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Creativity thrives at Portland State University’s College of the Arts. We make Architecture, Art + Art History + Design, Film, Music & Theater.

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Over the last two years during the construction of the new Art Building on PSU's campus, Leroy Bynum, Jr., Dean of the College of the Arts, stopped by on a regular basis to take a selfie in front of the building as it went up.

The beautiful metal-clad mass-timber building is finally finished and full of students, faculty and staff in the Jordan Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design. We love the new building almost as much as Dean Bynum does! by @psu_arts

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The Jordan Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design will provide a new space, modern technology, and a sense of unity to Portland State’s visual arts majors. The new building will serve as a welcoming space for the greater Portland art community to witness all the groundbreaking work that PSU students are creating.

Attend the grand opening on Tuesday Oct 13, 4-8pm!

Learn more in our latest magazine story (Iink in bio). by @psu_arts

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🩷 Fall term is almost here and Flo can’t wait to see you! But before we get ahead of ourselves, here’s our summer recap:

🌞 JUNE: Made one last print in the Rad Lab as we knew it. Then we packed everything up in the Art Building Annex and Art Building 🥲 by @psu_arts

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Announcing the 2026 Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize recipients!

Nina Vichayapai is an interdisciplinary artist whose work exploresmargins and peripheries through sculpture, social practice, public intervention, and everyday acts. Informed by her experience as a first-generation Southeast Asian American immigrant, she examines alternative value systems and creates work that moves between galleries, museums, and public space.

Nina’s work has been exhibited at the Tacoma Art Museum, the Wing Luke Museum, and on telephone poles and community bulletin boards. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Seattle Public Library, Deception Pass State Park, Caldera Arts, and Lloyd Center Mall. She received a BFA from the California College of the Arts and an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University. Born in Bangkok, Thailand, she lives in Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.

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The highest award offered in the school, the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize acknowledges the achievement and promise of our students. It is a meaningful expression of our values and commitment to excellence in higher education and the arts. A jury composed of Schnitzer School faculty and representative professionals from the art and design community reviewed 47 applications from art and design students, both undergraduate and graduate, to award three prizes.

This year’s recipients each receive $4,100

The Jordan Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design is extraordinarily grateful to Jordan Schnitzer and the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation for their support in creating the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize

@psu_foundation @portlandstate @psu_artpractice @psupaintdraw @psuartandsocialpractice @schnitzerfoundation by @psu_arts

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Announcing the 2026 Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize recipients!

Clara Harlow is an interdisciplinary artist whose socially engaged practice creates participatory events, workshops, and systems of exchange that transform everyday dilemmas into opportunities for collective play, learning, and problem-solving. Working at the intersection of art and daily life, she explores collaboration, alternative value systems, and the creative potential of shared experience.

Recent collaborations include Portland Parks & Recreation, the New York Public Library, the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC), and the Fabric Workshop and Museum. Clara holds an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University and a BA in Studio Arts from Bard College. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon, and Brooklyn, New York.

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The highest award offered in the school, the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize acknowledges the achievement and promise of our students. It is a meaningful expression of our values and commitment to excellence in higher education and the arts. A jury composed of Schnitzer School faculty and representative professionals from the art and design community reviewed 47 applications from art and design students, both undergraduate and graduate, to award three prizes.

This year’s recipients each receive $4,100

The Jordan Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design is extraordinarily grateful to Jordan Schnitzer and the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation for their support in creating the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize

@psu_foundation @portlandstate @psu_artpractice @psupaintdraw @psuartandsocialpractice @schnitzerfoundation by @psu_arts

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Announcing the 2026 Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize recipients!

Clara Johnson is a photographer, writer, and poet based in Portland, Oregon. Working across photography and text, she examines the image as a visual language whose perceived objectivity shapes memory, narrative, and collective experience. Influenced by her work as a film projectionist, Clara investigates photography's historical ties to journalism, propaganda, and the entertainment industry, exploring how visual media mediates perception and soothes social unrest. Through saturated color, close observation, sequencing, and writing, her work considers crowds, collective memory, and the emotional disorientation of contemporary image culture.

Clara’s work has been exhibited at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU, Blue Sky Gallery, PLACE Gallery, and the PAM Rental Sales Gallery. She received a BFA in Art Practice from Portland State University ‘26

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The highest award offered in the school, the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize acknowledges the achievement and promise of our students. It is a meaningful expression of our values and commitment to excellence in higher education and the arts. A jury composed of Schnitzer School faculty and representative professionals from the art and design community reviewed 47 applications from art and design students, both undergraduate and graduate, to award three prizes.

