Friday, May 17: PUBLICS
10-10:45am
Opening remarks, Jen Delos Reyes • Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave.
11am-12:30pm
Sociology (of and) for Socially Engaged Practice, Institute for Art Scene Studies: Pablo Helguera, Barbara Adams, David Peppas, Adeola Enigbokan • AB 200
Speed Ideating, Ariana Jacob • location tbd, Portland Art Museum
Getting to Know You(Tube), Crystal Baxley and Stefan Ransom • Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum
Public Social University, Rozzell Medina • Field Work, 1101 SW Jefferson St.
12-1pm
Exhibition opening: Alums, a sampling of past, and current works made by Alumnae/i of PSU’s MFA in
Art and Social Practice program • Autzen Gallery
Lunch *These projects provide lunch, first come first served. Limited capacity.
Project: The Center for Genomic Gastronomy, Zach Denfield • AB 320
Project: Talk is Cheap, Silvia Juliana Mantilla Ortiz • outside Shattuck Hall Annex
1-2:30pm
Michael Rakowitz Talk • Shattuck Hall Annex
3-4:30pm
Panel: Versus: Game Forms for Social Practice, John Muse & Matthew Seamus Callinan, Ted Purves & Zachary Walter, Lee Walton, Lauren Ruth, Sal Randolph • Shattuck Hall Annex
Workshop: African Solution to American Problem: Read the Qur’an, Ghana Think Tank, • Urban Center 4th Floor Terrace
Panel: What’s the Harm of Community Arts and Social Practice? The Ethics of Engagement and Negative Value, Marnie Badham, Amy Spiers, Claude Schryer, Dr. Kathleen Irwin• AB 200
Project: Take-a-Penny, Leave-a-Penny University, Sean Schumacher • AB Video Gallery
Project: Sound Pollination, Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz, • AB 320
Panel: Care and Radical Pedagogy, Moderators Carmen Papalia and Kristin Lantz with Project Grow, Purple Thistle Center, Our School @ Blair Groceries, Sunny Taylor, Rozzell Medina and Jordan Martin • AB 250
4:30-6pm
Workshop: Juna Rosales Muller, Mending Patriotism • Museum of Contemporary Craft
6pm-12am
Shine A Light, PSU MFA in Art and Social Practice Program + Paul Ramirez Jonas • Portland Art Museum
Ongoing Friday
Project: Vox Pop Podcast, Daily Report, Tori Abernathy
Friday’s Podcast is Available! Click here to LISTEN
Saturday, May 18: CONTEXTS
10am-12pm
Panel and Discussion:
On Hiatus: The Imminent Impossibility of the Art Strike, Gabriel Salomon
The Legacy of Site-Specificity: Socially Engaged Art Since the 1990′s, Michael Birchall
Pirate Tropic Cultural Bootlegging in Colombia, Juan Obando
• Shattuck Hall Annex
Panel: RURALSCAPES M. Michelle Illuminato, Brett Hunter, Linsey Laserte, Ethan Martin
Panelists – Compass: Sarah Kanouse; Fieldfaring: Susanne Cockrell and Ted Purves; Matt Garcia; Harold Arts: Joe Jeffers; Rhonda Janke; Regional Relationships: Ryan Griffis and Sarah Ross; M12 Collective: Richard Saxton and Kirsten Stoltz • AB 200
Panel and Discussion:
The Making of Talzar, Amanda Herman
The Laundromat Project: Kemi Ilesanmi and Shani Peters
Tactical Injunctions, Layne Waerea
• AB 250
CraftPerspectives | Symposium: Craft + Social Practice: A Roundtable Conversation, Museum of Contemporary Craft
Moderated by Namita Gupta Wiggers with Gabriel Craig, Ayumi Horie, Stacy Jo Scott, Michael J. Strand. • The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft
12-1pm
Project: Walking Across the Pacific: James Jack, Toshiaki Tomita, Ira Keller Fountain, (located b/w SW 4th, SW 3th, Market and Clay)
Lunch *These projects provide lunch, first come first served. Limited capacity.
