Mark Smith Pcc Mark Smith Art Professor at Portland Community College

Sam Morgan, Cascade Department Chair

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• BFA Studio Arts, Academy of Colorado Boulder, 1993
• MFA Ceramics, Alfred Academy New York, 1996

Elizabeth Bilyeu

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Elizabeth teaches the Modernistic Art History sequence, the Honors History of Western Art sequence, the Introduction to Art sequence, and Women in Art at Cascade Campus. She oft asks students to venture out of the classroom to apply their skills critiquing art and architecture. She says, "forth with history, I focus on practicing with students the linguistic communication of art – skills of visual analysis. This gives them conviction in front of the original works of fine art. It is their face-to-confront with the piece of work that you all-time learn to look at, think about, and hash out art." Elizabeth earned an MA in Art History from Washington University, St. Louis, and an MA in Feminism and the Visual Arts from the Academy of Leeds in England. In the Fall term of 2009, she taught in PCC's Report Away Programme in Florence, Italy.

Jacqueline Ehlis

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Fundamental to Jacqueline'due south teaching philosophy is that the experience of making art as a do within an artful context contributes to the invaluable effort to put the individual in possession of all of one's powers. She believes in the worth and creative power of any individual. Jacqueline received her G.F.A. at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; her B.F.A. at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon; and her Associate of Arts at PCC. Selected solo exhibitions include; Couture, Stipend Exhibition Award, New American Fine art Union, Portland, Oregon, Juror: Ruth Ann Brown and selected group exhibitions; Las Vegas Diaspora, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada, Curator: Dave Hickey.

Una Kim

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Ruth Lantz

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Michael Lazarus

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Joe Macca

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Tara Murino-Brault

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Shawn Records

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Kathleen Rick

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Sandy Sampson

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Jim White

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Raised and educated in the Pacific Northwest, Jim completed his Bachelor of Arts caste in Comparative Religion at the University Of Puget Sound in Tacoma Washington. Later a yr of teaching English in Tokyo, Japan, he returned to UPS and finished a second undergraduate degree in studio art. Subsequently receiving his MFA degree in ceramics and ceramic sculpture from the School for American Crafts at the Rochester Found of Technology in 1997, he traveled to Kanazawa, Japan and had the distinction of being the start American apprentice at the pottery studio of Chozaemon Ohi, a family renowned over 11 generations for their production of ceramic vessels used in the Japanese Tea ceremony. From 2000-2009 he was a full-time faculty fellow member teaching ceramics and design courses at Joliet Junior College in Joliet, Illinois. In 2009 he and his family unit relocated dorsum to Portland where he is an adjunct instructor of ceramics at PCC and works as a studio artist. He is a nationally and internationally exhibited artist.

Renae Kowitz, Ceramics Studio Technician

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Kaite Thompson, Studio Technician

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Amy Bay

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Ben Buswell

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Ben Buswell (b. 1974 in Dallas, Oregon) is an artist and educator whose sculptural work spans various media, encompassing ceramics, metals, resins, incised photographs and more. He subjects these materials to physical processes (such as scratching, piercing, melting and tearing) wherein the aggregating of small, repetitive gestures build into a complex whole.

"Teaching, for me, is most getting to know students and helping them discover the means of making art that work best for what they want to say. In this sense, I teach a lot of different media, foundational concepts and techniques and skills- from design to metal casting to figure sculpture to perspective drawing. I encourage students to experiment, build skills and see the connections betwixt the different media that they use in their work. Materials, technique and process accept meaning. This is an important thought as students learn to create work that reflects their experience in the globe. What does it mean to sculpt the figure similar a classical primary? How does it touch the content of your work? Tin nosotros find ways to represent our ideas and ourselves that are more truthful to us and who we are?"

Buswell received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and BFA from Oregon Land University. Buswell is a Hallie Ford Beau in the Visual Arts (2015) and a ii-fourth dimension recipient of the Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission and Ford Family Foundation (2014 and 2011) and received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission in 2018. Buswell has had notable solo exhibitions at Upfor, Samuel Freeman in Los Angeles, CoCA Seattle, The Art Gym at Marylhurst University and TILT Gallery and Projection Space in Portland. Collections that house his work include that of Jan and Patricia de Bont and the public collections at The Portland Fine art Museum, The University of Oregon and the Collaborative Life Sciences Edifice at Oregon Health and Science University. He recently completed commissions for Western Oregon Academy and Hyatt Hyatt Centric.

