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Apr 29, 2019 · As we approach Oregon College of Art and Craft’s closure following the spring term, we are pleased to announce the sale of the OCAC campus to our longtime neighbor, Catlin Gabel School.
- A Response For An Industrialized World
- A Cascadian Craft Ethic
- Craft as Contemporary Art
- Watch: “Tension//Tensión”
- Demand For Craft Remains High
- Saying Painful Goodbyes
- The Beginning of The End
The Arts and Crafts Society of Portland was founded in 1907 by artist and philanthropist Julia Hoffman, part of an international movement reacting to changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution. The textbook definition of craft is decorative art defined by its relationship to functional, everyday things. Craft disciplines encompass the making o...
The Northwest was changed by the movement, from the Cascadian architecture of Timberline Lodge to craftsman bungalows, to furniture from Northwest timber. Even Evergreen State College, the birthplace of riot grrrl, can trace its lineage back through progressive models of education, including Black Mountain College, a haven for Bauhaus expats. The w...
Tanya Aguiñigais a multi-disciplinary artist based in Los Angeles for whom craft is central. “I started kind of realizing the power of craft when I began working with other communities outside of my own community,” Aguiñiga says, “really talking to people about like colonization and different techniques and materials that were put upon us.”
Aguiñiga’s project, “Tension//Tensión” with artist Jackie Amézquita at a border fence in Douglas, Arizona, involves traditional backstrap looms — a technique dating back to the Bronze Age. Aguiñiga set the two artists’ looms on opposite sides of the fence, attached to each other. Each weaves with the tension provided by the other. Aguiñiga has work...
Even as craft institutions confront the make-or-break questions for their survival, it’s clear craft is good business. If a trip to IKEA — with its ultra-affordable, ersatz-Danish modern design doesn’t convince you — go see the breezy, open workshop bar that opened on North Vancouver Avenue in Portland in 2017. DIY Bar is the brainchild of brothers...
As the college’s final semester wound down, staff and students said goodbye in different ways, including a closing party and a wake for the college’s library. The artists, students and teachers, who’ve come through OCAC — making jewelry, ceramics, hand-carved wood objects, sculpture and many other things — number in the thousands. Fernanda D’Agosti...
Shiga went on to become an instructor and board chair at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine. OCAC never had a particularly easy road financially. But Shiga notes the challenge of keeping the school afloat took on a very specific flavor when OCAC shifted from a studio school to an accredited college. “I was there during the accreditation. I...
Apr 26, 2019 · Oregon College of Art and Craft to Close in May. A faculty member reflects on what is lost as the creative institution prepares for its final commencement ceremony. A 2005 aerial view of OCAC’s 9-plus acre campus in the southwest hills of Portland, Oregon.
After many years of attempted restructuring, program development, and austerity measures, its board determined that the college was no longer financially viable and decided to terminate the degree program at the end of this academic year.
May 8, 2019 · By DENISE MULLEN. Editor’s note: Denise Mullen has written a public response to the decision by the board of directors of the Oregon College of Art and Craft to fold the college and sell the campus to Catlin Gabel School. Mullen served as president of the college from 2010 until September 10, 2018. Her response discusses the difficult fiscal ...
Apr 8, 2020 · The Oregon College of Art and Craft has contributed more than 200 images of richly diverse works by faculty members to Artstor. The selection, which dates from 1986 to 2011, includes ceramics, fiber arts, works on paper, paintings, sculpture, installations, photographs and video.
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The Oregon College of Art and Craft (OCAC) was a private art college from 1907 to 2019 in Portland, Oregon, United States. The college granted Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees as well as art-focused certificates.
