the shine a light 2014 catalogue

JUNE 6, 2014
6 P.M. – MIDNIGHT
RETHINK WHAT CAN HAPPEN IN A MUSEUM
WELCOME
This year marks the fifth Shine a Light at the Portland Art Museum. This event is a partnership
between the Education Department at the Museum and Portland State University’s Art and
Social Practice MFA concentration. Through the leadership of the Education Department,
and our continued work with socially engaged artists, we seek to encourage an atmosphere of
participation between the Museum, its visitors, and staff.
Through ongoing programs like Shine a Light, we create a museum that can be a site for
experiments. Over the years this event has proven that the Portland Art Museum is not afraid
of the unknown. Through this collaboration the Museum has been a beauty salon, a sports
arena, a concert hall, publishing house, and so much more. Each year we become more nimble
and expansive. The borders between art and life become porous and the distinctions between
them are blurred.
One of the hallmarks of Shine a Light is that the majority of the artist projects activate gallery
spaces and are in dialogue with the Museum’s collections in unexpected ways. In other words,
Shine a Light turns the museum into a site of art production and practice and not just a space
of display. The entire museum becomes a place of multi-layered connections, interpretations,
conversations, and unplanned directions. It is a night of celebration, energy, conviviality, and
community that makes people feel like they are a part of something bigger than themselves.
We feel a sense of a collective museum as much as a museum of collections.
The spirit of Shine a Light reaches far beyond this single night. The Museum continues to
make great strides to incorporate socially engaged art into its fabric on a more ongoing basis.
The work of Jen Delos Reyes, this year’s Education Department Artist-in-Residence, points to
the possibilities that arise when Museum staff work alongside practicing artists and learn from
one another over the long term. We encourage you to stay tuned as the Museum continues to
expand beyond the one-night event model of Shine a Light to create ongoing and sustainable
ways to integrate socially engaged art into the daily life of the Museum and visitors like you.
Welcome to Shine a Light 2014!
The Education Department, Portland Art Museum
ART AND SOCIAL PRACTICE
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1. THE BOX PROJECT
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ELIZA GREGORY AND
INGRID VOORENDT
ORGNIZED BY JEN DELOS REYES
6 – 9:30 P.M. ROAM & PLAY
9:30 – 10 P.M. DESTROY!
1ST FLOOR, MARK BUILDING, FRED AND SUZANNE FIELDS BALLROOM.
During the day of Shine a Light, invited project participants alter cardboard boxes for their
young children as they would at home to create zones of imagination. The Box Project
celebrates these acts of creativity that usually take place in the home by temporarily moving
them into the museum. Later in the night all gathered for Shine a Light are invited to reclaim
play and alter boxes for themselves ultimately destroying their collective creations toward the
end of the night. Together everyone builds a parallel museum within the museum out of their
cardboard creations. Boxes are all reused cardboard donated by local businesses and will be
recycled. The project, documented via theboxproject.org raises questions about learning and
play, creativity and parenting.
2. MOVEMENT SCORES FOR THE MUSEUM
3.1
DJ Safi
1ST FLOOR, MAIN BUILDING, JAPANESE ART.
6:30 – 8 P.M.
3.2 Andrew Neerman
8:30 – 10 P.M.
SCULPTURE ATRIUM, 1ST FLOOR, JUBITZ CENTER FOR MODERN AND
CONTEMPORARY ART.
3.3 Kyle Linden Webster
10:30 P.M. – MIDNIGHT
3RD FLOOR, MAIN BUILDING, NATIVE AMERICAN ART AND
SCHNITZER CENTER FOR NORTHWEST ART.
Three local DJ’s and music lovers have been invited to respond to the Portland Art Museum
with the creation of 90-minute site-specific sets. These sets will range from musical responses
to the collection to soundscapes that will envelop galleries and provoke contemplation and
connections.
GRACE HWANG AND AN ENSEMBLE OF DANCERS, ARTISTS, AND
MUSEUM STAFF
2.1
2.2
6 – 9 P.M.