Brad McLemore

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Brittney Cathey-Adams

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Brittney Cathey-Adams (b. Fortuna, CA) is a photographic artist and educator currently located in Portland, OR. Her work includes themes of body politics, and fatty representation that interrogates the histories of the male person gaze and cocky-portraiture. Her work has been exhibited throughout institutions such as the de Young Museum in San Francisco, CA, SF Camerawork in San Francisco, CA, Center for Photographic Fine art in Carmel, CA and Colorado Photographic Arts Heart in Denver, CO. She was office of the 2019 Curatorial Prize at Blueish Heaven Gallery in Portland, OR and gave a lecture at the Portland Art Museum.

Most recently her work was featured in FORECAST 2020 with SF Camerawork. She too recently finished a residency with Sitka Heart for Art & Ecology equally a 2021 Creative person in Residence, and recently had her work published in "The Body Issue" as a guest artist with the collective Female Photographers Org.

With a strong passion for photography and art teaching, Cathey-Adams dedicates herself to image making as well every bit sharing visual language through teaching at Portland Community Higher and Clackamas Community Higher. Her instruction encompasses both traditional and contemporary approaches to photography while highlighting underrepresented artists. In the classroom she keeps things as hands on as possible request students to consider what compels them to pick up the camera.

Chris Knight

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Chris learned to depict past copying his favorite superheroes out of comic books. This early fascination with larger-than-life, symbolic, and mythic figures was the commencement stride in a lifelong love of visual fine art and storytelling. In his paintings and illustrations, Chris uses narrative elements to find and explore the idea that identity and relationships are composed of stories: the stories we tell ourselves, the stories we tell others, the stories we cull to remember, the stories we cull to forget.

As a teacher, Chris encourages his students to explore the sense of mystery and wonder that arises out of creativity. He provides a safe surroundings in which every student can develop their ain skills while they observe the all-time way to present their unique vision of the earth. Chris takes the fourth dimension to meet each pupil as an individual and then they tin can accomplish personal goals and express their various experiences in an inclusive setting. Chris's goal is for his students to see art as a joyous experience, and to get out the classroom with a artistic curiosity that can motivate and energize everything they exercise in life.

Chris has been teaching cartoon, painting, and pattern at PCC since 2005. He studied painting at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) and the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Chris is the recipient of the WK Rose Fellowship in the Artistic Arts and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. His work has been shown in NYC, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, and at various locations across Oregon, including the Oregon Biennial.

Cora Pearl

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Donna Cole

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kathi rick

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kathi rick (b. Seattle WA) is a photographic artist and educator currently located in Portland, OR. Her work is socio-political in nature and deals primarily with body politics, feminism, and the patriarchal nature of western art with an accent on pushback of the 'male gaze'.

She is also a founding member of Fine art at the CAVE Gallery in Vancouver WA, an experimental art space that has hosted artists both locally and internationally .

In addition she is co creator of ARTIS OBSCURA a podcast dedicated to exploring disturbing and frightening fine art through the centuries.

Passionate about instruction she is defended to inclusiveness in the classroom and is fearless in addressing issues of race, gender, and other topics of tremendous social importance inside the classroom setting, and uses art to facilitate ways of communicating and connecting through the powerful medium of photography.

Kelsey Ferreira

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Kelsey Ferreira (she/her) holds an M.A. in Art History from the University of Oregon with a focus on gimmicky fine art and theory. She'southward worked in arts teaching for the by decade, including every bit a Kress Foundation Interpretive Fellow at the Portland Art Museum where she developed and led educational programs. She incorporates strategies of irksome looking and object-based inquiry into her classroom teaching, and motivates students to consider how objects from the past can help united states make sense of the present. Her course textile reflects her piece of work to decenter the historically male, white, Eurocentric narrative of Art History by focusing on underrepresented artists and using free Open Educational Resources in lieu of traditional textbooks. She listens and learns from her students by considering feedback from class evaluations and by encouraging open inquiry assignments. An instructor at PCC since 2009, Kelsey takes seriously her responsibilities to foster an empathetic and welcoming learning surroundings, empower artistic and critical thinking, and inspire a lifelong appreciation for the visual arts.

