Double Berry,��2025, Glazed Ceramic, 16.5x15x6″

EVENT:

• Opening Reception- Friday, March 6th, 2026 from 5-8p
• Candy Tasting Workshop- Saturday, April 18th, 2026, ��12-3p
• Closing Date- Saturday, April 25th, 12-5

**All programming is free and open to the public.**

PORTLAND, OR — Paragon Arts Gallery at PCC Cascade presents Memory Palace, a solo exhibition by Marsha Mack. The exhibition opens Friday, March 6th, 2026, and runs through Saturday, April 25th, 2026.��

Please join us for the opening event on Friday, March 6th, 2026 from 5-8p. The gallery will open at 12pm and close at 8pm.

All events are free and open to the public.

Drawing parallels between mixed-race identity and formative memories in Asian grocery stores, Marsha Mack’s Memory Palace is a solo exhibition of ceramic sculpture, installation, and imported candies. Imagined as a surreal retail environment where aisles hold handbuilt ceramics and found object alongside the artist’s favorite childhood candies, Mack creates mixed-media snapshots capturing moments and ideas tracing back to the formation of her Vietnamese American biracial identity – one that is sentimental, at times problematic, and actively evolving. Arranged in altar-like tableaus on commercial gondola shelving, memory and fantasy blend, revealing an underlying logic where the potential for curiosity, delight, and personal mythology is present throughout.

As part of the programming for Memory Palace, Mack will host two free public candy tastings in the gallery, one coinciding with the opening reception on Friday, March 6th from 5-8pm, and the second to take place on Saturday, April 4th from 12-3pm.��

Memory Palace was made possible through support from RACC and the Office of Arts & Culture.

About the Artist

Marsha Mack holds an MFA in Ceramics and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Women’s and Gender Studies from Syracuse University, as well as a BFA in Ceramics from San Francisco State University. Working primarily in ceramics and installation, Marsha’s artistic practice blurs the line between sculpture and grocery shopping. In earnest pursuit of happiness, abstract vessels in built environments serve as carriers of multivalent identities that exist in constructed versions of paradise, adorned with a visual vocabulary of personal symbols culled from a lifelong fascination with Asian supermarkets. Her ongoing interest in cultural consumption and the formation of identity serves as a wellspring for embellished objects and installations that play to the subconscious, honoring playfulness and introspection as equals.��

Marsha is the Assistant Director and Head Curator of Galleries & Exhibitions at the Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University in Portland, OR, a ceramic instructor, and a practicing visual artist. She has presented her artwork with the Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, OH); Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (Denver, CO); Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum(Denver, CO); Skylab (Columbus, OH); among others. Marsha was recently a 2023-24 recipient of the Greater Columbus Art Council and Columbus Museum of Art’s Visual Arts Fellowship, and a 2025 Artist in Residence with GLEAN in Portland, OR, She lives and works in Portland, OR.

Websites/Social Media:

Marsha Mack-��

@yaymarshamack

Swan Song,��2026, Glazed Ceramic

Promotional image (with description) above:��

Top left: ‘Grief Body 2’, 2024, Shelley Chamberlin, India Ink on paper, 24 x 18 inches.

Top right: ‘Marrow Noir’, 2025, Dardinelle Troen, archival digital photo on walnut, biochar, deer vertebrae, 7 x 14 x 2.5 inches.��

At bottom: ‘Primordialscapes’ (detail) 2025, Marne Lucas, infrared thermal video still, archival pigment print on Royal silk chiffon, acrylic rod, 40 x 60 inches.

EVENTS:

Opening Reception- Thursday, December 4th, 2025 from 5-8p

January 2026 Workshops:��

• Saturday, January 17th, 1p –Ancestors in Training- A meditation on end-of-life and what comes next… by Dardinelle Troen/Vie Mort Doula. 45 Minutes
• Saturday, January 17th, 2:30 Yoga for Grief Relief facilitated by Rebecca Méndez. 60 Minutes
• Saturday, January 24th, 1p –Write Your Own Obituary by Katherine Annala. A one hour workshop on writing one’s obituary is an illuminating exercise to learn about our own life and legacy.
• Saturday, January 31st, 1-4pm- What is Your Legacy? Collage Workshop by Marne Lucas/Bardo Project.

Closing Reception- Saturday, February 14th, 2026 ��5 – 8 pm.

**All events are free and open to the public**

Artist Talk and closing reception with Marne Lucas, Shelley Chamberlin, and Dardinelle Troen. The artists will discuss their work, their relationship to each other as artists, and grief, loss, death. Q & A to follow

*Gallery will be closed December 16th, 2025 through January 6th, 2026*

Paragon Arts Gallery at PCC Cascade presents Thanatopsis: A Meditation on Grief, Death, and Transition. The exhibition opens Thursday, December 4th, 2025, and runs through Saturday, February 15th, 2026.��

Please join us for the opening event on Thursday, December 4th, 2025 from 5-8p. The gallery will open at 12pm and close at 8pm.

All events are free and open to the public.

Thanatopsis is a premiere three-person art exhibition that explores the end of life, the grief that accompanies death, and conceptually addresses impermanence and transformation beyond the physical form. Death is a taboo subject, yet we all eventually arrive there. The aim is to allow for the tangible feelings, the vastness of empty space, the sparse moments of sublime beauty in these difficult places, and honor the memory of those who have died. Death is a natural part of the cycle of life, and each individual’s work places aesthetic, emotional, and philosophical value on this inevitable transition. These three artists have found community in each other through their lived experiences with grief, loss, and transformation. They share the desire to illuminate and connect through their creativity, and find new direction in unexpected transformational paths. The audience can share their own experiences and stories in community, where together we heal.

WORKSHOPS

Saturdays as listed. Free and open to the public.

*Documentation photographs will be taken during workshops for the facilitators and artists’ websites.

Saturday, January 17, 2026 @ 1pm: Ancestors in Training- A meditation on end-of-life and what comes next… by Dardinelle Troen/Vie Mort Doula. Seated meditation, 45 minutes.