SCORES PERFORMED INTERMITTENTLY IN THE SCHNITZER
SCULPTURE COURT, 1ST FLOOR, MAIN BUILDING AND OUTSIDE
IN THE MUSEUM SCULPTURE GARDEN AND COURTYARD.
6:30, 7:30 AND 8:30 P.M
SCORES TAUGHT TO THE PUBLIC IN THE MUSEUM COURTYARD.
Lead, Follow, Place, Replace, Cover, Care, Support, Lean. Movement Scores for the Museum is
an interactive performance installation that draws from the visible and the invisible factors that
shape gallery experiences. Developed over time through observations and conversations with
docents, security, art handlers, and museum staff, a collection of prompts and scores will be
interpreted and performed by a porous ensemble of dancers and non-dancer.
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4. TALKING ABOUT
MUSEUMS IN PUBLIC
JEN DELOS REYES
With Erin Charpentier, Michael Horwitz, Ariana Jacob, Laurel Kurtz, Travis Neel,
Sandy Sampson, and Travis Souza.
4.1 What Isn’t Art
Laurel Kurtz & Sandy Sampson
1ST FLOOR, MAIN BUILDING, HOFFMAN ENTRANCE LOBBY.
6:30 P.M.
4.2 Portraits
Michael Horwitz
1ST FLOOR, MAIN BUILDING, HOFFMAN ENTRANCE LOBBY.
4.3
Would You Rather
7 – 10 P.M.
Erin Charpentier & Travis Neel
5. HEALING
THE MUSEUM
GUESTWORK
with Judith Kahealani Lynne and Jon Reinschreiber
5.1
5.2
6:30 – 7:15 P.M.
2ND FLOOR, JUBITZ CENTER FOR MODERN AND
CONTEMPORARY ART (MINIMALISM).
7:30 – 8:15 P.M.
2ND FLOOR, MAIN BUILDING, (EUROPEAN ART)
To visit the museum is to be confronted with the complex history of civilization. As visitors, we
are made aware of our relationship to oppressive narratives such as patriarchy, colonialism, and
capitalism. Healing the Museum creates a platform for sound healers to address oppressive
historical narratives through participatory healing rituals.
7 – 9 P.M.
LOWER LEVEL, JUBITZ CENTER FOR MODERN AND
CONTEMPORARY ART.
4.4 Who Is Art For?
Ariana Jacob
LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE MUSEUM.
ONGOING
Talking About Museums in Public brings together a group of Portland artists to encourage
public conversation and thinking about the role of museums in people’s lives in the 21st
century. At Shine a Light visitors can engage in discussions with some of the participating
artists. Projects will take place in the month of June throughout the city and at the Portland
Art Museum.
6. ART FOR EDUCATION
BETTY MARÍN
SHARITA TOWNE
PATRICIA VÁZQUEZ
6:30 – 7:30 P.M.
4TH FLOOR, MAIN BUILDING, SCHNITZER CENTER FOR NORTHWEST ART.
Art for Education works with several contemporary artists currently on display in the Museum’s
Northwest and Native American galleries to extract problems from their artworks, turning
them into prompts for the public. Through art-making in an eight-week workshop, sixth
graders at the King School in Northeast Portland solved the same problems. Their experience
is then made public through an audio tour and artist talks. The project also invites the museum
public to give alternate solutions to the same problems during Shine a Light.
Participating Artists: Christine Bourdette, Jackie Johnson, Jim Riswold, Joe Seymour,
Kaila Ferrell-Smith
Thank you to Mr Eltagoude and his 6th grade class at the King School.
Student Artists: Giovanni Aguilar-Sánchez, Reginald M. Akles, Celeste Brown, Prince A. Brown,
Yunnior L. De León-Juan, Dorimar García-Sánchez, Mariam K. Gilay, Jada M. Jackson, Caleb
J. Jordan, Alatini T. Mapapalangi, Olivia Mendoza-McCrory, Alaysia A. Miles, Pablo PradoMadrigal, Resyka J. Smith, Misael Torres-Granados, and Amani M. Windom
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7. LIVE LOUNGE
UNDERGROUND
AMANDA LEIGH EVANS
8:30 – 10 P.M.
