Leigh Radford ‘s piece “How Do You Think You Are?“ was accepted into a group show, Coastal Fiberarts 2011.
Coastal Fiberarts 2011
July 14-August 18
Clatsop Community College
Art Center Gallery
1799 Lexington Ave., Astoria, OR
Opening reception July 14, 5-8pm.
Exhibit hours: Monday-Thursday, 2 - 6 pm

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.
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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.