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Drawing contest! Contents Mystery prize awarded once! Vol. 8, No. 1

JUN E 7–11 This year, our annual conference is presented as a television station dedi- WEEKLY PROGRAM GUIDE cated to art and social practice. “Tune in” online and join us for discussions, Introduction 4 workshops, interactive experiences, and participatory events. Event Listings Every year, the Portland State Monday, June 7 9 University Art and Social Practice (A+SP) MFA Program cohort endeavors Tuesday, June 8 10 to create a "conference" that presents socially engaged art and offers a forum Wednesday, June 9 11 for discussion around the field of Social Thursday, June 10 12 Practice.* Through the lens of the conference, Friday, June 11 13 students are asked to learn, meet, see, Presenters 36 do, connect, create, discuss, and ulti- mately produce publicly digestible Horoscopes 50 experiences that either are or are the result of a socially engaged practice. About the MFA program 55 Assembly subverts conventional academic structures and expectations TV Guide Design: Diana Marcela Cuartas, around making and learning: it is out- Mo Geiger, Laura Glazer side of the classroom, and in dialogue Cover Portraits: Shelbie Loomis with audiences and collaborators who Project Manager: Laura Glazer are not necessarily artists or typical art Planning Ambassador: Becca Kauffman viewers. The experience reinvigorates Planning and Concept Committee: art’s relationship to life and life’s rela- Caryn Aasness, Rebecca Copper, tionship to art. In this way, the frame- Diana Marcela Cuartas, Mo Geiger, work encourages students in the pro- Laura Glazer, Becca Kauffman, gram to form new relationships, to Shelbie Loomis, Justin Maxon, engage with new issues and to gen- Emma Duehr Mitchell erate diverse strategies for collabora- Contributing Artists: Caryn Aasness, tive artmaking. Soheila Azadi, Rebecca Copper, *Social Practice can be variously Diana Marcela Cuartas, Mo Geiger, What does social practice look like? described as an approach or field in which Laura Glazer, Nolan Hanson, Becca artists seek to make work that exists within Kauffman, Shelbie Loomis, Justin Maxon, You’re participating in it, you’re EMAIL YOUR DRAWING AND THIS COUPON TO: and for specific communities, and often Emma Duehr Mitchell, Lucia Monge, trying to define it, now try your [email protected] lives outside of the status quo spaces Salty Xi Jie Ng, Brianna Ortega, Carlos PLEASE PRINT! for art (studios, galleries, museums). The hand at drawing it! Reynoso, Jordan Rosenblum, Roshani Use pencil. Or marker, or collage, approach emphasizes collaboration, Thakore, Kiara Walls, Illia Yakovenko or anything! Every qualified entrant co-authorship, site specificity, and audi- receives a free professional First name ence specificity, asking over and over Web Coordinators and Social Media: estimate of their drawing. again: who is making the work, where Becca Kauffman, Emma Duehr Mitchell, Salty Xi Jie Ng Winners will receive their Last name is the work being made, and who is the mystery prize and a printed copy of this work for? Zoom Tech: Amanda Leigh Evans Accessibility Coordinator: Rebecca Copper publication. Address Our objective is to find prospective Copy Editor: Rita Glazer participants and collaborators who appear Special Thanks: Soheila Azadi, Harrell Fletcher, to be properly motivated and have an City Rita Glazer, Ariana Jacob, Lisa Jarrett, appreciation and liking for art. Lucia Monge How to do it: Print this page, make State Zip TUNE IN VIA ZOOM OR YOUTUBE! your drawing, take a picture, email it to LINKS POSTED ONLINE: Organized by the Portland State University [email protected]. Phone number PSUSOCIALPRACTICE.ORG/ASSEMBLY Art and Social Practice MFA Program Your entry will be judged upon receipt. Harrell Fletcher, Program Director No drawings can be returned. Contest winners PO Box 751, Portland, OR 97207 will be notified. Send your entry today! Email psusocialpractice.org @psuartandsocialpractice a rehearsal in this conference room in The work I do for Assembly exists outside the prison. That’s probably the biggest of Assembly as well. They are projects Introduction reason I like doing socially engaged proj- that will continue to exist in multiple different ects, because it allows me to get to know contexts of my practice. Also, starting Third year students Emma Duehr Mitchell, Nolan Hanson, Carlos people that I wouldn’t necessarily have a the program pretty new to the term chance to otherwise through means that “social practice,” Assembly is an event Reynoso, Jordan Rosenblum, and Brianna Ortega gathered for are interesting and unconventional. to craft our experience doing socially a conversation about their personal and collective experiences engaged work. JORDAN: Since Assembly is towards the with Assembly. They reflect on the ways in which Assembly has end of the year, it’s casual, often. So it’s JORDAN: Yeah, Harrell refers to Assembly transformed into Assembly TV from the view of the only cohort like the way people come together, and as like a “thesis” show. It’s like the equiva- move between and within the activities, lent to an MFA exhibition or something for that experienced Assembly prior to the COVID-19 initial shut there’s this lovely aspect of casualness, studio artists. It’s nice though, because down, during the shut down, and adjusting to life after. and just “hanging out.” since we do it every year I’m able to reflect and track how my work has changed from EMMA: I think the casual environment year to year, which has been really valu- really supports relationship building. Its able for me. not a series of events where one person is talking. All of the events include the CARLOS: Well said. It’s really validating audience in some capacity. People get to be able to reflect on the year, and what to connect in those spaces. I was able we’ve accomplished. to invite my friends and family from Iowa BRIANNA ORTEGA: SO, LET’S GET NOLAN HANSON: Yeah, that’s a good and people in Portland. This was the first EMMA: THIS YEAR, OUR GRADUATE RIGHT INTO IT. WHAT DOES ASSEMBLY point. It’s pretty special, because it’s time those people were all able to be in LECTURES ARE PART OF ASSEMBLY. MEAN TO YOU? like—for those of us in the program—we’ve the same space. That is a big perk of THAT’S NEW! HOW DOES THAT FEEL been hearing about different aspects of Assembly being virtual, and something FOR YOU ALL? JORDAN ROSENBLUM: It’s changed, for these projects for over a year, oftentimes that I think will remain in many capacities me. I mean it’s a program-wide collabo- without experiencing the work directly. So CARLOS: It’s so great to be able to use moving forward. ration, and an opportunity for each of us Assembly gives us a chance to have that that platform, and tap into the community to come together each year, bringing our direct experience with the project and the BRIANNA: I think the biggest factor that that the program has cultivated to be able ideas and projects, in a way that shows other people involved in it too. led to me wanting to do this program was to share my work. I’m grateful to have that our collective work. Assembly. I went to it before I applied to audience. It’s a diverse and multidisci- EMMA: Yeah, it’s also an opportunity to the program, and I thought it was great plinary community, so it’s so valuable. EMMA DUEHR MITCHELL: It’s also like collaborate with other people in the pro- how people were doing projects and col- an end of the year exhibition of events. gram. We know it’s coming up every year, NOLAN: I agree. Through plugging our laborating with people in existing commu- The platform of Assembly is a huge col- so throughout the year we can be thinking projects into this existing platform, we get nities. I went to the Creek College event laboration, but within that, there are indi- about that, knowing we have a plat- to benefit from the things that come along that they had on the Columbia River, vidual projects which are really diverse form that’s available for us to collaborate with that. In addition to a built-in audi- where they collaborated with them and and separate from one another. whether in person or virtually. ence, we receive promotion, exposure, had different workshops. So I guess I do support, and experience with putting on BRIANNA: I think Assembly offers people miss that in-person aspect. WHAT WAS IN-PERSON a collaborative co-authored event. the opportunity to see what people in ASSEMBLY LIKE? JORDAN: HOW HAS ASSEMBLY the field of social practice are doing, EMMA: AFFECTED YOUR WORK? Yeah. I think it’s great that we are and it invites people who might not be CARLOS: I remember the first year, giving our graduate lectures at the final familiar with social practice to come into Shoshana [Kedem], who was a third year, EMMA: Last year the shutdown happened event of the year, which doubles for us the space and participate or learn about did a project and Shoshana’s whole family in mid-March, and Assembly was held in as our final event in the program. We’re projects. With it being on Zoom, we get was involved. I thought it was really beau- early June, so we only had about 2 and able to do a project, lecture, and partic- to invite people from around the world to tiful. She had planned a few different a half months to figure out a project for ipate in other Assembly events, so I am join, which is great! activities for her hour, and that workshop Assembly that fit this new virtual con- excited for an entire week of experiencing was just a really nice break from all the socially-engaged projects right before CARLOS REYNOSO: Like Bri was saying, text we had switched to. There was an intensity of the week. graduation. there’s a lot of value to it being avail- urgency and immediacy to that which I able virtually. I love Assembly because NOLAN: Yeah, I was in Portland for really enjoyed. It forced me to respond to WHAT ABOUT ASSEMBLY WILL it’s a great way to see people’s proj- Assembly that year. I collaborated with the moment we all were living in and really YOU TAKE WITH YOU AFTER YOU ects happen like, live. I remember what Tia Kramer, who was a second year, and be present in my work and in the world. GRADUATE? Spencer [Byrne-Seres] said to me my James Hanley, who was the Correctional We were all experiencing these shifting first year in the program, “The cool thing Rehabilitation Manager at the Columbia conditions at the same time. Knowing BRIANNA: I think I’ll just continue to about socially engaged projects is seeing River Correctional Institution, to create a that people from all over the place would move on with life, with people around me, the magic happen in person.” And I think participatory performance. I didn’t know largely be joining from the places they nd communities I’m connected to, and Assembly is a perfect example of that. James at all before we started working reside, these common connections come back to Assembly to support the together on the project, and I was blown have remained a large interest in my work other people. away by his willingness. We even had ever since.