This year’s recipients each receive $4,100

The Jordan Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design is extraordinarily grateful to Jordan Schnitzer and the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation for their support in creating the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize.

@portlandstate @psu_foundation @schnitzerfoundation @psupaintdraw @psu_printmaking @psu_pov by @psu_arts

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🎭 Announcing PSU Theater Arts’ 2026–27 season!

Get ready for a season of wildly inventive, hilarious and diabolical plays, beginning November 12.

After 2,300 audience members packed the house for Spring Awakening last winter, Oregon ArtsWatch celebrated our thriving Theater Arts program in a feature story. Now we’re ready to take that momentum and run with it, with three wildly different plays that promise to surprise, provoke and delight.

Get your tickets now and join us for all three productions! (Link in bio)

🖨️ November 12 - 21, 2026
"Do You Feel Anger?"
By Mara Nelson-Greenberg
Laugh-out-loud funny and deeply disturbing. An empathy coach arrives at a workplace warped by toxic masculinity. How far can empathy go?

🧙🏿 February 25 - March 6, 2027
"Gretel! The Musical"
Book by Jason Tremblay & Suzan Zeder; music & lyrics by Jenn Hartmann Luck, Zeder & Tremblay
A co-production with Oregon Children's Theatre
The spellbinding journey of a young girl learning to harness her own ferocity, tend to her grief and claim her power.

💬 May 20 - 29, 2027
"Cyrano de Bergerac"
By Edmond Rostand
Freely adapted by Martin Crimp
A dazzling adaptation where skewering wordplay takes the place of traditional swordfighting, while a love triangle, built on borrowed language, sparks questions around truth, identity, and the nature of connection.

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#portlandstateuniversity #arts #performingarts #theater #portland #pdxarts #pdxtheatre #theater #travelportland #downtownpdx #goseeaplay by @psu_arts

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Converge 45 Triennial: Here, To you, Now opened last night in our new gallery! Stop by this weekend, August 29 and 30, during our special open hours: 11am-3pm.

Our exhibition features the work of Marcus Fischer, Patricia Vázquez Gómez, Rob Rhee, and Tannaz Farsi and will be on view now through December 5.

Here, To you, Now opens across 16 venues citywide with a weekend of receptions, performances, screenings, and talks August 27-30. All exhibitions will remain open through October 3, 2026, with some closing as late as mid-December.

Find out more at converge45.org
and at @converge_45
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@psusculpture taken in Jordan Schnitzer School of Art, Art History & Design at PSU by @psu_arts

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Continuing the Portland State University School of Architecture’s 12-year partnership with the @pickathon music festival, architecture students created a backdrop for this year’s Cherry Hill stage made from disused fishing nets. The nets, sourced by Net Your Problem from Oregon coast fishermen, were draped and suspended from a series of wooden structures, forming a billowing, tubular, cloudlike vision that provided an evocative background for 18 musical acts. Read the full story at the link in our bio.

📸 by Mark Stein @steinpix (photo 1), Brooke Hoyer @brookehoyer (photo 2), @karenofpdx (photos 3 & 4)

#diversiondesignbuild #diversionarchitecture by @psu_arts

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With the Global Improvisation Initiative Symposium taking place in Lincoln Hall last week, the entire building was absolutely buzzing with creative energy and collaboration. Hallways, performance spaces and classrooms on every floor were filled with scholars and artists who traveled to Portland to learn about the art of improvisation. Workshops, performances, and networking sessions kept the attendees engaged the entire four days, and our own PSU Impro Ensemble played a huge role. Read more about this unique event, co-organized by Theater Arts professor Theresa Robbins Dudeck, in the story by Brett Campbell of @artswatch at the link in our bio! by @psu_arts

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Till the next time Beijing!
Chamber Choir headlined the China International Choral Festival in Beijing and is heading off to Chengdu! What a busy and exciting 4 days of singing and sightseeing 🤩 We had the pleasure of performing alongside choirs around the world, sharing each others cultures and the beauty within them. When we weren’t performing, we spent time seeing the wonders of China! Being able to see the Summer Palace, the Great Wall, and the Forbidden City was truly such a once in a lifetime opportunity. Thank you to everyone who made this possible! Continue following along on our adventures to Chengdu and Shanghai 💚

#psuchamberchoir #travel #choralmusic #china #beijing by @psu_arts

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