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Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs Performance
15-20 minute performances will take place in different galleries at 1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m.
Organized in connection with BETWEEN and the larger exhibition series WE.CONSTRUCT.MARVELS.BETWEEN.MONUMENTS, the Portland Art Museum welcomes LA-based interdisciplinary artist and composer, Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs, for a series of in-gallery performances. Pennypacker Riggs creates immersive public rituals with sculpture, video, costume, and collective performance. Her work confronts ancient archetypes, canonized heroic narratives, and mythological tropes to explore structures of power and the actions we can take – both as individuals and collectively – to destabilize real-life hegemonies. She leads Community Chorus, a resistance-themed, no-commitment chorus that sings at justice-themed rallies, marches, and events; is one half of the pop duo, Bouquet; and is the creator/composer of the choral/movement ensemble, Song of Eurydice. She has presented her work at The Getty Center, Hammer Museum, MoCA LA, The Broad, SFMOMA, Bangkok University, deYoung Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Pennypacker Riggs will perform with Amenta Abioto and Vaughn Kimmons.
About We.Construct.Marvels.Between.Monuments
We.Construct.Marvels.Between.Monuments. is a series of five exhibitions developed in partnership with artists and art collectives that will activate the gallery with visual art, performance, screenings, and discussions. Organized by visiting artistic director Libby Werbel, the programming invites a range of emerging and established voices to ask questions about how the Museum can become more artist-centered and inclusive in its practices and become more critically engaged with a broader array of emerging and established artists in the region.
Programming support for We.Construct.Marvels.Between.Monuments presented in partnership with c3:initiative.
15-20 minute performances will take place in different galleries at 1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m.
In honor of the theme Women Making History, and the Smithsonian free day We.Construct.Marvels.Between.Monuments. has invited artist Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs to create a site specific performance at PAM that will be taking place throughout the day in different galleries. LA-based interdisciplinary artist and composer, Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs creates immersive public ritual with sculpture, video, costume, and collective performance. Her work confronts ancient archetypes, canonized heroic narratives, and mythological tropes to explore structures of power and the actions we can take – both as individuals and collectively – to destabilize real-life hegemonies. She leads Community Chorus, a resistance-themed, no-commitment chorus that sings at justice-themed rallies, marches, and events; is one half of the pop duo, Bouquet; and is the creator/composer of the choral/movement ensemble, Song of Eurydice.
Pennypacker Riggs has presented her work at The Getty Center, Hammer Museum, MoCA LA, The Broad, SFMOMA, Bangkok University, deYoung Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Pennypacker Riggs will perform with Amenta Abioto and Vaughn Kimmons.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition
We.Construct.Marvels.Between.Monuments.
Explore the Museum with a docent skilled in bringing art to life.
Public tours depart from the Park Avenue entrance.
Tours are free for members or with Museum admission, and free for children age 17 and younger.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 1942–1955.
Screening of Criminal Queers and Homotopia with filmmakers Chris E. Vargas and Eric Stanley in partnership with NW Film Center.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition We.Construct.Marvels.Between.Monuments.
Take a break from your workday and join a curator, museum educator, artist, or local scholar for a 45-minute talk in the galleries.
This month, Portland-based artist Avantika Bawa will discuss her current exhibition on view in the APEX galleries on the fourth floor of the Hoffman wing.
Space is limited. Advance tickets recommended. Program departs from the Main Entrance Lobby.
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MARIBETH GRAYBILL, PH.D.
THE ARLENE AND HAROLD SCHNITZER CURATOR OF ASIAN ART
Drawing on the works in Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art, exhibition curator Maribeth Graybill explores the many ways poetry has taken visual form in Japan, from the eighth century to the present. When calligraphy is a quotation of a particular verse, how does the brushwork impact our response to the text? Why is imaginary poet portraiture an important genre in Japan? And how do landscape paintings reflect poetic traditions—and invite our poetic response?
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Explore the Museum with a docent skilled in bringing art to life.
Public tours depart from the Park Avenue entrance.
Tours are free for members or with Museum admission, and free for children age 17 and younger.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art: Selections from the Collection of Mary and Cheney Cowles.
Join us the third Tuesday of every month for coffee followed by a lecture or film screening. Coffee at 9:15 a.m. in the Fields Ballroom, Mark Building; lecture at 10:15 a.m. in the Whitsell Auditorium, Main Building. This month, Portland-based artist Avantika Bawa will discuss her current exhibition on view in the APEX galleries on the fourth floor of the Hoffman wing.
