Lisa Jarrett is an artist and educator. She is Associate Professor of Community and Context Arts at Portland State University’s School of Art + Design. She is co-founder and co-director of KSMoCA (Dr MLK Jr School Museum of Contemporary Art) and the Harriet Tubman Middle School Center for Expanded Curatorial Practice in NE Portland, OR, […]
Nathan Meltz uses printmaking, animation, sculpture, and performance to comment on the infiltration of technology into every facet of life, from politics and food, to family and war. His solo exhibitions include Southern Illinois University’s Vergette Gallery, GRIDSPACE (NYC), the University of Florida – Jacksonville’s Andrew Brest Gallery and Noise Gallery (OH). Meltz is a […]
April 6, 2022 at 4:30pm in ART 158 In this lecture, Daniel C. Blight will discuss the relationship between photography and racial whiteness. Despite the history and theory of photography’s critical turn to questions of colonialism, imperialism and race, these important discourses have left the visual logic of racial whiteness largely unexamined. Drawing on research […]
Charo Oquet is a Dominican born, Miami based, interdisciplinary artist. Charo Oquet’s wide-reaching practice includes performance, sculpture, installation, painting, fashion, video and photography. She has exhibited, performed, curated and lectured around the world since 1981. Oquet has received numerous awards and Artist Fellowships. She is known for her dynamic installations, which incorporate idioms of popular […]
Emily Eliza Scott is an interdisciplinary scholar, artist, and former park ranger focused on contemporary art and design practices that engage pressing (political) ecological issues, often with the intent to actively transform real-world conditions. Currently a joint professor in the History of Art and Architecture & Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon. She holds […]
Wuon-Gean Ho was born in Oxford, UK, and graduated with a BA in History of Art from Cambridge University, before taking up a Japanese Government Scholarship in 1998 to focus on woodblock printmaking in Japan. She later studied MA Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, graduating with a distinction in 2016, and then was […]
Peter Pinnell earned a BFA in art at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University (Alfred, NY) and an MFA in Art from the University of Colorado at Boulder. For the first 12 years of his career Pinnell made his living as a studio potter. Since 1995 he has been a faculty […]
Angela Washko is an artist who creates new forums for discussions about feminism in spaces frequently hostile towards it. Her practice spans interventions in virtual environments, performance art, media installation, documentary film, and video games. A recipient of the Creative Capital Award, Impact Award at Indiecade, and the Franklin Furnace Performance Fund, Washko's practice has […]
Leo Espinosa is an award-winning illustrator and designer from Bogotá, Colombia, whose work has been featured internationally in a variety of publications, products, animated series and gallery shows. His short list includes The New Yorker, The BBC, Random House, Chronicle Books, Swatch and Facebook. In 2019, Leo received the Pura Belpré Honor Book for Islandborn, […]
Due to the weather, the talk has been postponed until Thursday, February 23rd at 4:30 PM in ART 271. Stephen Berkman has been working with historical photographic process since the last century. His work is featured in numerous collections, including The Museum of Photographic Arts and Portland Art Museum. His work has been shown in […]
Manuscripts of Unusual Size: Big Data and Tiny Books Alexa Sand is Professor of Art History at Utah State University where she also serves as the Associate Vice President for Research. Her own research addresses the intersection of word and image in later medieval art in France, England, and Italy, with a focus on illuminating […]