Luke Peterson

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An art historian from the Portland area, Luke Peterson (b. 1984, Portland OR) focuses on art education. He has worked in museum art didactics programs abroad and locally. Iii main influences shape his instructional approach: feel in museum services, M.A. programme completed at the Frei Universität Berlin (focusing on Feminist art and Eastern European architecture), and professional training in International Baccalaureate (IB) methodology. Luke brings various perspectives to his lectures and emphasizes the application of concepts learned in course assessments. In 2020, Luke co-authored an OER textbook for Agreement Art with other PCC faculty and looks forward to continuing his professional evolution with PCC and guiding non-traditional students through the bookish world of fine art.

Marie Sivak

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Marking Andres

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Mark Andres (1959- York, Maine) is a painter, filmmaker and educator. Son of Illustrator Charles J. Andres, Mark Andres studied at Williams College, The Art Institute of Boston, and The University of Massachusetts (Amherst). His paintings are in numerous public and private collections including the Portland Art Museum, the Hallie Ford Museum of Fine art, Maryhill Museum, Oregon Health and Sciences University and University of Portland. His art is represented past Augen Gallery. He is a recipient of a Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship and an Oregon Literary Arts Honour Grant. His silent animated feature films have been accept been official selections at numerous festivals and been awarded All-time Animated Film at the Independent Filmmakers Showcase in Los Angeles (3 times), the California Film Awards, the Hollywood Boulevard Film Festival, Los Angeles Independent Pic Festival Awards, the United mexican states International Picture Festival, and received awards from the International Contained Film Festival Awards, Dorsum in the Box Screenplay Contest, and LA Undercover Film Forum. Andres is the recipient of a Gordon Galbraith Honor for teaching excellence, a U.S. Bankcorp Didactics Laurels, a NISOD Award for Teaching (University of Texas, Austin) and was named Higher Education Art Educator of the Year by The Oregon Fine art Educators Clan. He has been on the faculty of PCC Rock Creek since 1991.

"My classes are about looking and translating what you see into drawing and painting– two foreign languages which you understood one time upon a time but may have forgotten. The ways of translation are infinite, and so the goal of all my classes is to give you the tools of perception, the craft of materials, and the art of design so that yous feel you could draw or paint the things you love, the things you hate, and the mystery of looking at the world."

Michael McGovern

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The environments and people that surround my life inform the fine art I create. My work calls upon the repetitive nature of printmaking and photography to create a network of reoccurring images that I meditate on to search for truth. I use a lexicon of images that relate to specific events in my history. My piece of work is about constructing autobiographical images that explore the ghosts and spirits of my by. I etch memorials to the fleeting and intangible memories of my life. By visually recording impressions of specific times, places, and events in my life I am preserving memories that seem to fade with each passing year.

I was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. Specifically NE Portland where my parents still live in the firm I was raised in. I am the youngest out of nine children and my family has always encourage my artistic endeavors. In 2004 I received my BFA in Photography from PNCA here in Portland, Oregon. In 2009 I received my MFA in Printmaking from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. Since graduating with my Master'due south degree in 2009 I have been rooted at PCC Stone Creek educational activity printmaking, screen-printing, digital photography and sometimes drawing.

At that place are and then many reason of why I love teaching for PCC just i of the biggest reasons is my sense of obligation, I want to requite back from what I have received. I started my arts education at PCC Sylvania in 1996 past taking photography and drawing classes to help build my professional portfolio to apply for art school at PNCA. Those classes and teachers, at Sylvania, helped shape the artist I am today and helped form the teacher I have become. I accept pride in continuing in the tradition of my teachers earlier me of beingness a artistic and cultural guide to my students to help shape their hereafter selves through art and self-expression.

I love teaching at PCC Rock Creek specifically because it feels like home to me. Later existence hither for 12 years I feel like Rock Creek has grown into a tight-knit community of students, faculty and staff. There is a great culture of collaboration, communication, support, and sharing between the faculty, staff and students here at Stone Creek and I desire to continue to abound with and contribute to this community.

I am both humbled and honored to have the opportunity keep to grow as a teacher and to be a further asset to the PCC Rock Creek community.