4 ASSEMBLY TV GUIDE JUNE 7–11, 2021 5 NOLAN: Yeah, I’ll definitely come back to influences what the other 14 students are check out what folks are up to. I think I’ll exposed to. That’s what I love about the take what I’ve learned about putting on program. All of our own individual iden- this event and apply it to public events I tities come together. Like Carlos, before hold in the future. getting to know you, I truly didn’t know shit about bathhouses! I love how our EMMA: It’s interesting to think about interests get to take space in the program, Assembly after we’re not presenting our and shape the grad school experience for own projects because when we return we ourselves and of our peers. still know it as an opportunity to engage with the community. I think it will be some- CARLOS: Yeah, I am so beyond grateful thing that I will look forward to and view as to the Assembly committee for their a yearly reunion. I think Assembly has that enthusiasm and for taking the lead with kind of presence in Portland, specifically. Assembly this year. They’re killing it! It’s amazing too, because all of us [third This program is shaped so much by the 15 years] are so busy right now—with pre- people who are in it, and our participation. paring to graduate—and seeing them step I mean, without a few very specific people up and shape this year’s event has been in the program, what would Assembly awesome. be like this year? There is no steel struc- ture shaping what the experience will be. EMMA: Yeah, Laura, Mo, Becca, Shelbie, Instead, every student in the program Justin, Caryn, Rebecca, and Diana, all shapes the experience of Assembly. It’s deserve a lot of credit for the experience so different every year. I can’t wait to this year. I can’t wait to experience first experience future iterations impacted by year students work for the first time and future students. to see the different approaches second and third years are taking to the second I think this way with other things in the pro- annual Virtual Assembly and the first go of gram too, like what we bring to our stu- Assembly TV! dent times, topic time, etc. Every student

