Events - Sylvania Campus

Sylvania Campus

Located at 12000 SW 49th Ave., the Sylvania Campus is PCC's largest campus, on a beautiful wooded hillside, between Tigard and Lake Oswego.

Weeklong Events

Sylvania Art Students' Annual Exhibition

8am-4pm daily *North View Gallery CT 214

Stop by the North View Gallery to see the exciting new work of 2006-2007 PCC-Sylvania art students.

Sylvania Art Students' Mural Project

Outside the CC Building Facing the Plaza

Sylvania's student Art Club will be painting and completing a large-scale mural during Art Beat week. The finished work is slated for long-term installation in the Community Center building onamjestic wall overlooking the registration area. Come by and watch the process; if you're interested, you might even pick up a brush and help paint. The final work will feature a complex maze symbolizing the sometimes difficult and circuitous path that leads to receiving one's education.

International Food Fair

11am-2pm Daily *Performing Arts Center Courtyard

International food vendors provide a delicious accompaniment to the festivities.

Monday, May 7

Sylvia Gray and ChristyAnne Hamilton — Music Performance

10am-11am, Performing Arts Center

Many know that Mozart was a prodigy at age four, but only a few realize that Amy Beach was also composing the first time she laid her finger on the piano…at age four! Learn about one of America's leading composers in a story/recital recounting her life.

Sylvia Gray teaches history at PCC while continuing her lifelong interest in piano. She has recently been selected to participate in the Van Cliburn Fifth International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amatures. ChristyAnne has her Master of Music in Vocal Performance from Portland State University. They have given a number of well-received performances on the lives of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Amy Beach, most recently at the College of Du Page in Chicago and as a fundraiser for Portland's Classical radio station, KBPS.

Bill Moore — Sculpting Lecture and Demonstration

11am-12 noon, Little Theatre | 12 noon-1pm, CT 133

Noted Northwest artist and Pacific Northwest College of Art Professor William Moore discusses his sculpture in an illustrated slide lecture. Moore's exquisitely crafted work explores the possibilities of combinations of spun metal and lathe-turned wood forms, resulting in wonderfully organic, evolving shapes. A demonstration of his woodworking technique will follow his talk.

Grupo Condor — Music Performance

12 noon-1pm, Performing Arts Center Foyer

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.

Student Reading

1pm-2pm, Little Theatre

This always popular Art Beat event showcases PCC Sylvania creative writers reading from their poetry, fiction, and essays.

Student Film Screening

2pm-3pm, Little Theatre

For the first time at Sylvania's Art Beat, PCC students exhibit their film. Come and see what they've created at this screening of original works.

Tuesday, May 8

Papier Couture — Presentation and Exhibition

10am-11:30am, Performing Arts Center Foyer

Created by Lia Griffith and Sean Moran, Papier Couture is a fusion of fashion, graphic design and three-dimensional paper art. Abundance. Passion. Freedom. Peace. Creativity. Wisdom. Illumination. Utilizing designed and cut prints to form carefully constructed paper dresses, Lia's creations offer an exhilarating new look at inspiration, innuendo, surprise and delight. "This collection," she states, "gives me the opportunity to push the edges of fashion, blending costume and couture with the unexpected medium of paper to create a new form of expression."

Faculty Reading

11am-12 noon, Little Theatre

You know them as instructors - Maria Caruso, Bryan Hull, Ron Ross, and Ann Selby. Now discover what they create! Come and enjoy as popular PCC faculty members read from their work.

Point Juncture, WA — Music Performance

12 noon-1pm, Performing Arts Center Foyer

CD Baby says this about Point Juncture, WA: "Mixing in a little prog, a little emo, this insanely creative, slightly dissonant mathy rock outfit has a way of drawing you deeper into their emotional landscape with each track." Come and hear for yourself! http://www.puddlegum.net/point-juncture-wa-heart-elk

Kathrine Ace — Painting Lecture and Demonstration

12 noon-1pm, Little Theatre | 1pm-2pm, CT 230

Portland artist Katherine Ace builds on the painting legacies of the old masters and contemporary artists in her multi-layered surfaces infused with painted imagery and found objects. Ace mirrors the seen and unseen world through the exploration of extremities. Highly personal dialogues become universal themes to be investigated within the context of the viewers' own personal narratives.

Yussef El Guindi — Theater Performance and Discussion

1pm-2pm, Little Theatre

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 has 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 Cascade on Tuesday.

