OCAC’s Capital Campaign is providing a state-of-the-art photography facility to support its teaching philosophy of techniques from daguerreotypes to digital processes.  In turn, the Kresge Foundation of Michigan is supporting OCAC’s educational mission with a $900,000 challenge grant. 

30 days remain to meet the Kresge Challenge by March 31, 2010. Consider a donation - https://ocaccms.net/machform/view.php?id=34

The graduating class of 2011 will be inspired by architect Charles Rose designed thesis studio spaces with north light, tall walls, and sweeping views.  Oregon College of Art and Craft is supporting its students through its $14.6 million dollar capital campaign. 

35 days remain to meet the $900,000 challenge from Michigan’s Kresge Foundation to finish the campaign by March 31, 2010. Consider a donation - https://ocaccms.net/machform/view.php?id=34

For over 100 years, OCAC has been a stronghold of arts education. To meet growing enrollment and demand,
OCAC is renovating existing studios and expanding its facility space (and meeting Silver LEED certification
and ADA standards) through its capital campaign. Michigan’s Kresge Foundation has challenged
OCAC to finish its campaign by March 31, 2010.  Consider a donation at https://www.ocaccms.net/machform/view.php?id=34

To learn more about our Kresge Challenge Grant, visit http://ocac.edu/#/about-ocac/support/kresge-challenge-grant/

Blue Mitchell (’05) is showing new work in January at Newspace Center for Photography along with photographer Corey Davis.  Exhibit runs January 8th - 31st, opening reception: Friday, January 8th, 2009 7-10pm.  Newspace Center for Photography, 1632 SE 10th Ave. Portland, OR 97214 503.963.1935. http://www.newspacephoto.org

Colleen Flanigan (’97)  is returning to Bali this month with intention to create another ocean sculpture at “Karang Lestari” with Celia Gregory (http://www.theMarineFoundation.org) and the Pemuteran community (http://www.biorockbali.webs.com).  The project is intended to help the oceans by using creative and technical skills to build a colorful, vital marine habitat where it has been destroyed.  Colleen will be joined by Jodi Lomask, Artistic Director of the San Francisco-based organization http://www.Capacitor.org to begin a touring ocean production—an interdisciplinary exhibit bringing together performance, art, science and action to raise awareness and motivate healthy relationships with the ocean. The Global Coral Reef Alliance (http://www.globalcoral.org) certified Colleen in their Biorock technology in 2004.Colleen has also been awarded one of the TED Senior Fellows. The TED Senior Fellows program is an extended, three-year fellowship awarded to 20 individuals from the disciplines of arts, science, entrepreneurship, the NGO sector and education. Senior Fellows are selected from the previous year’s class of TED Fellows. Over the course of their Senior Fellowships, the Senior Fellows will work on projects within their individual disciplines. www.ted.com

Hilary Pfeifer (’99) spent the summer creating a 1000 piece installation for the home of Pixar director Lee Unkrich. Her ‘sWarm installation was included in the book 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse by Garth Johnson, Quarry Press, 2009.  

Liv Rainey-Smith (Metals ‘08) will be participating in Launchpad Gallery’s 5th Annual Portland Love Show February 12th - March 13th, at the Olympic Mills Commerce Center, 107 SE Washington St.  http://launchpadgallery.org/loveshow5/  Opening February 12th from 7pm-12am.

Her print work has also been accepted into the 20th Annual Buckman Art Show & Sell March 12th & 13th at Buckman Elementary School, 320 Southeast 16th Avenue Portland, OR 97214. See http://artshow.buckmanelementary.org/ for more details.

 Also, two of Liv’s works are being published in SilKMilk Spool #4, a limited edition multimedia compendium published by Australian artist Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule, launch date February 16th.  Pre-orders are now being accepted at http://www.crossroads.wild.net.au/silkmilk4.htm

Ryan Pierce (Drawing, ‘03) has a solo exhibition, “To Those Who Will Not Know The Way,“ February 4-25 at OCAC’s Hoffman Gallery. First Thursday opening Feb 4, 4-7pm, and related reading and book release Sunday, Feb 7, 12pm. Pierce is also showing in “Fertilizing Utopias,“ at SOIL Gallery in Seattle during February. Please join Signal Fire on Monday, Feb 15, for “Artists Are In Tents,“ a season kick-off event to announce our retreats and residency programs for 2010. The evening starts at 7pm at Valentine’s (232 SW Ankeny in Portland), and will feature a reading by Oregon Book Award winner Jonathan Raymond, music by Mbilly and Tara Jane O’Neil, and films by Julie Perini. http://www.signalfirearts.org and http://www.ryanpierce.net


