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Master of Fine Arts in
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Nov 13

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Now Open in AB Gallery! Visit Simeen Anjum’s Public Agency pf Travel Planning for the Overwhelmed. Open through Nov 22. Upcoming Performance by @peery.sloan Tue Nov 19 5:15pm followed by a conversation.

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Nov 9

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We’re part of the Zine Symposium at PSU’s Smith Memorial Student Union! ✨ It started yesterday and goes until 5pm today — tons of zines, artists, and good vibes! Come say hi! 👋

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Nov 6

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This term’s guest artist at KSMoCA is Yoonhee Choi, and we’ve just entered the second phase of her workshop! She shared how we can tell stories through colors—just like musicians express with notes and instruments, and writers with letters and sentences. ✨ What kind of story would you like to tell? Which colors connect to your emotion or experience?

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Nov 6

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This term, a lot of us have been thinking about the roll of playfulness not just in our art but as a why to make a difference. A sort “jestering” new collective realities into being. As a tool to bring down barriers for people to talk to each other, that otherwise wouldn’t. What is the role of play in your life and work?

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Nov 5

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Opening next week! Public Agency of Travel Planning is popping up in Portland! The show includes also a range of Office hours and Workshops. Come visit! When: Nov 10-21st Where: AB Gallery, Portland State University (2000 SW 5th Ave) Gallery Hours: 9-5 M-F Door Access: Buzz the doorbell or use a PSU ID for access.

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Oct 28

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What is an archive? We hit the library today to check out the Art + Social Practice Archive and find out what we could do to help preserve it. Thanks Marti, for all the info and letting us check out the work from past students in the program.✌️

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Oct 28

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First visit to our A+SP archive with the new cohort :]

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Oct 24

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This week our cohort assisted @ksmoca ‘s artist in residence, Yoonhee Choi, and students of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Elementary School, in a colorful paper-making workshop! This is the first part of many workshops that will take place throughout the term. We’re excited to see the kids and Yoonhee’s collaborative work at the end of the term!

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Oct 17

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Are you interested in the Art and Social Practice MFA at Portland State University? Our application information for Fall 2026 is now available — applications open in January 2026! Recognized by Artsy as one of the Top 15 Art Programs in the U.S., our three-year program combines individual practice, collaboration, community partnerships, and experiential learning with diverse faculty. We emphasize critical and professional practice, alternative pedagogy, and transdisciplinary exploration—creating an immersive and dynamic environment. Based primarily in Portland, the program also offers flexibility for students working on residencies or site-specific projects elsewhere. 🗓️ Application deadline: January 24, 2026, 11:59 PM PST

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Oct 12

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So, school started this fall with five new first-year students! It’s been two weeks since the new school year began. The biggest change this year is the new class schedule. We used to have afternoon classes from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m., but now they run from 1:30 to 4:10 p.m. Yes, it’s shorter and more focused. Is it too short? Or maybe it’s better—we get to leave before it gets really dark in the winter! Let’s see how it goes. 🌙

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Sep 28

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🌊✨ Program Retreat — Day 2 ✨🌊 Our main day together, filled with connection, creativity, and adventure! 🥑 Kicked off with an amazing avo toast breakfast 🏘️ Explored the neighborhood 🤝 Built our community agreement 🎤 Inspiring session with our program director, Lisa Jarrett 🎲 Fun games & pizza making 🌌 Wrapped up with a spooky, mysterious, beautiful, and adventurous night walk on the beach — discovering tide pools along the way Grateful for this community 💙

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Sep 27

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✨ This year’s program retreat has officially kicked off — welcoming our new first-year students! Excited to spend the weekend learning, sharing, and building community together. 🌊🌲

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Sep 26

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@adelafajury, our cohort memeber, will be exhibiting alongside amazing artists of the community, at 3rd annual SWANA Stitch Show as part of @portlandtextilemonth This year they be hosting their usual opening celebration (with snacks from @jawaherpdx ) 10/4 5-8PM (artist intros around 7PM) They also have a multiple of free and ticketed events throughout the month! These include an Egyptian Khayamiya appliqué class by @artwithamirra (tickets in @swanastitchpdx + @swanarosepdx profile) Look at the @swanarosepdx events calendar for all these events during which you will be able to view art. COME celebrate, learn from and support Threadlines artists from the varied cultures and diasporas from Iran, to Palestine, Lebanon, Armenia, and Egypt.

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Aug 19

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We love to travel but it’s not cool when you go to another land and steal those people’s houses! israel is a made up country and it needs to stop the killing and starvation of the millions of people in Palestine. Join the global strike against the Settler-Colonial State of israel! From the River to the Sea Palestine Shall be free ❤️

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Jul 8

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Public Agency of Travel Planning for the Overwhelmed is now opening in Philadelphia! We are setting up a temporary office at @writersroomdrexel for a special 3 day residency. Join us for mock visa interviews, community sourced travel advice, passport making workshop and other essentials of traveling. Tell your friends in Philly who are dreaming of an escape — Better Call Simeen 📞 6-7:30 PM, July 22-24th 229 N 34th St, Philadelphia PA 19104 #visaservices #internationaltravel #borders #bettercallsimeen #publicagencyoftravelplanningfortheoverwhelmed #ilovetravelling🌎✈️ #philadelphia

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Jun 26

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Yes, you heard that right! We are moving out of the Portland Building and currently looking for new venues for a Pop Up Office! We are looking for spaces, galleries, offices and any place that’s willing to partner with us to serve the travel enthusiasts of our time! Send a DM to @loadingwaitt if you have any ideas and proposals! Public Agency of Travel Planning for the Overwhelmed is a socially engaged art project by Simeen Anjum that navigates the ever shifting bureaucracy around traveling and borders.

