Christine Clark, metals department head, launched her new website at http://www.cclarkstudio.com/.

Book Art Department Head Barb Tetenbaum and Studio School instructor Marilyn Zornado’s animated short “Old-Time Film” (created entirely from letterpress printed imagery) will be screened as part of the 2011 Anima Mundi International Animation Festival in July in Brazil. This project was funded in part by a grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council.
http://www.animamundi.com.br/

The public is also invited to a screening of “Old-Time Film,“ “Spring Lines” and “Insect Poetry” (both by Marilyn Zornado) on Sunday, May 1 at 7:00pm at 23 Sandy Gallery at 623 NE 23rd Ave in Portland. Admission is free, and content is suitable for all audiences. Barb and Marilyn will also give a short presentation on the techniques involved in creating their film, which was made entirely from letterpress-printed imagery.

Thomas Orr, ceramics department head, gave a remembrance lecture on Paul Soldner at the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference in Tampa, FL.

Inge Bruggeman, book arts faculty, is participating in a two-month residency in Marseille France at the Atelier Vis-a-Vis generously supported by the Oregon Arts Commission and the Regional Arts and Culture Council.

Helen Hiebert, fibers faculty, is showing her installation “Mother Tree” Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg, OR through May 28, 2011. Helen will also host a special crochet event on Saturday, May 7 from 10am-1pm at the Center. Join her as she continues to add roots to Mother Tree.

Image: Shelley Socolofsky
Shelley Socolofsky, fibers faculty, is showing work in “Oregon Weaving: The Tradition Continues” at the Corvallis Arts Center May 28 - June 25.  The exhibition is based on the premise of Time/Cloth/past, present, future.  The Arts Center invited four long time Textile Educators (Shelley, Rosalie Neilson, Kathy Todd-Hooker, and Dee Ford Potter) to exhibit. The artists then invites a select group of students to exhibit their work along side the educators. OCAC students Katie Herring, Emma Maruska, and Kristin Pesola will be participating in the exhibition.

Jiseon Lee Isbara, fibers department head, is showing work in “Identify Yourself,“ curated and jurored by Duane Reed May 20-July 3 at Craft Alliance (Delmar Loop), St. Louis, MO. There will be an opening reception on Friday, May 20 from 6:00-8:00pm. Jiseon will also participate in “Wrapping Traditions: Korean Textiles Now” at Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco, CA, June 17- October 23.

Kristin Mitsu Shiga (Metals, 2001) is a featured artist on ArtclecticPDX on KZME 107.1FM, with an interview airing at 5PM Sunday, May 22, 2011.  Listen live or podcast it through their web site at http://www.kzme.fm.

The Cannon Beach Gallery is pleased to announce that Carl Annala, the Cultural Arts Program Supervisor for the Walters Cultural Arts Center in Hillsboro, will be the guest juror for our next All Juried Show.  Artists interested in submitting work to the show should bring their submissions to the gallery on Thursday, June 2 between 10am-4pm.  The exhibition will run from June 4-June 20, 2011.
The Juried Show program at the non-profit Cannon Beach Gallery is one of the unique offerings of the Cannon Beach Arts Association.  It provides both emerging and professional artists the opportunity to submit their original artwork for consideration by a guest curator.
All artwork needs to be exhibition ready with a wire for hanging, an original piece which was completed with in the last two years. Three dimensional artwork is encouraged, photography is accepted along with other two dimensional media. All artwork needs to be for sale, the Cannon Beach Gallery takes a 40% commission.  There is an application fee for submitting work; $10 for up to three pieces, or $5 for CBAA memberships.  An annual membership to the CBAA for an individual is $25.
There is more information about the protocol for juried shows and the Cannon Beach Arts Association, (which is celebrating its 25th year) on our website:  http://www.cannonbeacharts.org.
Born in McMinnville, Oregon into a musical family, Carl Annala is an arts professional hailing from the Portland area. He has exhibited his drawings and paintings at various galleries in the NW for over 20 years. He holds a Bachelors of Fine Art in Drawing from Pacific Northwest College of Art and a Masters of Fine Art in Painting from Portland State University. Annala is currently a Cultural Arts Program Supervisor at the Walters Cultural Arts Center in Hillsboro where he is the gallery director/curator. Jeweler, writer, dancer and rock star are all titles he has enjoyed in the past.”
About the Cannon Beach Arts Association
Since 1986, the Cannon Beach Arts Association (CBAA) has provided programs and opportunities that enhance and support the arts in Cannon Beach and the surrounding community.  The CBAA is a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization run almost entirely by volunteers, allowing over 97% of its budget to go directly to a wide variety of programs. These programs include: a Children’s Summer Art Camp, Scholarships for high school seniors, a $3,000 Individual Artist Grant and the Cannon Beach Gallery. The Cannon Beach Arts Association programs are all funded through member’s contributions, and grants from business, foundations, and government agencies.
For more information, contact the Cannon Beach Arts Association at(503) 436-0744, or PO Box 684, Cannon Beach, OR 97110; Email: ,Web: http://www.cannonbeacharts.org.

