PICA has bought exciting and innovative programs to Portland throughout the years. Below is a list of the most recent events.
Mon . Jan 25 . 7:30 pm
Hasan Elahi is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines issues of surveillance, simulated time, transport systems, borders, and frontiers.
Mon . Feb 1 . 7:30 pm
George Kuchar ranks among the most outrageous and prolific independent American filmmakers working today.
Sat . Feb 6 . 4 pm
PICA will host curators Jens Hoffmann and Harrell Fletcher of the People's Biennial to discuss the TBA:10 show and solicit artist suggestions.
Mon . Feb 8 . 7:30 pm
Paul RamÃrez Jonas is a contemporary multi-disciplinary artist whose work repurposes and reinterprets found systems and texts.
Mon . Feb 15 . 7:30 pm
Barry Sanders is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and professor of liberal arts at Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Mon . Feb 22 . 7:30 pm
Kristan Kennedy is an artist and curator. Kennedy is the Visual Art Program Director at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and is represented by Elizabeth Leach Gallery. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
Fri . Feb 26 . 12:30 pm
Join Artistic Director Cathy Edwards and performance/video artist Dayna Hanson for a film screening of past work and a preview of TBA:10.
Tues . Mar 30 . 12:30 pm
Learn about strategies for touring your performance work from Performing Arts Program Director Erin Boberg Doughton.
Thurs . Apr 1 . 7 pm
Cool Art unveils the first six editions from its ongoing poster project, curated by Rob Halverson.
Mon . Apr 5 . 7:30 pm
Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose work explores the varying relationships between culture and politics, engaging subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, Southern rock music, and modernism.
Mon . Apr 12 . 7:30 pm
Stephanie Syjuco is a visual artist whose recent work uses the tactics of bootlegging, reappropriation, and fictional fabrications to address issues of cultural biography, labor, and economic globalization.
Mon . Apr 19 . 7:30 pm
Akihiko Miyoshi is a conceptual artist and former computer engineer who uses algorithmic computations to investigates contemporary digital technology.
Sat . Apr 24 . 6 pm
Dinner by Simpatica, Live Auction by Laura Michalek, Cocktails, Music & TBA:10 Preview Performance by Noelle Stiles.
Mon . Apr 26 . 7:30 pm
Sojourn Theatre creates new performance in Portland, Oregon, and around the nation that utilizes multimedia, site-specificity, and direct audience participation.
Mon . May 3 . 7:30 pm
Swoon is a Brooklyn-based street artist whose woodblock prints, scavenged sculpture, and flotilla performances agitate for progressive social change.
Mon . May 10 . 7:30 pm
Hank Willis Thomas is a contemporary visual artist and photographer focusing on race, advertising and popular culture.
Fri . May 14 . 10 pm
open is a collaborative, durational, co-writing experiment addressing the concerns, practices, and issues around socially engaged art via writing out loud.
Mon . May 17 . 7:30 pm
Open Engagement is a 3-day conference that is an initiative of the PSU Art and Social Practice concentration and co-sponsored by PNCA and PCC.
Mon . May 17 . 10 pm
Fri . July 9 . 8 pm
Party with Deelay Ceelay, Skeletron, and DJ Beyonda as PICA celebrates 15 years of contemporary art! Drinks, pinatas, and tacos.
Tues . July 13 . 12:30 pm
Advice from Artistic Director Cathy Edwards and Development Associate Scott McEachern on effective grant applications.
Thurs . Aug 19 . 5 pm
Mix and mingle with PICA for a TBA:10 preview at this happy hour favorite.
Mon . Aug 30 . 5 pm
Get a jump on TBA at the Low Brow Lounge and drink in support of PICA.
Thurs . Sept 23 . 12 pm
A collection of installations, exhibitions, projections, and gatherings by visual artists.
Fri . Sept 24 . 12 pm
Sat . Sept 25 . 12 pm
Sun . Sept 26 . 12 pm
Thurs . Sept 30 . 12 pm
Fri . Oct 1 . 12 pm
Sat . Oct 2 . 12 pm
Sun . Oct 3 . 12 pm
Mon . Oct 4 . 7:30 pm
The Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum discusses building community and context for the arts.
Thurs . Oct 7 . 12 pm
Fri . Oct 8 . 12 pm
Sat . Oct 9 . 12 pm
Sun . Oct 10 . 12 pm
Mon . Oct 11 . 7:30 pm
Chin's multi-disciplinary practice insinuates art into unlikely places explores how art can provoke social awareness and responsibility.
Thurs . Oct 14 . 12 pm
Fri . Oct 15 . 12 pm
Sat . Oct 16 . 12 pm
Sun . Oct 17 . 12 pm
Sun . Oct 17 . 3 pm
Walk the halls of WHS with Kristan Kennedy and say goodbye to the TBA:10 ON SIGHT installations.
Mon . Oct 18 . 7 pm
Rojas' folk-inspired installations address social concerns and the representations of women in our culture.
Sat . Oct 23 . 7 pm
A previously banned screening of short films straddling the line and blurring the boundaries of art, sexuality, and pornography.
Mon . Oct 25 . 7:30 pm
Jeremijenko, Director of xDesign, is an engineer and artist who explores the overlaps of society, culture, and the environment.
Mon . Nov 1 . 7:30 pm
Johanson is a painter, muralist, installation artist, and illustrator who lives and works in Portland and Los Angeles.
Mon . Nov 8 . 7:30 pm
With a focus on the act of mark-making and the dynamics of social situations, Marioni was one of the pioneers of Conceptual Art.
Wed . Nov 10 . 12:30 pm
Visual Art Program Director Kristan Kennedy gives an off-the-cuff report on her recent curatorial trip to France.
Mon . Nov 15 . 7:30 pm
Ryan Pierce, co-founder of Signal Fire, talks about the program's artist residencies in Oregon's wild spaces.
Fri . Dec 3 . 7:30 pm
Get festive with PICA at our annual holiday party and silent auction.
Sat . Dec 11 . 6 pm
A bustling, all-day printmaking workshop, with one-of-a-kind artist prints sold fresh off the presses.
Fri . Dec 17 . 6:15 pm
A panel discussion between local institutions about the Smithsonian's censorship of a work by the late David Wojnarowicz.
Thurs . Sept 9 . - Sun . Sept 19 .
Join us September 9-19, 2010 in Portland, Oregon for a ten-day happening of contemporary performance, dance, music, and new media, with an additional month of visual arts installations.
Thurs . Dec 16 . - Sun . Dec 19 .
Visit your friendly contemporary art corner store for original, affordable prints from Portland artists.