The Portland Mercury ran a great article about MADE Studios, a studio founded 12 years ago by OCAC alumni Bo Hagood and Tim Green. MADE Studios is responsible for the lovely interiors at Stumptown Coffee as well as custom furniture and cabinetry.
http://mod.portlandmercury.com/mod/archives/2011/09/30/made-studios
http://www.made-studio.com/

Allie Bentley recently was given an opportunity to join the community at Mt. Hood Community College as their Metals Studio Manager! She responsible for the space, the tools, helping students one-on-one with their projects, and is the number one substitute if Lee Haga the head faculty takes a sick day.

Sarah LaBarre was invited to judge the show, Bits & Pieces: Intuitive Quilts from the Northwest and Beyond at the Bush Barn Art Center in Salem. She will also be participating in a group show in the Camas Gallery on the first floor of the Bush Barn Art Center in conjunction with the High Fiber Diet art quilt collective where she will display her 3D crocheted fiber work…

Jeffrey T. Baker (2003) exhibited a selection of recent mixed media work titled COLLECTED this past spring at OCAC’s Centrum Gallery. Over the summer, he joined the staff at OCAC as Community Programs Coordinator after eight years working as a private school teacher. In his new role, Jeffrey will manage the operations of OCAC’s Studio School program, Art Adventures, and various outreach partnerships such as the new Nike Design Atelier. Jeffrey was also awarded a three-month residency in 2012 at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology on the Oregon Coast. His residency at Sitka is generously supported by a grant from the Ford Family Foundation.

Susannah Lints is having a studio sale
Susannah Lints Ceramics
1st Annual Studio Sale
Saturday, December 10, 2011
from 10 am to 5 pm
2210 NE 185th Ave.
Vancouver, WA 98684
http://www.susannahlints.com
Susannah Lints is also exhibiting work in the show list below
Out of the Fire:
A Special Show of Ceramic Art
Opening reception
November 6, 2011, 12:15-2pm
Gallery hours:
Sundays 12:30-2; Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9:00am-noon or by appointment.
Doll (Delores) Gardner Gallery
at West Hills Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
8470 SW Oleson Rd,
Portland, OR 97223
http://www.dgardnergallery.com
503-246-3351
She will be one of the featured artists participating in this show of ceramic wall art.  For over 40 years, the Doll (Delores) Gardner Gallery in SW Portland has exhibited work of a wide range of artists, from the celebrated to the emerging.

Christopher Kramer is exhibiting work in show listed below
Feminine Impressions: Art by Hee-Yun Kim and Christopher Kramer
Saturday, November 19 at 7:00pm
Location: Gallery Golmok

Feminine Impressions: Female Characteristics in Korean Society explores the complicated relationship between the modern Korean woman and the harsh demands of her surroundings.
Seoul artist Hee Yun Kim’s paintings explore the idea of figurative suggestion by creating a dialog between personal symbols, socio-personal relationships, and the double-entendre of being female in Korea. American expat Christopher Kramer’s artist books, mix-media wall pieces, and sculptures scrutinize the expectations placed on the womanly in Korean culture—like body image, submissive relationships, and cosmetic surgery—by comparing and contrasting them with the dutiful erotic symbolism and poetry of the gisaeng tradition.
Show runs November 15th - 21st. Opening Reception November 19th 7pm

Paul Kottke is exhibiting work in the show listed below
MoHDI
625 NW Everett St. #108
Portland, OR
97209
Opening First Thursday - Nov. 3 (7- 9pm)

Paul Kottke’s newest collection of paintings, continues to playfully toy with the notion of objectivity by incorporating photo-realistic techniques that attempt to show things as they really are. Paul Kottke is a graduate from the Oregon College of Art & Craft, with a concentration in Drawing and Painting.  His interests include issues involving portraiture, depiction, and the pluralities of perception.  This will be his fifth solo show in Portland, Oregon. 

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Shelley Socolofsky, fibers faculty, was selected to be on the Oregon Public Art Roster through Oregon Arts Commission and Regional Arts & Culture Council.

