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Master of Fine Arts in
Contemporary Art Practices at
Portland State University
Interested in making art with people? Applications Interested in making art with people? Applications for our 3 year graduate program open this weekend, Dec 1! The Art + Social Practice MFA Program at Portland State University fosters creativity and an openness to the scope of social practice and therefore welcomes applicants from a variety of backgrounds and creative practices. These include but are not limited to performance, writing, conceptual or visual art, design, curation, and of course, those with an already established socially-engaged practice. Students' work focuses on relationships, and takes the form of public projects, performances, curation, collaborations, and community-engaging actions. To make sure we are a good fit, please visit our website to learn more about social practice and the types of work created within the program. Link in bio! Applications are due January 25, 2025
Want to share a charcuterie board in class? Build Want to share a charcuterie board in class? Build structures out of yarn? Make up new terms? Pour iron? Dream up a project about dream horses? ++++++more???? Then PSU’s Art + Social Practice is probably for you, apply starting December 2, link in bio! Share with your friends!!
We’re back!! Last night folks arrived to our ann We’re back!! Last night folks arrived to our annual program retreat to start the year off together🌟 we’ve been making friends and enjoying each others company, more to come soon!
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Some moments from Find the Penny, Make the Wish by Some moments from Find the Penny, Make the Wish by @gilnotjill — Assembly 2024 — Capitalism Fountain outside #lloydcenter — 📸 @jadareese___ In this piece, 40+ participants transformed a defunct fountain to capitalism into a wishing well.
Repost from @liv__bliss • I graduated🦋 and pa Repost from @liv__bliss • I graduated🦋 and part of that grad work was making these oh so special garments🌟 INVERTED is a collection based on queer history, reclaiming language, and showing up exactly as you are. Each garments features a phrase found in the queer history research I’ve been conducting over the past year - phrases like austere dandy, debauched and amoral, strange and revolting and more💫 these phrases were found in news reporting, medical journals, everyday conversation, and were all used to describe queer folks in the 20th century. What if we reclaim this language? What if we wear history on our bodies? What kind of possibilities can we create? All garments available at foundfeeling.com link in bio!!!! The best photos by @aj.morrison The best fashion show directed by @kyealive
Repost from @nvichayapai • Had a wonderful time Repost from @nvichayapai • Had a wonderful time hearing about so many regret purchases for the Regret Shop at Lloyd Center Mall last month! Thanks to all who shared your tragedies with me, big and small. In exchange for turning in a regret receipt I gave people a little bag which could be filled with different items designed to assist people in moving on from their current regrets or prevent future regrets. These items addressed regret and impulse shopping through the senses— blindfolds to shut out the sight of alluring objects, lavendar sachets embroidered with words to remind you to take a moment to pause, a regret playlist, and so on. These items were all designed to provide protection against the many multisensory ways marketers target us while we shop. Still feeling so many feelings about completing my first year in grad school. Stay tuned as I share more recent projects! Thanks @jadareeseart for the lovely photos!
ASSEMBLY Day 2! Here’s the schedule for today. G ASSEMBLY Day 2! Here’s the schedule for today. Grab a Cinnabon and find us at the mall!
TODAY! Find us at Lloyd Center Mall for a full day TODAY! Find us at Lloyd Center Mall for a full day of Assembly events 🎈 We’ve brought the Welcome Desk back to life for the day ✨ Pick up a schedule there (and a free copy of Planet Lloyd newspaper while you’re at it). See you at the mall!
Highlight from Perfect Action. Highlight from Perfect Action.
Assembly 2024 begins with Perfect Action with @kye Assembly 2024 begins with Perfect Action with @kyealive and @illuminato_studio @illuminato ! Next event will start at noon tomorrow on Saturday 6/8! Come join at Lloyd Center Mall!!
Join Kye Kauffman Grant and M. Michelle Illuminato Join Kye Kauffman Grant and M. Michelle Illuminato for a guided mall walk to kick-off Assembly Weekend! We will share glimpses of the sky, delight in poetic perspectives and follow balloons, all while engaging in the perfect action, community mall walking. Meet in the parking lot near Marshalls at 11... look for the red balloon! Info for those attending - This is open to the public and an all-age event. Please wear walking shoes. This is a walk, at times slow and at other times a ‘mall walk pace.’ There is no running and limited stairs. Those with any physical limitations, please let us know so that we can accommodate.
