The Applied Craft and Design Program is pleased to announce the Practicum Exhibition for the class of 2013. The exhibit encompasses two years of new ideas from 16 students who have been working in specific areas of study.
From weaving and product design, sculpture to skateboards, metal to wooden furniture and industrial modeled ceramic dinnerware sets, the MFA Graduate Practicum Exhibition has a lot to offer show goers / viewers.
The exhibit features work by MFA candidates Theresa Arrison, Camila Araya Perez, Amy Conway, Francesco Cupolo, Shannon Hauff, Daniel Jamieson, Tally Locke, Johanna Goodrich, Zeina Hamady, Molly McKeown, Meghan Morris, Kyla Mucci, Zachary Pollock, Coren Rau, Eric Trine, and Joshua Unterman.

About MFA Applied Craft and Design Program
Connecting design thinking to design doing, Oregon College of Art and Craft and Pacific Northwest College of Art have collaborated to create a unique MFA Program grounded in hands-on making, entrepreneurial strategies, and social and environmental engagement. Combining a mentor-based approach with an exceptional visiting artists program, students work one-on-one with nationally and internationally recognized designers, makers, and scholars in a self-directed curriculum that challenges them to bring to life the full strength of their ideas and skills. For more information, visit http://ocac.edu/acd or http://acd.pnca.edu/ .

THIS FRIDAY
404 SE 6th ave
6:30-9:30

The clock is ticking and we are counting down the days until the final MFA AC+D Practicum exhibition this FRIDAY!

Currently, you can get a sneak peek of the show and hear the MFA AC+D students defend their work at the show space, 404 SE 6th Ave.

ORAL DEFENSE SCHEDULE:

Sunday, May 12th
4pm | Eric Trine | Left Coast Craft Vibes Eric is at the forefront of an emerging group of makers who are redefining what the look and feel of craft is for the coming generations. His project, manifested through the design and production of furniture, is an investigation into the style and craft of objects with regards to meaning making and identity formation – and how that all plays out through social media as much as it does in real life.

Monday, May 13th
9am | Zachary Pollock | Tough Break: Evolving Skateboarding Through Utility Through redefining the geometry and functionality of a prototypical skateboard, Tough Break aims to change the way in which we interact with skateboards. Durable and sustainable materials are combined with storage compartments, technological enhancements, and safety features to elevate the skateboard from an object that carries us to an object in which we can transport our lives.

11am |Shannon Hauff | Designed to Challenge: Exploring a New Role for Domestic Utilitarian Design Designed To Challenge questions the domestic space we have curated for ourselves. Rather than designing objects that seamlessly integrate into the user’s routine, I have created several pieces that challenge our assumptions of how we interact within our domestic space.

2pm | Kyla Mucci |Pastoral: Growing a regional clothing collection from sheep to shoulder Following the process from start to finish, this project researches and reveals the viability of making sustainable wool garments in the Northwest region of the US.  Through design and community engagement, Pastoral seeks to present garments that educate consumers and makers.

4pm | Theresa Arrison | Cast and Crafted Cast and Crafted is as a formal exploration of the intersection of industrial and craft practices in functional ceramics.  By incorporating traditional technique and contemporary methods of mass production I am creating a visual language that honors the rich history of ceramics while harnessing the efficiency and repeatability of slip casting.

Tuesday, May 14th
8:30am | Johanna Goodrich | Articles of Transportation: Versatile Bag Design Catered to Professional, Casual, and Bike Commuter Environments – Merging fashion with utility, and natural with synthetic fabrics, this project aims to design an ideal urban “everywhere bag” that ultimately provides comfort, confidence, and a sense of belonging to those who are constantly on the move and in a variety of social, occupational, and transitional situations.

11am | Amy Conway | Home: (an excavation) 1984-1989 I am investigating the home as it relates to memories, looking at how the shape of memories fit into the shape of the spaces we inhabit. This project is about the home as a container for memories with my home and my memories serving as an example. The home acts as an idea, a symbol, a metaphor and a physical space within which I can explore my own past.

2pm | Tally Locke | Around the Table: An Investigation of Generative Design and Collaborative Making This project envisions and activates a holistic approach to design and craft process. Through an apprenticeship model, Around the Table empowers would-be consumers as makers and facilitates unforeseen connections to material, environment and community.

4pm | Dan Jamieson | Waste Management By making use of what has been left to waste, I have created a series of objects and images that honor human resourcefulness and challenge how we view the world around us.

