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NEW CORE Courses added for Fall!

CORE opens 2 more courses, Ideation and Surface

Are you looking for more sections of a CORE class?

Good News!

We just added a section of ART101 Surface and another section of ART 105 Ideation!

Jump onto banner and get your spot and we will see you in September!

GET INVOLVED!

GET READY FOR THE YEAR-END CELEBRATION

This year we're doing something special! Here's how to get involved.

Core year end exhibition plan. A drawing of the project with envelope in the center and all the processes around.
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Missed the presentation by Lo Moran ? Take a moment and scroll through the powerpoint. Watch for hidden surprises!

CORE Year End Exhibition

Get Involved!
1. Your class will be sharing work in the Going the Distance envelope. Use a QR code to share more online!
2. You are invited to submit one original artwork in a #10 envelope. It will surprise a student and you will receive one in return, too!
3. Join others on Tuesdays from 1-2 for studio time! Get in touch with Lo Moran lamoran@pdx.edu

GOING THE DISTANCE

YEAR END PROJECT + CELEBRATION!

This year we're doing something special! Join us for a live ceremony, screenings of student work, virtual hangouts and other fascinating CORE community art events!

Join CORE, the first year program of the School of Art + Design for a a year-end celebration, Going the Distance. In trying to answer the hard questions, how can we stay centered while we are decentralized, and how can we connect and celebrate our work while staying safe at home, we created something really fun and exciting and we want to share it with everyone!

What is Going the Distance?

Going the Distance is like a fair whose fairground includes people’s homes, online sites, and online rooms. We’ve planned lots of activities with different ways to experience them. Some you can take in at your leisure, others will only be happening during the ‘opening’ on June 3, Wednesday from 12:30-1:45.

Here are ways to participate!

  • Attend the ZOOM opening at 12:30! Gather with the crowd to open your envelope before you begin to explore the other online meetings and presentations.
  • Look inside your envelope, enjoy seeing what the students in the Surface, Space, Time, Digital Tools and Ideation classes created and the other additions! Use the QR codes in your envelope to experience the work online. These works will be accessible even after the opening! So, if you don’t get to everything, stop back!
  • Check out the schedule below with links to the events happening only during the one-hour opening. Students will be sharing live video and artworks, organizing discussion groups, and even a drop in to ‘introduce your pet’ group. (Which funny enough is a side benefit to learning-teaching remotely!)

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TO JOIN OUR ZOOM CELEBRATION
ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 2020
FROM 12:30 – 1:45

 

(link will be activated on date and time specified above)

GOING THE DISTANCE

SCHEDULE OF LIVE EVENTS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 2020

12:30 - 12:45

Envelope Opening Ceremony
Zoom Link:
https://pdx.zoom.us/j/96335880122

12:45 - 1:00

Surface Showcase & Scavenger Hunt
See work by Surface students and hunt for 10 special items, themes, and parallels among the images. 
Zoom link:
https://pdx.zoom.us/j/94968190668
Weird Instruments
Hosted by Jonah Maris
Join student Jonah Maris for a jam session
Zoom link:
https://pdx.zoom.us/j/96543668524

 Time 103 Screening of Video Works
Join the CORE Art Time 103 class in a screening of some stellar video works.
Zoom link:
https://pdx.zoom.us/j/96161290753

1:00 - 1:15

Audible Environments 
Turn off your screens and turn on your ears for this immersive audible environment. Listen to the wild & strange soundscapes students created for their Time 103 class. 
Zoom link:
https://pdx.zoom.us/j/93242113280		 3D Sculpture Walkthrough
Come visit SPACE student dioramas in a custom 3d Google Sketchup space. Students will showcase their 3d works in a 3d virtual place. 
Zoom link:
https://pdx.zoom.us/j/94724478161		 Virtual Drawing Experience
Hosted by Aidan Guthrie
Join student Aidan Guthrie for a collaborative drawing game hosted in real time. Have fun virtually drawing with other fellow students. 
Zoom link:
https://pdx.zoom.us/j/95854124689

1:15 - 1:30

Exercises for Ideas
Join Francie, Ally and Jonah for a show & tell that features the co-authored Exercises for Ideas created by 24 Ideation students.  Chat about processes and results together as a cohort.
Zoom link: 
https://pdx.zoom.us/j/98424651724		 Taking a Virtual Walk Together
Take a virtual walk with students in Digital Tools 104 as they tour Google Street View routes they followed on their virtual research trips this term. 
Link below: 
Click here for links to walking partners		 Time 103 Screening of Video Works Part 2
Join the CORE Art Time 103 class in a screening of some stellar video works.
Zoom link:
https://pdx.zoom.us/j/96161290753

1:30 - 1:45

Zoo Zoom
Have you been distracted by things at home, maybe you have a furry friend calling your attention during your zoom class? We know the feeling. In this zoom chat we will officially meet and greet other student's furry companions. 
Zoom link:  
https://pdx.zoom.us/j/98232969905		 Animation Shorts
Watch Time 103's final project animation reel. Students were tasked with making all different types of animations. Included in the reel are stop motion flicks that use drawing, collage and cut paper methods to tell compelling stories.
Zoom link: 
https://pdx.zoom.us/j/96541651278		 Sharespace
Hosted by Emma Wallace
Have you made art during the term that you'd like to share? This is the space for that. No critique, just a celebration of community creativity. Come in, volunteer to share in the chat, and show us what you've got! 
Zoom link: 
https://pdx.zoom.us/j/98424651724

OTHER PLACES TO VISIT

ARTWORK EXPERIENCES TO ENJOY AT YOUR LEISURE

Workbook Filled with Ideas

24 Students in Ideation Created a Workbook Filled with Ideas on How to Get Ideas
CHECK IT OUT HERE!

 

YouTube Channel

A YouTube Channel Featuring Videos From Time 103 Students
Watch Leisurely or Join in with the Interactive Scavenger Hunt
CHECK OUT HERE!

