Special Event
24 Hour Comics Day in Library
For the second year in a row, PNCA’s Library is site for Portland’s only officially hosted 24 Hour Comics Day.
Each brave participant will attempt to complete their own 24 page comic in a 24 hour time period (October 20-21, from 10am to 10am).
Cartoonist Scott McCloud started doing 24 Hour Comics Days in 1990, but the event didn’t become an official, international experience until 2004.
The event has grown every year. There are now 80 officially hosted sites spread out in 30 US states and 14 international countries, as well as numerous events happening in private homes and dark alleys. See the official 24 Hour Comics website for more details about the event.
Special Surprise Guests will be attending...
Special thanks to LAIKA Entertainment for their generous support, and thanks to Bridge City Comics, Floating World Comics, Art Media and Hot Lips Pizza for their additional support.
Participating
So you think you want to try to stay up for 24 hours and make a 24 page comic, huh? OK, then. You can register below, but first, a few details to get out of the way:
Who can be part of the action?
Anyone is welcome to join the event, although minors must be accompanied by an adult. Space is limited, with first priority given to PNCA students. We keep a waiting list since some people drop out as the event draws near.
Rules and Guidelines
- We need you to promise not to drive yourself home. You may be unaware of how drowsy you are, and we don’t want any accidents to mar this great event. You’ll have to specify your mode of transportation home and/or the name and number of the person who will drive you home.
- Bring your own art supplies, snacks and comfortable items. We’ll also provide some snacks and pizza and coffee.
- It’s gracious of PNCA to host this event, so we need to treat the facility with respect.
- Alcohol and illegal drug use are forbidden at the event.
PNCA Instructor Shows Work at Froelick Gallery
Social Studies
July 1 – August 2
An interdisciplinary artist, Maldonado creates conceptually driven artwork deploying modern formalist aesthetics that delicately balances the humorous with pointed commentary on our contemporary culture, according to Froelick Gallery.
“I combine painting and printmaking techniques to create compositions built on chance, movement, and repetition,” Maldonado states. “I draw inspiration from folk art, family photos, advertising, Catholic iconography and how the Mexican migrant experience relates to American popular culture.”
Maldonado often explores the Mexican migrant experience in America. Working from his heritage and using his contemporary aesthetic, Maldonado creates images that delicately balance humor with pointed cultural commentary. His paintings, prints and videos mix the iconography of consumer advertising, agriculture and industrial manufacturing to create visual symbols of our shared environments.
Represented locally by Froelick Gallery, his work has most recently been included in Building Tradition: Contemporary Art from Tacoma Art Museum at the Whatcom Museum (WA) and Contemporary Baroque at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (IL). His work is in the permanent collections of Perkins Coie LLP and the Tacoma Art Museum. In addition to teaching at PNCA, Maldonodo works as Exhibitions Coordinator for Froelick Gallery, writes as a freelance arts reporter for PDX Magazine and will be the juror for Portland Modern #5.
Holiday Hours
All PNCA buildings will be closed on Friday, July 4 for the Independence Day holiday. We will continue normal summer hours, 9am -6pm, on Saturday, July 5.
From all of us at PNCA, have a happy and safe Fourth of July!
Footprints along the River
Lynda Wysong, who has been part of the South Waterfront Artist in Residence program will have her final tours of Footprints along the River part of Backyard Conversations, this Thursday and Saturday. Wysong’s work focused on uncovering what makes a neighborhood as Portland’s newest community members strive to stake out its identity.
Wysong says her work is “[A]rt at the nexus of social sculpture, performance and environmental design; it is also direct and personal. This piece embraces the vocabulary of the guided tour and the video portrait. Putting a human face on the glistening pristine concrete and steel of Portland’s new South Waterfront community. Now, it is often identified as that land at the base of the Tram but slowly it is acquiring a place in Portland.”
The Artist in Residence (AiR) program is a 13-month creative cycle that is devoted to place-making. Conceived and directed by dance artist Linda K. Johnson, AiR is funded by Williams and Dame Development and Gerding Edlen Development. Additional support for Backyard Conversations has been provided by RACC.
SCHEDULE
PERFORMANCE TOURS
Footprints along the River
Th June 26th, 5 pm | Sat June 28th, 11 am
No place is without a past and the bulldozers cannot truly erase the footprints of those who walked along the river before us. Travel along the newly paved sidewalks and learn about the native gatherings and liberty ships that once graced a watery land that is no more. A working class neighborhood is transformed into towers of steel and glass that reflect the sky. The tour will meet local experts who recall the industrial past and are now working to preserve those memories.
All tours begin at AiR studio, 3623 SW River Pkwy@ Gains in the John Ross Tower. [Map]
CLOSING RECEPTION
Backyard Conversations Video by Linda Wysong & Pamela Chipman
Sat June 28th, 8-10 pm
Back Yard Conversations is direct and personal, putting a human face on the glistening pristine concrete and steel and honoring the process of building a new neighborhood. Examining the intersection of art, design, and community, it reveals the poetry and complexities of constructing an urban utopia. Backyard Conversations acknowledges the physical and social barriers created by construction fences and uses digital media to establish a forum.
The collaboration with Pamela Chipman presents comments from residents of the South Waterfront, as well as, construction workers and others who frequent the area. The completed piece will include sections on history, work, and the presence of the River and an original sound track by Peter Whitmore.
The 15 minute video will be running continuously, so stop by any time to meet the artists, and the community stars.
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