Wednesday, May 15th
9am | Coren Rau | Seam Oblique Crossing is a spatial intervention that rejects the assumption that the territories on either side of a barrier are separate. The wall, ordinarily a mechanism of separation, is reincarnated as a tool for conjunction, reconciliation, and repair. Using queerness as a tool for  investigating questions of orientation and connection, Seam makes a physical, spatial assertion that our differences are the things we have in common, and the locations where our lives deviate from a linear path are the places where our experiences intersect.

11am | Zeina Hamady | Bon Voyage: An Accumulation, Examination, Unification and Oral Retelling of Eleven Stories of Leaving & Being Left
Using myself and an H2 sound recorder, I have gathered, stored, and analyzed eleven unrelated stories of leaving home from eleven unrelated and anonymous sources in Portland, OR. In examining these stories – in orally telling and retelling them – I was able to imagine and present a place in which a blacksmith, a soldier, a traitor, her husband, a poet, a refugee, a vizier’s daughter, a storyteller, a historian, a traveler, a chantress, an adventurer, and a mother (none of whom have met each other) are profoundly intertwined. Using those characters and their overlaps, fiction and non-fiction, I hope to tell a universal story of displacement.
2pm | Meghan Morris | Ineluctable Expulsion: Unity with Nature through Constant Transition Awareness of the cyclical movement of the organic world brings peace through realizing our oneness with nature.  As a plant evolves in form instinctually and constantly, humans create from a nameless place, and our transition is omnipresent.  Viscerally moved by moments of visually explicit metamorphosis in the world of plants, a body of sculptural and two dimensional work is made intuitively, reflecting the unity of human and nature through the lens of perpetual change.
4pm | Camila Dorsey | A Taste Of Home, Patty’s Chili Coming from another country has made me experience how is to feel displaced, and to search for the sense of family and community I knew in Chile. This sense has motivated me to seek out others who are similarly displaced, and invite them to create a new meaning for home. The importance of food and eating together is the theme I use to create a warm encounter and dialogue with my audience.

Thursday, May 16th
9 Joshua Unterman | Cobbled: Just Like You The story behind a specific and custom pair of shoes.  The background and development of a very bespoke pair of SAFOS shoes.  A process that combines a medical grade Ankle Foot Orthotic and an off the shelf boot from Sears.  

11am | Molly McKeown |Damage
We describe our personal experiences of different states of damage through metaphor – e.g. burnt, let down, shot, crushed, defiled, degraded, and beaten. These surrogate metal boxes have each been literally subjected to one of these forms of damage. Juxtaposed with this work is a small book of traditional short essays. I’ll Try.

2pm | Francesco Cupolo | Activating Creative Agency Engaging in making reveals the talents present in any audience for self-direction, decision-making, and problem-solving. This project consults the power of playful experiences in actualizing individual potential.

421 NE 10th ave
6-9 pm
(images by Brian Hutsebout) — at The Bison Building.

MAY 8TH 6-9 PM
BISON BUILDING – 421 NE 10TH
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Camila Dorsey, AC+D ’13, is opening a donation based food cart for the next two days:
May 3rd at PNCA & May 4th at Jameson Square Park.
The food: Patty’s Chili.
This is part of Camila’s MFA Practicum project.
Stop by, Hear the Story, and of course, get a delicious lunch!

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The Story:

A Taste of Home is an ongoing collaboration with Patricia Green. Patricia and I first met at Jean’s Place from Transitional Projects, a nonprofit organization that provides temporary shelter for women experiencing homelessness in Portland. After months of volunteering in the computer lab at this shelter, I offered a Printmaking workshop in woodcarving. I wanted to invite the women to compose and carve images to visually communicate a positive memory in their lives — a memory specifically related to a recipe. I started with a list of fifteen women wanting to participate, and ended up with just one: Patricia Green.

This project comes from a feeling of displacement I have experienced since I moved from Chile to the United States. I found myself seeking people and communities experiencing something similar. Due to different circumstances, many of us leave our homes in search for new opportunities. It certainly is not easy when past experiences darken our vision and dreams for the future.