Project: Silence! Takeshi Moro • AB 320
Project: Cactus Comestible, desert ArtLAB • AB 135
CraftPerspectives | Symposium: Craft + Social Practice: Paper-Bag-Lunch Breakout Discussion Session, Moderated by Ayum Horie and Stacy Jo Scott, • Gallery 135 135 NW Park Ave
CraftPerspectives | Symposium: Craft + Social Practice: Paper-Bag-Lunch Breakout Discussion Session, Moderated by Michael J. Strand and Gabriel Craig, The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft
1-2:30pm
Claire Doherty Talk • Shattuck Hall Annex
3-4:30pm
Project (15 min): Rainbow Coalition Puppet Show, Amber Marsh
Workshop (75 min): Inside The Hidden Dramas (and Concealed Comedies) of Relational Arts Practices (and Practitioners), Rhizome Theater • Shattuck Hall Annex
Project: Media Context: B Media Collective and Helen Demichiel (Open Space Documentary) • AB 200
Project: Blind Field Shuttle, Carmen Papalia • Outside Shattuck Hall Annex
CraftPerspectives | Symposium: Craft + Social Practice: Participatory Workshop, MADE IN HAITI: Social Practice as a Model for Social Entrepreneurship with Carole Lung, aka Frau Fiber, • The Lab at the Museum of Contemporary Craft
5-6pm
Project: The Happiest Hour of Folk Songs, The Sopractical Sisters • Valentine’s 232 SW Ankeny St.
Project: Beers Made By Walking, Eric Steen Coalition Brewing: 2724 SE Ankeny St.
Project: TEA, Aaron Hughes, Outside Shattuck Hall Annex
Ongoing Saturday
Project: Vox Pop Podcast, Daily Report, Tori Abernathy
Saturday’s Podcast is Available! Click here to LISTEN
Project: ENVOYSS, Matt Carlson and Alex Fink
Sunday May 19: INSTITUTIONS
8:30-10am
Panel: Art Museums and Social Practice: Where Are We Now? Organized by Stephanie Parrish, Mike Murawski and Kelsey Snook, Portland Art Museum • Shattuck Hall Annex
10-11am
Discussion: Unpredictability, Marilyn Lennon, Limerick School of Art and Design • AB 135
10am-12pm
Artists Working with Institutions, Moderated by Mark Menjivar
Zach Cahill, Stephanie Diamond and Caroline Woolard (online), Farm School: Nolan Calisch and Molly Sherman, Harrell Fletcher, Sebina Haque, Garrick Imatani and Kaia Sand, Ariana Jacob, Consuelo Velasco Montoya, Carmen Papalia, Transformazium, Linda Wysong
• Shattuck Hall Annex
Open Forum: Open Engagement and the Creative Time Summit in Conversation, Jen Delos Reyes, Crystal Baxley, Sally Szwed
• Field Work
11am-12pm
Panel: Before It Begins… And When It’s Over. Elizabeth Johnson, Gregory Sale and Julio Cesar Morales, Arizona State University • AB 135
12-1pm
Lunch *These projects provide lunch, first come first served. Limited capacity.