Mylan Rakich

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I am originally from Rome, New York, and have been living and working for the last 26 years in Portland. My educational groundwork includes a MFA in Sculpture from Portland State University, BFA in Sculpture and Drawing from Purchase College (State Academy of New York), and a Certificate in Welding from Portland Community Higher. In addition to my work as a large-scale metal sculptor, I have also taught art and welding courses for over 20 years at schools throughout the Portland metropolitan surface area (Portland Community College, Clackamas Community College, Academy of Portland and Portland State Academy). When non instruction or creating art, I enjoy spending time with my wife and two young sons, working in the yard, and baking.

Phyllis Trowbridge

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Phyllis Trowbridge is an artist who focuses on drawing and painting from perception, frequently outdoors in the landscape. Her work is a production of continuous observation of and response to seasonal changes, likewise equally larger trends over time, both natural and human-acquired, especially the effects of a warming climate. She received her MFA from American University in Washington, D.C. and her B.A. from Hamilton College in New York state.

Since moving to Oregon in 1992, she has exhibited her work locally and nationally and participated in numerous invitational and juried shows, including Art Beyond at the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, OR, Painting Portland at the Art Gym at Marylhurst University, and the Oregon Biennial at the Portland Fine art Museum. She has pursued painting residencies at Sitka Eye for Fine art and Ecology, Dorland Mount Arts Colony, Blood-red Cinder Creativity Centre and the Vermont Studio Heart.

In her classes, Phyllis strives to provide a framework of themes, and processes, gleaned from a range of sources and cultures, that act equally a springboard for students to explore their own interests. She is passionate about teaching students perceptual skills that aid them in seeing what is really in front of them, and she loves to introduce them to new means of working with their materials so they tin feel both the magic that sometimes results, besides equally the many ways ideas and plans tin grow and change through the process to make something previously unimagined.

Susanne Tringali

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Cistron Flores, Division Dean

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Cistron was built-in and raised in El Paso, Texas. The youngest of eight, he graduated with a BFA from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). He then received a fellowship to attend the University of Iowa where he received his MA and MFA with honors in printmaking.

After graduating Iowa he returned to El Paso where he shortly became the Gallery Managing director as well equally teaching bones drawing courses at UTEP. After three years he moved from El Paso and returned to Iowa City. Gene taught a life drawing course at the Academy of Iowa, while at the aforementioned time, was hired as a preparator at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A year later Gene moved to Portland, Oregon where he met his wife and became a part-time art instructor at PCC also as Clackamas Customs Higher.

Gene was hired total-fourth dimension at PCC in 2005 where he continues to teach life drawing, basic drawing, and printmaking courses. Gene and his married woman live in Washington State.

All my works are self-portraits, a reflection of my life, from the death of my father to the joys of existence live. My images take been described every bit humorous, insightful, and disturbing. Many works are a play on words and imagery, with mythological creatures and a combination of man and animal characters (logic and instinct) playing a vital part. I view my works as a window to another globe with reoccurring characters and themes. My work tiptoes between surreal and absurd. When making my art, I play the function of the viewer and try to capture a glimpse into this strange world, a globe where anything is possible and where annihilation tin, and often does, happen.

Christine Weber, Section Chair

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Christine holds an MA in Fine art History from the University of Washington with a focus on Modern Art and Critical Theory. Equally an undergraduate, she completed an interdisciplinary studies BA at Western Oregon Academy and studied literature and theater at the Academy of Cambridge in England.

As a graduate pupil, she conducted archival research in Western and Central Europe and wrote a Chief's Thesis on the Bauhaus, titled The Architect and the Hausfrau: The Haus am Horn and the New Woman. In Seattle, she assisted painter Norman Lundin on the exhibition, Perception of Appearances: A Decade of Contemporary American Effigy Drawing at the Frye Art Museum. She has worked as an assistant in the collection of Native Alaskan art and artifacts at the Jensen Museum in Monmouth, Oregon. She has also worked in New York at New York University'due south Gray Fine art Gallery and curated a evidence on literature and the landscape at NYU's Bobst Library.

Christine has taught art history at Pacific Northwest College of Art and Mount Hood Community College and has been teaching at PCC since 2006. She teaches the Modern Art sequence, Women in Art, the History of Graphic Blueprint, Understanding the Visual Arts, and Understanding New Media Arts.