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Some Thoughts On Art and Social Practice PRESENTATION Harrell Fletcher and Lisa Jarrett

World of Colonial Hills: Past, Present, and Future PRESENTATION, DISCUSSION Rebecca Copper and Minus Plato (AKA Richard Fletcher)

Enjoy videos from the A+SP MFA Program vault and other curiosities! See artists exploring their neighborhoods, talking to strangers, exhibiting talents & more. Tune in using the link below!

Familia y Payasos GRADUATE LECTURE Carlos Reynoso

Bunny Reunion & Tour PARTICIPATORY PROJECT Brianna Ortega

Aasembly: A Once in a Does social practice make you hungry? Lifetime Mental Stunt Show Grab a snack during this “Social Interstice.” STUNT SHOW PERFORMANCE While you munch, enjoy curated videos Caryn Aasness from the program vault and other curiosities! You will see artists exploring their neighborhoods, talking to strangers, exhibiting their talents and more.

Submitted content curated by Diana Marcela Cuartas and Justin Maxon, image by Shelbie Loomis

TUNE IN VIA ZOOM OR YOUTUBE! LINKS POSTED ONLINE: PSUSOCIALPRACTICE.ORG/ASSEMBLY

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School Our Current Twilight Zone: Museum of Contemporary Auditing Whiteness Art (KSMoCA) International in Popular Culture PARTICIPATORY PROJECT Acquisition Committee Caryn Aasness, Diana Marcela Cuartas, PRESENTATION, ARTWORK HANDOVER Laura Glazer, Becca Kauffman, Illia Yakovenko Roshani Thakore, Kiara Walls Weaving Motherhood PRESENTATION Our Current Twilight Zone cont’d Soheila Azadi* *VISITING ARTIST, PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY ART AND SOCIAL PRACTICE MFA PROGRAM

The Sound of Sheep: Trans Boxing A Communal Gaze/Graze WORKSHOP PARTICIPATORY ONLINE SOUND INSTALLATION Nolan Hanson Mo Geiger and Danielle Moser

Plant Show & Tell Hosted Pandememes by People’s Plant Museum PRESENTATION, WORKSHOP GROUP PRESENTATION Diana Marcela Cuartas Emma Duehr Mitchell and YOU!

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The Grieving Walk: Place Biographies A Public Ritual WORKSHOP and Performance Sign Club, a collaboration between PRESENTATION Laura Glazer and Jordan Rosenblum Shelbie Loomis

Underground networks del bosque Place Biographies cont’d FUNGI BROADCAST FIBRA Colectivo: Lucia Monge*, Gianine Tabja, Gabriela Flores del Pozo *VISITING ARTIST, PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY ART AND SOCIAL PRACTICE MFA PROGRAM

Enjoy videos from the A+SP MFA Program vault and other curiosities! See artists exploring their neighborhoods, talking to strangers, Enjoy videos from the A+SP MFA Program vault and other curiosities! exhibiting talents & more. Tune in using the link below! See artists exploring their neighborhoods, talking to strangers, exhibiting talents & more. Tune in using the link below! Brianna’s Graduate Lecture Emma Duehr Mitchell’s GRADUATE LECTURE Graduate Lecture Brianna Ortega GRADUATE LECTURE Emma Duehr Mitchell $100 Project A Field Guide to a Crisis “A bear in the forest” PARTICIPATORY PROJECT PRESENTATION, CREATIVE WELLNESS EXERCISE Justin Maxon with participants Kiara Walls and Jordan Williams Michelle M. Miller, Aaron Ochoa, and Kristy Lee $100 Project Party PRESENTATION, DISCUSSION Voice Shopping: Salty Xi Jie Ng, Harrell Fletcher, Impersonation as Liberation and MFA students PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOP Becca Kauffman