 

Core Art Surface student works on display

Experiments in locational empathy and camouflage as a form of site-specific surface design.
CHECK OUT HERE!

 

INSIDE THE ENVELOPE

SPECIAL THANKS
We Can’t End This Post Without A Very Special Thanks!

 

We have many people to thank for making our end of the year celebration possible!
First..YOU The students. You are the reason we are here. THANK YOU for your dedication to your learning and to this art community!

Then there’s our super extra-special FACULTY. Thank you for all the work that is in the envelope and the above + beyond attitude to make this term the best it could be. Teaching Spring term: Anna Gray, Brittney Connelly, Spencer Bryne-Seres, Amanda Leigh Evans, Michelle Swinehart, Michelle Illuminato, Nola Hanson, Eric Olson, Brianna Ortega. And throughout the year: Zeph Fishlyn, Lori Gilbert, Jacob Richman, Jordan Rosenblum, Carlos Reynoso, Jea Alford, Steve Brown, Patricia Vazquez Gomez, Michelle Vorce.

And the HUGEST BIGGEST — THANK YOU — to Lo Moran for their amazing ideas and for all that they did so that we could hold these ‘goods’ in our hands.

AND A THANK YOU to ultra-talented Brittney Connelly, who ran coLAB this year and contributed spectacularly to this and all of our special events.

We thank A+D Projects designer Hope Fern for adding the bling and to Eric for that early brainstorm session. And a warm thanks to the School of Art + Design’s Director Lis Charman for her support.

Now dive into that envelope! Follow the QR codes! Or go online to our new website https://psu-core.com/ to view the schedule of events … all are just a click away!

-Michelle Illuminato

 

STUDIO TIME!

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Lo Moran

Lo Moran creates interdisciplinary projects that are often participatory, collaborative and co-authored. They aim to experiment with and question the systems we are all embedded in by organizing situations of connection, openness and nonhierarchical learning.

Lo desires to develop sites for accessibility, and reimagined ways of being together. A graduate of the Art and Social Practice program at Portland State University, they spent 2018-19 as Artist in Residence at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where they researched concepts of community. Lo is also a member of the nonprofit/collective Public Annex, and performs experimental music as soft fantasy.

Lo has recently presented work at Fusion Festival (Lärz Germany), as part of the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Art Prize exhibition at Portland State University (Portland OR), the Columbia Center for the Arts (Hood River OR), King School Museum of Contemporary Art (Portland OR), Portland Art Museum (Portland OR), a series of neighborhood block parties (Portland OR), Greensboro Project Space (Greensboro NC), Abteilung für Alles Andere (Berlin Germany), Art in Odd Places (New York, NY), Disjecta (Portland, OR), Port City Gallery (Portland, OR), and the El Paso Museum of Art (El Paso, TX).

Contact:

lamoran@pdx.edu

Learn more:

http://laurengracemoran.com/

 

Patricia Vázquez Gómez

Patricia Vázquez Gómez works and lives between the ancient Tenochtitlán and the unceded, occupied, stolen and colonized lands of the Chinook, Clackamas, Multnomah, and other Indigenous peoples. Her art practice investigates the social functions of art, the intersections between art, politics and ethics and the expansion of community based art practices; and she uses a variety of media to carry out her research: painting, printmaking, video, music and socially engaged art projects. The purpose and methodologies of her work are deeply informed by her experiences working in the immigrant rights and other social justice movements in the US and Mexico.

 

Photo credit: Vi Son Trinh

Contact 
http://cargocollective.com/patriciavg
vazquez2@pdx.edu

Michelle Swinehart

Contact

mlswine@pdx.edu

Steve Brown

Born in Westchester California, Steve Brown began exhibiting in San Francisco’s Mission district during the late 90s. He then retreated to the mountains of North Carolina for the first decade of the 21st century, where he concentrated on life performances and sound. His paintings and videos have often been concerned with the performative creation of new realities. He has been featured in exhibitions at Mark Moore Gallery (Los Angeles CA), Scene/Escena and Adobe Books (San Francisco CA), The Asheville Art Museum (Asheville NC), Ditch Projects (Springfield OR) and Disjecta (Portland OR). He has contributed to such publications as Great God Pan (Los Angeles CA) and Pazmaker (Mexico City MX).

 

Brittney Connelly

Brittney Connelly is a sculptor and photographer living in Portland, OR. She received an M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a B.F.A from the University of Houston. Her work is influenced by critical theory revolving around the photographic medium and often mines imagery that is widely accessible on the internet. Her large-scale photographs are constructed from low-res jpegs and studio artifacts built in real space, her work is then photographed, flattened and digitally manipulated relishing in the low-quality editing tools of photoshop. Her work has screened at museums, galleries and film festivals, such as COCA Seattle, The Blaffer Museum, Site:Brooklyn, FOTOFEST and The Cranbrook Art Museum.

Alongside exhibiting her work, in 2018 Connelly co-founded Carnation Contemporary, a contemporary arts space located in Portland, Oregon.

Learn More: www.brittneyconnelly.com