May
7
to May 27

Unity & Harmony:PCC Art Student Exhibition 25/26

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The Paragon Arts Gallery
at Portland Community College Cascade Campus
presents:

Unity & Harmony:
PCC Art Student Exhibition 25/26

 

Recent artwork by Portland Community College Art Students

  • Paragon Gallery Exhibition Dates: May 7th – May 28th

  • Award Ceremony & Reception: May 27th 4-7p, Award Ceremony at 6p

  • Paragon Arts Gallery Guest Juror: Nadira Bitar

 

  • Paragon Gallery Hours:

    • Wednesdays – Fridays, 12 – 7 pm, Saturdays, 12 – 5 pm

    • 24/7 view at 815 N. Killingsworth, Portland, OR 97217

 

  •  All events are free and open to the public.

 

PORTLAND, OR — The  Paragon Art Gallery at Portland Community College is pleased to present our student art show -- Unity and Harmony: PCC Art Student Exhibition 25/26. This year our guest juror at the Paragon Art Gallery is Portland-based artist Nadira Bitar.  Students have selected the gallery where their work will show and opening dates and award ceremonies are specific to each participating gallery.

 

Unity and Harmony, The Paragon Art Gallery’s art student exhibition features student art made across the PCC District. In a time where the immediate response to uncertainty towards the future of the arts and humanities would be fear and anxiety, the art students at PCC have chosen to come together in unison and stand up to the forces that threaten such institutions. The arts at Portland Community College continues to experience cuts that will inevitably impact the equitable access to art that our students currently have. But PCC students are cognizant of the fact that these institutions are harder to take down when we harmonize our voices together. They have spent this past year making art that speaks openly about their struggles, fears, joys and even the beauty that they still find in the world around them. Unity and Harmony amplifies the diverse voices of PCC students and honors their commitment to education and their deep engagement with the arts.

 

Please join us in celebrating the many students who have taken Art classes at PCC this past year and are coming together for the things that matter to them.

 

Funding for awards was generously provided by HARTS (The Humanities and Arts Initiative) along with the Art Student Supplies Fund through the I Heart Art project and the Associated Students of Portland Community College (ASPCC).

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May
9
to Jun 10

Come Celebrate PCC Photographers at the New Visionaries exhibition

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‘Negative Thinking’ by Alfie Padilla, 2024

New Visionaries 2026

LightBox Photographic Gallery and The Guild at LightBox are pleased to announce
New Visionaries 2026: An Exhibition of Oregon College and Graduate Students

Show Dates: May 9 – June 10, 2026

Please join us for the Opening Artist Reception from 4 – 7pm on Saturday, May 9.

The Exhibit consists of the work of 43 talented student photographers from around Oregon.

Congratulations to the photographers exhibiting.

Anthony Anderson • Miguel A. Anselmo Espitia • Laila Skye Ashrafi • Sage Beaver
Synia Bieghler • Ryder Booth • Braydin Rose • Kai Cabrera • Grace Dettwyler
Aspyn Erickson • Mag Floyd • Kevin Folgate • Warren Grimes • Kaliyah Hafner
Orla Irish-Hurlow • Aubrey Jayne • Kellen Jenkins • Blake L. Johnson • Lance Kreisberg
Christian Lambert • Gaby Langlois • Ramon Llanes • Oliver Maxwell • Conall McClelland
Arlo Nordeng • Alfie Padilla • Malique Pye • Addy Rose • Alahnna Rousselo
Alec Sellers • Morgan Simers • Jacob Sirokman • Marissa Smith • Hannah Stephenson
Elizabeth Tappendorf • Leah Thompkins • Grace VanPelt • Courtney Viescas
Lucas Waldie • Isabelle Wilders • Jonathan Wimberly • Beatrice Wood • Chloe Young

This group exhibition celebrates LightBox Photographic Gallery’s appreciation of the Oregon
Educational Photographic Community and recognizes the gifted students enrolled in Oregon
College/University Art departments. This year we are happy to host students work from the following Schools:
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Chemeketa Community College, Portland Community College
University of Eastern Oregon, George Fox University, Lewis and Clark University
Willamette University, Portland Sate University, University of Oregon, OSU Cascades

The exhibit is juried by the members of The Guild at LightBox, a group of photographers who are
featured in the gallery and exhibit, educate and support the mission of the Gallery.

Cover Image – Negative Thinking ©Alfie Padilla

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May
13
to Jun 13

Emerging | PCC Art Student Exhibition 25/26

Emerging | PCC Art Student Exhibition 25/26

May 13 - June 13, 2026

Opening Reception with Improv student performances:
Wednesday, May 13, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. 

Award Ceremony and Reception with Juror C. Meier:
Saturday, June 13, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Gallery Hours:
Monday - Friday 8-4pm

The North View Gallery  is pleased to present our annual student art show — Emerging: PCC Art Student Exhibition 2025/2026, curated by guest juror C. Meier, artist and curator at Blue Sky Gallery.
 