12 ASSEMBLY TV GUIDE JUNE 7–11, 2021 13 some thoughts on art and social practice a conversation with harrell fletcher and lisa jarrett

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PSUSOCIALPRACTICE.ORG/PUBLICATIONS 18 ASSEMBLY TV GUIDE JUNE 7–11, 2021 19 Weaving Motherhood Soheila Azadi Tuesday, June 8 1–1:50pm Pacific

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A SIGN CLUB WORKSHOP WITH LAURA GLAZER + JORDAN ROSENBLUM

32 ASSEMBLY TV GUIDE JUNE 7–11, 2021 33 34 ASSEMBLY TV GUIDE JUNE 7–11, 2021 35 Harrell Fletcher Laura Glazer Harrell Fletcher received his BFA from Laura Glazer is a student in the A+SP Presenters the San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA Program, and graduated from the MFA from California College of the Arts. Rochester Institute of Technology with a He studied organic farming at UCSC BFA degree in photography. Her curiosity and went on to work on a variety of small about people and the visible world guide Community Supported Agriculture farms, her research, conversations, and collab- which impacted his work as an artist. orations. She processes and organizes Fletcher has produced a variety of socially research through publications and free engaged collaborative and interdisci- distribution methods of printed matter and Caryn Aasness research assistant for the Art and Social plinary projects since the early 1990s. visual culture such as brochures, flyers, Caryn Aasness (they/them) moved to Practice Archive which is housed within His work has been shown at SFMOMA, and postcards. lauraglazer.com Portland in 2020. They are a graduate stu- PSU Library’s Special Collections, and the de Young Museum, the Berkeley Art dent in Portland State University Art and finished a fellowship with the Columbus Museum, the Wattis Institute, and Yerba Nolan Hanson Social Practice (A+SP) MFA Program and Printed Arts Center in Columbus, Ohio. Buena Center for the Arts in the San Nolan Hanson is an artist based in New are still trying to figure out the city. rebeccalcopper.net Francisco Bay Area, The Drawing Center, York City. Their practice includes inde- carynaasness.com Socrates Sculpture Park, The Sculpture pendent work as well as collaborative Diana Marcela Cuartas Center, The Wrong Gallery, Apex Art, and socially engaged projects, and has been Soheila Azadi Diana Marcela Cuartas (she/her) is a Smack Mellon in NYC, DiverseWorks and shown in New York (Art in Odd Places, Soheila Azadi is an interdisciplinary visual Colombian artist and first year student Aurora Picture show in Houston, TX, PICA CUE Art Foundation, On Air Fest), Chicago artist, writer, educator, and a mother in the A+SP MFA Program. In 2019, she in Portland, OR, CoCA and The Seattle Art (ACRE Projects, EXPLODE! queer dance: based in Portland and Iran. Born in the moved to Portland, where she has been Museum in Seattle, WA, Signal in Malmo, Midwest) Portland (Assembly), San capital of Islamic cities, Esfahan, Azadi working independently for the promotion Sweden, Domain de Kerguehennec in Francisco (Heavy Breathing, SFAI), and absorbed story-telling skills through and exchange between Pacific Northwest France, The Tate Modern in London, Cincinnati (Wave Pool). Nolan is the Persian miniature drawings and Islamic and Latin American artists. Diana was and the National Gallery of Victoria in founder of Trans Boxing, an art project architecture since she was nine. Azadi’s raised watching Peruvian TV from her Melbourne, Australia. He was a partici- in the form of a boxing club that centers inspirations come from her experi- home in Cali, Colombia, which allowed pant in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Fletcher trans and gender variant people. ences of being a woman of color living her to expand her knowledge about U.S. has work in the collections of MoMA, The nolanhanson.com under Theocracy and Democracy. Now 90’s popular culture, Mexican telenovelas, Whitney Museum, The New Museum, residing in the U.S., Azadi is dedicated to and Japanese Anime. She loves watching SFMOMA, The Hammer Museum, The Lisa Jarrett Transnational Feminism with a passionate The Simpsons (Seasons 1 to 8), and other Berkeley Art Museum, The De Young Lisa Jarrett is an artist and educator. She devotion to the ways in which gender, sex, TV classics like The Twilight Zone and The Museum, and The FRAC Brittany, France. is Associate Professor of Community and race, culture, and religion intersect. Azadi Adventures of Tom Sawyer. She used to From 2002 to 2009, Fletcher coproduced Context Arts at Portland State University’s uses different media to investigate, mate- manage a Facebook meme account about Learning To Love You More, a participa- School of Art + Design. She is co-founder rialize, contextualize, and narrate sto- the Colombian art scene, creating orig- tory website with Miranda July. Fletcher is and co-director of KSMoCA and the ries of women as minorities. Her use of inal content and encouraging other critical the 2005 recipient of the Alpert Award in Harriet Tubman Middle School Center fabric in her works is deployed critically minds to generate fresh memes too. Visual Arts. His exhibition The American for Expanded Curatorial Practice in NE and sensually to amplify customs that marcelacuartas.com War originated in 2005 at ArtPace in San Portland, and the artists collective Art 25: serve to classify, separate, oppress, and Antonio, TX, and traveled to Solvent Space Art in the 25th Century. Her intersectional potentially or unknowingly liberates those FIBRA Colectivo in Richmond, VA, White Columns in NYC, practice considers the politics of differ- obfuscated by such a tradition. Azadi is We braid our practices and thus strengthen The Center For Advanced Visual Studies ence within a variety of settings including: an artist-in-residence at Portland State our selves, through each of our fibers we MIT in Boston, MA, PICA in Portland, and schools, landscapes, fictions, racial imag- University. She is also an artist-in-res- connect and exchange in and with our LAXART in Los Angeles, among other inaries, studios, communities, museums, idence at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. environment. FIBRA is an art collective of locations. harrellfletcher.com galleries, walls, mountains, mirrors, floors, School Museum of Contemporary Art Peruvian women founded in 2019 by the rivers, and lenses. She exists and makes (KSMoCA) in Portland. soheilaazadi.com artists Gianine Tabja, Lucia Monge, and Mo Geiger socially engaged work within the African Gabriela Flores del Pozo. They understand Mo Geiger is an artist and student in the Diaspora. She recently discovered that Rebecca Copper knowledge production as a collaborative A+SP MFA Program. Her work includes her primary medium is questions. Rebecca Copper’s art practice incor- process and are particularly interested in sculpture, performance, and experimen- lisajarrett.com porates socially engaged art, writing, interdisciplinary collaboration as a meth- tation, with a focus on interdisciplinary film-photography, and time-based media. odology for artistic research and practice. processes. During her years working in Becca Kauffman Rebecca is interested in experiential FIBRA focuses on environmental issues technical theater, she became inspired by Becca Kauffman is a New York-based knowledge, how people are influenced and seeks to interweave disciplinary, tra- physical, tactile learning in a collaborative performance artist with an interactive, in different mediated ways. She works ditional, and embodied knowledge into setting—a context she still prioritizes in genre-fluid approach to their multidis- through themes such as: phenomenology, their research-based projects. Their focus both art and design. She develops proj- ciplinary solo work. Their uniquely self- ontology, intersectional/transnational on collaboration and ecology leads them ects by exploring methods, materials, and guided career through art, music, the- feminist politics, US child-education, to explore and use sustainable materials living histories that exist wherever she is. ater, comedy, voice acting, DJing, and unlearning, and approaches of care. She that are sometimes created hand in hand mogeiger.com dance began converging into the per- is currently an MFA candidate in the A+SP with other species. sona-driven art project, Jennifer Vanilla, MFA Program. Recently, she worked as a in 2015, and continues to this day in the

