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Call For Submissions to The Social Practice Workbook: DEADLINE EXTENDED

2012-03-28T17:56:50Z

Call for Submissions
to The Social Practice Workbook

The Social Practice Workbook—Call for submissions

Deadline—May 23

The Social Practice Workbook is currently seeking submissions for a publication of ideas for working within the fields of social practice and education.

We are particularly interested in project-based lesson plans, exercises, prompts, and hands-on assignments.

The publication will be launched as part of Art and Social Practice Reference Points, a book series published by Publication Studio and edited by Jen Delos Reyes. The ongoing series explores relevant themes, key figures, and applications in relation to the production of socially engaged art. The first release from this series will include books on Temporary Services, Harrell Fletcher, Christine Hill, and The Social Practice Workbook.

Submissions to The Social Practice Workbook can be in written or visual form. Feel free to pitch multiple assignments. Send full-draft submissions to socialpracticeworkbook@gmail.com by May 23.

Please include the following information in your submission.
Title of exercise:
Submitted by:
Assignment description: 500 words or less.

Images
All images must be at least 300dpi.
All images will be printed in black and white.
Please deliver images via email in a zipped folder, clearly labeled.

Upcoming: Edgar Arceneaux MFA Workshop February 21, 2012

2012-02-15T18:15:17Z

Edgar Arceneaux the director of The Watts House Project in Los Angeles will lead a workshop with the Art and Social Practice MFA students on financing in relationship to mission driven art initiatives, framing the discussion as "New Financial Architectures for Creative Communities." As part of the workshop he will be looking at organizations in relationship to the individual soul. He will be pre-sending an audio file to the students that is an analysis of Plato's Republic. The dialogues within the various districts of Plato's virtual city were metaphors for understanding the human soul. Arceneaux's will attempt to organize the social body in relationship to the understanding of the forces that rule the individual body.

Field Trip Diary: Center For Land Use Interpretation and the Bureau for Land Management

2012-02-15T17:24:07Z

Matthew Coolidge from the Center for Land Use Interpretation was recently in town for a lecture as part of our Monday Night Lecture Series. The following day he organized a field trip for the SP MFA program to Willamette Stone State Park to visit the marker that commemorates the initial point for Oregon and Washington. We were met by a representative from the Bureau for Land Management that shared the history of the site with us, antique land surveying equipment and techniques, and taught us about the rectangular survey system.

Art Talk AM on Art 21 Blog

2012-01-03T23:37:17Z

Check out this post on former graduate student Cyrus Smith's project Art Talk AM!

http://blog.art21.org/2012/01/03/bound-art-talk-am-on-the-radio/

Hard Times Double Feature with Kelly Reichardt and Jon Raymond featuring “The Grapes of Wrath” and “Wendy and Lucy.”

2011-12-14T15:38:56Z

Join our friends at the Hollywood Theatre for this great double feature on December 17th at 7:00pm I Tickets $10

People are jobless, hungry and just plain fed up. These are hard times. Join Kelly Reichardt and Jon Raymond for a double feature exploring themes of economic hardship and the resilience of the human spirit, featuring “The Grapes of Wrath” and “Wendy and Lucy” both presented in 35mm. This marks the second installment in the Hollywood Theatre’s En Route series, in which artists program films that are meaningful to them. Reichardt and Raymond will be present to introduce each film.

“Wendy and Lucy” marked Reichardt and Raymond’s second collaboration. Based on a short story by Raymond, whose prose has been compared to Raymond Carver’s, the film follows Wendy over a few days in a strange town during which her life takes a series of dives we are not certain she can regroup from. Continuing in the meditative style of “Old Joy,” Reichardt and Raymond’s first collaboration, “Wendy and Lucy” is a careful, visually rich snapshot of a pivotal moment in one person’s life. The film confirms New York Times reviewer A.O. Scott’s assertion that Reichardt is “quietly establishing herself as an indispensable filmmaker.”

Widely considered one of director John Ford’s masterpieces, “The Grapes of Wrath” has enthralled audiences since its premier in 1940. When the film first screened in theaters, New York Times critic Frank S. Nugent wrote that ”In the vast library where the celluloid literature of the screen is stored there is one small, uncrowded shelf devoted to the cinema’s masterworks, to those films which by dignity of theme and excellence of treatment seem to be of enduring artistry … To that shelf of screen classics Twentieth Century-Fox yesterday added its version of John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath.” Don’t miss a rare opportunity to see this masterpiece of classical Hollywood as it was intended on 35mm film.

