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SUPERFLY!!!
Hello Wonderful Students,
We are so excited to celebrate the end of the spring term with you. Get ready to fly some kites, picnic together out in the sun and see some amazing work from your peers. You are welcome to bring snacks and a blanket, we will provide you with all the materials needed to design and build your kite. Let’s end our final (fingers crossed) digital zoom class with a smashing good time.
Event Details
Date: June 2nd 2021
Time: 12pm – 2pm
Location: Washington Park Amphitheater
410 SW Kingston Ave, Portland, OR 97205
Traveling to Washington Park
Need help navigating to Washington Park, there are many ways to travel. Transit runs to and from the park via the Max lines as well as by bus. Check out the map for further details.
coLAB hosts Alyson Provax
Alyson Provax
We were inspired this week by Alyson Provax’s contemplative practice!
Alyson Provax lives and works in Portland, Oregon. She is interested in loneliness, uncertainty, memory, and the other small but powerful specifics of living in our times. Her formal training is as a printmaker and she works in letterpress. Her work has been described as “printmaking disinterested in the perfection based traditions that exist as a form of exclusion.” Within those experimental uses of traditional tools she often uses the potential for repetition as a drawing tool, creates original works by manipulating the printed image, or uses physical printed pieces as stills for animation, reproductions into books, blankets, posters, stickers, and billboards. She has shown regionally at Archer Gallery, Agenda, Carnation Contemporary, Wolff Gallery, Upfor Gallery, LxWxH/Bridge Productions, The Vestibule and the Whatcom Museum, nationally at A.I.R. Gallery in New York, Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, Montalvo Arts Center in California, and internationally at the Blueproject Foundation in Barcelona. Her work appeared in articles about artists’ responses to the 2016 election in New York Magazine, Newsweek and ArtSlant. Her work has been published in Poetry Northwest, The Buckman Journal, and Eleven Eleven, and her first book was published by Volumes Volumes in 2019. She has shown temporary public art installations in San Jose in 2020 as part of Montalvo Arts Center’s ‘lone some’, in Portland in 2019 as ‘something nameless’ and Seattle in 2018, as part of Vignettes and Gramma’s project ‘a lone’.
OverWintering CORE Digital Art Exhibit
Schedule of Live Events
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12:30 – 12:45 |
CORE Warm Welcome Join Here: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/ |
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12:45 – 1:00 |
Almuerzo Juntos (Breakfast Together) Led by Alex Naranjo-Robles, Zoe Whiteman, Joy Marsh Making art. Making Breakfast. Together. Grab your cereal bowl and learn more about SPACE’s performative breakfast, and the recipes and memories it evoked. Join Here: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/ |
Time 103 Screening of Video Works Join the CORE Art Time 103 class in a screening of some stellar video works. Join Here: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/ |
Drinktionary Led by: coLAB students Join CORE students in a unique game of Pictionary come prepared with a beverage of your choice. Join Here: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/ |
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1:00 – 1:15 |
Sound Spaces
Close your eyes and be transported through the audio environments that our Time 103 students have created. Join Here: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/89089652080 |
Surface This-and-That Come see site-specific camouflage and other assorted bits made by Surface students over the course of Winter term. Join Here: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/ |
Constructed Landscapes Led by: Cameron Wilhite, Erika Bahena, Travis D’Amico A new perspective! View landscapes constructed by SPACE artists from things in their home. Join Here: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/ |
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1:15 – 1:30 |
New Words for Unnamed Phenomena Learn some new vocabulary from an illustrated dictionary created by Surface students. Join Here: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/ |
Animation Shorts by Time 103 Students Join us for a screening of Time 103 animation creations Join Here: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/ |
Tattoo Flash Session Led by: coLAB students Pop in and draw a tattoo to share with the group. Pick one from the Flash Art collection to draw from. Share some fun artwork and discuss with others. Join Here: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/ |
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1:30 – 1:45 |
Making Ideas Try out a quick prompt created by Ideation students! Join Here: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/ |
3d Builds in Motion by Digital 104 Students Come check out our digital exhibition of some truly delectable donut sensations built by the 3d software blender. Join Here: https://psuarts.wixsite.com/ |
Virtual Coffee House Led by: coLAB students Join us in celebrating the end of the term with some warm drinks and some good music. Feel free to share with the group your favorite plants or pets around you at home. Join Here: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/ |
SOME OTHER COOL PROJECTS TO CHECK OUT ANYTIME
Experimental Forms built by Digital Tools 104 students
Test out some uniquely built apps that allow you to randomly generate art creations. Inspired by the Fluxus movement and modernized by digital technologies.