36 ASSEMBLY TV GUIDE JUNE 7–11, 2021 37 form of a forthcoming music album, out in in 2017, for a forthcoming exhibition and Providence, Minneapolis, London, and Carlos Reynoso 2022. Becca was a member of the exper- book project called Whisper into a Hole, New York. Monge has shown her work Buenas tardes, mi nombre is Carlos imental Brooklyn pop band Ava Luna for as well as a self-critical analysis of set- internationally, including at the Museum Reynoso (He, Him, His). I am an inter- ten years, and is now a first year candidate tler colonialism through collaborations of Contemporary Art in Lima, Whitechapel sectional queer Mexican artist, collector, in the A+SP MFA Program, where they are with global Indigenous artists, in Potu Gallery, Queens Museum, and the United and storyteller. I tap into my own personal working to incorporate socially engaged faitautusi, a reading room at Columbus Nations Climate Change Conference. experiences as a working class person to art strategies into their performance work. Printed Arts Center and dear fellow set- luciamonge.com uplift the identities of the intersectional akajv.cargo.site tler colonizer, a radio show on Verge.Fm. communities I belong to as an immigrant Minus Plato’s first book, No Philosopher Danielle Moser and queer. Through community engaged Shelbie Loomis King: An Everyday Guide to Art and Life Danielle Moser is a second year livestock projects I am interested in cultural pres- Shelbie Loomis (she/her) is an artist Under Trump, was published in 2020 by apprentice at the Dickinson College Farm ervation of the various communities I am and graduate student in the A+SP MFA AC Books. and an aspiring food animal veterinarian. blessed and privileged to belong to. I Program. She graduated from Santa Her work as a student and as a farmer graduated with a BA from California State Fe University of Art & Design with a Emma Duehr Mitchell asserts the need for long-term solutions University Northridge, and an AA from Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in Studio Emma Duehr Mitchell is an artist, edu- to problems in our current food systems, Fullerton Community College. Arts and currently lives in Portland. A self cator, and curator living and working in and she has a particular interest in food instagram.com/gabrielrey4 proclaimed economist and sociologist, Portland. She works with collective sto- animal medicine’s role in sustainability her art and career have engaged with rytelling, notion of care, and exchange and animal welfare. Jordan Rosenblum finances and social issues around elderly through domestic practices such as Jordan Rosenblum works as a socially and death and dying. She is a member of gardening, craft, and mail. Addressing Salty Xi Jie Ng engaged artist, designer, and educator. AFT Oregon and AAUP Oregon. themes of the everyday, her work exam- Salty Xi Jie Ng is an artist co-creating His projects include workshops, instal- shelbieloomis.info ines the intersection of public and private semi-fictional paradigms for the real lations, and publications. He teaches spaces, personal and collective value, and and imagined lives of humans within the at Portland State University, works as Justin Maxon what it means to be qualified. Emma is poetics of the intimate vernacular. She a visual designer, and co-directs the Justin Maxon (he/him) is an award-win- the founder and curator of People’s Plant is from the tropical island metropolis of RECESS! Design Studio (in affiliation with ning visual journalist, arts educator, and Museum, which preserves the relation- Singapore and is an alumni of the A+SP KSMoCA)—an artist project with elemen- aspiring social practice artist. His work ships between plants and people through MFA Program. saltythunder.net tary school students that explores the takes an interdisciplinary approach which a living collection and digital archive. power of design. He received a BFA from acknowledges the socio-historical con- She is the organizer of Talking Tushies, a Brianna Ortega the Rhode Island School of Design and an text from which issues are born and incor- project that embroiders sexual violence Brianna (Bri) Ortega is currently a can- MFA from the A+SP MFA Program. porates multiple voices that texture sto- statistics on cloth patches and invites didate in the A+SP MFA Program, and jordanrosenblum.com ries. He seeks to understand how posi- survivors around the world to share their holds a B.A. in Art Practices with a focus tionality plays out in his work as a story- experiences through writing on the project in drawing, video, performance, jewelry, Sign Club teller. He has received numerous awards website. Her Homes for Homes project psychology and family studies. She is the Sign Club is the ongoing collaboration for his photography and video projects. creates memorial drawings of residential Founder, Publisher, Editor, and Director of between artists Laura Glazer and Jordan He was a teaching artist in an U.S. State buildings and archives their value through Sea Together magazine, a global project Rosenblum, engaging participants in Department-sponsored cultural exchange interviews with past residents. She uniting and rewriting women’s surfing explorations reinterpreting public and pri- program between the U.S. and South teaches at Portland State University and through art, writing, and community. She vate spaces. Using signage as a starting Africa. He has worked on feature stories is an Artist Mentor at KSMoCA. Her work has been surfing for over a decade and point, participants explore giving voice to for publications such as TIME, Rolling has been exhibited in Canada, Africa, has moved 28 times in her life, which unheard and unacknowledged aspects of Stone, the New Yorker, Mother Jones, and France, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, and ignites her passion to connect with people our environments. NPR. justinmaxon.com within the U.S. She is in her final term in across oceans, and be a bridge between the A+SP MFA Program. others. Through embedding herself in surf Roshani Thakore Minus Plato emmaduehrmitchell.com culture, Brianna Ortega uses art as a tool Roshani Thakore (she/her) uses art to Minus Plato is the alias of Richard Fletcher, to explore the relationship between iden- broaden an understanding of place, Associate Professor in the Department of Lucia Monge tity and place through questioning power uncover histories, elevate voices, and Arts Administration, Education and Policy Lucia Monge is a Peruvian artist whose in social constructs and physical spaces. expand a sense of belonging, all with the at Ohio State University. Trained as a clas- work focuses on interspecies relation- She engages with topics of gender, race, hope of reconstructing power. She uses sicist, Fletcher created the blog Minus ships. Some of her recent projects include Otherness, place, and the in-between her positionality and power to compli- Plato as part of his research into ancient adapting and re-performing Darwin’s spaces of identity. Her work is multidis- cate, leverage, and advocate with people Mediterranean cultures and contemporary experiments with climbing plants, ciplinary, spanning across performance, who have been marginalized to transform art. Following collaborations with artists mycoremediation rituals in urban tree publishing, organizing, video, and facilita- systems of oppression through political (including Paul Chan on the book Hippias pits, a “fungi broadcast” about deforesta- tion. She is interested in experiential edu- and community education and acts of Minor or the Art of Cunning, Badlands tion in Peru, and sending potato seeds cation, and concepts like home, localism, resistance. She is the current Artist-in- Unlimited 2015), Fletcher left classics to space as messengers for non-colo- boundaries, and migration. Residence at the Asian Pacific American and turned Minus Plato into a platform nial visions of the future and space travel. briandthesea.com Network of Oregon, a statewide, grass- to develop arts education. His current For the past ten years, she has organized roots organization, uniting Asians and work is focused on an ongoing dialogue Plantón Móvil, a yearly “walking forest” Pacific Islanders to achieve social justice, with documenta 14, the global art exhibi- performance that leads to the creation of and an equity consultant for the School of tion that took place in Athens and Kassel public green areas in cities such as Lima, Art + Design. For the last year, she has