Washington County Open Studios Tour
      2011 REGISTRATION
$50 Registration Fee.
TWO DEADLINE OPTIONS: Submit form, fee and electronic images by JUNE 1, 2011 and your name will be included on the postcard. The first nine to submit form, fee and images will have their artwork on the postcard. Or submit by JULY 1, 2011 for brochure and web promotions. Registration fees and images not received by July 1, 2011 will void registration.
MAIL $50 check payable to Peg Falconer Weber 19950 SW Luree St, Aloha OR 97006. Registration form accepted by snailmail or email. EMAIL two images for use in promotional print and web materials to . Images must be high resolution JPEG or TIF files. For example: 3-5mb or 1200x1800 pixels or 300dpi. Compressed files preferred.

ANNOUNCING THE 2011 STUDENT AWARDS

As classes wind down, it’s time to start thinking about entering all your great work to the largest and most respected show of its kind in North America. Winning an Applied Arts Student Award is a great way to launch your career! Your submissions will be judged by the hottest designers and creative directors ~ impressing them will open many doors!

Winners will receive maximum exposure in print, online and in person! More potential employers will see your work than in any other type of awards or promotional exposure. Winning work will be:

In our November/December 2011 issue, reaching 46,000+ readers
Online at appliedartsmag.com which attracts 300,000+ visitors annually
At the annual Awards Winners’ Exhibit, slated for October 2011, in Toronto. Winners will be invited to a party attended by 500+ senior design and advertising creatives, as well as by fellow winners
All entrants receive a copy of the Student Awards issue, while winners receive two. Winners also receive digital tear sheets and a certificate for each winning piece ~ a great addition to any portfolio.

And if that weren’t enough, there’s always the chance that your image will be chosen for the cover of the 2011 Student Awards!

CLICK for more information, a full list of categories and to access our online entry form.

To see the 2010 Student winners, click here .

Questions? Contact Carrie Martin at , or by phone,
416-510-0909 x32 (outside Toronto: 1-800-646-0347).

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.

Emily Browne is graduating with a Masters of Fine Arts from Montana State University in May 2011.  Her Thesis Exhibition titled here we are. will be on display at the Helen E. Copeland Gallery in Bozeman, Montana April 4-8, 2011.  Artists Reception is April 7 from 7-9pm.  Emily was accepted into the Nes Artist Residency in Skagastrond, Iceland, and will be attending for the month of June, 2011.
updates and images can be viewed at http://www.emilybrowne.com (images from MFA exhibition will be up after the show opens).

Hilary Pfeifer will be included in an exhibition in April at Tante Netty Gallery in Eindhoven, Netherlands. She will be speaking at the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) conference this May as part of the Professional Development Seminar. Her new work epiphytes|epaulet will also be included in a dance performance for SNAG’s Exhibition in Motion at the Bellevue Arts Museum. 

Faith Hagenhofer has a piece in an upcoming show at The Textile Museum in Washington DC.  The show is called Green: A Color and a Cause, and it opens on April 15th. 

Saskia Moes & Piotr Orloff introduce, Beatrice Lee Moes, born January 25th at 9:18 am, 8 pounds 8 Ounces & 19.5 inches.

Casey Judy, OCAC studio manager in drawing/Painting dept. is also now part of the official crew at Gamblin Artist Colors and will have a painting in the Cap auction April 30th at the Memorial Coliseum.