STEVENS ROOM, LOWER LEVEL, MAIN BUILDING.
Enjoy sultry live sounds in the Stevens Room Radio Lounge as we share personal experiences
of socially engaged artworks past and present. During a live radio hour, audience members
are invited to participate in activities that shape the content of the broadcast and to share
stories on air. The show will be broadcast on Portland State University’s KPSU and will feature
a live session with The Bevelers. Come listen, watch, and participate as we re-imagine live
radio production.
8. OVER THE T.O.P.
(TERMS OF PARTICIPATION)
GUESTWORK
9 P.M.
EXTERIOR SCULPTURE GARDEN.
Tonight the Museum is full of participatory art projects. Without you, these projects
would be incomplete. This project asks: “How do we involve others in our projects and not
take advantage of them?” And “How do we provide ethical compensation to the people
responsible for co-creating our works?” So join us in this conversation and for a chance to win
some ca$h money in a bout of arm wrestling.
9. KARAOKING
THE MUSEUM
WEIRD ALLAN KAPROW
(Sharita Towne, Erin Charpentier, Zachary Gough, Travis Neel)
10 -11 P.M.
KRIDEL GRAND BALLROOM
(ACCESS THROUGH THE MARK BUILDING ENTRANCE ONLY)
Karaoking the Museum uses the form of popular songs to tell the material and social history of
art through the participatory form of karaoke. Popular songs have been paired with artworks in
the Portland Art Museum and have had their lyrics altered to reveal the context in which the
artworks were made.
10.A HISTORY OF
ENGAGEMENT:
THE PORTLAND ART MUSEUM (1892-2014)
JEN DELOS REYES WITH SARAH LAMPEN
AND OLIVIA SERRILL
ONGOING
LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE MUSUEM
As this year’s Education Department Artist-in-Residence, Delos Reyes collaborated with Sarah
Lampen, the Museum’s 2013-14 Samuel H. Kress Foundation Interpretive Fellow, and Portland
State University design/illustration student Olivia Serrill to create A History of Engagement,
which highlights amazing moments of connection, big and small, that have taken place at this
institution since its founding in 1892.The timeline focuses on Museum engagement that moves
outside of standard practice, reaches beyond the museum walls to build relationships, fosters
community participation, and makes clear that a museum can be a center of not only cultural
engagement, but civic, social, and community activity.
In honor of the A History of Engagement project, the Museum has revived a 1970s partnership
program with TriMet to offer free Museum admission June 6-13, 2014. to transit riders who
present a valid transit ticket at the Museum box office. For restrictions and details, visit
portlandartmuseum.org/sal2014.
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BE ON TIME
1.
6 – 10 p.m.
The Box Project
1st Floor, Mark Building, Fred and Suzanne Fields Ballroom
Movement Scores for the Museum
2.
2.1 6 – 9 p.m.
Scores will be performed intermittently in the Schnitzer Sculpture Court,
1st floor, Main Building and also outside in the Museum Sculpture Garden and Courtyard.
2.2 6:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
8:30 p.m.
Scores will be taught to the public outside in the Museum Courtyard.
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3.1 6:30 – 8 p.m.
DJ Safi, 1st floor, Main Building, Japanese Art
3.2 8:30 – 10 p.m.
Andrew Neerman, Sculpture Atrium, 1st Floor, Jubitz Center Modern and Contemporary Art.
3.3 10:30 – Midnight
Kyle Linden Webster, 3rd Floor, Main Building, Native American Art and Northwest Art.
Talking About Museums in Public
4.
4.1 6:30p.m.
What Isn’t Art? with Laurel Kurtz & Sandy Sampson, 1st floor, Main Building, Hoffman Entrance Lobby.
4.2 7 – 10 p.m.
Portraits with Michael Horwitz, 1st floor, Main Building, Hoffman Entrance Lobby.
4.3 7 – 9 p.m.
Would You Rather with Erin Charpentier & Travis Neel, Lower Level Link Gallery, Jubitz Center for Modern
and Contemporary Art.
4.4 Ongoing
Who is Art For? with Ariana Jacob, locations throughout the Museum.