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Jun 13

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The Spring 2025 issue of SOFA Journal (Social Forms of Art) is out now! Click the link in bio to read more. Clara Harlow in conversation with Jorge Lucero, Simeen Anjum with Kristan Kennedy, Nina Vichayapai with Elisheba Johnson, and Lou Blumberg with Lo Moran.

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Jun 13

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The Spring 2025 issue of SOFA Journal (Social Forms of Art) is out now! Click the link in bio to read more. Dom Toliver in conversation with Xavier Pierce, Sarah Luu with Lewis Alexander Geist, Gwen Hoeffgen with Roberta Hunte, Adela Cardona with Chariti Montez, and Midori Yamanaka with R.Y.

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Jun 2

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“Give Me Shelter” is a community storytelling project about the lived realities of “home” in Portland. Addressing the ongoing housing crisis, we ask: How can we reimagine public spaces to feel more like home, and uphold dignity and care? How can communities come together to build safety, belonging, and “home”? This project consists of an interactive art installation, public video installation featuring films from @otfpdx , and a public conversation around “home”. We are also featuring papers, poetry books, and resources from @streetroots Hope to see you there!!!

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May 31

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Struggling to access a sense of play under the relentless expectations and horrors of capitalism? Scrap your to-do list and clock out with us at Happiest Hour! Experience the board room game where everyone knows your name this Friday, June 6th at 3:45 pm at the Portland Building.

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May 31

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We hope this post finds you well! We just want to circle back on the board room game, Happiest Hour. It’s come to our attention this event is happening at the Portland Building next Friday, June 6th at 3:45 pm. While this event isn’t mandatory per se, your attendance is encouraged and we believe it could be quite effective in building camaraderie amongst colleagues. We are one big family after all! Looking forward, Happiest Hour Committee

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May 31

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Diaspora Kitchen: An exploration on how migration, identity and memory live in what we eat and how. Bring a recipe that reminds you of home- any dish, any origin. You can find us at the Park Blocks at the lawn facing Shattuck Hall and the Viking Pavillion (which is noted to be 800 SW Hall on maps). See you there! <3 -Sarah Luu

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May 30

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If you’ve been wondering how to evolve and grow in your way in this earth and uncertain times, come write and paint with us with prompts designed by Elders from the Watershed Community that have been through it all. Reflect on the power of loving from Julia’s prompts and the importance of different perception with Bernadine’s. An event co-created by the Watershed Community, @domenict_ @gwenhoeffgen and @adelafajury for this years Assembly: a three day event of participatory art free to the public x @pdxartsculture

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May 28

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Join us next Saturday! Songs Against Dark Times invites you to for a walk in Portland downtown remembering the resistance history of the area and songs that we cherish.

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May 28

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Assembly 2025 Schedule 📆 See you all next week!

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May 25

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Mark your calendars for your chance to get free visa consultation and practice interviews by ‘America’s No.1 Traveling Travel Agent’! Join us on Friday June 6th, 1-2pm at the Portland Building. #bettercallsimeen #travelagent #visaconsultants #travelnow

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May 23

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Hello past/upcoming travelers! You’re invited to a free ‘Passport Making’ Workshop next Friday. Hosted by Portland’s brand new Public Agency of Travel Planning for the Overwhelmed. The workshop will take place in the Portland Building. Leave a message to @loadingwaitt if you’re interested in joining. When Travel Rules are Mean, Better Call Simeen! #travelagency #visaconsultancy #bettercallsimeen

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May 22

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This Friday, May 23, two graduating members, Midori Yamanaka and Manfred Parrales, will be hosting a book release talk at Bold Coffee and Books, starting at 7 PM! They’ll be sharing not only about their first-time publishing experiences, but also about their conversations as artistic practice—exploring cultural and language barriers, and how they’ve been navigating them. We hope you can join us! Main Photo by @domenict_

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May 21

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🎉 Two graduating members of our MFA in Art and Social Practice program just opened their exhibition last Thursday—and it’s now on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art! 🖼️ Their social practice works are featured in the main floor gallery, where Midori and Manfred’s practices intersect—sparking new forms of collaboration within the space. 📺 The installation will also be activated with a live performance of PDX Hour, a TV-style show by Manfred Panky, on May 298 and June 5 at 4pm. Don’t miss it! 👇 Be sure to check out the BFA student exhibition on the lower level as well. The show runs through Thursday, June 5—please stop by if you’re in Portland!

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May 13

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Our Own @manfredpunky and @midorisees are graduating and sharing their artistic journey and projects on their Graduate Lectures from 5 pm-8pm on our Assembly Gathering for collaborative artwork. … Their talk speak to themes of culture, language translation and how we interact as parents, friends and overall humans

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May 13

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Come hang with Simeen and team this Thursday as we think about our relationship to traveling, tourism, borders, migration and the ever shifting bureaucracy of it all. Thursday, 15th May, 3-5 PM. The Portland Building DM @loadingwaitt for RSVP

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May 11

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Not sure how to answer your visa application questions? The Public Agency of Travel Planning for the Overwhelmed is here for you. ✈️ Stay tuned for bookings. #bettercallsimeen #travelconsultant #international #nowboarding

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