Art Out Loud: PCC Art Student Exhibition 24|25
PCC Art Galleries
Art Out Loud
Recent artwork by Portland Community College Students
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Exhibition locations and dates:
- Paragon Gallery – May 7 – May 28
- Helzer Gallery – May 5 – June 7
- North View Gallery – May 12 – June 7
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Awards reception and conversations with jurors
- Paragon Gallery – May 28, 5-7 pm
- Helzer Gallery – May 29, 5-7 pm
- North View Gallery – June 7, 11-1 pm
The Helzer Gallery, North View Gallery, and Paragon Gallery,? at Portland Community College 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, Portland Community College’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 Portland Community College 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.
About the guest jurors
Helzer Gallery | Bio for Jess Nickel
Jess Nickel is an independent curator, writer and arts manager based in Portland, Oregon. She received a BA in Fine Art focusing on painting, and a BA in Literature from the University of Oregon in 2009 and began her career in the arts as an artist. During a year-long artist residency in 2010 at Engage Studios in Galway, Ireland she found her artistic practice in curating, organizing pop-up shows of fellow residents in vacant spaces. A career in arts administration followed, with directorship positions at Disjecta Contemporary Arts Center, Upfor Gallery, Converge 45 and public art collective Site Specific. Nickel founded SATOR projects, a roving exhibition program with the mission to seed arts into fallow spaces in the community through exhibitions, public programs and events. She has organized sixteen exhibitions over the past four years, with more to come! She currently works for Saatchi Art with the art advisory team, and as a coordinator for the Oregon Arts Commission Percent for Public Art program.?
Paragon Gallery | Bio for Sheyam Ghieth
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 “??? ?????? / 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.” 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.
North View Gallery | Bio for Jamin London Tinsel
Jamin London Tinsel is a studio artist and art educator working in Portland, Oregon. She received her MFA in Ceramics from The University of The Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 2007.? Jamin’s artistic process is a deep dive into self exploration and memory. She seeks answers, attempting to understand the things bubbling to the surface that haunt, taunt, and trouble her, or make her laugh and spark joy. As memories churn inside and seek release, Jamin creates physical objects to share and relate to the experience of other humans to achieve a sense of resolution, acceptance and integration of these issues. Her current body of work came into being through a summer residency at Oregon College of Art and Craft, a group residency at Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, Montana, and a two-week stint at Ceramic Kingdom in Berlin, Germany.
About the PCC art galleries
Portland Community College is home to three art galleries: the Helzer Gallery, the North View Gallery, and the Paragon Arts Gallery, each located on one of our campus locations in Portland, Oregon. The Art Galleries are dedicated to supporting education and community building through the arts.?
Funding for student 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 Portland Community College (ASPCC).