Healing the Museum
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6.
5.1 6:30 – 7:15 p.m.
2nd floor, Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art (Minimalism).
5.2 7:30 – 8:15 p.m.
2nd floor, Main Building, (European Art.)
6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Art for Education
4th Floor, Main Building, Schnitzer Center for Northwest Art.
7.
8:30 – 10 p.m.
Live Lounge Underground
Stevens Room, Lower Level, Main Building
8.
9 p.m.
Over the T.O.P. (Terms of Participation)
Exterior Sculpture Garden
9.
10 – 11 p.m.
Karaoking the Museum
Kridel Grand Ballroom, Mark Building, 3rd floor (access through the Mark Building entrance only).
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MAIN BUILDING
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JUBITZ CENTER
F OR MOD ER N A N D CO N TEM P O R A RY A RT
A schnitzer center for northwest art
B
A
A contemporary art
A
A post 1960’s art
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B apex gallery
restrooms
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3
A schnitzer center for northwest art
B native american art
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3.3
restrooms
B
kridel grand ballroom
access through mark building
entrance only
C
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A decorative arts
A american art
B english silver
C european art
E
A
B photography
A
D grand ronde center
for native american art
E closed
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C discovery center
2M
B
D
B
5.2
restrooms
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C
A the clement
greenberg collection
B minimalism
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A japanese art
B korean art
C chinese art
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D museum shop
3.1
E closed
B
guest services
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2.2
5.1
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B
hoffman
entrance
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C
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main entrance
B
A whitsell auditorium
B stevens room
A
B
D graphic arts
E object stories
restrooms
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C
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4.3
jubitz
center
entrance
A impressionism
and the school
of paris and
new york
B sculpture atrium
3.2
C kinney classroom
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exterior
sculpture
garden
to jubitz center
restrooms
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D
F sculpture court
museum grounds
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E
2
fred &suzanne fields
ballroom
1
access through mark building
1R
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entrance only
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A link gallery
connect to
main building, exit,
and restrooms
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Ongoing and various locations.
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ONGOING PROJECTS
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A History of Engagement:
The Portland Art Museum (1892-2014)
Look for printed segments of the timeline on view throughout the Museum
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First Impressions
1st floor, Main Entrance Lobby
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A Book Fair At The Museum
Locations throughout the Museum
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Radical Acceptance
1st Floor, Main Building, Schnitzer Sculpture Court
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Art & Beer
Museum Courtyard
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Order of the Free Association (OFA)
Secret location
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Psychic Landscape of the Art Museum
1st floor, Main Building, Hoffman Lobby
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11.FIRST IMPRESSIONS
13.RADICAL ACCEPTANCE
ONGOING
ONGOING
First Impressions will gather two groups of Portland residents who, like him, have never visited
the Portland Art Museum. Armed with mobile devices, they will document aspects of the
Museum that seem relevant to their initial experience. These images and videos will be
displayed in the lobby of the Museum and online to explore public ideas about the Museum
and the role of the amateur in curated space.
Can a museum visit and its collections be offered to the public as a therapeutically beneficial
experience?
DEREK HAMM
1ST FLOOR, MAIN BUILDING, ENTRANCE LOBBY
12.A BOOK FAIR
AT THE MUSEUM
PUBLIC DOORS AND WINDOWS
In collaboration with Amanda Evans, Erik Geschke, Nora Wendl, Maggie Heath, Manon Chaney,
Jen Vaughn, Will Elder, Michelle Wood, Hannah Andrews, Nathan Day, Jannine Hanczarek,
Katherine Herborn + Caleb Roach, Kate O’Dell + Jason Leighton, Nick Pectol, and Jeff Primozich
TRAVIS SOUZA
1ST FLOOR, MAIN BUILDING, SCHNITZER SCULPTURE COURT.
Radical Acceptance is a project that appropriates Cognitive and Dialectical Behavior Therapy
skills to create a platform for visitors to engage and relate to the Museum and its collections
in a new way. Harnessing the shared benefits of both art and therapy through a guided audio
tour, the project offers an emotional and therapeutic experience of the Museum in exchange
for the visitor’s own psycho-social investment. Radical Acceptance is a term artist Travis Souza
has come to know through his own experience with psychotherapy and living with severe
depression. It was coined by Marsha Linehan, herself diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 17,
who later in life developed Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), a skills-based psychotherapy
that is now widely used by therapists and hospitals to treat a variety of mental illness.