Sara Young, ‘00 is following up her social experiment, 20 Dates in 20 Weekends,http://20dates20weekends.blogspot.com/, with a new project in which she interviews 25 people in cities all over the country, (25 people per city), and writes about it in her blog,http://25peopleforacity.blogspot.com/. She is starting in Portland, Oregon, and will go to the city blog readers vote for next. Her theory is that the unique and interesting people in each city define it. She hopes to go to 6 to 8 cities a year, and eventually, expand this project so that is international in scope.

Catherine Chandler will have work in two exhibitions in Seattle during April and May.  Nine of her rings will be part of the Ring A Day exhibition at Punch Gallery (119 Prefontaine Place South, Seattle, WA 98104) May 5 - May 29, 2011.  Three of her “Thorn Brooches” will be part of the COUNTERFLUX: DEFENSIVE ORNAMENT: A group exhibit curated by Suzanne Ramljak in conjunction with the 2011 SNAG Conference at G. Gibson Gallery (300 South Washington Street, Seattle, Washington 98104) April 21 - May 31, 2011.

Courtney Murphy (Ceramics 04) was chosen as one of Ceramics Monthly’s Emerging Artists for 2011, to appear in the May 2011 issue.

Image: Jeffrey Baker
In preparation for his upcoming show at the Oregon College of Art & Craft, Jeffrey T. Baker will be showing work-in-progress at his SE Portland studio as well as discussing some of the mixed media techniques used to realize this work. Refreshments will be provided. Friday, April 1st, 2011 from 5pm - 9pm at Troy Laundry Building (Studio 10 on the 3rd Floor) at 221 SE 11th Ave, Portland, OR.
http://www.jeffreytbaker.com

Image: Ryan Pierce
Ryan Pierce
March 25th is Asshole Sunset, a solo exhibition at Sight School in Oakland, CA. It’s a rough-n-tumble new batch of sculptures and a few paintings, inspired by the sentiment of wishing that ‘The Rapture’ would hurry up and happen so that the fundamentalists would go away and let us talk sensibly about the future of the Earth. Expect bread, barbed wire blackberries, burnt things. Sight School is a fantastic alternative space run by my art hero Michelle Blade and the opening will be Saturday night. Asshole Sunset!

Signal Fire is accepting applications until April 1st for the three best weeks of my summer: two sessions of the Outpost Residency, and one action-packed backpacking trip through my favorite patch of Mount Hood National Forest. I do hope you can join us in the forest.

Image: Jennifer Anable
Jennifer Anable is showing her MFA Thesis Exhibition, “Everybody is an Astronaut,“ March 30-April 21 at Katherine Nash Gallery Regis Center for Art at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. “My experience in Graduate school has been a battle between logic and uncertainty. A push and pull relationship between old beliefs and new discoveries. The work in this show represents my reaches into the unknown, where we find no answers only comfort in our own search.“

Janice Green 2003 alumni will have booth at the O.P.A. showcase this year and recently was in the Celebration of creativity Art Show.

Michelle Ross, drawing/painting faculty, was chosen as a winner of the Portland Art Museum’s NW Contemporary Art Awards. The announcement concludes a several-months-long process that required sorting through 296 nominations solicited from curators, writers and arts professionals across Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. Ross, along with the seven other award winners, will be showing their work at the Museum this June 2011. One of the seven will also be chosen for the $10,000 Arlene Schnitzer Prize, named after the former art dealer and local patron who funded the Museum’s Northwest art program.
http://www.oregonlive.com/art/index.ssf/2011/02/portland_art_museum_announces_2.html