Arthur De Bow, OCAC Director of Exhibitions & Alumni Affairs, was chosen as a juror for the 2012 NICHE Awards competition for American and Canadian makers of fine craft. Finalists will be announced in late November 2011, and will be invited to display their work in a special exhibit at the Buyers Market of American Craft trade show of contemporary artisan-made products for home and fashion in February 2012 in Philadelphia, PA. Arthur is judging Best in Show for Beaverton Arts Commission’s Arts Showcase, and he will jury the local Scholastic Arts Awards and Scholastic Arts Awards West division At Large entries. He will also MC for the local Scholastic Awards Ceremony held in Portland. Arthur was also invited to be a guest juror for The Artist’s Vision Juried Exhibit at the 49th Annual Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts in June 2012, and “Questioning Functionality 3”  in May 2012 at the Glenn and Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center in Hillsboro.

OCAC painting faculty Michelle Ross participating in Interior Margins at the Lumber Room in Portland, OR. Interior Margins was born around a dinner table in May 2010, when eight women artists gathered to converse about painting and abstraction with Lumber Room founder Sarah Miller Meigs and Reed College curator Stephanie Snyder, within the Lumber Room’s inaugural installation by San Francisco artist Leonie Guyer. The ideas discussed that evening catalyzed the desire for a further exhibition, one bringing together the work of an intergenerational group of Northwest women artists who are transforming the diverse legacies and practices of abstraction for a new era.

Interior Margins includes work by: Judy Cooke, Leonie Guyer, Victoria Haven, Midori Hirose, Linda Hutchins, Kristan Kennedy, Michelle Ross, Blair Saxon-Hill, Lynne Woods Turner, Nell Warren, and Heather Watkins. The exhibition is curated by Stephanie Snyder, John and Anne Hauberg, in collaboration with Sarah Miller Meigs.

Book Arts Department Head Barb Tetenbaum is showing work in “The Organic Architecture of Books” at North View Gallery at Portland Community College, Sylvania Campu at 12000 SW 49th Ave in Portland, OR. The show is comprised of four area artists exploring the book format including its narrative and sculptural potential. Barb Tetenbaum, Sarah Horowitz, Diane Jacobs, and Angela Katona-Batchelor each approach the book media through specific conceptual frameworks, which begin both in nature and within the artificial constructs of the book itself. The show runs November 10-December 16 with an opening reception on Thursday, November 10 from 1-4pm.

Alisa Walton has had her work juried in to the Urban Craft Uprising show in Seattle Wa. The show is December 3rd and 4th 2011

Recent fibers grad Kristin Pesola has opened an Etsy shop, interlace, showcasing her hand knit wire earrings. Visit the shop at: http://www.interlacearts.etsy.com

Image: David Boekleheide. Photo by Daniel Pasley for the NY Times.
Former OCAC and ACD student David Boekelheide ’11 designed and built these bike racks lining the entrance of Eco-Flats.The New York Times recently printed an article citing the energy that Portland developers have put into creating urban infrastructure which supports heavy bike-reliance. This includes everything from extensive bike lanes, to city-wide bike corrals, to housing that specifically caters to bikers. ACD mentor Jean-Pierre Viellet’s Eco-Flats are mentioned as being a premier example of a “bike building,” where there is ample space for bike storage (30 bike racks for 18 rentable units), but no parking for cars. Recent graduate David Boekelheide ’11 designed and constructed the bike rack for Eco-Flats, which can be seen in the above photo, as well as in the Times article.

Carla Klinker Cope is now on the Board of Directors for Bunnell Street Arts Center in Homer Alaska.

Peggy Harkins has had a busy summer and fall season working on her art. She say about her work: You may have noticed that ruffles seem to be on every fashion this year. They have always been one of my favorite embellishments to clothing and I find myself wearing them whenever I feel the need to be “girlie”.  So why just leave ruffles to clothing and potato chips? Why not include them on a hand sculpted, carved and painted box?

Yes, that is how I spend a great number of hours this summer, working towards perfecting the wooden ruffle! The effort was worth it and I have incorporated it into a clock called “ Girl Time” as time is the theme for the upcoming local 14 show.  The piece will be featured with a collection of time related art in several places throughout the show.

