Art Week’s mission is to provide the Lewis & Clark College community

with an annual festival wherein interdiciplinary arts are presented in a hands-on manner, facilitating

workshops, discussion, community involvement, and exhibition

opportunities.

This publication aims to engage all potential Art Week attendees, serving

as a celebratory and participatory vessel for the week’s overall mission.

Its interactive elements invite readers to partake in artistic

expression and make their ownunique contributions to Art Week.

For a guide to all listed event locations, please see the back cover’s map.

Art WeekLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE 2014

Cover artwork is Subtle Adornments, a project by Zoe Field & Heather McKenna.

When the context of the studio changes, how does the work shift in response? Heather McKenna is an artist from Brooklyn, NY and a recent graduate of Pratt Institute, where she majored in Fine Arts Sculpture and minored in Art History. In discussion of her artistic practices and those of fellow recent gradu-ates, McKenna will address post-college art making. This will be McKenna’s second visit to Lewis & Clark, where she previouslycon-structed pieces for her Surface Matters exhib-it at the Place Gallery in Downtown Portland. McKenna’s work examines the complexity of recognition and resemblance, and how each relates to representation and memory.

Discussion with Heather McKennaCouncil Chamber 4-5 pm

Cycles intends to symbolize the regeneration and new growth that Artweek itself hopes to initiate: the show was inspired by the novelty of this en-tirely student-led festival. As students and inhab-itants of this campus, we have the potential to reinvigorate our space and imbue it with a sense of both communal creativity and independent creative exploration. The Pool House was chosen as the venue for the show because it is primarily used for storage and is somewhat neglected for the duration of the academic year, meaning that the historic and aesthetic beauty of the building is often overlooked. We hope to realize the full potential of this building by embracing its utilitar-ian qualities and showcasing the ability of art to regenerate and redefine the vitality of a space.

-Curators Erica Lauer & Taylor Wallau

Cycles: Student Art Exhibition OpeningPool House 5-7 pm

Open from 1-4 pm Tueday-FridayFood and refreshments will be served.

MONDAY 4.21

A continuous loop of student video art will be screened at the entrance to Fields Center for the Visual Arts.

Student Artist Talk with Tony ChrenkaHoffmann Gallery 12-1 pm

Tony Chrenka will discuss Us With Everything, an installa-tion of video with mixed me-dia. This piece delves into the concepts of consumption and blips, or misunderstandings of the material world around us.

Zine Workshop with Malcolm HechtThe Platteau 2-4 pm

Attendees will have a guided, hands-on opportunity to become familiar with rudi-mentary publication techniques. A variety of materials will be avail-able, allowing everyone to construct their own small zines during the workshop.

MONDAY 4.21Video Art Exhibition Opening

Fields Foyer 5-7 pmOpen from 10-4 pm Tuesday-Friday

Food and refreshments will be served.

TUESDAY 4.22

Artist Talk with Mike BrayMiller 102 6:30-8 pm

Mike Bray addresses the artifice of film and the spectacle of rock and roll perfor-mance via still images, short video loops, and sculptural objects. Bray received his MFA from the University of Oregon, where he currently teaches in the art department. His work has been exhibited at such spaces as Fourteen30 Contemporary in Portland, Human Resources in Los Angeles, and the Dublin Electronic Festival in Ireland. Bray is co-founder and co-director of Ditch Projects in Springfield, Oregon, an artist-run studio, installation and performance space.

White Light/White Sound: Performance by Daniel Nickerson & Taylor Anne Finch

The Platteau 9-10 pmThis performance about Lou Reed’s final breath will combine live music with shadow puppets. Daniel Nickerson and Taylor Anne Finch have worked together previously on a puppet and music performance about the search for Bob Dylan’s missing hat. Nickerson and Finch have also collaborated with Portland-based mari-onette troupe Castiron Carousel.

Larissa Board will discuss her video series (in)coherence, which explores the questions of “When do you feel most feminine?” and “When do you feel most masculine?” by following six disparate in-dividuals through their morning routines. Board will discuss each individual’s voice and personal story in relation to societal perception and construction of identity.

Student Artist Talk with Larissa BoardHoffmann Gallery 12-1 pm

WEDNESDAY 4.22

WEDNESDAY 4.23Artist Talk with Morgan Ritter

Council Chamber 4-6 pmMorgan Ritter plans to take a two-week residency at Lewis & Clark to engage in Raku sculpture with students. Ritter is a sculptor, writer, video artist based out of Portland, OR. She is a 2011 graduate of the Pacific North-west College of Art. Ritter has locally re-leased two books, through Publication Studio and 89+. Her visual work has been shown at the Portland Museum of Modern Art, The University of Chicago’s Department Court-yard, and Centre Pompidou of Paris, France.