38 ASSEMBLY TV GUIDE JUNE 7–11, 2021 39 been leading topics and exercises around Illia Yakovenko critical racial theory with the first year Illia Yakovenko is a precarious cultural cohort, called NOT NEUTRAL. She is a worker, a self-proclaimed artist, curator 2020 graduate of the A+SP MFA Program. and poet. Illia is a student in the A+SP roshanithakore.com MFA Program who came to study in the U.S. from Ukraine. Illia spent his childhood Kiara Walls in Mariupol, Eastern Ukraine. This region Kiara Walls is a teaching visual artist is currently dealing with war caused by originally from LA but is now stationed the unresolved past and present con- in Dallas, Texas. Her work is centered tradictions exacerbated by the imperial around increasing awareness of the need geopolitical ambitions of its neighboring and demand for reparations to repair the state. To address that—heal, imagine, injuries inflicted on the African American and build a more equitable, inclusive, and community. This interpretation is seen safe future—Illia is learning to collectively through many forms including drawings, explore histories, memories, cultures, sculptures and video installations. identities by means of participatory pro- kiarawalls.com duction of art. illia.cf Jordan Williams Jordan Williams is a 9-year-old artist, 4th grader, and big brother to his younger sib- ling Josiah. Williams enjoys playing video games like Minecraft and playing outside with his friends at the playground where there are slides. Williams aspires to be an engineer in computer science when he grows up. DRAWING HARRELLL BY FLETCHER FOR HIS GRADUATE PUBLICATION (1994)