I am excited to say the piece was also selected to be on the cover of the local 14 artists book of days that will be on sale at the upcoming Local 14 Art Show.  For more details check it out at http://artistsbookofdays.blogspot.com/

I have two more shows this year.  The first is:
Sept 29 - Oct 2.  The annual Local 14 Art Show at the World Forestry Center in Portland, OR. For details see http://www.local14.org/
NOv 4 - Nov 6.  The Contemporary Crafts Market in Santa Monica, CA. For show details see http://www.contemporarycraftsmarket.com/
You can now follow me on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/peggyharkinsart,  If you “Like” me you will get continued updates automatically on Facebook Newsfeed. To find more about my art, what pieces are available etc. you can of course find this out at http://peggyharkins.com

Liv Rainey-Smith (‘08) will once more be opening her studio to discuss and demonstrate her woodcut printmaking process and concepts as part of the Portland Open Studios Tour, October 8,9,15, and 16th from 10am - 5pm. Please visit http://www.portlandopenstudios.com for more details.

Image: Ryan Pierce
This summer Ryan Pierce has had a whirlwind of action, opportunity, and change, below is a quick recap, a couple of links, and a plea for support.
June: Amy, Daniela Molnar, and myself led ten intrepid artists on a Signal Fire retreat through the ancient forests of Opal Creek Wilderness. We spent a week camping amidst some of Cascadia’s most pristine waters, with some of my favorite people ever.
July: I collaborated with 15 students from Portland Community College on my first public art piece, a mammoth landscape painting for the grounds of PCC Sylvania, to be installed this fall. Then, Amy and I ran the third season of Outpost, along the Upper Clackamas near Mt. Hood. We witnessed some amazing artists generate an improvised drum set, stump glamor shots, and a quilt of dead leaves, among other things…
August: My work was featured in Elizabeth Leach Gallery’s 30th Anniversary Exhibition, and I was off in Scandinavia, traveling first in Finland, Sweden, and Estonia, and then in residence at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder in Norway. Photos from the resulting show, Night Music, at Babel Gallery are available here alongside a text by a Norwegian art historian. After the opening I spent a week in Iceland, better known as the land of sheep and honey, and returned to my new home in Eastern Oregon. It’s beautiful here, and I’d like to share it with others, hence a brand new Signal Fire program called Winter Wren.

We are in the final days of the Kickstarter Campaign to fund Leaf Litter, an annual publication that shows off the work of our amazing residents. This year we brought 19 artists to the woods and did it all out-of-pocket, making it free or at-cost to the participants. In hopes of a last-minute rally I will offer an original drawing from Night Music to anyone who pledges $300 or more before Oct 2nd. This is an $800 value. We have to reach the full amount for the campaign to be funded.  Thank you to all of you who have supported us so far (in many ways). Signal Fire is gaining momentum and Leaf Litter is not only crucial to highlight our residents, but to use at outreach. This year we’ll announce awesome new projects, so stay tuned…

Josh Smith (OCAC alumni) and wife Jenene Nagy are showing “Out of Language” at Linfield Gallery in McMinnville, OR through October 1. You can read the Oregonian’s review of the show at: http://www.oregonlive.com/art/index.ssf/2011/09/artists_josh_smith_and_jenene.html

The participating students are: Ruth Bryant, Rachel Fish, Erin Derge, Atika Piff, Sue Selbie, Ava Goldberg, Gwen Stronach, Michelle Latham, Melanie Rolka, Elizabeth Rank, and Ruby Kapka. OCAC faculty Barb Tetenbaum and Marilyn Zornado’s animated short “Old-Time Film” is also being shown during the exhibition.

Helen Hiebert, OCAC fibers faculty, is mentioned in the article http://www.springfieldsown.com/columns/arts/585/paper-trail. She’s also traveling to Korea to lecture at the Craft Bieniale in Cheongju and at Ewha Women’s University in Seoul.

