PSU Art & Social Practice

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!

Portland State University's School of Art + Design

Portland State University's School of Art + Design invites applications for the MFA in Art and Social Practice.

Recently included in Artsy’s list of The Top 15 Art Programs in the country, the Art and Social Practice MFA is a three-year, flexible residency program combining individual artistic practice, group work, community partnerships, and experiential learning. The program's blend of critical and professional practice, progressive pedagogy, collaborative social engagement, and transdisciplinary exploration produces an immersive educational environment. As an extension of the program’s unique pedagogy, graduate students have the opportunity to collaborate directly in ongoing projects and partnerships across the city:

Columbia River Creative Initiatives. CRCI is an artist-led creative platform with programs and classes held at the Columbia River Correctional Institution, a minimum-security prison in Northeast Portland, Oregon. Programming includes an Artist Residency for currently incarcerated artists, focusing on a range of topics related primarily to collaboration, conceptual art, and socially engaged art, The Inside Show, a variety show produced inside the prison, as well as graduate student-initiated special projects.

King School Museum of Contemporary Art. KSMoCA is a contemporary art museum inside of Martin Luther King Jr. School (PreK-5th) in NE Portland, OR. KSMoCA’s programs are collaboratively developed with the MLK Jr. School community, PSU students, and a team of artists.

In addition to these opportunities, graduate students can also join the editorial board of the self-published program journal and co-create an end-of-year social practice Assembly conference. .
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Scholarships and TAships are available. Contact us to schedule a visit..
#mfa #prisonart #fredarmisen #portlandia #artandsocialpractice

Do you know @michaelstevensonjr? @ksmoca . . #arta

Do you know @michaelstevensonjr? @ksmoca .
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#artandsocialpractice #psuartandsocialpractice #socialpracticeartist #artist #artistmichaelbernardstevensonjr

Capturing ‘the remote experience.’ Tuesday exe

Capturing ‘the remote experience.’ Tuesday exercise time included a group reenactment of Russians’ daily exercise routines during Stalin’s last year alive. Killing it team. #artandsocialpractice #psuartandsocialpractice #tuesdayexercises

A request for character references, to be addresse

A request for character references, to be addressed to “an authority YOU respect”... Authority is a Question with @zephxfish and the Office of Neighborship

Today we were joined by local artist @soheilaazadi

Today we were joined by local artist @soheilaazadiartist who talked about her practice of examining gendered spaces through exchanges and collaborating with her mom in Iran. First year student, Illia tries on Soheila’s “afghan” made by her mother.

HAPPENING NOW! Erickson Gallery, 5-7pm, 2nd and Bu

HAPPENING NOW! Erickson Gallery, 5-7pm, 2nd and Burnside

Another announcement from our prison collaboration

Another announcement from our prison collaboration - Episode 1 of The Inside Show is LIVE! It’s got: CRCI Fashion Show sketch feat. Fred Armisen @sordociego 🧲 Poetry by Carlos Cotto 🧲 Pocket Carrots sketch written by Mark Arnold 🧲 Microwave Magic: Ramerrito (that’s a ramen-burrito) 🧲 Art Skillshare (ninja turtles) by David “Ohio” Phipps 🧲 The Trail of Tears by the CRCI Native Drum Circle

You can kick back and watch the entire episode or individual videos! Find all the links on YouTube at bit.ly/insideshowep1 or crci.art/the-inside-show

P.S. due to technical delays it will take a couple more weeks to broadcast on Portland public access TV, but enjoy it on youtube first. Thanks to everyone who came out for The Inside Show launch! Please share and tell us what you think!

#theinsideshow @crci.art

One of the fine pumpkins that will be available th

One of the fine pumpkins that will be available this evening at Memorandum of Understanding, at Erickson Gallery at 5pm! All pumpkins are $25 dollars, and proceeds go directly to the artists. Buyers also must sign a contract and enter into an agreement to document the pumpkins on their doorstep, photos of which will be re-exhibited in a closing reception on the 30th. Please come!

Tonight! The Inside Show outside launch at 630pm,

Tonight! The Inside Show outside launch at 630pm, @picapdx. Followed by a Q&A. Hope to see you there! 🤘🏻#theinsideshow @crci.art

Microwave Magic on The Inside Show✨ Edward is a

Microwave Magic on The Inside Show✨ Edward is a stellar cook on his prison unit. A lot of inmates hate the chow food they get inside. Some cook or pool resources for their favorite chef to make meals. Microwave Magic is a segment where inmates showcase genius ways of making gourmet meals using just a microwave. Every unit has one microwave and people get to order limited items off a list to cook with. Recipes are often passed through word of mouth, even through prisons. On set the team has made smothered cheesy burritos, taffy, chocolate cheesecake and more. This particular episode always made people drool and apparently more burritos were being made as a result of this demo! #microwavemagic #theinsideshow @crci.art 🤘🏻
LAUNCHING TUESDAY 10/15, 630pm at @picapdx. (Event details: bit.ly/theinsideshowlaunch) Also on YouTube and Portland public access tv. Visit crci.art/the-inside-show 🙏🏻