14.ART & BEER
ERIC STEEN ONGOING
ONGOING
Twelve book publishers, sellers and authors will participate in a “book fair” at the Portland
Art Museum. Students from PSU’s sculpture and architecture programs designed and built
sculptural display units for each book fair participating organization. The book fair display
units will be dispersed in galleries throughout the Museum. Each organization will have a
representative with their display to talk with the public and sell books. Participating book
organization participants include: Publication Studio, Ooligan Press, IPRC, King School Press,
Microcosm, Know Your City, Ampersand, Reading Frenzy, Portland Art Museum Public
Programs books, Julie Ault, Monograph Books, and Container Corps.
Art & Beer is a program that invites local breweries to make beer inspired by artwork from
the Museum’s collection. This year artist Eric Steen worked with a number of breweries to
make beer after the The Drunken Cobbler, an 18th century painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze.
The painting is on view in the European galleries and is one of the most noted paintings in
the collection. Tonight debuts one of the five beers created for this program. This beer was
brewed by Evan Taylor, of Widmer Brothers, after he visited the painting a number of times.
The beer is a Biere de Garde, a Farmhouse style that is native to France.
LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE MUSEUM
MUSEUM COURTYARD
To taste all five beers, buy tickets for Art & Beer: The Drunken Cobbler event at the museum
on June 13 at 6 p.m. The event is an educational tasting with presentations about the painting,
brewing, conservation practices, and the search for yeast in the Museum. Tickets are available on
the Museum’s website.
Art & Beer is generously sponsored by both the Young Patrons and the Education Committee of
the Portland Art Museum, and by Widmer Brother’s Brewing.
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15.ORDER OF THE FREE
ASSOCIATION (OFA)
JASON STURGILL
With Evan B. Harris, Adam R. Garcia, Ryan Bubnis, Brad Simon, Adam Bayer, Kate Bingaman
Burt, Sarah Hollowood, Amy Ruppel, Lori D., and Jenny Tiffany.
ONGOING
SECRET LOCATION
In 1891, a Sketch Club was founded by several Portland men and women, which led to the
eventual formation of what is now the Portland Art Museum. In 1924, a Masonic Temple was
built next door to the current home of the Museum. For over 60 years, this Temple was a place
of Masonic rituals and events until its purchase by the Museum in the 1990s. In an attempt
to highlight and meld these interesting historical aspects, a secret society Sketch Club will be
formed and perform free drawing rituals for those selected.
Order of the Free Association is supported by Scout Books.
16.PSYCHIC LANDSCAPE
OF THE ART MUSEUM
ERICA THOMAS
ONGOING
1ST FLOOR, MAIN BUILDING, HOFFMAN LOBBY.
Museum visitors are invited to have their cards read by an eighth-generation tarot reader,
using a custom deck based on artworks in the Portland Art Museum. Each card spread will
serve as the participant’s personalized map of the Museum. Each participant will receive both
a map and a copy of the tarot deck. The project encourages Museum visitors to form new and
unique relationships between art and their own lives.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Stephanie Parrish, Jen Delos Reyes, Mike Murawski, and Harrell Fletcher, whose ongoing
leadership and persistence have made Shine a Light 2014 possible. Thank you to Erica
Thomas, who once again gracefully managed numerous details on behalf of the artists.
We would like to acknowledge Brian Ferriso, The Marilyn H. and Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr.
Director, for his steadfast support of this program. Thank you to members of the Portland Art
Museum Education Committee and Young Patrons Society. Thank you to the larger Education
Department team—Amy Gray, Elizabeth Konop, Danae Hutson, Kristin Bayans, and especially
Sarah Lampen, the 2013-14 Kress Interpretive Fellow, for her laser-like focus assisting on the
development of projects with artists Jen Delos Reyes and Eric Steen. Thank you to Cody
Maxwell for his time in digitally documenting projects as needed. We also thank Shine a Light
intern Ally Painter for her assistance. We are grateful to PSU’s Dean of the College of Art,
Robert Bucker and School of Art and Design director, Ethan Seltzer, along with everyone else
at PSU who has been supportive of the Art and Social Practice program and the partnership
with the Portland Art Museum.