Join Here: https://psuarts.wixsite.com/
Almuerzo Juntos (Breakfast Together) Cookbook
Follow this link to download the personally meaningful recipes at the heart of the SPACE students collaborative performance.
https://drive.google.com/file/
It’s Me in Digital Form
What does your digital footprint say about you? Discover what your peers search, research or obsess about when they navigate the fluid space of the web.
Join Here: https://psuarts.wixsite.com/digitaltools104/its-me-in-digital-form
A Trompe L’oeil Snack
Have some fun viewing our 3d donut forms printed and placed to trick the eye into believing they are real delectable treats.
Join Here: https://psuarts.wixsite.com/
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 to make this term the best it could be. Teaching Winter term: Anna Gray, Brittney Connelly, Michelle Swinehart & Michelle Illuminato. And a warm thanks to the School of Art + Design’s Director Lis Charman for her support.
Hannah Newman Stopped By!
Hannah Newman
Hannah Newman dropped by to share their project Shapeshifters: A Guided Meditation… and then we all went outside with our earphones to listen and look at the clouds (as they are looking back at us!). Students then documented the sky above and contributed it to a file to be shown together!
You can find the meditation here: http://www.hannah-newman.com/shapeshifters-a-guided-meditation
Hannah Newman is an interdisciplinary artist reuniting digital technologies and experiences with their physical, emotional, and material sources. Most recently she has exhibited in group shows with The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale online, Columbia Center for the Arts in Hood River, OR, Outback Arthouse in Los Angeles, CA, Her Environment and The Yards Gallery in Chicago, Il, and Neon Heater/ Real Tinsel in Milwaukee, WI. Her work has received press from Chicago’s New City Art blog, the Duplex Gallery blog series and the Boston Globe, and the Regional Arts and Culture Council in Oregon awarded her a 2017 Professional Development Grant. Newman received a Master of Fine Arts from Oregon College of Art and Craft and a B.S in Ceramics and Fine Arts with a minor in Art History from Indiana Wesleyan University.
coLAB hosts Hillerbrand + Magsamen
Hillerbrand + Magsamen
We were delighted to be a part of the interactive performance 147 DEVICES FOR INTEGRATED PRINCIPLES a work made by Hillerbrand+Magsamen in collaboration with Kirk Lynn, Peter Stopschinski and their son and daughter Maddie and Emmett.
The artistic team of Hillerbrand+Magsamen is the collaboration of Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen. Together they create sculpture, installation, performance, video and photographic works they call “Suburban Fluxus”. Often including their two children, Madeleine and Emmett in their work, the family critiques and playfully scrutinizes contemporary suburban life.
Hillerbrand+Magsamen have presented their videos in international film and media festivals including Houston Cinema Arts Festival, London SciFi Film Festival, WAND V Stuttgarter Filmwinter, New York Underground Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Boston Underground Film Festival and MonkeyTown. Their cinematic based installations have been exhibited at the Everson Museum (Syracuse, NY), Center for Photography Woodstock (Woodstock, NY), Diffusion Photography Festival (Wales, UK) and Houston Center for Photography (Houston, TX).
They have received grants from Sustainable Arts Foundation, Austin Film Society, Experimental Television Center, Ohio Arts Council, Houston Arts Alliance and Houston Center for Photography. Their project HIGHER GROUND was a commission from the Houston Airport System and received 1st prize from juror Richard Linklater in the CineSpace program at the Houston Cinema Arts Festival.
Hillerbrand+Magsamen have participated in residency programs including: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (New York, NY), Experimental Television Center (Owego, NY), Elsewhere (Greensboro, NC), Santa Fe Art Institute (Santa Fe, NM). Stephan Hillerbrand is a recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships (Germany) and MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, NH) residency.
Mary and Stephan live and work in Houston with their two children, Madeleine and Emmett.
Be inspired by more of their work here: http://www.hillerbrandmagsamen.com/
coLAB hosts Nina Elder!
Nina Elder!
We were inspired this week by Nina Elder’s insight, research and artworks during coLAB.