Vanessa Calvert

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Bruce Conkle

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Bruce declares an affinity for mysterious natural phenomena such as snow, crystals, volcanos, rainbows, burn, tree burls, and meteorites. His work combines art and humor to address contemporary attitudes toward nature and the environment, including deforestation and climate change. Bruce's work often deals with man'southward place within nature, and oftentimes examines what he calls the "misfit caliber" at the crossroads. His work has shown around the globe, including Reykjavik, Ulaanbaatar, Rio De Janeiro, New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Miami, Seattle, and Portland. Recent projects include public art commissions for the Oregon Department of Transportation, TriMet/MAX Light Rail, and Portland State Academy's Smith Memorial Student Union Public Art + Residency. In 2011 Bruce received a Hallie Ford Fellowship and in 2010 and an Oregon Arts Committee Artist Fellowship. His 2012 prove Tree Clouds was awarded a projection grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council.

The Thinker, 2008/09, from Burls volition exist Burls serial, bronze, and pigmented cement

Disquisitional Laputa, 2012, Gouache, pencil and acrylic on paper and polyester, ix″ × 12″

Kowkie Durst

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Karen Esler

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Areas of focus: Painting, cartoon, critical theory, gimmicky art practices, media literacy.

Current works: Karen has been a higher art educator for 20 years, primarily at Portland Community College, too at University of Portland, Portland State Academy, Chemeketa Customs Higher, Pacific University. She has taught painting, life drawing, cartoon, and watercolor painting.

Karen has been a professional person creative person for thirty years with past and current representation by Portland galleries Quartersaw Gallery, Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Marker Wooley Gallery, and Augen Gallery, and galleries in New York and California. Her work is included in public and private collections including The Hillman Drove, Pacific University, Pearl Lofts HOA Commission/The Elizabeth, Schnitzer Collection LA, Good Samaritan Hospital, and The University of Oregon permanent collections, and has been exhibited in solo and grouping exhibitions since 1991. Karen has served curator, commission member and lath member in art organizations including Disjecta, The Portland Fine art Eye, Portland State Academy Art Alumni Association, and a current curatorial project with the United Earth Higher Association "vii-Continents Projection."

Teaching and preparation:

• 2004, MFA in Visual Arts, emphasis in studio practices and disquisitional theory, Vermont Higher Union Establish & University, Montpelier, VT.
• 2002, BA in Liberal Studies, Portland Country Academy, Portland, OR, With Honors.
• 1998-1999, School of Realism, Seattle, WA
• 1993-1996, Pacific Northwest Higher of Art, Portland, OR.
• 1995, Crown Signal Printing, San Francisco, CA
• 1976-1977, Academy of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Nikolyn Garner

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Nikolyn Garner is an enrolled member of the Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas and a member of the Oneida and Cherokee nations. She was raised on the Flathead Reservation in Montana. She received her Available's caste in Psychology at the Academy of Montana in 2001. She continued post-Baccalaureate training in studio arts and art history in Portland, OR. She returned to the University of Montana to pursue a Principal's degree in Art History, which she completed in the bound of 2018. She is an art history professor at Portland Customs College specializing in Ethnic fine art of America. She is a painter, a material artist, and a visual storyteller.

Bethany Hays

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Bethany was born in a small town outside of Yakima, WA, and holds a BA in Foreign Language, Spanish from Central Washington University; a BA in Studio Fine art from The Evergreen State Higher; and an MFA in Contemporary Art Practices from Portland State Academy. Bethany's work focuses on feminist themes and uses imagery associated with home and domesticity. Her current body of work began when she realized that the persistent piles of clean laundry in her house were like incidental sculptures or landscapes that could also represent the often overwhelming nature of balancing piece of work and family on a metaphorical level. Through large-calibration watercolor paintings that play on the give-and-take launder, drapery studies, and the "thousand landscape", Bethany strives to make work that stimulates discussion about the complexities of modern maternity and our civilisation's ethics of dazzler and value.

Contempo exhibitions and awards include Erratic Formations, Alexander Gallery, Clackamas, OR; New Views, Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR; Cummulus Congestus, North View Gallery, Portland, OR; Piling Up, Rogers Gallery, Salem, OR; Divergent Strategies, Salem Fine art Association, Salem, OR; Information technology's Possible, Disjecta, Portland, OR; Creative Focus Project Grant, Regional Arts, and Culture Council; Coin for Women Grant, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.

