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Fragile Beauty: A Conversation with Susan Seubert and Dr. M Jackson
Join us on March 29, 2025 for a closing talk with artist Susan Seubert and Dr. M Jackson, a geographer, glaciologist, and science communicator exploring the intersections of photography, glaciology, and climate change.
Dr. M Jackson is a geographer, glaciologist, and science communicator exploring the intersections of societal transformation, glaciology, and climate change. Jackson is a National Geographic Society Explorer, TED Fellow, and three-time U.S. Fulbright Scholar. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon, a Master of Science degree from the University of Montana, and serves as a U.S. Fulbright Ambassador and an Expert for National Geographic Expeditions. Jackson is an active public speaker and author of the award-winning books Ice to Water (2024), The Ice Sings Back (2023), The Secret Lives of Glaciers (2019) and While Glaciers Slept: Being Human in a Time of Climate Change (2015).
Fragile Beauty: A Conversation with Susan Seubert and Dr. M Jackson
PDX CONTEMPORARY ART
3:00 pm - 5:00 pmPlease RSVP to info@pdxcontemporaryart.com
Read moreSusan Seubert | World Day for Glacier and World Water Day
Susan Seubert's exhibition Fragile Beauty is part of World Day for Glaciers on March 21st, which was established in 2025 by the United Nations General Assembly. The day is celebrated as part of the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation. The day and year are intended to raise awareness about the importance of glaciers and to encourage action to preserve them.
For more info: https://www.un-glaciers.org/en/articles/fragile-beauty-decade-ice-photog...
Read moreMarie Watt | Women of the Pacific Northwest at The Bo Barlett Center
Marie Watt's work is featured in Women of the Pacific Northwest, curated by Betsy Eby, on view now at The Bo Bartlett Center.
This exhibition highlights female artists whose work is rooted in material exploration within the tradition of Northwest influences and how environment shapes visual vocabularies and concepts.
Women of the Pacific Northwest
January 18th - April 26th, 2025Bo Bartlett Center
921 Front Ave
Columbus, Georgia
31901For more information: https://www.columbusstate.edu/bartlett-center/exhibitions/current.php
Read moreGeorgina Reskala | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Georgina Reskala's work is featured in Memory Works, an exhibition of work exploring memory now on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at University of Oregon.
"Exploring the concept of technologies of memory, this exhibition examines artworks that question the myriad ways memory works and the tools that incite remembrance, reflection, and dialogue. The artists in the exhibition adopt and share their own tools to enhance memory, interrogate it, and contest the ways we remember and experience our memories. Their work employs mixed media such as collage, dried leaves, string, coffee, paper, and photography.
Reflecting on the role of memory, another artist in the exhibition, Georgina Reskala comments, “A moment is alive each time we speak of it and remember it. And each time we speak of it we transform it. Every time I replicate an image, I mimic storytelling and memory making as I take a moment out of time, copy it, reshape it, transform it, or erase it. I am interested in the power of narrative and how it shapes our personal history as well as our collective memory.”
For more information on the exhibition please visit: https://jsma.uoregon.edu/art/exhibition/memory-works
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at University of Oregon
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Memory Works | Artist Project Space
February 22, 2025 - June 1, 2025Susan Seubert | Oregon Artswatch
Susan Seubert's exhibition "Fragile Beauty" and her career as a travel photographer and artist was featured in Oregon Artswatch.
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You can read the full article here: https://www.orartswatch.org/susan-seuberts-fragile-beauty-icebergs-and-t...Heather Watkins | Bonnie Bronson Award Recipient
Congratulations to Heather Watkins!
Heather and Brenda Mallory are receiving the 2025 Bonnie Bronson Award!The public reception will be Wednesday, May 28th at 5pm - remarks at 5:30 in Vollum Lounge, Reed College campus.
We are very excited for and proud of Heather.
https://oregoncf.org/community-impact/impact-areas/arts-and-culture/bonn...
Read moreHeather Watkins | Artspace Lake Oswego
Heather Watkins;'s is one of nine artist featured in the exhibition HER FORMATION, on view February 21st—April 11th, 2025.
"The current exhibition at Artspace, HER FORMATION, exhibits the work of nine women artists whose enigmatic artworks offer visions of survival and even imaginative possibility in times of upheaval.
The artists include Marjan Anvari, Kirsten Bauer, Francesca Capone, Sally Jablonsky, Emily Katz, Frankie Krupa-Vahdani, Zhang Mao, Heather Watkins and Amanda Wojick.
Each artist makes sense of the complexity of the world through artistic acts of alteration, abstraction, and material transformation. Their bold, often brightly saturated compositions respond to limitations through a wide variety of approaches, whether limitations of their embodied experience, cultural traditions, or autocratic systems of power. The artists’ works are uncompromising in their creative power, defiant, and even playful."
For more information: https://artscouncillo.org/her-formation
Read moreSusan Seubert | Williamette Week
Susan Seubert's exhibition Fragile Beauty was featured in Williamette Week.
