9am - 5pm Monday-Friday, PCC Cascade Gallery, CA TH 102

See the wonderful new work created between Summer 2010 and Spring 2011 by PCC Cascade art students. Juror Jeffrey Butters, of Butters Gallery, will presents awards.

The Gallery is open 9am - 5pm, Monday-Friday.

Reception Thursday, May 12, 5:00-7:00. Awards given at 5:30.

11am - 12 noon, MAHB 222

Eric Stotik's minutely scaled and exquisitely rendered paintings touch simultaneously on arcane and contemporary realms of experience. With stylistic influences as diverse as Goya, Raphael, Hieronymus Bosch, Indian miniature painting, M.C. Escher, and the surrealists, Stotik crafts a singular and highly eccentric personal vision in his psychologically tinged, figurative work.

9am - 10am, MAHB 217

Art Beat's 2011 Featured Artist presents and discusses her works. A former faculty member at the Sylvania campus, Marie Watt has received much critical attention for her work including recent exhibitions in the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the Portland Art Museum, and the Aldrich Museum in New York. Working with carved cedar, cast bronze, collected wool blankets, Watt draws from indigenous design principles, oral traditions and personal experience to explore human stories and rituals implicit in the everyday things around us.

10am - 12 noon, , MAHB 109

Local artist Nik Arnold will provide a workshop and discussion about her wood-based artwork.

11am - 1pm, MAHB 217

Local artist Mitchell Freifeld is an oil painter known primarily for his semi-realist/modernist cityscapes of vibrant color, strong contrasts and unique perspective. Much of his work is inspired by settings and buildings here in Portland. Today, Freifeld presents and discusses his art.

Of his inspiration, Freifeld says, "My interest is in the everyday places; the places and paths that make up the fabric of our daily lives. Not the overtly dramatic, but the routine and ordinary that becomes lost to our curiosity through sheer familiarity. I try to take these places and paths and depict them in such a way that they might stir ones interest again; that they become places where we might pause and wonder about them again, maybe even loose ourselves in the contemplation of what might have happened, what might happen and what's happening there right now."

11am - 12 noon, , MAHB 217

Glazer reads her recent poems, primarily from her new collection, On Tact, & the Made Up World. She directs and teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing program at Portland State University.

5pm - 7pm, Cascade Gallery TH 102

5:30pm Award Ceremony

See the wonderful new work created between Summer 2010-Spring 2011 by PCC Cascade art students.  Before the student awards (5:30, given by special guest juror Jeffrey Butters of Butters’ Gallery), see the unveiling of Watt’s work composed of wool blankets, thread and silk.

7:30pm - 8:30pm, MAHB 222

Portland-based artist Grant Hottle gives a slide lecture on the topic of his recent solo show, So Domestic. So Domestic is a slice of a broad body of paintings and drawings that explore the shifting and ambivalent nature of the home.

2:30pm - 3:30pm, MAHB 222

Imonen presents a slide lecture and discusses artists' work relating to large-scale wood sculpture and public commissions.

6:30pm - 10pm, MAHB 104

When a headstrong filmmaker (Austin Hillebrecht) gets a lowly job at the worst film production house in town, he leads a disillusioned film crew into hijacking their company's latest movie, filming a better version behind the back of their overbearing director (Corey Brunish). Shot in Portland on a shoestring budget, Coup de Cinema is a moving and hilarious tale about dreams achieved by guerrilla tactics -- a heist comedy about the love of filmmaking.