Book Art Department Head Barb Tetenbaum and Marilyn Zornado’s letterpress-printed animated short “Old-Time Film” was screened on September 10th at the Hollywood Theater as part of “Best of the Northwest Animation Fest.“ http://www.nwanimationfest.com/

Image: Jennifer Wall
Metals Studio Manager and Instructor Jennifer Wall is participating in “From Minimal to Bling: Contemporary Studio Jewelry,“ November 4-December 30, 2011. She also has a piece in “Real People 2011” in Woodstock, IL.
http://societyofcrafts.org/exhibit/upcoming.asp.
http://naac4art.org/
http://triblocal.com/woodstock/community/stories/2011/08/real-people-art-exhibit/

OCAC faculty Bill Will is participating in the exhibition, “Bonnie Bronson Fellows: 20 Years,“ in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Bonnie Bronson Fund. The exhibition debuts new work by the Bonnie Bronson Fellows, some of the Pacific Northwest’s most influential contemporary artists. The show runs September 7-December 11, 2011 at Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art at Lewis & Clark College at 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road in Portland OR.

Abby McGehee, Associate Professor of Art History, co-edited the volume New Approaches to Medieval Architecture which was published this past spring by Ashgate.

Image: Christine Clark
Metals Department Head Christine Clark was commissioned to create a sculptural wall for the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Portland Design Festival tour on October 1st.

Image: Michael deForest
Michael deForest, wood faculty, completed work during the International Turning Exchange in Phildelphia this Summer sponsored by The Center for Art in Wood, previously, The Wood Turning Center.
http://www.woodturningcenter.org/2011/exhibit2/index.html

Recent MFA Applied Craft and Design graduate Selja Ojanne is showing new work in her exhibition, Games You Live With, at WoonWinkel in Portland. Ojanne explores a more meaningful connection to the toys and games that entertain us.

“Most people store sporting equipment, toys, and games out of sight, but this collection of objects is intended to always be visible, and therefore always remembered and accessible,” says Ojanne. Games hand-made of wool felt, wood, canvas, and leather are not only accessible but are tactile and beautiful enough that you’ll want to keep them out where you can see them. Both familiar and unusual at the same time, some objects like the Soft Blocks have an ambiguous purpose which invite the player to arrange them absent-mindedly into pleasing configurations on the coffee table. Others bring out a competitive nature, such horseshoes, which is played on a colorful, woven rug-like field.

Games You Live With runs August 1 – September 30 at Woonwinkel. 935 SW WASHINGTON in PORTLAND, OREGON 97205. ph: 503-334-2088. 
http://www.woonwinkelhome.com/ww/NEWS.html

Von Tundra recently sat down with their friends at Woonwinkel, a new retailer of international and local handmade design here in Portland, to answer a few questions for their August newsletter. Its been a great opportunity for us to reflect on the past few years, as well as the possibilities that lay ahead in the next few. Check out the text below and please be in touch. Read what Von Tundra has to say about being a designer in Portland and North America.
http://www.woonwinkelhome.com/ww/NEWS.html

Hilary Pfeifer is pleased to be included in a group show titled Woodworks at the McMaster Gallery at the University of South Carolina. It’s a great lineup of many of the stars of the field including Binh Pho, David Ellsworth, Todd Hoyer, Mark Sfirri, and Betty Scarpino. Click here to see their online catalog. Woodworks is on display August 29 - September 30, 2011. Currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Craft is the 75 Gifts for 75 Yearsshow, including the museum’s recent acquisition from Hilary’s Natural Selection show. (gift of Velvet da Vinci Gallery.) 75 Gifts for 75 years will be on display through February 25, 2012.

Andrea Uliano is showing at Talisman Gallery Aug. 25th – Sept. 25th
1476 NE Alberta St PDX 97211.

OCAC Fibers Department Head Jiseon Lee Isbara and Metals/Foundations Faculty Heidi Schwegler are participating in Connecting…, an exhibition that explores the many facets of connection, from the anticipatory space we inhabit as we wait to connect, to the different modes of building connections in the real and virtual worlds. The show runs September 1-October 22, 2011 with an opening reception on September 1 from 6-8:30pm at Chambers@916 Gallery, located at 916 NW Flanders in Portland.  Connecting… includes work by Blakely Dadson, Sang-ah Choi, Jiseon Lee Isabara, Heidi Schwegler, Eva Speer, Bernard Steffin, and Aaron Yassin.

OJM interns work closely over a period of several months with museum professionals on varied projects to gain insight into the workings of the museum. Tasks include, but are not limited to: giving docent tours of current exhibition, reception desk customer service, publicity material creation and distribution, data entry, and gallery preparation.