Read the whole article here: https://www.wweek.com/arts/visual-arts/2025/03/05/susan-seubert-photogra...
Read moreIceberg in Fragile Beauty also featured in The New York Times
The gigantic iceberg, named A23a, that has been floating away from Antarctica the last four decades has beached itself on the continental shelf near the island of South Georgia, a journey of 1600 miles. Most of that distance has been covered in the last five years though, as A23a was grounded in the Weddell Sea until 2020. The iceberg A23a is bigger than the state of Rhode Island and made up of about 1300 square miles of ice.
The New York Times article was published on the first day of artist Susan Seubert's exhibition, a nice coincidence, but also a nod to the fact that the world is watching the polar regions more closely than ever before, knowing they are forecasts of our future, the boundaries highlighting the rapid climate change enveloping us all.
Read moreMarie Watt | Hudson River Museum
Marie Watt is included in Smoke in Our Hair: Native Memory and Unsettled Time at the Hudson River Museum.
Smoke in Our Hair: Native Memory and Unsettled Time explores the nuanced layers of the past, present, and future within contemporary art by Native American, Alaska Native, First Nations, and Métis artists. Tapping personal memory, ancestral artistic practices, history, and Indigenous Futurism, their works center intentionality, design, and materiality.
For more information:https://www.hrm.org/exhibitions/smoke-in-our-hair/
Smoke in Our Hair: Native Memory and Unsettled Time
February 14–August 31, 2025Hudson River Museum
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Yonkers, NY 10701
(914) 963-4550Storm Tharp | VERS
We are please to announce the release of Storm Tharp's first monograph: VERS.
VERS is a lavish, 336-page, full color, case-bound book designed by Heather Watkins. The monograph includes a collection of never-before published writings by the artist, as well as an interview between Tharp and filmmaker Todd Haynes, an essay by Tokyo art consultant Chihiro Watanabe, and a preface and essay by Cooley Gallery director and curator Stephanie Snyder. VERS is published by the Cooley Gallery, Reed College, 2025, and is supported by The Ford Family Foundation, Roseburg, OR.
Read moreMarie Watt | Piedmont Arts
Marie Watt is included in Words Matter & Untold History: Native American Works at Piedmont Arts.
"Featuring works on paper by contemporary Native American artists, this exhibition underscores the richness and diversity of the contemporary Indigenous experience told through the medium of printmaking.
The works are linked by the belief that words have immeasurable power, particularly when reckoning with how written language has been weaponized against Indigenous people throughout the history of the Americas.
The exhibit introduces several contemporary Native American artists who have worked in the medium of printmaking, including Rick Bartow (Wiyot), Demian Diné Yazhi (Diné/Navajo), Marie Watt (Seneca), Larry McNeil (Tlingit), and others. All artists represented in the exhibition have chosen to incorporate text into their images, using the language of the colonizers of their land to tell their own stories. In this way, words play a powerful role in reclaiming a lost history and adding to the incomplete American narrative. In doing so, they also offer messages of hope, humor and resilience."
For more information: https://www.piedmontarts.org/calendar/event.cfm?eID=1428
Words Matter & Untold History: Native American Works
February 1, 2025 - March 15, 2025Piedmont Arts
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Martinsville, Virginia 24112James Lavadour and Marie Watt | Indigenous Identities: Here, Now, & Always at the Zimmerli
James Lavadour and Marie Watt are both included in Indigenous Identities: Here, Now, & Always curated by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation) opening February 1 at the Zimmerli Art Museum.
"This exhibition, curated by the renowned artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation), provides a provocative survey of contemporary Native American art across media. A prolific curator, Quick-to-See Smith has curated over thirty shows, including The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C (2023). Indigenous Identities features ninety living artists that represent over fifty distinct Indigenous nations and communities from across North America and includes painting, works on paper, photography, ceramics, beadwork, weaving, sculpture, installation, and video."
For more information: https://zimmerli.rutgers.edu/art/exhibition/indigenous-identities-here-n...
Read moreIván Carmona | Variable West
Iván Carmona's exhibition Trozos was written about in Cliff Notes by Variable West.
You can read the full review here:
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Oregon art picks from Kaya NoteboomPADA Pop-Up
PADA Pop-Up Event!
A fun, casual event, open to all.Join us this Sunday, November 17th, from 11am-5pm for the PADA Pop-Up.
The Portland Art Dealers Association pop-up will take place at Building Five at Northwest Marine Artworks and will feature work by PADA's member galleries Blackfish Gallery, Gallery 114, J. Pepin Art Gallery, Laura Vincent Design & Gallery, One Grand Gallery, PDX Contemporary Art, and Waterstone Gallery as well as a few ORVAA partners The BLACK Gallery, Blue Sky, and Ori Gallery. At 3:00 pm Brian Ferriso, director of the Portland Art Museum, will give a brief talk on PADA’s contributions to Portland’s cultural community.