Patty and I worked together for three months creating a visual image that communicates a comforting recipe and memory in her life. Her recipe is Chili which is the recipe that her mother used on very cold and snowy days in Roseburg, Oregon. To Patricia it represents some of the most wonderful moments in her childhood with her mother. She always cooked for a family of eleven, using ingredients harvested in the backyard during the summer. This recipe was not only a great for the palate, it was also the way to warm the hands of nine children after an afternoon playing in the snow. The delicious Chili was served on a large table which Patricia’s uncle had made for this large family. It was accompanied by bread, butter and warm conversation, according to Patty, in the absence of televisions and cell phones. Patty chose to capture that memory in her composition, and we had many conversations while she was carving. We talked about her past—how she came to experience homelessness and how it feels now to be making her way off of the streets. The conversations ranged from raw and disturbing situations to stories of pride and personal growth. Our conversations have taught me that the women at Jean’s Place are both seeking refuge and continuously striving for a better life.

The printmaking workshop allowed us to build a relationship of trust and friendship which not only resulted in a print, but also built an intangible space that started feeling like home. Through collaboration, working with our hands, and having discussions aimed at sharing and not judging. As this first collaboration comes to an end, I feel the need to continue developing this project and give more women in this shelter a new way to see and feel the home that they still cannot find. So I share Patty’s Chili and what we have done together to celebrate her memories, recipe and artwork.

MFA AC+D’s Molly Mckeown has an opening tonight as part of Portland’s First Thursday! The show will be held at PNCA’s Lodge Gallery at Allied Works. It will feature a collection of metal art that Molly has made over the course of her time in graduate school

Come see Molly’s work TONIGHT
Opening Reception 5-8pm
Allied Works – 1532 SW Morrison

Jack Sanders, who has become a principle part of the MFA in Applied Craft + Design yearly Design Build Project, was featured in yesterday’s New York Times. The article Lessons in How to Play With Fire goes from Jack’s history with Sam Mockbee and Rural Studio, to his company Design Build Adventure all the way up to his current project working with students at an adventure camp.

(image from NYT webpage)

For the past two summers Jack has left his work in the South and migrated up to Portland with friend Butch Anthony to lead the MFA AC+D Design Build. He has shared experiences, stories, and even boots! The ideals around the Design Build process have become embedded in the AC+D culture since the first days of the program. It is how the students being their experience in the graduate program, and it is revisited time and time again. Follow the links below to read the full article.

(image of AC+D 2013 Design Build)

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New York Times Article

Butch Anthony

Rural Studio

The Surface Design Association’s (SDA) Creative Promise Award recognizes excellence in a body of work. It is awarded only once a year, and to only one graduate student. This year we are proud to announce, the award went to Kyla Mucci (MFA AC+D ’13).

Mucci’s practicum project entitled, Pastoral: Growing a regional clothing collection from sheep to shoulder features hand sourced, dyed, and woven textiles with which she collaborates with local designers. Designers include, Adam Arnold, Michael Cepress and Amanda Melbostad.

In an SDA feature article Mucci says, “ My aspiration is to present beautiful garments that educate consumers and makers. This project contributes to the reshaping of the textiles industry toward more transparent and local methods of production.” Follow the links below to read the full article.

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Adam Arnold
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Kanaan Kanaan, MFA AC+D Practicum Committee Member, has curated a group exhibition From the Atlantic to the Gulf at the North Bank Artists Gallery in Vancouver, WA. Among the 11 artists featured in the show is Zeina Hamady, AC+D ’13. The work will be on display from May 3-31 with an opening reception on Friday May 3rd from 5-9.

Opening Reception First Friday, May 3rd 5-9pm
North Bank Artists Gallery
1005 Main St. Vancouver, WA
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Zeina Hamady
North Bank Artists Gallery

Christina Conant, MFA AC+D ’11 and Leland Iron Works liaison, recently wrote a piece on the MFA AC+D 2013 Spring Break Design Build out in Oregon City. In it she describes in detail the experience, challenges and discoveries that come with the design build process. Special Thanks to Christina for taking such a great part in the Spring Break!

“Our first lunch: Butternut Soup, Arugula Salad and Buttermilk Biscuits

After lunch we discussed logistics on the porch and then we showed the students the variety of materials we had procured for the build. Some of the materials such as cedar boards had been purchased in anticpation of building a wood-fired hot tub. This project proved to be a technically challenging and design limited option in the 3 days we had to complete it. We also had 4 old large windows which had been used in the large studio space but recently replaced, a large pallet and corrugated tin roofing. But on Lee’s property there also other kinds of discards. Special odds and ends tucked next to buildings, in the woods or under the pine needles. The students found a beautiful sculpture of Lee’s it was weathered and rusting, a geometric quilted pattern in the shape of a woman’s torso. They hoped this could selve as a tailsman near the entrance to the structure. “


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MFA AC+D just adopted a Circle and Oval Mat Cutter from the Portland Art Museum. Special thanks to Noelle McClure and Palmarin Merges.