Join us for an afternoon of guided meditation focused on cultivating mindfulness and awareness of our mortality. We will draw inspiration from Maranasati, or The Nine Contemplations of Death, a Buddhist meditation practice designed to help us confront and overcome our resistance to death and dying. The primary purpose of these practices is to face our own mortality, similar to traditional meditation, intended to enhance our appreciation for the richness of everyday life. Dardinelle Troen will guide participants through a meditation that explores the nine contemplations, incorporating visualizations that reflect on our role as future ancestors.
Dardinelle Troen is a creative artist, designer, end-of-life doula, and entheogen facilitator based in Portland, Oregon. Her creative work involves exploring human stories and their impact on the spaces they occupy. This has led Dardi to a personal journey to embrace the full spectrum of human experiences, from love to grief, and from life to death. These stories carry an important legacy of the human condition. They are often overlooked or disregarded due to cultural aversion to death and our obsession with life and vitality. In concealing our vulnerability and fragility, we miss the opportunity to fully embrace the lessons that come with holding space for death, the dying, and our own experiences of grief. Troen’s goal is to create and nurture spaces for these stories to unfold and to support the incredible individuals who embody them. Then, if and where possible, bring them to light as a healing for all who encounter them.

Saturday, January 17, 2026. 2:30pm.�� 60 minutes: Yoga for Grief Relief facilitated by Rebecca Méndez.��
The Yoga session is suitable for all levels and is done seated on a chair and/or standing. Accessible options offered. Grief touches all of us. Sometimes in life-altering ways, other times in subtle and surprising moments of change and transition. Whether you’ve lost a loved one, experienced a major life event, or are simply navigating the everyday rhythms of letting go/holding on, grief is ever present. And just as love does, grief transforms us. Yoga for Grief Relief class offers a safe, compassionate space to be with your grief. Through gentle yoga movements, visualizations and breath awareness practices you can calm your nervous system, ease tension, and have intentional time for reflection, release, and healing. Rebecca will read some poems as an offering for tender hearts. With these yoga tools and mindful practices Yoga for Grief Relief offers ways to meet yourself where you are, soothe and soften the edges of loss—so you can find more compassion, presence, and understanding, not just during class but also to be called upon as needed.

Rebecca Méndez is a 500+ hour certified yoga teacher with specialized training in Chair Yoga, Accessible Yoga and Yoga for Healthy Aging. She took her first yoga class around age 10 but didn’t come back to the practice of yoga until much later in life. After attending many classes and workshops she realized the importance of yoga (and her yoga teachers) to her life and overall well-being and took the big leap in 2019 into her first training. Graduating just before the pandemic in 2020 she pivoted from her project management career and now has a regular teaching schedule, hosting her own zoom classes as well as leading weekly classes and workshops at . Yoga for Healthy Aging classes are accessible to anyone and everyone. In her Chair Yoga classes participants can experience the many benefits of yoga, with no mat or getting down on the floor required. After experiencing deep losses in 2021 Rebecca pivoted again and brought her focus to Yoga for Grief workshops to address the needs so many of us have to process grief in community and in connection with others. Mixing poetry with breathwork, movement and resting poses in workshops she brings compassion, presence, and understanding to deeply felt losses.

Saturday, January 24, 2026 @ 1pm: Write Your Own Obituary facilitated by Katherine Annala. 60 minutes. Materials: if preferred please bring a laptop (paper will be provided.)
Writing your own obituary can be a powerful exercise in exploring who you are and what you want the world to know about your life. In this class we will explore what your legacy is and how to put it into words. We will discuss the different types of obituaries, and you will learn the basics of obituary writing. Bring a journal for writing or a tablet or laptop.

Katherine Annala is a doctor of acupuncture in Portland Oregon. While her focus of study in the doctoral program was aging adults and women’s health, Katherine is also experienced in treating underserved populations challenged by substance use disorder and mental health concerns. She received a Coalition of Community Health Clinics “Community Health Superstar” award in 2019 for her work at the Outside In integrative medicine clinic. In addition to being a clinical supervisor at the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine (OCOM), she taught the case Management class and was the Associate Dean of Clinical Education at OCOM until its closure in August 2024. Dr. Annala studied art at PSU for her undergraduate degree and has a lifelong passion for fiber arts including costume creation and quilting.

Saturday, January 31st, 2026. 1-4pm: What is Your Legacy? facilitated by Marne Lucas/Bardo Project. Drop in, all ages.
A collage on paper workshop exploring one’s own or a loved one’s legacy, all materials are provided. Create a beautiful personal collage to explore your life’s path and honor your legacy. Participants may keep their creations.
Marne Lucas (she/her/they) is a multidisciplinary artist and death doula working at the intersection of art, science, and health, using conceptual overlaps: life’s energy, the body, and mortality, in social practice investigations. Lucas’ long-term projects are informed by the events and emotions of the community around her, and are inspired by the death doula and palliative care movements. An infrared thermal video pioneer, she uses heat-sensitive imaging technology to illuminate the magic and fragility of human life cycles. Founder of the ‘Bardo Project, Lucas explores creativity as a form of spiritual care in collaborations with terminally ill artists to establish their legacy. Lucas received training via INELDA as an End of Life Doula, a role that supports the dying and their families, and has been a practicing EOLD since 2016. Marne has collaborated with artists, choreographers, dancers, musicians, activist groups, sex workers, health care and LGBTQIA non-profits, and the public at large.

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Shelley Chamberlin – Grief Body

“When a loved one dies, you experience your life in just two days, today, when they are no longer here, and yesterday, the immense, vast yesterday, when they were here.” –Ocean Vuong��

Grief body is an ongoing series documenting the raw and unfiltered experiences of grief’s movement in and through the body, the ghost in the machine, the river through the canyon of the body. Impossible and inevitable. Figures overlap and layer, untethered by time, ghosts accrue.

Grief Body 2, Shelley Chamberlin, 2024, India Ink on Paper, 24″ x 18

Marne Lucas – Transmundane

Scientist Carl Sagan said, “…we are made of star stuff.”��

The Transmundane series is an ongoing lens-based art-veillance practice to conceptualize the awe inspiring, invisible, fragile energy of humanity using heat-sensitive infrared thermal (IRT) video. Exploring the body and the metaphysical to pose philosophical ideas on transformation, Lucas’ professional life as an end of life Doula (EOLD) provides insight. “Being at the veil” is to bear witness to physical, emotional, and spiritual transformations of life’s ebb and flow, into a new form of energy, Love. Thermography technology most associated with surveillance culture, allows the viewer to witness breathtaking invisible heat signatures (hot areas appear white, and cold or wet areas are black), and expresses ideas about our beginnings as being part of the universe, that we are beings of light. To witness our own energy is to accept the temporality of existence, and the magic of the transmundane- that which lies in the celestial and beyond.
The series of infrared video stills applied as decals to glazed vitreous porcelain tiles have imagery sourced from her IRT experimental short films. The glazed vitreous porcelain tiles were made at an Arts/Industry residency (Pottery Division) at the Kohler Co. factory in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.Celestial Navigator (Shroud),

Marne Lucas, 2025, Archival pigment print, Royal silk chiffon banner, plexiglass rod, 40 x 60 inches

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Dardinelle Troen – All forms dissolve. Only actions endure.��

Art serves as a memento, a reminder, and a talisman. This body of work is a personal meditation on my own impermanence on this planet and the brevity of our existence. What do we leave in our absence? What residual traces do we reverberate, and what gifts do we leave in our wake for a planet that has sustained us in every waking moment? Every living thing needs something to die in order to live. Death feeds life.