Anticline Germination, 2016, watercolor on newspaper, 34″ x 58″

Rift Valley, 2016, watercolor on paper, 34″ 10 58″

Kim Manchester

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I am interested in the stories of space, place, objects, and habitation. I explore the histories, memories, and narratives that tin can exist excavated and communicated through the photograph. I've worked in the photographic medium for over two decades now and nonetheless use both film and digital processes to create my images. Sometimes I use both, sometimes neither.

I have taught photography here at Sylvania for over viii years now and while I am myself a photographer, there are so many more things that I do – that make me who I am. Not simply as an artist, but as an instructor. For me, my interests in the memories, moments, and behaviors that are unique to each one of us are reflected not merely in my piece of work but in the way I teach.

Playspaces: Hide & Seek, 2011, archival digital print, xx″ x 20″

Object: Place, 2006, archival digital print, 24″ x 24″

Force For Change: Shannon, 2013, 3 panels, archival digital print, xvi″ ten twenty″ inches each

Nathan Marcel

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Nate has been an adjunct drawing instructor at PCC since 2004. In addition to teaching and lecturing for PCC, Nate is a freelance illustrator, producing traditional and digital-based artwork for private clients and collectors. His recent works tin be seen on Nate'due south blog. Nate received his Bachelor's Degree in drawing, painting, and printmaking in 2001, and his MFA from Portland Land University in 2003. He has been drawing and painting in a professional capacity since 1995.

Although Nate works in mixed genres and multiple media, his piece of work is always directly anchored in the cartoon experience. He has trained as a fine artist and studied fine arts extensively, including architecture and both modern and ancient sculpture, but the bulk of his skills take centered around illustration. Nate's heaviest influences include Silver Age and European sequential fine art, Secession movement artists, The Cubists, 19th Century illustration, and art from the Northern Renaissance. His tastes are eclectic and various, dipping heavily into the naive well of Outsider, Art Brut, and Kitch culture.

When students enroll in Nate's classes, he will most notably stress the importance of building a new way of "seeing". Nate approaches cartoon fundamentals past first grooming students in layers to observe the largest forms outset, then build details to complement and complete the needed content. He stresses perspective written report to build skills in seeing and flattening 3-dimensional space, and as a much-needed means towards a realistic comprehensive skill level goal. Nate supplements all of his pedagogy with lectures, critiques, and examinations of the historical visual media which builds the context for a greater appreciation of drawing in students of all power levels, and art in general, too as demystifying, by case, a complex and enervating subject of written report.

Mic Marusek

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Photography is pretty awesome! My love is studio photography and enhancing and creating great low-cal.

I have my BFA in fine art and BA in didactics from Ohio University and my MFA from New Mexico State. I started as an oil painter and mixed wet media creative person. I so gravitated toward documentary photography and naturally found my way into studio photography. I am drawn to technically challenging mediums.

I ofttimes get asked to teach private classes to entrepreneurs who are looking to amend their due east-commerce sites with less laborious, faster, and more consistent photographic and tighter lighting techniques.

As an educator, I desire to acquire and be at that place when people absorb something challenging and rewarding in their making. I use my mastery on your behalf. I aim to exist honest, helpful, and inspiring.

Finding 2, 2017, mixed media, digital print, gesso on board, 16″ ten 16″

Salt Jars, 2016, digital photograph

Carrie Miyamoto

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Rochelle Nielsen

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Rochelle lives in Vancouver, Washington, and works in Portland, Oregon. Rochelle is a Graduate in the MFA Gimmicky Studio Practice at Portland Country Academy, 2012. Received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Marylhurst, Academy, 2009. Rochelle is very involved in the Native American community. As well every bit working for the Evergreen School District every bit a coordinator for the Native American Education Youth Program. Adjunct Professor at PCC. She is a member of the Northwest Band of Shoshone Tribe.

Dayaipe Mubii', 2012, mixed media

Bia Bungu, 2013, mixed media

Jay Olinger

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Raised on a cattle ranch in eastern Washington, Jay Olinger is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar residing in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches Understanding the Visual Arts and Comics Art and Literature at Portland Customs College, and Comics Theory at Portland State University. Along with teaching, Jay presents her enquiry at international conferences, curates group exhibitions, and creates brusk comics.

