On Campus

Friends of Rain Fall Concert

Emily — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:28:27 +0000

Friends of Rain, Lewis & Clark College’s Faculty Contemporary Music Ensemble, kicks off the 2008-2009 season with a concert of enchanting works written for smaller chamber groups. The performance takes place Friday, Nov. 21 at 8:00 p.m. in Evans Auditorium. The event is free, with a suggested donation of $15 at the door.

The program features Finnish composer Kalevi Aho’s lyrical, probing work, Seven Inventions and a Postlude, performed by Mitch Iimori and Dorien de León; György Kurtág’s dramatic and evocative Hommage á R.S., which pays homage to Robert Schumann, performed by Elizabeth Harcombe, Dunja Jennings, and Miriam English-Ward; Lowell Liebermann’s jazz-inflected Sonata for Flute and Piano, performed by Nancy Teskey and Carol Biel; Vincent Persichetti’s haunting and compelling Parable for Solo Horn, performed by William Stalnaker; the premiere of Lewis & Clark’s percussion faculty Brett Paschal’s Springwater Road for solo marimba; and Arvo Pärt’s lovely atmospheric work, Spiegel im Spiegel, performed by Elisa Boynton and Stephanie Thompson.

Department of Art: Visiting Artists Series

Emily — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:27:59 +0000

Laura Vandenburgh’s drawing-based practice has encompassed drawing installations, wall drawings, and works on paper, which explore our relationship to and within the natural environment. Her work has been exhibited at the Susan Hobbs Gallery in Toronto, the Portland Art Museum, the James Harris Gallery in Seattle, PICA and the Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY among other venues. The work has been supported by grants and residencies from the Ucross, Ragdale and Saltonstall Foundations. Vandenburgh received her MFA from Hunter College in New York City, following BS in Zoology and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees from the University of California at Davis. She lives and works in Springfield, Oregon, and teaches at the University of Oregon.

Poetry Reading: Mark Conway

Emily — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:40:39 +0000

Friday, 5 December 2008, 3 p.m.

Mark Conway’s book of poetry Any Holy City won the Gerald Cable Book Award and was short-listed for this year’s PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Slate, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Bomb, Prairie Schooner, the Boston Review, the Grolier Poetry Prize Annual and elsewhere. He has been awarded [...]

Hoffman Gallery Fall Exhibition: Beyond Green

Emily — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:41:19 +0000

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.

Solo Art Exhibition in Miller

Emily — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:55:01 +0000

Orlo, the environmental arts organization based in Portland, has facilitated a new exhibition of artwork currently on display throughout the first floor of the Miller Center for the Humanities on the Lewis & Clark College Campus. Titled The End of Death and Taxes, the exhibit features the work of Portland artist Ryan Pierce. These large-scale acrylic paintings completed between 2006 and 2007 depict humans rebuilding the world after the end of industry.

The End of Death and Taxes is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art, currently being shown at the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art.

The Pierce exhibition will be on display through December 7.