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Recently in UNTITLED magazine MFA AC+D ’11 Ali Gradischer wrote about her time at the Nes Artist Residency in Iceland and her shifting perception of what a bowl is. In her piece, called _ Attacks of Nostalgia_ Ali says,

“In the beginning, I never thought to consider this container as a bowl. The term seemed too grand for this utterly banal object. But during my two-month residency at Nes, as I used that bowl every day, I gradually grew attached it. The deep blue marks left behind on the bowl’s inside wall by my cyanotype chemicals fascinated me. I soon began to actively look at the shapes, colors, and textures left from the previous day’s work on the interior sides and bottom.”

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Ali Gradischer
Nes Artist Residency

MFA AC+D first year, Gopika Dahanukar, is leading a Vedic Chanting Workshop at the New Renaissance Bookshop on Sunday the 21st of April from 1:30-4:30 pm, for $30. According to the website, “This wonderful workshop introduces the chanting of Vedic mantras and the beautiful musical language of India. Participants will learn simple and profound mantras through an ancient technique that has been passed down unchanged for centuries and explore through collective singing the power of sound and its purifying influence.”

WHERE – New Renaissance Bookshop – 1338 NW 23rd Ave Portland, OR 97210
CONTACT- (503) 224-4929
WHEN – April 21st
COST – $30
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Gopkia Dahanukar
New Renaissance Bookshop

As part of the 2013 Spring Break several MFA AC+D students and alumni collaborated on a Design Build project in Oregon City. The project was led by three AC+D Alumni, Christina Conant ’11, Dave Boekelheide ’11, and Billy Rueck ’12. Why Oregon City? Since graduation, Conant has been working with Lee Kelly, local artist and sculptor who has a studio and land there. During her time working with Lee, Christina has been working on developing Kelly’s vast property into a hub and retreat for the Portland creative community.

For the spring break project, AC+D alums and students worked together to build a sweat lodge. This project, which has been in the works for months, has taken several turns. Originally planned to be a wood fired hot tub, the design builders were faced with the typical design challenges that come with any project. How to responsibly source materials, preferably local or even repurposed, how to design a water tight, efficient and safe to use lodge, and how to build it in a very limited time.


But this is what they are here for. Problem solving. In just a few days they built, and used, a functional and aesthetically pleasing sweat lodge available for future visitors of the Kelly compound. Overall this design build adventure was a success. Like the one at the beginning of the MFA AC+D program it helped people to foster new relationships, learn new skills, and take part in an experience to be proud of.

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UNTITLED magazine feature article
Lee Kelly’s website

All photos by Wayne Bund

Jason Lee Starin MFA AC+D ’11 is featured in the newest American Craft Magazine, The Nature Issue. His written piece, in the Voices section, is focused around what we as makers can learn from nature. According to Starin, “The notion of material has also been rendered digital, reducing the visceral connection to our physical surroundings.”

Starin is a ceramicist and maker working in Portland, Or. The artist statement on his website says, “I am interested in the dynamic between interpretation and intention during the act of making with clay, a medium that inherently possess parallax states of being as it changes from soft and malleable to hard and permanent. I find these active moments in making similar to the process of experimentation, creating a push and pull tension between the desires of play and control.” To learn more, and read the article, follow the links below.

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American Craft Magazine

MFA AC+D’s Eric Trine ’13 has a solo show, Altars to the Unknown opening tomorrow at the Nisus Gallery.

Trine, and his show was recently featured on OPB.

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Zeina Hamady, MFA AC+D ’13 will be performing in tonight and tomorrow night in the play Bogeyman, by David Ritchie. This three person performance will be held at Portland’s Blackfish Gallery in the Pearl District. The cast includes David Brown, Zeina Hamady, and Robert Projansky.