Derek Faust has a solo exhibition of new works titled ANNOTATION:CONFIGURE at Alpern Gallery, 2552 NW Vaughn St. Portland, OR 97210. Opening Reception February 12, Show will be open February 5th-27th. Gallery hours Friday 12-6, Saturday 11-5. Annotation: Configure is a formal examination into the aesthetics, materials, and means of information storage and reproduction of humans. By combining image with the language of objects Derek’s new body of work explores analog and digital information through abstraction and minimalization. Be it a dot and dash of Morse code or the shape of a USB port, there is a language that has a direct lineage to how we view, value and communicate with each other. http://www.derekfaust.com
 

Catherine Chandler now has jewelry and metal work showing at Small Victories at the Tribute Gallery, Everett Station Lofts, 328 NW Broadway, #117, Portland, OR. The launch party is February 12, 2010 from 7:00 - 11:00 PM and all are invited to come and enjoy work from almost 20 local and international artists!  More information on Small Victories can be found at http://smallvictoriesshop.com .

Colleen Flanigan (‘97) received a RACC Artistic Focus Grant to complete Slideways, an interactive work to be exhibited at good: a gallery later this year. Also, she just returned from a creative R&D adventure in Bali with choreographer, Jodi Lomask, of SF-Based Capacitor.org.  Together they are developing a performance, art, sci exhibit to raise awareness and activate healthy human-ocean relationships.  Colleen is a Senior TED Fellow 2010-2012. colleenflanigan.com

Jonathan Langston is the featured artist at Relish Home and Interior Design.  The opening is first Thursday, February the 4th from 6-8.  You can check out my new work on their website Shoprelish.com.  


Brian Crane, ‘07, has been awarded an OCAC Faculty Senior Residency for the summer of 2010.  Crane will experiment with carving solid wood forms inspired by asteroids and will create a series of sculptures based on these organic orphans abandoned during the creation of the universe. He will manipulate their stylized, abstract story through shapes caused by cataclysmic events and layers of texture due to cosmic attrition.

Kristin Mitsu Shiga (’01) will be featured on Oregon ArtBeat on OPB television.  The show will air on Thursday, February 18 at 8PM, or can be downloaded at http://www.opb.org after that date.

Jennifer J MacLean ‘09 Painting, has an upcoming show on February 6th at Local Color Art Gallery in Seattle, featuring her “Spirited Creations” line of  jewelry. She has been commissioned to paint a large painting from her “Chaos and Order” series.  She has sold various pieces from that collection and received accolades from a local art critic regarding her work. Jennifer’s creativity has a new home - - she just opened a studio in the artsy area of Fremont in Seattle. This is where she paints and teaches private art and creativity classes.   

Blue Mitchell (’05) exhibited new work in January at Newspace Center for Photography along with photographer Corey Davis. Newspace Center for Photography, 1632 SE 10th Ave. Portland, OR 97214 503.963.1935. http://www.newspacephoto.org.

Nicole Gibbs will be giving the lecture on Wednesday, February 10 at 7 pm.  There will be a reception (otherwise known as a “dessert potluck” around here!) to follow. She anticipates the lecture to last about 90 minutes.  It will be held in the sanctuary at St. Andrew Lutheran Church, and she will show slides of her work.  St. Andrew is close to OCAC, just south of highway 26 between Cedar Hills Blvd and Murray Blvd on Butner Road.

Saskia Moes is happy to announce that her web sight is up and running.
http://www.saskiamoes.com

The Oregon Arts Commission announced 13 Career Opportunity Grants awards totaling $17,786 in this year’s second round of competitive grants. The Career Opportunity Grants program may be used by Oregon artists to support opportunities and activities that enable them to advance their work or the presentation of their work both in and outside the state.

Christine Clark, OCAC metals department head, received $1,500 to support expanded marketing strategies for her metal, jewelry and sculptural work through the development and use of a new website and software.
Heidi Schwegler, metals faculty, received $1,500 to support travel to two visual artist residencies and exhibitions, the Beijing International Artist Platform and the Nes Residency in Iceland.