Image: Karl Burkheimer
Karl Burkheimer, wood department head, presents his solo show “In Site” at Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center in Portland, OR February 26-March 26, 2011. A special happy hour lecture is scheduled on Friday, March 11 from 6:00-9:00pm, and Burkheimer will talk from 7:00-8:00pm. Drawing from a wide range of interests and influences including extensive travel in the Middle East, design and construction of Japanese tea houses, and the utter love of making, Burkheimer’s project for Disjecta is his most ambitious work to date. Burkheimer’s sculptural installation will essentially occupy the entire cavernous 3500 square foot gallery space. Its sheer size would leave little room for an audience, however In Site addresses the nature of experience by becoming the very ground one walks upon. The explicit functions of the gallery, of artwork even, are turned inside out as the piece becomes the environment without adhering to doctrines of performance or purpose. In Site takes the form of a giant, planked walkway, a ramp, a barrier, yet the work suggests an unknown or esoteric use and results in an object that challenges associations and expectations of image, object, and architecture. The haptic experience of the viewer will ultimately complete the piece. This project is funded in part by the Oregon Arts Commission.
http://www.disjecta.org/events/kburkheimer.php

Jiseon Lee Isbara, fibers department head,  is currently showing work in a traveling exhibit entitled “Hands of Korea.“ The show was at the 2010 European Patchwork Meeting in Ste Marie-Aux-Mines, Alace, France in 2010, and will be traveling to Chungju Museum of Craft, Chungju, South Korea in 2011. Lee Isbara also exhibited in “New Fibers” at University Art Gallery of Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
http://www.handsofkorea.com

Rosalie Neilson, fibers faculty, is teaching a week-long course, “Ripped” about Rep, at John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown N.C. during their Scandinavian Heritage Week March 20-26, 2011. She will also be lecturing and teaching a 3-day rep weaving workshop for the Guild of Cincinnati, Ohio from April 6-April 9, 2011. Her work will is featured in the March/April issue of Handwoven Magazine under the “Designer’s Notebook” series. The title of the article is “Juxtaposing Warp Colors in 4-block, 4-shaft Warp Rep.” 
http://www.rosalie@rosalieneilson.com

The local Muscular Dystrophy organization in Portland is looking for some student artists at their next fundraiser.  They would love some students from our college to come and participate with the face painting booth.  We could promote your college as well.  There will be around 500 participants in this fundraiser as well as FOX12 and Oregon Live!  This is a great event to help out many families with Muscular Dystrophy!  I hope some students from Oregon College of Arts and Crafts can come!  For more information on volunteering, please contact me below.
Thank you so much,
Tirsa Forncrook
Muscular Dystrophy Association
4800 SW Macadam Ave. #205
Portland, OR 97239
(503) 223-3177
(503) 223-3026 fax

Littleput Studio is looking to take on a new intern for later winter/ early spring.  I am currently developing a new wholesale line as well as expanding my online product base.  Intern should be detail oriented, organized and good with people.  Job will include light graphic design work,  light production work, shipping of orders, customer service, working with wholesale and retail clients and if interested,  some product photography and copywriting.  This is a great job for someone in the photography program or paper arts, however all students are welcome to apply.  Approximately 5-6 hours a week.  This is an unpaid position with the potential to turn into a paid position after 3 months.  This is a great opportunity to learn the basics of marketing product, developing a wholesale line and running an online arts business.  Please send letters of intent to along with a phone number and contact information.  You are welcome to include a portfolio of your work, however that is not required.

To learn more about the company you’d be interning for please visit my Etsy website at littleputshop.com

Mary Wells (‘03) is showing work in “New Artists Group Show” at Viridian Artists, 530 West 25th #407 in New York through January 15, 2011.
Viridian Artists presented new work by new Viridian Artists. Each of the eight artists in this exhibit was given about 10 linear feet of wall space for a mini solo of their recent art. Mary Wells’ work will be featured in a solo exhibit next season. Mary was also featured in “Group Exhibition: New Works by Northwest Artists” at Augen Gallery, 716 SNW Davis Street in Portland, OR January 6–29, 2011. Wells has just returned from a short residency gathering images and soaking up the winter environment at La Macina di San Cresci in Greve-in-Chianti, Italy in preparation for work on the third (winter) of a quartet of seasonal paper mosaics. She plans to return for the month of July to begin work on the final piece—summer—of this lengthy project.
 

Kristin Mitsu Shiga (‘01) has received a Professional Development Grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC – www.racc.org) to attend CollaboratioNZ 2011 in Whangarei, New Zealand as a Resource Artist.  She has launched a campaign on Kickstarter to complete funding for this project. To learn more or participate, visit https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kristinmitsushiga/co-lab-an-artists-adventure-in-collaborative-makin.

