Image: Rosalie Neilson
Rosalie Neilson, fibers faculty, is participating in a group exhibit with eight women artists called “Woven Elements” April 21-June 4, 2011 in the Sister Galleries of the Captain White House in Graham North Carolina, sponsored by the Alamance County Arts Council. She is also teaching a beginning Kumihimo workshop June 10-11, 2011 and an advanced Kumihimo workshop August 20-21, 2011 at Pacific NorthWest Art School in Coupeville WA. Neilson is also participating in the exhibition “Oregon Weaving - The Tradition Continues”
May 28 to June 18, 2011 at Corvallis Arts Center in Corvallis, OR.

Image: Barb Tetenbaum
Barb Tetenbaum, book arts department head, served as the juror for “Un-Speak-Able,” a national juried exhibit of intricate, handmade books by 49 artists at The Arts Center’s Main Gallery through April 2. The exhibit contains books of all shapes and forms, altered books, bindings, samples of small editions and books with imagery, calligraphy and more. The theme of the exhibit refers to the fact that a word can have many interpretations and that a picture is said to be worth a thousand words.
http://www.theartscenter.net.

Barb’s work is included this spring in two exhibitions in conjunction with the Southern Graphics Council Conference in St. Louis, MO. She also has a featured artist page in this Spring’s “The Blue Notebook”, a journal on artists’ books published in Bristol, England. Her work was also selected for “Masters: Book Arts” by Lark Press.

She represented work from her imprint, Triangular Press, alongside student work from the OCAC Book Art Dept. at the Codex International Bookfair in Berkeley, CA in February. She also gave a TEDx talk in December as part of the Center for Women, Politics & Policy TEDX symposium at PSU. Her talk focused on Artist Book as a Space for Women’s Voices and Women’s Work and featured the work of Inge Bruggeman, Julie Chen, Diane Jacobs, Pati Scobey, Edie Tsong and others.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J-a4W7IeCI

OCAC book arts faculty Barb Tetenbaum and Marilyn Zornado completed “Old-Time Film”, a short animated film made entirely from letterpress printed image and text, funded in part by a grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council. They presented the film and the process of making it this January at the College Book Art Association Conference in Bloomington, Indiana and will be screening it in the Portland area this Spring.

Rebecca Scheer, metals and general studies faculty, is the Chair of the Education Dialogue at the Society of North American Goldsmiths 2011 conference in Seattle.

Image: Jim Koudelka
Jim Koudelka, ceramics faculty, will be giving a lecture on his past and present sculptural ceramic work at the Maryhill Museum on April 23 , 3:00 pm. This is in conjunction with an exhibition that he is in called “Selelections from the Collection of the Musuem of Contemporary Crafts”.
Jim Koudelka also had work exhibeted at the National Ceramic Conferance NCECA in Tampa,  Florida, March 30 - April 3

Image: Mark Rupert
In conjunction with Portland Photo Month, Photo Department Head Mark Rupert showcases his work at 23 Sandy Gallery in “Photo Alchemy: An Exhibition of Alternative Process Photography.“ The show runs April 1 - May 7, 2011 with an artists reception: First Friday, April 1, 5:00-8:00pm @ 23 Sandy Gallery | 623 NE 23rd Ave in Portland, Oregon.