The Searchers

Continuing this month in the Feldman Gallery, The Searchers ask: What is the relationship between eBay and the consumer? Two eBay consumers? A person and their computer? The Searchers uses the construct of a first time eBay seller to explore the way that people connect, or don’t connect, through technology—websites, email, letters, newspaper, books, iPods… The Searchers started with a work of fiction written by curators Amoreen Armetta and Molly Dilworth. The Searchers proves that the relationship between the above entities exists, but that this relationship is difficult to quantify because the connections are constantly changing, and the entities are always in motion. The challenge posed to the artists asked to take part in The Searchers was to materialize these connections. The Searchers assumes that metaphor serves as proof.The Searchers features: Nuno Cera, Ann Craven, AC Dickson, Joan Grossman, Lucien Samaha, Jenny Vogel; with artist publications by Bill Brown, Gabriela Forcadell and Alejandro Cesarco, LTTR, Josephine Meckseper, Aleksandra Mir, Lone Twin, Pruess Press.The image is a video still from Nuno Cera’s “The Lost Soul.”

Ticket info: Free and Open to the Public

Lunchtime Performance Series

Brent Swanson

Acoustic and Electric Instrumental Guitar Performanceat lunchtime.

Lunchtime Performance Series

In the Commons at 12:30 Student Services is sponsoring some Poetry and Movement.

Justine Kurland Lecture

Noontime Chat with Artist Justine Kurland

Justine Kurland is a contemporary photographer based in New York. Kurland creates large c-print staged tableau pictures of neo-romantic landscapes inhabited by young adolescent girls, half-sprites, and half juvenile delinquents.As landscapes she chose the ‘secret places’ of late childhood; wasteland on the edges of suburbia, ‘owned’ only by a feral nature and unsupervised children.

Ticket info: Free & Open to the Public

Lunchtime Performance Series

Swing and Blues Dance Group

Some members from the Portland Sing and Blues dance community will be kickin it up in the Commons at lunch

Salon 511 of Art History

Students in Libby Farr’s Art History class present their final assignments, inspired by a concept, idea or work of art/architecture they learned about during the course, and incorporating the 511 NW Broadway building through form or details.

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Lunchtime Performance Series

Dedicated Hardware

Electronic Music group on the loading docks if it’s nice ;)

Lunchtime Performance Series

Workshop/recital

Mia Nolting and Jackie Holmstrom will be having an “Ambiguous shape building workshop, with a possible piano recital at the end “.

Gary Wiseman

From March 2006 to January 2008, Gary Wiseman produced 30 international, interactive performances with the help of hundreds of participants and volunteers under the heading Tea Project, in collaboration with Red 76, PICA, the Cooley Memorial Gallery (Reed College), THE M.O.S.T and Hope Hilton. Wiseman is currently engaged in numerous smaller scale collaborations and ongoing projects such as Personal Favorite Places N.Y, an ongoing exploration of New Yorkutilizing the experience of strangers; Ephemeral Temple Ltd, purveyors and certifiers of high-quality, low-overhead, temporary sacred-space; Penny For Your Thoughts (with Amy Steel); and T-Folk: Granville and Reginald Sing the Sacred Songs For You, an upcomingperformance work for the Artcity festival in Calgary.Wiseman is an active curator and event producer. His recent offerings include Self Projections; a video documentation, installation and short film exhibition including 24 artists from Canada, New York and Portland (April 2008) and Sacred Pop: Exploring Text and Image Through Relational Process (February 2008).Wiseman is also a co-founder of Kitchen Sink PDX (KSPDX), along with Alicia Eggert. Wiseman and Eggert created KSPDX to encourage the exploration of long-term, social transformation in the creative community through the facilitation of interdisciplinary events and collaborations.

Ticket info: free and open to the public.

Lunchtime Performance Series

T'ai Chi Instructional

David Vanandia and Horatio Law will be leading an instructional on T’ai Chi in the Commons at lunch. It’s the last L.P.S. and the last day of school for the term. Come and relax before the big Year End Party

PNCA+FIVE Idea Studio: Susan Szenasy

Green with Envy: How Innovative is PDX in its Quest to Make a Sustainable City?

Moderated by Ms. Szenasy and PNCA President Tom Manley, this panel discussion will identify some of the indispensable elements of sustainable urban communities in the 21st Century, the best practices being employed and where Portland might be headed if it intends to be an all around exemplar. Representing a cross section of the Portland community panelists will include: Susan Anderson, Director, Portland Office of Sustainable Development; Greg Baldwin, Partner at Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects; Mark Edlen, Managing Principal of Gerding Edlen; Randy Gragg, Editor of Portland Spaces; and Scott Lewis, Founder and Principal of Brightworks. The second part of the program will open the discussion to the audience.

Ticket info: Free and open to the public

2008 commencement ceremony

Senior Exhibition

On May 25th at 4pm, the class of 2008 will walk the stage at the commencement ceremony. This year commencement will be held at the Tiffany Center located at 1410 SW Morrison street.Following the event, students, families, and other attendees will re-group at PNCA for the Senior Exhibition where Seniors show off there developed talents. The show will be at both the Goodman Commons (13th and Johnson), and the Steven’s Studios (14th and Johnson). This is one of the pride and joys of PNCA as the Seniors graduate from the program and enter the “real world” of being an artist. Students can pick up invitations for family and friends to attend the ceremony in mid April at the Student Services office.There will be a First Thursday Art opening for the Senior show on June 5th from 6pm-9pm at both the Goodman Commons (13th and Johnson), and the Steven’s Studios (14th and Johnson).

Ticket info: Students can pick up tickets mid-April for guests to the commencement ceremony

Panel Discussion

From Idea to Production: Craft in Conceptual Art Making

Moderator: Stephanie Snyder. Panelists: Melissa Dyne; PNCA MFA chair, M.K. Guth; Kathy High; Namita Gupta Wiggers.Dyne’s installation serves as a point of departure for a discussion about the relationship between concept-driven art, industry and craft.

Ticket info: Free and open to the public

T'ai Chi for 1000

China-On-Willamette by Horatio Hung-Yan Law

Take part in the 1,000-person T’ai Chi exercise, a community performance for China-On-Willamette by Horatio Hung-Yan Law, PNCA faculty member, and South Waterfront Artist-in-Residence. All ages new, beginner, and experienced are welcome to participate. Leading up to the event there are free t’ai chi workshops in the AiR Studio 3623 SW River Parkway at Gaines in the John Ross Tower.
Wednesday, May 14, 10am–noon
Wednesday, May 21, 6–8pmWednesday
May 28, 6–8pm
Getting There: Walk, Bike, Pedicab, Drive, Street Car and Tram. Visit http://www.southwaterfront.com/category/transportation for directions.
China-on-Willamette is made possible in part by an artist project grant funded by the Regional Arts & Cultural Council, and also by theSouth Waterfront Guest Artist-in-Residence program.

Ticket info: Free and open to the public. Information and RSVP: horatiolaw (at) gmail (dot) com.