Artist and researcher Nina Elder creates projects that reveal humanity’s dependence on, and interruption of, the natural world. With a focus on changing cultures and ecologies, Nina advocates for collaboration, fostering relationships between institutions, artists, scientists and diverse communities. She is the co-founder of the Wheelhouse Institute, a women’s climate leadership initiative. Nina lectures as a visiting artist/scholar at universities, develops publicly engaged programs, and consults with organizations that seek to grow through interdisciplinary programming.
Nina’s artwork is widely exhibited and has been featured in Art in America, VICE Magazine, and on PBS. Her research has been supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Rauschenberg Foundation award for Arts & Activism, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. She has recently held positions as an Art + Environment Research Fellow at the Nevada Museum of Art, a Polar Lab Research Fellow at the Anchorage Museum, and a Researcher in Residence in the Art and Ecology Program at the University of New Mexico. She is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Be inspired by more of her work here: https://www.ninaelder.com/
coLAB hosts Alicia Eggert!
Welcome Alicia Eggert!
Artist Alicia Eggert is our next visitor! Join us next week, Wednesday February 3 at 12:30 for coLAB to learn more about her amazing work! https://aliciaeggert.com/
Alicia Eggert
(b. 1981) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work gives material form to language and time, the powerful but invisible forces that shape our perception of reality. Her creative practice is largely motivated by an existential pursuit to understand the linear and finite nature of human life within a seemingly infinite universe. She derives her inspiration from physics and philosophy, and her sculptures often co-opt the styles and structures of commercial signage to communicate messages that inspire reflection and wonder. Alicia creates neon signs that illuminate the way light travels across space and time, and billboards that allow Forever to appear and disappear in the fog. These artworks have been installed on building rooftops in Russia, on bridges in Amsterdam, and on uninhabited islands in Maine, beckoning us to ponder our place in the world and the role we play in it.
Alicia’s work has been exhibited at notable institutions nationally and internationally, including the CAFA Art Museum in Beijing, the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, the Telfair Museums, and many more. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Galeria Fernando Santos (Porto, Portugal), The MAC (Dallas, TX), and T+H Gallery (Boston, MA). Alicia is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including a TED Fellowship, a Washington Award from the S&R Foundation, a Direct Artist Grant from the Harpo Foundation, an Artist Microgrant from the Nasher Sculpture Center, and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Maine Arts Commission. She has been an artist in residence at Google Tilt Brush, Sculpture Space, True/False Film Festival, and the Tides Institute and Museum of Art. In 2020, she was added to the Fulbright Specialist Roster by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Alicia earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Drexel University in 2004, and a Masters of Fine Arts in Sculpture/Dimensional Studies from Alfred University in 2009. She is currently a Presidential Early Career Professor of Studio Art and the Sculpture Program Coordinator at the University of North Texas. Her work is represented by Galeria Fernando Santos in Porto, Portugal, and Liliana Bloch Gallery in Dallas. She lives with her son, Zephyr, in Denton, Texas.
coLAB hosts Ryan Pierce!
A few slides from Ryan’s artist talk.
coLAB welcomed artist Ryan Pierce!
Artist Ryan Pierce inspired the coLAB cohort to think about the ecology and the relationship between things today!
To learn more about his work visit https://ryanpierce.net/home.html and read his bio below!
Ryan Pierce’s vivid, large-scale paintings depict our world recovering from human industry. He draws on influences from ecological theory, literature, and folk art to create scenes that portray the resilience of the natural world.
He has exhibited internationally and his work has been recognized by grants from the Joan Mitchell and San Francisco Foundations, and the Regional Arts and Culture Council, as well as by reviews in Art in America, Art Papers, and The Oregonian. Pierce has been an artist in residence at the Ucross Foundation, Caldera, and Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder in Norway, and a fellow at the Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency at Sitka Center for Art & Ecology. Pierce has taught at colleges and universities throughout Oregon and lectured as a Visiting Artist at more than 30 institutions. In 2012, he was the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission. He is represented by Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland.
Pierce is the co-founder, with activist Amy Harwood, of Signal Fire, a group that facilitates wilderness residencies and retreats for artists of all disciplines. Pierce currently works as the Director of Signal Fire’s academic program, Wide Open Studios.
coLAB hosts Katie Zazenski!
Kathryn Zazenski’s Lecture
coLAB welcomed artist Katie Zazenski!
Surface class invited Katie Zazenski to share her work to the coLAB cohort this week. Katie is the co-director of Stroboskop, an independent, alternative project space based in Warsaw, Poland. To learn more about her work visit her website here https://kathrynzazenski.com/
NEW CORE Courses added for Fall!
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!