Emerging features art made by students who have taken art classes across the PCC District and chose to have their work shown in the North View Gallery. At a time when the arts at PCC are experiencing cuts that are impacting equitable student access, our students are deepening their engagement with the arts and furthering their commitment to the education they deserve. 
 

The works in this year’s art student exhibition are diverse in terms of medium, process, concept and narrative. Many students created projects that stretched themselves both technically and conceptually, with some taking multiple terms to complete their pieces. In a year when the arts and humanities continue to be devalued and underfunded, both federally and locally, the work emerging from PCC art studios stands as a testament to the resilience, ingenuity and passion of our students at Portland Community College.

 

Please join us in celebrating the many students who have taken art classes at PCC this past year and have had the courage to emerge as artists and share their voices with our community.

About the Guest Juror:

C. Meier is a non-binary artist and curator based in Portland, OR. Their art practice explores materiality, reveling in the hybridization of processes including drawing and photographic methods. They earned their MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago (2017) and BFA in Studio Art from Pacific Lutheran University (2004). Meier has exhibited at Solas Gallery, Hyde Park Art Center, Mana Contemporary (Chicago), Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts,  Filter Space,  The Neon Heater, among others, and their work is part of the Permanent Collection of Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA). Meier co-curated the 2017 exhibition re:collection at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (MoCP), and curated the 2023 exhibition Size Matters for Medium Photo, San Diego. Professional roles include Curatorial Assistant (2015-2017) and Collections Manager/ Registrar (2018-2020) at the MoCP, Studio Assistant to Barbara Kasten (2019-2020), and Exhibitions Director (2021 – current), at Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts.

Funding for awards was generously provided by HARTS (The Humanities and Arts Initiative) along with the Art Student Supplies Fund through the I Heart Art project and the Associated Students of Portland Community College (ASPCC).

About the PCC Art Galleries:

Portland Community College is home to three art galleries: the North View Gallery, the Paragon Arts Gallery, and the Helzer Gallery, each located on one of our comprehensive campus locations in Portland, Oregon. The Art Galleries are dedicated to supporting education and community building through the arts.

The North View Gallery is open Monday – Friday 8am-4pm and Saturdays by appointment. We are located on the Sylvania Campus 12000 SW 49th Avenue in CT 214 behind the Bookstore.

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Feb
27
3:17 PM15:17

Opening Reception for Ekphrasis: A PCC Faculty Exhibition, on Saturday, February 28 from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. All are invited.

From the website:

PCC art and writing teachers provide abundant opportunities to explore such intersubjective questions in their classrooms. They engage students in the frightening and exhilarating process of expressing themselves and encountering the self-expression of others. They work hard to create spaces of experimentation that push students to try new techniques, hone their craft, deepen their understanding of historical context, and find the courage to tell their own stories. This work alone is a full-time job.

Yet in order to do this work well, people who teach in the arts also build and nurture their own creative practice. Each teacher’s creative work becomes a vital component of their students’ learning. And many faculty argue that they learn just as much from their students. Every arts educator, whether visual artist, performer, writer or musician, brings a wealth of experience from their own professional practice into the classroom every day. Their knowledge of the sometimes painful, sometimes thrilling process of creation, becomes a model for students embarking on their own paths. Thus this exhibition also proposes the professional work of PCC artists and writers as a catalyst that encourages students to find and honor their own voices. We need all of you (us) together making art now more than ever. - Christine Weber, Northview Gallery, Director & Art History Instructor

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Dec
10
4:00 PM16:00

Isolation at Lightbox Gallery

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November 08, 2025 through December 10, 2025

Isolation


Kim Manchester, From the series: I see now where I was then, 2022


Congratulations to the photographers accepted into Isolation,

Paul Barden • Mike Baynes • Rich Bergman • Aaron Bickford
Ronald Butler • Carolyn Campbell • Martha Clarkson • Phil Coleman
Dawn Kowalewski • Mark Dierker • Eddie Greenly • Dan Gerth
Steven Goldberg • Peter Gomena • George Johnson • Martha Kerr
Bill Kirby • Kim Manchester • Jody Miller • julie moore • Walter Oliver
Kathy Radie • Pat Rose • Rick Wright • Charlotte Watts

Isolation was juried by Douglas Beasley, Publisher of Shots Magazine.

Sometimes imposed upon us, sometimes purposely sought out, isolation is increasingly part of our modern existence. Isolation, both physical and emotional, has been a primary theme in artistic expression for eons despite the many new ways we have of feeling connected. I would like to both see and ‘feel’ photographs that explore any aspects of this theme. I hope to be both moved by your vision and surprised by your interpretation! -Douglas Beasley

Cover image: Occupied Unseen • Paul Barden

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Oct
10
to Oct 11

Agency & The Image, Photography Symposium

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We are partnering with Portland Community College to bring you

Agency and the Image, a two-day photography symposium.

