Antony and the Johnsons in concert with the Oregon Symphony, conducted by Nico Muhly, and part of the 2008 Time-Based Art Festival

September 5, 2008 at 8:30 pm Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Starting at 10 am on Friday, June 27, 2008 PICA will begin a special MEMBERS ONLY pre-sale for tickets to see Antony and the Johnsons in concert with the Oregon Symphony, conducted by Nico Muhly as part of the 2008 Time-Based Art Festival. Available to the general public on July 11th, 2008, tickets range in price from $20-$75 and seating is assigned.

Not a PICA member? Join now to to be the first to buy your tickets and receive the discounted member price. You can also become a member by calling 503-242-1419.

Sign Language, 2007 by Amy Yoes. A sculpture for “L.I.C., NYC.” Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY.

All The Way From NYC!
Amy Yoes Will Lecture About Her Work!
The Public is Invited (it’s free, tell your friends)
Monday June 2nd, 7:30pm Sharp!
PSU 5th Avenue Cinema Room 92
510 SW Hall St. at SW 5th Ave

Amy Yoes has been interested in ornament and architectural space for many years. Her recent projects have become more three dimensional and have involved animation and light. Her work has been exhibited in L.I.C., NYC, Socrates Sculpture Park; 50,000 Beds, a project by Chris Doyle on view at Artspace, New Haven, CT; the Islip Museum’s Carriage House, Islip, NY; and Michael Steinberg Gallery, New York, NY.

She created a wall drawing, Sightseers Folklore, for Wave Hill’s exhibition Out of Bounds in 2005. Her work has been exhibited at Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfiled Hills, MI; Hollins University, Roanoke, VA; and The Peppermil Fireside Lounge, Las Vegas, NV. She has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

ABOUT PMMNLS
PMMNLS visiting artists are interviewed each Monday on Art Talk AM on the Radio: 12-1 PM. Find it at 98.3 FM on the PSU campus, streaming at KPSU.org and available at arttalkam.blogspot.com.

Portland State University’s Art Department offers free public lectures every Monday night of the school year. This is the twenty-sixth lecture in the PMMNLS for this season. The PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series is supported in part by PICA, Reed College, PNCA, Lewis and Clark College, and PSU’s Department of International Studies and Ben Rosenberg Studio. If you or your organization are interested in becoming a supporter of the lecture series please let us know.

Portland Powerhouse!
Marie Watt Will Lecture About Her Work!
The Public is Invited (it’s free, tell your friends)
Monday April 14th, 7:30pm Sharp!
PSU 5th Avenue Cinema
510 SW Hall St. at SW 5th Ave

Marie Watt (born 1967) is a contemporary artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. Part Seneca, Watt has created work centered on contemporary Native American themes. She holds a B.A. in art from Willamette University and a Master’s Degree from Yale University. She has also studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Watt’s art is primarily lithography and sculpture. For her sculpture, she uses a variety of materials, including everyday objects, as well as textiles, alabaster, slate, and cornhusks. In 2002, her stone sculpture Pedestrian was installed along the east bank of the Willamette River in Portland. Her work has appeared in several exhibitions in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

In 2004, as part of the Continuum 12 artists series, an exhibit of her work opened in New York City and the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian. The exhibit includes Blanket Stories, a sculpture made of two towers of wool blankets, with each stack sewn together with a central thread. The blankets are ones Watt collected over several years, including many Hudson’s Bay point blankets that were given to Native Americans in trade by the Hudson’s Bay Company during the 19th century.