According to the website this play is, “a tale of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, golf and Napoleon…

Readers Theatre Repertory was founded in 2001 to tell “small stories with big ideas at their heart,” tales that alternately amuse, confront, assuage and inspire. Using one-act plays as the text, the company focuses on intimate human relationships to explore universal themes. Through these stories and through educational outreach and affordable ticket prices, RTR™ is committed to developing, expanding and diversifying Portland’s theatrical audience”

WHAT: AN APRIL ORIGINAL
WHEN: Friday & Saturday April 12-13 8PM
WHERE: Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th Av., Portland 97209
HOW MUCH: $8.00
RESERVATIONS: 971.266.3787, info@readerstheatrerep.org

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Ceramicist and MFA Candidate Meghan Chalmers-McDonald was recently featured in online UNTITLED magazine. Her written piece, The Bowl, unfolds her philosophy on this complex object.

Here is a sample of her piece, “The bowl is the hand’s answer to the mind and body’s needs. Its raised walls contain and hold, while the open mouth is ready to give as well as to receive. This ready, open acceptance, containment, and presentation feeds the body, holding food and drink. It also feeds the soul, being a vessel for sharing and gathering. “

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Meghan Chalmers-McDonald
UNTITLED magazine

MFA in Applied Craft + Design Graduate Lecture Series Presents:

ALLYSON MITCHELL lecture
4.10.13
6:30pm
MFA AC+D STUDIOS
Bison Building 421 NE 10th Ave

Allyson Mitchell is a maximalist artist working predominantly in sculpture, installation and film. Since 1997, Mitchell has been melding feminism and pop culture to play with contemporary ideas about sexuality, autobiography, and the body, largely through the use of reclaimed textile and abandoned craft. Her work has exhibited in galleries and festivals across Canada, the US, Europe and East Asia. She is an assistant Professor in the School of Women’s Studies at York University.

co-sponsored with PNCA Sculpture

this will be the last visiting artist lecture of the academic semester
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Allyson Mitchell
Bison Building

As the seasons are heating up, so to is the creative activity in the city! This month’s First Thursday + First Friday are the first firsts of the new season. And the MFA AC+D people will be out and about. There are three MFA AC+D solo shows I would like to specifically mention.

In chronological order:

ARTEMIS
New work by Ali Gradischer (MFA AC+D ’11)
Opening First Thursday 4.4.13
Lizard Lounge 1323 NW Johnson
6-9pm
ARTEMIS is a collection of cyanotypes created at the Nes Artist Residency in Skagastrond, Iceland.

Meghann Mary Giligan : An Exhibition of Tintypes and Sculptural Work work by Meghann Mary Gilligan (MFA AC+D ’14)
Opening First Friday 4.5.13
Old Portland Hardware & Architectural 700 NE 22nd Ave
6-9 pm

ALTARS TO THE UNKNOWN work by Eric Trine (MFA AC+D ’13)
Opens 4.5.13
Opening Reception 4.13.13
Nisus Gallery 8371 N Interstate, Studio I
6-9pm

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Meghann Mary Gilligan

Eric Trine

Rachel Cox 11’ MFA AC+D alumni was recently featured in UNTITLED magazine with her written piece, Rooted. The work discussed how bowls as objects can ground us in ritual.

Cox writes, “The bowl taught me that I could make something useful—though I rarely used it to hold anything—and pleasing to look at—though it didn’t look the way I had imagined it would. Mainly, the bowl felt good to make and to hold. This humble form ignited my passion for working with clay.”

This is part of the MoCC’s Object Focus: The Bowl. Follow the links below to read the entire article

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UNTITLED magazine

The new show at the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Object Focus: The Bowl, is causing quite the stir in the MFA AC+D community. Currated by Namita Wiggers, this show has an intriguing unveiling of the 2-part exhibition. Part one, Reflect + Respond, invites people to write short narratives about the bowl. During part two, Engage+Use, the MoCC will house a lending library where people can sign out and use the bowls.

All of this excitement is being track on a blog, Object Focus: The Bowl. Many AC+D people are involved in this exhibition, including 1st year Sarah Davis who is currently an intern at the MoCC. Also involved is AC+D faculty Whitney Lowe who has a bowl, Collapse, featured in the exhibition along with four other bowls from his ceramics collection.

Object Focus: The Bowl, Part 1, Reflect+Respond
March 7 – August 3, 2013

Object Focus: The Bowl, Part 2, Engage+Use
May 16 – September 21, 2013
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Object Focus: The Bowl BLOG
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UNTITLED magazine just released their interview, 3 Questions with Iris Eichenberg : Artist Iris Eichenberg on editing, trusting the process, and making no excuses.

CHECK IT OUT!