Join @kyealive and @illuminato_studio for a guided Join @kyealive and @illuminato_studio for a guided mall walk to kick-off Assembly Weekend! We will share glimpses of the sky, delight in poetic perspectives and follow balloons, all while engaging in the perfect action, community mall walking. Meet in the parking lot near Marshalls at 11... look for the red balloon! Info for those attending - This is open to the public and an all-age event. Please wear walking shoes. This is a walk, at times slow and at other times a ‘mall walk pace.’ There is no running and limited stairs. Those with any physical limitations, please let us know so that we can accommodate. @psu_artpractice @psu_arts @psu_artanddesign @psu_printmaking @psu_arts @psu_citylab_abroad #psuartanddesign #psuartandsocialpractice #mallartists #socialpracticeart
🩵🩵🩵 The 2024 Art + Social Practice Gradua 🩵🩵🩵 The 2024 Art + Social Practice Graduate lectures are this Friday, June 7, from 2:30-6:30pm at The Rose City Book Pub! Olivia DelGandio at 2:30pm, Luz Blumenfeld at 3:45pm, and Gili Rappaport at 5pm. See you there! 🩵🩵🩵 P.S. They will also be livestreamed on Zoom for those of you who can’t make it in person.
Come see 3rd year Liv’s final (!!!) assembly eve Come see 3rd year Liv’s final (!!!) assembly event!!! INVERTED, part of their grad project, is a clothing line featuring words and phrases from queer history. The show, directed by the one and only @kyealive is happening at Lloyd Center on Saturday at 5:30 and boy oh boy you don’t want to miss it❣️
Straight from @everoutportland 📰 Come participa Straight from @everoutportland 📰 Come participate in a weekend of social practice projects that @lindsay.costello calls “thoughtful, resourceful, weird, and often funny.” This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday!
The Spring '24 edition of SOFA interviews is out n The Spring '24 edition of SOFA interviews is out now! Nina Vichayapai with Monyee Chau, Lou Blumberg with Simeen Anjum, Midori Yamanaka with Amanda Larriva, Luz Blumenfeld with Hollis Blue Hawkins Wood, Clara Harlow with Katie Shook and Gili with Midnite Seed Abioto and LaQuida Landford. Read the full interviews, Link in bio.
The Spring'24 edition of SOFA interviews is out no The Spring'24 edition of SOFA interviews is out now! Simeen Anjum with Lou Blumberg, Manfred with Israa Al Hasani and Olivia Delgandio with Lauren Delgandio. Read the full interviews, link in our bio.
Repost from @midorisees • I’m having a great t Repost from @midorisees • I’m having a great time with my project, “Names by Brushes - Lloyd Center Mall as a Gallery!” It’s so rewarding to see people excited about their own names and the shapes I’ve created.
 Another thing happened today... Sydney initially told me there was no story or meaning behind her name. So I asked, “Why did your mom choose the name?” She replied, “My mom just cared about how it sounds. She wanted the name to sound nice and pretty...” I said, “So, she really cared about the sound.” Then she realized, “I guess that’s the story...!” I said, “YES!” This project has been such an exploration for all of us, and it has surpassed my expectations in so many ways! 
This project will keep on going towards our Assembly event on 6/7-6/8 at Lloyd Center. My opening performance will take a place at Lloyd Center Ice Rink at Noon on Saturday, 6/8!! Come join us.

