Portland State Magazine Fall 2016

FALL 2016 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 9 ART THAT REVEALS the relationship between individuals and their surrounding world influences the work of this year’s winners of the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize at PSU. MFA students Renee Sills and Roz Crews and alumnus Kyle Lee MFA ’16 will exhibit their work Oct. 3-21 in Autzen Gallery, 205 Neuberger Hall. Sills’ How to Dance Like a Boss , a participatory art piece pictured here, uses live performances and responsive technologies and video. Crews also creates site-specific projects that require audience participation. Lee is a painter who celebrates everyday absurdities in his pieces. Autzen gallery is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. A reception and awards ceremony for the winning artists is scheduled from 4 to 6 p.m. Oct. 13 in the gallery. Schnitzer students put art on display New Works HOW TO TALK TO (ALMOST) ANYONE ABOUT (ALMOST) ANYTHING By Elaine Cogan, Vanport alumna, Wise Fool Press, 2016 CASSIE AND JASPER: KIDNAPPED CATTLE By Bryn Fleming ’90, WestWinds Press, 2016 HOPTOPIA: A WORLD OF AGRICULTURE AND BEER IN OREGON’S WILLAMETTE VALLEY By Peter A. Kopp MA ’04, University of California Press, 2016 EXPLORERS OF THE MARITIME PACIFIC NORTHWEST By William L. Lang (history emeritus faculty) and James V. Walker, ABC-CLIO, 2016 CANDY CIGARETTES Digital album by Lane Mueller ’16, badcamp, 2016 VANPORT: IMAGES OF AMERICA By Zita Podany ’85, MS ’92, Arcadia Publishing, 2016 THE QUIRKY LANDLORD’S ROMP, WRANGLE, & WARBLE By Clancy Rohring (Mary Ann Jayne MA ’72), CreateSpace, 2016 ABOVE By Roland Smith (attended in early 1970s), Scholastic Press, 2016 GLIMPSE OF ME IN 30 POEMS By Beenish Zia MS ’11, CreateSpace, 2016 F A N F A R E Filming the refugee experience STUDENT Paul Newman is filming a refugee family from the moment they step off the plane through their following eight months in the United States. A junior in film studies, Newman won $10,000 from PSU to make the documentary as the first recipient of the Andries Deinum Prize for Visionaries and Provocateurs. The Deinum prize is named after the late pioneering film educator, who founded and directed the Center for Moving Image at PSU from 1969 to 1981. Grateful former students, colleagues and others inspired by Deinum’s values established the prize. Through the documentary, Newman hopes to counter stereotypes about refugees and show the personal side of an issue that is often reduced to statistics and sound bites.