The Oregon Arts Commission also recently awarded Christine Clark and Heidi Schwegler with 2010 Individual Artist Fellowships. The OAC Fellowship Program honors Oregon’s professional artists and their artistic achievements and supports their efforts to advance their careers. In selecting artists to receive the $3,000 Fellowships, the Commission looks to Oregon artists of outstanding talent, demonstrated ability and commitment to the creation of new work. A review panel of artists and arts professionals considered 82 applicants on the basis of the quality of the applicant’s work, their sustained professional achievement, and potential for future contribution to the field. Thirteen were chosen to receive the award.

Image: Zoe Umholtz

Oregon College of Art and Craft is proud to announce the selection of five students in the College’s degree program as NICHE Student Award Finalists. The students include:

Jimin Lee- Functional Ceramics
Zoe Umholtz- Fiber Wearable
Emma Maruska- Fiber Decorative
Tricia Hoffman- Fashion Accessories and Wood
Amanda Wall-Graf- Furniture

The NICHE Awards is an annual competition that celebrates excellence and innovation in the American craft industry. Founded in 1990, the Awards recognize the outstanding creative achievements of American craft artists who produce work for craft galleries and retail stores. The NICHE Student Awards program was introduced in 1996 to showcase the exceptional craft art created by students of the nation’s art schools and programs.

This year, NICHE magazine received nearly 900 student entries from over 100 schools throughout the U.S. and Canada. Judging criteria are based on two main distinctions:
• technical excellence and creativity, both in surface design and form
• a distinct quality of unique and original, and creative thought

Winners of the NICHE Student Awards will be announced at a ceremony during the Philadelphia Buyers Market of American Craft in February 2010. The Awards are sponsored by NICHE magazine, the exclusive trade publication for North American retailers of American crafts.

Image: Heidi Schwegler
Heidi Schwegler, metals faculty, is showing “Slipping Underwater”  at PCC Cascade at 705 N. Killingsworth St. in Portland January 13-Feb 12, 2010. “Slipping Underwater” refers to a phrase that is often used when a person is about to drown. It is quiet and beautiful and says nothing of the horrible struggle and anguish that occurs just before the person slips underwater. For Schwegler, it is very similar to personal anguish.

Images left to right: Karen Kunc, Madeline Miller in collaboration with the Scripps College Press Typography Class, Julie Chen
Oregon College of Art and Craft is hosting the 2010 College Book Art Association annual meeting. A members’ exhibit entitled ‘The Assignment’ will be mounted at 23 Sandy Gallery in conjunction with the conference. The show is co-curated by former OCAC student and instructor, Macy Chadwick.
http://www.23sandy.com
http://www.collegebookart.org/cbaa_meetings_conferences

The Oregon Arts Commission announces 13 awards totaling $17,786 in this year’s second round of competitive grants that support artists’ efforts to advance their careers through the development of artistic, business or professional skills. The Career Opportunity Grants program may be used by Oregon artists to support opportunities and activities that enable them to advance their work or the presentation of their work both in and outside the state. 
Christine Clark, OCAC metals department head, received $1,500 to support expanded marketing strategies for her metal, jewelry and sculptural work through the development and use of a new website and software.
Heidi Schwegler, metals faculty, received $1,500 to support travel to two visual artist residencies and exhibitions, the Beijing International Artist Platform and the Nes Residency in Iceland.

Heidi Schwegler, metals faculty, was offered a MacDowell Colony Fellowship for Spring 2010, and will be an artist in residence at the Beijing International Artist Platform July-August 2010. Heidi will be installing work from “Slipping Underwater,“ a show she exhibited last summer at the Hallie Ford Museum now at the PCC Cascade Gallery January 13-Feb 12, 2010.

The OCAC wood thesis students showcase their to-date ideation of their thesis exploration for the public to gain a better understanding of their artistic process.
Thursday, December 3 from 6:30-9:30pm • Saturday, December 5, noon-4:00pm • Sunday, December 6 from noon-4:00pm
IN House Gallery @ Everett Station Lofts | 625 NE Everett St. #106

Image: Tucker Anglese

Courtney Murphy (Ceramics ‘04) will begin a two year ceramic residency at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, MT in January 2010.