Walking Stories

2011-12-02T18:24:52Z

"Walking Stories" is the final presentation of public walks by participants of the Walk Study Training Course which is co-organized by MFA candidate Dillon de Give. More here http://walkstudytrainingcourse.wordpress.com/walking-stories/

In the Shadows Blinded by the Art

2011-10-21T15:17:06Z

Current PSU MFA Social Practice artist/student Carman Papalia's Shine a Light project is featured in the Portland Mercury.

Full Story Here:

http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/in-the-shadows/Content?oid=4964403

Indianapolis Island Tour by Katherine Ball

2011-09-29T17:46:29Z

Take a tour of Andrea Zittel's "Indianapolis Island" from current resident and PSU MFA in Art and Social Practice student, Katherine Ball.

About 20 feet in diameter, Indianapolis Island is a fully inhabitable experimental living structure that examines the daily needs of contemporary human beings. Each summer, the island will be occupied by one or two commissioned residents who are local art students.

Shine a Light in Portland Monthly

2011-09-25T17:02:17Z

Be sure to check out the October issue of Portland Monthly. There is a great article about the upcoming Shine a Light at the Portland Art Museum.

HOLLYWOOD THEATRE TO HOST ARTIST TALK WITH GUS VAN SANT AND JAMES FRANCO BEFORE NORTHWEST PREMIERE OF FRANCO’S MY OWN PRIVATE RIVER

2011-09-19T22:09:07Z

The PSU MFA Art and Social Practice is proud to announce the following event from our friends at the Hollywood Theater.

WHEN: September 25^th

TIMES: 12:00-2:10pm in the downstairs auditorium & 12:30-2:40pm in the upstairs right auditorium (doors at 11:00am)

NOTE: The total run-time per event is 2 hours 10 minutes, including the 30-minute artist talk and 140-minute screening.

WHERE: Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. Portland, OR

TICKETS: $35 for General Public and $30 for members

After casting Franco in the award-winning film “Milk” (2008), Van Sant showed him the dailies and other footage that he had shot many years before for “My Own Private Idaho” (© 1991 New Line Cinema Corp. All rights reserved), which starred River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves as street hustlers in Portland, Oregon. Franco describes being mesmerized by Phoenix's "uninhibited acting" in this unreleased footage. “I humbly asked Gus if I could…cut something together, and if he didn’t like it, I would never show anybody,” Franco said. “I thought it would be interesting because it took us six months to cut the film together, and James was going to do it in a month,” Van Sant said. “By himself.” “My Own Private River” consists largely of shots of Phoenix’s character, Mike, woven into a compelling portrait; his edit captures the gifted actor at his most emotionally expressive and physically dynamic. The score is by Michael Stipe.

Gus Van Sant was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1952. He obtained a BA from the Rhode Island School of

Design where he studied painting and cinema. Best known for his work as an award-winning director, he has

also exhibited his art at galleries and public institutions including Jamison-Thomas Gallery, Portland, PDX

Contemporary Art, Portland, and The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon.

James Franco was born in Palo Alto, California in 1978. He obtained a BA from the University of California,

Los Angeles and an MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia University. He is currently enrolled in the Digital

Media Department at the Rhode Island School of Design. An acclaimed actor, Franco is also actively engaged

in performance art, painting, video, and installation art. He has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Clocktower Gallery, New York, and Peres Projects, Berlin.

SCREENING WILL RAISE FUNDS FOR ONGOING IMPROVEMENTS TO THE THEATRE

Presenting Sponsor:

Barran Liebman

Contributing Sponsors:

Hotel Deluxe

New Belgium Brewing

Oregon Film

For more information contact:

Justen Harn

justen@hollywoodtheatre.org

503-493-1128

About the Hollywood Theatre: For the last 19 years the Hollywood Theatre (formerly known as Film Action Oregon) has earned a national reputation for its unique combination of award-winning film programming, cutting edge educational programs supported in part by LAIKA (an Oscar winning studio), and fiscal sponsorship services for local filmmakers. Each year the Hollywood Theatre screens close to 300 of the best films from all over the world, provides educational opportunities for over 2,000 young people and supports multiple Oregon-based, independent film projects. The organization has been honored by two of the most respected names in film, both the Sundance Institute and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for its myriad contributions to the film community.