Past Event
11 through 13 March 2009
The 28th Annual Gender Studies Symposium will feature more than 25 events exploring gender in the context of health care, education, politics, art, and more. The symposium will be comprised of three days of panel discussions, lectures, readings, performances, workshops, and an art exhibition.
Featured events include:
- Poetry Workshop with Salt Lines, featuring Andrea Gibson with Denise Jolly and Tara Hardy
- Keynote Lecture, “Human Rights Challenges to Gender Injustice,” Loretta Ross, reproductive justice activist
- Keynote Lecture, “Fatherhood, Poverty, and Gender Injustice: Which Way Forward for the Obama Administration?”
- Performances by the welfareQUEENS and Jamie Stewart from Xiu Xiu, Friday
Most events held in Templeton Student Center. Consult the full schedule for details.
COST: Free
CONTACT: Kim Brodkin, gender studies, 503 768-7678
Past Event
22 January through 15 March 2009
The broadest and most enterprising survey of its kind, reGeneration showcases the creativity, ingenuity, and inspiration of 50 up-and-coming photographic artists in more than 150 superb images. William A. Ewing, Nathalie Herschdorfer, and Jean-Christophe Blaser, curators at Musée de l’Elysée, selected the photographers from hundreds of candidates submitted by more than 60 of the world’s top photography schools. The panel’s choices were made with one key question in mind: are these images likely to be known in 20 years’ time? The results show that, as the new century builds momentum, the art of photography is alive and well, and that photographers of extraordinary talent are already making their mark.
Past Event
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 7 p.m.
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.
Past Event
Tuesday, 18 November 2008, 7 p.m.
John Grade will speak at 7:00 pm, in room 102, Miller Center for the Humanities.
“Grade is a master at transforming experience of place into material manifestation. Earlier work involved travel to far-flung places to see how different cultures celebrated and preserved life forms: the pyramids, funerary towers in Peru and burial mounds in Jordan near Petra. The resulting works captured mood without resorting to the representation of actual objects. His current body of work still requires the artist to travel, but his works have begun to get in on the act too, as Grade exhibits, displaces and re-positions his work in new, often radically different territory”. -Suzanne Beal, August 2008, Sculpture Magazine
John Grade is the recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Award (NY), A Pollock Krasner Foundation Award (NY), and a Tiffany Foundation Award (NY); his work has been featured and reviewed in Art in America, Sculpture, the Boston Globe, and on NPR’s All Things Considered and Studio 360.
Past Event
12 through 14 November 2008
This two-day event, bringing together leading academics from across the country, will focus on why people migrate, how it affects culture and identity, and the socio-political issues tied to migration. The annual Multicultural Symposium, in its fifth year, is designed to help the community explore the personal and public face of race, culture and ethnicity in a local, national, and global context.
Events will take place at various times, in different locations within Templeton Campus Center. Consult the symposium website for details.
Past Event
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 7 p.m.
Sue Taylor will speak at 7:00 pm, in room 102, Miller Center for the Humanities. The title of her talk is “Grant Wood, Truth and Lies.”
An art historian, curator, and critic, Sue Taylor received her B.A. in art history from Roosevelt University, and her M.A. and Ph.D., also in art history, from the University of Chicago. Before joining the faculty at Portland State University in Oregon, she served as Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and as Associate Curator at the David and Alfred Smart Museum at the University of Chicago.
Formerly a critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, Taylor is corresponding editor for Art in America and has published articles widely. With fellowships and grants a number of prestigious institutions, she has brought feminist and psychoanalytic insights to the art of Jackson Pollock, Eva Hesse, and numerous other modern artists. She is currently at work on a book on “Grant Wood beyond Regionalism.”
Past Event
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 7 p.m.
Heidi Preuss Grew will speak on October 23 at 7:00 pm, in room 102, Miller Center for the Humanities.
Grew’s sculptures combine animal and human imagery that straddle real and fictional worlds. Her works are often accompanied by large-scale drawings, wall installations, or porcelain paintings. Her figurative sculptures have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including in the Portland Art Museum, Contemporary Crafts Museum in Portland, the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin, the Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan, the Keramion Museum in Frechen, Germany, FuLe International Ceramic Museum in Fuping, China, and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague. Preuss Grew has participated in numerous international symposia and was honored in 2007 with election into the International Academy of Ceramics. She is presently an Associate Professor of Art at Willamette University and divides her time between Portland and Salem, Oregon.
Past Event
Thursday, 16 October 2008, 7 p.m.
Sam Gould, of Red76, will speak on October 16 at 7:00 pm, in room 102, Miller Center for the Humanities.
Begun in January of 2000 in Portland, Oregon, Red76 is the moniker for collaboratively based initiatives conceived, most often, by Sam Gould, and fleshed out by a group of like-minded folks, who include, or have included; Khris Soden, Zefrey Throwell, Paige Saez, Colin Beattie, Jen Rhoads, Laura Baldwin, Gabriel Mindel Saloman, and many others. Red76 has initiated projects, large and small, that have been realized in North America, and internationally. The guiding principle between many of these initiatives is the facilitation of discussion, thought and action within public space, as well as the examination of what that space can be, and where that space may reside at any given time.
Past Event
14 October through 7 December 2008
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.
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.
