Emerging | PCC Art Student Exhibition 25/26
Posted by Christine Weber
Collage of artwork (left to right, top to bottom): Mya Howard, America 2, 2025, acrylic paint, paint markers on canvas, 30 x 24”; Matthew Miller, Metaphysics Tango Club, 2026, watercolor on paper, foil, yarn, thread, glue, 6 x 8 x 8” expanded; Emerson Blackaby, 90 Minute Pose, 2025, charcoal on paper, 25.5 × 20”; Adalyn Aquino, Friends on the Mountain, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 17.5 × 16”; Ailie McGuire, Fade into Myself, 2026, digital photograph, 12 × 8.25”; Adam Paykin, Abstract Layers, 2026, acrylic on canvas, 20 × 20”; Palmer Anderson, Last Train Home, 2025, digital photograph, 9 x 14”; Kymberleigh Olivas, Homage to My Past, 2026, clay fire in cone 10 reduction, 11 x 6”; Sierra Vaughn, Heron, 2026, stoneware, cone 10 reduction, 9 x 12 x 10”.
- North View Gallery Exhibition Dates– May 13th – June 13th
- Opening Reception + Improv student performances: Wednesday, May 13, 12-1pm
- Award Ceremony and Reception: Saturday, June 13th, 12-2pm
- North View Gallery Guest Juror: C. Meier
- North View Gallery Hours:
- Monday – Friday, 8 – 4 pm,
- 1200 SW 49th, Portland, OR, 97219
- All events are free and open to the public.
- Please check the websites for the Paragon and Helzer Galleries for information about their student art exhibitions.
The North View Gallery is pleased to present our annual student art show — Emerging: PCC Art Student Exhibition 2025/2026, curated by guest juror C. Meier, artist and curator at Blue Sky Gallery.
Emerging features art made by students who have taken art classes across the PCC District and chose to have their work shown in the North View Gallery. At a time when the arts at PCC are experiencing cuts that are impacting equitable student access, our students are deepening their engagement with the arts and furthering their commitment to the education they deserve.
The works in this year’s art student exhibition are diverse in terms of medium, process, concept and narrative. Many students created projects that stretched themselves both technically and conceptually, with some taking multiple terms to complete their pieces. In a year when the arts and humanities continue to be devalued and underfunded, both federally and locally, the work emerging from PCC art studios stands as a testament to the resilience, ingenuity and passion of our students at Portland Community College.
Please join us in celebrating the many students who have taken art classes at PCC this past year and have had the courage to emerge as artists and share their voices with our community.
Funding for awards was generously provided by HARTS (The Humanities and Arts Initiative) along with the Art Student Supplies Fund through the I Heart Art project and the Associated Students of Portland Community College (ASPCC).
About the Guest Juror:
C. Meier is a non-binary artist and curator based in Portland, OR. Their art practice explores materiality, reveling in the hybridization of processes including drawing and photographic methods. They earned their MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago (2017) and BFA in Studio Art from Pacific Lutheran University (2004). Meier has exhibited at Solas Gallery, Hyde Park Art Center, Mana Contemporary (Chicago), Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Filter Space, The Neon Heater, among others, and their work is part of the Permanent Collection of Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA). Meier co-curated the 2017 exhibition re:collection at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (MoCP), and curated the 2023 exhibition Size Matters for Medium Photo, San Diego. Professional roles include Curatorial Assistant (2015-2017) and Collections Manager/ Registrar (2018-2020) at the MoCP, Studio Assistant to Barbara Kasten (2019-2020), and Exhibitions Director (2021 – current), at Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts.