PSU Art & Social Practice

This Thursday at 6pm PDT, join @zephxfish for an e

This Thursday at 6pm PDT, join @zephxfish for an exploration of our collective public spaces. “I want to take a walk* with you, and you, and you and you. I want us to feel into where we are, right now, in this time where everything's suddenly different—and not. I will guide us through a socially distant wander around the internal and external landscapes of our own neighborhoods. Can we come to some collective impression of the space and time we're in?

By participating, you're collaborating in an ongoing experiment into the ways that virtual technologies connect and disconnect us in this moment. To join, please RSVP at bit.ly/emergencywalk and I'll send you details. I would love to hear your thoughts after the fact, as well. *If you can’t leave your home, I invite you to explore your home space with us as if it was your neighborhood, or just tag along with the crowd.” #socialpractice #participatoryart #publicspace

During this week’s workshop class, @emmaduehr di

During this week’s workshop class, @emmaduehr discussed the emerging details about @theportlandconservatory; an Art Museum that presents collections of plants, horticulture education, and plant exchanges. The museum is located at Emma’s house in East Portland, where workshops, plant exchanges, and The Collection are open to the public by appointment only. Visit the website for more information about current Open and Private Calls and ways to get involved. .
And a special thanks to @x_tina000 for leading a yoga session for our exercise time. We practiced breath, focus, and daily integration.

@hallielieberman wrote an awesome article about th

@hallielieberman wrote an awesome article about the comedy work that has been happening at @crci.art , including the Comedy School and The Inside Show! Check it out for your weekend read.

Yesterday we had guest visiting artist @saltythund

Yesterday we had guest visiting artist @saltythunder13 share her incredible work the past year being an artist in residence at @umassdcvpa , where she “explored the social space shared by faculty, utilized performance as a way to process research, advocated for body awareness and wellness, examine insider and outside positions to the art world, and delve into the region’s whaling history and question what the whale means to local communities.”* One of her projects also involved creating poems out of emotional statements from faculty meetings, and another project was the the newer @corona.virus.pandemic.art since we’ve been in global remote life! @saltythunder13 graduated from our program in 2019 and we loved to see her doing well in Singapore and creating inspiring work as always. The cool thing about our program is that we have always had remote education as an option of our program, so we’ve always been bringing in artists and friends from around the world thanks to @harrell_fletcher for configuring this for an engaging educational experience. *=quote taken from @saltythunder13 ‘s website 👍🏽😊

For our workshop class today, second year student

For our workshop class today, second year student @_nolahanson brought in their collaborators @livadler and @dj_ruby_digs to lead an exercise and to talk about their project @transboxing! Trans Boxing is an experimental boxing club and collaborative art project which centers trans and gender variant people, and was founded in New York City in 2017. In addition to a great boxing workout, we had a dope discussion! We talked about inclusion, community engagement, embodiment, specificity, audiences, and the normalization of t/gnc participation in sports 💯💯💯

The Green New Real @greennewreal is a collaborativ

The Green New Real @greennewreal is a collaborative web project created by PSU Art and Social Practice MFA director @harrell_fletcher with @carrie_rachel , current MFA student @ericjohnolson and former MFA student @saltythunder13 along with help from current student @zeroprocess .
The project aggregates news stories about positive impacts on the environment and climate change as a result of the Covid-19 shut down (with respectful acknowledgement of the horrible cost to human lives), prompts the public to participate in reporting personal evidence of carbon emission mitigation, and will eventually host a climate data tracker. The project can be found at:
http://thegreennewreal.com/

This seems sooo long ago, too long ago. Extending

This seems sooo long ago, too long ago. Extending this physical gesture to all of you meta virtually. (Screenshot 2/2/2020 by @tiakramer.) #psuartandsocialpractice #virtualhug #remote #notremote

This Thursday Apr. 16 6p-6:45pm PST (((THIS IS A T

This Thursday Apr. 16
6p-6:45pm PST (((THIS IS A TEST OF THE EMERGENCY DANCE PARTY NETWORK))) We are training to be first responders in a global pandemic of paralysis, disorientation, dangerous leadership, and a sudden distrust of our physical and human surroundings. The first step to being a responder is to be grounded and connected to ourselves and others. Together we’re going to shake out the news and the anxiety, explore our bodies and senses, and wrap ourselves in a virtual gauze of collective celebration.

Please RSVP at bit.ly/rsvpemergencydance so we can send you a secure link to the Zoom meetup and playlist.
More info at https://www.facebook.com/events/2593265364275712/

From @zephxfish, with lots of inspiration from @publicwonderer, @ericjohnolson and @tiakramer

Third year student Zeph is starting an Emergency D

Third year student Zeph is starting an Emergency Dance Party Network, training participants to be “first responders in a global pandemic of paralysis, disorientation, dangerous leadership, and a sudden distrust of our physical and human surroundings. The first step to being a responder is to be grounded and connected to ourselves and others. We’re going to shake out the news and the anxiety, explore our bodies and senses, and wrap ourselves in a virtual gauze of collective celebration.” Tonight was the second iteration of the EDPN; follow @zephxfish to get details on next events! In collaboration with @publicwonderer and @ericjohnolson

For today’s extra-virtual Conversation Series, w

For today’s extra-virtual Conversation Series, we hosted Cassie Thornton to discuss her collective health project, Hologram, which turned out to be extremely timely. The Hologram is a peer-to-peer mapping of participants’ physical, psychological, and social health inspired by autonomous free clinics operating in Greece. We even got a Max Haivem cameo. .
@the_feminist_economics_dept #socialpractice #collective #healthcare #peertopeer

The program is back in session and online as we al

The program is back in session and online as we all grapple with socially engaged art in the time of social distancing. This week Renee Sills (@embodiedastrology) led the class in our weekly exercise. Roshani Thakore (@roshanithakore) discussed plans for building more connective tissue between residents at O82 through the Art + Justice Lab, discussing resident interviews and at-home art kits. On Thursday, conversation guests included activists and organizers @joulesea and @michaudsavage who shared details about recent organizing efforts with SIASE (http://artistsustainability.org/), a new horizontal coalition formed by and for artists to enhance self-determination and secure both short and long term sustainability for Seattle artists and cultural workers. Eric Olson @ericjohnolson used his student time to discuss a recent work creating an Emotional Obstacle Course with artist Samuel Wildman.

Today! PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE OPENING OF Masked Pe

Today!
PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE OPENING OF
Masked Perception
Thursday March 12th, 2020 from 5:00-8:00pm
at Erickson Gallery 9 NW Second Avenue, Portland, OR

Over the course of the past four weeks, artists at Columbia River Creative Initiatives have been looking at ways in which masks can be shields, markers of identity, points of perception, and other tools. Each artist has created a unique mask for this exhibition which will be on view throughout March.

This opening is the culmination of an 8 month series of exhibitions created by artists at Columbia River—incarcerated artists at a minimum security prison—and shown in galleries across Portland. Please join us in celebrating this project!
For more information: www.crci.art

This project was generously funded by a grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council. *Pictured mask was created by artist Turbo.

The @artandsocialpracticearchive is a project by t

The @artandsocialpracticearchive is a project by the PSU Art and Social Practice MFA Program. The new IG account will include excerpts from the archive, updates about its development, and related projects and programs 🗃 Here is our collection so far, with Marti Clemmons, our lead Archive Technician and Eniko Banyasz, our new Art and Social Practice Archive intern!! We are interested in not only creating an archive that tells stories of socially engaged artwork, but also thinking about how to create living, generative artworks and programming connected to the archive, while supporting public, artistic and academic research.

From the Finding Aid created by Marti Clemmons, “The Art + Social Practice Archive was founded and organized by Shoshana Gugenheim Kedem (@shoshanagugenheim), Roshani Thakore (@roshanithakore), Lauren Moran (@_lo_and_behold_) and Harrell Fletcher (@harrell_fletcher) in honor of the @psuartandsocialpractice program’s 10 year anniversary.
The archive is built around project materials connected to program collaborations, students and alumni to celebrate all the work that has been built from the program, and hopes to gather materials from socially engaged art projects from all over the world. As far as we know, it is the only official archive for social practice ephemera. ’We hope the archive will continue to develop into a collection that reflects the ever-growing, amorphous and far ranging field of socially engaged art, with representation from artists and projects all over. We hope to capture moments from the past, present and future of socially engaged art and create a rich history that reflects the complexity of the field.’ @_lo_and_behold_”.
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Image credits: Emily Fitzgerald and Eniko Banyasz

Alumni @saltythunder13 made this amazing video abo

Alumni @saltythunder13 made this amazing video about the program
REMINDER Applications for the Art and Social Practice Program are due on January 12th! Link in bio to apply.

Come by the publication fair at the cleaners to do

Come by the publication fair at the cleaners to donate a book the library at Columbia River!

Over the years there has always been a Canadian (s

Today’s test run of Everyday Disaster Research w

Today’s test run of Everyday Disaster Research with @zephxfish, applying methods gleaned from a Design Thinking class this term.
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#socialpractice #everydaydisastertraining #sociallyengagedart @psuartandsocialpractice

Quickie design challenge during our inspiring hand

Quickie design challenge during our inspiring hands-on intensive with Rosten Woo yesterday: come up with signage for a newly renovated building on PSU campus that reveals something new about the space. Illia brought us to the echoey stairways, which seem to be the only part of campus where graffiti sticks around. His sign: “Unpoliced Walls”. We also learned what a “Norman Door” is, learned the word for “stairs” in 15 languages, and made up a fictional narrative about a guerrilla plant installation on a sky bridge. .
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#socialpractice #sociallyengagedart #mfa

I love that I can participate in amazing workshops

I love that I can participate in amazing workshops like this one with Rosten Woo (@rostenwoo) from my studio in Walla Walla, WA. #psuartandsocialpractice rocks. #remotelife #rostenwoo @tiakramer

Tomorrow we will be doing an intensive with Rosten

Tomorrow we will be doing an intensive with Rosten Woo of the Center for Urban Pedagogy. He gave an inspiring talk and discussion tonight at PNCA about his practice, which blends elements of human-centered design with things we might call social practice. Looking forward to diving in more! Pictured: poster mapping the inter modular transportation network, made with members of a longshoremens union looking to think strategically about their leverage points in a globalized economy.
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@we_are_cup @rostenwoo

Found social practice on Broadway Bridge: a series

Found social practice on Broadway Bridge: a series of notes for people maybe gazing a bit too long at the city lights in the water. Thanks for the morale boost, Civil Unrest Bicycle Club!

A few years ago the PSU Art and Social Practice MF

A few years ago the PSU Art and Social Practice MFA program worked with @portlandartmuseum on a project they funded called See You Again. The idea was to create a model for a system to select and encourage museums to acquire non-material based art works from artists. We decided to use a caucus style approach. Several students from the program picked artists projects that could be translated into instructions and then presented information about the artists and the projects to a public audience. Afterwards the audience clustered around the projects that they thought should be purchased. There was a lot of contentious debate and shifting around and in the end the work that was selected was called Not MoMA by @ssyjuco .
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Initially the MFA program owned the piece and it was recreated as part of a @ksmoca exhibition. Then it was submitted to and was accepted by the Portland Art Museum’s acquisition committee and is now in PAM’s permanent collection. It was recreated again there at the museum for an exhibition that @libby_pmoma curated. We hope that the See You Again project encourages more museums to collect and work with instructional and non-object based work, especially social practice type projects.
The first photo is of students from the program (including @amandaleighevans who selected and presented Stephanie’s work) handing over the work (in instruction form) to @smkrajewski curator of contemporary art at PAM. Just one of the many amazing projects the program has worked on over the years.
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Remember applications are due Jan 12th. Feel free to DM with questions.

The PSU Art and Social Practice MFA is what we cal

The PSU Art and Social Practice MFA is what we call a Flexible Residency Program, that means that the students can be either in Portland taking classes or remote and taking the exact same classes online. (Note the red circles and arrows in the photos from past classes indicating the screens and projections that the remote online students are using to attend classes.) With the flexible residency model students can choose to spend their three years in the program in Portland, away from Portland, or a combination of the two. We have and have had students participating in the program from NYC, San Francisco, Braddock PA, Scotland, Singapore, Santa Fe, Humboldt Co, rural Kansas, Seattle, Walla Walla, etc. .
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Remember applications for Fall 2020 are being accepted now until Jan 12th! (Tell a friend.).
#artandsocialpractice #mfa #mfaprogram #socialpracticemafia #remotemfa #distancemfa #portland

