Kate Pocrass

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

Kate Pocrass resides in San Francisco, California. She received her BFA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and her MFA degree from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Ms. Pocrass produces both independent and collaborative projects dealing with pedestrian culture and social sculpture. She draws on the anonymity of daily experience, reveling in common moments that unwittingly happened upon us each day. Ms. Pocrass develops systematic interaction through socially attuned and ephemeral projects in the public sphere. Her work is often encountered outside the gallery via hotlines, bus tours, audio tours, and participatory websites.

Ms. Pocrass has been awarded two Cultural Equity grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission to help self publish the books Mundane Journeys and Mundane Field Guide to Color. She is a recipient of the Fleishhacker Foundation 2008 Eureka Fellowship. Ms. Pocrass has exhibited work at Southern Exposure, Rena Bransten Gallery, AIA, Spanganga, Pond, New Langton Arts, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, University of California at Davis, Nelson Gallery, Artists Space in New York City, Foundation De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Rooseum in Malmo, Sweden, and participated in the 2006 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach.

For more information on Kate go to: www.mundanejourneys.com.

Portland State University's Art Department offers free public lectures every Monday night of the school year. This is the twelfth lecture in the PMMNLS for this season. The PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series is supported in part by PICA, Reed College, PNCA, Lewis and Clark College, PSU's Department of International Studies, and Ben Rosenberg Studio. If you or your organization are interested in becoming a supporter of the lecture series please let us know.

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