Sandra Preston participated in an exhibition at gallery Homeland this fall. See photos of the show at http://www.openwidepdx.com/?p=2219

Beth Robinson (‘08) will be included in “On the Cutting Edge: West Coast Artist using collage & assemblage” at the Coos Art Museum in Coos Bay, OR. The show runs December 11, 2009-February 13, 2010 with the opening reception on Friday, December 11, 2009 from 5:00-7:00 p.m.  http://www.coosart.org
Her work is currently included in a juried self portrait exhibition at the Umpqua Valley Arts Association in Roseburg, OR from November 6, 2009-January 8, 2010.  http://www.uvarts.com
She also will be showing at Guardino Gallery in Portland, OR for the annual Little Things show. This is a group show for art 7” and under from November 27 - December 27, 2009. http://www.guardinogallery.com
Images can be seen at http://www.robinpress.com.

Ben Neubauer exhibited his jewelry at the Washington Craft Show a the Washington Convention Center November 6-8.

Allyson Cooper (’98) got her first degree black belt in Taekwondo in October. She and her son, Tycho, will be relocating from Portland to her hometown of Baton Rouge, Louisiana on the first of the year. Allyson will pursue a career in teaching both art and Taekwondo.

Mary Andrews (‘06) gave birth to Gabriel Phillip Hamlin on 11/3/09. Gabe weighed in at 9 lbs, 2 oz. Both mom and baby are healthy and happy.

The 6th Annual Kenton Firehouse Sale on Saturday, December 5, 2009 from 11:00am-6:00pm is featuring 14 artists, many of which are OCAC alum and faculty including Clare Carpenter, Hilary Pfeifer, LeBrie Rich, Rebecca Scheer, and Siri Schillios. Work includes ceramics, prints, jewelry, photography, wood figures, fibers, cards, and felted fun. 8105 N. Brandon St., Portland OR

Colleen Flanigan ’97, will travel to Bali in December to build reefs with Capacitor for a performance, art, science production about the oceans, corals, and movement. The mission to bring more awareness and empathy through the arts to the beauty and fragility of the mystery below the surface. More information about the art piece she is hoping to incorporate at: http://www.biorockbali.webs.com and http://www.globalcoral.org
Colleen Flanigan is also the Sept-Oct ‘09 featured member for Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. http://www.asci.org/artikel1053.htm

Brandy Cochrane (Metals ’04) has an upcoming exhibition with local artist and director of galleryHOMELAND Paul Middendorf.  Part sculptural collaboration and part installation, The Dregs will be an examination of and tribute to the simple yet unusual life of a small Portland family using items that remained in their Irvington duplex after it was inherited by the current occupants. This show will take place at The Art Gym at Marylhurst University from January 10 to February 15, 2010 and is generously funded by a RACC project grant.

Sarah LaBarre (’08) was recently featured in an article in the November/December Issue of Fiberarts magazine about how to photograph your work from home.

Marilyn Joyce (’06) is included in an invitational/printmakers exhibition at Bite Studio, 2000 SE 7th Ave.  Opening night Friday November 6th, 6-10 p.m.  with additional November viewings
Fridays 11-3 and Saturdays 12-5.  www:bitestudio.org
Work is also included in “The Beautiful Book” exhibition at Abecedarian Gallery from November 6th to December 19th.  www:abecedariangallery.com

Liv Rainey-Smith (‘08) has had 2 pieces accepted into the “Printmaker’s Hand” exhibition at Northwind Arts Center in Port Townsend, WA (http://www.northwindarts.org) from November 6th - November 29th, 2009

Kathy Williams (’09) and Elyse Gambino (’09) have a show opening titled Ineffective Armor at Doppler PDX Gallery, Everett Station Lofts, 625 NW Everett St. #109, Portland, OR on First Thursday, November 5th from 5:30 – 9:00 pm. Ineffective Armor features work that studies the futile ways humans attempt to protect what we cannot protect. Images can also be seen at Doppler PDX Gallery’s blog: http://dopplerpdx.blogspot.com/

Laura Domela (’99) was recently hired by Rolling Stone Magazine to shoot the Portland band Blitzen Trapper for a column in the October 15, 2009 issue. http://www.domela.com

Blue Mitchell’s (‘05) acrylic lifts will be exhibited in the “This Land” show at StudioWEST in Eugene Oregon. Opening reception: November 6th, 2009, 6:00 - 9:00 pm, StudioWEST, 245 West 8th Avenue, Eugene, OR. Gallery hours: Tue-Thur 11am – 6pm, Fri-Sat 11am-9pm, visitstudiowest.com.

