General Studies Department Head Phil Harris juried the photography section of the 29th annual Beaverton Visual Arts Showcase. The show opens November 5th at the Beaverton City Library.

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.