This series is free for adults 62 and over and includes Museum admission.
Art & Conversation is made possible through the Marguerite and Harry Kendall Education Fund.
Poetry lies at the heart of Japanese culture. Since ancient times, artists in Japan have expressed the most profound emotions and the most nuanced responses to the human condition in verse. The ability to turn a phrase has been a mark of social status, a way to woo a lover, and a means to express shared heritage and values. The more than one hundred works in the exhibition Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art illuminate how poetry—in both Japanese and Chinese—has taken visual form in Japan. The paintings and calligraphy in Poetic Imagination span from the eighth through the twentieth century and represent courtly, Buddhist, and literati spheres of artistic activity. Most of them are unveiled to the public for the first time here. Join us for a presentation by Maribeth Graybill, Ph.D., The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Asian Art followed by an interactive workshop on writing haiku in response to works in the exhibition.
Reserve ticketsSpark your own poetic imagination by going deeper into some of the themes, materials, and creative processes represented in the exhibition. This occasional weekend series will feature a variety of calligraphy and ikebana demonstrations, music performances, poetry reading and writing opportunities, artmaking, and even the chance to sample Japanese small bites and sweets from local makers.
October 19, 5–8 p.m.
October 20, 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
November 16, 5–8 p.m.
November 17, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
January 11, 5–8 p.m.
January 12, 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art: Selections from the Collection of Mary and Cheney Cowles.
Spark your own poetic imagination by going deeper into some of the themes, materials, and creative processes represented in the exhibition. This occasional weekend series will feature a variety of calligraphy and ikebana demonstrations, music performances, poetry reading and writing opportunities, artmaking, and even the chance to sample Japanese small bites and sweets from local makers.
October 19, 5–8 p.m.
October 20, 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
November 16, 5–8 p.m.
November 17, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
January 11, 5–8 p.m.
January 12, 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art: Selections from the Collection of Mary and Cheney Cowles.
Virginia Mecklenburg, Chief Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum
In 1952, Edward Hopper and 40 other figurative painters formed a group to repudiate the art world’s adoration of Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and others who dripped and poured paint. Virginia Mecklenburg’s talk will feature paintings by Hopper, Paul Cadmus, Norman Rockwell, and others whose realist canvases shifted the conversation about art in the years following World War II.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Modern American Realism.
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Explore the Museum with a docent skilled in bringing art to life.
Public tours depart from the Park Avenue entrance.
Tours are free for members or with Museum admission, and free for children age 17 and younger.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Robbert Flick: Arena.
Explore the Museum with a docent skilled in bringing art to life.
Public tours depart from the Park Avenue entrance.
Tours are free for members or with Museum admission, and free for children age 17 and younger.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art: Selections from the Collection of Mary and Cheney Cowles.
Explore the Museum with a docent skilled in bringing art to life.
Public tours depart from the Park Avenue entrance.
Tours are free for members or with Museum admission, and free for children age 17 and younger.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Modern American Realism: Highlights from the Smithsonian’s Sara Roby Foundation Collection.
Join us for an afternoon of performances organized by the artist collective Deep Underground in celebration of the opening of MONUMENTS., a retrospective of the Afrofuturist artist, musician, and philosopher Sun Ra.
Explore the Museum with a docent skilled in bringing art to life.
Public tours depart from the Park Avenue entrance.
Tours are free for members or with Museum admission, and free for children age 17 and younger.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Modern American Realism: Highlights from the Smithsonian’s Sara Roby Foundation Collection.
Explore the Museum with a docent skilled in bringing art to life.
Public tours depart from the Park Avenue entrance.
Tours are free for members or with Museum admission, and free for children age 17 and younger.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art: Selections from the Collection of Mary and Cheney Cowles.
We welcome babies and their caregivers beginning at 10 a.m. The first tour begins at roughly 10:30 a.m., or when we have a large enough group ready to go. The second tour begins at 11 a.m. Baby Morning’s home base remains open until noon with toys, games, and books, providing a welcoming, accommodating space free of worries. Caregivers are also welcome to leave belongings here while on the tour. Carriers are recommended while in the galleries, but not required.
Session 1 Session 2Explore the Museum with a docent skilled in bringing art to life.
Public tours depart from the Park Avenue entrance.
Tours are free for members or with Museum admission, and free for children age 17 and younger.
Presented in conjunction with the special exhibition Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art: Selections from the Collection of Mary and Cheney Cowles.