 
Sam MacKenzie (‘06) has stepped down as president of non-profit MOSAIC Arts Alliance after 3 1/2 years of service. Sam was the second president to lead MOSAIC Arts Alliance and has brought MOSAIC and its co-op Sixth Street Gallery through many milestones. Her leadership role culminated with the successful move of the gallery to its new location (and, consequently, new name) - Gallery 360, 111 W Ninth Street, Vancouver WA

Book Arts Department Head Barb Tetenbaum and book arts faculty Marilyn Zornado screened their letterpress-printed animation short “Old-Time Film” in December at IPRC in Portland. It was followed by a discussion of the process of making the film which they have dubbed “Vander-mation”. The project is supported by a grant from Regional Arts and Culture Council.

OCAC staff member Lena Welker recently had an exhibition of her newest work at North Dakota Museum of Art. Click the link to see the interview with her in conjunction with the show.
http://studio1.und.edu/video/12-09-10/stories12-09-10.html.

Image: Christine Clark
Christine Clark, Metals Department Head, is showing “Collective Object: An Installation by Christine Clark,“ February 3-27, 2011 at Nine Gallery in Portland. An opening reception will take place on February 3 from 6:00-9:00pm at the gallery space, 122 NW 8th Ave.

“Collective Object” is an abstract account of objects in our lives. Objects encircle us daily, tangible elements that make up our homes, which hold an importance that varies with each individual. We collect objects for fun, investment, relaxation, social interaction, nostalgia, control and a host of other reasons reaching back to basic human instinct and the will to survive. The notion of ownership gives us a sense of power and compels us to hold on to those objects. They often serve as markers of time reminding us of something significant that takes precedence in our minds. Even as these objects shift importance from some heightened significance to something forgotten, our desire to hang on to that object still prevails.

As an abstract idea, the objects in the installation transcend from something specific to a generic representation of who we are and why we collect. Each of the 65 hand-made objects that course around the walls of the gallery is white, on white shelves against white walls.

“I want to represent a commonality in people that removes us from the specifics of being an individual transforming us into a collective whole. None of the objects in this exhibition are meant to represent anything specific. The objects transform in shape from one thing into another suggesting the transformation of meaning objects hold in our lives. As a whole, it creates a singular experience of suspended meaning. It resounds with latent memories of things or ideas once felt but become intangible with time. It is a narrative that is no longer yours.“

Image: Michael deForest
Wood faculty Michael deForest will lecture about his recent apprenticeship as a fantasy coffin-maker in Ghana on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 7:30pm in the Catlin Gabel Cabell Center at 8825 SW Barnes Rd in Portland.

Michael de Forest spent two and a half months in Ghana in the summer of 2009 with Eric Adjetey Anang, grandson of the originator of fantasy coffin making in the Ga community. These wooden coffins are assembled, carved, and painted in many fantastic shapes meaningful to their intended recipient—including fish, trucks, bottles of beer, pens, and boats. While in Ghana de Forest learned to appreciate not only his mentors’ practical techniques, but also the way they make creative choices collaboratively.

In addition to talking about his experience, illustrated by many images, he will speak about how practical knowledge and creative thinking work together in the making of art.

Four OCAC faculty- Anna Fidler, Cynthia Lahti, Michelle Ross, and Heidi Schwegler- and OCAC alumni Ryan Pierce were chosen out of nearly 300 nomination as finalists for the Contemporary Northwest Art Awards presented by the Portland Art Museum. Read more at
http://www.oregonlive.com/art/index.ssf/2011/01/portland_art_museum_announces_1.html
http://www.oregonlive.com/art/index.ssf/2011/01/analysis_the_finalists_for_the.html

Image: Karl Burkheimer
Karl Burkheimer, Wood Department Head, is showing new work at Disjecta gallery in Portland February 26-March 26, 2011. Burkheimer writes, “My work, the creative endeavor, lives in the making, the act and art of transforming materials into form and meaning. I challenge myself to create work that addresses explicit functions without adhering to doctrines of performance, suggesting unknown or esoteric use—the contemplative object. While space cannot be created though direct physical acts of making (e.g. cutting, folding, welding, hammering, painting, etc.), it, or the illusion of it, is manipulated through the creation of objects and images. Following the trajectory of my recent work and inspired by vernacular/purposeful architecture this constructed object is aspiring to inhabit and alter Disjecta’s 3500 square feet of exhibition space. The piece, will exists as a sculptural/artistic image, yet it will elicit and rely on a haptic experience from the viewer/user to reach its full potential.“
http://www.disjecta.org