PDX will have new, never been seen works by some of our artists including: small vases from Iván Carmona, watercolor and gouache paintings by Justin L’Amie, small oil on panel paintings by James Lavadour, new textile work by Kristen Miller, a herd of ceramic elephants by Jeffry Mitchell, and miniature mixed media work by Nell Warren. Also on view will be work from Marjorie Dial, Ellen George, Barbara Stafford, and Heather Watkins, among others. The event will be a wonderful opportunity to see and buy brand new, small-scale works by our represented artists.
We look forward to seeing you!
PADA Pop-Up @padaoregon
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Sunday, November 17th | 11am-5pm
Building Five at Northwest Marine Artworks
2516 NW 29th Ave
Portland, OR
97210Kristen Miller | Duke Hall Gallery at James Madison University
Kristen Miller's work is featured in The Never-Ending Thread: An Embroidery Exhibition, at Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Art at James Madison University.
The Never-Ending Thread
An Embroidery Exhibition
November 6-December 4, 2024
Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Art at James Madison University
820 S. Main St. Harrisonburg, VA 22807TUES - SAT, 11AM - 5 PM DURING THE ACADEMIC YEAR
For more information: https://www.jmu.edu/dukehallgallery/index.shtml
Read morePanel Discussion: Ceramics as Fine Art
Ceramics as Fine Art — A panel discussion with Grace Kook-Anderson, Marjorie Dial, Jeffry Mitchell and Iván Carmona.
Join us for a panel between Grace Kook-Anderson, Marjorie Dial, Jeffry Mitchell and Iván Carmona on contemporary ceramics. The panel will discuss how ceramics, as an art form, have become increasingly appreciated as fine art and have become more expressive of emotions, politics and place.
Ceramics as Fine Art panel discussion
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5:30-6:30 pm, Tuesday, November 12, 2024
PDX CONTEMPORARY ART
1881 NW Vaughn Street
Portland, OR 97209Susan Seubert | Keynote Speaker for the Society for Photographic Education
The venue will be the Mt. Hood Community College's Visual Arts Theatre.
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There will be a pre-talk social beginning at 5:00pm.
The Address is:
26000 SE Stark St.
Gresham, OR 97030
Parking is free and lots J and AM are closest to the Visual Arts TheatreEllen George & Marie Watt | COMING HOME: Memory Activism in Historic Old Town
Ellen George and Marie Watt will both have work in The Indelible Spirit: Artists in Situ Revitalizing Old Town. Curated by Roberta Wong, the exhibition is a part of COMING HOME: Memory Activism in Historic Old Town.
Vanport Mosaic shines a national spotlight on Portland’s rich and complex history through COMING HOME: Memory Activism in Old Town, a week-long series of events dedicated to honoring and reconnecting communities with deep ties to Old Town. Known as one of the city's oldest and most culturally significant neighborhoods, Old Town has been profoundly shaped by historic racism and cultural erasure.
"COMING HOME gathers the history of OLD TOWN communities whose ancestors once lived, worked, and played here. Once an integral part of the urban landscape, the Chinese and Japanese still remain in this part of the city. Chinatown and Japantown (Nihomachi) coexisted among Native American, African Americans, Greek, Jewish, and Roma businesses and communities no longer rooted in this place.
COMING HOME honors these communities through art, remembrance and resilience. Whether contemplating the past or envisioning the future, artists often capture the intangible– the spectrum between joy and pain in our lived experiences. Their art can convey what words cannot express and bridge an understanding to what was lost, and what is needed to renew our human spirit. We are connected and invite you into the circle, COMING HOME, to reimagine our sense of place.
— Curator Roberta May WongAs part of COMING HOME there will be an Artist Meeting on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 from 3:00 PM 5:00 PM.
Building 220
220 Northwest 2nd Avenue
Portland, OR, 97209Join for an opportunity to engage with curator Roberta May Wong and the multidisciplinary and multicultural artists behind "The Indelible Spirit: Artists in Situ Revitalizing Old Town."
More about Meet the Artists:
https://www.vanportmosaic.org/calendar/meet-artistsMore about COMING HOME:
https://www.vanportmosaic.org/coming-home-2024Vanport Mosaic Presents: COMING HOME, Memory Activism in Old Town
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September 28 - October 5, 2024Joe Rudko | Luxe Interiors and Design
Joe Rudko's work was featured in Luxe Luxe Interiors and Design magazine.
"Seattle artist Joe Rudko’s studio is filled with pieces of other people’s stories. Located in the SoDo neighborhood above a bakery in a 1910-era building, the space holds thousands of family photographs donated by the boxful by people he knows who have cleaned out an attic or storage space. Some have even been mailed to him by strangers. The images are the raw material for his graphic, colorful works. He jokingly compares himself to a recycling center, noting that he “rarely throws anything away.”
You can read the full review here: https://luxesource.com/joe-rudko-seattle-artist/
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