I became enamored with the ideas of impermanence and transformation and how my work, like life, might be intentionally impermanent—deliberately returning to the earth and transforming in the process. The alchemical nature of elements to transform. Death and decay become vital nutrients that sustain new life.

Biochar, also known as Terra Preta or “Dark Earth,” is a form of soil amendment that dates back to Amazonian tribes and, some say, Roman-era Britain. Unlike traditional charcoal, biochar facilitates the sequestration of carbon. The biochar is subsequently activated or charged with nutrients that are then released over time, while the porosity and surface area of the biochar improve soil structure and house beneficial microbes. I was inspired by the process, which, unlike traditional charcoal, left the original biomatter visually intact yet forever altered its composition while maintaining the original form.��

Each of the pieces in this body of work is meant to, in part or whole, dissolve, degrade, and eventually disappear back into the earth, leaving gifts and nutrients in their wake. They are intentionally impermanent with the desire that they, like our own bodies, will need to be released and returned to the earth.

Time is a game played beautifully by children. – Heraclitus, Dardinelle Troen, 2025
Archival digital photo on walnut, deer jawbone, zinc filigree
7 x 14 x 1.5” inches

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About the Artists

Shelley Chamberlin is an interdisciplinary artist who works in a variety of media from printmaking to film to performative installation,and most recently leaning heavily into intimate and delicate drawing in ink and charcoal. Chamberlin’s work explores relationality and the ways in which we build and contextualize meaning and has been shown locally and nationally. Their work has been included in a variety of film and print media, including NBC’s Grimm, The Grove Review, and Album Covers for The Speechwriters and Velvet Mishka. Her work is included in the collections of Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland State University, Southern Graphics Council International, and Regional Arts and Culture Council’s Visual Chronicle of Portland. Chamberlin has a BFA from Marylhurst University and an MFA from Goddard. She is Art Faculty at PCC. Chamberlin is a 2022 recipient of the Ford Family Foundation Oregon Artist Fellowship and artist in residence at MASS MoCA.

Marne Lucas is an interdisciplinary artist and end of life doula (EOLD) working at the intersection of art, science, and health, using conceptual overlaps: life’s energy, the body, and mortality, in social practice investigations. An infrared thermal video pioneer since 1995, Lucas uses heat-sensitive imaging technology to illuminate the fragility of human life cycles. Lucas’ long-term projects are informed by the community around her, and are inspired by the doula movements. The Bardo Project explores creativity as a form of spiritual care in collaborations with terminally ill artists nationwide to establish their legacy. Lucas received EOLD training at INELDA under Henry Fersko Weiss, a role that supports the dying and their families. Lucas has collaborated with artists, choreographers, dancers, musicians, activist groups, sex workers, health care and LGBTQIA non-profits, and the public at large. She exhibits worldwide including The Brand Library (L.A.), Fremantle Arts Centre (Perth, AU), Peltz Gallery (London UK), FEMeeting 2025 Windsor, CAD (2024), “Synthetic Becoming” Byrno, CR (2022), ‘Taboo-Transgression-Technology in Art & Science’ Vienna online (2020). Lucas participated in a 2025 PLAYASummerlake (OR) residency, and a 2016 Arts/Industry artist residency (Foundry, Pottery Divisions) at the Kohler Co. Her work is in collections of the Portland Art Museum, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, and the Visual Chronicle of Portland, RACC.

Dardinelle Troen is an artist, designer, and end-of-life doula. Her creative pursuits focus on crafting immersive environments and infusing physical spaces with meaningful stories. Much of her past work revolves around exploring human narratives and their lasting impact on the environments they inhabit. These stories—personal anecdotes, myths, folklore, or poetry—are essential to the human experience and a deeper understanding of our shared experiences. Participants can see their journeys, hopes, desires, and vulnerabilities reflected through this simple sharing of stories. Fostering an emotional connection and contributing to the profound legacy of the human condition.��

Over the past decade, Dardinelle’s exploration of visually translating a myriad of stories ignited a deeply personal quest to embrace and investigate a broader spectrum of human experience, from love to grief, and life to death. This journey ultimately inspired her to become an end-of-life doula and a guide for plant medicine. Dardinelle aims to create and nurture spaces where these stories can unfold, supporting the extraordinary individuals who embody them. Wherever possible, she seeks to illuminate these narratives in ways that can offer healing to all who encounter them.

Websites/Social Media:

Marne Lucas-

@marnelucas @aquietusendoflifedoula

Shelley Chamberlin:

@shelleychamberlinart

Dardinelle Troen:

@ditroen @viemortdoula

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Support for development of this exhibition was provided by The Ford Family Foundation, and by the Oregon Arts Commission.

About Paragon Arts Gallery:

Paragon Arts Gallery is an educational showcase committed to exhibiting work of high artistic quality. Our versatile gallery is located at , at PCC’s Cascade Campus. Mindful of our role as a member of the Humboldt community, we are especially committed to engaging community members in our space.��

About the PCC Art Galleries:

˿����Ƶ is home to four art galleries: the North View Gallery, the Paragon Arts Gallery, the Helzer Gallery and the Southeast Gallery, each located on one of our four comprehensive campuses in Portland, Oregon. The Art Galleries are dedicated to supporting education and community building through the arts.

Promotional Image:

Large Multicolor, Joni Smith, Colored Pencil Paper, 2025.

EVENTS:

• Thursday, October 2nd, 2025- 4-7p, Opening event w/ live performance from Portland Musician and Composer Kennedy Verrett of Mad Composer Lab

Paragon Arts Gallery at PCC Cascade presents Joni Smith: Markmaker. The exhibition opens Thursday, October 2nd, 2025, and runs through Saturday, November 15th, 2025.��

Please join us for the opening event on Thursday, October 2nd, 2025 from 4-7p. The gallery will open at 12pm and close at 7pm.