THANK YOU
Donald Urquhart, Noelle McClure, Matthew Juniper and all Portland Art Museum
Collections and Preparator staff; Bruce Guenther, Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson, Deana Dartt
and all Curatorial staff; Nolan Hibbard, Victor Sabula and the whole Security team; Rob
Bearden and the Operations staff; Stacie Webb and the Guest Services staff; Lisa Hoffman
and the Membership team; J Swofford and all Museum volunteers; Greg Muhr, Lina Ford,
Mark Anderson, A.J. Beatty and the stellar Events staff; J.S. May, Luisa Guyer and the
Development team; and Debra Royer of the Crumpacker Family Library.
SHINE A LIGHT SPONSORS
The Young Patrons of the Portland Art Museum
The Education Committee of the Portland Art Museum
EDUCATION SPONSORS
Key Bank
Ray Hickey Foundation
Wes and Nancey Lematta Fund of the OCF
The Lamb Baldwin Foundation
William H. and Mary L. Bauman Foundation
MEDIA SPONSORS
Portland Mercury
CATALOG and SHINE A LIGHT DESIGN CREDIT
Thank you to the indomitable Marketing team at the Museum, especially Michael Smith,
Tricia Chin, Beth Heinrich, Henry Moreno and Ian Gillingham.
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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
AMANDA LEIGH EVANS
JUDITH KAHEALANI LYNNE
JON REINSCHREIBER
ERIC STEEN
Amanda Leigh Evans is an artist and
craftsperson who is interested in creating
collaborative opportunities for people to
share meaningful experiences together.
She lives and works in Los Angeles.
amandaleighevans.com.
Judith Kahealani Lynne is descended from
many generations of musicians and in the
early ‘90s awakened to the memory of a
shamanic form of healing practiced by her
ancestors in the Tyrolean Alps. From this
she developed Harmonic Healing ™ and
Vocal Energetics ™, two leading-edge sound
healing programs. She is passionate about
the process of decolonizing and returning to
our indigenous roots. harmonichealing.com
Shamanic practitioner and sound healer
Jon Reinschreiber has spent years traveling
the planet in search of shamanic cultures
and traditional healing modalities. Intuitive
and guided by Spirit, Jon’s healing work is a
carefully crafted blend of traditional healing
styles, learned while working with indigenous
shamans and sound healers from 12 countries
on five continents. shamanicvibrations.com
Eric Steen’s work includes themes of placebased and interdisciplinary learning,
outdoor education, and food. Eric is an
award-winning teacher and founder of
Beers Made By Walking. His work has been
included at Performa, Food Book Fair (NY),
Glasgow International Festival of Visual
Art (UK), Great American Beer Festival
(CO), Charlotte Street Foundation (MO),
and more. His work has been featured on
National Public Radio and Oregon Public
Broadcasting as well as in Outside Magazine,
Christian Science Monitor, and All About
Beer.
ELIZA GREGORY
Eliza Gregory illuminates diverse
experiences in a given community using
images, relationships, experiences, interviews,
events and many other media. She lives
in San Francisco. elizagregory.com
GUESTWORK
GUESTWORK is a Portland based
collaborative between Erin Charpentier
and Travis Neel. They are not interested in
working alone and often work with other
artists, individuals, and organizations.
They create site-responsive projects,
events, exhibitions, and publications that
are participatory in nature. They work by
invitation in various contexts and create their
own when necessary. guestwork.org.
DEREK HAMM
Derek Hamm is a designer and educator
living in Central Kansas. He is interested in
interaction, storytelling, education, and art in
rural settings. derekhamm.com
GRACE HWANG
Grace Hwang is an artist and educator who
has been teaching in alternative learning
settings in New York and Portland since
2004. Her pursuit of dance and performance
is fueled by improvising through ensemble
work and the medium of rule-based play.
