TRUST: PNCA Juried Alumni Exhibition

My alma mater, Pacific NW College of Art, presents its first juried alumni exhibition in the Swigert Commons. This exhibition provides a rare opportunity for PNCA and the Portland cultural community to see the scope of contemporary art, craft, and design by alumni from PNCA’s Bachelor of Fine Arts and Masters of Fine Arts programs. It offers the viewer the opportunity to become an institutional archaeologist, to dig down through the accumulated strata of object, image, and idea to get at the cultural DNA of the College. For alumni, it is an appropriate homecoming or completion of a circle.The show runs from September 6-21, 2012.Juried Alumni ArtistsDelaney Allen, MFA VS ’10Yothin Amnuayphol ’88Carl Annala ’87Ray Barrett, MFA VS ’11Pat Boas ’98Allison Bruns ’07Rebecca Campbell ’94Thomas Conway ’06Anne Crumpacker, MFA ACD ’11Tamara English ’04Eliza Fernand ’06Jessalyn Haggenjos ’01Anne Haley ’10Laura Hughes, MFA VS ’10Ruth Lantz, MFA VS ’10Fritz Liedtke ’02Gabriel Liston ’98Helen Liu ’84Cris Moss ’99Julie Orser ’99Antonia Pinter ’11Esther Podemski ’77Alyson Provax ’07Lydia Rosenberg ’10Rainbow Ross ’09Samuel Rowlett ’02Jason Lee Starin, MFA ACD ’11Margaret van Patten ’92Marchi Wierson ’89Sherrie Wolf ’84Invited Alumni ArtistsMichael Brophy ’85Michael Curry ’81Alex Felton ’05Julia Fish ’76Anna Grey ’08 and Ryan Wilson Paulsen ’08Malia Jensen ’89George Johanson ’50Lee Kelly ’59Mary Mattingly ’02Lucinda Parker ’66Barry Pelzner ’77Richard Rezac ’74Eric Stotik ’85Molly Vidor ’94There will be an opening reception on Wednesday, September 5 from 6-8pm.The distinguished jurors include Randy Gragg, Editor, Portland Monthly Magazine; Namita Gupta-Wiggers, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Craft; Sarah Miller-Meigs, Founder, lumber room; Deanne Rubinstein, Member, OHSU Art Committee of the Marquam Hill Steering Committee; Stephanie Snyder, John and Anne Hauberg Curator and Director, The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College. The exhibition is curated by Victor Maldonado, Assistant Professor/Inclusions Specialist at PNCA.