Nadine Sanders (‘93) is accepting registrations for Threads, Ruins, & Tunes, a 14 day tour of Scotland   April 8-21, 2010. Download brochure and registration form at http://www.singinweaver.com

Jennifer Anable (‘02)  has an exhibition opening titled Diverse Perspectives: Graduate work from the UMN Ceramics Department at Ylvisaker Fine Arts Center Gallery, in Mankato, Minnesota.  There will be a gallery talk and reception November 5th at 7pm.  The Gallery has a web cam if anyone cares to view this event. (http://www.blc.edu/studioart)

Heather Cavalieri (’03) currently has work showing at Ampersand Gallery & Bookshop 2916 NE Alberta St. Suite B Portland, OR from her show titled Works on Paper. Images can be seen at Ampersand’s website http://www.ampersandvintage.com or Heather’s website http://www.heathercavalieri.com

Terri Cutz (‘04) has a show opening titled Portraits in Profile: Idealized at Art Home Company, 438 SE 6th Ave in Portland, on Saturday, November 14th from 5:00 – 8:00 pm. Images can also be seen at http://www.tcutzstudios.com

Selene Robinowitz (04) was selected to participate in The Museum of the Gulf Coast’s Robert Rauschenberg Tribute Exhibition in October.  The juried exhibition was curated by Susan Davidson, Senior Curator for the Guggenheim Museum in New York and was on display through the month of October. Selene Robinowitz was also accepted into the Portland Art Museum’s Rental Sales Gallery where she currently has work on display.

Sandra Preston (’04) will be showing an installation at Gallery Homeland this November as part of a group show entitled Kunsthalle: Deutschland nach Portland. This show features artists with a Berlin connection, and is part of Gallery Homeland’s international collaboration with Brooklyn’s Stuhltrager Gallery called The East/West Project.  For more information about The East/West project contact or visit http://www.damstuhltrager.com/east_west.html.  Gallery Homeland is located at 2505 SE 11th St and an opening reception will be held on Friday, November 6. Sandra is also currently showing paintings at Portland fashion designer Alice Dobson’s store called Sofada.  The store is located at 2937 E. Burnside. 

Sara Young, MBA (00) has begun an interactive project and concurrent blog entitled: Bartering Fear and Desire, which will run from October 15th, 2009 to November 11th, 2010.  Follow the progress of the project at http://barteringfearanddesire.blogspot.com.

Colleen Flanigan (metals ‘97) was selected to be one of 20 Senior TED Fellows. http://www.ted.com.  Over the next three years, she will be attending 5 more TED conferences (Long Beach and London) and developing a collaborative, interdisciplinary touring exhibit about the oceans and coral restoration—a fusion of performance, visual art, video, science, and activism.
 
OCAC alumni, faculty and select students from the Fibers Department are showing work at Pendleton Center for the Arts. The opening reception is Fri, Oct 30 at 5:30pm; the show runs through Nov 14th. Embodying Oregon’s legacy of individuality and independence, the offerings by these artists display the beauty, versatility and sense of adventure that marks today’s contemporary crafts scene. Select images are displayed at http://www.pendletonarts.org/exhibits.

Malini Gupta ‘08, had two Broadsides accepted in the show “Broadsided: The Intersection of Art And Literature,” at 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland. The show was reviewed in The Oregonian in October. http://www.23sandy.com/Broadsided/artists/catalog.html
http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2009/09/23_sandy_gallery_hosts_two_exh.html

Beth Robinson(Book Arts ‘08) had a piece accepted in the “Dia de Los Muertos” Exhibition at Guardino Gallery in Portland, OR. (http://www.guardinogallery.com

Inge Bruggeman, Book Arts faculty, exhibited her book Unable to Find Each Other, Let Alone Ourselves in the group show “Threads: Interweaving Textu[r]al Meaning” at the Center for Book Arts in New York City. She was also one of ten artists to create a print for “Ink & Impact,” benefitting the 10th anniversary of Write Around Portland, a local non-profit that offers writing workshops for underprivileged and marginalized individuals. In June Inge gave a lecture and taught a workshop on text and image at Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts. She was also on a panel discussing the future of letterpress printing at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia at a conference titled “Hybrid Book: Intersection and Intermedia.”