Project: Katz’s Deli, Amanda Katz • AB 320
Project: Final Meals: Portland, Lucky Pierre • AB 250
1-2:30pm
Tom Finkelpearl Talk • Shattuck Hall Annex
3-4pm
Discussion: Radical Pedagogy, S.A. Bachman*, Kristy Baltezore, Brent Blair*, Teresa Flores, Daniel French, Michelle Glass, Tracee Johnson, Bill Kelley Jr.*, Katie Loughmiller, Consuelo Velasco Montoya*, Silvia Juliana Mantilla Ortiz, Faith Purvey, Tamarind Rossetti and Hataya Tubtim (*denotes program faculty and visiting artists), Otis College of Art and Design, AB 135
Discussion: What Can A Research Center Do For Social Practice? Kyle McKinley, University of California Santa Cruz Social Practice Arts Research Center (SPARC), AB 250
3-4:30pm
Panel: Institutions Working With Artists, Moderated by Grace Hwang
Meagan Atiyeh of Oregon’s Percent for Art in Public Places, Cameron Cartiere from Emily Carr University, Ryan N. Dennis from Project Row Houses, Stephanie Parrish from Portland Art Museum, George Scheer from Elsewhere and Sally Szwed from Creative Time • Shattuck Hall Annex
4-5pm
Building Institutions, Building Publics, Gavin Kroeber and Noah Simblist, Southern Methodist University Meadows Center for Art and Urbanism • AB 135
7-8:30pm
Final Panel Discussion: Moderated by Jen Delos Reyes with Claire Doherty, Heather Donahue, Zachary Gough, Tom Finkelpearl, Michael Rakowitz and Sharita Towne • Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), 415 SW 10th Ave
8:30pm – UNTIL IT’S OVER!
Open Engagement Dance Party • Boxxes, 330 SW 11th Ave.
Sunday’s Podcast is Available! Click here to LISTEN
Open Platform Programming • Littman Gallery
Friday, May 17: PUBLICS
12:20-12:35 Order of the Third Bird, Sal Randolph
12:40-12:55 Teen/Protest, Teresa Albor
2:40-2:55 Art Activist Cohort, Erin Hylton
3:00-3:15 Artist Talk, Annabel Manning
3:20-3:35 Artist Talk, Talena Sanders
3:40-3:55 I Paint You. You Paint Me, Piero Passacantado
4:00-4:15 Fun-A-Day, Nick Lally
4:20-4:35 Artist Talk, Laurenn McCubbin
Saturday, May 18: CONTEXTS
10:40-10:55 Craft Therapists (for a plugged in Society) – Repair + Action, Free Store, Jennifer Brant
11:00-11:15 Detroit Connections, Charlie Michaels
11:20-11:35 Artist Talk, Lori Gordon
11:40-11:55 Evaluating Socially Engaged Art, Kerri-Lynn Reeves
12:00-12:15 Artist Talk, Philip von Zweck
12:20-12:35 Model Model UN, Irina Contreras
12:40-12:55 Memory/Loss, Tamarind Rossetti
2:40-2:55 Artist Talk, Melissa Sarris
3:00-3:15 Camp Out, Macon Reed
3:20-3:35 Aid for USA and Canada, Allison Rowe
3:40-3:55 Right Now You’re in the Safest of Hands, Clint Sleeper
4:00-4:15 Refoundation Project, Faith Purvey
4:20-4:35 Discussion on Power, Corrie Peters
4:40-4:55 The Knitting Project, Suzanne Morlock
Sunday, May 19: INSTITUTIONS
10:20-10:35 Civitas’ John Nolen Greater Erie 1913-2012 Conversation Project, Lindsey Gearhart
10:40-10:55 Artist Talk, Gemma Rose Turnbull
11:00-11:15 Roger Maris Cancer Center Residency, Heather Zinger
11:20-11:35 The Place to See Dinosaur Bones, Project Grow
11:40-11:55 The People’s Library, Mark Strandquist
12:00-12:15 The Whitehouse Studio Space, Xenia Benivolski
12:20-12:35 The Wassaic Project, Bowie Barnett-Zunino
12:40-12:55 Studio for Southern California History, Janet Owen Driggs
2:40-2:55 Support/Retry/Fail, David Huff
3:00-3:15 The Church of Contemporary Art, Angela Watters
3:20-3:35 Down in the Ground, Emily Rea
3:40-3:55 The Tan Alberquerque, New Mexico and Affiliates, Andrew Lyman
4:00-4:15 Metamedia at the University of Oregon, Jher
4:20-4:35 Participatory and Public Strategies for Performance in Australia, Steve Mayhew
Ongoing Open Platform
Project: Affirmation Hotline, Lisa Ciccarello and Steve Leathers
• Multiple locations