Jay received a B.South. in Arts and Letters from Portland Country University with Minors in Art History, English language, and Medieval Studies; too as a Postal service-Baccalaureate in Comics Studies, which led to a position at Curiosity in the Special Projects Department. Her graduate studies took her to Scotland, where she graduated with Highest Stardom from the University of Dundee with a Master of Design in Comics and Graphic Novels, fully-funded by the Chief's International Excellence Scholarship. Jay'due south graduate project, Prompt(ed), was awarded the 2017 Duncan of Jordanstone Comics Prize, which explored the intersection of Fine Art and Comics through media application.

Cora Pearl

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Cora is a calligrapher and lettering artist and has been doing calligraphy since 1978. Cora got her B.A. in Art and Art History at Oberlin Higher where she taught calligraphy at the Experimental College and as well studied Chinese calligraphy. In addition to teaching calligraphy and hand lettering at PCC, Cora besides teaches individual sessions and does commissions for poetry, quotations, and certificates as well as calligraphy and lettering for special events. In 2012, Cora had the honor of creating an honorary degree for the Dalai Lama.

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Dalai Lama Document

Theresa Redinger

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Zeinab Saab

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Originally from Dearborn, Michigan, Zeinab Saab is currently based in Portland, Oregon. Her current work deals with the history of bookmaking within Islamic fine art history, and re-contextualizing narratives and philosophies pertaining to life, expiry, and the afterlife within Islam. She received her BFA in printmaking from Bowling Green State University from Bowling Green, OH in 2015 and recently completed her MFA in printmaking at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in Detroit, New York, California, Dubai, New Mexico, and Hawaii, among other places, and is held in several permanent collections, including Zayed University in Dubai, UAE, the Arab American National Museum, and the University of Iowa's Special Collections Library.

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Julianne Sandlin

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Julianne is an art historian, who received her Ph.D. from Florida Land University. Her studies focused on the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. Her primary area of research is architecture, peculiarly exploring how the patron's influence manifests itself in the building. At PCC, she teaches courses on architectural history and the History of Western Art (from the Prehistoric era through the seventeenth century). Julianne is enthusiastic about pedagogy art and architectural history. Her goal is to assist students sympathise the works equally meaningful objects, each reflecting the social, political, religious, and economic climate of the time in which it was fabricated. A native of North Carolina, Julianne moved to Oregon in 2011 to teach at PCC. She enjoys exploring all the new things that Oregon and the West Coast have to offer.

Crystal Schenk

• MFA 2007, Portland State University (Sculpture)
• BFA 1999, The School of the Fine art Establish of Chicago (Sculpture)

I primarily make sculpture and sculptural installations, although sometimes fiddle in video, drawing and knitting when the mood strikes. Rather than practicing material monogamy, my sculptures range from stained glass to magnets to expanding foam. I take a very labor-intensive and item-oriented way of working, in which craftsmanship and material choices play a large role. Woven through what initially appear every bit visually disparate works are mutual themes of class structure, heritage, concrete and mental illness, and the fluctuating perceptions of memory. While much of my discipline matter is fatigued from my by, the topics I explore are based on experiences nosotros all share – bridging the gap between personal and public. Each piece captures a moment within a broader story, one that is left for the viewer to contemplate and allow their imagination complete.

Schenk's artwork has been widely published, including features in Sculpture, Craft, and Whitewall magazines. Art-st-urban, in Switzerland, represented her work at ArtBasel in 2013 and Open eighteen in Venice Italy in 2015. Locally, her work was represented at the Oregon biennial, Portland 2010, and exhibited at Bullseye and Linfield galleries. She is currently working on national public commissions with her husband Shelby Davis, and locally their artwork can be seen on Sectionalisation Street in Portland, and on Principal Street in Estacada.

Shelter, 2013

• Medium: stained glass, steel, furnishings
• Dimensions: 8' high, 11' wide, 11' deep
• Location: Bullseye Gallery, Portland OR

Shelter is a 1 room, Appalachian-manner shanty made of stained glass. This projection examines the ever-widening gulf between the lower and upper classes, reflecting on this disparity non equally a criticism, simply equally an examination of the meaning and importance of dwelling.

I'm Not a Barnacle, I'one thousand a Boy, 2017

• Medium: Stoneware, porcelain
• Dimensions: 13" broad, 23" deep, 21" high, installation includes over 100 rocks with barnacles

This sculpture exposes my mixed emotions to being a parent, and my bond with this tiny being who is both autonomous and non and so vaguely parasitic.