All events are free and open to the public.

Joni Smith (b. 1955) is a prolific, entirely self-taught Portland artist who has been drawing since childhood. She has an extraordinary creative practice, sometimes drawing for over eight hours each day, often regardless of place and circumstance. Art-making is inextricable from Joni’s life – she creates at a drafting table in her art studio, nestled in a recliner in her living room, and even from the bed of a hospital room. For Joni, art is a primary communication tool.

Over the course of her 60+ year art practice, she has filled hundreds of sketchbooks, frequently drawing on the front and back of each page. In 2021, Joni joined North Pole Studio where she began using an upright drafting table and tabletop easel, allowing her to access large-scale paper from her wheelchair and marking a significant phase-change in her creative practice. Using these tools, Joni continues to build an extensive collection of large-scale works, working across various sizes, paper textures and multiple mediums.��

Joni’s process is kinetic and expressive; she harnesses raw energy into mark-making that oscillates between sweeping, delicate linework to forceful, striking motions that can tear through the page. Seemingly guided by intuition, she draws in continuous, rhythmic movement while making instantaneous decisions about color as she adds layers to build each form. Joni’s process is episodic; themes in color and shape can be found throughout her work in sets or multiphase series. Joni’s most recent works showcase her exploration of an elegant arcing shape – variations of which take an almost shell or cloud-like form. In other works, undulating orbs are put in tension with one another, almost as if dualling, and in earlier works, Joni works across the perimeter of her page, giving the impression of a central magnetic force as each shape is drawn inward and towards one another.��

Joni’s creative practice and collection of work has only become known to the public within the last 5 years, and this is the first solo exhibition of her work.

This show was curated and produced by North Pole Studio, a Portland-based nonprofit Progressive Art Studio that provides accessible studio space and professional arts programming for artists with autism and intellectual/developmental disabilities.

North Pole Studio supports careers in the arts, and exists to increase opportunities for artists with autism and intellectual/developmental disabilities to thrive as active members of the arts community. We foster self-determination and facilitate meaningful connections through total engagement in the arts.

Instagram: @northpolepdx��

Website:�� www.northpolestudio.org

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About Paragon Arts Gallery:

Paragon Arts Gallery is an educational showcase committed to exhibiting work of high artistic quality. Our versatile gallery is located at , at PCC’s Cascade Campus. Mindful of our role as a member of the Humboldt community, we are especially committed to engaging community members in our space.��

About the PCC Art Galleries:

˿����Ƶ is home to four art galleries: the North View Gallery, the Paragon Arts Gallery, the Helzer Gallery and the Southeast Gallery, each located on one of our four comprehensive campuses in Portland, Oregon. The Art Galleries are dedicated to supporting education and community building through the arts.

Collaged image of various artworks (from left to right, starting from the top row): Roots Would Suffice, She Guessed, Shay Harpoon, ceramic, 20″x12″x12″, 2025 Naan,��Nuzhat Hossain, oil on canvas, 18×24″, 2024 Chicken Going to Heaven,��Thu Nguyen, silver gelatin print, 8×11″, 2025 Into the World (Piece II, Diptych: The Journey),��Claudia Sanchez,��drawing, 18×24″, 2024 Determinati,��Everett True, mokuhanga print, 9.5×12.5″, 2025 Repose, Mindy Mullins, acrylic on canvas, 8×8″, 2025

DATES OF EVENTS:

• Paragon Gallery Exhibition Dates:��May 7th��– May 28th
• Helzer Gallery��Exhibition Dates��– May 5th- June 7th
• North View Gallery��Exhibition Dates– May 12th��– June 7th

• Paragon Arts Gallery Award Ceremony and Reception: May 28th 5-7pm
• Paragon Arts Gallery Guest Juror:��Sheyam Ghieth
• Paragon Gallery Hours:
  • Wednesdays – Fridays, 12 – 7 pm, Saturdays, 12 – 5 pm
  • 24/7 view at 815 N. Killingsworth, Portland, OR 97217

• ��All events are free and open to the public.

PORTLAND, OR — The Helzer Gallery, North View Gallery, and Paragon Gallery at ˿����Ƶ are pleased to present our fifth college wide student art show — Art Out Loud: PCC Art Student Exhibition 24/25. This year our guest jurors are Jess Nickel, Sheyam Ghieth and Jamin London Tinsel for the Helzer, Paragon and North View galleries, respectively.�� Students have selected the gallery where their work will show and opening dates and award ceremonies are specific to each participating gallery.

Art Out Loud, ˿����Ƶ’s 5th Annual college-wide art student exhibition features student art made across the PCC District in PCC’s three art galleries, during a time when the arts and humanities are facing unprecedented challenges. The arts at ˿����Ƶ are also experiencing cuts that will inevitably impact the equitable access to art that our students currently have. But PCC students are passionate and resilient. They have spent this past year making art that speaks openly about their struggles, fears, joys and even the beauty that they still find in the world around them. Art Out Loud amplifies the diverse voices of PCC students and honors their commitment to education and their deep engagement with the arts.

Please join us in celebrating the many students who have taken Art classes at PCC this past year and are raising their voices about the things that matter to them.

Funding for awards was generously provided by HARTS (The Humanities and Arts Initiative) along with the Art Student Supplies Fund through the I Heart Art project and the Associated Students of ˿����Ƶ (ASPCC).

About the Guest Juror:

Sheyam Ghieth is a queer Egyptian multimedia art liberator and propagandist, working to connect the dots of our creativity and our liberation. As a writer, designer and illustrator, Sheyam is the author of “عكس الحرام / The Opposite of Haram: A Queer Muslim Manifesto”, co-author and illustrator of “MASK UP, We Need You: Palestinian Solidarity, Covid-19, and the Struggle for Liberation,” “COVID is a LABOR ISSUE” and “FLOOD: Print Propaganda in Practice.”

Working as an��artist and graphic designer, their work has been seen on TV shows like Ramy, The Americans, and Orange Is The New Black, and in group shows in Portland, NYC and Rome. They are also known for producing and co-directing the award-winning web series BROTHERS about a group of trans masc friends in Brooklyn. As an organizer, they are a co-founder of Creators for Gaza, a mutual-aid network connecting artists and amplifiers with Palestinian families surviving the genocide.

