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Join us for an afternoon with Grammy Award-winning soprano and PSU alum Audrey Luna! Audrey will give a masterclass with L&C and PSU students and present a lecture titled "The Business of Singing."

Learn more about the School of Music & Theater Voice Area.

Show & Tell welcomes Sophie Van Der Merwe, Art Director and Designer at NIKE

Sophie Van Der Merwe is an Art Director, Designer, and 2019 PSUGD alum who has worked for brands like SKIMS, Nike, & Jordan Brand both agency side at Wieden+Kennedy Portland, and in-house at Nike.

Show & Tell is PSU Graphic Design’s online lunchtime lecture series where working design professionals stop by to blow our minds with wisdom! Our lectures happen (nearly) every Thursday during the school year at noon Pacific and are hosted by DES 125 Show & Tell students!

Free and open to the public

All talks are presented live in ABX 260 or on twitch.tv/psugd

Join Dr. Mas Subramanian, the inventor of YInMn Blue—the first new blue pigment discovered in more than 200 years—for a fascinating lecture on the science, history, and future of color. Dr. Subramanian will share the story behind this accidental discovery and explore the role of pigments in art, design, technology, and everyday life, offering a unique perspective at the intersection of scientific innovation and creative practice.

This is a virtual program held via Zoom Webinar. The webinar will also be screened inside the new building for the Jordan Schnitzer School for Art + Art History + Design on 1981 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201. Attendees can also join remotely.

Show & Tell welcomes Brian Yonki, Sign Painter at Well Done Signs

Bryan Yonki is an artist, sign painter, and instructor currently based in Portland, Oregon. His love for hand-painted signs began during his childhood in Santiago, Chile, where he grew up admiring the art adorning public transportation buses and witnessed the decline of this traditional craft with the rise of vinyl. Bryan moved to Los Angeles, California, in 2014, where he taught himself the art of sign painting and eventually established his own sign studio called "Well Done Signs" in 2016, and is now a brick-and-mortar storefront in NE Portland. Embodying the motto "Always hand painted," he has dedicated himself to enhancing the urban landscapes of L.A. and Portland by creating numerous hand-painted signs and murals adorning storefronts throughout the city. Bryan actively shares his knowledge and passion for the trade through workshops, encouraging newcomers to contribute to the preservation of this traditional craft. He frequently travels and offers these workshops in various cities across the West Coast.

Show & Tell is PSU Graphic Design’s online lunchtime lecture series where working design professionals stop by to blow our minds with wisdom! Our lectures happen (nearly) every Thursday during the school year at noon Pacific and are hosted by DES 125 Show & Tell students!

Free and open to the public

All talks are presented live in ABX 260 or on twitch.tv/psugd

Join us for our first Matthias Kemeny Design Lecture Series event in the new Art Building as we welcome Mindy Seu, our first speaker of the season.

Mindy Seu (b. 1991, California) is an artist and technologist based in Los Angeles and New York City whose practice focuses on technology-driven performance and publication. A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET (2025) follows her first book CYBERFEMINISM INDEX (2023), a pseudo-encyclopedia that gathers three decades of online activism and net art, which Rhizome commissioned, premiered at the New Museum, and was awarded a Graham Foundation Grant. Mindy is currently teaching as an Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the Department of Design Media Arts.

Instagram: @mindyseu

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The Matthias Kemeny Design Lecture Series is coordinated and managed by students in our A+D Projects class. This series brings internationally celebrated design professionals annually to Portland to give a lecture for the benefit of the students and faculty in the Graphic Design program and the broader design community. This series is free and open to the public and highlights a wide range of design practices in an attempt to facilitate a community-wide dialogue about design and related fields. The Matthias D. Kemeny Charitable Fund of the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation has made the series possible.

Organized by Portland State University Graphic Design

Join scholars Dr. Lindsey Mantoan, author of It's All Happening: How Musical Theater Does High School (Oxford, 2026), and Dr. Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, author of Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist (Simon & Schuster, 2025) for a free conversation about high school on the musical theater stage. This evening will feature performances by PSU students from some favorite high school musicals--come to sing, chat, and cheer along!

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Learn more about theTheater Arts program at PSU's School of Music & Theater.

Join us for a talk with Dr. Nazanin Hedayat Munroe, Mary Ausplund Tooze Endowed Visiting Professor of Islamic + Ancient Art!

From luxury silks to patched wool, dress across the early modern Islamic world communicated the inner and outer states of its wearers through a shared language of regional and religious codes. In this lecture, Dr. Munroe examines how clothing and textiles expressed social status, political allegiance, spiritual devotion, and personal taste.

Nazanin Hedayat Munroe is Director of Textiles and Associate Professor of Fashion at City University of New York. An artist and art historian, she is author of several books and articles, including Sufi Lovers, Safavid Silks and Early Modern Identity (Amsterdam University Press, 2023/Routledge, 2025), winner of the R.L. Shep Award from Textile Society of America.

