
2016 NW Handmade Musical Instrument Exhibit
April 30th – May 1st, 2016
Please mark your calendars for the next Northwest Handmade Musical Instrument Exhibit. It will again be held on the lovely campus of Marylhurst University, near Portland, Oregon.
The exhibition features musical instrument makers and performers of the Pacific Northwest.
The exhibition will be held in the Marylhurst Commons, with Concerts-Demonstrations held in the newly remodeled Wiegand Hall.
Admission is $3. Children under 12, free.
Annual Fruit Tree Giveaway. Hyper local fresh fruit...just step outside your door. Whether you're a fan of fruit or trees or both, join us at FOT HQ for our annual fundraiser. Suggested donation: $5 per tree.
Presented as part of the Portland EcoFilm Festival in celebration of Earth Day on April 22.
BARAKA (1992): “Baraka” is an ancient Sufi word, which can be translated as “a blessing or the breath or essence of life from which the evolutionary process unfolds.” Featuring no conventional narrative and no dialogue, BARAKA takes viewers around the globe to witness a variety of spectacles in both natural and technological realms, from chaotic cities to barren wilderness. Filmed in 152 locations in 25 countries on six continents, BARAKA brings together a series of stunningly photographed scenes to capture what director Ron Fricke calls “a guided mediation on humanity.” The production took 30 months to complete, including 14 months on location, with a custom-built computerized 65mm camera. “The goal of the film,” says producer Mark Magidson, “was to reach past language, nationality, religion, and politics and speak to the inner viewer.” At the time of its release, BARAKA was the first film in more than twenty years to be photographed in the 70mm Todd-AO format.
Tickets: $12 general admission; $9 Student/Senior, Friend, and Director members. Pre-sale access to Hollywood Theatre members and 70mm donors beginning at noon on Tuesday, March 22. Tickets open to the general public at noon on Tuesday, March 29.
Join Lucy Lee Yim for SELFIE-HELPIE
4 Wednesdays (see below for dates and details)
Description:
Getting into, out of, over and under yourself (or at least flirting with the idea that this is a possibility).
In this class we are going to be with ourselves, lose ourselves, find ourselves, entertain ourselves, bore ourselves, encourage ourselves and scare ourselves all while somehow being with one another.
Worried you are self-centered? Dancing when no one is looking? Wanting to be seen but also wanting to be invisible? This is an interdisciplinary class centered around our bodies and our bodies in relation to each other, space and time. The swirl of emotions and excitement that comes with art making will simply be in the room with us as we proceed.
There will be in class activities and self studies outside of class that may potentially spark the beginnings, middles and ends of a creative project. We will share with each other our questions, needs, desires, fears and curiosities, ultimately entering into performance.
Wednesdays April 13+20, May 4+11
Time: 7-8:15
Cost: All 4 class for $40 or $12 Drop In
Artist Bio/Pic:
http://cargocollective.com/lucyyim/ABOUT
Bent Design Lab will be participating in an Open House during Design Week Portland on April 20th, 2016.
The open house will host a pop up gallery featuring 6 of our talented Design Lab artists, a view into the minds of Directors Solomon Burbridge and Josh Cox, a chance to see our reels projected on our brand new 25’ screen and a blow out interactive dance party from 7pm on with co-hosts ASIFA and CASCADE ACM SIGGRAPH!!!
Small snacks provided by DogTown Hotdogs and Little T American Baker. Adult beverages provided by Base Camp Brewing Company and Coffee provided by Nectar Cafe PDX!
Click here to register and RSVP!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dwp-2016-open-house-bent-image-lab-registration-21545577402?aff=es2
Design Week Site:
https://2016.designweekportland.com/openhouses/bent-design-lab
What is Portland Pizza Week? $2 specialty slices available during pizza week only from:
Amalfi's Restaurant
Atlas Pizza
Baby Doll Pizza
Bella Faccia Pizzeria
Blackbird PIZZA
Bridge City Pizza
DeNicola's Italian Restaurant
East Glisan Pizza
Good Neighbor Pizzeria
Hot Lips Pizza
Mississippi Pizza Pub
Old Town Brewing Co. (NE only)
Pazzo Ristorante
Pizza a go go
Roman Candle Baking Co.