About Paragon Arts Gallery:

Paragon Arts Gallery is an educational showcase committed to exhibiting work of high artistic quality. Our versatile gallery is located at��, at PCC’s��Cascade Campus. Mindful of our role as a member of the Humboldt community, we are especially committed to engaging community members in our space.

About the PCC Art Galleries:

˿����Ƶ is home to��four art galleries: the North View Gallery, the Paragon Arts Gallery, the Helzer Gallery and the Southeast Gallery, each located on one of our four comprehensive campuses in Portland, Oregon. The Art Galleries are dedicated to supporting education and community building through the arts.

EVENTS:

• Friday, March 7th, 5-8pm -Exhibition opening event, with musical and dance performances by Half Shadow and Kye Grant, and Dorians (Dream Cookies) by Martha and Ním Daghlian
• Thursday, March 13th, 5-7pm- Dream reading: read aloud group with Erika Callihan and tarot reading with Rose Lewis. Dream snacks and dream interpretation group with Josephine Lacosta
• Friday�� 3/14�� 7-8pm The Comfort In by Sean Christensen: performance
• Friday 3/21 6-8pm Listen In: Sound bath with Imaginal Cells (Erin Aquarian and Nathan Hil)l and ear seeds with licensed acupuncturist Judy Myong Acupuncture.
• Thursday 3/28 7-8pm Twin peaks episode with live score by Swinging
• Thursday, 4/3, 5-7 Found Fruits Dream Drawing Group with Erika Callihan
• Friday 4/11- Closing Event with Salty Xi Jie Ng, time TBD

Paragon Arts Gallery at PCC Cascade presents DREAM JUICE. The exhibition opens Friday, March 7th, 2025, and runs through Saturday, April 12th, 2025.��

Please join us for the opening event on Friday, March 7th, 2025 from 5-8p. Gallery will open at 12pm and close at 8pm.

All events are free and open to the public.

dream juice ��is a multimedia group show curated by Erika Callihan, including work from twenty five artists exploring ideas which originated in dreams. In the same way that dreams reveal a seemingly limitless array of elements and themes, the scope of this surprising and playful exhibition includes: paintings, drawings, collages, performances, photos, prints, songs, zines, videos, lamps, pillows, cookies, cake, candy, snacks, and a semi-functional papier-mâché “dating app.”

Participating artists:�� Sophia Baraschia-Ehrlich, Laura Bartram, Erika Callihan, Jesse Carsten, Imaginal Cells: Erin Aquarian + Nathan Hill, Sean Christensen (Phull Collums), Rachel Corry, Lindsay Costello, sd, Martha + Ním Daghlian, Kristen Diederich, Indigo Free, Kye Grant, Rainen Knecht, Eva Knowles, Josephine Lacosta, Rose Lewis, Biz Miller, Judy Myong Acupuncture, Salty Xi Jie Ng, Gili Rappaport, Dawn Riddle, Half Shadow, Anke Schüttler, Swinging, Jasmine Wood

Curatorial Statement:

“There is something vital in the involuntary act of dreaming, and in the sometimes-involuntary and sometimes-practiced act of remembering dreams. In dreams: we process and project. We can use dreams as tools to understand ourselves, but might we also use them to connect with something beyond ourselves?

Maybe a dream is complete in and of itself. Perhaps it needs no tending. But what if a dream is a seed- the compact and minuscule potentiality of something much larger and more tangible?What if a dream begins when you wake up? When you make breakfast? When you place a pencil on a blank page? When you call your friend just to say hello? Yoko Ono says: “a dream you dream alone is a dream; a dream you dream together is a reality.”��

What might become possible if we prioritize the act of sharing our dreams, of co-creating new realities not only in our intimate relationships but in public? When everything with which we interact in our techno-centric media-saturated world has been dreamed and designed by someone, we must ask: who has the power to make their dreams real, and therefore: whose dream are we living in? Elon Musk says: “ I don’t seem to remember the good dreams… The ones I remember are the nightmares.”

How then might we reclaim our capacity to dream in defiance of the nightmarish current global moment? And what if dreaming is more than a mere capacity? What if dreaming is our �������DzԲ������������ٲ�?”

About the Artist/Curator:

Erika Callihan is a multimedia social practice artist and creative counselor living and working in Portland, Oregon. She completed her Associate of Science at ˿����Ƶ in 2014, followed by a Bachelor of Science in Art Practices at Portland State University in 2017. She completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training and the Peoples Yoga in 2018, and a two-year counseling training program at Mindful Experience Therapy Approaches in 2021. Her work and practices integrate all of these studies and more- combining art, ecology, movement, philosophy and counseling in service to exploring the new potentials and possibilities within this particular place in this peculiar time. Her work is grounded in daily writing, drawing, music making, meditative movement, and walks with her dog. She organizes and facilitates spaces for artists to be creative together, ranging from drawing workshops to support groups for smartphone users. Despite the diversity of methods and mediums, the objective of Erika’s work is always this: to develop curiosity and to magnify our innate compassion and intrinsic sense of connection within ourselves, and therefore: with each other. And: to enjoy it! :o)

About Paragon Arts Gallery:

Paragon Arts Gallery is an educational showcase committed to exhibiting work of high artistic quality. Our versatile gallery is located at , at PCC’s Cascade Campus. Mindful of our role as a member of the Humboldt community, we are especially committed to engaging community members in our space.��

About the PCC Art Galleries:

˿����Ƶ is home to four art galleries: the North View Gallery, the Paragon Arts Gallery, the Helzer Gallery and the Southeast Gallery, each located on one of our four comprehensive campuses in Portland, Oregon. The Art Galleries are dedicated to supporting education and community building through the arts.

From Left to Right:��

Gordon Barnes, Untitled (Snake Charmer), Woodcut, 2023

Chris Chandler, Cube 2, Woodtype, 2023

Sam Orosz, Landscape II, Lithograph with mounted eastern paper and silver leafing, 2023

Cammy York, Just Girlie Things, Intaglio and Mixed Media,2023

Exhibition dates: January 23rd, 2025 – February 22nd, 2025

• Opening event: Thursday, January 23rd 5-8p
• Gallery hours:
  • Wednesdays- Fridays, 12-7pm, Saturdays, 12-5pm
  • 24/7 view at 815 N. Killingsworth, Portland, OR 97217
• All events are free and open to the public.