ABOUT ASSEMBLY TV GUIDE After a year of non-stop online learning, we were inspired to find ways to embrace and utilize what Zoom could offer us. That’s why this year, we’re approaching Assembly as a 1 television channel, complete with a range of programs and entertainment. Our hope is that viewers feel encouraged to think differently about the experience of a conference, 2 and to approach both Assembly and Zoom as a series of shows and events to not only tune into, but participate in. TV you can talk to! 3 That meant creating an appropriate tool for viewers to use as a guide. During one of our planning meetings, we realized that the classic TV Guide serves that pur- pose: it’s a printed weekly digest that lists what’s on each channel now and what shows to look forward to. 4 This informed the design of the Assembly TV Guide and our use of the log format for the daily schedules, which include very brief descriptions for each Assembly event—or in the language of television, “program.” 5 We incorporated social practice-themed horoscopes, a word search, and plenty of advertisements. Row 1: Laura Glazer, Emma Duehr Classic TV Guide covers inspired the illustrations and Mitchell, Brianna Ortega, Illia Yakovenko layout of the cover. Often featuring a jumble of famous Row 2: Carlos Reynoso, faces, they create excitement about the cast and give Becca Kauffman, Shelbie Loomis, potential viewers a sense of what it’s like to see these Rebecca Copper, Diana Marcela Cuartas personalities performing together. In much the same Row 3: Jordan Rosenblum, Justin way, these faces of the PSU A+SP MFA Program— Maxon, Kiara Walls, Harrell Fletcher, current students, teachers and artists in residence— Nolan Hanson can give you, dear reader, a sense of the community you’ll Row 4: Lucia Monge, Lisa Jarrett, be joining for Assembly. See you on the screen! Mo Geiger, Salty Xi Jie Ng —Team Assembly TV Row 5: Soheila Azadi, Caryn Aasness PORTRAITS SHELBIE BY LOOMIS

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DRAWING BY HARRELL FLETCHER, DESIGN BY MO GEIGER JUNE 7 JUNE [email protected] info: more for Email community. our in projects creative socially-engaged, experimental, in students interested and for artists place meeting a Club is Practice Social aMethod is Where Out Hanging Club: Practice Social at KSMoCA. of eight Artists-in-Residence During the 2020-2021 academic year, RECESS! is one and designers. visiting artists Rosenblum in and Sutherland, Kimberly collaboration with Jordan artists by co-directed is RECESS! environments. our reinterpret and interpret to atool as design graphic uses and The studio explores the role design holds in shaping our lives, designers. fifth-grade and fourth-, third-, with works RECESS! with the (KSMoCA), King School Art Museum of Contemporary Jr. In Portland. collaboration School in Northeast Elementary housed project insideand the artist Dr. Luther King Martin class, design agency, acreative is Studio Design RECESS! –11, 2021

49 port from Jupiter. Think of using this momentum to make projects around your loved ones that are closer Horoscopes to home and claiming them within your professional artistic practice! Projects to check out: World of by Rebecca Copper Colonial Hills: Past, Present, and Future by Rebecca and Shelbie Loomis Copper & Minus Plato, or A Field Guide to a Crisis by Justin Maxon, Michelle M. Miller, Aaron Ochoa, and Kristy Lee