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UNTITLED is an online magazine produced by PNCA

Iris Eichenberg’s website

MFA in Applied Craft + Design Graduate Lecture Series presents: IRIS EICHENBERG

Eichenberg is Artist in Residence and Head of Metalsmithing at Cranbrook, and has worked as an independent artist and art educator, a part-time curator, and co-organizer of art-related events. She has given numerous workshops in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. She has received numerous grants, awards, and residencies in Europe and North America. Eichenberg’s work can be found in museums in Europe and the US, including the Stedelijk Museum, and the Fondation National d’Art Contemporain.

co-sponsored with OCAC Metals Department

(wednesday) March 20th

6:30pm

Bison Building / MFA Studios

421 NE 10th Ave

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Skutt Ceramics

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MFA AC+D Chair JP Reuer will be giving a talk, Hybrid Making in Social Design, later this week in Doha, Qatar. This is part of the Tasmeem International Design Conference through VCUQatar. This is a biannual Art + Design conference, held this year from March 10th-17th.

According to the website, “The 2013 conference addresses the dual themes of hybridization—interdisciplinary or collaborative work – and making – the production of an outcome or deliverable to be disseminated in the final phase of the conference.

Creativity and the act of making are key components in forming Qatar’s sustainable future, and art and design have an important role to play in this ongoing transformation. In order to create a tenable knowledge society, a reflection upon creative processes is crucial.”

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Activities through out the conference will include exhibitions, a film festival, student labs, and workshops such as Felt Case Study #1: The Material is the Metaphor is the Material, Souvenirs of the Senses, Innorvative Considerations for Traditional Fashion. On top of all of that activity, Rem Koolhaas will be the Keynote Speaker on the 17th.
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Oregonian Interview with JP Reuer

Tasmeem International Design Conference

VCU Qatar

images from Tasmeem International Design Conference and nobelindesign.blogspot.com 

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Research, Sketch, 3D Sketch, Prototype: These are the steps that we can utilize at any age to execute creative, elegant, and smart design solutions! Please drop by Radius Studio, with your child(ren) anytime between 1:00 and 3:00 PM on March 17th for an open workshop where you will work together to get some practice with all four steps. Google Map link.

Francesco Cupolo, a graduate student in the Applied Craft & Design program (at OCAC / PNCA), is an expert in Play as Education, and he has carefully curated a large array of tools and materials that instigate the creative mind and offer innumerable possibilities. Francesco will also be available for facilitation, direction, assistance, and demonstration throughout the workshop.

Sharp objects and hot-glue will be available to children, so caution is advised. But, more importantly, this workshop is about collaborative making and having fun while learning! Bring your open, right-brained minds!

Thank you, we hope to see you then!

photo credit: Sara Kaltwasser
written by: Francesco Cupolo

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Radius Community Art Studios

Last week was perhaps one of the most active in the studio this semester! On top of the buzz of the usual classes mixed with making, mentors, and machinery we also had a successful Documentary Screening, an in house Topiary Workshop with Pearl Fryar, followed by a lecture, and topped off with a group dinner. Second year Critique Seminar faculty and students also escaped to the Japanese Gardens on Thursday!

+second years at Japanese Gardens

+topiary workshop with Pearl Fryar

Looking forward, check out CREATIVE AGENCY: build a mobile workshop brought to you by Francesco Cupolo (MFA in Applied Craft + Design Program, OCAC & PNCA) and Halley Roberts (MFA in Collaborative Design Program, PNCA). Tomorrow night at Union Pine This event is free, they will provide all materials and supplies! But if you have scissors, glue or anything that you think might be useful then bring it!

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MFA AC+D Graduate Lecture Series Presents: PEARL FRYAR

Feb 19th
screening film: A Man Named Pearl
MFA Studios 421 NE 10th ave
Free + Open to the Public
6:00pm
obscenely massive bag of popcorn will be provided
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Feb 20th
LECTURE by Pearl Fryar
MFA Studios 421 NE 10th ave + Open to the Public
6:30pm
seating will be limited

Fryar is a sculptor who uses live plant material to create original, elegantly abstract forms of topiary. He is self-taught and as such has taken risks and developed techniques outside the normal bounds of horticulture. He is not afraid to try new things and has been said to “tame trees” by his unique techniques. Born in rural North Carolina, the son of a sharecropper, Fryar has overcome substantial obstacles through a position of selfless giving.

co-sponsored with PNCA GFA
Supported by Cornell Farms