The Northwest Student Leadership Conference (NWSLC) provides leadership skills, communication techniques, empowerment tools when dealing with obstacles during post secondary education.
Everything from personal discrimination to community collaboration.
NWSLC unites students nationally to discuss and to confront issues concerning LGBTQ to financial inequities.
The Oregon College of Arts and Crafts would be a new member to the table of attendees expanding the wealth of participant conversations.
Registration will begin next week on the Oregon Student Association’s website – http://www.orstudent.org .

Photographer is being sought to work with the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) as a portrait photographer for an ongoing diversity project administered by OHSU’s Diversity Advisory Council (DAC).  The diversity project will provide a highly visible multimedia diversity timeline on the OHSU campus.
The RFP process will help establish a contract with an artist/organization to act as the portrait photographer for this project. The selected artist(s) will be responsible for two portrait photographs of two historical OHSU graduates. Proposals may be submitted now by following the submission process listed in the RFP document below. The committee will make its final artist selection after reviewing all submissions.

Application and FAQ’s here http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/vision/diversity/portrait-photography-rfp.cfm

Karl Burkheimer, wood department head, will have his review of Museum of Contemporary Craft’s Ai Weiwei exhibition,“Dropping the Urn 5000 BCE–2010 CE” in the December issue of Ceramic Monthly magazine.

Image: Bill Will
Bill Will, foundations faculty, is showing a new public art installation, “US,“ in downtown Portland. The project is part of The Regional Arts & Culture Council’s Portland Storefronts– a pilot program in collaboration with Travel Portland’s Downtown Marketing Initiative, The Portland Business Alliance, downtown’s Clean & Safe District and the Portland Development Commission.

On display for the next three months are four installations in storefront windows at 731 SW Morrison– the building formerly occupied by Carl Greve Jewelry. Portland artists Damien Gilley, Sean Healy, Bill Will and the team of Crystal Schenk and Shelby Davis created site-specific works responding to the physical features of the building and the surrounding retail area and activities. Visible around the clock, the installations coincide with the opening of five “pop-up shops” that are showcasing local independent design talent this holiday season.

OCAC faculty member Bill Will is showcasing his installation titled “US” of acrylic mirrors, plywood, pine board. The reflective image of our country is captured in 50 mirrors shaped to form a complete large scale map of the United States.  Each state can be a mirror of our individual choices and actions, suggesting we consider who we are as individuals and as a nation. Bill Will is a sculptor and installation artist who has exhibited extensively for more than 25 years. He is a member of Nine Gallery in Portland. In 2005, The Art Gym at Marylhurst University featured a mid-career retrospective of his work and in 2006 he was awarded the 15th annual Bonnie Bronson Fellowship. In addition to sculpture and installation art, Bill has also completed more than 30 public art commissions, including several in Portland and at stations along the Westside Light Rail line.
http://www.billwillstudio.com

Image: Helen Hiebert
Helen Hiebert, fibers faculty, has a solo show, “String Theory,“ at 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland through December 18, 2010. Interested in the threads that bind us all, particularly knots, she unveils her unique compositions. Hiebert arranges loosely tied knots on a sheet of translucent handmade paper, manipulating the loops and ends to create the drawing, trapping the threads in time with the addition a top layer of translucent paper. Inspired by historical knot illustrations, Hiebert’s contemporary interpretations serve as metaphors for the physical and emotional connections and junctures in our lives.

Helen Hiebert is a Portland, Oregon artist who constructs installations, sculptures, and artist books using handmade paper, thread and light. She exhibits and lectures internationally, and serves as an adjunct faculty member at Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland. Hiebert is the author of the several papermaking books and is a regular contributor to Hand Papermaking Newsletter. She received the 2010 Regional Arts & Culture Council Project Grant, which partially funded String Theory.
View a full online catalog of Helen’s show here: http://www.23sandy.com/hiebert/catalog.html