Collection assembly archive mfa applied

2014 / 2015

COLLECTION   ASSEMBLY   ARCHIVE

MFA  APPLIED

CRAFT 

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MFA APPLIED CRAFT + DESIGN

OREGON COLLEGE OF ART AND CRAFT

PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART

Lectures take place at 6:30pm in the MFA AC+D Studio at 421 NE 10th Ave. Lectures are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

Oregon College of Art and Craft + Pacific Northwest College of Art

Design: Leslie Vigeant   Image: Selja Ojanne, MFA AC+D ‘11

9/10               

 

ERIC  ADJETEY  ANANG

Ghanaian sculptor and fantasy coffin carpenter.   

Co-Sponsor OCAC MFA Craft

10/7                        

 

SUSAN  S.  SZENASY

Longtime Editor in Chief  and Publisher of Metropolis magazine.

Leading advocate for ethical, sustainable, human-centered design.

Co-Sponsor Scout Books

*Design Week Portland event - ticket purchase required.

11/5                                        

 

STEVE  BADANES

Founding member of nomadic Jersey Devil design/build.

Director of University of Washington Neighborhood

Design Build Studio.

11/6                                               

 

DAWN  HANCOCK

Founder Firebelly Design. Pioneer in socially responsible

design. Named one of 11 most generous designers

by Fast Company. Co-Sponsor PNCA BridgeLab

12/10                                                  

 

VICTOR MARGOLIN

Professor Emeritus of Design History,

University of Illinois, Chicago. Co-editor of

academic design journal Design Issues.

  

DEB  WILLIS                     

1/21  

Guggenheim, Fletcher and MacArthur

Fellow. Chair of Photography and 

Imaging, NYU. Leading historian and

curator of African American Photography

and Culture. Co-Sponsor Newspace Center

for Photography

FRED  FRITH                               

2/11

Composer and improviser.  Founding member of

avant-rock group Henry Cow.  Subject of award-

winning documentary Step Across the Border.

AKIKO  BUSCH                                  

3/11

Design critic and author of books and essays about design,

culture, and nature. 2013 collection of essays Incidental

Steward addresses citizen science and stewardship.

ANDERS  RUHWALD                               

3/12

Artist in Residence, Head of Ceramics, Cranbrook. Recipient of

numerous international awards. Work explores boundaries of

ceramic medium as an idea and a material.

AMY  WHITAKER                                             

4/16

Artist and author of Museum Legs: Fatigue and Hope in the Face of Art.

Teaches and  writes about arts and entrepreneurship. Co-Sponsor OCAC

Professional Practices