A gallery intern provides a warm welcome and excellent customer service to visitors/guests/members; collects admissions/program fees; provides light administrative support, directs guests to programs and appointments, answers general information and membership questions, performs light computer research; keeps reception area neat and stocked with informational materials.
Desired Qualifications
• Experience in a customer service environment
• Ability to communicate with people of diverse backgrounds
• Dependable and punctual
• Must enjoy meeting new people
• Self-directed and willing to follow Oregon Jewish Museum rules and procedures
• Comfortable with computer/telephones (or quick study willing to learn)

Interested students should be working toward a degree in art, art history, Jewish studies, or museum studies. Previous museum or gallery experience is not required. This is an unpaid internship.

Please send a cover letter, resume, and availability Sandra Preston, Program Coordinator, Oregon Jewish Museum 1953 NW Kearney St. Portland, OR 97209 or email education@ojm.org. Applications reviewed as received.

She also is donating work to the Papergirl Portland this year.  2D work up to 11 x 17 is donated, show at an exhibition in Portland, the work is then rolled up and handed out for free via bike messenger to the lovely Portland community.  Artists info, web address, etc. is attached to each work donated.  For more information: http://papergirlportland.wordpress.com/

Image: Sara Young
Sara Young (00) is starting her project, 25 Days, a year-long 15 city tour of the US:http://25daysus.blogspot.com/.  She will be meeting people in each city and talking to them about the place in their city that they love the most.  Sara is interested in getting a sense of place through the people who live there and love it.  She has obtained corporate sponsorship from local Portland companies, and will be traveling by train and exploring the livability of each city from the perspective of a bicycle commuter.

Hilary Pfeifer (aka Bunny with a Toolbelt) is working on an alphabet book and animation titled Elephabet. All pre-sales through Kickstarter will help publish the first edition. Learn about it at:  http://bitly.com/elephabet
Hilary also had one of her sculptures donated to the permanent collection at the Museum of Contemporary Craft and will be included in a show titled 75 Gifts for 75 Years which opens July 28, 2011. Her work will also be in an invitational group show titled Woodworks at the University of South Carolina during the month of September.

Suzanne Lussier is halfway through her graduate school experience at the University of Montana in Missoula, studying with Beth Lo, Trey Hill and Julia Galloway, her work is becoming more sculptural and less functional.  She is now on the board of directors of NCECA (National Council for Education in Ceramic Art).  In January she completed a winter residency at Medalta Clay Center in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada.  She is also working at the Missoula Clay Studio teaching adult and children’s classes.

Blue Mitchell (‘05) will be showing work from his ongoing series “Evanescent Energy” at LightBox Photographic Gallery in Astoria, OR, August 13 through October 2, 2011.  He is also for a juror for the coinciding show “Photo+Craft”, which includes a piece by OCAC alumni J Swofford (‘05),  Find our more on the LightBox website: http://lightbox-photographic.com.  Blue has also recently published his third volume of “Diffusion: Unconventional Photography”, find our more at http://www.diffusionmag.com

Mistina Rodriguez has work in “Real People” 2011, August 1 - September 30, 2011 at Old Court House Arts Center located at 101 N Johnson St in Woodstock, IL.

Colleen Flanigan (‘97) recently returned from Cancun, Mexico working on Living Sea Sculpture- Contemporary Art as Coral Refuge.  The large-scale Biorock sculpture will become part of Museo Subacuatico de Arte, MUSA, uniting art and ecological science. For latest update:  http://tedfellows.posterous.com/living-sea-sculpture-musa-cancun-mexico  colleenflanigan.com

Nicholas Musso has been working on a new bar that will be opening this week in South East. Also, Thesis student Jason Rens and post-bac Peter Williams have put in a serious amount of work on their summer off building the bar. It is called Dig A Pony and it is on the corner of SE Morrison and Grand. Thursday July 28th is the grand opening.
http://www.facebook.com/digaponypdx
http://digaponypdx.tumblr.com

Image: T’ai Azura
T’ai Azura (Metals ‘07) will be showing a piece from her new series of hand-hammered Copper Cameos in the upcoming OCAC Alumni Show, opening August 4th.  T’ai runs a Metals and Fibers Studio at her home in SE Portland. Check out the Azura Studios webpage http://www.taiazura.com for more!

