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Weeklong Events:
Cascade Campus Virtual Gallery—Third Annual
Student Exhibit Online
The annual showcasing of Student Artwork is
featured at the PCC Cascade Campus Virtual Gallery. Student artwork
includes painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, photography,
printmaking and more! The Virtual Gallery is designed and updated
courtesy of students of the Multimedia Program. Go online to:
http://spot.pcc.edu/cascadegallery/.
Cascade Student Art Exhibition—Terrell Hall 102
Please welcome our new campus gallery with its
grand opening exhibition. On display: Cascade student
artwork in various art media. Please refer to the on-going events
for details on the gallery reception.
Multimedia Student Showcase—North Lobby of MAHB
The PCC Multimedia department is proud to
present a premier exhibition showcasing student work using graphic
images, audio, video, interactive digital media and animation to
communicate ideas in entertainment, education, advertising and
marketing.
Student Mini-Mural Project—Art in Action
On-Going *Student Center Inner Street, East End
Painting in Action! Watch the paintings
evolve from start to finish throughout the week at the annual Student
Mini-Mural Project. This event focuses on large format paintings
on a variety of subject matter using diverse painting styles.
Come by often to see the individual student artist’s work emerge.
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Harold
Louis Johnson—Poetry Reading and Workshop
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. *Student Center 302
Johnson covers some of the basic
considerations in the writing of poems while practicing a form — the
ghazal — that is useful for daily practice. The ghazal entered
American poetry from the Urdu language and has been employed by many
accomplished poets, including Adrienne Rich, William Stafford, W.S.
Merwin, Jim Harrison and Mark Strand. If you are willing to move
your pen, you will have no difficulty getting into this form.
Mary
Kadderly—Music Performance
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. *MAHB 104
Singer/songwriter Mary Kadderly performs
songs from her top selling CDs Lucky
Me and I Go Zoom
as well as
other jazz and pop classics. Her intricate songwriting and
lyrical mastery have inspired Marty Hughley of The Oregonian to write,
“Mary Kadderly’s voice floats like a lovely silken cloud.”
Cascade Student Art Opening
1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. *Terrell Hall 102
Please come to the Grand Opening Reception of the Cascade Campus
Gallery and enjoy the student artwork. Light snacks
provided.
Anya Coxworth—Slide Lecture
2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. *MAHB 222
Portland artist Anya Coxworth discusses her
use of vibrant color and texture in her attempts to bring emotion and
honesty to her portraits, landscapes and comic paintings.
Grace Weston—Photography
Lecture
6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. *MAHB 104
Presenting “The Lie that Tells the Truth,” Weston addresses “staged
photography,” the genre in which she works, as well as an overview of
her artwork and the work of other photographers who also create and
construct illusions for the camera.
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Boka Marimba—Music Performance
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. *Student Center Cafeteria, NW Corner
A ten-member dance band, Boka Marimba plays
exhilarating, energetic music from Zimbabwe and other areas of
southeastern Africa. Much is in Shona style: melodic themes
and variations layered in polyrhythmic, cyclic patterns.
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Ronna
Neuenschwander—Slide Lecture
10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. *MAHB 108
Nationally recognized Portland sculptor Ronna
Neuenschwander presents a slide show covering her thirty years of art
making. Her presentation also highlights her over twenty years of
journeys to West Africa, which have inspired her artwork and her life.
Head for the Hills
Blue Grass Band
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. *Student Center Cafeteria, NW Corner
Head for the Hills combines hard-drivin’
bluegrass with soulful singing. While maintaining a respect and
reverence for the tradition, this group attacks the music with a
youthful exuberance that spills over into the audience.
Joanna Priestley—Film
Animation Presentation
6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. *MAHB 104
Joanna Priestley presents a visual treat:
a program of her award-winning, animated short films. Priestley
has produced and directed 17 films and has had retrospectives of her
work at, among others, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles’s
American Cinmeatheque and Poland’s Warsaw Center for Contemporary Art.
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Pam Gibson—Performance Art Slides & Talk
10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. *MAHB 104 Auditorium
Your parents said “Don’t play with your food,”
but forget them.
Consider sculpting with mashed potatoes or covering your body with
melted chocolate and using it as a printing plate! Gibson talks
about food and art, from her early experiments with Velveeta and Jello
through the personal evolution of her body prints.
Victoria
Christen—Ceramics Workshop
10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. * MAHB 108
Often bright and playful, Victoria Christen’s
pottery celebrates food and life by elevating the event of
eating. She incorporates whimsical decoration with her loose
wheel-throwing. Join us for this slide talk and demonstration.
Victoria Christen is presenting at Southeast Center on Tuesday.
Jan Underwood—Literary Reading
2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. *Student Center 204
A werewolf so bad at moonlight hunting that they
put him on the day
shift; a mummy suffering from claustrophobia; a demon with a hidden
human.... These and other monsters with identity crises are the
subject of the darkly comic Day
Shift Werewolf by Portland novelist and PCC instructor Jan
Underwood.
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