Future Event
Monday, 13 October 2008, 7 p.m.
J.W. Marshall and Christine Deaval, co-owners of Seattle’s Open Books, one of only two all-poetry bookstores in the nation, will read from their original works on Monday, October 13, at 7:00 p.m. in the Manor House, Armstrong Lounge.
Marshall is the author of “Meaning A Cloud,” published by Oberlin College Press in 2008, the result of his winning the 2007 Field Poetry Prize. His poetry has appeared in Alaska Quarterly, Cranky, Field, Golden Handcuffs Review, LitRag, Poetry, and other magazines.
Deavel is the author of “Box of Little Spruce,” a chapbook published in 2005 by LitRag Press. Her work has appeared in Fence, Golden Handcuffs Review, The Iowa Review, Volt, and other magazines. In 2009, her piece “Of the Bird’s Wing There Are Tracts of Feathers” will be included in an anthology of artists and writers, to be published by the University of Washington Press.
Future Event
14 through 16 October 2008
As colleges, corporations, and cities across the country scramble to embrace sustainability, it is worth asking what exactly we hope to achieve. The 11th annual Symposium on Environmental Affairs draws together students, practitioners, and community members to discuss sustainability in time and space. Does sustainability mean eternal equilibrium, or is there a role for destruction and restoration? Are local systems always more sustainable? What exactly would global sustainability look like in today’s complex world?
The symposium includes three days of panel discussions and keynote addresses, which will take place at various campus locations October 14-16. For a full schedule, visit the Environmental Studies website.
Future Event
11 September through 7 December 2008
Balancing environmental, social, economic, and aesthetic concerns, sustainable design has the potential to transform everyday life and is reshaping the fields of architecture and product design. Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art explores the influence of this design philosophy on artists who combine a fresh aesthetic sensibility with a constructively critical approach to the production, dissemination, and display of art. The exhibition includes existing works, commissions, and previously presented work that has been “recycled,” spotlighting ways in which artists are building paths to new forms of practice. Many of the artists work collaboratively and leaven serious social aims with playful, off-the-grid spark. Their approaches range from the metaphorical to the pragmatic, sometimes serving as models for audience activism.
The exhibition runs from September 11 to December 7, 2008. An opening reception will be held at the gallery, Thursday, September 11, 5-7 p.m.
Past Event
Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 7 p.m.
Judy Cooke will speak on October 7 at 7:00 p.m. in room 102, Miller Center for the Humanities.
One of the Northwest’s most influential abstract painters, Cooke has investigated abstract imagery and the structure of painting for more than 30 years. Her new body of work explores a highly physical painting process, working on the surface of found aluminum plates, rubber, and wooden panel surfaces. Irregular in shape, sometimes staggered when assembled, Cooke’s work continues to cross the precipice between painting and sculpture. The split or division in the individual paintings reflect the artist’s ongoing formal process, as well as correspond with the artist’s personal perceptions of current politics. Cooke’s awareness of, and frustration with, the war is subtly made manifest within her dark, somber palette, use of rubber, and use of the black line throughout the work.
Judy Cooke received her degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in the early 1960’s and moved to Portland in the late 1960’s. She was recently awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship in Painting from the Oregon Arts Commission.
Past Event
Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 7 p.m.
Portland Mayor-elect Sam Adams will speak at Lewis & Clark on Oct. 7 as part of National Coming Out Week, a week-long series of events being organized by the Lewis & Clark student organization United Sexualities. The organization’s leaders say having Adams participate in these events reinforces the significance of this national celebration and sends a strong message that the LGBTQ community has been eager to make clear—discrimination and inequality affects all citizens.
Adams will speak on October 7 at 7 p.m. in Agnes Flanagan Chapel. The event is free and open to the public. Adams’ address is co-sponsored by the Gender Studies Department and United Sexualities and supported by the Office of the President and Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Past Event
Saturday 4 October 2008, 11:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Come out for an afternoon of football and fun at Lewis & Clark as the Pioneers take on the Pacific Lutheran University Lutes. An Alumni Weekend tradition, the Tailgate Extravaganza and Homecoming Football Game brings together family, friends, and members of the Lewis & Clark community. Also, the new Pioneer mascot, Pio the Newfoundland, will make an appearance!
The event takes place at Griswold Stadium, Saturday, October 4, beginning at 11:30 am. Kickoff is at 12:30. The $15 cost includes lunch and a ticket to the football game.
View a full schedule of events, or learn more about Alumni Weekend.
Past Event
Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 7 p.m.
Jenene Nagy will speak on September 30 at 7:00 p.m. in room 102, Miller Center for the Humanities.
Nagy is a visual artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. Blurring the boundaries of painting, sculpture, and installation, Nagy’s work aims to simultaneously reference where we are and where we wish we could be.
Nagy received her BFA from the University of Arizona in 1998, and her MFA from the University of Oregon in 2004. Her work has been exhibited as numerous venues including arthouse in Austin, TX, Brewery Project in Los Angeles, CA, Dam Stuhltrager in NY, and Takt Kunstprojektraum in Berlin, Germany. She has had solo exhibitions at Dinnerware ArtSpace in Tucson, AZ and the Portland Art Museum in Oregon. Lisa Radon of Ultra has called Nagy “a force to be reckoned with on all fronts.” Nagy’s work has been reviewed in the Willamette Week, PORT, the Oregonian, and the Portland Mercury. Along with a rigorous studio practice, Nagy is also the Director and Co-Curator of Tilt Gallery and Project Space, a venue for experimental and difficult to show work.