Image: Karl Burkheimer

Karl Burkheimer, Wood Department Head, was recently featured on an Oregon ArtBeat segment on Oregon Public Broadcasting. He is also a finalist for Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize at Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, PA and will be included in “Transformation 7,” the exhibition associated with the prize.

Christine Clark, Metals Department Head, was awarded a Percent for Art Commission for OCAC’s new Drawing, Painting and Photography building. She was chosen to create two large light fixture sculptures.

Image: Jeannette DeNicolis Meyer

Jeannette DeNicolis Meyer, Studio School instructor, had her quilt, Full Circle, included in Lark Books’ upcoming publication, 500 Art Quilts. She’s also one of the artists included in this year’s Sitka Art Invitational November 14-15 at the Western Forestry Center in Portland.

Rebecca Kelley, General Studies faculty, recently co-authored with Joy Hatch The Eco-nomical Baby Guide, a handbook for every aspect of eco-friendly living with a baby. The authors prove that raising baby can be easy on the pocketbook and the planet. The book will be available March 1.

Current student Stephen Takacs and Photography Department Head Mark Rupert each had work in group show at the Mt. Hood Cultural Center and Museum at Government Camp. The work on display was created earlier this year at the Bull Run Powerhouse for the Art Comptemplates Industry project. The cultural center is the first stop for the work which will tour several other venues throughout the year.

Image: Barb Tetenbaum

Barbara Tetenbaum, Book Arts Department Head, is exhibiting work in “New Wave: Artists’ Publishing in the 21st Century” at the School of Creative Arts, University of the West of England, Bristol; “Boundless Transformations” Art Students League of Denver; and “The Vandercook Book” at Museum of Printing History in Houston, TX. She recently created a broadside for Write Around Portland’s “Ink and Impact” project, exhibited this fall at 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland, and she wrote an article on German artist, Andrea Nieke, published in the summer 2009 issue of Hand Papermaking. Barb’s work has been included on the website for the TV serial “Craft in America,” and she is currently organizing a national conference for the College Book Art Association to be held on the OCAC campus in January, 2010.

Image: Lena McGrath Welker

Lena McGrath Welker, Library and Front Desk staff, had her work published in an online catalog, 10th Wave 3, for Brown Grotta. http://www.browngrotta.com
The work was shown in their private home in Wilton, CT, at Jack Lenore Larson’s Longhouse in New York, and is now at Artifact.

Cecilia Shukwit, Craft Gallery Associate, won second place at the Jackson Bottom Wetlands “Tweet of Dreams” for her life-size needle felted bust of Albert Einstein. Cecilia donated the piece, and the proceeds from the auction sale benefits the Wetlands.

The Disjecta event for the HeART of Healing has been postponed to Spring 2010. We are staging three more events this month for HeART of Healing, so if you can join us fo rany or all of these, please do:

Oct. 25th, Sunday—O’Connor’s in Multnomah Village,

5-act blues/folk concert, 6-9pm, $12

Oct. 31th, Halloween—The Woods in Sellwood

Vagabond Opera concert and chilling seance festival, 9:30pm—LATE, $16

Nov. 6th, Friday—The Village Ballroom in NE Portland, off Dekum

Movement and electronica/ethereal/world beat extravaganza, 8pm-?, sliding scale of $10 to $25

Ellen Dissanayake
October 29 6:30pm
MFA Studios at the Bison Building, 421 NE 10th Avenue

Ellen Dissanayake is an independent scholar, author, and lecturer whose writings about the arts synthesize many disciplines and draw upon 15 years of living and working in non-Western countries. Her Darwinian viewpoint provides a broader understanding of the arts than is customary in most theoretical approaches. She is the author of three books: What Is Art For?, Homo Aestheticus, and Art and Intimacy, as well as over 70 scholarly and popular articles.

There is a more detailed bio of the speaker on the OCAC website at:
http://ocac.edu/#/events/calendar/2009-oct29-mfa-in-applied-craft-and-design-lecture—ellen-dissayanake-/