Leo July 23–August 22 For you, this is a time for reviewing your ideas and your work, for bringing your work more into the public Aries March 21–April 19 view. You might decide to take projects in a new and This month, dear Aries, Jupiter will help you through exciting direction or you might have started a new ven- mysterious ways so there need not be any worries ture already. The eclipse of May 26th marks that some- about your future—however that doesn’t mean that you thing new, and positive, may be long-standing into the won’t be hard at work and feeling like you are spinning future. You’ve been in a long process of wrapping up your wheels. Within your art projects, it’s important old disruptive patterns, you will be leveling up in a way to make sure that you allow Jupiter to work its magic that not only benefits you, but those around you. Don’t and release some control, which might be hard for you re-invite people you’ve decided to let go of back into to do. Within your relationships with your collabora- your life. Stay dedicated to these new ideas and rou- tors and participants, there is still influence from the tines, you won’t be sorry. Project to check out: Familia aspects of Mars which will help you to maintain har- y Payasos by Carlos Reynoso mony. Remember, though, communications skills may be hindered by Mercury retrograde till the last week Virgo August 23–September 22 of the month. Project to check out: Transboxing by New assignments or side-projects might be working Nolan Hanson their way into your life. You might be hitting a pinnacle point in your career. Recently, you may have gotten Taurus April 20–May 20 closer to your partner as the near Mercury retrograde Taurus! You will have an excellent month and will of May 29th might have brought complications to your have no problem accomplishing your artistic objec- life. Mercury retrograde usually affects everyone, but tives. Your personality will be enhanced with the good will affect you deeply as Mercury is your ruler. Mercury aspects of Venus and the Sun, which is great for all retrograde is connected to technology and commu- social activities that are supported by Jupiter. Take nication. Give extra care to these matters. Beware of advantage of this astrological opportunity to travel, outdated beliefs that may not be serving you. Beware within CDC guidelines of course, and to spend some of self-sabotage. Be open to internal changes. Project time reacquainting yourself with nature and places to check out: Getting to Know the Place: a Graduate that fulfill you as an earth zodiac! Project to check out: Talk by Jordan Roseblum The People’s Plant Museum by Emma Duehr Mitchell Libra September 23–October 22 Gemini May 21–June 20 You might have come into some new money; this could Welcome to the Season of Gemini! (And what a season be earned money or gifted. This could also be in the it is!) For some Gemini, the beginning of the month form of a loan or a new business opportunity. You might will be difficult working through logistics in a project be debating about something special for yourself, but will suddenly improve with surprises due to the maybe a trip to the coast or a new haircut. Go ahead, influence of the Sun. You will be encouraged to have treat yourself. You deserve it. People are admiring faith that everything within your artwork and com- your work. Now is a time for study and bringing your munications will get better and to enjoy the process, dreams to fruition. Don’t give up. Project to check out: especially since your ruling planet is in retrograde $100 Project “A bear in the forest” by Kiara Walls and and you might be feeling it. Remember to be kind to Jordan Williams yourself and to celebrate everything that is Gemini. Projects to check out: Place Biographies by Laura Scorpio October 23–November 21 Glazer and Jordan Rosenblum or Aasembly: A Once in a You have been creating new connections and friend- Lifetime Mental Stunt Show by Caryn Aasness ships. It’s likely you’ve been working closely with someone on something that is deeply important to Cancer June 21–July 22 you. This could be in the form of some kind of agree- Oh Cancer, this month is a warning for you to focus ment or collaboration. Change may come in the form on your professional objectives a bit more. It could be of business or income. On an internal level, you could very easy to become lost in the happiness provided have wrapped up long cycles of sadness and are ready by your love relationships since it’s a great month for to move forward. It’s time to recognize your value but love thanks to the assistance of Venus and your sup- don’t be afraid to pull inward for rest. Rest will be

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DRAWING BY HARRELL FLETCHER, DESIGN BY MO GEIGER NOTE ABOUT THE A+SP MFA PROGRAM TAPED TO CARYN AASNESS’S GRANDMOTHER’S REFRIGERATOR. Portland State University MFA in Art + Social Practice Portland State University Art and field of social practice through electives Social Practice (A+SP) MFA Program and community partnerships, promoting is a three-year, flexible residency program cross-disciplinary engagement. Graduating that combines individual research, group students each produce a public graduate work, and experiential learning. The pro- project, an in-depth written text exploring gram’s blend of critical and professional a relevant connection to their practice, practice, progressive pedagogy, collabo- and a public artist lecture that surveys rative social engagement, and transdisci- their work in the program. plinary exploration produces an immersive The program accepts approximately educational environment. five students annually. The deadline for The ninety credit, three-year course applying is January. Interested persons encourages students to shape the direction are encouraged to make arrangements of their own education and continually to visit the program. See more online develop the program as a whole. Students at psusocialpractice.org. connect their art practice to research in the DRAWING HARRELL BY FLETCHER, DESIGN MO BY GEIGER

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