Paragon Arts Gallery at PCC Cascade presents PROOF Printmaking Group Exhibition. The exhibition opens Thursday, January 23rd, 2025, and runs through Saturday, February 22nd, 2025.��

Please join us for the opening event on Thursday January 23rd, 2025 from 5-8p. Gallery will open at 12pm and close at 8pm.

All events are free and open to the public.

PROOF is a group exhibition showcasing a range of printmaking techniques, approaches, and critical investigations. The show invites viewers to immerse themselves in a display of printmaking in myriad forms, where narratives and images juxtapose and converge to explore how this medium enables introspection and connection within a creative community. The exhibition’s title references experimentation, when a proof is a preliminary version of a printed piece, offering a unique opportunity to witness artists in the process of trial and innovation. Beyond the artistic process, PROOF also emphasizes the tangible evidence of creativity, physical, tactile art that mediates communication between the artist and audience. Through the works of featured artists-Gordon Barnes, Lucas Cantoni Jose, Chris Chandler, Matthew Letzelter, Will Mairs, Sam Orosz, marvin parra orozco, Rory Sparks, and Cammy York- PROOF weaves together narratives, culminating in a multigenerational and multilayered exploration of individual and collective identity, placemaking and publics, and the palimpsest of creative production.

About the Artists:

marvin parra orozco is a Portland-based artist who uses words and fragments as a form of self discovery. They find themselves stuck between words like “yes,” “maybe,” and “no.” They like colors like reds and muted yellows, numbers 3,4,7,9,0, repetition and multiples to create different stories, they use prayer as a means of survival and collage images sometimes. Their work is rooted in action and reflection. They like to dream of a future where love and community are at the root.

Kanani Miyamoto is originally�� from Honolulu, Hawai`i, and currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where she practices art, teaches, and curates. She is of mixed heritage and identifies most with her Hawaiian and Japanese roots, celebrated in her artwork. Miyamoto holds a Master of Fine Arts in Print Media from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Kanani is now the Arts Coordinator at�� p:ear , a creative drop-in center for homeless youth. Important to Miyamoto’s work as an artist is sharing and honoring her mixed cultural background to represent her community and the beauty of intersectional identities. She also explores topics such as institutional critique and hopes to create critical conversations around cultural authenticity in the arts. Miyamoto is a printmaker who uses traditional printmaking techniques to create large-scale print installations. In addition to being a practicing artist, she is an advocate for art education and a passionate community worker.

Gordon Barnes is a mischievous and curious artist and educator working in Portland, Oregon who enjoys thinking deeply about the wrong things. He earned a BFA in Printmaking from Sonoma State University in 2005 and a MFA in Studio Practice from Portland State University in 2007. His printmaking research is broadly focused on expanding/exploring the intersection of digital and traditional approaches while playfully and humanely challenging what he sees as false binary choices baked in to the way many of us frame our thinking around gender, sexuality, taste, class and craft. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally for the last 20 years and he has been an active member of Paintallica since 2008

Rory Sparks explores craft and collectivity in her work—how material transformation and connections open spaces for thinking and feeling. In her book and print practice, she approaches publishing as being a mode of making that is about networks as webs of relationships. She is interested in investigating what shifts when we think about the book as a hybrid space, and publishing as a process of community building rather than commerce. Rory has co-founded several communal projects including Produce, Working Library, and Em Space, which are each centered around co-creating social spaces that weave together pedagogy and making to inform and construct ways of thinking, being, and working. Sparks earned her MFA from

Chris Chandler works in modes of deconstruction and reconstruction with modular type and letterpress printmaking. Primarily utilizing the Alpha-Blox and Future Schmuck fonts –enlarged into large custom woodblocks for use on his Vandercook 232P proofing press –Chandler transposes letters, words, and shapes into abstracted assemblies of wheat-pasted prints. His practice of rearranging, layering and tearing his prints reflects his appeal to the

analog and endless combinations possible through printmaking processes. Chris’s printworks communicate��

an admiration for the Bauhaus and Constructivist movements with nods to the origins of graphic design and typography. Often large in scale the works display qualities of immersion, movement and sound, harkening back to his 30 year career of tour management and sound engineering.Chris is a self-taught artist who fell into a passion of art and printmaking after acquiring his first Vandercook Press in 1996 and has exhibited his works across the Pacific Northwest and in New York City, Los Angeles and Oklahoma. In 2021 he was the recipient��

for both the Mohawk Paper’s Maker’s Grant and Stumptown Coffee’s Artist Fellowship. He lives in Portland, OR with his wife and two children and manages his personal studio, long-time named Neu Haus Press which houses his personal practice, collaborations, and letterpress workshops.

Lucas Jose was germinated in São Paulo, Brazil where he was mostly fertilized with local and ancestral nutrients but also a good amount of mass produced colonial nutrient replacements. He got aerial roots from moving around and living and studying in the UK, Canada and now Portland. His work explores the different conditions that its body is submitted and the encounters with others being them beings with bodies or elemental forces.��

Sam Orosz is a visual artist and printmaker who transplanted from St. Paul, Minnesota. In 2014,he received a BFA from the University of Minnesota Duluth and an MFA in Print Media fromPacific Northwest College of Art in 2024. Through the processes of print, mark-making, and the exploration of landscapes, Orosz

contemplates environments and the relationships we have with the natural world. Orosz has exhibited nationally in galleries and museums and has been collected nationally and internationally including the permanent collections of the Minnesota Museum of American Art and the North Dakota Museum of Art. He was awarded the 2015-2016 Jerome Emerging Printmakers Residency at Highpoint Center for Printmaking and in 2018 participated in a collaborative artist residency in Brisbane, Australia with Grey Hand Press.

Matthew Letzelter is an artist, professor, and professional printer in Oregon. He makes works on paper, prints,

and paintings, with a focus on abstracted landscapes. His current work is an exploration of passages

and marks that reference patterns, transitions, textures, and experiences that have developed from his

research of the man-made and natural environments. His work is defined by decades of exploring printmaking and publishing with multiple professional studios and programs in North America. Collaborating for years on numerous artist projects has informed his techniques and approaches to making both traditional and modern prints, paintings, and works on paper.

Matthew received his MFA in 2003 from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, and his BFA in 1998 from

University of Florida. He is currently a Professor at Willamette University/PNCA, where he is Chair of the MFA

in Print Media Program and Director of Watershed – Center for Print Research. Prior to moving to Portland,

Letzelter was the Master Printer at Stinger Editions and Visiting Professor at Concordia University in Montreal,

Quebec. Before residing Canada, Letzelter worked at Derrière L‘Étoile Studio and Petersburg Press in New

York City.

