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In the lead-up to the 2010 Time-Based Art Festival, Artistic Director Cathy Edwards will be posting about some of the artists, projects, and ideas that inspire her in this year’s program. Week three focuses on the clever and captivating dances … Continue reading →

In the lead-up to the 2010 Time-Based Art Festival, Artistic Director Cathy Edwards will be posting about some of the artists, projects, and ideas that inspire her in this year’s program. Week two highlights the grace and intensity of dancer … Continue reading →

In the lead-up to the 2010 Time-Based Art Festival, Artistic Director Cathy Edwards will be posting about some of the artists, projects, and ideas that inspire her in this year’s program. She’ll start off her preview posts with her discovery … Continue reading →

Beginning June 5, the thirteen graduating students of Portland State’s MFA program will exhibit their work as GROWN UPS. For their exhibition catalog, the class approached three local art-scene thinkers: writer Camela Raymond, artist and PNCA Curator Mack McFarland, and … Continue reading →

TBA:10 FESTIVAL LINEUP VIDEO, Courtesy of Dustin Zemel. Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s annual Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) draws artists from across the country and around the globe for a convergence of contemporary performance, dance, music, new media, and visual … Continue reading →

TBA:09 Audiences for 2009 NEA Masterpieces Grant Recipient Erik Friedlander. Photo: Wayne Bund. Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) is the proud recipient of three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), in support of the 2010 Time-Based … Continue reading →

Part Two of Kristan Kennedy’s wrap-up of Spring Art Fair season in New York: The Armory Show, Fair, Thing – whatever you want to call it is almost impossible to get to. Perched on Pier 92 and 94 around 55th … Continue reading →

Each year, PICA produces a companion program to our Time-Based Art ON SIGHT Visual Arts exhibitions. In recent years, they’ve featured everything from full-color artist posters to in-depth interviews about Festival projects. With all of this rich content at our … Continue reading →

PICA Visual Art Program Director Kristan Kennedy just returned from a two-week blitz of the Whitney Biennial and Armory Art Fair. Read on for the first of her reports: This is what my eye looked like when I landed in … Continue reading →

Visual Art Program Director Kristan Kennedy delivered a fantastic PMMNLS lecture last Monday, and we wanted to make sure that everyone had the chance to experience her presentation. Read on and piece together the YouTube references of a talented artist … Continue reading →