Past Event
30 September through 1 October 2008
The mission of this series is to ignite a passionate effort to broaden participation in science at all levels. By making innovative scientific research accessible and relevant to a wide audience, this series seeks to increase participation in the physical and natural sciences among all groups, particularly those that have been historically underrepresented.
Featured speakers:
Dr. Trachette Jackson, a mathematical biologist with research interests in the application of mathematical modeling to biomedical systems, will be on campus September, 30, 2008.
Dr. Peter O’Day, a neuroscientist whose research interests include cellular signaling, electrophysiological, biochemical, and mutational analysis of visual processing, and phototransduction, will be on campus October 1, 2008.
To learn more about the speakers, visit Science Without Limits online. For a complete list of all Science Without Limits events, visit the online calendar.
The Science Without Limits Speaker Series is funded by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Past Event
Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 4:30 p.m.
The John S. Rogers Science Research Program is a summer internship program that prepares outstanding students for careers in the sciences by supporting collaborative scientific research between students and faculty. Rogers Program participants begin their summer research internships in May, working at least 40 hours per week, for 10 weeks.
The Rogers Poster Session is a public presentation of students’ summer research and the culmination of their work.
The event will take place at Albany Quadrangle, in Smith Hall.
Past Event
Friday, 26 September 2008, 3 p.m.
Susan Gibbons, Vice Provost and Dean of the River Campus Libraries at the University of Rochester, NY, will present the 2008 Johannah Sherrer Memorial Lecture, “Aligning Academic Libraries with Real User Needs” on Friday, September 26, at 3:00 pm in the Gordon H. Smith Hall in Albany Quadrangle.
Ms. Gibbons’ innovative work with anthropologist Nancy Fried Foster to study the research behavior of undergraduates has gained attention from libraries around the world. Their findings have been presented in the co-edited book, Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester (ALA, 2007) and covered by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Ms. Gibbons will speak about her experiences with this anthropological research project and the illumination and guidance it has provided in developing library services in the new century.
About the lecture:
The Johannah Sherrer Memorial Lecture in Library Service was established in 1999 to commemorate the contributions and legacies of a respected friend, colleague, and champion of service.
Johannah Sherrer was the Director of the Aubrey R. Watzek Library at Lewis & Clark College from July 1993-September 1998. Known for her warm smile, her boundless energy, vitality, and drive, her compassion and friendliness to all creatures great and small, and her devotion to service in all its connotations, Johannah Sherrer was a friend, a colleague, a mentor, and a champion of libraries.
Past Event
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 7 p.m.
Holly Andres will speak on September 23 at 7:00 p.m. in room 102, Miller Center for the Humanities.
Andres approaches her art in a multidisciplinary manner, and has worked in film, photography, sculpture and installation. Andres’ newest body of photographic work, Sparrow Lane, recently premiered at Quality Pictures Contemporary Art in Portland OR, and this on-going series will exhibit at the Robert Mann Gallery in NYC in Oct.
In 2007 her much acclaimed narrative photo series, Stories from a Short Street exhibited at the DNJ Gallery in LA, the Jen Bekman Gallery in NYC, in ‘Girl Machine’ at the Honfluer Gallery in Washington DC, and at her hometown, The Missoula Art Museum. In 2006 she was represented in the Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum and at the Annual National Juried Exhibition at Newspace Center for Photography. Andres’ photo work has been showcased in Elle Magazine, the Portland Modern, on the cover of the Portland Mercury, PDX Magazine, and Art Ltd.-who recently profiled her as one of 15 emerging West Coast artists under the age of 35.
Andres has also collaborated with performer/filmmaker Grace Carter to create the short films Nora, Dandelion and Brave New Girl. Their work has been featured in the 31st Annual NW Film + Video Festival, Best of the Northwest Touring Program, the Portland International Film Festival, the Portland Experimental Film Festival and the Perpetual Art Machine in New York. Andres currently teaches studio art classes at Portland State University and Pacific Northwest College of Art. Andres received an MFA from PSU in 2004.
Past Event
Friday, 19 September 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Enjoy an evening of music by Finnish and Brazilian composers, performed by the Vaasa City Orchestra from Finland.
This fall, the orchestra is touring throughout the Pacific Northwest. This is the only appearance the orchestra will make in Portland.
The concert, which will take place in Evans Auditorium, is free for Lewis & Clark students; there is a $15 suggested donation for faculty and staff. General admission tickets are $15, and non-Lewis & Clark students will be charged $9 for admission.
Learn more about the orchestra online.
Past Event
Thursday, 18 September 2008, 7 p.m.
Matt Wagner will appear on September 18 at 7:00 p.m. in Miller 105.
With an extensive career in comics, Matt Wagner introduced one of comicdom’s most respected creator-owned characters—the mastermind assassin, Grendel. Best known for this epic creation and his other, more personal, allegory, Mage, Wagner has also worked on a variety of established characters. His more recent efforts in this vein have included writing the Dr. Mid-nite mini-series for DC Comics and serving as the regular cover artist on the Kevin Smith-penned relaunch of Green Arrow.
This year sees the 25th anniversary of Grendel, and Wagner is hard at work on a variety of projects to commemorate this significant milestone. His appearance is co-sponsored by the Department of English and Watzek Library Special Collections.
