Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Symposium 2020

For more than 100 years, the Pacific Northwest College of Art has served as a dynamic creative center for emerging artists, designers, and creators with an educational philosophy that emphasizes individualized curricula, independent inquiry, and cross-disciplinary exchange. PNCA students explore, experiment  and reimagine the world. At the creative heart of Portland, PNCA is a center for artists, designers, and scholars, presenting  a wide array of free public programs and exhibitions for our community.

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Forms of Care: Building the Worlds We Need, an online symposium featuring artists, designers, scholars, and activists

Forms of Care: Building the Worlds We Need is a fully online symposium featuring artists, designers, scholars, and activists responding to issues of accessibility, community care, and mutual aid during a time of crisis and uncertainty that has made clear the harmful impacts of multiple oppressive systems including for-profit healthcare, policing, economic insecurity, anti-Blackness, colonization, and ableism. Forms of Care rejects austerity and emphasizes dreaming the worlds we need into the present. Through visual art, design, theory, poetry, craft, and print media we focus on the work of survival and support so that everyone in our community has what they need to stay alive and thrive. Friday November 2012:30-1:30 Virtual Walk-through of the Graduate Symposium Exhibition with Curators Kyle Cohlmia and Krista Cibis{ Live captioning }The Symposium exhibition explores the practice of care and invites "dreaming the world we need into the present", presenting artwork that explores these themes and engages with personal and community care.2:00-3:30 Panel: Mutual Aid and Community Care{ Live captioning}Melanie Stevens, Nat Turner Project (Moderator)Ella Ray Pool Resources, Jayy Dodd Tournament Haus 4:00-5:00pm An Informal Conversation about Games, Community, and Care with moderator Laura Nash {Live captioning}During the pandemic, many of us have used games to de-stress and socialize. From Animal Crossing and Jackbox Games to boardgamearena.com and Tabletop Simulator, we've found ways to gather and play together virtually. Join us for a facilitated but informal conversation about games as a site of community and care.6:00-7:30pm Keynote: Teressa Raiford, Don’t Shoot PDX: “Art, Activism, and Community Care” { Live captioning + ASL }Teressa Raiford is a fourth generation resident of traditional village sites of Multnomah, Clackamas and many other tribes - currently known as Portland, Oregon. Teressa is the founder of Dont Shoot PDX , an organization that focuses on civic education, art and nonviolent direct action while providing legal access to vulnerable communities. {https://www.dontshootpdx.org/}Saturday November 2111:00-12pm Artist Talk and Q+A with Ari Melanciano {Live captioning}Omni-Specialized Design &amp; Communities In this talk, Ari Melenciano will give a survey of her Electromedia and Design practice as she engages with art, society, race, and politics as central nodes to her interdisciplinary work. She will then go into her research practice on various forms of design (from biomimicry oriented to Afrocentric), and the societal impacts of technology. Ari will wrap up with the work she has done in creating and developing the social institution, Afrotectopia.12:30-2pm Workshop with Ari Melanciano: Designing Omni-Specialized Futures{Live captioning}In this workshop, participants will be able to explore experimental ways of combining a variety of branches of knowledge to collaboratively design radical and imaginative futures. This workshop will begin with a brief synopsis of Ari's Omni-Specialized Design process, and examples of other interdisciplinary works. We'll then move into imaginative practices that allow us to visualize healthier, abundant, and vibrant futures. This workshop will culminate on a collective conversation considering each group's ideated future.Ari Melenciano is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, designer, creative technologist and humanist who is endlessly passionate and curious of the possibilities that lie at the intersection of human-computer interactive technology, art, design and education. http://www.ariciano.com/3:00-4:30pm Keynote: Aimi Hamraie- “Building Access”{Live captioning + ASL}Aimi Hamraie is Associate Professor of Medicine, Health, &amp; Society and American Studies at Vanderbilt University, where they direct the Critical Design Lab. Hamraie is author of Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) and host of the Contra* podcast on disability, design justice, and the lifeworld.5:00pm-6:00pm Reading with Cedar Sigo and Jayy Dodd *{Live captioning} Cedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry, including Language Arts (Wave Books, 2014), Stranger in Town (City Lights, 2010), Expensive Magic (House Press, 2008)the subject known as jayy dodd... aka [redacted] aka Lady Tournament beamed down in Los Angeles ’92 &amp; is now based in Portland,OR. Her professional literary career includes positions at The Offing, Winter Tangerine &amp; more with features in Poetry Magazine, Oprah Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Willamette Weekly, The New York Public Library &amp; several anthologies. This event is organized by the <a href="https://pnca.edu/academics/graduate" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art</a>*Event image by artist <a href="https://kristacibis.com/artwork/4708295-CareGiver.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Krista Cibis</a>, used with permission

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