This independent film was made by Portland filmmakers Sean Parker and Austin Hillebrecht and includes short films from Portland, and a Q&A with Parker, Hillebrecht and other cast and crew after the film

• 6:30pm - Experimental/Art Short Films block
  "Quantum Dreaming", Karen Landey -- more info at http://www.indieartsdvd.com/previews.html
  "Endommage", Kevin Forrest -- more info at http://www.k4production.com/
  "Imperfect Armor", Nancy J. Rodwan -- more info at http://poetryinpicturesseries.wordpress.com/
• 6:50pm - Short Film: "James Vs. Reality", Chris Wilson
  Watch the trailer here: http://www.vimeo.com/15135199
• 7:00pm - Q&A with Short Filmmakers
• 7:20pm - Feature: "Coup de Cinema", Sean Parker
  Watch the trailer here: http://vimeo.com/12247176
• 9:15pm - Q&A with Sean Parker

6pm - 8pm, MAHB 221

Kurtz leads participants in an interactive drawing workshop that activates the idea that drawing is no longer relegated to two dimensions. Drawing can and does include drawing connections between people, spaces, ideas, and disciplines.

Laurel Kurtz is a 2009 graduate of PSU's Art and Social Practice MFA program. Working primarily in sculpture, both physical and social, Kurtz's practice is often collaborative, working equally with artists and non-artists. She has made work for the 2008 Liverpool Capital of Culture, Elsewhere Artist's Collaborative NC, Apex Art NYC, Oregon's Percent for Art Program and the Portland Art Museum. Kurtz is currently launching the Wood Studio for Port City, a non-profit in North Portland and an initiative that she is developing with a colleague, Bill Harlow.

9am - 10am, MAHB 223 Update: Canceled

Myers observes and studies the ordered power in natural systems and organisms. Using this to inform her imagery she creates abstracted works of mixed media instillations, drawings and prints. Myers elaborates on her instillation work as well as her physical and intellectual artistic process.

• www.margotbmyers.com

9am - 10am, MAHB 108

Kate McDowell's porcelain sculptures respond to environmental threats and their consequences, revealing the rifts and frictions between man and nature. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.

• www.katemacdowell.com

11am - 1pm, SC 302

Floyd Skloot reads from his new work and conduct a master class on issues involved in being a writer, working in both fiction and nonfiction. Attendees will experience a genuine master class with an important regional writer.

11am - 12 noon, Outdoor Mall (weather permitting) Or NW Corner of Cafeteria

All elements Hip Hop jam! DJs, Graffiti artists, MCs, Bboys and Bgirls make up the four main elements of Hip Hop culture. Come share the experience with the Oregon Universal Zulu Nation as they bring it all together with the fifth element: Knowledge.

The Universal Zulu Nation (UZN) is a pioneering force that has been in effect since the inception of Hip Hop itself in 1974, and UZN continues to represent and innovate the genre while striving for worldwide peace, equality and empowerment. UZN will be performing at all three PCC campuses and at Southeast Center.

• www.oregonuniversal.org
• Myspace.com/uzn_oregon
• Oregon UZN on Facebook

6:30pm - 9:30pm, MAHB 104

Join for the Northwest premiere of Forge, a psychological thriller with science fiction elements in the tradition of Scanners. A man tries to save his reclusive scientist brother from slipping permanently into madness while struggling with the power of a stolen technology.

This Portland independent film cost $7500, and was shot in just twelve eight-hour days by recent grads of the Art Institute of Portland. Colin O'Neill, an instructor at AIP, wrote, produced and edited the movie. This 86 minute feature includes short films from Portland, and a Q&A with Colin O'Neill and other cast and crew after the film.

• 6:30pm - Short Film: "Perfect Companion", Laurie Slater & Jeffrey Winograd
  Watch the trailer here: http://www.perfectcompanionthemovie.com/
• 6:45pm - Short Film: "James Vs. Reality", Chris Wilson
  Watch the trailer here: http://www.vimeo.com/15135199
• 7:00pm - Q&A with Short Filmmakers
• 7:20pm - Feature: "FORGE", Colin O'Neill
  Watch the trailer here: http://vimeo.com/9620579
• 8:45pm - Q&A with Colin O'Neill

9am - 10am, MAHB 223

Nicole presents information about and images of viscosity printmaking, a technique that incorporates three colors printed simultaneously on one plate. Students will be introduced to carving into borco board, then printing intaglio and relief, experimenting with different viscosity inks and rollers.