[Japanese] 私のプロジェクトのひとつ、”Names by brushes - ロイドセンターをアートギャラリーに”で、めちゃくちゃ楽しんでます！予想以上にみんなめちゃくちゃ喜んでくれてびっくり！自分の名前を「違うカタチで見る」という体験が、新たな視点や感情をもたらしてくれていることを実感。小さいけれど、アートの価値を噛み締めてる。

今日、シドニーが「私の名前には特に意味もストーリーもないのよ」というので、私が「なんであなたのお母さんはその名前を選んだの？」と聞いたら「母はただ、耳障りのいい、可愛い名前にしたかったんだって」というから、「じゃあ、お母さんは音を大切にしたのね？」と私が聞いたら、ハッとして「あぁ、それって、ストーリーよね」と彼女。「だよね！？笑」と私。

このプロジェクト、当初の予想をどんどん超えて関わる全ての人の「発見の旅」になってる。

このプロジェクトは6/7-8にロイドセンターで行われるイベント、Assemblyまで続きます。また、私のオープニングパフォーマンスは6/8土曜日正午から、アイスリンクでだよ♪みんな、おいで❤️
✨FIND THE PENNY✨MAKE THE WISH🌬️✨ join ✨FIND THE PENNY✨MAKE THE WISH🌬️✨ join us as we transform the defunct fountain called ‘Capitalism’ into a thirty minute ✨wishing well✨ where we will temporarily fill the empty basin with buckets of water✨CLiNK CLiNK ✨ give your ✨best wishes✨ 6/8 1:30PM @ “Capitalism” outdoor marble and concrete sculpture and fountain (1991) 📍Corner of NE 9th Avenue + NE Multnomah Street, outside entrance to Lloyd Center Mall 🌟 Part of Assembly, annual art + social practice conference 🦋 facilitated by Gili Rappaport @gilnotjill
Get involved with the Social Practice Club as they Get involved with the Social Practice Club as they continue working on their Neighborhood mural! The upcoming painting session is scheduled for next Wednesday, May 29th, at 5 PM. Come contribute to this collaborative masterpiece at PSU campus (located in the White Gallery, SMSU Building, floor 2).
Please join us for the mural revealing reception a Please join us for the mural revealing reception and party! It is on Friday of week 10!! Let’s celebrate our accomplishments and end of term with our collaborative mural based on a theme of “neighborhood”.
For our weekly social practice conversation class, For our weekly social practice conversation class, this week our guest artist was Charlie Wilcox. Charlie is a designer, animator, embroiderist, musician, artist, collaborator, and friend who hails from Lindstrom, Minnesota, also known as “America’s Little Sweden.” Charlie shared their vision and process of turning animation into a collaborative medium of artmaking. We also had the chance to see some stunning textiles with embroidery, screenprinting, stickers, and doodles that were created collaboratively with different groups they worked with. Charlie transforms these textiles into animation pieces. Charlie’s social practice involves exploring what it means to turn the creation of animation into a hands-on event that can focus and generate community. By developing animation as a collaborative act that integrates qualities from textile craftwork and participatory art, Charlie explores new situations and purposes for animation, using it as a method for collective expression and visioning.
Join us for Assembly 2024! We are so excited to se Join us for Assembly 2024! We are so excited to see you this year at Lloyd Center, The Rose City Book Pub, and The Community for Positive Aging (fka The Hollywood Senior Center) 💙
Join us next week to celebrate the opening of Long Join us next week to celebrate the opening of Long Story Short! Yay for Gili, Luz, and Liv…and all the other graduating artists! Repost from @psu_museum_of_art • Important Update!⁠ ⁠ Long Story Short: 2024 BFA/MFA Showcase is rescheduled to open on Tuesday, May 21 and will be on view through June 8, 2024! ⁠ ⁠ See work by the 2024 graduates of the Master of Fine Arts in Contemporary Art Practices programs (Studio Practice and Art + Social Practice) and the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Practice in the Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design. ⁠ ⁠ 🎨 Featured artists: Uva Beaz, Luz Blumenfeld (@dogsighs__), Io Boerke (@iotothemoon), Richard Bousquet (@TheRich4270), SadieLee Crume (@artyfartybastard), Olivia DelGandio (@liv__bliss), Loki Demarais (@of.themarsh), Jadan Edmunds, Benen Falkner (@someflightlessbirds), Izaak Fazekas (@izaakfazekas), Thomas Finan, HG Garner, Reverie Gausman (@emotionalsocialism), Joaquin Golez (@other_eros), Maddy Hehn (@dreamypeachstudios), Laura Helgeson (@laura.g.helgeson), Kirsty Koslowski (@spacekrakenstudio), Alec Allen Mysak (@wrmbrains), Blaine Petrella, Lillyanne Pham (@lillyannepham), Kristen Poore, Gilian Rappaport, Kinsey Rasch, Adalia Rios (@adaliariosstudio), Osvaldo Rios-Sabalza (@osyraide), Ceana Seydel, Katy Steen (@_broken_beauty_ks), Scott Taddei (@sjtaddei), Lily Villicana (@lilysartpothecary), Katie Wagner (@katiewagnerpdx), and Cameron Wilhite (@cameron_l_wilhite⁠)