This talk is made possible by the generous support of the Mary Ausplund Tooze Endowed Visiting Professor of Islamic & Ancient Art fund.

Image: Man's Robe (Jama) with Poppies, 17th Century (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 29.135)

Join us for a lecture by Jordan Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design faculty member Carmen Ripollés, Professor of Art History, for a talk on her book, Josefa de Óbidos, which explores the life and work of one of the most influential artists of the Portuguese Baroque.

Drawing on years of research, Ripollés reexamines Josefa de Óbidos' remarkable career, revealing how she achieved extraordinary artistic and professional success in the 17th century while challenging traditional assumptions about women artists. The talk will offer new perspectives on Baroque art, women's history, and the enduring legacy of an artist whose work continues to reshape our understanding of the early modern Iberian world.

Experience a moving coming-of-age story about friendship, identity, and finding your place in a changing world.

Set in the South Korean port city of Incheon, Take Care of My Cat follows five young women navigating life after graduation as their friendships are tested by different dreams, opportunities, and social expectations.

Directed by Jeong Jae-eun, this acclaimed film offers a heartfelt and insightful look at young adulthood, class, and the challenges of growing up in a rapidly changing society.

🌏 Join us for a special screening celebrating Korean cinema and storytelling!

🎥 Screening Dates & Times

• Friday, November 20: 6:00 PM & 8:30 PM
• Saturday, November 21: 6:00 PM & 8:30 PM
• Sunday, November 22: 3:00 PM

There’s only two weeks left before it's gone! Stop by the JSMA at PSU for our final public tour of Anish Kapoor: Dissolving Margins, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. Learn more about one of the most influential living contemporary artists working today, and discover the ideas behind the 150 works on view on a tour led by our knowledge museum staff.

Experience a moving coming-of-age story about friendship, identity, and finding your place in a changing world.

Set in the South Korean port city of Incheon, Take Care of My Cat follows five young women navigating life after graduation as their friendships are tested by different dreams, opportunities, and social expectations.

Directed by Jeong Jae-eun, this acclaimed film offers a heartfelt and insightful look at young adulthood, class, and the challenges of growing up in a rapidly changing society.

🌏 Join us for a special screening celebrating Korean cinema and storytelling!

🎥 Screening Dates & Times

• Friday, November 20: 6:00 PM & 8:30 PM
• Saturday, November 21: 6:00 PM & 8:30 PM
• Sunday, November 22: 3:00 PM

Join us for Fresh, the Portland State University Graphic Design Senior Portfolio Showcase, celebrating our fall batch of graduating seniors as they launch the next chapter of their creative careers.

• Explore a diverse range of student work
• Meet and connect with emerging designers
• Enjoy snacks, conversation, and good company

Whether you're a design professional, family member, friend, fellow student, or simply curious about the future of design, we hope you'll join us for this special event.

Experience art where it's created as our MFA Art & Social Practice and BFA Art Practice students open their studios and present what they are working on, right now.

Join us for a series of presentations from our Launch! residents. For each talk, three Launch! artists will each present a 20-minute talk about their work as artists in residence in our school.

The Jordan Schnitzer School established Launch! Studio Residency to support high-achieving students, including our Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize recipients, recent grads, and emerging artists in our community. Selected residents receive a dedicated semi-private studio for nine months, along with access to the maker spaces most relevant to their work, so they can continue to develop their practice while remaining engaged in our school's creative community.

Thursday, January 14 – 6pm
Genevieve Hildebrandt-Chupp
Madison Inman
Clara Johnson

Thursday, January 28 – 6pm
Gabe Bidney
Ember Gulden
Evie Butler

Thursday, February 11 – 6pm
Parker Patnode
Ainsley Van Hook
Rebecca Jane

Thursday, February 25 – 6pm
Lily Fisher
Nina Vichayapi
Michelle Jackson

Simon Fraser University's Evan Freeman presents his research on the ancient Greek krater, a vessel for mixing wine and water, and its continued representation across Christian, Jewish, and Islamic contexts in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Focusing on the art and ritual of the Byzantine Empire, Freeman shows how the form, function, and symbolic significance of the krater were adapted to serve new religious and political purposes even as the memory of its original ancient name and historical function endured.

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This talk is made possible by the generous support of the Mary Ausplund Tooze Endowed Visiting Professor of Islamic & Ancient Art fund.

Everybody Reads 2027 Panel: Perspectives on Louise Erdrich’s The Mighty Red

Portland State University is proud to participate in Multnomah County Library’s annual Everybody Reads community reading initiative! Join the PSU Library and the College of Education during Community Hour for an interdisciplinary campus panel exploring Louise Erdrich’s novel, The Mighty Red.

Set against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis and the Red River Valley, the novel wrestles with climate change, deep time, community resilience, and economic upheaval. Our panel of PSU faculty and campus experts will bring their diverse disciplinary lenses to unpack the book's core themes.

Environmental Justice & Sustainability: Agriculture, land stewardship, and climate impacts.

