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.