Events - Cascade Campus

Cascade Campus

Located at 705 N. Killingsworth St., the Cascade Campus has a small campus atmosphere in a diverse urban neighborhood in the heart of Portland.

Weeklong Events

Cascade Student Cyber Art Show

May 7-11, Fourth 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:

Multimedia Student Showcase

May 7-11, 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.

20th Anniversary Art Beat Show

May 7-11, Terrell Hall 102

Come and see what Art Beat has acquired over the last twenty years! For the first time, all of this wonderful art appears together. This show began at Rock Creek in February, moved to Sylvania, and culminates at Cascade for the Grand Celebration of Portland Community College's Art Beat 2007. It will remain on display throughout the month of May. You can view images from the exhibit online, but you really need to see them in person.

Monday, May 7

Art Beat Opening Reception — Celebrating 20 Years of Art Beat

12 noon-1pm, Outdoors Park between SSB and MAHB

Join us as P.C.C. President Pulliams officially opens the 20th annual P.C.C. Art Beat and accepts this year's art from its creator, Mylan Rakich. Allen Jones and Gene Smith, from Cascade's Professional Music Program, provide music for the event. Refreshments will be served.

David Eckard — Slide Lecture

1:30pm-2:30pm, MAHB 109

Artist, performer and educator David Eckard discusses his creative practice. Through objects, drawings, installations and performative interventions, Eckard investigates conditions of masculinity, endurance, authority and absurdity.

Chandra Bocci — Slide Lecture

3pm-4pm, MAHB 104

Chandra Bocci builds large-scale installations that explore notions of fantasy, spectacle and consumer culture. Her work includes giant rainbows constructed of Otter Pops, yellow brick roads made of mustard packets and forest fires of celebrity hair. Her Gummi Big Bang was featured in the Portland Art Museum's 2006 Oregon Biennial. Bocci attended Pacific Northwest College of Art and has exhibited in New York, Boston, Oakland and Portland.

Betty LaDuke — Slide Lecture

6pm-7pm, MAHB 104

Betty LaDuke shares how her recent cultural explorations in Latin America, Asia, and Africa have inspired her large acrylic paintings and etchings. Visiting Heifer International sites in such places as Rwanda, Cambodia, and Kosovo have led her to a new exhibit and theme: Dreaming Cows. Her current paintings reflect issues of hunger, sustainable environments, wars and reconciliation…and that the glass is half-full.

Tuesday, May 8

Jan Underwood — Literary Reading

11:30am-12:30pm, Cascade Library 106

Portland novelist and PCC faculty member Jan Underwood, author of last year's prize-winning Day Shift Werewolf, returns to Art Beat to read from a novel-in-progress; Heartless is a satirical murder mystery set on a college campus. When a Latin professor turns up in pieces, the campus is rife with suspects. Was it a union-bustingamnistrator? A jealous colleague? Or a student driven to violence by the treacheries of Latin syntax?

  • Jan Underwood will also be at Rock Creek on Wednesday.

Reggie Houston's Box of Chocolates — Music Performance

12 noon-1pm, Cascade Dining Center

Led by world-renowned saxophonist and Fats Domino alumnus, Reggie Houston, along with Turtle Vandemarr and Tim Acott, Reggie Houston's Box of Chocolates alternates between danceable New Orleans' jazz standards, traditional blues, original works, and rock-n-roll classics. As stated on his web site, "Reggie's music can transport any listener to a 2am Bourbon Street revelry and in the very next song draw tears from the eyes of the most stoic. […] He has the charm and charisma ofamdern day LouisAmtrong mingled with the pure and irresistible joy of a child. And when Reggie Houston lays down the funk, he lays it down on black satin sheets and makes it blush!"

Kurt Kemp — Printmaking Lecture & Demonstration

2pm-4pm, MAHB 223

Kurt Kemp's works have been exhibited throughout the world. His brightly colored images of surreal human and animal hybrids, made with truncated and mismatched limbs, are his expressions of human relationships with all their painful pitfalls and joys. Kemp describes his work as a cross between contemporary pop culture and late 19th century poetry-full of dark absurdity, twisted irony and a delight in the ridiculous. A professor at Sonoma State University (Sonoma, CA), Kurt Kemp's works have been exhibited in galleries such as Rosensteel Gallery (Phoenix, AZ), Hook Epstein Galleries (Houston, TX), Davidson Galleries (Seattle, WA) and Aurobora Press (San Francisco, CA).