It was such a treat getting to work and learn alon It was such a treat getting to work and learn alongside visiting artist, teacher, and activist Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo (@bluekaza) this spring. For this workshop, we were invited to contribute to Lukaza’s Movement School in the form of printing communally-made banners for Palestinian Liberation along with an abundance of art students at PSU. It was so special to make things together with our hands while talking about the preciousness and power of the collective, the importance of liberatory practices both inside and outside of the institution, and the alternative futures we hope to build together. Endless gratitude to @bluekaza, @psu_printmaking, and @kat__richards for inviting us in :)
We kicked off our Assembly research this term in t We kicked off our Assembly research this term in the archives at the Oregon Historical Society learning about the site of Lloyd Center mall, where we’ll host this year’s student-led social practice art extravaganza. Here we discovered an abundance of delights, including images of a pop-up circus, the balloon release at the mall’s opening in 1960, an ice skating club, and Ella Fitzgerald’s incredibly popular mall performance. Stay tuned to see where this research takes us ✨
The residency begins! Repost from @midorisees • The residency begins! Repost from @midorisees • Artist in residence begins! アーティストインレジデンス って知ってますか？ ​ アーティストが 一定の期間、 ある場所に滞在し、 そこで作品を作る というもので、 日本では頭文字をとって AIR(Artist In Residenceだから) または「滞在制作」などと 言われています。 ​ 新たな場所で 新たな視点で 新たな人たちと取り組むという アーティストとしての 訓練的要素もあるし ​ 地域の人たちにとっては 自分達の地域で生まれた アート作品という価値もあるし ​ アーティストの視点や作品を 通して自分の街を見るという 価値もあるし ​ その時、アーティストは 町おこしの文脈で言われる 「若者／よそ者／バカもの」 でもあります ​ 私の事実上初めてになる レジデンスが はじまります ​ 日本でいえば 「シャッター街」と呼ばれるような ショッピングモールが そのレジデンス先です ​ これから約1ヶ月をかけて プロジェクトに取り組んでいきます。 ​ ​#artistinresidence #AIR
This week artist D. Chase Angier @dchaseangier vis This week artist D. Chase Angier @dchaseangier visited the program and taught an inspiring workshop on site-responsive movement at the Lloyd Center Mall. We explored the mall individually, noting places that were curious, interesting or even silly to us. We each created sketches and then performed for each other around the mall… helping expand our connection to the place (and each other!) D. Chase Angier creates work as Angier Performance Works in collaboration with artists in the visual and performing arts; and has exhibited internationally (Japan, Czech Republic, Germany, Mexico, The United Kingdom, Iceland, France) and nationally in theaters, galleries, and visually inspiring sites. Angier is a Professor of Dance in the School of Art and Design + Performing Arts Division. She has collaboratively developed a dance program at Alfred University based on creative place making, site specific choreography and interdisciplinary performance. Angier is an International Juror for the Exhibition of Countries and Regions at the 2023 Prague Quadrennial and a member of the NYSCA/NY State DanceForce. ❤️Thank you Chase!!! #psuartandsocialpractice #socialpractice #mallart @psu_artpractice @psu_artanddesign @psu_arts @psu_core
This has been the year of the neighborhood in the This has been the year of the neighborhood in the program! From writing letters to invite people to be a part of ours to going out in the world to widen our neighborhood to introducing ourselves to the mall neighborhood to this neighborhood mural by the Social Practice Club! Read on! Repost from @midorisees • Today was the fourth taping day for our mural project! 

Join us for the “Neighborhood” mural project organized by the Social Practice Club! It’s located at the White Gallery in the Smith Memorial Student Union (SMSU). 
Everyone from the community is invited to participate! The working hours are posted on the wall and in the picture. @psu_artpractice @psu_printmaking @psu_arts @nvichayapai @loadingwaitt
It has been a while since our MFA program’s last It has been a while since our MFA program’s last trip due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Our first trip since then took us to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from April 3rd to 7th, 2024. We explored many places together, in small groups, or individually. Highlights included visits to artists Lenka Clayton and Ginger Brooks Takahashi, and meetings with Sean Derry and Sharon Massey at Assemble. This trip was a truly unique experience that we wouldn’t have had if not for this program! The amount of input and inspiration we received from the artists, their work, and their processes was immense. Moreover, the diverse perspectives and conversations we shared throughout the trip deepened our engagement with the opportunities and with each other. It was enriching to experience Social Practice art in and from different places.
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