Portland State University’s Art Department offers free public lectures every Monday night of the school year. This years current lecture line up can be found  here.

A major part of the MFA in Contemporary Art Practice curriculum is the Monday Night Lecture Series where both studio and social practice students have a dinner with the visiting lecturer and take in a student presentation during dinner. After the public lecture students get to have an additional Q & A session with the lecturer over drinks.

PMMNLS gives students incredible access to a varied selection of international, national and local individuals. In addition students also get to have a series of one on one meetings with a selection of lecturers per term.

Past PMMNLS lecturers include Dan Graham, Jim Drain, Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Allan McCullum, San Keller, Lisa Sigal, Byron Kim, Fritz Haeg, Matthew Higgs, Courtney Fink and Stephanie Smith.

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.

Image: Journal of Aesthetics and Protest lecture, November 2, 2009.