PICA has bought exciting and innovative programs to Portland throughout the years. Below is a list of the most recent events.
Mon . Jan 7 . 7:30 pm
All The Way From Chicago! Marc Fisher from Temporary Services Will Lecture About His Work!
Mon . Jan 14 . 7:30 pm
All The Way From San Francisco! Amy Franceschini from Futurefarmers Will Lecture About Her Work!
Sun . Jan 27 . 2:30 pm
Mon . Jan 28 . 7:30 pm
Portland Local Legend! Andrew Dickson Will Lecture About His Work!
Tues . Jan 29 . 8 pm
Obsessive, athletic movement, live original music, and a spare minimalist set collide in this raw, sexy, brainy, and mysterious piece of dance theatre.
Wed . Jan 30 . 8 pm
Mon . Feb 4 . 7:30 pm
All The Way From San Francisco! Kate Pocrass Will Lecture About Her Work!
Mon . Feb 11 . 7:30 pm
All The Way From San Francisco! Emily Prince Will Lecture About Her Work!
Mon . Feb 18 . 7:30 pm
All The Way From Culver City! Matthew Coolidge from Center for Land Use Interpretation Will Lecture About His Work!
Sun . Feb 24 . 9 pm
Live at Holocene with performances by E*Rock, Hooliganship, Gay Deceivers & Nollifur.
Mon . Feb 25 . 7:30 pm
All The Way From Los Angeles! Andrea Bowers Will Lecture About Her Work!
Mon . Mar 3 . 7:30 pm
All The Way From San Francisco! Julio Morales Will Lecture About His Work!
Mon . Mar 10 . 7:30 pm
All the way from Brooklyn, New York. Anissa Mack lectures about her work.
Mon . Mar 31 . 7:30 pm
All The Way From San Francisco! Keegan McHargue Will Lecture About His Work!
Mon . Apr 7 . 7:30 pm
All the way from Portland! Storm Tharp lectures about his work!
Mon . Apr 14 . 7:30 pm
Portland Powerhouse! Marie Watt Will Lecture About Her Work!
Mon . Apr 21 . 7:30 pm
All The Way From NYC! Regine Basha Will Lecture About Her Work!
Sat . Apr 26 . 6 pm
Dinner by Simpatica, Live and Silent Auctions, Wall of Wine, and Live Entertainment: TADA! The Annual Gala makes its return Saturday, April 26, 2008.
Mon . Apr 28 . 7:30 pm
All The Way From Seoul, Korea! YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES Will Lecture About Their Work!
Mon . May 5 . 7:30 pm
All The Way From LA! Rebecca Ripple Will Lecture About Her Work!
Wed . May 7 . 7 pm
Mon . May 12 . 7:30 pm
All The Way From OK! Edgar Heap of Birds Will Lecture About His Work!
Mon . May 19 . 7:30 pm
All The Way From Baltimore, MD! Karen Yasinsky Will Lecture About Her Work!
Mon . June 2 . 7:30 pm
All The Way From NYC! Amy Yoes Will Lecture About Her Work!
Mon . June 9 . 7:30 pm
All The Way From LA! John Malpede Will Lecture About His Work!
Tues . June 24 . 5 pm
Get tipsy for a good cause.
Fri . July 18 . 8 pm
Featuring Velella Velella, Fleshtone, MEGA*CHURCH, and DJ Beyonda
Mon . Aug 4 . 5 pm
Sat . Aug 16 . 1 pm
Wed . Aug 20 . 5 pm
Sat . Sept 27 . 6:30 pm
Join us for an exculsive evening of fashion where you can preview via C collections and, more importantly, shop your favorite styles.
Mon . Oct 13 . 7:30 pm
Internationally acclaimed, Zittel develops hand-crafted furniture, homes and vehicles in response to human rhythms.
Sun . Oct 19 . 2:30 pm
Weaving seamlessly between performance, animation and theatre, Under Polaris is a multi-media quest through expansive arctic landscapes, mythical creatures and the ethereal Aurora Borealis.
Sun . Oct 19 . 6:30 pm
Sun . Oct 19 . 8:30 pm
Mon . Oct 20 . 7:30 pm
Simpson is widely known as an environmental artist, making outdoor sculpture and public art that involve its environment as well as its viewers.
Mon . Oct 27 . 7:30 pm
McCormick is a 34-year-old artist and filmmaker, and founder of Peripheral Produce, whose work blurs the lines between documentary and experimental filmmaking.
Mon . Nov 3 . 7:30 pm
O'Donnell is a Canadian novelist, essayist, performance artist, playwright, director and actor. PICA audiences may remember his TBA:07 project Haircuts by Children.
Mon . Nov 10 . 7:30 pm
An arts administrator, writer, curator, artist, sometimes publisher, Fink is the executive director of San Francisco's Southern Exposure, a long-running arts non-profit.
Mon . Nov 17 . 7:30 pm
Stephanie Smith is director of collections and exhibitions and curator of contemporary art at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago.
Mon . Nov 24 . 7:30 pm
Higgs is a British artist, curator, writer and publisher, currently based in New York where he directs White Columns, New York's oldest alternative art space.
Sat . Nov 29 . 9 pm
Performances by HOOLIGANSHIP, MEGA*CHURCH, and EXPLODE INTO COLORS
Mon . Dec 1 . 7:30 pm
Walker is director of education and associate curator for the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.
Sat . Dec 6 . 7 pm
Slip into a flurry of feather boas and take in the tinkling of piano keys at UNWRAPPED, PICA’s annual kickoff to the holiday season.
Get some holiday shopping done and bid on one-of-a-kind items at our Silent Auction. You'll be filled with holiday cheer knowing that all proceeds benefit PICA's artistic programming.
Sat . Dec 13 . 6 pm
AFTERGLOW: A Prints for PICA Aftersale on Now!
Mon . Jan 5 . 7:30 pm
Included the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Lucky Dragons work in a variety of media, including a weekly collaborative drawing society, and a small press and internet community.
Mon . Feb 23 . 7:30 pm
An emerging media artist based in Vancouver, BC, her recent work often involves collaboration with its subjects and invites both sympathetic and critical reflection.
Mon . Mar 2 . 7:30 pm
Born in Saint-louis-Senegal, West Africa, Dieng now lives in Portland, OR, where he was recently granted the position of assistant professor at PNCA.
Tues . Jan 1 . - Wed . Dec 31 .
Complete listing of confirmed PICA events by month.
Thurs . Sept 4 . - Sun . Sept 14 .
PICA's sixth annual convergence of contemporary performance, dance, music, new media and visual arts projects in Portland, Oregon.
Thurs . Sept 4 . - Sun . Oct 26 .
The New Absurdists is a gathering of over a dozen artist projects ranging from solo artist presentations, collaborative experiments, and several exhibitions
Mon . Oct 13 . - Mon . May 18 .
PSU's Art Dept. offers free public lectures every Monday night of the school year.
Tues . Oct 21 . - Sat . Oct 25 .
An exhibition of 120 works by ten Portland—both past and current—based artists.
Thurs . Dec 4 . - Sat . Jan 3 .
An interactive, site specific installation that explores the ephemeral nature of snow in an urban winter wonderland; co-comissioned by North and PICA.