Cammy York is a Southern California native with a Bachelor of Fine Art in printmaking from Sonoma State University, and an MA and MFA in printmaking with a secondary emphasis in sculpture�� from�� the University of Iowa�� Cammy has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the International Print Center New York, the Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition in Illinois, and Guardino Gallery in Portland, Oregon. She has also participated in artist residencies nationally and internationally such as The Vermont Studio Center in Vermont, Cow House Studios in Ireland, and In Cahoots in California. Cammy currently lives in Oregon where she maintains a studio practice and continues to be surprised by the endless possibilities of intaglio printing.

Will Mairs is originally from New York and received a BS in computer science at Tufts University before learning the gospel and getting their MFA in Print Media at PNCA. Will is a non binary book artist and printmaker with a possibly misplaced affection for unreadable things. They find it fun to explore peculiar mark making with a letterpress and make unclear photo zines with a risograph duplicator. They feel both unease and a hopeful aversion to digital distribution platforms and art world autotheory, and suppose that cheap, printed things might be useful here.��

About Paragon Arts Gallery

Paragon Arts Gallery is an educational showcase committed to exhibiting work of high artistic quality. Our versatile gallery is located at , at PCC’s Cascade Campus. Mindful of our role as a member of the Humboldt community, we are especially committed to engaging community members in our space.

Epiphany Couch, As I Did As a Child, Archival Pigment Paper, 2024

• Exhibition dates: November 13th, 2024 – January 11th, 2025
• Opening event: Friday, November 15th, 2024 5-8p
• Gallery hours:
  • Wednesdays 12-5, Thursdays & Fridays, 12-7pm, Saturdays, 12-5pm
  • 24/7 view at 815 N. Killingsworth, Portland, OR 97217
• All events are free and open to the public.

Paragon Arts Gallery at PCC Cascade presents Before the Fire Lit My Dreams by Epiphany Couch. The exhibition opens Wednesday, November 13th, 2024, and runs through Saturday, January 11th, 2025.��

Please join us for the opening event on Friday, November 15th, 2024 from 5-8p. Gallery will open at 12pm and close at 8pm.

All events are free and open to the public.

In her solo exhibition, Before the Fire Lit My Dreams, artist Epiphany Couch explores our connection to the land, each other, and the changing seasons. As humans living in urban areas, we often forget that we are part of planetary cycles just like all other living organisms on this earth. Couch’s expansive photo-based work, which features medium-format double-exposure images and poetic text, beautifully captures the complexity of existence and the important interplay between time, memory, and nature. Through 24 images of her family, tribal lands, and waterways, Couch blurs the lines between past and present, highlighting the rhythms that shape all life. Her work invites us to rediscover our place within these cycles, reminding us that true balance and harmony come when we recognize our inextricable relationship with the natural world. Her work serves as both inspiration and conduit for telling a moving story of connection, reminding us of the importance of finding our own cycles in living, amidst the disconnection that modern life often brings.

About the Artist:

Epiphany Couch (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist exploring generational knowledge, storytelling, and our connection to the metaphysical. By re-contextualizing mediums such as bookmaking, beadwork, photography, and collage, she presents new ways to examine our pasts, the natural world, and our ancestors. Couch’s work is unapologetically personal, drawing from family stories, her childhood experience, archival research, and her own dreams. She utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to create images and sculptural works that hold space for reflection, transforming from mere things into precious objects — intimate and heirloom-like.��

Couch is spuyaləpabš (Puyallup), Yakama, and Scandinavian/Mixed European and grew up in caləłali (Tacoma, Washington) in the shadow of təqwuʔməʔ (Mount Rainier). She attended the Tacoma School of the Arts and earned her BFA in Sculpture from the University of Puget Sound. Her work has shown at Oregon Contemporary (Portland, OR), Gallery Ost (New York, NY), Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO), and The Bellevue Art Museum Education Gallery (Bellevue, WA), among others. She is a 2024 Studios at MASS MoCA resident, recipient of a 2024 Ford Family Foundation’s Oregon Visual Artist Fellowship, and a commissioned artist for Oregon’s Percent for Art in Public Places. Couch lives and works in Portland, Oregon, where she is a member of Carnation Contemporary Gallery.

Instagram: @epiphany_couch_art

Website: https://www.epiphanycouch.com

About Paragon Arts Gallery

Paragon Arts Gallery is an educational showcase committed to exhibiting work of high artistic quality. Our versatile gallery is located at , at PCC’s Cascade Campus. Mindful of our role as a member of the Humboldt community, we are especially committed to engaging community members in our space.

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A poster made from a hybrid of paintings and sculptures formed to create a new image.��Title of exhibition, bare ante embodied: An-arche & ether muse: mysterium tremendum et fascinosum, mysterium tremendum et fascinosum!�� Jamondria Harris. 2024

• Exhibition dates: October 3, 2024 – November 2, 2024
• Opening event: Thursday, October 3rd, 5-8pm
• Gallery hours:
  • Wednesdays, 12-5, Thursdays & Fridays, 12-7pm, Saturdays, 12-5pm
  • 24/7 view at 815 N. Killingsworth, Portland, OR 97217
• All events are free and open to the public.

THIS SATURDAY 10/26– Please join Jamondria for an open activation time of the sound space with��theremins from 12-3. This time and space is intended to center��Black and Indigenous��peoples,��but this event is open to everyone who is interested in playing the instruments provided in��the space. Folks are welcome to activate and experience frequencies during this performance.

NEXT THURSDAY 10/31– Closing Exhibition event! Please join us from 5-7p, where we will be hosting short films from people within PCC and across the��community. Jamondria Harris asks��for black and or indigenous people’s within the community to share any short films (20 minutes and under) and visual art that is projectable. Subject matter can range from��horror, love stories, or politically based work covering Palestine, the Congo, Sudan, Lebanon, or Syria.

Please email����bare_ante_embodied@proton.me��to submit works for the screening. Please send submissions no later than 10/29/24.

All events are free and open to the public.

“The Black study of religion conceives of Black religion as instancing a material mysticism that manifests as a distinct poiesis, or artistic way of living that as such is anarchic. Such a mysticism in being material and in being of wounded flesh is poetic, which is again to say it is artistic: an open set of aesthetic practices of the everyday. But not just the everyday, but the alternate or the “alter-everyday”…” – J. Kameron Carter.