Agency and the Image brings together artists, scholars, and community members to explore photography’s histories, practices, and futures. The symposium honors Blue Sky’s 50 years of advancing contemporary photography.

The program includes:

  • Workshops on artist statements, portfolio development, digital tools, and tintype making

  • Panel discussions on photography’s role in community, identity, and experimental practices

  • A keynote with Blue Sky co-founder Christopher Rauschenberg and Executive Director Kristin Solomon

  • An interactive on-site Camera Obscura installation

 

Registration: $25/person | $75/person including the wet plate photography workshop

Free Blue Sky student membership for all student registrants.

Financial assistance available (contact: bluesky@blueskygallery.org).

The first event each day is free to the public.

Limited availability for wet plate workshop.

Get Your Tickets Today

 

Schedule

Day 1: Fri, Oct 10 – PCC Southeast Campus

10:30 – 11:10 AM | Welcome / Introduction / History (Free to the Public)

11:10 – 11:30 AM | Break

11:30 – 12:15 PM | Panel: Community & Identity

12:15 – 1 PM | Lunch Break

1 – 2:15 PM | Workshop: Artist Statement

2:15 – 5 PM | Workshop: Wet Plate Photography

Day 2: Sat, Oct 11 – PCC Cascade Campus

10:30 – 11:10 AM | Camera Obscura (Free to the Public)

11:10 – 11:30 AM | Break

11:30 – 12:15 PM | Panel: Materials & Experimentation

12:15 – 1 PM | Lunch Break

1 – 2:15 PM | Workshop: Portfolio Development

2:15 – 4 PM | Workshop: Digital Tools

Get Your Tickets Today

 

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Nov
4
6:00 PM18:00

Bite Returns! Anniversary Show Reception

Bite is returning to the First Friday circuit! Check out the website for the latest information on our reopening and 17th anniversary celebratory exhibition. There will be the usual prints to peruse for purchase in our flat files - let your fingertips walk through some of the work and support local Art and Artists!

Doors open at 6pm

Bite Studio

2000 SE 7th Ave, Portland, OR 97214

Bite Studio Website

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Oct
4
to Oct 29

Featured Artist | Fishbowl II, Blackfish Gallery


Featured Artist:
October 2022
Kim Manchester

Site Specific | Coastal Impressions

Cyanotype unique direct prints & Cyanotype contact prints, limited edition of 10

What drives my  most recent work is that while I love using a lens to capture light I am recently enjoying more of  the iterative, step-by-step  process of making.  I am discovering how building towards something that isn’t preconceived can welcome experimentation and adventure - how the process becomes an integration of each texture, color, pattern - like fabric. Something cumulative out of small parts, not always greater than, but a cooperative effort that creates a subtle hand-loomed effect in the end.  Nowhere have I been better able to explore this approach to my art than with the Cyanotype photographic process.

Cyanotype is the photographic process that came to mind when I was traveling abroad with students this Summer as a way to connect them to the land and cement their understanding of exposure, history and process through experience. We made blue impressions of coneflower, sage, clover and blackberry in the sun of the Czech Republic. Later on my own, as I searched for my own connections to the land traveling to the far West coast of Ireland, and made my own impressions in blue.

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Apr
3
9:30 PM21:30

2019 RACC Art of Leadership Council

Tonight was the official graduation! I and just over 50 other people completed our seven month session with RACC ( Regional Art and Culture Council) learning, networking and finding out how to run a successful Arts organization either by being members of or founding a board - or, in my case, just researching how one starts a productive, thriving arts organization. I was honored to be a part of this process and am so excited to see what all of my fellow graduates are doing with their new knowledge!

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Photography Foundations for Fibers Workshop
Apr
3
5:00 AM05:00

Photography Foundations for Fibers Workshop

Saturday, April 6th 10am - 1pm

All Levels

$75.00

Register at Starlight Knitting Society

Pre-Registration is required.

Developing a Photographer’s Eye isn’t as hard to come by as some think.  As makers, we already appreciate the essential elements; texture, color, light… but to hone those skills and figure out how to get the camera to cooperate, that can be challenging. 

This class concentrates on understanding the foundations of photographic exposure, light modification and composition, all with a goal of getting the photographs of the materials you work with and the projects you create looking just as great on screen and in print as they do in person. 

Materials: Your Camera, Note-taking materials, Bring (or wear) item(s) at any stage of completion you would like to photograph and at least one digital version of an image you would like to share with the group so we can troubleshoot or re-create. 


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Sep
13
7:30 AM07:30

Opening Reception + Gallery Talk

Artist Gallery Talk: October 3rd at 1PM

Opening Reception to follow: 2-3PM 

NORTH VIEW Gallery

Portland Community College, Sylvania Campus

12000 SW 49th Ave, Portland, OR 97219

 

Directions: On campus, follow signs to Campus Bookstore and Visitor Parking. Gallery is located in the Communications Technology (CT) building adjacent to the Bookstore, on the NE corner of campus. 

(Pictured) Shannon, 2013

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