Clark College

Artist Talk: Laura Ross Paul

Laura Ross-Paul has been painting professionally for over four decades. During that time she has been represented by nine West-Coast rallies from Seattle to LA, with solo exhibits at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, The Column Gallery, Colorado College, Colorado: The Art Gym, Portland, Oregon; and important exhibits at the Arnot Museum, Elmira, New York; Palm Springs Art Museum,; Seattle Art Museum; Tacoma Art; the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (Eugene), The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (Portland), and The Schnitzer Family Collection.

Among her many awards, Ross-Paul has received the Bonnie Bronson Visual Arts Fellowship, an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, and the Susan Cooley Gilliom Artist and Teaching Residency in Roseville, California. Her art has been singled out for prizes in regional biennials at the Portland Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museums, and Turtle Bay Museum in Redding, California; featured in the cable TV film Spy (1989); and appears on book covers including fiction by Charles Spaeth (2011) and Barbara Wilson (1993) and poetry by Judith Barrington (2015).

www.lauraross-paul.com

Representatives from the United States Army will be on campus in the Gaiser Hall Concourse to share information with students and community members.

Join the Columbia Writers Series for a reading and conversation with the novelist, journalist, and editor Ed Park. Park is the author of the novels Same Bed Different Dreams and Personal Days, and the short story collection An Oral History of Atlantis (2025). He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN Hemingway Award, and other honors, and has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and Asian Pacific American Award for Literature. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, and many other places. He is a founding editor of The Believer and was executive editor at Penguin Press. He teaches creative writing at Princeton.

Dr. Doug Harris conducts the Clark College Jazz Band in their Fall Quarter Concert, Saturday, November 21, 7:30 pm in the Gaiser Student Center. Free admission. Donations accepted for Band Scholarship Fund.

Representatives from the United States Army will be on campus in the Gaiser Hall Concourse to share information with students and community members.

The Clark College Treble Ensemble and Chorale sing their Fall Quarter Concert on Thursday, December 3, 2026 at 7:30 pm at the Vancouver First United Methodist Church. Directed by Dr. Jacob Funk and accompanied by Dr. Jeongmi Yoon. Free Admission.

The Clark College Concert Choir sings their Fall Quarter Concert on Saturday, December 5, 2026 at 7:30 pm at the Vancouver First United Methodist Church. Directed by Dr. Jacob Funk and accompanied by Dr. Jeongmi Yoon. Free Admission.

The Clark College Concert Band performs on Sunday, December 6, 2026 at 3:00 pm at the Skyview High School Auditorium, 1300 NW 139th St, Vancouver. Dr. Doug Harris directs. Free Admission.

The Clark College Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Nisan Ak, performs their Fall Quarter Concert on Sunday, December 6, 2026 at 7:30 pm in the Skyview High School Auditorium. The program features Schumann’s Symphony 3 and the orchestra concertmaster, Dr. Jeong Yoon Lee soloing in Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen. Free Admission.

Representatives from the United States Army will be on campus in the Gaiser Hall Concourse to share information with students and community members.