For a number of years the PSU Art and Social Pract

For a number of years the PSU Art and Social Practice MFA Program published a series of books called Reference Points. Students selected artists that they admired to collaborate with on the books, some of which include @wendytewald #johnmalpede @temporaryservices #benkinmont #centerforurbanpedagogy @helguerapablo #luiscamnitzer and @_pedro_reyes_ .
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@jendelosreyes edited several of the first books and #julieault worked with students on most of them. Reference Points came to an end when the Portland version of @publicationstudio closed, but we continue similar work through the Sofa Journal and the publications that all graduating students make and distribute. Some of the students who participated in Reference Points include: @mjmenjivar @marikasherman #carmenpapalia @achmoser @nolcal @la_pati_vg @visavistravis among many others. Early design work was done by @nicolecameraphone and then taken over by @marikasherman . Copies are still available at the publication studio website. .
(Remember applications for the program can be submitted now until Jan 12th, tell a friend!)

Speaking of amazing folks like @mirandajuly that s

Speaking of amazing folks like @mirandajuly that students from the PSU Art and Social Practice MFA program have been able to meet and learn from over the years in various ways here are some more examples: @_pedro_reyes_ @salmon_creek_farm @leewalton123 @carsonellis @apcray #julieault @littlebrownmushroom @chrisjohansonart @hankwillisthomas @andreazittel among many others. Looking forward to our program trip to Chicago this year where we will meet artists and curators from there. Remember the deadline for Fall program applications is Jan 12th 2020. Tell your friends!

You will choose a department on campus other than

You will choose a department on campus other than the art department and become an “Artist in Residence” for that department during the quarter. You will work with people in your selected department to create a project that responds to the department’s qualities, needs, and interests. You will document your process and project, and will be graded on engagement in class and with your department. There are no pre-reqs!!! ART 327 (4 credits), questions? Email roz@pdx.edu

Thanks so much @mirandajuly for your recent amazin

Thanks so much @mirandajuly for your recent amazing post about the PSU Art and Social Practice program! Here is Miranda in her office in LA talking to folks from the MFA program while we were on a trip to Southern California a few years ago. Applications for Fall 2020 are open now, the deadline is January 12th. As part of the application you get to make fun videos inspired by Miranda’s participatory web based project #learningtoloveyoumore created in collaboration with @harrell_fletcher director of the PSU Art and Social Practice MFA program. Scholarships and TAships are available, contact the program to ask questions or schedule a visit. #mirandajuly

Today, alumnus of the program #carmenpapalia visit

Today, alumnus of the program #carmenpapalia visited the workshop class and gave a presentation about his amazing work including showing us this extremely long white cane which was used in an early performance designed to disrupt assumptions about disability and access in public spaces. Thanks Carmen!

Thanks @juliandassai for joining our class this pa

Thanks @juliandassai for joining our class this past Thursday! We enjoyed learning about snapshots of local people in community based comics and about the intricacies of creating a graphic novel that shared histories told by community members, collected by (and drawn by) local teens, while working alongside institutions. 🙏🏼

The PSU Art and Social Practice MFA program meets

The PSU Art and Social Practice MFA program meets weekly for classes at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School, a public preK-5 school in NE Portland where the KSMoCA project @ksmoca takes place. Students and alumni from the program take part in various aspects of working with KSMoCA and our annual Assembly conference will take place at the school this year in June.

Meet @shelbieloomis ✨ . . . #artandsocialpractic

Meet @shelbieloomis ✨
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#artandsocialpractice #psuartandsocialpractice #socialpracticeartist #artist #shelbieloomis #newmexico #santafe

Last Thursday we had an incredible conversation wi

Last Thursday we had an incredible conversation with “Herukhuti" Sharif Williams, a New York City based activist, artist, poet, and professor. He told us about his work that addresses the complexities, challenges, and beauty of being Black, bisexual, and a man in the United States and about the upcoming documentary No Homo | No Hetero: Sexual Fluidity and Manhood in Black America. On Nov 26th we are having artist Carmen Papalia #carmenpapalia an alumni of the Art and Social Practice program as our guest! Looking forward to learning about Papalia’s work!

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