Designer and recent MFA Applied Craft and Design graduate Selja Ojanne intuitively recognizes what many consumer experts are finding: that people seek a more meaningful connection to objects than they did in more prosperous times. In her exhibition, Games We Live With, Selja Ojanne explores a more meaningful connection to the toys and games that entertain us. “Most people store sporting equipment, toys, and games out of sight, but this collection of objects is intended to always be visible, and therefore always remembered and accessible,“ says Ojanne. Games hand-made of wool felt, wood, canvas, and leather are not only accessible but are tactile and beautiful. Both familiar and unusual at the same time, some objects like the Soft Blocks have an ambiguous purpose which invite the player to arrange them absent-mindedly into pleasing configurations on the coffee table. Others bring out a competitive nature, such as horseshoes, which is played on a colorful, woven rug-like field.

Games We Live With runs August 1 - September 30 at Woonwinkel. Woonwinkel is a home shop focused on well-crafted modern furniture and decorative accessories by independent designers from Europe and North America. Woonwinkel is at 935 SW Washington, open Tuesday through Sunday, 11-6, and Sunday, 12-5.

Michael deForest, wood faculty, participated in participate in the 2-month International Turning Exchange residency at The Wood Turning Center in Philadelphia, and will show work created from the residency in “allTURNatives: Form + Spirit 2011,“ at the Wood Turning Center August 5-September 24, 2011. This multi-disciplinary exhibit will reflect each resident fellows’ experiences including objects produced before and during the residency. Three-dimensional work will be accompanied by photos, essays, films, journals and other documentation depicting the summer experience. Included will be each fellow’s statements about their personal and professional experiences.

The opening reception and gallery talk takes place on First Friday, August 5, 2011 from 5:00-7:30 pm. On Saturday, August 6, from 2pm to 4pm, the residents will present a detailed gallery talk for the public about their work and the ITE experience. The First Friday opening and Saturday afternoon discussions are free and open to the public.

Jiseon Lee Isbara, fibers faculty department head, is showing work in the “Installation Art Exhibition” at The 15th Suwon Hwasung Fortress Theatre Festival in Suwon, South Korea Aug 13-Aug 21, 2011.  http://www.suwontheatre.or.kr/english/sub/citizen/part_06.php

Jiseon Lee Isbara, OCAC Fibers Department Head, will give a lecture to San Francisco Quilters Guild entitled “Accumulated: My Perspective of Pojagi” on June 21 at San Francisco Chinese Seventh Day Adventist Church in San Francisco, CA.
http://www.sfquiltersguild.org/meetings.php

Jiseon, OCAC fibers faculty Judilee Fitzhugh, and OCAC students Pamela Johansen, Jessica Baker, Katie Herring and Sally England contributed to the piece on display at Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco in “Wrapping Traditions: Korean Textiles Now” June 17 – October 22, 2011.

Bojagi (Bo-Jah-ki) or traditional Korean wrapping cloths were once used in formal ceremonies and daily activities in Korea. Similar to American patchwork, traditional Bojagi was made from simple pieced cloths or papers, which were elaborately embroidered together. Although this folkloric custom continues in the country, now the craft of Bojagi has had a great influence in contemporary artists from Korea and around the world. Wrapping Traditions: Korean Textiles Now brings together contemporary artists from Korea, and ten other countries that are inspired by this Korean folk art. Unlike the traditional form, Contemporary Bojagi varies in medium, size, and functions to create a new meaning that transcends borders. Wrapping Traditions: Korean Textiles Now explores both traditional Bojagi, and its multiple reinterpretations in contemporary art.
http://www.mocfa.org/exhibitions/upcoming.htm   

OCAC faculty member Michelle Ross is currently featured in Portland Art Museum’s Northwest Contemporary Art Awards. She will be giving an artist gallery talk on July 8 at the Museum.
http://ocac.edu/#/events/calendar/2011-jun11-michelle-ross-at-portland-art-museum/

Inaugurated in 2008 to recognize outstanding contemporary art and artists from Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming, this ambitious program was developed to highlight both emerging and established artists. The exhibition builds on the Museum’s commitment to the Northwest’s visual arts community. A wide range of regional arts professionals nominated artists on the basis of quality, innovation, relevance to community or global issues, continuity of vision, and dedication to studio practice. The Contemporary Northwest Art Awards are organized by the Portland Art Museum and curated by Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art.