WHAT WOULD YOUR IDEAL ART WEEK LOOK LIKE?

Use any materials to illustrate your vision, and submit for our future reference. Submission

boxes are located in the Pool House and in the foyer of Fields.

Art Build: Responding to Oppressionby the Pluralism & Unity Board

Geary Meeting Room (Templeton) 7-9 pmThe Pluralism & Unity Board ia a student-led initiative that strives to bring social justice into the Lewis & Clark cultural consciousness. With this event, the board invites community members to indepen-dently or collaboratively visualize their thoughts about injustices on campus. The build will have a drop-in format, meaning that attendees can come and go at any time. An array of supplies will be provided.

THURSDAY 4.24Student Artist Talk with Matt Mulligan

Hoffmann Gallery 12-1 pmMatt Mulligan will explain the background and inspiration for The Sea Will Swell a Bit, a video installation that explores the inter-section of futility and catharsis in this work. Mulligan’s discussion will address the nature of video installation, as well as his experience with new media while working on this project.

Artist Talk with Andreas ErvikCouncil Chamber 4-6 pm

Andreas Ervik is a multimedia artist based out of Oslo, Norway. In the U.S., Ervik’s work has been featured in group exhibits at the Harvard Museum of Natural History and Sight Unseen in New York City. As an artist, Ervik focuses on concepts of space, sensory experience, and response to surroundings. Via skype, Ervik will lecture on the hosting function of the online domain. His blog, por-talenportalen, will be used as a template for discussion.

Artist Talk with Krystal South & LaTurbo AvedonMiller 102 7-8:30 pm

Krystal South and LaTurbo Avedon will ad-dress online identity in relation to art. South is a Portland-based writer, designer, and multidisci-plinary artist whose work explores reality’s rela-tionship to the internet. South’s writing has been featured on Rhizome ArtBase and in Portland’s Bear Deluxe magazine. Her visual art has been displayed locally at Recess Gallery, The Port-land Museum of Art, and the New American Art Union. LaTurbo Avedon is an artist-avatar whose existence and creative output resides entirely online. Avedon’s digital sculptures and environ-ments disregard this lack of physicality, and instead emphasize the practice of purely virtual authorship. Her works are regularly distributed online and have been exhibited internationally.

FRIDAY 4.25Oil vs. Acrylic Workshop with Muse Art Supply

Fields Painting Studio 2-4 pmPeter Rossing and Vaughn Barker of Muse Art and Design -- a Port-land, OR art supply resource -- will build two similar paintings step by step: one will be acrylic, the other oil.They will demonstrate and dis-cuss the similarities and differenc-es between these two mediums, showing how the characteristics and working properties of each paint type lend themselves to spe-cific techniques and visual styles. Rossing and Barker will introduce little-known tips for working ef-fectively with both oil and acrylic, useful to painters of all levels.Performance by Dragging an Ox Through Water

The Platteau 5-7 pmBrian Mumform’s Dragging an Ox Through Water perform songs rooted in folk and coun-try traditions, though ruptured, complicated, and complement-ed by broken textures of feed-back, drones, tape hiss, and homemade oscillators. Chance elements and candlelight-sen-sitive instruments destabilize customary electro-amplified tightness and introduce an ele-ment of improvisation to these songs. Mumform also plays in Sun Foot, Jackie-O Motherfuck-er, Deep Fried Boogie Band, & Jewelry Rash. He operates a small cassette & CDR label called Musical Impressions.

AcknowledgmentsCo-Founders & Co-Coordinators: Madeline Foy & Rachel Wolfson

Advisor: Joel Fisher

Budget: Gus Wolff

Intern: Sophie Trauberman

Visiting Artist Liaison: Marc Matchak

Cycles Curators: Erica Lauer & Taylor Wallau

Cycles Artists: Matt Cogdill, Nick Grasso, Kelsey Gray, Malcolm Hecht, Cedar Jocks, Marc Matchak, Camille Shumann, Hayley

Trivett, Em Young

Video Art Curator: Nick Grasso

Video Artists: Serina Bernstein, Larissa Board, Forrest Penny Brown, Hilary Devaney, Maia Erickson, Liz Finch, Frankie Gas-saway, Hannah Turner-Harts, Irene Zoller Huete, Cedar Jocks,

Rachel Wolfson

Publication Creator: Katrina Staaf

Publication Contributors: Kelsey Gray (illustrations), Sofia Knutson & Marc Matchak (writing)

Publicity: Jackie Bersson, Shay Myerson, Annie Shaumleffel

Workshop Leaders: Malcolm Hecht, Muse Art & Design

Contributors: Flynn Casey, Nino Galluzzo, Garrick Imatani, Mika Mandeville, Taylor Savvy, Camille Shumann, Gaby Stanley,

Amelia Walsh, Em Young