Events + Exhibitions Calendar
Starting Thursday, July 2
Marina Zurkow
Elixir. I & IV.
Marina Zurkow makes psychological narratives about humans and their relationship to animals, plants, and the weather. These take the form of multi-channel videos, customized multi-screen computer pieces, animated cartoons, interactive mobile works, and pop objects.
Zurkow is represented by Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York; since 2000, she has exhibited at The Sundance Film Festival, The Rotterdam Film [ Read More... ]
Ticket info: free and open to the public
Jessica Mein
Jessica Mein was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, and received her MFA at Hunter College. Her videos have recently been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Simon Preston and CRG galleries in New York, the Dumbo Arts Festival in Brooklyn, NY, and the Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City. Mein is represented by Simon Preston Gallery in New York.
Mein will be exhibiting two animated [ Read More... ]
Ticket info: Free and Open to the Public.
Tuesday, July 14
Boundary Crossings: Lecture
Spatial Politics – The Architectural Imagination of Animation, 7:30pm
Prof. Dr. Suzanne Buchan, Director of the Animation Research Centre at the University for the Creative Arts UK, curator and founding editor of “Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal,” examines spatial politics and artefact in relation to animation.
Pacific Northwest College of Art hosts Boundary Crossings: An Institute in Animated Arts in collaboration with LAIKA/House, Museum of [ Read More... ]
Event times:
7:30 pm –
9:00 pm
Wednesday, July 15
Boundary Crossings
Public Screening with Paul Vester
Pacific Northwest College of Art hosts Boundary Crossings: An Institute in Animated Arts in collaboration with LAIKA/House, Museum of Contemporary Craft and NW Film Center. Throughout the weeks of July 13-24, Boundary Crossings presents several public events all over the Portland area.
Boundary Crossings provides upper division undergraduates and graduate level students an intensive immersion in [ Read More... ]
Ticket info: Free and open to the public.
Event times:
7:30 pm –
9:00 pm
NW Film Center, 934 SW Salmon St., Portland, OR
Thursday, July 16
Boundary Crossings
Interpreting Live Bait
Interpreting Live Bait: An Ongoing Conversation with Joe Arredondo, Director of Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University School of Art and Kirk Kelley, Creative Director, LAIKA/House will be held on Thursday, July 16, 6:30pm, in The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft
Pacific Northwest College of Art hosts Boundary Crossings: An Institute in Animated Arts< in collaboration with LAIKA/House, Museum of [ Read More... ]
Ticket info: Free and open to the public.
Event times:
6:30 pm –
8:30 pm
The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft
Friday, July 17
Boundary Crossings
Lecture + Book Signing
Boundary Crossings hosts a lecture and book signing of “Re-Imagining Animation” with Author Paul Wells on Friday, July 17.
Prolific Author Paul Wells, Director of the Animation Academy in the School of Art & Design at Loughborough University, discusses the changing face of animation and new media. Wells is the author of a range of animation books including: “Re-Imagining Animation,” [ Read More... ]
Ticket info: Free and open to the public.
Event times:
12:00 pm –
1:30 pm
Monday, July 20
Boundary Crossings: Public Opening
Join Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Intermedia Department for the opening of this innovative summer program, featuring an exhibition of animated installation work by Jessica Mein, Daniela Repas (with Todd Tawd and Thornton C. Wilson), and Marina Zurkow.
Pacific Northwest College of Art hosts Boundary Crossings: An Institute in Animated Arts in collaboration with LAIKA/House, Museum of [ Read More... ]
Ticket info: Free and open to the publc.
Event times:
6:00 pm –
8:00 pm
Starting Tuesday, July 21
Boundary Crossings
Beyond the Box: Animated Installation and Community
Boundary Crossings hosts Beyond the Box: Animated Installation and Community on Tuesday, July 21.Moderated by Irene Kotlarz, founding director of Platform International Animation Festival, Beyond the Box features a roster of influential animation artists who’ve taken their work beyond the screen and out into the community, redefining how animation interacts in the public sphere.
Pacific Northwest [ Read More... ]
Ticket info: Free and open to the public.
Event runs:
Tue, Jul 21 –
Tue, Jul 21
Wednesday, July 22
Boundary Crossings
Special Animation Screening
Pacific Northwest College of Art hosts Boundary Crossings: An Institute in Animated Arts in collaboration with LAIKA/House, Museum of Contemporary Craft and NW Film Center. Throughout the weeks of July 13-24, Boundary Crossings presents several public events all over the Portland area.
Boundary Crossings provides upper division undergraduates and graduate level students an intensive immersion in [ Read More... ]
Ticket info: Free and open to the public.
Event times:
7:00 pm –
9:00 pm
NW Film Center, 934 SW Salmon St., Portland, OR
Starting Thursday, July 23
Boundary Crossings
Screening: “Sita Sings the Blues”
Join us for the Portland premiere of “Sita Sings the Blues, ” the first feature by independent animation artist and 2006 Guggenheim Fellow Nina Paley. “The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told,” the film retells the classic Indian myth the Ramayana. Dubbed “America’s best-loved unknown cartoonist,” Paley is an independent artist committed to sharing her work through the Creative [ Read More... ]
Ticket info: Free and open to the public.
Event runs:
Thu, Jul 23 –
Thu, Jul 23
Starting Friday, July 24
MFA 1st Year Exhibition
More information coming soon.
Event runs:
Fri, Jul 24 –
Fri, Jul 24
Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate
Boundary Crossings
Closing Reception
Learn more about Boundary Crossings through this exhibition of work created during the two-week institute, installed in and around PNCA’s Main Campus.
Ticket info: Free and open to the public.
Event runs:
Fri, Jul 24 –
Fri, Jul 24
Saturday, July 25
Meet the Artists of PNCA
Paul Missal
As part of the PNCA at 100 centennial exhibition at the Portland Art Museum, three PNCA faculty members will display their artistic practice to Museum goers this summer. Each month, a different PNCA faculty artist will demonstrate their chosen medium in the Schnitzer Sculpture Court.
Meet the Artists of PNCA: Paul Missal 2-4pm, July 25
Paul Missal will create a still-life painting. Missal has [ Read More... ]
Ticket info: Free with Museum admission.
Event times:
2:00 pm –
4:00 pm
Portland Art Museum, Schnitzer Sculpture Court
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Continuing Events
The following exhibits have already started and are still on display at the PNCA:
• PNCA at 100
Exhibition at Portland Art Museum
From: Sat, Jun 6
To: Sun, Sep 13
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