Rachel Siegel

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Rachel lives in Portland, Oregon. She teaches photography for PCC and serves on the Portland Women in Fine art Lecture Series committee. Her artistic piece of work includes photography, digital prints, artist's books, video, and installation work. Rachel weaves together multiple interests, ofttimes using humor and playfulness to investigate issues that are significant to her, including body image, family, health, and labor. Rachel works on collaborative and solo projects. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, received grant funding for projects and her work is owned by private and institutional collections. Her MFA is from University at Buffalo, State University New York. And her BFA is from the Academy of California, Berkeley.

Measure Upwardly

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Tatiana Simonova

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It starts with a question: How do we form meaning across linguistic barriers? What happens between remembering and forgetting, between the possible and the actual? What happens if nil happens? Tatiana Simonova relates language, history, and sense of humour to draft formal and process proposals. She works in printmaking and drawing, choosing her media as a strategy to explore recording, repeating, memorizing, and obscuring while solving self-made mysteries.

Simonova holds a BA from San Francisco Land University and an MFA from Pratt Plant, Brooklyn. Her work has been exhibited both nationally – at David Krut Projects, Heidi Cho Gallery, Storefront X Eyck, and IPCNY in NYC, Space Gallery in Portland, ME, and Nine Gallery in Portland, OR, among others – and internationally in Japan, Republic of korea, Espana, and Hungary. She has been an Creative person in Residency at the Santa Atomic number 26 Fine art Establish, Tin Serrat Fine art Center, Vermont Studio Center, and near recently has been selected every bit a fellow at Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory in Kawaguchiko, Japan. She was raised in Sofia, Republic of bulgaria and currently makes her home in Portland, OR.

Learning to Count Once again, (fix of 1, 2, iii), 2005-ongoing, aquatint, fifteen"x22" each

Learning to Count Once again, (set up of 11, 12, and thirteen), 2005-ongoing, aquatint, fifteen"x22" each

Conversations 1 and 2, 2018, mokuhanga, nine.5"ten 14" each

Write and Rewrite Two, 2019, etching with graphite additions, fifteen"x15"

Mark Smith

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Marker holds a BS degree from Western Oregon University, a BFA from the Cooper Wedlock and an MFA from Portland State University. He maintains an agile studio practice and has completed several big-scale public fine art projects in the region, almost recently for Trimet and Western Oregon University. Past exhibition venues include White Columns and The Drawing Centre in New York City, Zimmerly Art Museum at Rutgers Academy, and the Portland Art Museum. His work is besides featured in three current volume publications; Artists and Maps, from Princeton Architectural Press, Xl Years of Murals in New York City, from University of Mississippi Press, and 100 Artists of the West Coast Ii, from Schiffer Books. Marker is the recipient of a 2010 Oregon Arts Commission Visual Artist Fellowship. His work is represented in Portland at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Marking'due south work tin be seen at Elizabeth Leach Gallery and Lewis & Clark Howard Hall.

Emphatic Distance, 2012, mixed mediums on woods panel, threescore″ × 70″

Museum Peripheral, 2012, mixed mediums on wood panel, sixty″ × 70″

Charlie Washburn

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Charlie grew upward in Mill Valley, California. He studied art at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon under the didactics of Ken Shores. Upon receiving his BA, he landed a chore equally a laboratory technician in ceramics at Portland Community College. He was smitten and decided he wanted to become a ceramics instructor. With the guidance of Al Bain, he learned virtually clays, glazes, and kilns. About importantly, he learned nearly being truthful to one'southward cocky-expression and pedagogy to a loftier standard. He was fortunate to study with Rick Hirsch at the School for American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Engineering for graduate school. Rick taught him many lessons but the one that hit abode was "If you lot are going to do it, then do it! Don't do information technology halfway." In 1994, he received a principal of fine arts in ceramics with a minor in glass. PCC offered him a part-time instructor position teaching 3-D design and ceramics. He was awarded a residency at Contemporary Crafts in 1999 where he continued to develop equally an creative person. In 2001, Charles received a full-time teaching position at PCC, where he continues to teach all aspects of ceramics (throwing, hand-building, glaze formulation, and kiln-firing). He strives to provide dynamic, creative, and knowledgeable educational activity in the ceramic arts.

Charles lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, two daughters (his greatest creations), and their dog. When he is not teaching and creating he enjoys spending time with his family, cooking, gardening, hiking, and reading.

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