She is currently a 2014 Alembic Resident
Artist at Performance Works NorthWest.
cargocollective.com/gracejoannehwang
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BETTY MARÍN,
SHARITA TOWNE, AND
PATRICIA VÁZQUEZ
Betty Marín, Sharita Towne, and Patricia
Vázquez have backgrounds doing
collaborative art projects with youth
and other populations. They also have a
combined experience as educators in public
schools and other settings. They are invested
in education as a path to liberation, and in
pedagogy that is participatory and engages
students critically.
PUBLIC DOORS &
WINDOWS
Public Doors and Windows is a collaborative
artist team made up of Harrell Fletcher,
Molly Sherman, and Nolan Calisch. They are
based in Portland, Oregon. Together they
work to create participatory and site-specific
projects that engage with and include local
people and the broader public. Currently,
the collaboration is involved in ongoing
projects with the Matisse Museum in Le
Cateau-Cambrésis, France; the Institute
of the Arts and Sciences at the University
of California Santa Cruz; the Parthenon
Museum of Art in Nashville, Tenn.; and the
Portland Art Museum in Portland, Ore.
In 2013 they published A Children’s Book
of Farming in Le Cateau-Cambrésis with
One Star Press as part of the Le Nouveau
Festival at the Pompidou Center in Paris.
publicdoorsandwindows.tumblr.com
JEN DELOS REYES
Jen Delos Reyes is an artist originally from
Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her research interests
include the history of socially engaged
art, artist-run culture, group work, band
dynamics, folk music, and artists’ social roles.
Jen is the founder and director of Open
Engagement, a conference on socially
engaged art. In 2013-14, she served as
Education Department Artist-in-Residence
at the Portland Art Museum.
Instagram @jendelosreyes
TRAVIS SOUZA
Travis Souza’s practice creates platforms
for the personal and private to operate
at the public level through collaborative
and interdisciplinary projects. Souza’s
research interests are concerned with the
interconnectedness of geography, economy,
pleasure and work. Born in California, he
now lives in Portland via Glasgow, Scotland.
Instagram @travisvsouza
JASON STURGILL
Jason Sturgill is an illustrator, artist and
educator with a background in curatorial,
advertising and design. He holds an MFA
from PSU in Art and Social Practice.
ERICA THOMAS
Erica Thomas is an artist, writer, and creator,
exploring the nuances of relationships
and intimacy through experiential projects
and situations. Instagram @ericameryl,
Twitter @every1sanartist
INGRID VOORENDT
Ingrid Voorendt specializes in creating and
directing collaboratively devised, socially
engaged performance. She lives and works in
Melbourne, Australia.
WEIRD ALLAN KAPROW
Weird Allan Kaprow is an American critic,
assemblage artist, parodist, and pioneer in
the development of conceptual karaoke.
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MUSEUM GUIDELINES
To preserve the art for future
generations to enjoy, please
observe the following guidelines
during your visit:
Please do NOT touch the art. We also ask
that guests keep at least six inches away
from unprotected artwork. Please check all
backpacks, bags, umbrellas, tripods and other
property larger than 11x14”.
Photography without flash is permitted.
Food and beverages are not permitted in
the galleries.
Smoking is not permitted in the Museum’s
buildings or within 10 feet of any entrance.
Where’s the...?
Coat Check:
Main Lobby & Hoffman Lobby, Main
Building
Lost & Found:
Contact the nearest Security Officer
or call 503-276-4202.
First Aid:
Contact the nearest Security Officer.
Shine Online
In between performances, tours,
experiments, and happenings, stay
connected through Shine a Light’s social
media networks. Discussion threads,
photos, and event highlights can all be
found on the Portland Art Museum’s
Facebook and Twitter pages, as well as
the Shine a Light Twitter feed. During
and after the event, find photos on the
Museum’s Flickr page.
facebook.com/portlandartmuseum
instagram.com/portlandartmuseum
flickr.com/photos/portlandartmuseum
Twitter:
@PDXArtMuseum and
@PDXShineALight
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