Sustainability in Education: Learning and teaching for place-based resilience.

Mental Health & Community Care: Navigating survival guilt and economic stress from a therapist's perspective.

📖 Free Book Giveaway:

A limited number of free copies of The Mighty Red will be available for PSU students, faculty, and staff ahead of the event! Details coming soon.

Bring your lunch and join the conversation!

Join us for a series of presentations from our Launch! residents. For each talk, three Launch! artists will each present a 20-minute talk about their work as artists in residence in our school.

The Jordan Schnitzer School established Launch! Studio Residency to support high-achieving students, including our Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize recipients, recent grads, and emerging artists in our community. Selected residents receive a dedicated semi-private studio for nine months, along with access to the maker spaces most relevant to their work, so they can continue to develop their practice while remaining engaged in our school's creative community.

Thursday, January 14 – 6pm
Genevieve Hildebrandt-Chupp
Madison Inman
Clara Johnson

Thursday, January 28 – 6pm
Gabe Bidney
Ember Gulden
Evie Butler

Thursday, February 11 – 6pm
Parker Patnode
Ainsley Van Hook
Rebecca Jane

Thursday, February 25 – 6pm
Lily Fisher
Nina Vichayapi
Michelle Jackson

Join us for a series of presentations from our Launch! residents. For each talk, three Launch! artists will each present a 20-minute talk about their work as artists in residence in our school.

The Jordan Schnitzer School established Launch! Studio Residency to support high-achieving students, including our Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize recipients, recent grads, and emerging artists in our community. Selected residents receive a dedicated semi-private studio for nine months, along with access to the maker spaces most relevant to their work, so they can continue to develop their practice while remaining engaged in our school's creative community.

Thursday, January 14 – 6pm
Genevieve Hildebrandt-Chupp
Madison Inman
Clara Johnson

Thursday, January 28 – 6pm
Gabe Bidney
Ember Gulden
Evie Butler

Thursday, February 11 – 6pm
Parker Patnode
Ainsley Van Hook
Rebecca Jane

Thursday, February 25 – 6pm
Lily Fisher
Nina Vichayapi
Michelle Jackson

Join us for a series of presentations from our Launch! residents. For each talk, three Launch! artists will each present a 20-minute talk about their work as artists in residence in our school.

The Jordan Schnitzer School established Launch! Studio Residency to support high-achieving students, including our Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize recipients, recent grads, and emerging artists in our community. Selected residents receive a dedicated semi-private studio for nine months, along with access to the maker spaces most relevant to their work, so they can continue to develop their practice while remaining engaged in our school's creative community.

Thursday, January 14 – 6pm
Genevieve Hildebrandt-Chupp
Madison Inman
Clara Johnson

Thursday, January 28 – 6pm
Gabe Bidney
Ember Gulden
Evie Butler

Thursday, February 11 – 6pm
Parker Patnode
Ainsley Van Hook
Rebecca Jane

Thursday, February 25 – 6pm
Lily Fisher
Nina Vichayapi
Michelle Jackson

Experience art where it's created. Join us as our MFA Art & Social Practice and BFA Art Practice students open their studios to present what they are working on – right now.

Now in its third year, the Cinematic Sound Showcase is a collaboration between the School of Film and the Sonic Arts & Music Production (SAMP) Department, spearheaded by faculty members Shelley Davis and Caroline Miller.

This intensive program simulates real-world industry workflows: narrative short films produced in Shelley’s Narrative Production 2 class are handed off to Caroline’s SAMP students, who complete full sound editing, sound design, original music composition, mixing, and mastering within a demanding 10-week deadline. The culmination of this collaboration is a high-profile, two-hour event at the historic Hollywood Theatre featuring student film screenings and a moderated Q&A with the storytellers from both departments. After two consecutive years of sold-out screenings at PSU, the showcase is moving to a premiere venue to support emerging Pacific Northwest creative talent and connect PSU FILM and SAMP with the broader arts community. Please join us for an evening of curated talent, storytelling, and celebration.

The Cinematic Showcase is sponsored by SakeOne.

Learn more about Portland State University's Sonic Arts & Music Production programand School of Film.

Join us as Evelin Wetter, curator at Abegg-Stiftung (Riggisberg, Switzerland) and honorary professor at Leipzig University, Germany, presents "How an Ottoman Caftan Became a Liturgical Robe: Recycling Precious Textiles in a Lutheran Parish Church in Transylvania."

Lutheran churches in present-day Romania, especially the Black Church in Braşov, preserve a surprisingly rich heritage of magnificent velvets. They date from the period before the Reformation and attest to Transylvania’s extensive trade relations in the late Middle Ages and early modern period. Transformed into liturgical vestments that were used until the late 19th century, they serve as instructive examples of strategies for recycling, careful preservation, and the programmatic reuse of these precious textiles throughout different eras.

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This event is made possible through the generosity of the Mary Ausplund Tooze Endowed Visiting Professor of Islamic + Ancient Art Fund.