Scottie's Pizza Parlor
Sizzle Pie
Straight From New York Pizza
UFO Pizza (Portland)
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/996464263742371/
The second session of the home school class, generously hosted at the Cherry & Lucic house adjacent to the garage exhibition space (http://cherryandlucic.com/). Stream will be available for those who can't make it. A pdf of session #1 powerpoint can be found here:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzcxE8roGFt1LXhmUDJVcHFPOW8/view
In lieu of a description of the class, here is an excerpt from an email from Manuel Arturo Abreu sent to the Cherry co-directors:
"I have a very busy week ahead of me but I will try very hard to provide you all with an overview of my talk. I am thinking this one will relate to poetry's incursion into art - both in canonical high modernist times as well as in the contemporary moment and intervening periods. The last class worked heavily with ideas from David Joselit (his "heritage and debt" lecture specifically), and this time I am building on those ideas and seeing how they dovetail with Paul Mann's Theory-Death of the Avant Garde, in which he argues "the dematerialization of the art object is the refetishization of discourse." Maker aesthetics, abject figuration, and nostalgic craft have all seen a resurgence in contemporary practice and I want to investigate how this relates to poiesis and politico-aesthetic gentrification paradigms (whether it's neocolonial heritage-debt dividends as Joselit describes, or more innocuous subsumptions of marginality such as Portland's love of regionalism-as-institutionality).
Also will probably be tying in some ideas from Bifo's book And: Phenomenology of the End regarding the neurosocial shift from conjunctive thinking, which is open and driven by interpretation/sensibility, to connective thinking, which is driven by syntactic rules and set roles and denigrates phenomenological experience (ie embodied experience). His claims regarding language's power to negate actually-existing reality and the opportunities for alienation that arise from it resonate with my thoughts on the incursion of poetry (or the idea of poetry as a valueless object operating on an economy of magic) into art as well as its discourse and marketing. These are all loose ideas and I welcome us all hashing them out before Sunday, if there is time. If not, I will be happy to present a finished powerpoint and talk summary on (probably) Friday. One pressing need is the simplification of the ideas I am presenting. I will keep you posted.
I'm compiling an ebook consisting of art exhibition press releases which are poems. I'm just mentioning it because it amuses me."
Most of all, have fun !
Portland's fifth Silent Reading Party will be a special weekend-edition SRP, which will help accommodate folks who can't make SRP happen during the busy working week. All ages welcome. See your weekend out in readerly style!
Join fellow readers to read silently in good company. Bring your own print or digital book and enjoy two hours of undistracted time to read whatever you want. Expect happy hour prices and ambient music.
Email (Karen & Amanda) at silentreadingpartypdx@gmail.com for more information.
Get to know your local letterpress printers at the 7th Annual Letterpress Printers Fair. This family-friendly event will feature goods from an array of local printers, book artists, designers, and lovers of type, as well as live printing and hands-on demonstrations.
Letterpress printing is one of the few remaining craft industries where its practitioners are innovating contemporary applications using centuries’ old technology. Celebrate 500 years of the historic craft of letterpress printing and the community that sustains it here in Portland.
Cost: Free
Visit the event page for more information.
The Northwest Magic Conference is a gathering of witches, priest-esses, faeries, magicians, mystics, wizards, and more!
A full weekend of classes on divination, tarot, queer mythology, faerie magic, psychic skills, earth magic, ritual, and more!
Early Bird Price only $95 for the full weekend, price goes up February 22nd!
Keynote with Mary K. Greer!
Classes with Marcella Kroll, Pomegranate Doyle, Colette Gardiner, Sage Goode, Larry Savides, Iris Mae Misciagna, Moe Bowstern, Rhea Wolf, Ebony Galluzzo, Dyanne Sekeres, Gayle Corlett, Ph Nx, Beau-Caprice Vetch, Sue Burns, Meanna Welti, Beverly Frederick, and more!
Email nicolepepper8@gmail.com with questions.
Join Lucy Lee Yim for SELFIE-HELPIE
4 Wednesdays (see below for dates and details)
Description:
Getting into, out of, over and under yourself (or at least flirting with the idea that this is a possibility).
In this class we are going to be with ourselves, lose ourselves, find ourselves, entertain ourselves, bore ourselves, encourage ourselves and scare ourselves all while somehow being with one another.
Worried you are self-centered? Dancing when no one is looking? Wanting to be seen but also wanting to be invisible? This is an interdisciplinary class centered around our bodies and our bodies in relation to each other, space and time. The swirl of emotions and excitement that comes with art making will simply be in the room with us as we proceed.
There will be in class activities and self studies outside of class that may potentially spark the beginnings, middles and ends of a creative project. We will share with each other our questions, needs, desires, fears and curiosities, ultimately entering into performance.