Wednesday, May 9

Sylvania Campus Art Beat Reception

10am-11:30am, Performing Arts Center Foyer

Hosted by the Sylvania Traditions, Ritual, and Fun (TRF) Committee, the Art Beat Reception includesamsical performance with Dan Hays, Julianne Johnson, John Mery, David Stout, and Jane Zunkel. PCC President Preston Pulliams opens the reception and Sylvania President Linda Gerber presents student art and music awards. Refreshments will be served.

Solo Flamenco — Flamenco Dance Performance

12 noon-1pm, Performing Arts Center Foyer

Portland-based dance and music group Solo Flamenco presents a vibrant performance of Spain's national dance form: Flamenco. Come see and hear these artists present the passion and fire of flamenco. The concert includes dancers, vocalists and instrumentalists.

Jennifer Hill — Ceramics Demonstration

12 noon-2pm, CT 119

Ceramics artist Jennifer Hill demonstrates hand-building techniques of her botanically inspired sculptural forms. Using images from a body of work entitled From Cornfield to Catwalk, Hill will show slides of sprouting onions and tendriled teapots, then break down the process of creating the work.

  • Jennifer Hill will also be at Southeast on Monday.

Joseph Millar — Poetry Reading

1pm-2pm, Little Theatre

Millar's poems come out of the American landscape like runaway diesel trucks loaded with miners, electricians, waitresses, ditch diggers, mechanics, the homeless, the hopeless, and the lost: voices poetry has classically ignored.

Emily Ginsberg — Slide Lecture

1pm-2pm, CT 212

Emily Ginsberg's work explores the relationship between physical, spoken and written evidence of behavioral patterns in the context of the everyday. She utilizes a broad range of media from work on paper to objects, critical presentations of multiples and interactive pieces involving video and sound. There is an emphasis on the idiosyncratic and the vernacular asamans to reflect on individual experience as collective experience.

Mylan Rakich — Art Beat 2007 Featured Artist

2pm-3pm, Little Theatre

Mylan Rakich, a large-scale metal sculptor, discusses his approach to 3-dimensional compositions in mild steel and how process and mediums can dictate an outcome.

Thursday, May 10

Graphic Design Panel — Discussion

9am-10am, CT 109

PCC graphic design alumni visit the campus to discuss life after their graphic design education: real-world challenges and entry-level graphics.

Student Composers — Music Performance

10am-11am, PAC Foyer

Come and listen to the audio exhibition of the award winners and other student works submitted to the Art Beat 2007 student composition competition.

Jeff Fisher — Graphic Design Speaker

10am-11am, Little Theatre

Jeff Fisher, presents logo design examples, his design process and anecdotes about his work for arts organizations. Author of The Savvy Designer's Guide to Success and the upcoming Identity Crisis!, Fisher has received over 550 regional, national and international graphic design awards for his logo and corporate identity efforts.

Charles D'Ambrosio — Literary Reading

11am-12 noon, Little Theatre

Essayist and short story writer Charles D'Ambrosio's works have been published regularly in The New Yorker have appeared in The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, and A Public Space. His first story collection, The Point, was a finalist for the Pen/Hemmingway Award.

DIY Lounge — Shrine Creating

11am-1pm, Performing Arts Center Courtyard

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.

Xevi Nova — Music Performance

12 noon-1pm, Performing Arts Center Foyer

Xevi Nova plays Brazilian music, infusing elements of Ska, Reggae and other world influences into a diverse collection of popular and original songs.

Kurt Kemp — Printmaking Lecture and Demonstration

12 noon-1pm, Little Theatre | 1pm-2pm, CT 125

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).

Giovanna Chesler — Film Presentation and Discussion

1pm-2:30pm, Little Theatre

What is healthy and normal? What is female and private? What is natural? Period: the End of Menstruation? addresses these complex questions. Director and Producer of internationally exhibited documentary and narrative films, including BeauteouS: The Trilogy, an examination of women and beauty, Bust Magazine finds that, "Chelser offers a dialogue here that is relentlessly intelligent, ecumenical, and profoundly sensitive to the varying perspectives of women and girls who must ultimately make their own menstrual choices." Join us for a screening as well as a discussion with its creator Giovanna Chesler about content and art in documentaries.

Friday, May 11

Swanwhite — Theater Performance

12 noon-2pm, Performing Arts Center

August Strindberg's play Swanwhite is a beautiful drama about a young princess, her evil stepmother, and the prince she loves. The play transforms the traditional fairy tale and shows, as Strindberg writes, "you can love, you can forgive, and so, you can do anything!"