The Paragon Arts Gallery is pleased to announce our next upcoming exhibition, bare ante embodied: An-arche & ether muse: mysterium tremendum et fascinosum, mysterium tremendum et fascinosum! , an installation and sound experience by our current artist in residence, Jamondria Harris. In this exhibition, Harris explores the theories and praxis of The Anarchy of Black Religion via J. Kameron Carter, Leon Theremin, Marquise Bey’s Impossible Life, and Brian Massumi’s theories of ontopower and bare activity.��

In thinking of what is perceived or held before, what the body holds in the moment, and in being grounded in the body, Harris attempts to challenge the audience in tapping into the light that Leon Theremin lived to make possible, and the light Black Anarchy represents of the possible, ontologically. Alongside an installation of sculptures and paintings created during their residency at the Paragon, Jamondrira utilizes tuning forks, theremin, and soundboards to create a space centering the poiesis towards the light in technology, sound, and sound lexperience. Sculptures, paintings, and soundscapes are symbolized as offerings to ancestral reckonings of light and life, root, and arbor. Termen ne mreT.�� Theremin never dies.����

About the artist

jamondria harris, also known as meroitic, is a black and indigenous interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary artist and composer. Their work uses words, sounds, wires, theremin, synthesizers, instruments, textiles & what falls into their hands to engage with blackness, desire, spirit/source, narratology/folklore, & ontologies of liberation & embodiment.Their sound art emerges from deep-listening fluidity between rhythm & source, engendering sonic cartographies woven from samples, feedback, the electromagnetic field of bodies & rooms and both digital and analog synthesizer soundscapes.Their albums are available on Fallen Moon Recordings.

Instagram: @bare_ante_embodied

Email – bare_ante_embodied@proton.me

About Paragon Arts Gallery

Paragon Arts Gallery is an educational showcase committed to exhibiting work of high artistic quality. Our versatile gallery is located at , at PCC’s Cascade Campus. Mindful of our role as a member of the Humboldt community, we are especially committed to engaging community members in our space.

• Paragon Gallery Exhibition Dates:��June 13th-June 15th
• Paragon Gallery Hours: Thursday, June 13th, 12-8p; Opening event 4-8p; Friday, June 14th 12-7p; Saturday June 15th from 12-5
• Live music performances from 6-8pm on Saturday June 15th.
• All events are free and open to the public.

Please join us in the opening of the��immersive installation piece “The Third Secret Thing”* by our current Creative Coding and Sonic Arts cohort at PCC Cascade!

This project is the culmination of a year of learning computer programming, arduino/microcontroller programming, sound design, and light design. Expect projection work, large scale sculpture, immersive multichannel sound with haptic vest immersion.

This year we have been collaborating��with��, a��collective of Deaf and Hard of Hearing musicians, sound artists and engineers��working on the cutting edge of Sonic Agency research and development of��haptic and light interfaces for DHH performers, audio engineers, and audience members.

About Paragon Arts Gallery

Paragon Arts Gallery is an educational showcase committed to exhibiting work of high artistic quality. Our versatile gallery is located at , at PCC’s Cascade Campus. Mindful of our role as a member of the Humboldt community, we are especially committed to engaging community members in our space.

Dawn Stetzel, Communal Moving Blanket, 2023

• Exhibition dates: March 7, 2024 – April 13, 2024
• Opening event: Thursday, March 7, 5-8pm
• Gallery hours:
  • Wednesdays – Fridays, 12-7pm, Saturdays, 12-5pm
  • 24/7 view at 815 N. Killingsworth, Portland, OR 97217
• All events are free and open to the public.

Managed Retreat, in reference to the moving and relocating of people, infrastructure, and communities in response to climate change, is a large-scale sculptural exhibition by Washington coast artist Dawn Stetzel.

Many of the sculptures in this exhibition imply movement, odd contraptions of sorts that include wheels, skis, floats or backpack portability and are used to physically navigate a landscape as well as allude to a conceptual pathway or trajectory. The work struggles with seeking moments of survival within a dysfunctional system, on the move, searching out, opportunistic existence. Dawn uses a tinge of the ridiculous to create barely functioning pieces. The sculptures embrace the aesthetics of resourcefulness, moments of repair and adaptability, while conceptually striving towards a resilience in which to navigate the climate crisis that connects us all yet widens the disparity gap.

Sculptures such as Climate Watch Chair and Fire Coveralls tackle the despair in dealing with a universal crisis, but hope remains in creating objects that adapt to this new world. Influenced by climate activists like Jake Bittle, Stetzel points out the disparity that continues to expand the more inaction takes place. Speaking from a personal point of view, Stetzel writes:

“There is something fragile and fleeting in making my deep pain visible to the public. I use the demarcated pavement of this fire zone to create a space in which to speak of impending doom, a protective place to allow my hopelessness and fear to emerge, to become tangible in my body for a brief moment. There is tenderness in this work for me, but it might also read as a tad humorous, ridiculous, playful in an unexplainable way. This nods towards a dysfunction which also seems appropriate as we humans continue our climate collapse pathway.”

About the artist

Dawn Stetzel is a United States artist currently residing on the Long Beach Peninsula, on the southern coast of Washington. Her performative sculptures interact with environments in the margins, where humans and nature rub together leaving a sometimes-messy residue. Currently, Dawn is exploring what makes people want to take part in treks, feats of endurance for activism, and action-spurring change through what seems ridiculous, unimaginable or impossible. Her work reflects on thoughts of maintaining a sense of drive through political and environmental doom.

Stetzel holds a Master of Fine Arts from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at The University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. She has exhibited nationally and internationally through multiple solo exhibitions, public art commissions, and group exhibitions which include Grounds for Sculpture, Disjecta and the Portland Biennial, among others. Her work is included in permanent public collections at The City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, and the Shiwan Ceramic Museum in the Guangdong Province of China. Stetzel’s work has been printed in multiple publications, and has lectured in the United States, China and Brazil.

• Website:
• Instagram: @ dawnstetzelstudio
• Facebook: dawn.stetzel.

About Paragon Arts Gallery

Paragon Arts Gallery is an educational showcase committed to exhibiting work of high artistic quality. Our versatile gallery is located at , at PCC’s Cascade Campus. Mindful of our role as a member of the Humboldt community, we are especially committed to engaging community members in our space.