Yussef El Guindi — Theater Performance and Discussion

4pm-5pm, MAHB 104

Arab-American playwright Yussef El Guindi lives and works in Seattle. His plays, Back of the Throat and Ten Acrobats in an Amazing Leap of Faith, have garnered awards and praise nationwide. This event will begin with a scene from Back of the Throat and be followed by a discussion between El Guindi and PCC Artistic Director Michael Najjar.

  • Co-sponsored by Sylvania Diversity Funds and the Multi-Cultural Center.
  • Yussef El Guindi will also be at Rock Creek on Monday and Sylvania on Tuesday.

Judy Goff — Theater Workshop

6:30pm-8:30pm, SC 303

Shakespeare up on your feet! A workshop that uses group exercises and techniques to explore Shakespeare's language through physicality and voice work. This workshop leads to a deeper understanding of Shakespearian text by making the language accessible and less intimidating.

  • Judy Goff will also be at Rock Creek on Tuesday.

Wednesday, May 9

Groupo Condor — Music Performance

12 noon-1pm, Cascade Dining Center

Grupo Condor's music isamlti-cultural blend of European, American, and African influences. From the traditional Andean favorites to their original compositions, their arrangements are lively and enticing.

Roxanne Jackson — Slide Lecture

2pm-3pm, MAHB 108

Roxanne Jackson creates work that confronts the shadows of our unconscious through the grotesque, seeking beauty within the dreadful and macabre. Most of her sculptural pieces are animal forms; many have exposed tongues, fang-teeth and/or intestines. Jackson's work is gory and dark, but never ugly. In fact, her sculptures are strikingly poignant, even heart-warming.

Storm Tharp — Slide Lecture

3pm-4pm, MAHB 222

Join for Storm Tharp's slide presentation of studio practices from the past three years, including drawings, paintings, installations, sculptures and videos.

Premier Urban Poetry Reading

4pm-5pm, TH 112

Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you from where you hide (Peter Gabriel). Come and join the Cascade community as we share poetry and short fiction of conviction and hope.

Thursday, May 10

Mylan Rakich — Art Beat 2007 Featured Artist

10am-11am, MAHB 108

Mylan Rakich, a large-scale metal sculptor, discusses his approach to three-dimensional compositions in mild steel and how process and mediums can dictate an outcome. Come to Cascade, talk with the artist and see the piece he created for PCC's Art Beat!

DIY Lounge — Shrine Creation

2:30pm-4:30pm, TH 112

A combination of traditional craft, diy-politic and craft-activist kitsch, the DIY Lounge has been the place in Portland to explore your creative side since 2005. Join DIY Lounge's founder and lead-craftista Jenn Neitzel in a veritable bacchanalia of craft in a shrine-making workshop. Build a shrine to your best friend or sweetie, deify your dog or simply celebrate yourself with these tiny, glittering boxes filled with adoration. A little tacky yet very sweet, shrines are a great way to introduce yourself to the wide, wide world of Do-It-Yourself.

Shawn Records — Photography Lecture

3pm-4pm, MAHB 217

Shawn Records speaks about the evolution of his photography and the photography of others heamres. He addresses the question about why he loves photography and why he even bothers making photographs. Records received his MFA from Syracuse University (NY) and has shown locally at the Blue Sky Gallery, and Portland Art Museum, as well as at New York's Bronx River Arts Center and Jen Bekman Gallery. He has published in Double Take, Ripple, Portland Modern, and Photography Quarterly.

Friday, May 11

Al-Arwah — Music Performance

12 noon-1pm, Cascade Dining Center

Al-Arwah plays a variety of music from the Middle East, Turkey, North Africa, Iran andAmnia. They employ both authentic instruments of the region and western instruments that suit the exotic sounds of the genre. Come and join foramsical adventure to far off lands!