Wednesdays April 13+20, May 4+11
Time: 7-8:15
Cost: All 4 class for $40 or $12 Drop In
Artist Bio/Pic:
http://cargocollective.com/lucyyim/ABOUT
The SASS(y) Hour is a monthly workshop featuring a topic related to sexual violence prevention. This month's workshop will cover important sexual violence legislation and allow people to learn about their rights to institutional protection from and response to sexual violence.
This event is FREE, and food will be provided.
Dr. Jamal Badawi is Professor Emeritus at St. Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Yet, at that council meeting, Commissioner Fish conceded, ”Let's acknowledge that this vote in and of itself solves nothing. "
Indeed. It did not.
Local news recently reported that Portland’s rent increases are the highest in the nation, increasing at a rate of 14% over just one month. The snooze-button emergency “renter protections” - - - 90-days notice on rent increases and no-cause evictions---did nothing to stop the exploitative price gouging. These "protections" did nothing to quiet the tsunami of forced displacement.
On April 7th, six months to the day of Portland’s declaration, we are asking you to join us in asking Multnomah County to take bold and decisive action. We can’t wait for the magical day that supply catches up with demand. We need to protect and stabilize tenants struggling to stay in their homes. We need rent control, and we need it now.
Oregon statute 91.225(5) gives local jurisdictions the power to enact rent control in a manmade disaster that results in significant material elimination of the rental housing supply.
Our rental housing has been materially eliminated by AirBnB, rampant evictions, speculative real estate practices, unregulated housing providers, and untenable rent increases.
And it is, most certainly, a disaster. We have all heard stories of the impact of housing insecurity: extreme health and education disparities, economic instability, homelessness, pregnant women and new mothers and entire families sleeping in cars or homeless camps, victims of domestic violence trapped in their abusive living situation, and even suicide. Indeed, research cited in the top selling book ‘Evicted’ shows that evictions are not a consequence of poverty, but a cause of it.
It is time for rent control; it is time for protection from no-cause evictions. Another summer of evictions is around the corner. We can’t wait. The time is now.
PSU MFA Studio Lecture Series presents:
Contemporary Regionalism: A Conversation with Michelle Grabner
Sue Taylor, moderator
Michelle Grabner
Pat Boas
Prudence Roberts
ABOUT THE EVENT
Michelle Grabner’s interest in Regionalism informs her curatorial projects in general and her vision of the Portland2016 Biennial of Contemporary Art this year. After a presentation by Grabner, this panel will explore the how Regionalism might be manifest today, how it differs from its historical precedents, and what it may mean in the context of broader national and international trends in contemporary art. Sue Taylor will moderate a discussion that includes Grabner, Pat Boas, and Prudence Roberts.
ABOUT MICHELLE GRABNER
Michelle Grabner works in variety of mediums including drawing, painting, video and sculpture. Incorporating writing, curating and teaching with a studio practice grounded in process and productivity, she has created a multi-faceted and dynamic career. Grabner holds an MA in Art History and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and an MFA in Art Theory and Practice from Northwestern University. She joined the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996, and became Chair of its prestigious Painting and Drawing department in the fall of 2009. Grabner was one of the curators for the 2014 Whitney Biennial and she is the curator for the upcoming Portland2016 Biennial of Contemporary Art taking place at Disjecta and venues across the state of Oregon.
Lincoln Hall Room 75
free & open to the public
In this hands-on workshop you will learn the basic techniques of bark grafting (topworking). This method of grafting will allow you to combine different varieties and species of fruit into a single tree during the Spring season.
<<Click here to register now for the 4/2 Bark Grafting workshop>>
With a whiff of PechaKucha, and a penchant for sideline knowledge areas, Weird Shift hosts "MicroTalks": an evening of short-form presentations that might include inspiring rants, marginalia studies and image-laden screeds.
Expect (and/or become part of) an eclectic array of offerings from local and telepresent artists, writers, concept engineers, cranks and independent researchers.
All are welcome! Bring images on flashdrive or laptop, or just step up, open-mic style!
Please join us to celebrate Esprit, a group exhibition with with Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Matthew Kirk, Memory Jugs by anonymous makers and the Philadelphia Wireman
The works in Esprit evoke a quality of being that is powerful and charged, but enigmatic. Common objects, marks and materials are transformed from their everyday reality into something more essential or spiritual as they project emotion and longing. The works on view adhere to a personal system of mark-making or logic, one where each additional intervention acts in combination with that which is extant, shifting meaning, power or personality.