OCAC faculty Barb Tetenbaum and Marilyn Zornado’s animated short,“Old-Time Film”, will be shown as part of the upcoming NW Animation Festival June 3, 4 & 5 at the 5th Avenue Cinema at 510 SW Hall Street in Portland. This project was funded in part by a grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council.
http://www.nwanimationfest.com/

Image: Jeannette DeNicolis Meyer
Jeannette DeNicolis Meyer, fibers instructor, is showing work in “Parallax: Views of Contemporary Quilt Artists,“ May 31-June 25 at Booksmart Studio at 250 North Goodman Street in Rochester, NY. The show includes ineteen contemporary quilters whose work embodies the concept of parallax, presenting images and ideas from multiple perspectives.

Image: Bill Will
The 27th Annual Festival of Flowers celebration officially opens June 3rd in the heart of Downtown Portland! This year’s design, You Are Here, designed by OCAC faculty member Bill Will, will be on display at Pioneer Courthouse Square through June 14th.

You Are Here will encourage visitors to look beyond our own geographic borders with the installation of a colossal map of the world using more than 20,000 colorful potted flowers. This massive floral installation will be on display through June 14th and host more than 350,000 people to celebrate spring and herald the arrival of the summer season with flowers and fun.

All of the flowers, vegetables and plant material utilized in this year’s installation have been locally grown and will be available for purchase—well below retail prices - during the annual Flower Sale at Pioneer Courthouse Square beginning at 8:00AM on June 15th. Choose from a wide variety of plants including salvia, impatiens, lobelia, pansies, begonias, vegetables, herbs, grasses and many more starting at only $.83 a piece!

Image: Michael de Forest
OCAC wood faculty Michael de Forest will participate in the 2-month International Turning Exchange residency at The Wood Turning Center in Philadelphia, PA, June 1-August 8, 2011. Three nationally known wood turners, a sculptor and Michael will share work space and collaborating together on projects. 

The grand finale exhibition for the 2011 International Turning Exchange program is the exhibit, allTURNatives: Form + Spirit 2011, at the Wood Turning Center. This multi-disciplinary exhibit will reflect each resident fellows’ experiences including objects produced before and during the residency. Three-dimensional work will be accompanied by photos, essays, films, journals and other documentation depicting the summer experience. Included will be each fellow’s statements about their personal and professional experiences.

Michael de Forest is interested in the asymmetry of form and curves that flow through his work. Conceptually, de Forest is fascinated by looking at work as portraiture. His use of color and texture supports the physicality of objects being lopsided and showcasing subtle imperfections. During his residency he will be developing a brickbuilding technique he learned in Ghana. Through this process and experiments, he will generate compound curves for sculptures and vessels both functional and non-functional.

OCAC Wood Department Head Karl Burkheimer is exhibiting “In Set” at PDX Contemporary’s Window Project from May 28, 2011 - July 2, 2011.
http://www.pdxcontemporaryart.com

Ilene Godofsky, post-bacc student, was accepted into the prestigious Summer Studio Program in Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University.  Ilene was one of a group of 16 candidates
selected from a pool of 200 + applicants for the 2011 program, and will be departing soon for the East.

MFA Applied Craft and Design student Laura Allcorn was selected to participate in the Human+ exhibit at Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland. You can watch Laura’s video from the exhibition by clicking the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maMq0etF0VQ
The show explores the future of the human species, with its highlights including a euthanasia rollercoaster, 60 skulls with mechanised eyes which watch your every move, and Laura’s project investigating what would happen if humans needed to pollinate plants instead of bees. Human+ aims to examine the cultural and social impact of new technologies in human development and incorporates the work of artists, biologists, roboticists, architects and philosophers. The result is a combination of art installations, science and technology experiments, participatory experiences, lab settings and historical artifacts.